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How open?", "The government's EU repeal bill faces a tough passage through Parliament.", "Formula One teams' costs have soared after rules changes designed to make for closer competition.", "The singer starts a 16-week engagement in New York with a 'intimate and personal' show.", "The intruders stole giant plasma television screens from inside Ipswich Town's ground, police say.", "Michel Barnier used dramatic language but it's too soon to think it means that the whole process is doomed.", "Adama Jammeh, who says he was falsely accused of stealing, tells the BBC \"I'm still surviving up here\".", "What will it take to build the ultra-fast internet of the future?", "She was ordered by a sheriff to pay £24,500 after repeatedly ignoring hundreds of tickets.", "Just 13% of US academic economists are women - and only one has won the Nobel Prize in economics. Why are women so under-represented in the profession?", "Sacked guard receives a letter from Tesco saying he may have suffered \"a significant injustice\".", "Chester Bennington filmed the Carpool Karaoke episode six days before his death in July.", "A judge warns other holidaymakers making bogus sickness compensation claims to expect jail terms.", "Police say the teenager, who was on her way home from a night out, may have been drugged.", "Stillbirths are rarely spoken about. But insights from those who have navigated the heartbreaking experience can help parents come to terms with their grief.", "Satellite and aerial images reveal devastation, as death toll rises 40.", "Kwon Oh-hyun said the company was facing an \"unprecedented crisis inside out\".", "The fires raging across northern wine counties are now the state's deadliest in 84 years.", "The label run by Harvey Weinstein's wife is under pressure after sexual assault allegations against the Hollywood producer.", "The ride-hailing firm files an appeal after being denied a licence to operate in the capital.", "Friday's papers report on the latest round of Brexit talks and more claims against media mogul Harvey Weinstein.", "The BBC's science editor has been up close and personal with a gigantic lump of waste.", "In your 70s and 80s? Time to start university, say the second-chance students.", "Appeal judges say Ofsted failed to identify the problem in schools across the country earlier.", "The maid of honour's life was saved by her two cousins, who had just learned how to do CPR.", "7 days quiz: It's the weekly news quiz - have you been paying attention to what's been going on in the world over the past seven days?", "An Amazon Studio executive is put on leave of absence after being accused of ignoring her allegation.", "The advertisement for breast cancer awareness was seen on TV on Friday and will be fully broadcast on Monday.", "Australia's football association will not take action against Tim Cahill after it was claimed he used a goal celebration to promote a sponsor.", "A maintenance man says he told staff to call police before the gunman killed 58 concert-goers.", "A draft paper seen by the BBC suggests the EU is getting ready for the second phase of negotiations.", "Kiran Patel's gift to a Florida university is a new high in philanthropy by Indian-Americans.", "A Fatah-Hamas deal to end a decade-long rift is welcomed by Gazans, but many are wary of the future.", "Moors Murderer Ian Brady died five months ago but his remains have yet to be disposed of.", "Partial results put George Weah ahead in the race to choose a successor to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.", "The 23-year-old woman fell 200ft to her death while jumping in the air near the cliff edge.", "The British Chambers of Commerce says while manufacturing is robust, there are concerns over services.", "Police say the skydivers may have collided mid-air and their parachutes failed to deploy correctly.", "The prince was accepting an honour on his mother's behalf at the Attitude magazine awards in London.", "Only two chicks survived in a colony of 36,000 in a \"catastrophic\" breeding season in east Antarctica.", "Psychiatrists say the outfit stigmatises mental illness and is \"one of the worst\" they have seen.", "Harvey Weinstein's brother Bob insists their production company is not facing closure or sale.", "Police searching for a missing woman with dementia say they have found human remains.", "The fish wriggled out of the man's hand as he kissed it in celebration of his catch, causing him to swallow it.", "The chancellor later tweeted that his comments were a \"poor choice of words\".", "Hull is the UK's only city to have banned sex workers from its red light district. The council says the policy is working. An ex-sex worker disagrees.", "The health secretary promised 5,000 more GPs by 2020.", "Saturday's papers focus on Theresa May's future and Wayne Rooney starting his community service.", "The airline will bid farewell to operations manager who had ultimate responsibility for pilot rosters", "Alice McBrearty, 23, had a four-month relationship with a 15-year-old boy.", "There are concerns the event is being seen as support for a bar on Muslim migrants.", "Somerset County Council paid £1,836,000 to a claimant for damages caused by a \"pothole defect\".", "Hurricane Nate is set to strike US Gulf Coast states as a category two storm, forecasters say.", "Some councils say requests for government money in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire have not been met.", "Compensation is paid to patients aged from six to 17 who were abused by cancer doctor Myles Bradbury.", "The last monthly print edition of the UK magazine will be in December as it takes a new direction.", "The 27-year-old from Stirling is accused of public indecency over the incident at a Dubai nightclub.", "The US leader says years of talks with Pyongyang over its nuclear activities have brought no results.", "Police clash with protesters in St Petersburg, as more than 250 are arrested throughout Russia.", "More and more are popping up as audiences seek a more thrilling experience.", "The woman was stopped by police officers before she could get into the Buckingham Palace grounds.", "The victim was attacked multiple times in the street, the Met Police said.", "One of three suspects allegedly said he wanted to create \"the next 9/11\" in the city.", "Sunday's papers are dominated by politics, with speculation that Boris Johnson could be demoted.", "A pilot says colleagues are leaving the airline in a mass exodus due to a \"toxic atmosphere\".", "Weather scientists first mistook the radar pattern to be birds, and turned to social media for help.", "The crash near the Natural History Museum, injuring 11 people, was not terror-related, say police.", "The US Department of Commerce again rules against the aerospace firm in its dispute with rival Boeing.", "It was found near where she disappeared on a trip with a Danish submariner, now facing a murder charge.", "Wayne Rooney, Alan Shearer and Sam Allardyce are among mourners at the ex-Newcastle chairman's funeral.", "Amateur detectorists found the 3,000-year-old torc, which is made of pure gold and valued at £220,000.", "Police say people were injured when a car crashed near the Natural History Museum", "The deal will supply the US's advanced Thaad missile defence system to Saudi Arabia.", "A man who runs an online support group says scam victims are not stupid - just unaware of the con.", "20-year-old Jade Carter was diagnosed with arthritis as a baby. She explains how Amy Winehouse's charity is helping her use music to ease the pain.", "Detentions, isolation rooms and obsessive uniform policies... are schools becoming too strict?", "The 42-year-old was released after questioning over an alleged sex assault on board his tour bus.", "In a WhatsApp message, the foreign secretary warned that \"people are fed up with all this malarkey\".", "The US president also said in an interview that some might call Xi Jinping \"king of China\".", "He says he was beaten at a secret detention facility by a state intelligence agency.", "The comedian discusses addiction and how perceptions of mental health are changing.", "Theresa May says MPs will get a say before the UK's EU exit - after David Davis cast doubt on it.", "Fats Domino was a pioneer of rock'n'roll whose hits brought him worldwide acclaim.", "Philip Hammond is in a more positive mood after better-than-expected economic data. He tells the BBC now is not the time to borrow more.", "For better or for worse, all-powerful Chinese leader Xi Jinping's 'New Era' will affect you.", "A parliamentary assistant says she has a record of 50 cases involving herself and colleagues.", "The actress is coming back to Albert Square after more than 15 years away from the soap.", "The president tweets he is the \"victim\" of a sordid opposition research file compiled about him.", "An ex-head of Guatemala's football federation was sentenced to eight months in prison for fraud.", "The studies could lead to new treatments for inherited diseases.", "Many papers lead with proposals to send recuperating NHS patients to Airbnb-style accommodation.", "How an Australian is preserving the legacy of Black Country glassworks.", "People with hidden disabilities are raising awareness of their conditions on social media.", "The Honours Forfeiture Committee is actively considering the move, the BBC understands.", "A healthcare firm aims to recruit people with spare rooms in a bid to tackle hospital \"bed blocking\".", "Will Kensington and Chelsea Council spend more on Grenfell victims than the government spends on housing?", "The suspect reportedly told police \"if I were younger, I wouldn't have been caught\".", "Fats Domino, one of the most influential rock and roll performers of the 1950s and 60s, dies aged 89.", "Conservative MP Nicky Morgan tells Brexit Secretary David Davis that Tory MPs backing a move to give Parliament a decisive vote on the Brexit deal are \"deadly serious\".", "Tahani Salih suffered under IS - now she's bringing pleasure back to where the group once ruled.", "Sheffield Hallam MP Jared O'Mara is alleged to have made misogynistic and homophobic comments.", "A Norfolk Police review of the \"lawless lockdown\" in Cromer finds senior officers misread events.", "Tom Morgan reached heights of 8,000ft (2,438m) while strapped to a camping chair.", "The Labour leader is expected to be paired with a mystery celebrity for a charity special.", "Kate Nash took to Twitter to criticise the music industry for how they \"dispose\" of artists.", "The National Party must pay the US rapper nearly $0.5m after using his song in a campaign ad.", "The presidential re-run in Kenya has massive implications both for the country and for Africa", "China's president is set to become the country's uncontested leader at a crucial party congress.", "There are calls for Canvey Island to declare independence from the council. What do locals say?", "Husband-and-wife mountaineering team Romano Benet and Nives Meroi were attempting a winter ascent of the world's fifth-highest peak when things went badly wrong.", "An interview with Lord Lawson should have been challenged, the corporation's complaints unit says.", "City gangs are exploiting children as young as 12 to traffic Class A drugs to smaller rural towns.", "Jay Hunt is expected to help the US tech firm take on digital rivals Netflix and Amazon.", "A Brazilian toilet paper brand has dropped a black empowerment slogan after criticism on social media.", "Photographer Salman Saeed met some of the 600,000 Rohingya fleeing Myanmar for camps in Bangladesh.", "Fire chiefs say the move is vital to protect pupils - the government insists safety is its priority.", "The UK is branded \"stupid\" for quitting the EU, while there's worrying news for some of the world's wealthiest people.", "The note was written by the physicist when he didn't have enough money to tip a courier.", "A photo of a US-Afghan meeting is seemingly doctored to suggest it took place in Kabul.", "A fifth of British men have also been victims at work or a place of study, figures suggest.", "Test your knowledge of UK demographics in 1957 compared with now with our interactive graphs.", "David Davis says Parliament's vote on a deal may come after the UK leaves the EU in March 2019.", "They worry there are \"significant gaps\" in what we know about them and how they are regulated.", "The 93 year old apologises for any distress caused after an accusation by actress Heather Lind.", "Victoria Cilliers tells her husband's trial she wanted to \"get her own back\" over his lies.", "The universities minister says the letter asking for details of Brexit teaching \"shouldn't have been sent\".", "Just 58,000 people moved account last month, despite big cash incentives on offer", "Lucy Powell calls for action over offensive remarks allegedly made by her colleague Jared O'Mara.", "Acid attack accused Arthur Collins tells a jury he and his then girlfriend Ferne McCann were \"really happy\".", "Karon Grieve was amazed when she boarded the plane to Crete and found she was the only passenger.", "How a woman's commitment to her childhood friend inspired thousands in Kenya.", "A woman is arrested on suspicion of murder after an 18-month-old boy falls from a window in Bradford.", "Proposals to make Zimbabwe's leader a World Health Organisation goodwill envoy spark an outcry.", "The appointment of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe prompted a global outcry and wide-ranging condemnation.", "The actress, best known for roles in films A Room With A View and That'll Be The Day, was 81.", "Two boys, aged 16 and 17, are charged with the murder of \"gifted and talented\" Kyron Webb.", "Witnesses tell the BBC how men with sticks and axes started one of the world's longest conflicts.", "Campaigners say UK taxpayers \"effectively pay twice\" for medicines, increasing NHS budget pressures.", "The \"wonder from down under\" has been free from recession for more than a quarter of a century.", "Two hostages were held by a suspected gunman in an incident police say was not terror-related.", "Some flood warnings remain in place, although disruption was not as bad as had been feared.", "The prime minister has kept his \"super-majority\" and says he will deal firmly with North Korea", "The Archbishop of York criticises \"grotesquely ignorant\" six-week delay for payments.", "Some Tories seemingly want the chancellor out, while business leaders call for urgent Brexit action in Monday's papers.", "Twenty-First Century Fox knew O'Reilly had settled a harassment allegation when he was rehired.", "An exhibition marks the work of unrecognised female artists whose work has adorned London.", "Passenger's letter home, written a day before the ship hit an iceberg, fetches £126,000 at auction.", "The party wants six changes to the repeal bill, including Parliament approval of the exit agreement.", "Why are more people running marathons in all 50 states - and what does it say about modern America?", "Classified files relating to the assassination of John F Kennedy are due to be released in days.", "Communities Secretary Sajid Javid floats idea of borrowing more to help boost housing construction.", "The Spanish foreign minister seeks to assure Britons worried about no Brexit deal being reached.", "The controversial group bought the Grade II listed Pitmaston House for £4.2m in 2007.", "Britain's five biggest business lobby groups unite to call for swift action on transition plans.", "The five living former US presidents have raised more than $31m (£23.5m) for victims.", "Andrej Babis' party has secured almost triple the vote share of its closest rivals", "The prime minister has meandered through previous crises but that won't work now, says Tom Burridge.", "The 26-year-old was taken to the Leicester Royal Infirmary, where he died shortly afterwards.", "The teenager went missing in Covent Garden while on a family trip to London.", "French TV was filming the president chatting with junior ministers when Nemo stole the scene.", "On just one night a year Faroese men can hunt gannet chicks, considered a delicacy. It involves a dangerous climb down steep cliffs.", "Theresa May's \"climbdown\" and a crackdown on British gambling companies are among the stories to lead the newspapers.", "The cabinet minister says a lack of affordable housing is the \"biggest barrier to social progress\".", "Central government says the polls are unnecessary but they are permitted under the constitution.", "Jamie Harron was arrested after touching a man's hip in a Dubai bar.", "Four others were injured when the boat hit a warning beacon, throwing the woman into the Rhone.", "Everything Everything on how their new album was inspired by the \"surreal, nightmarish\" news cycle.", "David Davis says a transition period won't happen unless a final Brexit deal is in place.", "Teresa Wishart was found with head injuries at her home in Kirkby, police say.", "Emily Thornberry predicts the UK's \"intransigence\" will stop agreement being reached with Brussels.", "The movie-maker shows off his eclectic collection of self-snapped prints taken over many decades.", "Moscow accuses the West of sending aid to the Syrian city to cover up evidence of crimes.", "He was with a group of friends who got out of a taxi which apparently sped off before Mr Leslie could step out of the car.", "The government's EU repeal bill faces a tough passage through Parliament.", "Formula One teams' costs have soared after rules changes designed to make for closer competition.", "PC Jonathan Harvey says he knew he had to save Buddy when the dog \"would not let him go\".", "Cambridge has the highest concentration of box bikes of any place of its size outside the Netherlands.", "The all-rounder, currently under investigation over a late-night brawl, is joined by team-mates.", "A judge warns other holidaymakers making bogus sickness compensation claims to expect jail terms.", "Police say the teenager, who was on her way home from a night out, may have been drugged.", "Stillbirths are rarely spoken about. But insights from those who have navigated the heartbreaking experience can help parents come to terms with their grief.", "Psilocybin - the hallucinogenic ingredient in mushrooms - may help in depression, a study suggests.", "Roger Stotesbury fell 30ft while taking photos at an Indian temple during a world trip with his wife.", "The label run by Harvey Weinstein's wife is under pressure after sexual assault allegations against the Hollywood producer.", "NHS plans to ask patients about their sexual orientation make Sunday's headlines, as well as reports of a fresh Brexit row.", "Saturday's papers are dominated by the chancellor's apology for calling the EU the \"enemy\", while temperatures in the UK are set to rise.", "The Oasis singer's debut solo album sells 103,000 copies in a single week.", "The UK braces for the tail end of Hurricane Ophelia with high temperatures and winds forecast.", "In your 70s and 80s? Time to start university, say the second-chance students.", "The deadline for spending old pound coins is almost here, so what can you do with any coins you still have?", "The ex-Scotland boss claimed his team failed because they were shorter but does it really make a difference?", "What does North Korea mean when it says someone is thrice-cursed?", "Four Moldovans are killed and four French nationals are among the six injured.", "Joshua Boyle says captors also raped his wife, during their five-year Afghan kidnap ordeal.", "The advertisement for breast cancer awareness was seen on TV on Friday and will be fully broadcast on Monday.", "A daily ice bath is \"like having morning coffee\", the tech giant's president Tim Kendall tells the BBC.", "It was signed by both the creators of the iconic French comic book series.", "Kurdish fighters say they are preparing to defend their positions against Iraqi forces.", "More than 30 people are stuck for five hours on a fairground ride in Hull because of a fault.", "The victim of an attack tells the BBC those carrying out such assaults should face a life sentence.", "Only two chicks survived in a colony of 36,000 in a \"catastrophic\" breeding season in east Antarctica.", "Harvey Weinstein's brother Bob insists their production company is not facing closure or sale.", "Leah Dixon and Jasmine Agnew were reported missing after failing to return to their homes in Renfrewshire.", "The Labour leader warns about the rise of robots and suggests firms like Uber could be run as co-ops.", "The chancellor later tweeted that his comments were a \"poor choice of words\".", "Commercial jet lands for the first time on airstrip branded the \"world's most useless airport\".", "Hull is the UK's only city to have banned sex workers from its red light district. The council says the policy is working. An ex-sex worker disagrees.", "The train featured in the Harry Potter films picked them up after their canoe was swept away.", "Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality tour of Puerto Rico has raised eyebrows.", "A man tells an inquiry Smith touched his genitals soon after he arrived at a children's hostel.", "Harvey Weinstein sacked after sexual harassment claims. A cascade of allegations is swirling.", "18-month-old Elsie suffered months of abuse before she died two weeks after being adopted, court hears.", "American licence plates have become aluminium works of art - and collecting them is hugely popular.", "Animals used range from snakes and tarantulas to - more controversially - skunks and monkeys.", "Staff shortages and rising demand means standards are likely to slip, says England's regulator.", "Theresa May also says the UK could face European Court of Justice rulings for two years after Brexit.", "The US first lady's spokeswoman says comments by Donald Trump's ex-wife are attention seeking.", "The producer reportedly emailed associates hours before he was sacked over sexual harassment claims.", "Some parents say their children have been unable to buy school meals due to the glitch.", "Five ways the theory behind this year's Nobel prize for economics may have influenced your behaviour.", "MI5 evidence raises a \"spectre of collusion\" that enabled abuse to go on for years, an inquiry hears.", "There are vital differences between the power of tech firms today and oil barons a century ago", "The chewing gum was among 121kg of rubbish collected during a litter-pick on the mountain at the weekend.", "Traffic is to be banned from road made famous by TV's Game of Thrones, to protect NI's Dark Hedges.", "Was a baby thrown from Grenfell Tower and caught? The evidence suggests the event never took place.", "The search giant has evidence that agents tried to influence the US election, media report.", "Police said the excess dairy produce had to be \"removed or eaten\" as the van was 41% over weight.", "The ex-Scotland boss claimed his team failed because they were shorter but does it really make a difference?", "The prime minister's plans for a no-deal scenario post Brexit feature on Tuesday's front pages.", "Visitor numbers are expected to reach nearly 40 million in 2017, with \"staycations\" also on the rise.", "The \"worst-case scenario\" would cut average farm profits from £38,000 per year to just £15,000, says the research.", "The prime minister dodges questions about how she would vote if there was another EU referendum.", "The Oscar-winning actresses join a growing number of women alleging harassment by Harvey Weinstein.", "Mounting allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein make many of Wednesday's front pages.", "The information in the government's race audit is already known, so why has it not been acted on?", "Behavioural economics is giving us a much better understanding of why things don’t happen in the way we expect.", "James Meadows, 17, is killed after he is shot in the head while riding pillion on a motorbike.", "BAE is facing an order gap for the Typhoon so wants to slow production before an expected order from Qatar.", "She shot Alice Cooper, kissed The Fonz and acted as a trailblazer for female musicians everywhere.", "The actor joins a list of stars condemning Harvey Weinstein after claims of sexual harassment.", "Ex-Barcelona and Middlesbrough player Fabio Rochemback is among dozens arrested, Brazilian media say.", "Catalan leaders sign a declaration of independence from Spain - but suspend it to allow talks.", "Carbon emissions contribute to global warming, so could tech that removes them from the air slow the process?", "Public services are ordered to \"explain or change\" as wide disparities in life chances are set out.", "Jayne Nisbet says she missed out on one sporting dream because of bulimia, but fought her way back.", "North Korea allegedly stole secret documents last year, including a plan to kill its leader.", "A court will determine whether seven MPs, including the deputy PM, are eligible for office.", "The gang abandons a scooter and crashes a second in a smash-and-grab at a West End jewellers", "Customers around the UK reported problems making and receiving phone calls.", "The ex-boyfriend of reality TV star Ferne McCann is accused of injuring 16 clubbers, a court hears.", "Campaigners say the government is taking too long to produce guidelines for schools on handling sexual assaults between pupils.", "Can a wave of disruptive ideas change our shopping habits?", "How Munaf Kapadia runs a successful \"pop up\" restaurant at his family home in Mumbai.", "He says he will stand down as director of BBC News at the beginning of 2018.", "\"I guess we'll have to compare IQ tests,\" Mr Trump said. \"And I can tell you who is going to win.\"", "Catalonia's president asks parliament to suspend the effect of the independence referendum to enable talks to achieve it.", "The PM's refusal to say whether she'd now vote for Brexit was a telling moment.", "The event's entertainment award will be renamed in honour of the late entertainer.", "Leading actresses are appalled by sexual harassment claims against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.", "Young children, pregnant women and other vulnerable groups can safely eat raw eggs, say UK food experts.", "After Mohammed was excluded for bad behaviour, he was home-schooled - but it didn't work out.", "A Catalan regional election revived the fortunes of separatist parties, so could independence work?", "In the next few days, the balance between the desire to end the torment on display today and preserve stability will be endlessly discussed by Conservative MPs.", "The sight of Spanish police beating voters in Catalonia will not be forgotten, says the BBC's Patrick Jackson.", "The worry in Manchester is not really that Boris Johnson is grabbing all the attention, it's that the party could be dying inside.", "The prime minister has pledged £2bn to build more council houses.", "EU tells Amazon to repay €250m as it also launches legal action against Ireland over Apple taxes.", "Homeless Aaron Barley turned on Tracey and Pierce Wilkinson after the family helped him off the street.", "Brussels is poised to seek hundreds of millions of euros from the US retailer, say reports.", "When we choose confidence, we are rewiring our brains and are able to change ourselves for the better, says neuroscientist Dr Stacie Grossman Bloom.", "A mass shooting in New Zealand has led to an assault-weapon ban six days later, drawing contrasts with the US.", "A student recalls the moment she found out her family had been attacked by a knifeman.", "At first Stacey thought she wasn't normal, then she thought she might be ill. Finally she discovered she was actually asexual.", "Homeless Aaron Barley was warned he may never be released after he \"destroyed\" the family who helped him.", "Brian Lord placed his hand on a female party guest's knee for \"two to three\" minutes, a court heard.", "Consensus Action on Salt and Health says two products are 30% saltier than seawater.", "Mark Salling faces between four and seven years in prison, according to US media reports.", "Sydney and Melbourne could reach that temperature between 2040 and 2050, researchers warn.", "A plaque is removed from the memorial after officials realised it failed to mention Jewish people.", "The US secretary of state did not deny media reports that he called Mr Trump a \"moron\".", "The press takes a look ahead to Theresa May's Tory conference speech - and back to Boris Johnson's.", "Simon Brodkin had \"legitimate accreditation\" for the event where he handed Theresa May a P45.", "Theresa May had to battle a sore throat, being interrupted by a prankster and parts of the backdrop falling off.", "RAF Typhoon jets divert a passenger flight to Stansted Airport after a suspected hoax alert.", "The scale of maternity discrimination is being hidden due to the use of gagging orders, it's warned.", "The PM coughed her way through a difficult speech, but could a quick fix have cleared her throat?", "A second post-mortem examination reaffirms that Irish woman Danielle McLaughlin was strangled.", "Victoria Cilliers survived falling from 4,000ft after both of her parachutes failed, a court hears.", "Theresa May's \"disastrous\" Conservative conference speech takes centre stage on the front pages.", "More women are smashing the glass ceiling than ever but are they taking 50% of the population with them?", "For the Soviet Union, the launch of the satellite was a triumph not just for science. but socialism.", "Boris Johnson says Sirte could be the new Dubai - \"all they have to do is clear the dead bodies away\".", "Kati Ringer, 21, claimed other people's babies were sick or dead in an attempt to get money.", "Kansas City Chiefs players protest during the national anthem on a day of mourning for Las Vegas.", "There has never been a speech quite like it. Even before she took to the platform Theresa May was fragile.", "The rise of streaming means pop stars are neglecting the art of the build-up.", "Debate gathers pace online about how to label the Mandalay Bay shooter.", "A fashion statement in the West and with affluent Indians, tattoos have a darker shade too.", "The internet giant says three billion user accounts were affected, more than originally thought.", "Black people remain more likely to be stopped and searched than any other ethnic group.", "Pheasants are the bird species most likely to be run over on UK roads, according to new research.", "The MI5 chief tells internet firms to stop aiding terrorists, and 15m workers not paying into a pension make the front pages.", "Spilt fuel, emergency repairs and a burning lorry cost millions in wasted time and money.", "Reality star claims assault and that Kardashians want to destroy her", "But PM rejects Labour's calls to pause the new benefit's roll-out as she loses symbolic Commons vote.", "Weinstein was \"holding tightly to the back of my arm\" after she rebuffed him, Lena Headey said.", "The chancellor is tipped to include measures to help young people in his budget, at the expense of older taxpayers.", "Les Inrockuptibles defends making Bertrand Cantat - who killed his girlfriend - its cover star.", "Theresa May's promise to let EU nationals stay and questions over the future of the FA's bosses feature on the front pages.", "Beijing's spending spree in Greece and the Balkans raises concerns that the EU will object to its involvement in the region.", "The Star Wars actress gave a cow tongue in a Tiffany box to teach the Hollywood producer a lesson.", "Dentists warn that thousands of vulnerable people are wrongly being fined over dental treatment.", "Terry Butcher said his son Christopher's life had been \"tragically cut short\".", "More than four million people face difficulties over domestic or credit bills, says a major study.", "Leaders gather for a crunch summit as the UK faces EU calls to do more to break the deadlock.", "Jack Shepherd faces a manslaughter charge after Charlotte Brown fell into the River Thames.", "Smartphones and the internet create such an avalanche of facts, opinions, images and conflicting messages. Is teaching news literacy worthwhile?", "Prep treatment could prevent a quarter of new HIV cases and save the NHS millions, experts calculate.", "The University of Oxford pays tribute to its first black student Christian Cole.", "Adults do not have to drink a lot for children to notice changes in their behaviour, a study says.", "Whatever the spin and expectations management, the process is significantly behind schedule and Thursday's summit is unlikely to change that reality.", "Skinny Tan broke advertising rules over claims it tones cellulite, the ASA finds.", "The murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia is seen as an attack on democracy.", "A Facebook page is helping to identify those killed or missing in Somalia's deadliest terror attack in a decade.", "When Archie was taken into care, the Family Drug and Alcohol Court sought to reunite him with his father.", "Bodyform has ditched the blue liquid, saying it wants to confront the taboos about periods.", "How Canadian winemaker Norman Hardie is able to make award-winning wines, despite winter temperatures so cold it can kill his vines.", "The comic, who died on Monday, wrote a poignant poem about his own death back in the 1990s.", "Supermarket says it will cut food waste by selling the green citrus fruit instead of rejecting them.", "A judge says the policy \"suffers from precisely the same maladies as its predecessor\".", "Army sergeant Emile Cilliers denies attempting to kill his wife by tampering with her parachute.", "Award-winning vlogger Casey Neistat claims video creators could leave the service en masse.", "The Oscar-winning actress also said she was told to lose weight at Elle's Women in Hollywood event", "The president tells the Communist Party congress it is time for China to \"take centre stage\".", "Andrew Parker says there is \"more terrorist activity coming at us\" and it can be \"harder to detect\".", "After 33 years on our screens, the BBC programme helped solve numerous police investigations.", "The emerald and diamond pendant was being worn by Lady Somerleyton on the day she visited the supermarket.", "Paul Stephenson has used exactly the same methods and materials - so can they be called Warhols?", "Mr Trump suggests his predecessor failed to call John Kelly's family after their son was killed.", "The Canadian band's singer passes away at the age of 53 after a battle with terminal cancer.", "The number rose 5.8% in 2016 among opposite-sex couples - the biggest year-on-year jump since 1985.", "MPs consider private members' bills - the first is a bill designed to create a specific offence to attack emergency workers which passes its first stage in the Commons.", "The star calls off seven dates in Asia after suffering multiple fractures in a bicycle accident.", "Experts say the findings are exciting but unlikely to explain the causes for all dyslexia.", "Omid Saidy was fatally wounded in the attack outside Parsons Green Tube station.", "The keeper was mauled to death as he tried to get the tigers into their enclosure, officials say.", "The sequel to the 1982 cult classic is the weekend's most popular film in America and 45 countries.", "Three Brazilian states hold an informal referendum on whether they should form a new country.", "The explosions at a fuel depot in Accra leave at least seven people dead and force a mass evacuation.", "The home-sharing website collected more than £650m in rental payments for UK landlords last year.", "A festival has left an indelible mark on the BBC's South Asia correspondent.", "Fans of cartoon Rick and Morty were left angry after they were unable to get a rare dipping sauce.", "There are concerns the event is being seen as support for a bar on Muslim migrants.", "Hurricane Nate is set to strike US Gulf Coast states as a category two storm, forecasters say.", "Police are treating the incident as a misogynistic hate crime.", "The US leader says years of talks with Pyongyang over its nuclear activities have brought no results.", "More and more are popping up as audiences seek a more thrilling experience.", "The woman was stopped by police officers before she could get into the Buckingham Palace grounds.", "\"It has never been my style to hide from a challenge,\" says the PM, after her mishap-strewn speech.", "It is not clear where the 165 packages of cocaine were being transported to, officials say.", "Monday's front pages included stories about the 2021 census and problems around the old £1 coin.", "Sunday's papers are dominated by politics, with speculation that Boris Johnson could be demoted.", "The US vice-president abandons a game in his home state after players kneel during the national anthem.", "A pilot says colleagues are leaving the airline in a mass exodus due to a \"toxic atmosphere\".", "The crash near the Natural History Museum, injuring 11 people, was not terror-related, say police.", "Senator Bob Corker says the White House has become an \"adult day care centre\".", "More than 350 rescue flights have so far been chartered or leased by the Civil Aviation Authority.", "Justice minister says while UK wants best deal it must \"prepare for all eventualities\".", "A woman is charged with being drunk and disorderly over an incident at Buckingham Palace.", "A man who runs an online support group says scam victims are not stupid - just unaware of the con.", "The 47-year-old was arrested after 11 people were hurt near London's Natural History Museum.", "The 42-year-old was released after questioning over an alleged sex assault on board his tour bus.", "Fears of a storm surge on the US Gulf coast subside as Nate, now a tropical depression, heads inland.", "Kim Yo-jong is elevated by the North Korean leader to the country's top decision-making body.", "Nicola Sturgeon says her government will cover the fee of EU citizens applying to stay in Scotland post Brexit.", "The Stirling man was told to stay in the city for future court dates after being accused of public indecency.", "The Royal Navy could lose ability to assault enemy-held beaches, under plans considered in the MoD.", "RMT action is affecting Southern, Merseyrail, Arriva Rail North and Greater Anglia services.", "After Mohammed was excluded for bad behaviour, he was home-schooled - but it didn't work out.", "In the next few days, the balance between the desire to end the torment on display today and preserve stability will be endlessly discussed by Conservative MPs.", "Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust is placed in special measures following a damning report.", "The rise of streaming means pop stars are neglecting the art of the build-up.", "The British writer is known for novels including The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go.", "Two-thirds of young people would not mind if social media had never been invented, survey suggests.", "Some film memorabilia fetches millions at auction, but it can cost nothing to start a collection.", "The comedian reveals how his grandmother helped launch his singing career.", "Victoria Cilliers, whose ex-husband is accused of sabotaging her parachute, had made 2,600 jumps.", "The prime minister has pledged £2bn to build more council houses.", "Film producer Harvey Weinstein disputes allegations he sexually harassed women.", "\"Clearly that's something we need to look into,\" says House Speaker Paul Ryan of the rapid fire tool.", "When we choose confidence, we are rewiring our brains and are able to change ourselves for the better, says neuroscientist Dr Stacie Grossman Bloom.", "Motor neurone disease patient fails to persuade the High Court to change the law on assisted dying.", "The trial heard Zameer Ghumra believed in a \"very, very, very extreme\" form of Islam.", "A 24-year-old teacher's account of teenage sexual activity prompts many to share their concerns.", "A security guard sets fire to a childcare centre, killing four children and a teacher.", "The US pro-gun group calls for a review of the legality of the devices after the Las Vegas massacre.", "Troops are close to clearing one of the last two enclaves of so-called Islamic State in Iraq.", "Ashraf Ghani tells the BBC that Nato troops will be able to leave Afghanistan \"within four years\".", "Mark Salling faces between four and seven years in prison, according to US media reports.", "UK stores drop products after US regulators say they can cause suffocation and are linked to 12 deaths.", "A plaque is removed from the memorial after officials realised it failed to mention Jewish people.", "Brian Lord placed his hand on a female party guest's knee for \"two to three\" minutes, a court heard.", "The author is surprised but unruffled amid the whirlwind of winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.", "Emma Jane Kirby visits the local community on Ulva who are hoping to raise the money to buy the Scottish island", "Simon Brodkin had \"legitimate accreditation\" for the event where he handed Theresa May a P45.", "A couple in Indiana have admitted stealing goods valued at $1.2m by claiming products were damaged in the post.", "The family of a climber who died shielding his wife from a rock fall pay tribute to their \"hero\".", "Catalonia's sacked President, Carles Puigdemont, has bet everything on a split from Spain.", "Royal Mail threatens legal action in a bid to stop 110,000 workers walking out on 19 October.", "Theresa May's \"disastrous\" Conservative conference speech takes centre stage on the front pages.", "Victoria Cilliers survived falling from 4,000ft after both of her parachutes failed, a court hears.", "The 2017 Nobel prizes for the sciences have all been announced, but many in the scientific community are pointing out the lack of female laureates.", "For the Soviet Union, the launch of the satellite was a triumph not just for science. but socialism.", "One allegation claims the former PM raped and indecently assaulted an 11-year-old boy, police say.", "The PM says she retains the support of colleagues after a former Tory chairman urges a contest.", "A \"robust\" investigation is launched after two children are wrapped in cling film at a fire station.", "Black people remain more likely to be stopped and searched than any other ethnic group.", "The £1 or $2 a month increases for a premium subscription are the first for two years.", "Viewers were surprised by how flawless actress Michelle Keegan looked in a disaster zone.", "American licence plates have become aluminium works of art - and collecting them is hugely popular.", "The Black Swan beats Heston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck and Raymond Blanc's Le Manoir.", "The hierarchical power dynamic of the casting couch.", "Michael Eisner is using is expertise in the US entertainment industry to turn around Portsmouth FC.", "Medical technician Susan Mitchison described the ring as \"disorganised\" as she worked on Jakub Moczyk.", "Daryll Rowe is accused of deliberately infecting four unsuspecting men with the virus.", "Sandbags were made available to those affected in the worst areas.", "An Antarctic ice shelf is shown to have a deep gorge cut in its underside by warm ocean water.", "The countries where most girls don't even get to start primary school.", "Following a brutal assault Paul Pugh was left with pathological laughter - a condition which causes him to laugh at the most inappropriate moments.", "The chancellor's approach to spending over Brexit preparations has caused anger in some quarters.", "Ealing councillors vote in favour of banning protesters from gathering outside an abortion clinic.", "The vehicle is thought to have crossed a grass verge and gone through a hedge before hitting the cottage.", "How do plans to expand childcare provision in Scotland compare with schemes in the rest of the UK?", "What solutions would work best to deal with our growing coffee cup waste mountain?", "Saif Abdul Magid suffered multiple knife wounds during an attack in Neasden, north-west London.", "The gang tried to rob the former chancellor and succeeded in robbing more than 100 people over five days.", "Police said the excess dairy produce had to be \"removed or eaten\" as the van was 41% over weight.", "The PM spoke after her chancellor said it was too soon to start spending on plans for \"no deal\".", "Prosecutors say audio, reportedly of a sting operation against Mr Weinstein, was \"insufficient\" evidence.", "The military drill has been described as part of a programme of \"deterrence\" against North Korea.", "The \"worst-case scenario\" would cut average farm profits from £38,000 per year to just £15,000, says the research.", "The prime minister dodges questions about how she would vote if there was another EU referendum.", "Mounting allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein make many of Wednesday's front pages.", "The Oscar-winning actresses join a growing number of women alleging harassment by Harvey Weinstein.", "The information in the government's race audit is already known, so why has it not been acted on?", "The tax bill for the UK division of the auction website comes despite total revenues of £1bn.", "Philip Hammond says the UK will be ready if there's no Brexit deal, but won't spend money on it yet.", "The words of young wartime diarist Anne Frank are reimagined in comic-strip format.", "The British film and TV academy says his alleged behaviour is \"completely unacceptable\".", "A string of actresses have claimed he harassed or assaulted them in hotel rooms and offices.", "The Home Office also said relatives who came to the UK to help survivors can stay for six months.", "Researchers think half of unexplained miscarriages could be linked to the man's health and have possibly found a treatment.", "Ex-Barcelona and Middlesbrough player Fabio Rochemback is among dozens arrested, Brazilian media say.", "Thursday's papers continue to cover the allegations against disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.", "Catalan leaders sign a declaration of independence from Spain - but suspend it to allow talks.", "A west London school gives its students free clocks to stop mobile phones interrupting their sleep.", "Jayne Nisbet says she missed out on one sporting dream because of bulimia, but fought her way back.", "The Long Lartin disturbance should \"ring alarm bells at the most senior level\".", "Georgina Chapman says her \"heart breaks\" for victims of the US producer's \"unforgivable actions\".", "Ben Affleck says sorry after criticism for touching MTV presenter Hilarie Burton on air in 2003.", "A transgender blogger says gender-neutral passports would be a sign of respect.", "Business Secretary Greg Clark outlines draft legislation which aims to lower the cost of energy bills.", "The Supreme Court closes a loophole which allowed men to have sex with their underage wives.", "Two sisters, a perilous mountain trek and a wobbly wire bridge - high in the Indian Himalayas.", "\"I guess we'll have to compare IQ tests,\" Mr Trump said. \"And I can tell you who is going to win.\"", "The government wants firms such as Facebook and Twitter to publish annual reports on abuse.", "A court in Australia rules a draft text message can be accepted as an official will.", "Obesity rates have risen ten-fold in the last four decades, meaning 124m boys and girls are now too fat.", "The PM's refusal to say whether she'd now vote for Brexit was a telling moment.", "The Queen has asked Prince Charles to take her place at the Cenotaph ceremony this year.", "Young children, pregnant women and other vulnerable groups can safely eat raw eggs, say UK food experts.", "The president takes aim at NBC after it reported he wanted a tenfold increase in atomic weapons.", "Labour will work with others to stop the UK leaving the EU without a deal, the shadow chancellor says.", "The train featured in the Harry Potter films picked them up after their canoe was swept away.", "Cambridge has the highest concentration of box bikes of any place of its size outside the Netherlands.", "The all-rounder, currently under investigation over a late-night brawl, is joined by team-mates.", "Investigations are continuing into the accident which claimed the life of Keiran Esquierdo on Sunday.", "Police investigate the death of a 10-year-old boy after an incident in County Antrim on Sunday.", "All schools in Northern Ireland will close on Monday due to the risk posed by gusts resulting from Hurricane Ophelia.", "The 19-year-old is thought to have been stabbed in the neck in a fight outside Walsall Town Hall.", "Hundreds are still missing and thousands have had to leave their homes, as death toll mounts.", "Saturday's truck bombing in the capital is the deadliest attack in Somalia's 10-year insurgency.", "Roger Stotesbury fell 30ft while taking photos at an Indian temple during a world trip with his wife.", "Northern California is experiencing the deadliest wildfires in its history. Why are so many dying?", "Could a new generation of immigrants help cricket finally crack America?", "The one-week-old baby girls had to go on a 15-hour journey on the back of a motorbike.", "China has become richer and more powerful, but what does this mean for the ordinary Chinese family?", "NHS plans to ask patients about their sexual orientation make Sunday's headlines, as well as reports of a fresh Brexit row.", "Supermarkets would also buy more global produce to counter any rise in EU prices, a minister says.", "It is believed groom Ken Dooley, who was in his 50s, was kicked by a horse in the stables.", "The UK braces for the tail end of Hurricane Ophelia with high temperatures and winds forecast.", "The director's remarks come as he clarifies earlier comments that he was \"sad\" for Weinstein.", "The Fleetwood Mac star on the band's early days, and why he can't play the same rhythm twice.", "Remembering Mata Hari, 100 years after her execution by firing squad", "The carmaker says the 400 job losses at its Ellesmere Port factory are needed to stay competitive.", "Inflation at 2.9% will worsen the effects of the chancellor's measures, the Resolution Foundation warns.", "Rex Tillerson insists the US wants to resolve the North Korean crisis through diplomacy.", "Four Moldovans are killed and four French nationals are among the six injured.", "Thirty years after his death, Becky Branford recalls interviewing Burkina Faso's legendary leader just before he was assassinated.", "The casting couch may seem like a relic of the golden age of Hollywood - but women say sexual harassment is rife.", "Plans to tax older workers in the upcoming Budget and an impending storm feature on Monday's front pages.", "British actress Lysette Anthony says he attacked her at her London home in the late 1980s.", "Thousands are without power as the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia reaches the British Isles.", "A large drone went \"right over the wing\" of a passenger jet near Gatwick Airport, a report says.", "Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is accused of a number of sexual assaults in London, the BBC understands.", "Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark, and US singer Joe Jonas are engaged.", "Damaging gusts are likely across Northern Ireland on Monday, says the Met Office.", "NHS England says the question will deter discrimination against lesbian, gay and bisexual people.", "We are not used to the idea of machines making ethical decisions, but the day when they will routinely do this - by themselves - is fast approaching.", "Leah Dixon and Jasmine Agnew were reported missing after failing to return to their homes in Renfrewshire.", "Commercial jet lands for the first time on airstrip branded the \"world's most useless airport\".", "The country is tipped to return Europe's youngest leader amid a shift to the right after the migrant crisis.", "Oscar-nominated film-maker James Toback denies allegations made by almost 40 women.", "A wealthy divorcee described how Mark Acklom pretended to be a spy before disappearing with her savings.", "Shinzo Abe pledges strong \"counter-measures\" against Pyongyang after a decisive election win.", "But Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says the PM's update sounds like \"Groundhog Day\".", "The actress, best known for roles in films A Room With A View and That'll Be The Day, was 81.", "Stephen Hawking's PhD thesis, written as a 24-year-old, was made available to the public on Monday.", "Witnesses tell the BBC how men with sticks and axes started one of the world's longest conflicts.", "The \"wonder from down under\" has been free from recession for more than a quarter of a century.", "David Clarke, of Nuneaton, is charged with false imprisonment and possession of a samurai sword.", "He was found on the ground bleeding outside a primary school in St Leonards-on-Sea, police say.", "Two hostages were held by a suspected gunman in an incident police say was not terror-related.", "The eight-year study finds infant sea creatures will be especially harmed by more acidic oceans.", "Some Tories seemingly want the chancellor out, while business leaders call for urgent Brexit action in Monday's papers.", "It is claimed one life a week could be saved in Wales if cheap alcohol sales are banned.", "Why are more people running marathons in all 50 states - and what does it say about modern America?", "The father of double-entry bookkeeping wrote the definitive guide in 1494.", "Health officials say many illnesses get better on their own and patients don't need prescriptions.", "Emile Cilliers asked his lover to clean in the nude while his wife was in hospital, court hears.", "The streaming service expects to spend up to $8bn next year on new content.", "Wayne Esmonde asked police to change an \"unflattering\" mug shot used in a social media appeal.", "Viewers voice dismay at the \"grotesque\" violence in BBC One's new Guy Fawkes drama.", "The country music star has taken a business-like approach to her career and says other artists should do the same.", "The cost of driving in central London will almost double for some motorists under the new scheme.", "Peers are accused of being \"at it again\", while Theresa May \"shrugs off\" claims she begged for help from Brussels.", "Britain's five biggest business lobby groups unite to call for swift action on transition plans.", "The re-release of the late singer's Listen Without Prejudice Vol 1 leads this week's album sales.", "The prime minister has meandered through previous crises but that won't work now, says Tom Burridge.", "The teenager went missing in Covent Garden while on a family trip to London.", "French TV was filming the president chatting with junior ministers when Nemo stole the scene.", "\"In almost every case\", that is the only option, Foreign Office minister Rory Stewart says.", "On just one night a year Faroese men can hunt gannet chicks, considered a delicacy. It involves a dangerous climb down steep cliffs.", "Montreal's Taoufik Moalla says he is contesting the ticket for \"screaming in a public place\".", "Readers share their experiences of what it is like to be asexual in a sexualised society.", "The Sheffield Hallam Labour MP is \"deeply ashamed\" of remarks he made before entering Parliament.", "Jamie Harron was arrested after touching a man's hip in a Dubai bar.", "Four others were injured when the boat hit a warning beacon, throwing the woman into the Rhone.", "Jodie Whittaker's Time Lord will be joined by Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill.", "What does the state of the Palace of Westminster tell us about our politics?", "The investigation in New York follows sexual assault allegations made against Harvey Weinstein.", "Everything Everything on how their new album was inspired by the \"surreal, nightmarish\" news cycle.", "Police warn residents to be on high alert after three people were shot dead within 10 days.", "Police believe the Pagani Zonda had been in a convoy of supercars when it hit a crash barrier.", "Emergency services were called to a block of flats in Bradford on Saturday evening.", "Teresa Wishart was found with head injuries at her home in Kirkby, police say.", "A top Russian broadcaster is seriously ill in hospital after a man stabbed her in the neck at work.", "The Emirate of Dubai ruler intervenes after the man was sentenced to prison for public indecency.", "Moscow accuses the West of sending aid to the Syrian city to cover up evidence of crimes.", "The movie-maker shows off his eclectic collection of self-snapped prints taken over many decades.", "John Craig says he was initially \"followed\" before making his way to safety in Australia.", "One lucky Euromillions ticketholder could win Europe's biggest ever prize, say lottery bosses.", "It comes after allegations that workers had changed slaughter dates at one if its sites.", "The Catalan poll descending into violence, and division in the Conservative Party make headlines in Monday's papers.", "Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says Washington is \"probing\" the possibility of talks.", "He is joined at the closing ceremony by his girlfriend Meghan Markle and her mother Doria Radlan.", "The Scottish Conservative leader calls for more government jobs to be relocated north.", "Lauren Stocks, 16, on public speaking, trolls and her political ambitions for the future.", "There were calls to ban the song Same Love from the NRL final amid Australia's gay marriage vote.", "Billy Monger managed to walk 200m of the Brands Hatch circuit to raise money for charity.", "Saturday's episode of the BBC dancing competition was watched by an average of 9.3m people.", "\"I don't think I've seen anything on television like this before,\" says lead actress Michelle Fox.", "The A380 with more than 500 people on board makes an emergency landing at a small Canadian airport.", "Theresa May's pledge to overhaul tuition fees and her battle for survival dominate the papers.", "Police are asking people who may have seen Leanne McKie's car before she died to come forward.", "What an almighty row in Texas can tell us about what may happen if Uber leaves London.", "The road was shut for 11 hours after a \"potentially hazardous material\" was dropped from a bridge.", "Chris Cook, Newsnight's policy editor, assesses the implications of the government's planned changes to student tuition fees.", "Starring Tony Blackburn, Chris Evans, Terry Wogan, Annie Nightingale, John Peel and Chris Moyles.", "The attacker was shot dead at the scene and the French anti-terror prosecutor is investigating.", "The aviation regulator is set to decide whether to renew the airline's licence to sell package holidays.", "Sunday's Catalan independence vote is a huge test for Spain, Tom Burridge reports.", "The rock star was taken to hospital after the incident in New York on Saturday night.", "What can visitors expect of the city as it edges closer to hosting the 2022 Commonwealth Games.", "It was one of the world's most opulent railway stations. Then it fell into disrepair. Now the building is showing new signs of life.", "The piece was due to be auctioned on Sunday, with an estimated sale price of €30,000 (£26,500).", "How a Manchester United captain started a football rebellion and scored a win for workers' rights.", "Images from Catalonia where a massive police operation is under way to halt the disputed referendum.", "Leanne McKie was a popular officer who worked in the sexual crimes unit, police say.", "The PM plans to freeze tuition fees and extend Help to Buy in a bid to win over younger voters.", "The former American football and movie star is freed after serving nine years for armed robbery.", "18-month-old Elsie suffered months of abuse before she died two weeks after being adopted, court hears.", "The keeper was mauled to death as he tried to get the tigers into their enclosure, officials say.", "Harvey Weinstein sacked after sexual harassment claims. A cascade of allegations is swirling.", "Both sides cite security concerns, with the move coming after a US employee was held in Turkey.", "The sequel to the 1982 cult classic is the weekend's most popular film in America and 45 countries.", "Theresa May also says the UK could face European Court of Justice rulings for two years after Brexit.", "The US first lady's spokeswoman says comments by Donald Trump's ex-wife are attention seeking.", "Five ways the theory behind this year's Nobel prize for economics may have influenced your behaviour.", "The home-sharing website collected more than £650m in rental payments for UK landlords last year.", "The bulk of cuts will affect the defence contractor's two Lancashire plants, the BBC understands.", "A festival has left an indelible mark on the BBC's South Asia correspondent.", "Fans of cartoon Rick and Morty were left angry after they were unable to get a rare dipping sauce.", "There are vital differences between the power of tech firms today and oil barons a century ago", "Fifty years after Che Guevara's death, his son takes the BBC on a motorcycle tour of Cuba.", "They had \"formed a group identity\" and \"saw themselves as intellectually superior\", a court hears.", "Was a baby thrown from Grenfell Tower and caught? The evidence suggests the event never took place.", "The search giant has evidence that agents tried to influence the US election, media report.", "England have qualified for the 2018 World Cup but what progress have they made in the past four years?", "It is not clear where the 165 packages of cocaine were being transported to, officials say.", "The ex-Scotland boss claimed his team failed because they were shorter but does it really make a difference?", "A business is fined after a man wore a shark mask as part of a promotional campaign in Vienna.", "\"The war on coal is over,\" the US environment head says, as he confirms withdrawal from the plan.", "The 80s pop star on her punk days, drug addiction, and why she's made an album of yoga chants.", "The US vice-president abandons a game in his home state after players kneel during the national anthem.", "Monday's front pages included stories about the 2021 census and problems around the old £1 coin.", "Kim Yo-jong is elevated by the North Korean leader to the country's top decision-making body.", "Behavioural economics is giving us a much better understanding of why things don’t happen in the way we expect.", "The man claims he later got a text saying, \"Maybe you have the fever... I have HIV LOL.\"", "James Meadows, 17, is killed after he is shot in the head while riding pillion on a motorbike.", "Zahid Hussain planned to bomb a railway line with a device made from fairy lights.", "Detectives had said \"sordid\" allegations against the late MP \"stood up\", a national inquiry hears.", "The publisher will appeal against a A$4.5m compensation sum awarded to the actress.", "\"Essay mills\" are charging up to £7,000 to provide students with material to pass off as their own.", "The gang abandons a scooter and crashes a second in a smash-and-grab at a West End jewellers", "British scientists played a key role in developing radar, which has helped deliver safer skies.", "The producer of films including The King's Speech has been accused of sexually harassing many women.", "Business Secretary Greg Clark outlines draft legislation which aims to lower the cost of energy bills.", "Campaigners say the government is taking too long to produce guidelines for schools on handling sexual assaults between pupils.", "The victims are going unheard, says the mother of a six-year-old girl who was assaulted.", "How Munaf Kapadia runs a successful \"pop up\" restaurant at his family home in Mumbai.", "Shaheer Niazi, 17, is being internationally recognised for his work on the electric honeycomb.", "The technology company says it struggled to convince others to make mobile apps for the platform.", "Political analyst Cheng Li explains Xi Jinping's revamp of China's military.", "Eleven firearms, 74lb (34kg) of cocaine and 16lb (7kg) of heroin were seized near Calais on Friday 6 October.", "Leading actresses are appalled by sexual harassment claims against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.", "A winning lottery ball appeared to change from number 38 to number 33 during the weekend's draw.", "David Davis is planning for no deal on Brexit talks, and millions overcharged for mobiles feature on Friday's front pages.", "The BBC's Anthony Zurcher assesses the damage to Donald Trump in the condolence row affair.", "Crime statistics are regularly disputed so here's what the numbers mean.", "Some people are left near-destitute due to flaws in the benefits system, the Victoria Derbyshire programme is told.", "But PM rejects Labour's calls to pause the new benefit's roll-out as she loses symbolic Commons vote.", "It takes between one and 10 mutations to turn a healthy cell cancerous.", "A wildlife photographer says one man posed behind a stag's antlers at Wollaton Park in Nottingham.", "As a Bletchley Park book of brainteasers is released, test your knowledge of the home of WW2 codebreakers.", "Gen John Kelly says he is \"broken-hearted\" by a lawmaker's criticism of Mr Trump's condolence call.", "The Social Mobility Commission says low pay is \"endemic\" in the UK.", "The chancellor is tipped to include measures to help young people in his budget, at the expense of older taxpayers.", "Theresa May's promise to let EU nationals stay and questions over the future of the FA's bosses feature on the front pages.", "Michael O'Neill is banned and fined for the offence, after police found him to be three times the Scottish legal limit.", "Lisa Marie Husby recalls the day Anders Breivik opened fire as she sat with students attending a summer camp in Norway.", "The plaintiff says champagne was promised in the brochure; the airline calls the lawsuit \"frivolous\".", "A casting director says Jennifer Lawrence's experience is not representative of the acting industry.", "Terry Butcher said his son Christopher's life had been \"tragically cut short\".", "The badger entered the house through a cat flap and helped itself to cat food before going to sleep.", "Argentina's political parties suspend election campaigning as experts work to identify the body.", "More than four million people face difficulties over domestic or credit bills, says a major study.", "Leaders gather for a crunch summit as the UK faces EU calls to do more to break the deadlock.", "The Atlantic storm is due to hit parts of the UK and the Republic of Ireland on Saturday morning.", "Rising discontent about the economy and a lack of jobs have taken the sheen off India's powerful PM.", "Jennifer Ferguson says the #MeToo campaign convinced her to break her silence after nearly 24 years.", "The father of a soldier killed in action said the president did not keep his word to send $25,000.", "Norfolk Police said the \"radical plans\" were an attempt to improve efforts to tackle violent crime.", "The chief constable and two senior officers deny allegations of misconduct in public office and criminality.", "Whatever the spin and expectations management, the process is significantly behind schedule and Thursday's summit is unlikely to change that reality.", "The pop band respond to former member Kaya Jones, who claims the group was a \"prostitution ring\".", "When Archie was taken into care, the Family Drug and Alcohol Court sought to reunite him with his father.", "Bodyform has ditched the blue liquid, saying it wants to confront the taboos about periods.", "After five rounds of talks, the two sides are making competing claims about progress. How much has really been made?", "How Canadian winemaker Norman Hardie is able to make award-winning wines, despite winter temperatures so cold it can kill his vines.", "British soldiers opened the first concentration camp in Russia in 1918, during World War One. To locals it was known as \"Death Island\".", "Supermarket says it will cut food waste by selling the green citrus fruit instead of rejecting them.", "The head of a school where some pupils were stopped from taking A-levels, is suspended.", "Lord Hain says up to £400m may inadvertently have been laundered by HSBC and Standard Chartered.", "Canadian passengers complained they were nibbled by bed bugs on a Vancouver to London flight.", "The singer tells the BBC an encounter early in his career made him feel \"terrible\".", "The Kremlin welcomes her candidacy while commentators say it may split the opposition.", "Award-winning vlogger Casey Neistat claims video creators could leave the service en masse.", "Flying insects have declined by more than 75% in 30 years in German nature reserves, alarming ecologists.", "When Evelyn and Tony adopted Ryan at the age of seven, his special needs were not immediately apparent.", "The model and wife of Rod Stewart says her attacker was someone she worked with as a teenager.", "Legally, consent lies with the deceased, but in practice, relatives' wishes are always respected.", "Cambridge University students are given \"trigger alerts\" that they might be upset by some text.", "EU leaders say there is not enough progress to start trade talks yet, but they hope to begin in December.", "Bombers in Humvee vehicles kill 43 soldiers while police are under siege in a separate attack.", "Experts say the findings are exciting but unlikely to explain the causes for all dyslexia.", "The actor says he will never again work with the company, which has now fired disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein.", "Conservation groups welcome government proposals for a full-scale ban on sales and exports.", "Saturday's papers focus on Theresa May's future and Wayne Rooney starting his community service.", "The Royal Navy could lose ability to assault enemy-held beaches, under plans considered in the MoD.", "What do people waiting for an organ, or who have recently had a transplant, make of plans for an opt-out organ donation system in England?", "Thousands of homes are damaged as the tropical storm heads for Mexico and the US.", "The airline will bid farewell to operations manager who had ultimate responsibility for pilot rosters", "Alice McBrearty, 23, had a four-month relationship with a 15-year-old boy.", "The man sued a London IVF clinic after his ex-partner forged his signature to use frozen embryos.", "Four experts examine the issue of information security in an online world.", "Michael O'Leary's offer comes after the airline cancelled thousands of flights in recent weeks.", "Victoria Cilliers, whose ex-husband is accused of sabotaging her parachute, had made 2,600 jumps.", "The couple who travelled overseas to avoid the stress and expense of a traditional wedding at home", "Film producer Harvey Weinstein disputes allegations he sexually harassed women.", "Somerset County Council paid £1,836,000 to a claimant for damages caused by a \"pothole defect\".", "The last monthly print edition of the UK magazine will be in December as it takes a new direction.", "Ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor is suspected of using his UK jail as a base to interfere in the elections in his homeland.", "A 24-year-old teacher's account of teenage sexual activity prompts many to share their concerns.", "Emotional tributes are paid to the Coronation Street legend at Salford Cathedral.", "A security guard sets fire to a childcare centre, killing four children and a teacher.", "The US pro-gun group calls for a review of the legality of the devices after the Las Vegas massacre.", "Ashraf Ghani tells the BBC that Nato troops will be able to leave Afghanistan \"within four years\".", "UK stores drop products after US regulators say they can cause suffocation and are linked to 12 deaths.", "A pilot says colleagues are leaving the airline in a mass exodus due to a \"toxic atmosphere\".", "Weather scientists first mistook the radar pattern to be birds, and turned to social media for help.", "The US Department of Commerce again rules against the aerospace firm in its dispute with rival Boeing.", "The author is surprised but unruffled amid the whirlwind of winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.", "7 days quiz: It's the weekly news quiz - have you been paying attention to what's been going on in the world over the past seven days?", "Emma Jane Kirby visits the local community on Ulva who are hoping to raise the money to buy the Scottish island", "Lost Voice Guy uses a synthetic voice on to speak - but at least one person was not convinced...", "The deal will supply the US's advanced Thaad missile defence system to Saudi Arabia.", "PM's allies believe plot is under control but private questions are now out in the ether.", "Joseph Shade, 24, who played Peter Beale in EastEnders is sentenced for sex offences against girls.", "Lena Dunham, Brie Larson and others respond to allegations of sexual harassment against the producer.", "The £1 or $2 a month increases for a premium subscription are the first for two years.", "Catalonia's sacked President, Carles Puigdemont, has bet everything on a split from Spain.", "The 2017 Nobel prizes for the sciences have all been announced, but many in the scientific community are pointing out the lack of female laureates.", "20-year-old Jade Carter was diagnosed with arthritis as a baby. She explains how Amy Winehouse's charity is helping her use music to ease the pain.", "Detentions, isolation rooms and obsessive uniform policies... are schools becoming too strict?", "Robots and artificial intelligence are set to replace many jobs but will women or men be affected equally?", "A shortage of properties for sale and growth in full-time employment is supporting prices, the lender says.", "The position of the prime minister after her party conference speech dominates the front pages.", "There are lots of reasons to fight for gender equality - but could hiring more women make you more money?", "The PM says she retains the support of colleagues after a former Tory chairman urges a contest.", "The women accused of killing the half-brother of North Korea's leader visit the scene.", "Producer of sequel David Heyman wants The Weinstein Company name \"nowhere near\" Paddington 2.", "US astronaut Paul Weitz, who helped save a Nasa space station after it was damaged during launch, has died aged 85.", "The search giant's flagship device has suffered several issues, including complaints about screen quality.", "Victoria says her face was superimposed on pornographic images shared on social media.", "But Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says the PM's update sounds like \"Groundhog Day\".", "The American Muslim is an active FBI agent who befriends key figures plotting jihadist attacks.", "Spelling and postcode mistakes have triggered thousands of wrongly issued fines, a watchdog says.", "Donald Tusk says the talks are the bloc's \"toughest stress test\" and the EU cannot become divided.", "The actress is coming back to Albert Square after more than 15 years away from the soap.", "David Clarke, of Nuneaton, is charged with false imprisonment and possession of a samurai sword.", "The travel publisher says the slide in sterling has made the UK one of the best-value destinations.", "The creation of a cyber security ministry has both amused and alarmed Zimbabweans.", "How an Australian is preserving the legacy of Black Country glassworks.", "Mr O'Mara says a constituent's allegations of offensive language in March 2017 are \"untrue\".", "Will Kensington and Chelsea Council spend more on Grenfell victims than the government spends on housing?", "Tahani Salih suffered under IS - now she's bringing pleasure back to where the group once ruled.", "The parents' chosen name is referred to France's state prosecutor for a ruling.", "Tom Morgan reached heights of 8,000ft (2,438m) while strapped to a camping chair.", "The streaming service expects to spend up to $8bn next year on new content.", "The Labour leader is expected to be paired with a mystery celebrity for a charity special.", "A Tory MP is under fire after writing to universities asking for names of staff who teach courses on Brexit.", "Peers are accused of being \"at it again\", while Theresa May \"shrugs off\" claims she begged for help from Brussels.", "China's president is set to become the country's uncontested leader at a crucial party congress.", "The re-release of the late singer's Listen Without Prejudice Vol 1 leads this week's album sales.", "Terry Richardson will no longer work for the magazine or any Conde Nast titles.", "Army sergeant Emile Cilliers denies attempting to kill his wife by trying to create gas leak at their home.", "Gale-force winds that hit the Blackpool coast \"almost snapped\" a 250-metre section of the pipe.", "Montreal's Taoufik Moalla says he is contesting the ticket for \"screaming in a public place\".", "Readers share their experiences of what it is like to be asexual in a sexualised society.", "The UK is branded \"stupid\" for quitting the EU, while there's worrying news for some of the world's wealthiest people.", "The note was written by the physicist when he didn't have enough money to tip a courier.", "A fifth of British men have also been victims at work or a place of study, figures suggest.", "The Sheffield Hallam Labour MP is \"deeply ashamed\" of remarks he made before entering Parliament.", "The new strain of computer-locking malware has hit Russian media websites and an airport in Ukraine.", "The list of 100 people of African and African Caribbean heritage in Britain puts a woman at the very top.", "The retailer will compensate 250,000 customers after regulator says it had not acted as a responsible lender.", "The actress and co-creator of The OA says the movie mogul suggested they shower together.", "The comedian and actor - a prominent Labour supporter - says he wants to \"break down barriers\".", "Campaigners say a limit on the amount of support the Access to Work scheme can provide is damaging.", "The legendary Filipina tribal tattooist was pictured asleep at the show, sparking fears of exploitation.", "An experiment prevents unsponsored publishers' posts appearing in the platform's main News Feed.", "IT worker Jac Holmes, 24, was killed while clearing landmines in Raqqa, the BBC understands.", "Briton Zelda Perkins alleges she was sexually harassed by the American film producer.", "Police believe the Pagani Zonda had been in a convoy of supercars when it hit a crash barrier.", "Just 58,000 people moved account last month, despite big cash incentives on offer", "Expenditure at the Rochester by-election was not registered by UKIP, which could breach electoral law.", "A top Russian broadcaster is seriously ill in hospital after a man stabbed her in the neck at work.", "The clinic, based in London, is known to have had high-profile clients, including TV star Katie Price.", "Marine archaeologists say the object - discovered off the coast of Oman - is an astrolabe.", "City gangs are exploiting children as young as 12 to traffic Class A drugs to smaller rural towns.", "A man accused of deliberately infecting men with HIV told one he was \"riddled\" with the virus.", "How a woman's commitment to her childhood friend inspired thousands in Kenya.", "Senator Bob Corker launches a scathing attack on Mr Trump ahead of his Capitol Hill visit.", "Lots of people have said the producer's alleged harassment and abuse was \"an open secret\". How open?", "Viewers were surprised by how flawless actress Michelle Keegan looked in a disaster zone.", "The Black Swan beats Heston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck and Raymond Blanc's Le Manoir.", "The 68-year-old woman was found dead in bed after police forced their way into a west Belfast flat.", "Michel Barnier used dramatic language but it's too soon to think it means that the whole process is doomed.", "Chester Bennington filmed the Carpool Karaoke episode six days before his death in July.", "Following a brutal assault Paul Pugh was left with pathological laughter - a condition which causes him to laugh at the most inappropriate moments.", "The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says sexual assault allegations are \"repugnant\".", "The chancellor's approach to spending over Brexit preparations has caused anger in some quarters.", "The EU negotiator calls the lack of agreement \"disturbing\" but says \"decisive progress\" is possible.", "The changes are part of the Clean Growth Plan to reduce the UK's greenhouse emissions.", "How do plans to expand childcare provision in Scotland compare with schemes in the rest of the UK?", "The US embassy owes the highest amount - £11.5m - in London congestion zone fees.", "Friday's papers report on the latest round of Brexit talks and more claims against media mogul Harvey Weinstein.", "Royal Mail wins an injunction in London's High Court preventing next week's 48-hour strike.", "The gang tried to rob the former chancellor and succeeded in robbing more than 100 people over five days.", "Will it kill the deal if Trump refuses to recertify it, and how might Iran respond?", "Prosecutors say audio, reportedly of a sting operation against Mr Weinstein, was \"insufficient\" evidence.", "The PM spoke after her chancellor said it was too soon to start spending on plans for \"no deal\".", "The maid of honour's life was saved by her two cousins, who had just learned how to do CPR.", "Young first-time buyers are increasing their mortgage debt to tackle short-term financial pressures.", "Maxwell Gruver, 18, died after engaging in a drinking game called \"Bible study\", police say.", "A maintenance man says he told staff to call police before the gunman killed 58 concert-goers.", "The health secretary is to announce new steps to attract more doctors to the countryside and coast.", "A growing number of firms are crafting bikes using wood, but some cyclists remain wary", "Sensitive information about fighter jets and naval vessels was stolen, authorities say.", "A string of actresses have claimed he harassed or assaulted them in hotel rooms and offices.", "Thursday's papers continue to cover the allegations against disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.", "Some young people are taking out up to 40-year mortgages instead of opting for traditional 25-year terms. They tell us why.", "The 23-year-old woman fell 200ft to her death while jumping in the air near the cliff edge.", "The Long Lartin disturbance should \"ring alarm bells at the most senior level\".", "Ben Affleck says sorry after criticism for touching MTV presenter Hilarie Burton on air in 2003.", "A transgender blogger says gender-neutral passports would be a sign of respect.", "A house-sized asteroid passes close to Earth, allowing scientists to rehearse future strike threats.", "The fish wriggled out of the man's hand as he kissed it in celebration of his catch, causing him to swallow it.", "The number of looked-after children reaches a record high, with 90 taken into care every day last year.", "Sir Richard is joining the board of the pod-based US transport company.", "The Queen has asked Prince Charles to take her place at the Cenotaph ceremony this year.", "The health secretary promised 5,000 more GPs by 2020.", "The president takes aim at NBC after it reported he wanted a tenfold increase in atomic weapons.", "The 11-year-old slipped and was left hanging by a safety lanyard around her neck", "The star speaks for the first time about the stage accident that left him with several broken bones.", "At least 31 people are dead in Portugal and three in Spain as dozens of wildfires spread.", "Airlines British Airways, Flybe, Easyjet and Auringy say the smells are linked to weather conditions.", "Some ill and disabled people are so worried about the process, they are using mobile phones to secretly record those interviews, critics say.", "Broken air conditioning and delays overshadow the launch of a new fleet of high-speed engines.", "All 112 motorway service stations are ranked. Where is your favourite?", "The aircraft sustained only minor damage and landed safely, the Canadian transport minister said.", "The Cambridge graduate admitted dozens of offences, including encouraging the rape of a four-year-old.", "Investigations are continuing into the accident which claimed the life of Keiran Esquierdo on Sunday.", "All schools in Northern Ireland will close on Monday due to the risk posed by gusts resulting from Hurricane Ophelia.", "The 19-year-old is thought to have been stabbed in the neck in a fight outside Walsall Town Hall.", "There has been a \"pronounced\" rise in debt among young people, the Financial Conduct Authority head warns.", "The images paint a very different picture of one of Manchester's most notorious neighbourhoods.", "More than a million vehicles worldwide are being recalled over a potential airbag safety issue.", "Ophelia battered Ireland with high winds, causing three deaths, power outages and school closures.", "Saharan dust and forest fires are to blame for the phenomenon, says a weather expert.", "Scientists detect the warping of space generated by the collision of two neutron stars.", "Researchers have revealed details of a major problem with the way wi-fi data is protected.", "Saturday's truck bombing in the capital is the deadliest attack in Somalia's 10-year insurgency.", "Northern California is experiencing the deadliest wildfires in its history. Why are so many dying?", "Could a new generation of immigrants help cricket finally crack America?", "The government now has one word they can use as evidence that they are getting somewhere.", "How events in London in the early 20th Century played a vital role in the lead up to the Russian Revolution.", "China has become richer and more powerful, but what does this mean for the ordinary Chinese family?", "Seaside towns - and the young families living in them - are suffering the worst debt levels.", "The TV series Opposite Number was cancelled following a cyber-attack in 2014.", "Rex Tillerson insists the US wants to resolve the North Korean crisis through diplomacy.", "Video shows passengers on the flight from Australia to Indonesia being told to \"get down\".", "Thirty years after his death, Becky Branford recalls interviewing Burkina Faso's legendary leader just before he was assassinated.", "All the latest news as the British Isles prepares for the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia.", "The BBC's Stephen McDonell examines China's clampdown on free speech ahead of the party congress.", "The casting couch may seem like a relic of the golden age of Hollywood - but women say sexual harassment is rife.", "Plans to tax older workers in the upcoming Budget and an impending storm feature on Monday's front pages.", "Thousands are without power as the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia reaches the British Isles.", "The PM will be accompanied by the Brexit secretary as she aims to break the stalemate with the EU.", "Police investigate the death of a 10-year-old boy after an incident in County Antrim on Sunday.", "Government critic Daphne Caruana Galizia dies in an attack the PM calls \"barbaric\".", "The 31-year-old US Army sergeant tells the court his conduct was \"very inexcusable\".", "The incident is not being treated as terror-related, London Ambulance Service said.", "Designed in 1775, the S-bend was key to the flushing toilet, and public sanitation as we know it.", "Talks with US investment firm Colony Capital come after sex allegations about Harvey Weinstein.", "Sweets and chocolate should be under a 250-calorie limit, NHS England says.", "Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark, and US singer Joe Jonas are engaged.", "The composer will be stepping down at midnight after 20 years as a Conservative peer.", "Irish PM warns people to stay indoors and schools across the island are to remain closed on Tuesday.", "Tony Dixon works at Southmead Hospital and at the Spire private hospital in Bristol.", "England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow opens up to Michael Vaughan in a special interview for BBC Radio 5 live.", "Paresh Davdra developed his successful money exchange firm from the ground up.", "We are not used to the idea of machines making ethical decisions, but the day when they will routinely do this - by themselves - is fast approaching.", "An app encouraging teens to say nice things to each other has been bought by Facebook.", "The pop star's tour dates could be in jeopardy after he has \"a bit of a bicycle accident\".", "Music manager Sarah Bowden said she had once been sacked after refusing to sleep with a manager.", "The extent to which the Home Counties professional classes dominate Oxbridge admissions is revealed.", "The head of a school where some pupils were stopped from taking A-levels, is suspended.", "The head of the CIA says the North is close to being able to hit the US with a nuclear missile.", "The UK government, an array of campaign groups and the Zimbabwe opposition express dismay.", "Plans to increase a motorway speed limit and progress over Brexit talks are among the stories leading the papers.", "Pollution has been linked to nine million deaths each year worldwide, according to a report in The Lancet.", "Officials discuss initial results of an inquiry into the killing of an investigative reporter.", "How comedy workshops are helping inmates in Mexico's notoriously dangerous jails.", "Debris from Halley's Comet will be seen in the early hours of Sunday, with 20 meteors an hour expected.", "Legally, consent lies with the deceased, but in practice, relatives' wishes are always respected.", "It takes between one and 10 mutations to turn a healthy cell cancerous.", "The poll by BBC Radio Kent sparked outrage on social media.", "Minori reinvented a Japanese street fashion style eight years ago that now has a worldwide following.", "King Felipe VI says Spain will solve the crisis through democratic institutions.", "The pop band respond to former member Kaya Jones, who claims the group was a \"prostitution ring\".", "A community is divided over whether World War Two labour camps should be used to promote tourism.", "Getting a £100 fine at the dentist is distressing, particularly if it is believed to be in error, say patients.", "The force got complaints after officers painted their nails to highlight modern slavery issues.", "A new musical based on the singer's life is hitting London's West End in 2018.", "The model and wife of Rod Stewart says her attacker was someone she worked with as a teenager.", "A weekly quiz of the news, 7 days 7 questions.", "The Irishman was acquitted of all charges in Egypt over a month ago but his release was delayed.", "A move on the Brexit divorce bill would present Theresa May with a huge political problem.", "The Malaysian government is exploring a \"no find-no fee\" style deal with Texas-based company Ocean Infinity.", "EU leaders say there is not enough progress to start trade talks yet, but they hope to begin in December.", "A casting director says Jennifer Lawrence's experience is not representative of the acting industry.", "Tony Warren tried writing a different northern soap opera before creating Corrie.", "Lisa Marie Husby recalls the day Anders Breivik opened fire as she sat with students attending a summer camp in Norway.", "This will be the first time the judge has missed the live shows in 13 years.", "Labour's Clive Lewis apologises after he is filmed using offensive language on stage at a Labour event.", "Mortgage applicants are unable to rely on rent payment history as proof that they can afford a home loan.", "The plaintiff says champagne was promised in the brochure; the airline calls the lawsuit \"frivolous\".", "Gen John Kelly says he is \"broken-hearted\" by a lawmaker's criticism of Mr Trump's condolence call.", "Leah Waterman had previously been told she must go back to the Philippines to apply for a visa.", "Rising discontent about the economy and a lack of jobs have taken the sheen off India's powerful PM.", "David Davis is planning for no deal on Brexit talks, and millions overcharged for mobiles feature on Friday's front pages.", "The Atlantic storm is due to hit parts of the UK and the Republic of Ireland on Saturday morning.", "A disciplinary panel rules police were not technically \"in pursuit\" when Henry Hicks, 18, crashed.", "The US magician denies claims by British-born Natasha Prince that he attacked her over a decade ago.", "As England begin their bid to regain the Women's Ashes, the players reveal what has happened since they won the World Cup.", "Brian Thompson had planned to argue the law in connection with the boxes was a \"grey area\".", "After five rounds of talks, the two sides are making competing claims about progress. How much has really been made?", "Sinn Féin's Maolíosa McHugh said he would not meet the prince due to his role with the Parachute Regiment.", "Jayson Lobo secretly recorded sexual encounters with seven women on his mobile phone.", "The famed director worked closely with the Hollywood producer accused of many sexual assaults.", "Ian Lavery MP received £165,000 from the 10 member trade union he ran.", "Comments by the two ex-presidents are seen as a veiled rebuke of Donald Trump's leadership.", "British soldiers opened the first concentration camp in Russia in 1918, during World War One. To locals it was known as \"Death Island\".", "The UK government said the firms needed to inform customers when they had paid for their handsets.", "Newsbeat speaks to Chelsea Kwakye about her experience of being a student at Cambridge.", "Gilbert Rozon has been accused of sexually abusing and harassing women over the past three decades.", "The region's parliament would be dissolved as part of measures to impose direct control.", "Suzie Imber, who beat 11 people to the prize, is \"excited\" she could \"one day end up in space\".", "It comes after allegations that workers had changed slaughter dates at one if its sites.", "Greg Steltenpohl founded one of America's best-known smoothie brands, but almost lost everything after a major corporate crisis.", "The Catalan poll descending into violence, and division in the Conservative Party make headlines in Monday's papers.", "Many worry that unless changes from Eric Pickles' new report are implemented, the party will disappear", "Subtitling software misunderstood the word \"comma\" and inserted \"scum\" into the text.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury says the event would be \"the most extraordinary historic moment\".", "Lauren Stocks, 16, on public speaking, trolls and her political ambitions for the future.", "The BBC presenter was accused of wanting to make changes to a magazine interview.", "A 52-year-old man is being questioned after the bodies were found on Sunday night.", "There were calls to ban the song Same Love from the NRL final amid Australia's gay marriage vote.", "Understanding how our bodies keep time has \"vast implications\" for health, say Nobel committee.", "The 15-year-old had been attempting to bench press almost 100kg (220 lb), local media said.", "People climbed on to tracks after being \"panicked\" by a man reading verses aloud from the holy book.", "At least 58 people are dead and more than 500 taken to hospital after Las Vegas shooting - police.", "Tower Hamlets Council says the five-year-old girl's foster family gave \"warm and appropriate care\".", "\"I don't think I've seen anything on television like this before,\" says lead actress Michelle Fox.", "At first Stacey thought she wasn't normal, then she thought she might be ill. Finally she discovered she was actually asexual.", "Detective Leanne McKie was discovered in the water at Poynton Park, Cheshire, on Friday.", "As Trump says the recovery cannot go on \"forever\", only 10% of the population has electricity.", "Kamal Haasan, an actor known to his fans as \"hero of the world\", has said he wants to tackle corruption.", "Sabrinna Valisce worked as a prostitute for 25 years and long campaigned for decriminalisation. Now she describes herself as an \"abolitionist\".", "Police are asking people who may have seen Leanne McKie's car before she died to come forward.", "The man was shot dead by police near Bristol last week near junction 19 of the M5.", "The road was shut for 11 hours after a \"potentially hazardous material\" was dropped from a bridge.", "The pop star talks about disastrous dates, and how once she had a crush on a famous friend.", "Chris Cook, Newsnight's policy editor, assesses the implications of the government's planned changes to student tuition fees.", "The attacker was shot dead at the scene and the French anti-terror prosecutor is investigating.", "The star cancels nine dates after a stage prop collapsed on top of him on Saturday night.", "The aviation regulator is set to decide whether to renew the airline's licence to sell package holidays.", "The chancellor says the sooner firms gets more Brexit clarity, the sooner the economy will pick up.", "The captain is being investigated after allegations of an \"inappropriate relationship\".", "Holidaymakers arrive at airports to find their flights cancelled and staff are made redundant by email.", "The rock star was taken to hospital after the incident in New York on Saturday night.", "Chancellor Philip Hammond says \"bring on\" the fight with Labour \"dinosaurs\" over capitalism.", "Failed airline to lose 1,858 jobs; Travel plans for 860,000 people in chaos; Plus: Tesco trial, FTSE 100 closes up; Wall Street rises.", "Keep raw meat and fish separately from other shopping to avoid getting stomach bugs, consumers told.", "It was one of the world's most opulent railway stations. Then it fell into disrepair. Now the building is showing new signs of life.", "The Catalan crisis looks more like populism than separatism, Europe editor Katya Adler writes.", "Stephen Paddock is said to have been a professional gambler who recently made some big bets.", "More young people are voting than at any time in the last 25 years, but largely not for the Conservatives. 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"Glasgow & West Scotland", "England", "US & Canada", "UK Politics", "Business", "Health", "Magazine", "Europe", "US & Canada", "UK Politics"], "content": ["Critics say health services have collapsed under Mr Mugabe's rule\n\nThe choice of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe as a World Health Organization (WHO) goodwill ambassador has been criticised by several organisations including the British government.\n\nIt described his selection as \"surprising and disappointing\" given his country's rights record, and warned it could overshadow the WHO's work.\n\nThe opposition in Zimbabwe and campaign groups also criticised the move.\n\nThe WHO head said he was \"rethinking his approach in light of WHO values\".\n\nDr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had previously praised Zimbabwe for its commitment to public health.\n\nHe said it was a country that \"places universal health coverage and health promotion at the centre of its policies to provide health care to all\".\n\nMr Mugabe's appointment as a \"goodwill ambassador\" to help tackle non-communicable diseases has attracted a chorus of criticism.\n\nCritics have long argued that Zimbabwe's health service is not meeting the needs of patients\n\nThe British government said it was all the more surprising given US and EU sanctions against him.\n\n\"We have registered our concerns\" with the director general, a spokesman said.\n\n\"Although Mugabe will not have an executive role, his appointment risks overshadowing the work undertaken globally by the WHO on non-communicable diseases.\"\n\nZimbabwe's leader has been frequently taken to task over human rights abuses by the European Union and the US.\n\nCritics say Zimbabwe's health care system has collapsed, with staff often going without pay while medicines are in short supply.\n\nDr Tedros, who is Ethiopian, is the first African to lead the WHO. He was elected in May with a mandate to tackle perceived politicisation in the organisation.\n\nUS-based campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said it was an embarrassment to give the ambassador role to Mr Mugabe, because his \"utter mismanagement of the economy has devastated health services\".\n\nCritics of the president say that Zimbabwe's health care system is in a shambolic state\n\nHRW's Kenneth Roth said Mr Mugabe's appointment was a cause for concern because the president and some of his officials travel abroad for treatment.\n\n\"When you go to Zimbabwean hospitals, they lack the most basic necessities,\" he said.\n\nZimbabwe's main MDC opposition party also denounced the WHO move.\n\n\"The Zimbabwe health delivery system is in a shambolic state, it is an insult,\" spokesman Obert Gutu told AFP.\n\n\"Mugabe trashed our health delivery system... he allowed our public hospitals to collapse.\"\n\nOther groups who have criticised Mr Mugabe's appointment include the Wellcome Trust, the NCD Alliance, UN Watch, the World Heart Federation and Action Against Smoking.\n\nPresident Mugabe heard about his appointment while attending a conference held by the WHO, a UN agency, on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Montevideo, Uruguay.\n\nHe told delegates his country had adopted several strategies to combat the challenges presented by such diseases, which the WHO says kill about 40 million people a year and include cancers, respiratory diseases and diabetes.\n\n\"Zimbabwe has developed a national NCD policy, a palliative care policy, and has engaged United Nations agencies working in the country, to assist in the development of a cervical cancer prevention and control strategy,\" Mr Mugabe was reported by the state-run Zimbabwe Herald newspaper as saying.\n\nBut the president admitted that Zimbabwe was similar to other developing countries in that it was \"hamstrung by a lack of adequate resources for executing programmes aimed at reducing NCDs and other health conditions afflicting the people\".\n\nMedicine is often in short supply at Zimbabwe's hospitals, critics say\n\nThe UN has a bit of thing for goodwill ambassadors, especially famous ones.\n\nAngelina Jolie, as ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency, was regularly pictured comforting displaced families in over-crowded camps.\n\nSwiss tennis star Roger Federer visits aid projects in Africa for Unicef and plays charity matches to raise money.\n\nFurther back in time, film star and Unicef goodwill ambassador Audrey Hepburn visited disaster zones and graced gala dinners where her glittering presence was an encouragement to donors.\n\nThe publicity does attract support for relief efforts.\n\nBut it is hard to imagine 93-year-old Robert Mugabe fulfilling a similar remit.\n\nWill he provide comfort in WHO field clinics in conflict zones? Would one of his suit jackets fetch a high price at auction? Would the presence of a man who is widely accused of human rights abuses encourage more $10,000-a-plate attendees at a gala ball?\n\nSomehow it just does not seem likely, which begs the question, what exactly is Mr Mugabe going to do in his new role? The World Health Organization has not made this at all clear.", "A number of papers focus on what the UK's Brexit bill might be\n\nSome of the papers try to put a figure on what the UK's Brexit bill might be.\n\nThe Daily Mirror thinks it could be £36bn, noting that Prime Minister Theresa May did not rule out a doubling of the current £18bn offer.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph's suggestion is £40bn, while the Sun says it has been told by one senior Brussels diplomat the EU wants £48bn.\n\nThe paper says this would leave the prime minister needing to convince taxpayers why it is worth paying such a huge sum, although it does note some believe that the long-term losses from not striking a deal could dwarf this figure.\n\nThe way the EU referendum was fought and the role of Twitter is the subject of an article on the Buzzfeed website.\n\nIt says a study has found that a network of more than 13,000 bots - or automated pieces of software - tweeted predominantly pro-Brexit messages in the run-up to the vote.\n\nThe researchers at City, the University of London, say they are concerned this tactic gave a \"false sense of momentum behind certain ideas\".\n\nDamian Collins, the Conservative chair of the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee, tells Buzzfeed he has written to Twitter to ask whether there has been any \"interference in the democratic process\".\n\nTwitter says its systems identify more than three million suspicious accounts every week.\n\nThere seems to be a consensus that the EU softened its stance on Brexit at the European Council summit.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph thinks this was because of fears in Brussels that Mrs May's government could collapse if the negotiations remained deadlocked.\n\nOliver Duff, the editor of the i paper, goes further, arguing Mrs May successfully emphasised her weakness - in effect saying \"you think I'm a pain in the proverbial? Try Boris or David Davis\".\n\nA number of papers focus on what the UK's Brexit bill might be\n\nThe Sun warns Brussels not to overplay its hand by asking for too much money in return for trade talks.\n\nThe Guardian thinks the prime minister had a decent 24 hours in Brussels and hopes there is a shared recognition that the EU and the UK have a common interest in making the best of Brexit.\n\nThe Times columnist, Matthew Paris, warns the crisis in Catalonia could bring a violent civil conflict to Spain and threaten its very existence.\n\nHe is angry that what he calls \"tinpot nationalists on both sides have puffed themselves into an entirely avoidable high noon\", arguing the problems could have been resolved with \"a little respect\".\n\nAccording to the Financial Times, two board members of the Weinstein Company tried for years to investigate Harvey Weinstein because of allegations of sexual misconduct.\n\nDonald Trump's tweet claiming crime in the UK has risen because of Islamic terror prompts a backlash in the papers.\n\nThe Daily Mirror quotes the Conservative MP Sir Nicholas Soames, who calls Mr Trump \"a daft twerp\", suggesting he should \"fix gun control\" instead.\n\nThe Washington Post suggests the president was again trying to raise the spectre of terrorism - days after another court blocked one of his travel bans.\n\nIn its coverage of the controversy, the Daily Telegraph compares crime levels in London and New York and comes to the conclusion the British capital is worse.\n\nIt says the cities both have similar populations but in London someone is six times more likely to be burgled and three times more likely to report a rape - although the murder rate in New York remains higher.\n\nThe paper puts the difference down to New York's zero tolerance approach in the 1990s.\n\nOn its front page, the Daily Mail asks \"have our police lost the plot?\" - picturing two support officers wearing bear masks.\n\nIt says forces are being urged to abandon silly stunts and get officers back on the beat.\n\nIn its lead, the Times reports that the 50mph (80km/h) speed limit imposed on drivers going past roadworks is to be eased.\n\nIt says research involving heart monitors suggests drivers are more relaxed going at 60mph (96km/h), in part because they can overtake slower-moving lorries.\n\nBut, it seems, motorists are facing added stress at airports because of a sharp rise in short-term parking fees.\n\nAccording to the Daily Mail, they are being charged up to 35 pence a minute to drop off loved ones. taking the cost of a goodbye kiss to about £3.", "Canadian Joshua Boyle and American Caitlan Coleman were rescued this month after being held captive for five years by a Taliban-linked insurgent group. But what were two Western backpackers doing in Afghanistan in the first place?\n\n\"Looking back, I think it was two years before we saw any proof they were alive,\" recalls Joshua Boyle's friend Alex Edwards.\n\n\"I had assumed that they were probably dead, and tried to make peace with that.\"\n\nJoshua Boyle and Caitlan Coleman were kidnapped in Afghanistan in 2012 after venturing into one of the most hostile regions of the war-torn country.\n\nThe last email from Boyle, sent to Coleman's parents on 8 October of that year, said they were in a part of Afghanistan he described as \"unsafe\".\n\nThe two were held in captivity for five years, suffering violence and abuse. Boyle says one of the children they conceived during the ordeal was killed by their captors.\n\nEdwards says when he first heard his friend had travelled to Afghanistan with Coleman - who was seven months pregnant at the time - he couldn't understand how they had \"done something so appallingly dangerous\".\n\nFamily and friends have described Boyle and Coleman as naive idealists - a couple with strong convictions and humanitarian inclinations.\n\nIn interviews following their release, Boyle said he and Coleman travelled to Afghanistan to help people. He called himself a \"pilgrim\" on a mission.\n\nHe told reporters he went to help \"the most neglected minority group in the world. Those ordinary villagers who live deep inside Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, where no NGO, no aid worker and no government has ever successfully been able to bring the necessary help\".\n\nWhat exactly the couple intended to do to help is a question that hasn't been answered.\n\nA French soldier secures a perimeter on a forward observing post in the Wardak province\n\nColeman, 31, grew up in Stewartstown, a small Pennsylvania town about 100 miles west of Philadelphia.\n\nBoyle, 34, was raised in Smith Falls, near Canada's capital city Ottawa.\n\nThe two met online, reportedly bonding over a shared love of Star Wars. They married in 2011.\n\nFriends interviewed in 2016 by Philadelphia magazine describe Coleman as a devout Christian who loved travel and had a gentle sense of humour - \"big-hearted, relentlessly optimistic, adventurous, funny and flawed\".\n\nBoyle - a self-described \"pacifist Mennonite hippie child\" according to Edwards - has a more contentious past.\n\nHe was briefly married to Zaynab Khadr, the sister of former Guantanamo bay inmate Omar Khadr. The union pulled him publicly into the orbit of one of Canada's most notorious families.\n\nJoshua and Caitlan before their capture\n\nThe Khadr family patriarch, who was killed in Pakistan in 2003, was an alleged close associate of Osama Bin Laden.\n\nZaynab herself is well known for her outspoken views, refusing to condemn terror attacks like the London bombings of 2005 or downplaying 9/11.\n\nOmar Khadr, who was caught in Afghanistan at 15 by American forces, was held in Guantanamo for 10 years and charged with the murder of a US soldier.\n\nCritics accuse him of being a radicalised fighter at the time of his capture.\n\nBut Omar's supporters considered him a child soldier and Boyle - a human rights advocate - took a deep interest in his case.\n\nHis marriage to Zaynab Khadr ended in 2010.\n\nThe Associated Press has reported that US officials don't believe Boyle's former ties to the Khadr family had anything to do with the kidnapping of him and his wife.\n\nBefore leaving on their Central Asian adventure, Coleman had told friends they would only travel to the \"safe '-stans\" during their six-month trip. But at some point, that changed.\n\nThe couple pictured before their kidnapping\n\nIn 2012, a UK man met Joshua Boyle and Coleman in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.\n\nRichard Cronin describes how Boyle - after a long night spent discussing historic explorers - convinced him to travel to Afghanistan.\n\nBoyle and Coleman had been backpacking in Russia and the former Soviet Republics of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.\n\nAfghanistan was next on the list.\n\n\"I asked Josh where he wanted to go in Afghanistan and he replied 'all over'.\n\n\"He had also said it was safe provided you didn't go to a region where there were foreign troops and the Taliban, namely the south,\" Cronin wrote in a blog about the encounter.\n\nWhile in Afghanistan, Cronin learned that Boyle and Coleman had gone missing in the country.\n\nCronin later told a Toronto Star reporter who covered the couple's lengthy captivity: \"I hope Josh and his family get out safely. I have some questions I'd really like to ask them. I'm sure you do too\".\n\nIn 2013, after months of anguished mystery, the Boyle and Coleman families learned what had happened to the vanished couple.\n\nThey had been taken hostage by the Taliban-linked Haqqani network while travelling in the Wardak Province, a mountainous region outside Kabul.\n\nA man believed to have ties to the Taliban emailed the Coleman family two videos of Boyle and their daughter, asking for the US and Canada to do more to free them from their captors.\n\nIn the video - the first of four released to the families - they appear tired, dispirited, and dazed.\n\nColeman had given birth to her first son in captivity.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. File video of Joshua Boyle and his wife Caitlan Coleman while in captivity\n\nBoyle and Coleman's families made those first two videos public in 2014 after the release of US soldier Bowe Bergdahl, who had also been held as a Taliban captive, hoping the publicity would help their appeal for the couple's safe return.\n\nThe last video released of the two came out just 10 months ago, shortly before Christmas. It showed Boyle and Coleman with two of their children.\n\nIn that video, Coleman described their situation as a \"Kafkaesque nightmare\".\n\nThe family was subject to mistreatment and violence during their captivity. In interviews, Boyle says the family was frequently shuffled between locations, often held in rooms not much bigger than a toilet stall.\n\nThere were times Boyle and Coleman were separated and beaten.\n\nBut Boyle has also said one of their biggest challenges was the daily tedium, the long hours with little to fill them.\n\nIn a short email exchange with the BBC, Boyle described passing the time educating their two sons.\n\n\"We had always intended to home school our own offspring - we just hadn't foreseen it would be without books, paper or pen... but we made do with what we had, tore up old garbage to make solar systems, splinters of wood to learn multiplying, bottle caps became compasses, etc,\" he wrote.\n\nHe told the Associated Press that they decided to have children in captivity because \"we're sitting as hostages with a lot of time on our hands. We always wanted as many as possible, and we didn't want to waste time. Cait's in her 30s, the clock is ticking.\"\n\nAn Afghan security force member keeps watch at the site of a suicide attack in Wardak province\n\nIn the intervening years, Boyle and Coleman's family and friends expressed frustration at the apparent lack of interest from the US and Canadian officials, and the media and public's indifference to their plight.\n\n\"It doesn't get the attention it deserves, and I have no idea why,\" a friend told Philadelphia magazine in a 2016 feature about Coleman.\n\n\"It's just messed up. She's a person. She has a family. She's not just this 'kidnapped American woman.'\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Caitlan Coleman's family makes an appeal for their daughter's return\n\nEdwards says he received mostly disinterest when he tried to get the Star Wars and Firefly fan communities - Boyle was an aficionado of both - to help raise awareness of their case.\n\nIn retrospect, he feels it's clear why he couldn't rally people to their cause.\n\n\"People don't want to help with something unless they know it's the right thing to do, and there were just too many complicating factors in Josh and Caitlan's situation,\" he says.\n\n\"What were they doing in Afghanistan? What's the deal with the Khadr connection? I tried to answer those questions as best I could, but the fact that they even came up is a huge strike against people caring.\"\n\nBut Edwards says: \"The fact that no one seemed particularly concerned about two Canadian children being held captive by the Taliban is a shocking indictment of our society.\"\n\nThe couple were captured in Afghanistan's Wardak province and rescued near Kohat, Pakistan\n\nIn 2015, a retired Special Forces officer testified before a US Senate committee about a plan to rescue to Boyle, Coleman and their children from captivity as part of a larger prisoner swap.\n\nThe Green Beret's team had been tasked with trying to help bring soldier Bowe Bergdahl home.\n\n\"We also realised that there were civilian hostages in Pakistan that nobody was trying to free so they were added to our mission,\" Jason Amerine said, mentioning Boyle and Coleman by name in his testimony.\n\nThe rescue plan collapsed, though Bergdahl was eventually released in 2014 in a controversial Taliban prisoner exchange.\n\nIt seemed that Boyle and Coleman were slowly being forgotten.\n\nSo their release after five years of captivity came as a surprise.\n\nOn 12 October, Pakistani and US officials confirmed Pakistani troops rescued the family in a successful but risky mission - shooting out the tyres of the car where they were stuffed in the boot.\n\nBoyle, Coleman and their three children were safe and heading home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It was amazing\" - Boyle's parents relive the moment they heard of his release\n\nAisha Ahmad, a University of Toronto political scientist who studies jihadist groups, suggests it was no coincidence the timing of the rescue came during a tense period between US and Pakistan.\n\n\"The reason the Pakistanis were so willing to pull the trigger is because they desperately needed to mend relations with the new Trump administration,\" she says.\n\nThe family's release netted rare praise for Pakistan from Mr Trump who called it \"a sign that it [Pakistan] is honouring America's wishes for it to do more to provide security in the region\".\n\n\"The Pakistani army and the intelligence community are very realistic in their calculations - they are strategists,\" says Ahmad. \"They care about geopolitics, they play the long game.\"\n\nOn Thursday, CIA director Mike Pompeo told a Washington-based think tank Boyle and Coleman were held in Pakistan during their long captivity, contradicting earlier claims made by Pakistani officials.\n\nAfter landing in Canada, Joshua Boyle struck out at his former captors.\n\nHe says the \"criminal miscreants\" raped Coleman and killed a fourth child - a daughter - in a forced abortion.\n\nThe Taliban have denied Coleman was assaulted and claim the child died due to a miscarriage.\n\nBoyle told the BBC about the one captor he got to know, a man from the West with whom he could \"ask esoteric questions on little-known points of Islamic law and history\".\n\nAfter the learning of the rape by some of the guards, the man defected to the so-called Islamic State \"try to find a truer jihad\" and promised \"to try and tell ISIS of the cruelties, acts of disbelief and hypocrisy of the Haqqani Network\".\n\n\"I offered him my fullest forgiveness, and Caitlan said she would forgive him all his minor sins against her, but she couldn't forgive what he'd done to the children in his blind exuberance for the group at the start,\" Boyle wrote.\n\nJoshua Boyle plays outdoors with his son near his family's home\n\nFor now, Boyle, Coleman and their three children are adjusting to their newfound freedom in the suburban sanctuary of Boyle's parents' Ontario home.\n\nThe children have the resilience of youth and attentive grandparents, and Boyle has said they're slowly adapting to their new circumstances, though the family continues to sleep together in one small room.\n\n\"It's not welcome to the western world, it's not welcome to Canada, it's welcome to life,\" he told NBC's Today programme.\n\nColeman has not spoken publicly since her release and was admitted to hospital earlier this week with an undisclosed ailment.\n\nBoyle told journalists the couple are focusing on building a safe home for their children and that he remains committed \"to do the right thing no matter the cost\".\n\n\"In the final analysis, it is the intentions of our actions, not their consequences, on which we all shall eventually be judged.\"", "Taxpayer-funded medical research is producing medicines which are increasingly unaffordable for patients who need them, says a new report.\n\nCampaigners claim that the NHS spent more than £1bn on drugs developed from publically funded research in 2016.\n\nA government spokesperson said it wanted the UK to be a global leader in research and development\".\n\nBut NHS England said it was concerned about price \"anomalies\", and questioned whether regulatory action was needed.\n\nIt said that was essential that drug companies price their products responsibly.\n\nIt added: \"Although the responsibility for the how prices are set for medicines lies with the Department of Health, and in general the system delivers value for money for patients, we are concerned about pricing anomalies at a time when the NHS needs to make significant savings which suggests further regulatory action may be needed.\"\n\nThe government said that it was committed to ensuring patients could access the effective medicines they needed, at a price that represented value for the NHS and for taxpayers.\n\nA new report, seen by 5 live Investigates, claims that UK taxpayers and patients worldwide are being denied the medicines they need, despite the public sector playing a pivotal role in the discovery of new medicines.\n\nThe report, published by campaign groups Global Justice Now and Stop Aids, says that even when the government has part-funded the research and development, there is no guarantee that patients will be able to access the medicines at an affordable price.\n\nIt says: \"In many cases, the UK taxpayer effectively pays twice for medicines: first through investing in R&D, and then by paying high prices for the resulting medicine once ownership has been transferred to a private company.\"\n\nIt claims the high prices of new medicines are \"unsustainable for an already underfunded NHS\".\n\nIndustry representatives counter that the situation is not that straightforward.\n\nThey say that turning scientific discoveries into medicines takes years of scientific trials and costs billions of pounds, and the process is risky, so not every drug they test will make it to market.\n\nHowever, campaigners say drug companies are generating huge private profits from public funds.\n\nEmma believes drug companies should reduce the price of cancer drugs\n\nEmma Robertson, 35, has incurable breast cancer and is taking the drug, palbociclib.\n\nThis drug was originally developed using work carried out by publicly funded Cancer Research UK scientists in the 1980s, for which they won the 2001 Nobel Prize.\n\nIn February, the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (Nice) made a provisional decision not to recommend the drug because the cost was too high in relation to its potential benefits.\n\nHowever Ms Robertson is receiving the drug through a free trial provided by the drug company Pfizer.\n\nA full course of treatment with palbociclib costs £79,650, which campaigners say means the manufacturer is vastly overpricing the drug.\n\nThey claim it could be made and sold for a profit for £1 per pill, but say in fact it is currently sold for 140 times more.\n\n\"Pfizer needs to dramatically reduce the price that it wants to charge for this drug,\" Ms Robertson says.\n\n\"We need to be asking some really serious questions about how drugs are researched and developed,\" she adds.\n\nIt told the BBC that it took more than 20 years to build on the work of the Cancer Research UK scientists.\n\nTurning scientific discoveries into medicines takes \"billions of pounds of investment, millions of hours of science and thousands of clinical trials,\" the firm explained.\n\nThere are around 45,000 new diagnoses of breast cancer each year in England.\n\nMeanwhile, health bosses estimate that around 5,500 people in England would be eligible for treatment with palbociclib.\n\nRichard Sullivan, professor of cancer and global health at Kings College London, said that while some drug companies price their drugs correctly, others \"vastly overprice\" their drugs.\n\n\"Many of these drugs are extremely profitable\", he said, \"but there is absolutely no link between the price set and with the returns on the research - it's a complete myth.\"\n\n\"When a drug is refused by Nice there's only one reason it's refused - the company has knowingly overpriced the drug.\"\n\nProfessor Sullivan told the BBC that the public sector had contributed anywhere between \"30% and up to 90% of the overall research intellectual input\" in the development of drugs.\n\n\"The public sector is essential for developing new medicines for cancer patients,\" he added.\n\nThe Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry responded by saying that the suggestion that companies intentionally overpriced drugs \"doesn't make sense\" because their overall objective is to ensure that the drugs are approved by Nice and then used by patients.\n\nIn 2015, the UK government spent £2.3bn on health research and development and the relationship been public funding and profits is complex.\n\nCampaigners say more needs to be done to reform the system and that research and development should not be linked to sales revenue.\n\nInstead, campaigners argue, companies should be rewarded for their research in exchange for limiting the price of drugs.\n\nHowever the pharmaceutical industry says it provides thousands of jobs and the current system is crucial to encouraging drug development.\n\n5 live Investigates is broadcast on Sunday 22nd October 2017 at 11am BST. If you've missed it you can catch up on the iPlayer.\n\nHave you got something you want investigating? We want to hear from you. Email us.\n• None Drug firms go to court over cost limits\n• None NICE - The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence 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. Suspects covered their faces as they were taken for questioning\n\nPolice in Brazil say they have arrested 108 people in the biggest operation ever against paedophiles in Latin America.\n\nSuspects were arrested in 24 states and the capital, Brasilia.\n\nJustice Minister Torquato Jardim said those detained were part of a ring that shared pornographic images of children through computers and mobile phones.\n\nThe operation comes at the end of a six-month investigation, which involved US and European immigration officials.\n\nInvestigators have found more than 150,000 files containing disturbing images.\n\nThey were accessed through the dark web, a part of the internet not reached by most search engines.\n\nAmong those arrested were retired policemen, civil servants and people in charge of football youth clubs.\n\nMore than 1,000 officers were involved in the operation\n\nMr Jardim said the paedophiles use sophisticated techniques to evade police investigations.\n\n\"They store their illegal, criminal photos in a computer of someone in another part of the country or even abroad,\" he said.\n\n\"And often the people storing the content are unaware,\" added Mr Jardim.\n\nBut after seizing dozens of computers, mobile phones, CDs and hard drives, investigators found out that the criminal group was also producing pornographic material to distribute on the internet.\n\nThe files contained disturbing images of babies and young children being abused.\n\nSome of the children and teenagers denounced their own parents or other relatives to officers taking part in the operation.\n\nIt is not clear if the paedophile ring operated independently in Brazil or if it was connected with other criminal networks abroad.", "Spain's King Felipe VI has said Catalonia \"is and will remain\" an essential part of the country.\n\nIt is his second intervention in the Catalonia secession crisis.\n\nHe told an awards ceremony in the northern city of Oviedo that the Catalan government was causing a rift and Spain would solve the problem through democratic institutions.\n\nCatalonia's leader has threatened to declare independence, and Madrid is making plans to impose direct rule.\n\nAccording to the opposition Socialists - who support the central government's stand against Catalan independence - the plans include elections in Catalonia in January.\n\nPrime Minister Mariano Rajoy will announce the full set of measures on Saturday, two days after a deadline for Catalonia's autonomous government to abandon its independence bid.\n\nThe central government has said it will trigger Article 155 of the constitution, which allows it to impose direct rule in a crisis, for the first time.\n\nOther moves may include taking control of Catalonia's regional police force.\n\nArticle 155 does not give the government the power to fully suspend autonomy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is there a Catalan crisis? The answer is in its past\n\nA referendum, regarded as illegal by Spain, was held in Catalonia on 1 October.\n\nOf the 43% of Catalans who reportedly voted, 90% were in favour of independence. Most anti-independence voters boycotted the ballot.\n\nKing Felipe previously said Catalan President Carles Puigdemont and other separatist leaders who organised the referendum had \"broken the democratic principles of the rule of law\" and showed \"disrespect to the powers of the state\".\n\nWhile the dissolution of Catalonia's parliament and the holding of snap regional elections may appear to offer a way of defusing today's state of extreme tension, there are plenty of reasons to doubt that such a strategy would provide a clear solution to the crisis.\n\nThe far-left CUP has suggested that it would boycott any election imposed on the region. Other pro-independence forces might do the same. Massive street protests against any form of direct rule from Madrid can also be expected.\n\nAnd what are the potential consequences of forcing an election on Catalonia?\n\nMr Puigdemont has promised to call a formal vote on independence in Catalonia's parliament if Article 155 is invoked. If such a declaration were approved, the pro-independence forces could style the ballot as the election of a constituent assembly for a new republic, the next stage laid down in the secessionists' road map.\n\nAssuming the participation of all parties, voters would be bound to interpret the election as a de facto plebiscite on independence. If a separatist majority emerged once again, it is hard to see how the conflict could be considered closed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nStorm Brian has eased after the UK saw gale-force winds and high seas, although disruption was not as bad as had been feared.\n\nGusts of 78mph were recorded in Capel Curig and Aberdaron, north Wales, with 84mph recorded on the Isle of Wight.\n\nThe Environment Agency said three properties had been flooded in the upper Calder Valley in West Yorkshire.\n\nThere are Red and amber flood warnings in much of northern England and people are urged to \"take immediate action\".\n\nThere are also flood warnings in place in the South West and Wales, while the south of England and London were under yellow wind warnings.\n\nThe storm comes after three people were killed and hundreds of thousands of people - mostly in the Irish Republic - were left without power after the remnants of Storm Ophelia battered the British Isles after weakening from its earlier hurricane force.\n\nStrong winds and high seas first reached the western coast of Ireland overnight on Friday.\n\nGusts hit 80mph (130km/h) in the country, said Irish weather agency Met Éireann, and there was flash flooding in several Irish cities, including Limerick.\n\nA race meeting at Fairyhouse was cancelled and the Cliffs of Moher tourist attraction in County Clare was closed.\n\nFlooding was caused by the storm in Limerick, Ireland\n\nIn Wales, trains and ferries were cancelled and seafront roads closed as a result of the weather.\n\nNatural Resources Wales said the coastline was likely to be \"extremely dangerous this weekend\".\n\nA lifeboat was sent to help a person in difficulty at Skrinkle, while Porthcawl RNLI warned people to watch the storm waves on its live feed, after people were spotted taking photographs from the harbour wall.\n\nCeredigion council also warned people to \"keep away\" from seafronts and \"be careful\" on low-lying land where coastal flooding was possible.\n\nFlood barriers have been put up in Cornwall to protect costal towns\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued 30 flood warnings - meaning flooding is expected - in the north-west and south-west of England.\n\nFlood barriers have been put in place in areas including Fowey in Cornwall, but Frank Newell, from the Environment Agency, said the surge had been lower than forecast.\n\n\"In terms of impact, we've had spray overtopping quaysides, but we don't have at the moment any reported property flooding,\" he said.\n\nIn Wales and southern England, fallen trees and other debris on railway tracks caused cancellations and disruption on some lines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Waves crash into the seafront in Aberystwyth, Wales, as Storm Brian hits the UK\n\nThe Environment Agency's national flood duty manager, Ben Lukey, warned people against posing for photos during the hazardous conditions.\n\nHe said: \"We urge people to stay safe along the coast and warn against putting yourself in unnecessary danger by taking 'storm selfies' or driving through flood water - just 30cm (11in) is enough to move your car.\"\n\nWaves crashed over Mullion Harbour in Cornwall on Saturday\n\nHave you been affected by Storm Brian? If it is safe to do so, share your pictures, video and experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's coalition has won a resounding victory in Sunday's general election, according to exit polls.\n\nOn hearing of his victory he said he would \"firmly deal with\" threats from North Korea.\n\nThe public broadcaster NHK put Mr Abe's Liberal Democratic Party-led (LDP) coalition at 312 seats, allowing it to retain its two-thirds \"super majority\".\n\nThis is vital to his ambition to revise Japan's post-war pacifist constitution.\n\nMr Abe has pushed for a shift in Japan's defence policy, calling for formal recognition of the military in the constitution.\n\nHe said he would try to \"gain support from as many people as possible\" for the task.\n\nHe said on Sunday: \"As I promised in the election, my imminent task is to firmly deal with North Korea.\n\n\"For that, strong diplomacy is required.\"\n\nMr Abe announced the election on 25 September, saying he needed a fresh mandate in order to deal with the \"national crises\" facing Japan.\n\nThe crises include North Korea, which has threatened to \"sink\" Japan into the sea. Pyongyang has also fired two missiles over Hokkaido, the northernmost island in Japan.\n\nA win in the election raises Mr Abe's chances of securing a third three-year-term as leader of the LDP when the party votes next September.\n\nThat would give him the opportunity to become Japan's longest serving prime minister, having been elected in 2012.\n\nJapan went to the polls on Sunday as Typhoon Lan lashed parts of the country. The category four storm brought strong winds and heavy rain to the south of the country, causing flights to be cancelled and rail services to be disrupted.\n\nIt is expected to blow into the Tokyo area early on Monday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, one observer described voting for Mr Abe's Liberal Democratic Party as TINA, or \"there is no alternative\".\n\nThe snap election was called a year ahead of schedule", "Adrienne Warren will play Tina Turner in the musical, which opens in April\n\nA new musical based on the life of Tina Turner is set to open in the West End in 2018 - and the singer even came out of retirement (somewhat reluctantly) to work on it.\n\n\"Retirement is wonderful,\" Turner says as she launches Tina: The Musical in London.\n\n\"You sleep long, do what you want, decorate the house two or three times. Just easy things that you dreamt about when you were working and that's all you did.\"\n\nShe says her lifestyle when she was famous involved spending most of her time on tour buses, planes and cars, adding: \"That was work and that's sometimes what you had to do.\n\n\"But you had a dream not to have to do any of it.\"\n\nTurner, whose hits include The Best and What's Love Got To Do With It, was initially reluctant to sign up for working on the show, which opens at London's Aldwych Theatre in April.\n\n\"I didn't want to because I didn't really understand it or agree with it, whatever there is - the magic between stage and music is totally different,\" she says. \"So I'm learning and experiencing what musicals are about.\"\n\nThe producers of Tina had to fly out to Switzerland, where Turner now lives, to convince her to give the project her blessing.\n\nThe pair performed together at the launch of the musical in London this week\n\nTurner was eventually won over, and now comments: \"This took me out of retirement... I'm very excited to be a part of it.\"\n\nBut the big question of course, was who was going to play Tina in the show. This week, the theatre world got its answer: Adrienne Warren.\n\n\"She can sing,\" Turner says. \"She will do the dancing. Maybe she hasn't done the type of dancing that me and my girls would do, but she can do that. She's pretty. And we're giving it a try.\"\n\nGiving audiences a flavour of what they can expect, Warren performed three songs at the launch, including two duets with Turner, proving in the process that she definitely has the voice to pull this role off.\n\nSpeaking after the performance, the Virginia-born actress said: \"She's a motivation, inspiration to all women, and especially women of colour.\n\n\"It's the first time I ever realised that I could grow up in the South and have dreams that would take me all over the world. I wouldn't have become a performer if it wasn't for Tina Turner.\"\n\nAdrienne Warren said audiences will find the musical \"inspirational\"\n\nShe adds: \"When you haven an opportunity like this, I call it a responsibility. Because I'm a Tina Turner fan first, so that's a responsibility and I don't take that lightly.\"\n\nDetails of the plot and songs included in the show haven't been announced yet, but producers say it will be a fairly comprehensive telling of Turner's life story - not shying away from issues such as the domestic abuse she suffered at the hands of her husband Ike.\n\nDescribing the show's content, Adrienne said: \"Dark? No. Inspirational? Yes. It is the truth of her story. Sometimes the best things in life come out of the worst things in life, so that's what's so appealing about this show.\n\n\"There are challenges, the stamina that is required for this show was something like I've never seen before, and actually having Tina as my coach as I do this is something quite interesting as well, so I love every second of it.\n\n\"It shows all of us that no matter what obstacle comes your way, whether it's your family not supporting you, whether it's bullying, domestic violence, don't ever let that stop you achieving your dreams.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The letter was written by Oscar Holverson to his mother\n\nOne of the last known letters to have been written on the Titanic has sold for a world record price at auction.\n\nThe letter, written by American businessman and Titanic passenger, Oscar Holverson, fetched £126,000.\n\nIt was sought-after because he wrote it on 13 April 1912 - the day before the Belfast-built ship hit an iceberg.\n\nIt is the only known letter, on headed Titanic notepaper, to have gone into the Atlantic and survived.\n\nThe sea-water stained document was sold to a British buyer, whose bid to the auction in Wiltshire came in via phone.\n\nThe auctioneer, Andrew Aldridge, described the anonymous customer as someone \"who collects iconic items from history\".\n\nMr Holverson, a successful salesman, wrote the letter to his mother while travelling on the ill-fated ship with his wife, Mary.\n\nThe couple boarded the Titanic in Southampton and planned to travel back to their home in New York.\n\nIn his note, the writer seems in awe of his surroundings, telling his mother that \"the boat is giant in size and fitted up like a palatial hotel\".\n\nMr Holverson, who has an idiosyncratic style to his syntax, also writes about seeing \"the richest person in the world at that time\" - John Jacob Astor - on the ship, accompanied by his wife.\n\n\"He looks like any other human being even tho (sic) he has millions of money,\" he adds. \"They sit out on deck with the rest of us.\"\n\nThe letter had a reserve price of between £60,000 and £80,000.\n\nSpeaking ahead of Saturday's sale, Mr Aldridge said that \"even if the letter was virtually blank, it would still rank as amongst the most desirable, such is the nature of the paper, its markings and history\".\n\nHaving been an auctioneer of Titanic memorabilia for 20 years, he said that its content takes it to another level, \"because of its date, the fact it went into the Atlantic and the observations it contains\".\n\nOne prophetic entry in Mr Holverson's letter never came true, when he wrote: \"If all goes well we will arrive in New York Wednesday AM.\"\n\nWhen the Titanic sank, Oscar Holverson, along with JJ Astor, died along with more than 1,500 people.\n\nHer husband's body was recovered and, inside a pocket book, the letter was found.\n\nIt still bears the stains of the sea water and the water mark of the White Star shipping line.\n\nThe letter eventually made its way back to his mother.\n\nMr Aldridge said that makes it \"possibly, the only onboard letter written by a victim that was delivered to its recipient without postage\".\n\nThe letter still bears the stains of the sea and the water mark of the White star shipping line\n\nMr Holverson was buried in Woodlawn cemetery in New York, unaware that, 105 years later, his unposted letter would generate such interest.\n\nMr Aldridge, who has auctioned everything from a set of Titanic keys for £85,000, to a violin that was played as the ship sank, for £1.1m, said he was also excited to see the letter.\n\nHe said it was \"one of the most iconic and important items from the Titanic ever offered at auction and shows that interest in the ship and its passengers remains incredibly strong\".\n\nOther items in Saturday's auction included a set of keys belonging to a steward in the Titanic's First Class, which fetched £76,000.\n\nTwo previously unpublished photos of the Titanic went for £24,000.\n\nThe previous world record for a Titanic letter sold at auction was £119,000, set in April 2014, for a letter written a few hours before the ship hit the iceberg.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Leanne Wood says she would prefer critics to \"say it to my face\" rather than brief in private\n\nLeanne Wood has made a public appeal to Plaid Cymru AMs to stop making anonymous criticisms of her leadership to journalists.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Wales, she said: \"I mean it's just ridiculous. We need to be adults about this.\"\n\n\"If anybody's got anything to say I'd really prefer it if they'd say it to my face,\" Ms Wood added.\n\nIt follows reports of disquiet among some Plaid AMs over whether she should lead the party for another four years.\n\nThroughout the party's annual conference in Caernarfon, Ms Wood has insisted she will be Plaid's leader at the next assembly election, and that she has the backing of the membership.\n\nThe party's Mid and West Wales AM Simon Thomas told the BBC's live conference programme Plaid Cymru's rules would allow a leadership race in 2018.\n\n\"If anyone wants to challenge Leanne next year, then let them come forward and challenge her,\" he said, ruling himself out of such a challenge.\n\n\"If anyone thinks they can do a better job than Leanne Wood then they have to come forward next year and put themselves forward to do that, otherwise all talk about this must stop.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rhun ap Iorwerth says he is loyal to Leanne Wood\n\nOn Saturday morning Ynys Mon AM Rhun ap Iorwerth said he was loyal to the leader, after he remarked in August he would \"perhaps\" one day wish to lead Plaid Cymru.\n\nAsked if he supported Leanne Wood's announcement that she wished to lead Plaid into the 2021 assembly poll, he said: \"After that interview in August... and I said 'who knows', I was then asked 'are you loyal to Leanne?'\n\n\"And I said that day and as I say today, yes I am.\"\n\nArfon Plaid MP Hywel Williams said it would be \"eminently reasonable\" for Ms Wood to be leader at the next assembly election.\n\nIn the conference hall on Saturday, Plaid Cymru economy spokesman Adam Price outlined plans for a \"youth basic income\" for 18 to 24-year-olds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adam Price said the youth basic income could help attract graduates back to Wales\n\nIt would comprise of four options, including a \"guaranteed\" job, a national citizen service, support for further and higher education and grants to help young people get businesses off the ground.\n\nMr Price said the party would offer the \"most comprehensive package of support for young people across the entire world\".\n\nYouth unemployment in Wales was 13.1% for the year to the end of June 2017. The overall unemployment rate was 4% between June and August.\n\nDetailed research on how to finance the proposal will be undertaken by Plaid's new think tank, Nova Cambria, which will be launched before the end of the year and will be tasked with coming up with \"bold, original ideas\".\n\nOne of those ideas would include calling for \"an end to free cash for foreign owned companies\", Mr Price told the conference floor.\n\nFormer Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones had promised to stop paying handouts to businesses in 2010 when he was deputy first minister and drew up the Welsh Government's last economic strategy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Wales political correspondent Daniel Davies reflects on the mood at party conference\n\nEarlier Ms Wood highlighted her plans for a \"rail revolution\" on a visit with Network Rail at Bangor railway station.\n\nThe opposition party wants to issue a rail bond to finance electrification to Swansea - a model it says could also be used to create a Metro public transport network for the Swansea Bay and Western Valleys region.\n\nMs Wood said: \"We would re-establish a Carmarthen to Aberystwyth rail line and ensure that it links with the north, to Pwllheli and beyond. These links are key to revitalising our western coast, and creating an all-Wales rail line, running the length of the country.\"", "The pair went missing in the arid desert park during extremely hot weather\n\nA California couple who went missing in July in the Joshua Tree National Park are believed to have died in a murder-suicide pact, police have said.\n\nRachel Nguyen, 20 and Joseph Orbeso, 22, were first discovered on 15 October by a search and rescue party that included Mr Orbeso's father.\n\nPolice said evidence at the scene suggested that Mr Orbeso shot Ms Nguyen before turning the gun on himself.\n\nIt appeared they were low on food and without water, an official said.\n\nSan Bernardino sheriff's spokeswoman Cindy Bachman told the BBC the couple was found under a tree and appeared to be embracing each other.\n\nShe said Mr Orbeso and Ms Nguyen had positioned their clothing to cover their lower legs to protect themselves from the heat.\n\nInvestigators found a handgun registered to Mr Orbeso at the scene, she added.\n\n\"The circumstances are really like no other search operation that we've been involved in,\" Ms Bachman said.\n\n\"But there is no evidence that leads [investigators] to believe that he was intending to harm her.\"\n\nMr Orbeso and Ms Nguyen were reported missing on 28 July after they failed to check out of their Airbnb accommodation in the Morongo Basin area.\n\nNational Park Service rangers found their car near a trailhead, prompting search and rescue teams to spend more than 2,100 hours looking for the couple.\n\nAccording to Joshua Tree Search and Rescue, they were found in a \"a steep canyon\" north of the Maze Loop trail. The bodies were recovered a day after the discovery.\n\nThe San Bernardino Sheriff's Department Morongo Basin station said in a statement on Friday that homicide detectives were called to help \"due to suspicious circumstances and visible injuries\" to their bodies. The investigation is ongoing, they added.\n\nRescuers have faced danger, as temperatures soar into triple digits fahrenheit\n\nMr Orbeso's father said in an email to the Southern California News Group that he wants his son \"to be remembered as a kind, caring and thoughtful person\".\n\n\"The way he was found beside Rachel holding her as they were seeking shade under the brush says everything you need to know about him as a man and as a human being,\" Mr Orbeso said.\n\nThe week-long search had been suspended back in August after more than 10 search personnel were injured due to severe heat.\n\nThe search was then \"scaled back to smaller teams on the weekends\", the sheriff said.", "President John F Kennedy was given a state funeral, after hundreds of thousands of people viewed his casket\n\nDonald Trump has said he plans to allow the opening of a trove of long-classified files on the assassination of former president John F Kennedy.\n\nThe president tweeted to say he would allow the release \"subject to receipt of further information\".\n\nThe files are scheduled to be opened by the US National Archives on 26 October, but the president is entitled to extend their classified status.\n\nKennedy was shot dead by a sniper on 22 November 1963 in Dallas, Texas.\n\nThe National Archives has already released most documents related to the assassination but a final batch remains under lock and key.\n\n\"Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened,\" Trump said in a tweet.\n\nCongress ruled in 1992 that all JFK documents should be released within 25 years, unless the president decided the release would harm national security.\n\nThe archive contains more than 3,000 previously unreleased documents, and more than 30,000 that have been released before but with redactions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. JFK at 100: 'His life was not as glamorous as you think'\n\nIt is unclear whether Mr Trump intends to allow the release in full or with redactions.\n\nKennedy assassination experts do not think the last batch of papers contains any bombshells, according to a Washington Post report.\n\nBut the files may shed more light on Lee Harvey Oswald's activities in Mexico City just months before the assassination.\n\nOswald was arrested in Dallas on the day of the shooting and charged with the president's murder. He denied the charges, claiming he was a \"just a patsy\".\n\nHe was gunned down by nightclub owner Jack Ruby while in police custody two days later, and the plot to kill Kennedy became the most powerful conspiracy theory in American history.\n\n\"The American public deserves to know the facts, or at least they deserve to know what the government has kept hidden from them for all these years,\" Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of a book about Kennedy, told the Associated Press news agency.\n\n\"It's long past the time to be forthcoming with this information.\"", "Police said no motive had been established\n\nGerman police have arrested a man in Munich after four people were lightly injured by a knife attacker.\n\nPolice said the suspect lashed out at five men and one woman around Rosenheimer Platz in the east of the city, but missed two of his targets.\n\nA police spokeswoman said the detained man strongly resembled descriptions given by witnesses at the scene.\n\nThe suspect is said to have started attacking passers-by shortly after 06:00 local time (04:00 GMT).\n\n\"We have arrested a person who very strongly resembles the description by witnesses, but we cannot confirm that he is the attacker,\" Munich police spokesman Marcus da Gloria Martins said.\n\nMartins added that police had not been able to establish any motive for the attack. None of the victims suffered life-threatening injuries.\n\nWitness accounts described the suspect as a man in his 40s, unshaven, with grey trousers and a green tracksuit top and carrying a backpack and sleeping mat.\n\nPolice said he fled the scene on a bicycle.", "Reports of deadlock over Brexit negotiations may have been exaggerated, European Council President Donald Tusk has said after a Brussels summit.\n\nProgress was \"not sufficient\" to begin trade talks with the UK now but that \"doesn't mean there is no progress at all\", he said.\n\nEU leaders will discuss the issue internally, paving the way for talks with the UK, possibly in December.\n\nTheresa May said there was \"some way to go\" but she was \"optimistic\".\n\nSpeaking at the end of a two-day summit, Mr Tusk told reporters: \"My impression is that the reports of the deadlock between the EU and the UK have been exaggerated.\"\n\nThe EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, described the talks as deadlocked earlier this month.\n\nMr Tusk said he was not at odds with Mr Barnier, but his own role was to be a \"positive motivator for the next five or six weeks\".\n\nHe said he felt there was \"goodwill\" on both sides \"and this is why I, maybe, in my rhetoric, I'm, maybe, a little bit more optimistic than Michel Barnier, but we are also in a different role\".\n\nThe so-called divorce bill remains a major sticking point in talks with the EU.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said there was still much work to be done on the financial commitment before trade talks can begin, adding: \"We are not halfway there.\"\n\nTheresa May declined to say in a press conference after the summit what the UK would be prepared to pay, saying the \"final settlement\" would come as part of a \"final agreement\" with the EU.\n\nThe UK prime minister did not name any figures but refused to deny that she had told other EU leaders the UK could pay many more billions of pounds than the £20bn she had indicated in her Florence speech last month.\n\n\"I have said that ... we will honour the commitments that we have made during our membership,\" she said. But those commitments were being analysed \"line by line\" she said, adding: \"British taxpayer wouldn't expect its government to do anything else.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three key points about how the Brexit talks are going\n\nThere are whispers that Theresa May has privately reassured the other leaders that she is willing to put a lot more than the implicit 20 billion euros (£17.8bn) on the table as we leave.\n\nNumber 10 doesn't deny this, Mrs May didn't deny it when we asked her in the press conference today, nor did she reject the idea that the bill could be as high as 60 billion euros.\n\nIf she has actually given those private reassurances though, there's not much evidence the other EU leaders believe her or think it's enough.\n\nBut if she is to make that case more forcefully she has big political problems at home.\n\nShe said the two sides were within \"touching distance\" of a deal on other issues - particularly on citizens' rights.\n\n\"I am ambitious and positive for Britain's future and for these negotiations but I know we still have some way to go,\" she said.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU in March 2019, following last year's referendum result.\n\nIt had hoped to move onto phase two of negotiations - covering future trade arrangements - after this week's summit.\n\nBut EU leaders took just 90 seconds to officially conclude that not enough progress has been made on the issues of citizens' rights, the UK's financial obligation and the border in Northern Ireland, but \"internal preparations\" would begin for phase two.\n\nThe prime minister made a personal appeal to her 27 EU counterparts at a working dinner on Thursday night, telling them that \"we must work together to get to an outcome that we can stand behind and defend to our people\".\n\nBBC Europe editor Katya Adler said all EU leaders knew Mrs May was in a politically difficult situation and did not want her to go home empty-handed, so had promised they would start talking about trade and transition deals among themselves, as early as Monday.\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel said there were \"encouraging\" signs of progress in Brexit negotiations and the process was progressing \"step by step\".\n\nAnd European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he hoped it would be possible to reach a \"fair deal\" with Britain.\n\n\"Our working assumption is not the 'no-deal' scenario. I hate the 'no-deal' scenario. I don't know what that means,\" he said.", "A script for Coronation Street creator Tony Warren's previously unknown first attempt at a soap opera has been found.\n\nBefore Warren changed the TV landscape with Coronation Street in 1960, he started writing Seven, Bessie Street.\n\nHis friend David Tucker said it centres on a terraced street but is otherwise very different from Coronation Street.\n\nThe script was found in his possessions after he died in 2016 and is now part of an exhibition dedicated to Warren at Salford Museum and Art Gallery.\n\nWarren left his estate to Mr Tucker, a friend of 22 years, with an instruction to destroy all creative works that weren't already in the public domain.\n\nSeven, Bessie Street was billed as \"a new soap opera in half-hourly episodes\"\n\nBut Mr Tucker decided to keep the Seven, Bessie Street - with the proviso that no one else could read it.\n\nThe script is in a frame in the Salford exhibition with just the cover page, billing it as \"a new soap opera in half-hourly episodes\", on show.\n\nMr Tucker has read it, however, and says it was \"quite obviously planned as a soap opera\".\n\n\"The only thing really that relates to Coronation Street is the setting of a terraced street and the fact that it jumps a little bit between peoples' lives,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"But there are no characters that relate to Coronation Street at all, and no scenarios. It's very different.\"\n\nSeven, Bessie Street revolves around a family - perhaps inspired by Warren's own - who all have theatrical connections.\n\n\"That's what Tony did know about in his youth,\" Mr Tucker said. \"That's probably why it would never have worked as it was, because there was so much in the stories about theatre.\n\n\"He was writing from what he knew in that Bessie Street script, but it probably wasn't going to relate that well to everybody else.\n\n\"So he then shifted the focus to the more mundane aspects of terraced street life.\"\n\nAlthough Warren cast the script aside, Bessie Street did make its way into Coronation Street. Weatherfield's local primary school is called Bessie Street School.\n\nThe exhibition also includes the typewriter Warren used in his early years.\n\nAfter jettisoning Seven, Bessie Street, Warren pitched a drama titled Our Street to the BBC. But he didn't hear back, so he reworked it as Florizel Street for Granada.\n\nFlorizel Street was changed to Coronation Street because - as legend has it - a tea lady named Agnes remarked that Florizel sounded like the name of a disinfectant.\n\nCoronation Street launched in December 1960 and soon became one of the most popular programmes on television.\n\nThe exhibition also traces Warren's early life and career, which included acting in the BBC's Northern Children's Hour and writing for police series Shadow Squad.\n\nAccording to a 1958 receipt, he was paid £150 for the latter.\n\nThe exhibition also shows his past as a male model, appearing on the cover of a 1957 edition of Knitters Digest and on the packet for a pullover knitting pattern.\n\nThere are many mementos from the Corrie years too, including his MBE, various awards, his red This Is Your Life book and letters from former poet laureate John Betjeman describing it as his \"favourite programme\".\n\nBetjeman and Laurence Olivier were such fans that they were chairman and president respectively of the British League for Hilda Ogden, established in 1979.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The building was officially opened in an extravagant ceremony\n\nThe Church of Scientology has opened a £4.2m HQ in Birmingham.\n\nGrade II listed Pitmaston House, in the Moseley suburb, was snapped up in 2007 by the group, which was founded by science fiction author L Ron Hubbard.\n\nThere was a heavy security presence around the building during an opening ceremony, at which senior church figures gave speeches.\n\nA request for an interview about the new \"Ideal Org\", or headquarters, was turned down.\n\nThe church claims the building, which is the second of its kind in the UK, will house a training centre and a chapel.\n\nA huge blue rosette and ribbons were draped across the front of the building ahead of the opening ceremony, while lighting and camera equipment could also be seen.\n\nSpeeches were played back on two large screens erected on either side of the main entrance.\n\nGroups of protesters, including ex-church members, gathered outside during proceedings, according to the Birmingham Mail.\n\nThere was a heavy security presence outside the building\n\nPeople take courses of dianetics counselling, known as auditing, in the hope of ridding themselves of destructive influences from their current or past lives.\n\nScientologists say it is a religion, but a string of defectors have accused it of being a dangerous cult. They allege physical and emotional abuse, brainwashing and unethical fundraising, which the church has always strongly denied.\n\nIt has a number of celebrity followers, including Tom Cruise and John Travolta.\n\nA promotional video released by the church claimed the new HQ would provide \"community programmes for the betterment of Birmingham\".\n\nIt claims to have had a dedicated following in the area since the 1980s.\n\nPlans to convert Pitmaston House met with some opposition when they were approved in 2013, although a local community group said its main worry was an increase in traffic.\n\nCoaches and other vehicles obscured views of the proceedings\n\nThe church's promotional video says the centre will serve western and central England", "Bruno will be absent from the judging panel for the first time in 13 years\n\nBruno Tonioli is missing this weekend's Strictly Come Dancing shows due to \"a very busy work schedule\".\n\nIt will be the first time the judge has missed the shows in his 13 years on the panel.\n\nA Strictly spokeswoman told the BBC: \"As was always the plan, Bruno Tonioli is not on the judging panel this weekend\".\n\nHe will return next weekend for the Halloween special and will be on the show for the rest of the series.\n\nIt has been confirmed that 61-year-old Tonioli will not be replaced with a guest judge.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis means fellow judges Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood and Darcey Bussell will have more sway when it comes to giving points to contestants.\n\nAs well as his role on Strictly Come Dancing, Tonioli is involved in its US counterpart Dancing with the Stars.\n\nTonioli explained on Twitter it was a clash with that show that led to him missing Strictly.\n\nHe replied to a fan, saying: \"100% back next week just had a clash whilst in @DancingABC.\"\n\nWhen asked if that meant the American show was \"more important\", he replied: \"Far from it!\".\n\nDancing with the Stars is currently in its 25th season, with contestants including singer Debbie Gibson and Malcolm in the Middle's Frankie Muniz.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Mr Babis and his colleagues celebrated their poll-topping performance\n\nPopulist billionaire candidate Andrej Babis and his party have won the Czech Republic's general election.\n\nMr Babis, 63, is the country's second-richest man and campaigned on an anti-establishment and Eurosceptic platform.\n\nWith all votes counted, his centrist movement ANO (Yes) collected a share of almost 30% - nearly three times that of its closest rival.\n\nThe centre-right Civic Democrats and the Pirates Party came second and third with more than 10% each.\n\nThe Pirates will make their debut in parliament with 22 seats, the news agency AFP reported.\n\nMr Babis is now set to become prime minister after coalition negotiations. However, he told news agency Reuters that while he had \"invited everyone for talks\", he was not prepared to \"cooperate\" with either the far-right, anti-EU Freedom and Direct Democracy party or the Communist Party.\n\nThe 63-year-old made his estimated $4bn (£3bn) fortune in chemicals, food and media - but he has also faced numerous scandals including a fraud indictment and accusations he was a communist-era police agent.\n\nHe says he would not bring the Czech Republic in to the eurozone but he wants the country to stay in the EU, telling Reuters he would propose changes to the European Council on issues like food quality and a \"solution to migration\".\n\nThe ANO's current coalition partner, the ruling centre-left Social Democrats (CSSD), saw its share of the vote tumble to become the sixth-largest party, and has talked down the possibility of another coalition.\n\nThe Civic Democrats have also ruled themselves out of governing alongside Mr Babis.\n\nFar-right and anti-establishment groups made gains in the election. The largest parties now include:\n\nThe BBC's correspondent in Prague, Rob Cameron, said the SPD's performance was particularly noteworthy, as the far-right party wants to ban Islam in the Czech Republic. Its leader has urged Czechs to walk pigs near mosques.\n\nAndrej Babis has long decried what he says is a \"campaign\" against him by a self-serving political establishment.\n\nHe sees the hand of this shadowy deep state everywhere; the media, the Czech prosecutor's office, the Slovak Constitutional Court, even the EU's anti-fraud unit. A host of enemies ranged against him in a vast anti-Babis conspiracy.\n\nWell, if there was such a conspiracy, it's failed.\n\nHis message to voters - that he alone could heal the ills of the Czech political and economic system, that he alone could decapitate the hydra of corruption, that he alone could defend Czech national interests - appears to have been heard. They have given him a convincing mandate. He has truly crushed his rivals.\n\nHe still needs friends - 78 seats is far from enough in a 200-seat lower house to do much of anything, let alone the sweeping constitutional changes he dreams of.\n\nWith eight other parties in parliament - from centre-left to far-right - he has a bewildering choice of coalition partners. It's a choice that will determine the future course of the country.\n\nThe country's outgoing leader, Social Democrat Bohuslav Sobotka, headed a coalition formed with Mr Babis's party after a 2013 snap election.\n\nBut in May, Mr Sobotka submitted his government's resignation because of a disagreement with Mr Babis, who was serving as finance minister at the time.\n\nHe was unhappy about alleged unexplained business dealings involving Mr Babis.\n\nOn seeing the rise of the SPD Mr Sobotka was shocked, saying; \"How is it possible that in the Czech Republic, in a situation when the country is doing very well, when we are a stable, safe country, we have achieved many things in the social sphere in the past four years, people are increasingly in favour of extreme views?\"\n\nThe Social Democrats' tally of 7.3% was their worst result since the Czech Republic split from Slovakia in 1993.\n\nOutgoing leader Bohuslav Sobotka (R) has had a turbulent relationship with Andrej Babis (L)\n\nAfter the vote, Mr Babis thanked his voters and said he had not expected the result after \"lies\" in a \"massive, massive disinformation campaign against us\".\n\n\"I`m glad you did not believe that, that you gave us the confidence to get a chance to form a government,\" he said.", "Tenants' regular rent payments should be recorded on their credit score and used as proof to lenders that mortgage demands can be met, MPs are to be told.\n\nAt present, mortgage applicants are unable to rely on rent payment history as proof that they would be safe to lend to when buying a home.\n\nA debate is being held in Parliament on Monday following a petition which aimed to raise awareness of the issue.\n\nThe government has said that lenders should consider a range of factors.\n\nThe petition, signed by 147,307 people, argued that \"paying rent on time [should] be recognised as evidence that mortgage repayments can be met\".\n\nCampaigners have argued that rent payment history should be included on a tenant's credit score, even though it is not strictly a form of credit.\n\nSteve Burrows, managing director of LateRent which offers a service to landlords, said: \"It is no secret that owning a property has become a distant prospect for many and the private rental sector continues to grow as a result.\n\n\"It is therefore oddly out of step that tenants are unable to utilise rental payments as part of their credit profile - particularly as the government increasingly seeks to promote homeownership across the UK.\"\n\nConservative MP Paul Scully, who will introduce and lead the debate on Monday, said that he was sympathetic to those who were paying more for credit, or being turned down, simply because they had been renting a home. This was particularly true when monthly rent was higher than typical monthly mortgage repayments.\n\n\"It is clear that in many cases if someone is renting, they can afford the equivalent mortgage,\" he said.\n\nThe petition was cut short owing to the general election being called earlier this year, but still garnered sufficient support for a debate to be called.\n\nIn its response to the petition, the government said regulators insisted that lots of financial information was needed to prove that an applicant could repay a mortgage, such as testing whether a borrower could cope were interest rates to rise.\n\n\"Lenders must consider a range of factors when assessing a mortgage application. Meeting rental payments is not sufficient in itself to demonstrate affordability over the lifetime of the loan,\" it said.\n\n\"It is important to be aware that home ownership brings a number of additional expenses that may not be incurred when renting, including maintenance costs and buildings insurance.\n\n\"Before extending a loan, lenders must satisfy themselves that a borrower will be able to meet these additional on-going costs when considering a mortgage application.\"\n\nWhere can you afford to live? Try our housing calculator to see where you could rent or buy This interactive content requires an internet connection and a modern browser. Do you want to buy or rent? Use the buttons to increase or decrease the number of bedrooms: minimum one, maximum four. Alternatively, enter a number into the text input How much is your deposit? Enter your deposit below or adjust the deposit amount using the slider Return to 'How much is your deposit?' This calculator assumes you need a deposit of at least 5% of the value of the property to get a mortgage. The average deposit for UK first-time buyers is . How much can you pay monthly? Enter your monthly payment below or adjust the payment amount using the slider Return to 'How much can you pay monthly?' Your monthly payments are what you can afford to pay each month. Think about your monthly income and take off bills, council tax and living expenses. The average rent figure is for England and Wales. Amount of the that has housing you can Explore the map in detail below Search the UK for more details about a local area What does affordable mean? You have a big enough deposit and your monthly payments are high enough. The prices are based on the local market. If there are 100 properties of the right size in an area and they are placed in price order with the cheapest first, the “low-end” of the market will be the 25th property, \"mid-priced\" is the 50th and \"high-end” will be the 75th.", "Spain's decision to take control of Catalonia - and remove its separatist leaders - features in many of the papers\n\nSpain's decision to take control of Catalonia - and remove its separatist leaders - makes the lead in the Observer.\n\nIt says Catalan separatists are preparing for a war of attrition against direct rule from Madrid, amid growing anger at the inability of either side to swallow their pride and take a step back.\n\nThe Sunday Times says the announcement prompted vows of resistance from independence supporters, who are planning a peaceful campaign of civil disobedience.\n\nOne activist is quoted as saying they would deploy \"walls of people\" against police to prevent them from occupying Catalonia's institutions.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Telegraph, Theresa May is on the brink of a major climbdown over Universal Credit payments.\n\nThe paper detects a significant change of tone. It says ministers are believed to be looking at ways of cutting the six-week waiting time faced by many claimants, with backbenchers pushing for a one-month limit.\n\nOne of the MPs who has raised concerns is said to believe a resolution is very close.\n\nThe Sunday Times gives front-page coverage to the warning from Labour's Brexit Secretary, Sir Keir Starmer, that his party will unite with Tory rebels to force a binding Commons vote on a final deal with the EU.\n\nThe paper says the threat is a blow to the government, which is trying to quell a potential backbench rebellion on the EU Withdrawal Bill.\n\nIn its main story, the Mail on Sunday claims that Army recruits caught taking drugs are - for the first time - being allowed to remain in the military.\n\nThe paper says drug abuse among would-be soldiers is rife.\n\nAnd throwing out recruits who failed a drugs test would mean cutting numbers when the Army was desperately short of troops.\n\nThe Army has responded by insisting there has been no relaxation of its zero-tolerance policy on drug misuse.\n\nIn its main story, the Sunday Times claims victory for the removal of online gambling games which attract children.\n\nThe paper says its investigation exposed the fact that the gambling industry was targeting children with cartoon characters and other images.\n\nThough most of the games are free, the paper says they provide an introduction to casino games for young people and a route into gambling.\n\nThe Gambling Commission, it says, has acted with a commendable alacrity.\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph says trainee surgeons have complained that an endemic culture of bullying among senior colleagues is putting patients' lives at risk.\n\nThe paper says some surgeons have reported being assaulted during operations for raising safety concerns, and an atmosphere of fear is said to be leading to failures in concentration that directly harm patients.\n\nThe online newspaper the Independent says the prime minister's plan to cap energy bills has been thrown into doubt.\n\nIt says there is evidence that Whitehall officials are laying the ground for the scheme to be scrapped next year.\n\nAccording to the paper, energy investors have already been told that PM Theresa May's draft proposal will be ditched, if the big power firms do enough to tackle high bills.\n\nPlans to make the buying and selling of homes faster and cheaper in England and Wales get a general welcome.\n\nThe Sunday Express says buying a house is the biggest financial commitment most of us will ever make - and it is important to get it right.\n\n\"Dump the Gazump\" is the headline in the Sunday Mirror.\n\nThe Sunday People says Britain is not building enough homes - but making the buying and selling process quicker and easier is a welcome start to tackling the housing crisis.\n\nThe Observer says Britain is enjoying a remarkable apple boom, as hundreds of new community orchards revive lost varieties and contribute to a thriving heritage market.\n\nOne expert believes there are possibly thousands of varieties that are not recorded but grown by farmers, smallholders and households.\n\nThe paper lists some of its favourites, including the Colwall Quoining, which has angular ridges, the Pig's Nose Pippin and the Ten Commandments, which has 10 red spots around its core.", "Sellafield reprocesses and stores nearly all of Britain's nuclear waste\n\nBomb disposal experts were called to the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant after a routine audit of chemicals stored in a laboratory.\n\nSellafield Ltd said it was \"not a radiological event\" but involved a small number of canisters of solvents which had been on the site since 1992.\n\nHowever, there were concerns they could become hazardous if exposed to oxygen.\n\nAn area of the site was cordoned off for most of the day, and the canisters disposed of by controlled explosion.\n\nSellafield said in a statement: \"These chemicals are used extensively in many industries and are well understood.\n\n\"Because this is happening on the Sellafield site we exercise extreme caution and leave nothing to chance.\"\n\nIt said a team from the army's Explosives Ordinance Disposal Team disposed of the chemicals by digging a trench, burying them using sandbags and detonating them in a controlled manner.\n\nThe disposal took place in two batches, with the first transferred from the laboratory to another location on the site and successfully and safely detonated at around 14:15 BST.\n\nA second controlled explosion was then carried out at the same location shortly before 16:00 BST.\n\nThe statement added: \"We have now removed the cordon from around the laboratory, and the site is working as it would be on any other Saturday.\"\n\nEnvironment Agency earlier said it was aware of the situation and was working with partners to monitor it.\n\nSellafield reprocesses and stores nearly all of Britain's nuclear waste.\n\nLast year, BBC's Panorama exposed safety concerns at the plant after a tip-off from a whistleblower, including allegations of inadequate staffing levels and poor maintenance.", "Artwork: Most of Tiangong-1 will not survive to the surface\n\nChina's Tiangong-1 space station is currently out of control and expected to fall back to Earth next year. But not in the remote place where many other spacecraft end their days.\n\nExplorers and adventurers often look for new places to conquer now that the highest peaks have been climbed, the poles reached and vast oceans and deserts crossed.\n\nSome of these new places are called the poles of inaccessibility. Two of them are particularly interesting.\n\nOne is called the continental pole of inaccessibility - it's the place on Earth furthest from the ocean. There is some debate as to its exact position but it's considered by many to be near the so-called Dzungarian Gate - a mountain pass between China and Central Asia.\n\nThe equivalent point in the ocean - the place furthest away from land - lies in the South Pacific some 2,700km (1,680 miles) south of the Pitcairn Islands - somewhere in the no-man's land, or rather no-man's-sea, between Australia, New Zealand and South America.\n\nThis oceanic pole of inaccessibility is not only of interest to explorers, satellite operators are interested in it as well. That's because most of the satellites placed in orbit around the Earth will eventually come down, but where?\n\nSmaller satellites will burn up but pieces of the larger ones will survive to reach the Earth's surface. To avoid crashing on a populated area they are brought down near the point of oceanic inaccessibility.\n\nScattered over an area of approximately 1,500 sq km (580 sq miles) on the ocean floor of this region is a graveyard of satellites. At last count there were more than 260 of them, mostly Russian.\n\nThe wreckage of the Mir space station lies there. It was launched in 1986 and was visited by many teams of cosmonauts and international visitors.\n\nWith a mass of 120 tonnes it was never going to burn up in the atmosphere, so it was ditched in the region in 2001 and was seen by some fishermen as a fragmenting mass of glowing debris racing across the sky.\n\nA computer-simulated image of Mir's descent and break-up as it entered the Earth's atmosphere in 2001\n\nMany times a year the supply module that goes to the International Space Station burns up in this region incinerating the station's waste.\n\nNo one is in any danger because of this controlled re-entry into our atmosphere. The region is not fished because oceanic currents avoid the area and do not bring nutrients to it, making marine life scarce.\n\nOne future visitor to this desolate place will be the International Space Station.\n\nCurrent plans are for it to be decommissioned in the next decade and it will have to be carefully brought down in the oceanic pole of inaccessibility. With a mass of 450 tonnes - four times that of the Mir space station - it will make a spectacular sight.\n\nSometimes however, it's not possible to bring a satellite or space station down in the South Pacific if ground controllers have lost contact with it.\n\nThe Earth is surrounded by thousands of pieces of space junk (dots not to scale)\n\nSuch a thing happened with the 36-tonne Salyut 7 space station in 1991 which came down in South America or the American Skylab that struck Australia in 1979. No one on the ground was injured, or indeed as far as we know, ever has been hit by a piece of falling spacecraft debris.\n\nWe will face that problem again next year.\n\nBetween January and April the Chinese Tiangong-1 will come back to Earth. It was launched in 2011 as China's first space station. The following year it was visited by China's first female astronaut, Liu Yang.\n\nTiangong-1's orbit is decaying as it heads towards re-entry. But Chinese engineers have lost control of it and cannot fire its thrusters to bring it down in the South Pacific.\n\nInstead it will come down somewhere between 42.8 degrees north and south. That's between the latitude of northern Spain and southern Australia, and we won't be able to be more precise than that until just a few hours before it burns up.\n\nTiangong-1 is one space station that probably won't join its companions in the remote South Pacific.\n\nDr David Whitehouse was the BBC's science correspondent from 1988 until 2006, and is a former science editor at the BBC News website.", "Brian Thompson had previously said he wanted to know whether he was doing anything illegal\n\nA trader who sold TV boxes which allowed viewers to watch subscription films and football for free has been given a suspended jail term.\n\nBrian Thompson had denied breaking the law by selling the Kodi boxes, setting up the prospect of a landmark trial.\n\nBut appearing at Teesside Crown Court he changed his plea to guilty.\n\nThe 55-year-old, who runs Cut Price Tomo's TV store in Middlesbrough, was given an 18-month prison sentence, suspended for two years.\n\nThompson, of Barnaby Avenue, Middlesbrough, admitted one count of selling and one count of advertising devices \"designed, produced or adapted for the purpose of enabling or facilitating the circumvention of effective technological measures\".\n\nThe court heard Thompson had been selling \"fully loaded\" Kodi boxes - ones that had been installed with third-party add-ons that can access pirated content.\n\nHe had previously claimed the law was a \"grey area\" and said he wanted to know whether he was \"doing anything illegal\".\n\nThompson had sold an estimated 400 boxes, earning him about £40,000, and losses to Sky were an estimated £200,000 in subscriptions, the court heard.\n\nJudge Peter Armstrong said there could be no doubt now about the legality of the fully loaded boxes.\n\n\"Those who lawfully have to pay £50 a month or more on Sky or BT subscriptions, are done a disservice by people like you and those who buy these devices,\" he said.\n\nHe said he was suspending Thompson's jail sentence but others in the future may not be so fortunate.\n\nCameron Crowe, prosecuting, said streaming devices were not illegal if they were used to access free content.\n\nBut he added: \"If they are designed, produced or adapted for gaining unauthorised access to copyright content or subscription services - such as Sky and BT Sports - they become illegal.\"\n\nSome shops sell ready-to-use set-top boxes or television sticks preloaded with the Kodi software.\n\nThe developers behind Kodi say their software does not contain any content of its own and is designed to play legally owned media or content \"freely available\" on the internet.\n\nHowever the software can be modified with third-party add-ons that provide access to illegal copies of films and TV series, or provide free access to subscription television channels.\n\nSome traders sell Kodi boxes preloaded with third-party add-ons that can access pirated content. It is the sale of these \"fully-loaded\" boxes which was the subject of the case against Mr Thompson.\n\nTrading Standards officers made a test purchase from Thompson's Dundas shopping centre outlet in 2015 and a raid was carried out.\n\nHe moved premises after the raid and advertised on Facebook claiming to have \"every film and box set ever made, even ones at the cinema\".\n\nPaul Fleming, defending, said his client was a hard worker who had succeeded and failed in businesses over the years.\n\nKieron Sharp, the chief executive of Fact (formerly the Federation Against Copyright Theft), said one million illegal Kodi TV boxes had been sold in the UK in the past two years.\n\nHe said the perpetrators were not \"Robin Hood characters\", but criminals.\n\n\"Selling pre-configured streaming devices that allow access to content you normally would have to pay for is illegal,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jayson Lobo was found guilty of 11 counts of voyeurism\n\nAn ex-police officer who secretly filmed sexual encounters with seven women on his mobile phone has been jailed for three years.\n\nJayson Lobo, 48, formerly of Lancashire Police, met most of his victims on a dating website between 2011 and 2015.\n\nSentencing him at Liverpool Crown Court, Judge Neil Flewitt QC said his deceit was \"staggering\".\n\nThe former Commonwealth Games runner was found guilty of 11 counts of voyeurism following a trial.\n\nHe denied all the charges and was cleared of seven counts of the same offence, including one count relating to an eighth woman.\n\nLobo was caught when one of his victims found out he had a long-term partner during their relationship.\n\nShe had earlier caught him filming her as they had sex but he had promised he would delete it.\n\nLobo, of Mellor, Blackburn, was arrested after the woman made a complaint to police and had his phones seized which revealed the full extent of his offending.\n\nJudge Flewitt QC said he had used the women to satisfy his sexual appetite and it was \"a calculated and selfish course of conduct, pursued without regard for the feelings of those women concerned\".\n\nThe Preston-based response officer was suspended from the force after his arrest in December 2015.\n\nLobo was then sacked for gross misconduct relating to a separate matter in August last year, after a hearing found he had shared details and images from police incidents.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Speed limits for motorway roadworks could be raised in England under plans aimed at reducing congestion.\n\nCurrently the normal speed for such stretches of road is 50mph (80km/h).\n\nBut trials carried out by Highways England found drivers' heart rates were lower when they drove at 55mph (88km/h) and 60mph (96km/h) through roadworks.\n\nThe government-owned company said the new limits could come into effect in some areas this year, but unions warn it would put motorway workers at risk.\n\nHighways England recruited 36 participants for two trials and provided them with dash cams, watches with heart rate monitors, and GPS trackers to monitor their reactions to driving through the quicker speed limits.\n\nThe tests took place at 60mph on the M5 between junction 4A (Bromsgrove) to junction 6 (Worcester), and at 55mph on the M3 in Surrey between junction 3 and 4A.\n\nThe study found 60% of those who drove in the 60mph trial zone had a decreased average heart rate, while it was lower for only 56% of those on the 55mph journey.\n\nBut trade union Unite, which represents road workers throughout the UK, said the proposed speed increases ignored the safety of those maintaining motorways, who \"work in already very dangerous conditions\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"Sadly, in recent years there have been several deaths of motorway workers and these changes will make their work even more dangerous.\n\n\"Already motorists frequently drive into coned-off areas. At increased speeds, it will make such potentially lethal accidents even more common.\"\n\nThe study suggested that motorists felt more relaxed travelling at higher speeds, partly because they had a greater ability to accelerate past heavy goods vehicles.\n\nEdmund King, president of the AA, said that most trucks have a speed limiter set at 56mph: \"And sometimes they're pretty reluctant to slow down so you get a lot of tail-gating of trucks driving very close to cars and then the cars are inclined to speed up.\"\n\nWhile Mr King said increasing the speed limit could help reduce congestion, he said it had to be targeted at the longest stretches of road works where there were no workers.\n\nHe said: \"When work is going on and it's in close proximity to the carriageways we should stick at lower speeds and sometimes it needs to be lower than 50mph, depending on the layout.\"\n\nJim O'Sullivan, chief executive of Highways England, told The Times that the 60mph limit was \"something that we want to introduce to as many roadworks as possible\".\n\nBut Mr O'Sullivan said that lower speeds were likely to be maintained in areas with narrow lanes, contraflows or where workers are close to the road, due to safety reasons.\n\nHighways England has been testing different speed limits since September 2016 as part of a wider initiative to assess the benefits associated with increasing speed limits through roadworks.\n\nThose trials on a section of the M1 near Rotherham and on the A1 between Leeming to Barton examined the safety implications of the scheme as well as the journey-time benefits for drivers travelling through roadworks.\n• None Learners can drive on motorways from 2018", "The RAC advised drivers to check airport charges in advance \"or be prepared for an unpleasant shock\"\n\nCharges for picking up and dropping off passengers at some of the UK's busiest airports have risen by as much as 100% over the past year, a new study claims.\n\nRAC research found eight of the top 20 UK airports had increased pick-up fees, while five airports had raised charges for drivers dropping passengers off.\n\nThe RAC described tariffs as high as £3.50 for 10 minutes as \"eye-watering\".\n\nBut the Airport Operators Association said fees were \"clearly flagged\" and were channelled into site facilities.\n\nSeven airports, including London's Heathrow and Gatwick, continue to offer free drop-off parking.\n\nLondon Stansted is currently the most expensive airport in the UK to drop passengers at the terminal, the RAC said - with prices jumping by 50p to £3.50 for 10 minutes in the last year.\n\nLiverpool's John Lennon airport, the second most expensive, raised drop-off fees by 50% - from £2 for 20 minutes to £3 for 20 minutes, while Birmingham doubled the cost, raising prices from £1 to £2 for 10 minutes.\n\nGlasgow airport, where it was previously free to drop off passengers, introduced a charge of £2 for 10 minutes in April. Similarly, Southampton has introduced a £1 fee for 10 minutes.\n\nRAC spokesman Simon Williams said: \"The eye-watering drop-off and pick-up costs at some airports is likely to be viewed by drivers as another way of making money out of them - particularly in instances where public transport to and from the airport simply isn't a viable option.\"\n\n\"Drop-off charges are the biggest bone of contention, as for many they appear severe when they are simply pulling up for less than five minutes and often don't even get out of the car themselves.\"\n\nRising pick-up charges are also exposed by the research.\n\nMotorists collecting family or friends from London Luton are charged the most in the UK at £7 for 40 minutes, according to the report - although there was no increase in charges for 2017.\n\nLondon Stansted was again among the most expensive airports - this time for collection - raising charges by 50p to £5 for 30 minutes, £1.50 more expensive than London Gatwick for the same service, which increased changes by 30p.\n\nLondon Heathrow, the UK's busiest passenger airport, does not charge to drop off passengers\n\nLondon City airport raised fees by £1, to £3.50 for a 10-minute stop, while Southampton and Cardiff airports both introduced pick up charges of £1 for 10 minutes, having previously charged nothing for the first 10 or 20 minutes respectively.\n\nBelfast City and Liverpool John Lennon continue to offer free short-stay parking for passenger collection.\n\nMr Williams said airport charges for short-stay parking had turned \"a good deed [into] a costly experience\".\n\nBut a spokesman for the Airport Operators Association defended the charges, saying the income earned was channelled into airport facilities and allowed airports \"to keep charges to airlines low, benefiting travellers through lower air fares\".\n\nHe cited congestion and environmental impact among the reasons for the range of charges across the regions.\n\nThe spokesman said charges were clearly flagged up and passengers had a \"high level of awareness of the different ways they can choose to get to the airport, ranging from public transport to travelling by car\".", "Joseph Hale, from Cleethorpes, says he is \"excited\" by his modelling debut\n\nAn 11-year-old boy with Down's syndrome has landed his first modelling job in a high street store's new advertising campaign.\n\nJoseph Hale, from Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, has become one of the faces of River Island's new children's clothing range.\n\nHis mum Karen Hale said she hoped it would encourage equal representation of disabilities in the media.\n\nThe young model said he was \"excited\" by the opportunity.\n\n\"It's really good. I had to pose, we had our hair and make-up done and I wore magic shiny shoes,\" he said.\n\nKaren Hale says her son's disability \"does not define him at all\"\n\nMrs Hale, 49, said the family was \"very proud\" of their son and that Joseph took to modelling \"like a duck to water\".\n\n\"He gets excited when he sees his photo. He's shown it to his friends at school,\" she said.\n\n\"Everyone's been really supportive, it's absolutely brilliant.\"\n\nShe says Joseph's Down's syndrome \"does not define him at all\" and he has an \"infectious personality, he's just one big ball of fun\".\n\n\"We're hoping campaigns like this one by River Island will pave the way for more inclusion and acceptance for people with disabilities in the wider world.\n\n\"Advertising can have a massive impact and people need to see that these individuals still have emotions, thoughts, feelings, dreams, aspirations the same as anyone else... and they need to be seen as equals at all times.\"\n\nJoseph said he hoped to do more modelling jobs in future\n\nJoseph, who attends Cambridge Park Academy in Grimsby, says he enjoys dancing and spending time with his family.\n\nHe said he would like to continue doing \"more modelling\" but would like to pursue a career in hairdressing when he gets older.\n\nThe youngster's opportunity came by chance through his agency Zebedee Management, Mrs Hale said.\n\nJosie Cartridge, customer director of River Island, said Joseph had a \"star presence\" and the company wanted to portray \"a diverse group of children\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Connor Leslie was in Vietnam on holiday with a group of friends\n\nA 23-year-old British man feared kidnapped in Vietnam has been found safe and well, relatives have said.\n\nConnor Leslie, from Newtonhill in Aberdeenshire, was last seen at about 02:30 local time (21:30 BST on Friday) in Hanoi.\n\nHe was in the city with a group of friends who got out of a taxi which apparently sped off before Mr Leslie could step out of the car.\n\nThe Leslie family said he was fine and would continue his holiday.\n\nIt is understood he managed to make his own way back to his companions.\n\nFriends and family could not contact him on his mobile after he went missing and his cousin said on Saturday afternoon that his messaging app had been offline for about 17 hours.\n\nMembers of Mr Leslie's family had shared information about his disappearance on Facebook after he was last seen at Tay Ho 395 on Lac Long Quan.\n\nMr Leslie's brother Ross told BBC Scotland his brother was fine other than having blisters on his feet.\n\nConnor Leslie was last seen at Tay Ho 395 in northern Hanoi\n\nHis cousin Scott Leslie earlier said the whole family had been \"absolutely terrified\" waiting for news of Mr Leslie.\n\n\"He was in a taxi and his friends were getting out. Connor was the last to get out and the taxi driver just sped off before Connor could get out of the car,\" he told BBC Scotland.\n\nIt is understood that the group may have had an argument with the taxi driver about money.\n\nMr Leslie added: \"It's fantastic news that he's been found.\"\n\nConnor Leslie, who works in the oil and gas industry, was with a group of friends who were just starting their holiday in Vietnam.\n\nHis family said he would now continue with the holiday.\n\nThe group is expected to travel to Australia next.", "Drivers from the Aslef union had been due to walkout for 24 hours from midnight on Thursday\n\nA 24-hour strike by London Underground (LU) drivers which was due to take place on Thursday has been called off.\n\nAslef union members were due to walkout at midnight in a dispute over working conditions.\n\nUnion representative Finn Brennan said \"sufficient progress\" had been made during talks for the planned industrial action to be suspended.\n\nTransport bosses had warned the strike would cause \"significant disruption\" with no service on most routes.\n\nA separate rail strike by RMT union members at Southern, Merseyrail, Arriva Rail North and Greater Anglia on Thursday over the scrapping of guards is still set to cause disruption for commuters.\n\nRailway stations have become very busy during previous Tube strikes\n\nMr Brennan said he was \"pleased\" the strike could be called off, following a meeting chaired by the conciliation service Acas.\n\nBut he also warned: \"Our ballot remains live and we will not hesitate to call action in the future if needed to ensure all the commitments made are fully delivered.\"\n\nAslef had accused bosses of failing on a commitment to give its members the opportunity to work a four-day week and reduce the number of weekend shifts.\n\nBut LU's director of network operations Nigel Holness said it had \"delivered on all our commitments to provide the best possible work-life balance for our staff\".\n\nHe added that Transport for London (TfL) would continue \"to explore options that will further improve work-life balance for our staff\".\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was \"pleased\" the strike had been suspended and that \"discussions can continue without disruption\".\n\nThe Tube strike had been due to coincide with England's football match against Slovenia at Wembley Stadium.\n\nAdditional National Express services and parking - which had been arranged in preparation for the strike - will remain in place, TfL has previously said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Google and Facebook promoted inaccurate reports about the Las Vegas shooting\n\nGoogle and Facebook have apologised after their algorithms led to the promotion of inaccurate information about the Las Vegas shooting.\n\nPosts from a 4chan messaging board that falsely identified the gunman as an individual who was not involved were circulated online.\n\nGoogle says the posts only appeared in its Top Stories section if users searched for the erroneous name.\n\nFacebook said it took down the posts within minutes.\n\nThe problem occurred when users began speculating about the identity of the gunman on 4chan, a controversial anonymous messaging board.\n\nThe users named an individual on the Politically Incorrect message board, claiming that the person was a \"far left loon\" and a \"social democrat\".\n\nThe comments were picked up by several blogs and news sites, including an article by the right-wing political website, the Gateway Pundit.\n\nMany users then searched for the erroneous name on Google. The internet giant's algorithms traced the original source of the story back to the 4chan message board and posted a link to it in the Top Stories section.\n\n\"Unfortunately, early this morning we were briefly surfacing an inaccurate 4chan website in our search results for a small number of queries,\" a Google spokesperson told the BBC.\n\n\"Within hours, the 4chan story was algorithmically replaced by relevant results. This should not have appeared for any queries, and we'll continue to make algorithmic improvements to prevent this from happening in the future.\"\n\nHowever, Google said only a small number of search queries were made for the name, which suggests that not many people would have seen the 4chan link.\n\nAs for Facebook, the social network told the Associated Press that it began removing results relating to the Gateway Pundit and 4chan within minutes.\n\nThe Gateway Pundit's White House correspondent Lucian Wintrich told far-right conspiracy website Infowars that the article was only online for 10 minutes before it was taken down.\n\nDespite Facebook's efforts to remove hyperlinks to the story, users had made screenshots of the incorrect story and continued to circulate these images online, which were harder to detect and take down.\n\n\"We are working to fix the issue that allowed this to happen in the first place and deeply regret the confusion this caused,\" a Facebook spokesman said.\n\nGoogle and Facebook have been criticised several times in the last 12 months for promoting content later found to be false, particularly relating to breaking news events.\n\nBoth tech giants have announced measures to fight inaccurate news in the last few months.\n\n\"Google and Facebook are much bigger than any media company now, but they insist that they are not publishers, that they are merely platforms, and as platforms, they don't need to take responsibility for their content,\" Prof Tim Luckhurst, head of Kent University's Centre for Journalism told the BBC.\n\n\"Governments create laws that allow broadcasters and newspapers to be sued, so it's up to the government to stand up to these websites and say that if anything relating to terrorism or false information is published, they can be sued.\"\n\nProf Luckhurst pointed out that in the past, Google and Facebook had been quick to tweak their algorithms when requested to do so by the Chinese government.\n\n\"Algorithms are not organic creations - they are the product of very clever software writers.\n\n\"They can tweak them when the Chinese government asks them to, they can tweak them to do target advertising, but if you ask them to tweak their algorithms in relation to terrorism or untruths, they say, 'We're not publishers.'\n\n\"But they've demonstrated that they clearly can do it, and so they should do it.\"\n\nIndividuals who shared the content online could face legal action.\n\n\"It's for individuals to take responsibility for what they post on social media, this person could make a lot of money from suing all these people who shared the screenshot online,\" said Dominic Ponsford, editor of the Press Gazette.\n\n\"Google should be only indexing bona fide news sources - it should be straightforward to check what is a bona fide news source and what isn't.\n\n\"It's kind of astonishing that Google's not doing that, given the huge concern in America about fake news.\"", "MH370 was carrying 239 people when it disappeared in 2014\n\nAustralian investigators have delivered their final report into missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370, saying it is \"almost inconceivable\" the aircraft has not been found.\n\nMH370 disappeared in 2014 while flying to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board.\n\nThe search for the jet, also involving Malaysia and China, was called off in January after 1,046 days.\n\nAustralian searchers said they \"deeply regretted\" it had not been found.\n\n\"It is almost inconceivable and certainly societally unacceptable in the modern aviation era with 10 million passengers boarding commercial aircraft every day, for a large commercial aircraft to be missing and for the world not to know with certainty what became of the aircraft and those on board,\" the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said on Tuesday.\n\n\"Despite the extraordinary efforts of hundreds of people involved in the search from around the world, the aircraft has not been located.\"\n\nTheir final report reiterated estimates from December and April that the Boeing 777 was most likely located in a 25,000 sq-km (9,700 sq-miles) area to the north of the earlier search zone in the southern Indian Ocean.\n\nRelatives of those missing have called for the search to be resumed\n\nThe hunt formed one of the largest surface and underwater searches in aviation history.\n\nAfter the initial 52-day surface search failed, investigators trawled the sea floor and ultimately ruled out an area of more than 120,000 sq km.\n\nIn 2015 and 2016, suspected debris from MH370 washed up on islands in the Indian Ocean and the east coast of Africa.\n\nInvestigators came up with its current likely location after analysing drift modelling of debris and satellite data.\n\nIn the report, investigators said their understanding of MH370's location was \"better now than it has ever been\".\n\nThe Australian government has said only \"credible\" new evidence will prompt it to resume the search.\n\nThe Malaysian government is continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the disappearance.\n• None More evidence on MH370's 'likely' location", "Theresa May will promise to confront \"uncomfortable truths\" exposed by a review into the way people from ethnic minorities are treated in Britain.\n\nThe prime minister said the audit, due to be published next week, would \"hold a mirror up to society\".\n\nIts findings include that white Britons are far more likely to have a job than black and ethnic minority people.\n\nMeanwhile, Brexit Secretary David Davis and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson are due to speak at the Tory conference.\n\nMr Johnson has been accused of undermining Mrs May and positioning himself for a leadership bid with his interventions on Brexit strategy.\n\nSome Conservative MPs have called for him to be fired. Chancellor Philip Hammond said on Monday that he operates on the basis \"everyone is sackable\".\n\nBut asked whether he would be \"loyal\" in his speech on Tuesday, the foreign secretary told Newsnight: \"Contrary to some of the stuff that I notice has been knocking around in the media, you have a cabinet that is totally united behind every comma, every full stop, every syllable of the prime minister's excellent Florence speech.\n\n\"That's the agenda that we're going to deliver and we're going to deliver a great Brexit for this country.\"\n\nWhen she became PM, Theresa May pledged to tackle \"burning injustices\" arising from people's race and background\n\nBBC political correspondent Ben Wright said Mrs May was keen to demonstrate priorities beyond leaving the EU and was returning to a theme she had first highlighted on taking office last year.\n\nShe ordered the audit, which the government said was \"the most extensive review of its kind ever undertaken\", when she became prime minister.\n\nGovernment departments were told to identify and publish details of the varying experiences and outcomes of different groups when using public services.\n\nThe audit is aimed at highlighting racial and socio-economic disparities and showing how outcomes differ due to background, class, gender and income.\n\nSchools, hospitals, employers and courts are all covered.\n\n\"Britain has come a long way in my lifetime in spreading equality and opportunity, but this audit will be definitive evidence of how far we must still go in order to truly build a country that works for everyone,\" Mrs May said.\n\nAccording to a selection of the findings released by the government ahead of the 10 October publication, two in three white adults own their home, compared with only two in five householders from any other ethnic group.\n\nIt has also found that white pupils from state schools had the lowest university entry rate in 2016.", "Party conference rhetoric is not noted for understatement and the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt's claim to be unveiling the \"biggest expansion of nurse training in the history of the NHS\" should be seen in that light.\n\nIt became clear after his conference speech that there was some repackaging of previous announcements, but nevertheless it did offer an insight into the direction of policy.\n\nIn essence, Mr Hunt wants to create a pathway towards qualification as a nurse in England which does not require three years as a student and the consequent loans for tuition fees.\n\nThe slogan \"earn and learn\" has emerged to describe this route for would-be nurses.\n\nStarting perhaps as healthcare assistants, members of NHS staff would continue in employment while being trained as nursing associates and then becoming nursing apprentices. Subject to reaching the required standard, they would then qualify as registered nurses.\n\nThe plan involves an expansion of training of nursing associates (support staff working alongside fully qualified nurses). There are currently 2,000 such trainees in England - this will increase to 7,500 doing the required two-year course by 2019. Should they wish to progress further, a nursing associate could then start a nursing apprenticeship over two years which should lead to full qualification as a nurse over a total of four years rather three for degree students.\n\nMr Hunt said he wanted to \"jump-start\" nurse training and the aim was to make sure that \"many of the additional places go to healthcare assistants training on hospital sites, allowing us to expand our nurse workforce with some highly experienced people already working on the NHS frontline.\"\n\nMr Hunt said more transparency in the NHS was saving lives as well as money\n\nThe Health Secretary also announced an increase of 15,500 in the number of places for student nurse training in England by 2020, more than anticipated in August when a 10,000 plan was set out. The source of the funding for the whole package is not entirely clear - sources indicated some would come from the training scheme funded by the apprenticeship levy with the rest to be confirmed in the Budget.\n\nThere was a cautious welcome from the Royal College of Nursing, though a spokesperson said there was a concern that students would plug gaps in the current workforce at the expense of quality patient care. Ministers will have to work hard to reassure NHS staff that the \"earn and learn\" route is not cutting corners and allowing a less rigorous training.\n\nMr Hunt's announcement begs a big question - why is the Government flagging up a route to nurse qualification with no tuition costs at the same time as scrapping free tuition for student nurses? Could the Health Secretary have realised that making nurse trainees pay for their tuition might deter future applicants?\n\nWhitehall sources deny that the scrapping of nurse bursaries will reduce trainee numbers. They argue universities will be incentivised to create places if they know they can recoup fees from extra students. But the number of nurses starting training in England this autumn is down slightly on last year.\n\nStaff shortages are among the biggest challenges for the NHS. Filling nursing vacancies is as problematic as ever for hospital managers. NHS Digital figures showed 11,500 nursing and midwifery vacancies advertised in England in the first three months of this year, up 17% on the same period a year earlier.\n\nProfessor David Green, Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive of the University of Worcester, believes that reversing the trend of recent years will be difficult: \"We campaigned actively and publicly against the big cuts announced way back in 2011 to nurse education places. Universities warned then that the cuts would lead to major problems. Very sadly, we have been proved right.\"\n\nTraining more nurses will take time. Patient demand keeps increasing year on year. Time to tackle the staffing problem is something the Government and the NHS does not have much of.", "The protesters say the violent reaction of the Spanish authorities to their independence demands has strengthened their cause\n\nShe cried when she saw the news, he could hardly believe what he was watching.\n\nHere in 21st Century Spain, police were beating people for trying to hold a vote.\n\nNever mind that Ana didn't turn out herself for a ballot she believes was illegal in her beloved Spain.\n\nNever mind that Xavier had already made up his mind to break away from the very same Spain.\n\nLike many others, both are deeply upset about the violence at the polling stations.\n\nAt least, though, they have the comfort of being head over heels in love with each other.\n\nOn Laietana Street, there's no love lost for the police among the protesters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Spanish murderers!\" they chant at the building marked with a furled Spanish flag that looks lonely against the Catalan flags on nearby walls.\n\nThe building is protected by a line of Catalan riot police and vans.\n\nOne man all but shoves an \"anti-fascist\" flag into the face of a policeman, like a red rag to a bull.\n\nThe bull doesn't react, though the two sides are so close, you can imagine they smell each other's breath, as well as the heady fumes of whatever it is people are smoking in the crowd.\n\nMany in Catalonia are especially angry with Spanish police officers\n\nThere is shock that police were used against people for trying to hold a vote\n\nIt's 24 hours after the referendum and hundreds of hyper-young protesters are jubilantly occupying the street outside the Barcelona headquarters of Spain's National Police.\n\nThey're on a roll wrapped in their lone-star Catalan rebel flags, yelling up at the windows, demanding Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy takes his 10,000-odd extra police officers out of Catalonia.\n\n\"When they're gone, we'll turn the building into a library!\" one young man tells me with a grin.\n\nEvents on Sunday have left many people traumatised\n\nThrough the balaclavas, it's hard to tell how the Catalan riot police are taking all this, protecting their Spanish comrades from a hostile crowd, but their helmets hang unused from their belts along with the truncheons and pistols.\n\nThe only things being thrown this evening are paper planes which come down like volleys of toy darts on the police and their vans, to gales of triumphant laughter from the crowd.\n\nOn Sunday, in one Catalan town (Carles de la Rapita), there was a particularly bloody clash outside a polling station, and stones were hurled at Spanish police cars.\n\n\"If you'd asked me three or four years ago, I would probably have said independence was not the right way - it doesn't matter to me what's on the flag,\" says one of those at the Barcelona protest, 23-year-old Yes voter Jo, who doesn't want to give his full name.\n\n\"But every day now, basic rights are being violated. When we ask for more self-government, they only send police to beat old people and kids.\n\n\"In the past two weeks, Spain did more for Catalan independence than the Catalans in the past 10 years because if you point a gun at people they feel under attack, and if they feel under attack, it's logical that they won't want to stay with you.\n\n\"If we become independent tomorrow, I will congratulate Mariano Rajoy because he has done more than most to bring it about.\"\n\nIn a cafe across town, Xavier Querol, 25, wants to make something very clear.\n\nXavier and Ana speak both Catalan and Spanish\n\n\"It's not a fight,\" he says. \"We don't have a good side and a bad side - both sides are right. People are angry and disgusted but we are not fighting each other - that is all politics.\n\n\"Sunday was a disgrace and a shock. I know Spanish people who say they feel ashamed to be Spanish, but we still talk. It's the politicians who won't talk.\"\n\nBut his girlfriend Ana Jorques, 20, has noticed how the mood among some groups of Spanish and Catalan friends in Barcelona has soured.\n\n\"I am Spanish and there are Catalans who think that I am bad person after what happened on Sunday,\" she says.\n\nThere does tend to be more arguing, Xavier agrees. \"When they see the pictures of police fighting old people and children, people get stressed and blame those who feel Spanish.\"\n\n\"I like and respect the police,\" says Ana. \"They were doing their job. They have a boss and they have to do what the boss says, but they didn't behave correctly.\"\n\nWhen Xavier saw the pictures on TV he says it felt like he was looking at a report from another country, not Spain.\n\n\"I would rather stay in Spain than see this happen again,\" he says.\n\nHe didn't vote because he couldn't download the referendum app (banned by a court order) and by the time he found his polling station, the huge queue meant he had missed his chance.\n\nFire fighters in Barcelona took part in Monday's protests\n\n\"I don't trust politicians but I am Spanish and want to stay in Spain,\" says Ana.\n\nSo what does she think of Catalans?\n\n\"Well, this is a good Catalan,\" she says with a smile, gesturing towards Xavier, who is tickled pink.\n\nBut it's not easy for her, she adds, to hear Catalans call Spain a \"country full of corruption\".\n\nSo Spaniards never say mean things about Catalans? They sure do. A common view is that they are moaners who don't know how well off they are, she says.\n\n\"And there's corruption in Catalonia too,\" Ana points out.\n\nBut independence would mean a fresh start, Xavier believes. \"I'm not angry with the Spanish people, but I want to choose my own future.\"\n\nIn his view, Spain is ruled by the same small group of people who were in power under the Franco dictatorship.\n\nIt's true Mr Rajoy's Popular Party has its roots in the Franco establishment but, 40 years on, can a democratically elected Spanish government really behave like Franco?\n\nHuge numbers of people took part in protests against police violence on Monday\n\nBallot boxes used in Sunday's vote were put on display in various parts of Barcelona\n\n\"Totally!\" says Josep, 86, a Catalan who grew up under the old regime before migrating to Germany for work.\n\nBack living in Barcelona again, he has found his evening stroll with his daughter Maria (they also don't want to give their full names) interrupted by the demo at the police headquarters.\n\n\"Both sides are crazy,\" he says.\n\nThe father and daughter may be proud Catalans, but they see their future inside Spain - \"only not with Rajoy\", Josep adds. Perhaps Spain could adopt a federal structure like in Germany? he suggests.\n\nMaria says she feels both Catalan and Spanish and \"it's always better together\", and she is worried about Catalan radicalism.\n\nShe tried to vote No on Sunday but her designated polling station had been shut down.\n\nThe police's use of force will have swayed more people towards independence, she thinks, leaving the future even more uncertain.\n\n\"Following orders is one thing, but using violence where there is no violence is excessive,\" Maria says. \"People were only demonstrating that they wanted to vote.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May is asked if Boris Johnson has undermined her\n\nTheresa May says she has not been undermined by Boris Johnson's recent interventions on Brexit, saying she does not want a cabinet of \"yes men\".\n\nThe prime minister said the foreign secretary's vision of Brexit reflected the government's approach.\n\n\"This isn't about an individual personality, it's about how we can deliver for people,\" she added.\n\nMr Johnson has delivered his party conference speech, saying it is time to \"let the British lion roar\".\n\nBut his recent comments on Brexit - including setting out \"red lines\" in a newspaper article - have triggered calls for him to be sacked.\n\nAsked what it would take for him to be fired, Mrs May told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg that strong leadership involved \"having a range of voices sitting around the table\".\n\nResponding to some Tory figures' concerns she was being undermined by the foreign secretary, she said: \"It doesn't undermine what I'm doing at all.\"\n\nShe was speaking on day three of the Tory conference in Manchester, as:\n\nMr Johnson set out his Brexit \"red lines\" at the weekend, triggering anger from some colleagues and accusations that he was targeting Mrs May's job.\n\nBut the PM played down any differences with the government's position.\n\n\"If you look at the issues Boris has been talking about they reflect the position we've taken in the Florence speech, setting out a vision of what this country can be doing in terms of its partnership with Europe in the future,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"It is up to us now... to let that lion roar.\"\n\nAsked whether his interventions made her \"cross\", she replied: \"Crucially, there's a lot of talk about Boris's job or this job or that job inside the cabinet.\n\n\"Actually what people are concerned about - they don't want us to be thinking about our jobs they want us to be thinking about their jobs and their futures.\n\n\"What government is for is about delivering for the public. That's where our focus must be.\"\n\nIn his much-anticipated speech in Manchester, Mr Johnson called for Brexit to be a moment of national renewal.\n\nThe foreign secretary told Tory activists the UK \"can win the future\" and should stop treating the referendum result as if it were \"plague of boils\".\n\nHe also praised Theresa May's \"steadfast\" leadership over Europe and insisted the whole cabinet was united behind her aim of getting a \"great Brexit deal\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In full: Theresa May speaks to Laura Kuenssberg\n\nMrs May has faced repeated questions about her leadership during the conference, having seen the Conservatives lose their Commons majority in June's general election.\n\nShe insisted she had the authority and ideas to improve the Tories' standing - and that her party was still setting the political agenda, adding that she had \"listened\" to voters' concerns on tuition fees and home ownership.\n\nAnd she repeatedly stressed her \"mission\" in government, as set out when she took office, \"to ensure that we no longer see people in this country that feel left behind\".\n\nEarlier during a round of media interviews the PM was asked by BBC Breakfast whether there were any \"red lines\" which Mr Johnson himself should not cross.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister Theresa May rejects accusations of weak leadership on Radio 4's Today\n\n\"I don't set red lines. Everybody uses this phrase 'red lines'. I don't set those sort of red lines,\" she told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"All I would say is actually I think leadership is about ensuring you have a team of people who aren't yes men, but a team of people of different voices around the table, so you can discuss matters, come to an agreement and then put that government view forward, and that's exactly what we've done.\"\n\nOn BBC Radio 4's Today, Mrs May said the foreign secretary and the rest of the cabinet were united behind her Brexit strategy, insisting that European leaders knew what the UK wanted and that her Florence speech had \"changed the dial\".\n\n\"What I am very clear about is of course the prime minister is in charge,\" she said.\n\nShe acknowledged that her message \"did not come across in the general election\" as she would have wanted and it was apparent the concerns of the British people were \"more keenly felt\" than people had thought.\n\nMrs May said the election had shown that many people felt \"left behind and ignored\" but she insisted that change would not happen overnight and no \"great phrase\" would transform things.\n\nIn the run-up to Mr Johnson's speech, pro-Remain Tory MP and former business minister Anna Soubry told Channel 4 News that she had asked the foreign secretary to resign over the weekend, describing him a \"troublemaker\".\n\nSpeaking ahead of his own conference speech, in which he called for greater optimism about Brexit, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox told BBC Radio 4's The World at One: \"I think it's easier if we are all on a very strict script, it's very clear that the prime minister is in charge of this process.\"\n\nAlso on the third day of the Conservative conference in Manchester, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt promised 5,000 new training places for nurses while International Development Secretary Priti Patel announced new conditions on foreign aid spending to prevent \"fat cats\" from monopolising contracts.\n\nAnd a proposed ban on the sale of acids to under-18s was outlined by Home Secretary Amber Rudd.", "\"Why would anybody, let alone a normal person, want to become a member of the Conservative Party?\"\n\n\"I'm beginning to lose the will to live.\"\n\nThis was some distance from the slick choreography you can become inured to at party conferences.\n\nThis was a public post-mortem in a marquee.\n\nA brutally honest dissection of humiliating failure at the general election.\n\nThe Conservative Home website hosted a discussion for party members to say it as they saw it - and the room festered with irritation, anger and a forest of raised hands.\n\nFor more than an hour, the criticisms came.\n\nThe outspoken John Strafford, from the Campaign for Conservative Democracy, predicted Armageddon for the Tories.\n\nParty membership, he said, had been allowed to decline below 100,000 nationally and 300 constituency associations had no more than 100 members - and no more than 10 of them were up for doing stuff or were activists.\n\nIt was Mr Strafford who said this was \"an utter, total disgrace\".\n\n\"Eventually there will be no members left, and that will be the end, goodbye,\" he claimed.\n\nA visibly angry Sir Eric Pickles, who has written a report on the party's failure at the election, sarcastically congratulated him on \"getting tomorrow's headlines\".\n\nThe room by now crackled with irritation - as members set out what they saw as a range of structural, organisational and practical reasons that contributed to the party's failure to win an overall majority.\n\nThe party's losing candidate in Halifax in West Yorkshire, the marginal seat where the party published its now widely derided manifesto, was highly critical of the national party.\n\nLabour's Holly Lynch increased her majority in Halifax following June's general election\n\nChris Pearson said his team had been threatened with disciplinary action if they didn't follow central dictat about the areas of the constituency they targeted, despite what he saw as their superior local knowledge.\n\n\"Everything does seem to be quite predominantly London,\" he added, about the party's organisation and staffing.\n\nIt was a party member from Cambridge who questioned why anyone would want to sign up to join the party right now.\n\nSir Eric Pickles said: \"We can't have the manifesto being written quietly in a corner,\" and insisted \"someone should be unambiguously in charge of the election\".\n\nHis report, complete with 126 recommendations, suggested there was \"a clear campaigning deficiency\" and a need for more young people and members of ethnic minorities to join and support the Conservatives.\n\nPaul Goodman, the editor of Conservative Home, fretted that unless someone was charged with ensuring Sir Eric's ideas were implemented over the next 10 years, many could fall by the wayside.\n\n\"We will be in such a mess if we don't push this through,\" Sir Eric said.\n\nTwo contributors from the floor said the Tories could learn from Momentum, the grassroots movement inspired by the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThe Tory MP Nusrat Ghani agreed: \"One of the ways it recruits is pinpointing local campaigns. A local school, a local hospital, to nudge people along to get involved. A bottom-up approach is absolutely key.\"\n\nGraham Brady says the Tories must work harder to ensure more public sector workers would vote for party\n\nThe former minister Edwina Currie, reflecting on everything she had heard, said the meeting left her \"losing the will to live\".\n\nBut she was furious that \"blithering idiots\" from party headquarters had sent her and fellow canvassers to addresses in Derbyshire which had been picked out to target because the occupiers earned relatively high salaries.\n\nWhat Central Office hadn't realised, she said, was that in her patch many of the best paid were public sector workers with Labour posters in the windows.\n\nGraham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative MPs, said it was time the party \"tried to convince primary school teachers of the benefit of the free market\" and work harder to ensure more public sector workers would consider voting Tory.\n\nBut when Mrs Currie complained about the number of white men in senior roles within the party, Mr Brady joked: \"There is nothing I can do about being white or being a man. Nothing I'd wish to do anyway!\"\n\nAs this public inquest rolled into its second hour, hands were still popping up: passionate activists with questions, observations and irritations about an election that went badly wrong.\n• None May: We 'listened' on student fees", "Bump-stocks can be fitted to standard semi-automatic rifles like the Colt AR-15\n\nPolice say that the gunman who killed almost 60 people at a concert in Las Vegas had outfitted a legal but controversial accessory onto 12 of his semi-automatic rifles to enable them to fire hundreds of rounds per minute.\n\nOfficials say that theses devices - known as bump-stocks - have been found along with 23 guns inside Stephen Paddock's room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.\n\nBump-stocks, or slide fire adapters, allow semi-automatic rifles to fire at a high rate, similar to a machine gun, but can be obtained without the extensive background checks required of purchasing automatic weapons.\n\nAudio analysis of one clip estimated that about 90 rounds were unleashed in only 10 seconds - far faster than a human being could repeatedly pull a trigger.\n\nLawmakers have questioned the legality of these devices while gun owners - sensing a legislative crackdown - have reportedly begun stockpiling them.\n\nOne of the rifles recovered from the crime scene appears to be fitted with a bump stock\n\nSince Congress passed the Firearm Owners' Protection Act in 1986, it has been relatively difficult for civilians to buy new, fully automatic weapons, which reload automatically and fire continuously as long as the trigger is depressed.\n\nHowever, thousands of \"grandfathered\" weapons - those manufactured and registered before 1986 - can still be bought but are very expensive and all sales must be approved by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the horror unfolded - in two minutes\n\nIt is also illegal to modify the internal components of semi-automatic rifles - which typically manage about 60 aimed shots per minute - to make them fully automatic.\n\nGun owners can instead legally buy accessories to increase the rate of fire.\n\nOne option is a \"trigger crank\", \"hellfire trigger\", or \"gat crank\", which bolts onto the trigger guard of a semi-automatic rifle and depresses the trigger several times with every rotation.\n\nBut the bump-stock, which was used by Stephen Paddock in Sunday's Las Vegas shooting, harnesses a rifle's recoil.\n\nIt replaces the weapon's stock, which is held against the shoulder, and allows the rest of the rifle to slide back and forward with every shot despite having no mechanical parts or springs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What gunfire tells us about weapons used\n\nThe motion makes the trigger collide with, or bump, the shooter's finger as long as they apply forward pressure with the non-shooting hand and rearward pressure with the shooting hand.\n\nFollowing the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut in 2012, California Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced a bill that sought to ban bump-stocks and similar devices, saying that manufacturers were exploiting \"loopholes\" to circumvent gun laws. However, the bill was defeated in the Senate.\n\nIn the wake of the Las Vegas shooting, Mrs Feinstein re-introduced a bill on Wednesday that would outlaw the sale and possession of bump-stock equipment and other similar devices.", "An \"unfortunate error\" in subtitling led to Newcastle United being labelled \"black and white scum\" during the BBC's Match of the Day 2 programme.\n\nCommentator Guy Mowbray said Liverpool's Daniel Sturridge had scored five goals against the black and whites.\n\nBut software confused the word \"comma\", spoken by a subtitler, and put \"scum\" into the on-screen text.\n\nThe BBC said the error was spotted and corrected immediately.\n\nIt was noticed by football writer Paul Brown, who tweeted a screenshot from the show on Sunday night, saying \"MOTD2 subtitler evidently not a Newcastle fan.\"\n\nDuring the commentary Guy Mowbray said: \"Sturridge has scored in all four of his previous Premier League starts at Newcastle. For the Reds against the black and whites, he boasts five goals in five appearances.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Paul Brown This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFootball commentary is re-voiced for subtitles by someone known as a \"respeaker\".\n\nA BBC spokeswoman said: \"Our live subtitling service is normally very accurate and makes our content much more accessible, but there are times when unfortunate errors occur.\n\n\"On this occasion the error was spotted and corrected immediately.\"\n\nThe Magpies went on to draw 1-1 in the Premier League home game.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A long list of singers and bands owe Tom Petty, who has died aged 66, for influencing them - from rock and pop stars to country acts and even, in a roundabout way, rappers and the legendary Spinal Tap.\n\nHere are some of those who took inspiration from Tom Petty.\n\nIn 2015, Tom Petty and his collaborator Jeff Lynne were added to the songwriting credits for Sam Smith's hit Stay With Me because of similarities to his 1989 track I Won't Back Down. Smith's people said it was \"a complete coincidence\".\n\n\"All my years of songwriting have shown me these things can happen,\" a sanguine Petty later said. \"Most times you catch it before it gets out the studio door but in this case it got by. Sam's people were very understanding of our predicament and we easily came to an agreement.\"\n\n\"Tom Petty was the first album I ever bought with my own money,\" singer Caleb Followill has said. \"I've been listening to him ever since, so I know there's a huge influence on me.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 followill This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Kings of Leon hosted Petty Fest in Nashville in 2013, celebrating the singer-songwriter with The Black Keys' Patrick Carney, Emmylou Harris, Norah Jones and Jakob Dylan.\n\nThe opening riff and drum pattern of The Strokes' second single Last Nite bore a striking resemblance to the intro of American Girl, from the 1977 album Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.\n\nPetty himself had no hard feelings. He told Rolling Stone in 2006: \"There was an interview that took place with them where they actually admitted it. That made me laugh out loud. I was like, 'OK, good for you.' It doesn't bother me.\"\n\n\"Growing up in the 1980s in MTV America, Tom Petty might as well have been the Beatles,\" the hitmaker wrote on Instagram, calling Petty \"culturally important\". He added: \"It was the music you wanted to hear in your car. It was the music you'd hear at a baseball game.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Mark Ronson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPetty's song Running Down A Dream was \"the first lyric I heard as a pre-teen that maybe made me understand what grown-up melancholy was\", Ronson said, while as he grew up, You Got Lucky and American Girl \"resonated with a rawness that spoke to me on another level\".\n\nAfter Nirvana ended in 1994, Dave Grohl was recruited to perform with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - who were without a drummer at the time - on Saturday Night Live.\n\nPetty was said to have been so impressed that he offered Grohl a permanent place in the band. But Grohl turned him down and started Foo Fighters instead. The biggest musical influence can be seen on the Foos' Wheels, which pays some homage to Petty's Learning To Fly.\n\nA ridiculously deep voice chants the words \"Thom Pettie that ho/Free falling, we out all night\" on a song titled Thom Pettie on the former Outkast rapper's 2012 album Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors.\n\nBig Boi explained that it was inspired by Petty's hit Free Fallin'. He said: \"If you're going out for the wild night and you never know where the night is going to take you, we call it free falling. That's called Tom Pettying! If you Tom Petty for the night, you don't know where you're going to end up at in the morning.\"\n\n\"We've all been trying to copy him,\" Dave Haywood of country megastars Lady Antebellum told BBC Breakfast. \"Everyone's been trying to emulate what he does... He'd be in our top five of influences for us as a band.\"\n\nBandmate Charles Kelley added: \"Tom Petty is probably even a bigger influence to our generation of country artists than even some of the traditional country artists, just because that's what we grew up on. Kenny Chesney, Garth Brooks, Tim McGraw... I would say they would put him in their top 10 of artists that influenced them.\"\n\nPetty and Adams both released albums in 2014. That led Billboard to snark that \"the best Tom Petty album to come out this year may be the one by prolific singer-songwriter-guitarist-producer Ryan Adams\".\n\nAsked on Twitter earlier this year whether he was \"this generation's Tom Petty\", Adams batted back: \"Tom Petty is this generations @tompetty. He is a stone cold badass.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Bryan Adams This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome fans saw parallels between Adams' 1984 hit Run To You and Petty's single Refugee, which reached number 15 in the US chart four years earlier.\n\nJones performed a few times at Petty Fest - performing a cover of You Don't Know How It Feels with Kristen Wiig in 2016. She also appeared when Petty was named the Grammys' MusiCares Person of the Year earlier this year, alongside an all-star cast that also included George Strait, Randy Newman, Jackson Browne and Stevie Nicks.\n\n\"He's meant a lot,\" Jones said of Petty before that show. \"I've been a fan for so long… You know every song even if you don't realise you do. They're such good songs.\"\n\nPetty showed his relaxed attitude to being borrowed from again when comparisons were made between the Red Hot Chili Peppers' 2006 hit Dani California and Petty's 1993 single Mary Jane's Last Dance.\n\nPetty told Rolling Stone: \"I seriously doubt that there is any negative intent there. And a lot of rock 'n' roll songs sound alike. Ask Chuck Berry.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 John Mayer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLots of artists have covered Free Fallin', which is among Petty's most enduring songs. But my favourite version is by delicate Norwegian duo Kings of Convenience.\n\nThey covered it live, leading the audience in a spine-tingling a capella sing-along refrain. That was captured live and released on their Failure single in 2001.\n\nThe scene in This Is Spinal Tap in which the fictional band get hideously lost in the bowels of a venue in Ohio as they try to find their way to the stage is one of the more unlikely moments in rock 'n' roll history to have been inspired by Tom Petty.\n\nWriter and star Christopher Guest said: \"We saw a tape of Tom Petty playing somewhere in Germany, where he's walking backstage and a door's opened and he ends up on an indoor tennis court and there's just this moment of stunned, you know, 'Where am I?'\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Tracey Wilkinson died at the family home in Stourbridge and her teenage son Pierce died in hospital\n\nA \"manipulative\" homeless man who turned on a family who befriended him has admitted the \"frenzied\" murder of the mother and her 13-year-old son.\n\nTracey and Pierce Wilkinson were stabbed to death at their home in Stourbridge, West Midlands in March.\n\nThe boy's father, Peter, was seriously injured in the attack but survived.\n\nAaron Barley, 24, of no fixed address, admitted the killings at Birmingham Crown Court on what would have been the first day of his trial.\n\nHe previously admitted the attempted murder of Mr Wilkinson.\n\nThe family first met Barley after Mrs Wilkinson decided \"off-the-cuff\" to help him when she saw him trying to keep warm in a cardboard box while she was out shopping.\n\nShe helped him find accommodation and arranged daily meals for him, while her husband went on to employ him as a labourer in April last year.\n\nHe left the company on \"amicable terms\" last September after he began to take drugs.\n\nAaron Barley admitted the two murders on what would have been the first day of his trial\n\nProsecutor Karim Khalil QC told the court Mr Wilkinson was \"naturally intent\" on trying to continue to support Barley and his work colleagues \"spent a huge amount of time and effort trying to find ways to support the defendant\".\n\nBut despite this he went on to attack the family just months later.\n\nMr Khalil said Barley killed Mrs Wilkinson in her bed and attacked Pierce in his room while Mr Wilkinson was out walking the dog on the morning of 30 March.\n\nHe had hidden in the garden shed overnight after failing to gain entry to the home he once shared with the family.\n\nCCTV played to the court showed him emerging from the shed with a hammer as Mr Wilkinson returned home.\n\nBrandishing a knife over his head, he shouted \"Die you bastard\" as he stabbed Mr Wilkinson a total of six times - twice in the face, twice in the abdomen and twice in the back, the court heard.\n\nBarley, described as a \"compulsive liar and manipulator\" with 21 previous convictions, wore a balaclava and was clad entirely in black, even covering his yellow trainers in black socks.\n\nMr Khalil said Mr Wilkinson described the defendant as \"acting like a ninja\".\n\n\"He realised immediately who his attacker was\", he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"The defendant was wielding a knife, stabbing and slashing at Peter in a frenzied attack with such aggression that this alone demonstrated an obvious intention to kill him.\"\n\nThe company director managed to contact emergency services, and was found in the garden of the family home with facial lacerations and deep stab wounds.\n\nBarley fled the scene in the family's Land Rover and was pursued by police before he crashed in a nearby road and was arrested.\n\nMrs Wilkinson, 50, was pronounced dead at the scene, while Pierce died after being taken to hospital.\n\nMr Wilkinson, 47, spent 11 days in hospital recovering from his wounds.\n\nBefore the killings, Barley was reported to police after his former foster carer became concerned about messages posted on Facebook, the court was told.\n\nAmong the posts was a threat from him towards his family and the possibility of a \"killing spree\".\n\nLess than a week before the stabbings, the court heard, the Wilkinsons cancelled a mobile phone contract they had paid for Barley.\n\nPierce Wilkinson (left) was killed in the attack while his father Peter was seriously injured. Pierce's sister Lydia was at university at the time\n\nThe couple's daughter Lydia, 19, was away at Bristol University at the time.\n\nShe said she was warned to expect the worst and when she saw her father hooked up to \"countless machines\" she doubted he would survive.\n\nWhen he did eventually regain consciousness, Mr Wilkinson did not know his wife was dead and was unaware his daughter had been to the mortuary to identify her mother and brother.\n\nBoth the family and police said they did not know what Barley's motive was.\n\nMr Wilkinson said he had shared a \"curry and a couple of bottles of beer\" with Barley about a month before the attack.\n\n\"The next time I saw him he was sticking a knife into my shoulder,\" he said.\n\nHe said Barley had joined the family on Christmas Day last year and he wrote a card to his wife that said 'To the mother that I never had'.\n\n\"My wife was very caring and he treated her a bit like a second mother,\" he added.\n\nHe suggested that Barley, whose parents died when he was young, knew his life was \"going bad ways\" and wanted to take it out on the people that had \"cared and looked after him\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lydia Wilkinson thought all her family was dead\n\nDet Supt Tom Chisholm said Barley has remained uncooperative while in custody and given officers no reason for the \"horrific attack\".\n\nDescribing the \"random\" murders as the most shocking he had dealt with, the veteran detective added: \"There is usually a build-up or a motive or a grudge of something, but this one is just very random.\"\n\nThe court also heard that psychiatric reports found no evidence of diminished responsibility.\n\nBarley fled from the scene in the family's 4x4\n\nEmergency services were called to Greyhound Lane, Norton on 30 March\n\nMr Wilkinson and Lydia have now moved back into the family home and said they have been \"astounded\" by the support they have received.\n\nMs Wilkinson described her mother as a \"stunning\" woman with a \"beautiful personality\".\n\n\"To have my best friend taken from me in life at such a young age is a hardship I would never wish on anyone,\" she said.\n\n\"Because it has to be the most awful experience. Especially when something happens… I can't ring her up any more.\"\n\nShe said her brother was \"handsome, funny, clever\" and made friends with everybody around him.\n\n\"My mum and brother were just the iconic mother/son relationship,\" she said.\n\nBarley will be sentenced on Wednesday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lydia Wilkinson thought all her family was dead\n\nLydia Wilkinson was in another county when she found out her whole family had been stabbed in a \"frenzied\" knife attack.\n\nThe 19-year-old Bristol university student was in halls when her boyfriend called her about a stabbing in her hometown of Stourbridge, West Midlands.\n\nUnknown to Lydia, Aaron Barley, a 24-year-old homeless man who had been taken in by the Wilkinsons, had armed himself with a knife and entered her family's home.\n\n\"I remember typing into Google 'Stourbridge, stabbings,\" she said.\n\n\"And the first link showed a photo of my house with police tape around it. I remember ringing him [my boyfriend] back and saying 'It's me, it's us, they've been stabbed'.\"\n\nLydia did not yet know Barley had killed her 13-year-old brother Pierce, and her mother, Tracey. Her father, Peter, was gravely wounded in the attack.\n\nShaken by what she had seen online, Lydia went into a friend's room, where she called the police. Her friend took her phone while they waited for officers to arrive.\n\n\"West Midlands [Police] got to me and asked what I knew - I said just that they have all been stabbed,\" she said.\n\n\"They said 'we are very sorry to tell you that your mum and brother have passed away and your dad is in theatre and we don't know whether he will survive or not, we have had no news'.\"\n\nLydia, a first-year biology undergraduate, was set to return to the family home a day after the attack on 30 March.\n\nShe had promised to meet Pierce at his school gates, and was looking forward to going dress shopping with her mum, she said.\n\nInstead, she found herself rushing to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, unaware if her father had survived.\n\n\"I remember coming back in the car from Bristol,\" she said. \"I was planning a triple funeral and how I was going to go about that on my own.\"\n\nLydia Wilkinson laid flowers at her family home after the murders\n\nAbout three hours after learning her mum and brother had died, Lydia arrived at her father's bedside.\n\n\"They took me to critical care and that was the first time I saw my dad - with countless machines hooked up to him, a lot of doctors around his bed,\" she said.\n\n\"I remember thinking at that point in time that I was going to lose him as well because nobody could survive that state.\"\n\n\"I thought he was going to pass away that night.\"\n\n\"I knew there was nothing I could do to help my mum and Pierce as they had tragically passed away, so my sole focus at that moment in time was my dad, because he was the only thing I had left in life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Peter Wilkinson woke up in intensive care to learn his son was dead\n\nLydia sat beside her father, who was under heavy sedation, holding his hand.\n\n\"I said that I was there and he opened his eyes and looked at me and then went back unconscious,\" she said.\n\n\"He woke up later on that evening.\"\n\n\"I started to hope that he was going to [pull through] because before that there was just no hope. I genuinely thought it was going to be just me,\" she said.\n\n\"And from that moment he started to come round.\"\n\nPierce Wilkinson (left) died in hospital after paramedics battled to save him\n\nLydia, who has since continued her studies at Bristol, said she did not really talk to her father \"about the outside world\" until he came out of critical care.\n\n\"He didn't know I had been to the house [to lay flowers] and he didn't know that I identified the bodies of my mum and brother,\" she said.\n\nTracey Wilkinson had a \"beautiful personality\", her daughter said.\n\nLydia paid tribute to her mother, who had first met Barley when he was living on the streets. She found him meals and accommodation and let him temporarily stay in their home.\n\n\"To have my best friend taken from me in life at such a young age is a hardship I would never wish on anyone,\" she said.\n\n\"Because it has to be the most awful experience. Especially when something happens… I can't ring her up any more.\"\n\nAfter Barley admitted killing Pierce and Mrs Wilkinson, Lydia faced him in court.\n\nAddressing the killer as he stood in the dock, she said: \"My parents helped you - you repaid them with destruction and heartache.\n\n\"You have obliterated my life, murdered half my family, very nearly all of it, and for this I will never forgive you.\"", "The Kursk disaster in 2000 was an international embarrassment for the Russian military\n\nThe European Court of Human Rights says Russia must compensate journalists who were sued for articles about the Kursk nuclear submarine disaster in 2000.\n\nThe case was won by Novaya Gazeta, an investigative newspaper often critical of the Kremlin.\n\nRussia must now pay it 3,388 euros (£3,007; $3,984), and 2,170 euros to its correspondent Yelena Milashina.\n\nThe paper had alleged failure by the military to properly investigate the deaths of 118 Kursk sailors.\n\nThe European court ruled that by prosecuting the journalists, the Russian defence ministry had violated Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which safeguards freedom of expression.\n\nIn an investigation, the paper disputed the conclusion of a naval forensic expert, Viktor Kolkutin, that 23 sailors had died eight hours after explosions which had killed most of the crew immediately.\n\nNovaya Gazeta alleged that the sailors had survived longer than that, and that the navy had bungled the rescue attempt. It meant that there was no punishment of Northern Fleet officers for criminal negligence over the Kursk disaster.\n\nAn official investigation found that two explosions had wrecked the submarine after fuel leaked from a torpedo during a naval exercise.\n\nAnother military expert reported that dull repeated knocking heard from the sunken submarine was not an SOS message from the survivors, but some other unidentified noise from a surface ship.\n\nIn 2005 a Moscow court had made the newspaper and Milashina pay 57,000 roubles (£744; $985 at today's rates) in fines for defamation, over their reporting of the military experts' conclusions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steve Coogan said the phone hacking was \"a disgrace\" to the record of the newspaper group\n\nComedian Steve Coogan is to receive a six-figure sum in damages from Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) after it admitted to unlawful phone hacking.\n\nSpeaking after the High Court judgement, the actor and comedian said he felt \"vindicated\" by the agreement.\n\nIt follows an action by Coogan for misuse of his private information.\n\nPublisher Trinity Mirror said it had \"no comment\" on the case but lawyers for MGN, which is part of Trinity Mirror, said the group had apologised.\n\nMGN's lawyer admitted Coogan was the target of unlawful activities and that they were concealed until years later.\n\nThey said: \"MGN apologises to Mr Coogan and accepts that he and other victims should not have been denied the truth for so long.\"\n\nThe exact figure of the settlement has not been revealed - but most of the money would be distributed to good causes, Coogan said.\n\nMore than 40 celebrities have already settled phone-hacking claims against MGN, including Lord Archer, footballer Kevin Keegan and actresses Patsy Kensit and Michelle Collins.\n\nThey were resolved by the payment of undisclosed sums and an apology from the newspaper group.\n\nPhone hacking was used to listen to people's mobile voicemails, giving journalists access to private information to use for stories.\n\nCoogan's lawyer, David Sherborne, told the court that the Mirror had written stories using unlawfully obtained personal information - including phone hacking, from third parties and surveillance by private investigators.\n\nHe claimed 62 news articles were \"likely to have been produced by use of these means,\" adding that they caused \"enormous distress\" to Coogan, who wrongly suspected people he knew were leaking his private information.\n\nBefore bringing the case, Coogan gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics, which was launched in 2011 after revelations of phone-hacking first became public and concluded in 2012.\n\nIt followed the closure of the News of the World by its owner, Rupert Murdoch, following the revelation that the mobile phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler had been hacked.\n\nCoogan's lawyer said his participation in the inquiry led to a number of attacks on him by national newspapers.\n\nThe actor then complained to MGN in July 2015 and it admitted to misusing his private information.\n\nCoogan issued his claim in October 2016, and tried to find out the extent of the wrongdoing and identify the relevant newspaper articles.\n\nCoogan believed that if Trinity Mirror had conducted a proper investigation at an early stage, then the unlawful activity could have been stopped - and prevented the distress and damage it caused its victims, their family and friends, his lawyer said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Spanish police clashed with people trying to get to polling stations to vote\n\nThe sight of masked police smashing their way into polling stations was evidence - if any were needed - that Catalonia's independence drive has plunged Spain into its biggest political crisis for a generation.\n\nAfter the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, Spaniards approved the current constitution in 1978.\n\nBut the democratic will of all political forces was tested, and ultimately consolidated, by an attempted military coup on the night of 23 February, 1981, when Lt Col Antonio Tejero of the Guardia Civil held lawmakers at gunpoint.\n\nThat night the then king of Spain, Juan Carlos, remained loyal to democracy and the putsch was suppressed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe deadly violence of Basque Country militant group Eta also tested Spain's democratic consensus. But the organisation laid down its weapons in 2011 and the stated aim of today's Basque leaders is that they, and Catalonia, be allowed to hold a legal referendum resulting from a negotiation with Madrid.\n\nIt is unclear how the Catalan crisis can be resolved.\n\nSpain's conservative Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, defended Sunday's fierce crackdown, making no mention of the more than 800 people injured while participating in a ballot deemed illegal by Spanish courts.\n\n\"We did what we had to do. We are the government of Spain and, as its leader, I assume my responsibility,\" he said.\n\nCatalan leader Carles Puigdemont is also sticking stubbornly to his script, saying the Yes vote is a first step on the road to declaring independence and creating a new republic.\n\nBarcelona the day after: Catalan students protest against Spanish police\n\nRead more of our Catalonia coverage:\n\nWhere, some Spaniards ask, is today's king in the midst of a political crisis that threatens the future of his kingdom? \"Where is he? He should be defending our cause,\" said a woman who only wished to be named as Africa, at an anti-independence demonstration in Madrid.\n\nWhile Juan Carlos enjoyed an active role in the cut and thrust of politics, King Felipe cuts a distant figure. He has cancelled all appointments for the coming week, but the Royal Household said there were no plans for meetings or public statements at this stage.\n\nMeanwhile, across Spain, criticism of the Rajoy administration's dogged defence of the constitutional status quo is not confined to Catalan and Basque nationalists.\n\nThe leaders of Spain's second- and third-largest parties, the traditionally socialist PSOE and left-wing Podemos, both expressed alarm at the images beamed around the world of heavy-handed police intervention.\n\nPSOE's Pedro Sánchez said Spain was in need of a \"national political regeneration\", while Podemos chief Pablo Iglesias expressed his \"disgust at what [Rajoy's] Popular Party is doing to our democracy\".", "Some passengers forced open the doors of train\n\nPassengers forced open the doors on a busy rush-hour train and climbed on to tracks after becoming \"panicked\" in the carriage.\n\nIt happened outside Wimbledon station in south-west London at 08:30 BST as a man apparently began reading lines aloud from the Bible.\n\nCommuters became scared when the man also began saying \"death is not the end\", a passenger said.\n\nRail power lines were cut as passengers \"self-evacuated\", police said.\n\nTrains on the route were disrupted for nearly 12 hours, but are now running normally.\n\nIan, who was on the train, said the man's Bible-reading led to a \"commotion\" and a \"crush\".\n\nHe said someone then asked the man to stop speaking \"as he was scaring people\" and \"the guy stopped and stood there with his head down\".\n\nThe train had been travelling between Shepperton and London Waterloo. British Transport Police (BTP) said no arrests had been made.\n\nA Network Rail spokesperson said no passengers or train staff were injured but \"significant delays\" would continue on services in and out of Waterloo.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Christian girl said to have been fostered by a Muslim family had a \"warm and appropriate\" relationship with the carers, a family court has heard.\n\nThe five-year-old, who is now living with her grandmother, was placed into the family's care in March by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.\n\nThe judge, Khatun Sapnara, said the girl expressed \"she misses the foster carer and wants to see her again\".\n\nShe said the council was happy the family care was \"warm and appropriate\".\n\nJudge Sapnara said Tower Hamlets produced an \"interesting and robust defence\" to the media's reporting of the case - following claims reported in the Times that the family did not speak English and that the girl had not been allowed to wear a crucifix.\n\nShe said: \"The local authority has satisfied itself that the foster carer has not behaved in any way which is inconsistent with their provision of warm and appropriate care for the child.\"\n\nThe council will be allowed to publish an \"agreed narrative of events\" in the coming days, Judge Sapnara added.\n\nThe court also heard that the child, who was taken from her mother after police became concerned for her welfare, would be taken to her maternal grandmother's country of origin if a permanent order was made to grant her care of the girl.\n\nThe girl holds dual nationality of both the UK and that country, which cannot be named to protect the child's identity.\n\nThe judge said allowing Tower Hamlets to make a statement about the child would quell \"frenzied speculation\" around the case and allow the child a degree of privacy.\n\nShe said the court would not make a finding about newspaper reporting of the case, adding: \"It is simply about providing balanced information in the public domain.\"\n\nJudge Sapnara disclosed in August that the child had been removed from her mother, who has problems with substance abuse.\n\nThe case will conclude in a final hearing in December.", "It is thought that between 1-3% of the population is asexual, meaning they do not feel any sexual attraction to other people. For years Stacey was puzzled about why she never wanted to sleep with anyone, even her husband. As she explains here, it was her doctor that told her the truth.\n\nFor a really long time I thought I was broken mentally or physically in some way, I thought it wasn't normal to not want to have sex with people.\n\nFriends of mine would be talking about boyfriends they'd had or celebrities they'd like to bed, and I just didn't think about anybody in that very specific, sexual sense.\n\nWhen I was in my early twenties I really started noticing it, but I didn't talk to anybody about it because I just thought, \"They're going to think I'm well strange,\" so I just kept quiet.\n\nAsexuality has quite a spectrum so although I might not be sexually attracted to people I do get very romantically attracted to people.\n\nI'd met my boyfriend - who is now my husband - when I was 19, and I didn't know what asexuality was then, so I just thought I was bonkers or really behind the curve or something.\n\nI was thinking, \"I absolutely love this man, and if he proposes to me I will 100% say yes because I know I want to spend the rest of my life with him, so why don't I want to sleep with him? That's crazy.\"\n\nStacey spoke to BBC Radio 4's iPM, the programme which starts with its listeners. If you want to contact the programme, please send an email.\n\nWe sort of went on a bit of journey of discovery together, me and the hubby. He was very much, \"I am in love with you. I will wait as long as it takes, if it ever happens.\"\n\nHe was really supportive and never tried to make me do anything I wasn't comfortable with.\n\nSocietal norms suggest that sex and children are the way forward in a relationship and all my friends were going off and getting married and having babies. I thought, \"Oh God, there's this expectation that I should be sleeping with my husband and having children.\"\n\nI started having a recurring nightmare that my husband was going to leave me for somebody who looked exactly like me but who would actually sleep with him, and I got to a point where my own anxieties were making me almost unbearable.\n\nI thought, \"Do you know what? I've got to sort this out, I've got to find out what's going on.\"\n\nBy this point I was probably 27 or 28.\n\nI made the massive mistake of searching the internet for medical reasons that might cause low sex drive. That was a mistake, an absolute mistake. There were lots of little things that were easily fixable like dodgy hormone levels, but the one that caught my eye was brain tumours.\n\nI was like, \"Oh no, I'm dying of a brain tumour.\"\n\nI went to my doctor and I said, \"Look, is it serious? Am I going to die?\"\n\nShe was like, \"Calm down, you're probably just asexual.\"\n\nI was like, \"What's that? What?\"\n\nSo she pointed me towards some websites - and it was like I'd found my people, it was so exciting.\n\nI'd never heard the term \"asexual\" before.\n\nI did some more research and I started feeling a lot more comfortable in myself, so I spoke to my husband about it and I said, \"This label does kind of take things off the table permanently.\"\n\nAnd he pretty much just said, \"Well, I'd kind of assumed that anyway, so it's fine.\"\n\nHe's been absolutely great, he's been so understanding. I like to think it's because of my shining personality that he thinks, \"I've got to hold on to that one.\"\n\nI've never felt what most people would describe as horny and if I ever do feel any slight inkling of that it's very, very small, like an itch that I need to scratch.\n\nIt's a very biological process for me rather than an arousal kind of thing, if that makes sense, and I don't want to involve other people, not even my husband.\n\nIt's like, \"Yeuch, here's this feeling, I'll go deal with that.\"\n\nI almost disassociate from it.\n\n\"I'm 60 years old and have never knowingly met another person who is asexual. I had never even heard it publicly acknowledged.\" - Lucy\n\n\"When I first discovered that I was asexual, I tried to come out to a few people, and while some were very open to it, I've had some very negative reactions. A group of team mates from my university sports team decided to arrange a night out for me to 'help' me get laid, when they discovered that I hadn't had sex, not caring that it was due to my asexuality.\" - Scott\n\n\"I have been met with scorn, disbelief and disgusted looks when I have shared my asexuality with other people. People have told me that 'it's not a real thing' and that 'I'm making it up for attention.' I have only now begun to think of myself as a whole human being, with no 'missing pieces'.\" - Anonymous, 14 years old\n\n\"I don't have a problem with physical contact. It's just I don't see any others as sexual prey… Even though I have never discussed this with my wonderful mum, she is not blind to the fact that I live happily alone, child-free and have no interest in dating. She has even been on the brink of tears, concerned that - and I quote - 'It might be something I did that made you... not normal.'\" - Dani\n\nAsexuality is a spectrum and there are a lot of asexual people who, once they've built up a relationship with a person, feel comfortable having sex with them. But for me, any time I've ever got close, my whole body's been like, \"No, no thank you, stop that now, not having it.\"\n\nIt's just the kids thing - people that I tell almost always immediately say, \"Oh my god, but how are you going to have kids, though?\"\n\nWell, there are a lot of ways that I could have kids if I wanted them, it's not completely out of the realms of possibility.\n\nI've only been aware about asexuality for about three or four years. I like the label ACE [short for \"asexual\"]. I find it almost comforting, and it has really helped me understand who I am, how I behave and how my mind works.\n\nI do celebrate being ACE, I'm quite proud of it, and I do like to talk about it because I would like more people to understand it and not judge people for not wanting to have sex. I think if I'd known what asexuality was back when I was 18 or 19 my mental health could have been a whole lot better for most of my twenties.\n\nFunnily enough, before I discovered asexuality my husband used to call me Stace Ace.\n\nFor more information on sex and relationships you can visit BBC Advice.\n\nYou can listen to iPM on Radio 4 at 05:45 on Saturday 7 October, or catch up later on the BBC iPlayer\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Det Leanne McKie had worked at Greater Manchester Police since 2001\n\nThe husband of a serving police detective who was found dead in a lake has been charged with her murder.\n\nMother-of-three Leanne McKie, 39, was discovered in the water at Poynton Park, Cheshire, on Friday.\n\nDet McKie joined Greater Manchester Police in 2001 and worked in the force's serious sexual offences unit.\n\nDarren McKie, 43, from Burford Close, Wilmslow, who is also a police officer, is due before South and East Cheshire Magistrates' Court in Crewe on Tuesday.\n\nHe was arrested in the early hours of Friday.\n\nLeanne McKie joined Greater Manchester Police in 2001 and \"worked tirelessly to provide support and seek justice for victims\" according to Chief Constable Ian Hopkins.\n\nEarlier Cheshire Police said they are keen to speak to four people who were seen walking along A523, London Road North, towards Stockport at about 00:15 BST on Friday.\n\nThey also want to speak to anyone who may have seen Det McKie's car - a red Mini with the registration number DA12 DFO - between Thursday afternoon and the early hours of Friday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Details are emerging of the 58 people a gunman killed when he opened fire on innocent concert-goers in Las Vegas on Sunday night. They included a war veteran, a nurse and teachers.\n\nChris Roybal, 28, was a US Navy veteran from southern California who had recently returned from Afghanistan. In his last public Facebook post, back in July, he described what is was like to be shot at, and spoke of the feelings of anger engendered by conflict. His friend and fellow navy colleague Matthew Austin wrote on Facebook: \"It breaks my heart and infuriates me that a veteran can come home from war unharmed and events like these occur.\"\n\nAnother military veteran also lost his life. Charleston Hartfield was a police officer in Las Vegas, off duty when he went to the concert. He also coached youth football, and was described as \"the epitome of a citizen-soldier\" by Brig Gen William Burks of the Nevada National Guard.\n\nThe Tennessean reported the death of Sonny Melton, 29. The paper quoted his wife, Heather, as saying the nurse, from Big Sandy, saved her life by grabbing her as the shooting started. She says he was shot in the back.\n\nIt took days of waiting next to the phone before the family and friends of Steve Berger found out he was dead, the Star Tribune reports. The financial adviser, whose three children are all aged under 16, had gone to Las Vegas to celebrate his 44th birthday. Friends who were next to him when he was shot managed to escape, but hoped he was alive.\n\nDenise Burditus, from West Virginia, was at the festival with her husband Tony. He later wrote on Facebook that she had died in his arms. She was a mother of two and \"soon to be a grandmother of five\", he wrote.\n\nA special education teacher from Manhattan Beach in California, Sandy Casey, died after being shot in the back. She was with her fiance, Christopher Willemse, at the concert. Manhattan Beach Middle School, where they were colleagues, described her as \"absolutely loved by students and colleagues alike\".\n\nAlso from Manhattan Beach was Rachael Parker, a records technician with the local police department, who was with three other off-duty colleagues at the concert. She was among two who were shot, ultimately losing her life in hospital. Her colleague suffered minor injuries, the Manhattan Beach Police Department said, adding that Ms Parker had been with them for 10 years and would be greatly missed.\n\nJennifer T Irvine, 42, was a family law attorney with her own practice in San Diego. Her website said that outside work, she was a black-belt in Taekwondo, an avid snowboarder and was aspiring to learn to rock climb and skydive.\n\nMichelle Vo, 32, from San Jose, California was remembered by friends as a \"very bubbly and happy\" person who donated blood every two weeks and was never short of energy. The financial adviser had recently ended a relationship and was attending the Las Vegas concert by herself. Kody Robertson, an Ohio man whom she had befriended earlier that night and danced with at the concert, said he had tried in vain to save her by jumping on top of her as the gunfire began.\n\nThomas Day, a house builder in California, was at the concert with his four children, who survived. \"He was the best dad. That's why the kids were with him,\" his father told the LA Times.\n\nMr Day's friend Austin Davis, a pipe fitter from Riverside in California, was later confirmed to have died too. He played softball and liked to sing karaoke to country music.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nStacee Etcheber, a hair stylist and mother of two, was at the concert with her husband, a San Francisco police officer. San Francisco police called her \"well-loved\" in a statement, continuing: \"Stacee was taken in a senseless act of violence as her husband, SFPD Officer Vinnie Etcheber, heroically rushed to aid shooting victims in Las Vegas on Sunday.\"\n\nRedondo Beach, California native Christiana Duarte, 22, had recently graduated from Arizona University and was beginning her first full time job for the Los Angeles Kings hockey team.\n\n\"Chrissy was a bright beautiful young woman, full of life and energy,\" friends said on a fundraising page set up to help her family with funeral expenses.\n\nErika Eastley, who had been friends with \"Chrissy\" since the age of four, told the BBC she \"was a big sports fan and adventurer\".\n\n\"She just had so much going for her.\"\n\nThirty-five-year-old skydiver and mother-of-three Hannah Ahlers was \"a devoted mother and wife\", a friend said, and \"one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen, with a heart to match\".\n\nCameron Robinson, 28, had taken Monday off work to attend the festival with his boyfriend, Bobby Eardley. Mr Eardley, who was injured in the attack, described holding Robinson in his arms as he died. He was an \"amazing, determined, hardworking man that spent his life always striving to be better\", Mr Eardley told US media.\n\nHe added that \"he was quiet and shy, but once you got to know him he was goofy and fun and so enjoyable\".\n\nAccording to the fundraising page set up in his memory, Robinson enjoying cooking, entertaining, running marathons, travelling, camping, boating and being outdoors.\n\nOn Facebook, his sister wrote: \"I was never suppose to say goodbye to you, little brother. You were suppose to take over the world... I love you to the moon and back.\"\n\nCameron Robinson (right) with his boyfriend\n\nHeather Warino Alvarado, will be remembered as a \"devoted wife and mother, willing to do anything for those in her life\", said her friend Megan Gadd.\n\nThe mother of three from Cedar City, Utah, was married to a local firefighter, and the fire station has set up a fundraising account in her name.\n\n\"She was happiest when she was together with her family, especially her children and she would do ANYTHING for them,\" her husband Albert said in a statement.\n\nJack Beaton, 54, had road-tripped with his wife from California to attend the concert for their 23rd wedding anniversary.\n\nAs gunfire rang out, Jack threw himself and his wife Laura to the ground and laid on top of her to shield her from the bullets.\n\n\"He told me 'I love you, Laurie' and his arms were around me, and his body just went heavy on me,\" she recounted to the Associated Press.\n\n\"I knew every day that he would protect me and take care of me and love me unconditionally, and what he did is no surprise to me, and he is my hero,\" she said.\n\nCandice Bowers, 40, raised two girls before recently adopting her two-year-old niece.\n\nThe never-married restaurant waitress rarely took time for herself so friends, and family were thrilled when she decided to go to Las Vegas for a weekend of country music.\n\n\"She was a generous girl,\" her grandmother told OCregister.com, adding that \"she never had any support, except herself\".\n\nCalifornian Andrea Castilla was celebrating her 28th birthday at the festival when she was shot in the head. Her friends and boyfriend tried to shield her as the gunfire continued, a GoFundMe page set up for her family says. She worked in a cosmetics shop and her brother told People magazine that she had been inspired by their mother's cancer treatment to help others look and feel beautiful.\n\nAngie Gomez, a cheerleader from Riverside, California, was \"a cheerful young lady with a warm heart and loving spirit\" according to a fundraising page set up for her family.\n\nMelissa Ramirez, 26, had recently graduated from California State University Bakersfield (CSUB), and had been working for AAA Automobile Club of Southern California, according to her Facebook page.\n\n\"We are terribly saddened to learn that we lost a member of our CSUB family in this senseless act of violence,\" the university president said in a statement, adding that flags on campus would be flown at half-mast for the week.\n\nDana Gardner, 52, had been a San Bernardino county employee for 26 years and was described as a \"go-to person\" and a \"dedicated public servant\".\n\nLisa Patterson, 46, had three children aged 19, 16, and eight, said her husband Bob, adding that she was a constant presence at the girls' softball games.\n\n\"My daughter loved her mommy so much,\" he told People magazine.\n\n\"I don't think it has completely sunk in yet that mommy's not coming home ever.\"\n\nJohn Phippen, from Santa Clarita in California, was reportedly shot in the back. The Signal reports that Mr Phippen's son, Travis, was shot in the arm but survived.\n\nAlso from near Santa Clarita was kindergarten teacher Jenny Parks, who was at the concert with her husband Bobby. \"She was truly one of the most loving people you could ever hope to meet,\" Mr Parks' uncle said. A fundraising page has been set up to help Mr Parks, who was injured in the attack, and their two children.\n\nVista Elementary School in Simi Valley, a few miles west of Santa Clarita, confirmed it had lost its office manager, 53-year-old Susan Smith. Principal Julie Ellis told Simi Valley Acorn news website in an email she \"was a wonderful person - kind, loving, patient with our students, efficient, and she had a wonderful sense of humour\".\n\nAnother school official, 48-year-old Lisa Romero-Muniz, was also killed. The mother and grandmother was secretary at Miyamura High School in Gallup, New Mexico, local education officials confirmed, describing her as \"an incredible loving and sincere friend, mentor and advocate for students in many of our schools\".\n\nJordyn Rivera, 21, of La Verne, California travelled to Las Vegas with her mother for the concert.\n\nRivera was a fourth-year student in the healthcare management programme at California State University, San Bernardino, the university said confirming her death.\n\nShe had recently spent time in London on a study-abroad programme, school administrators said.\n\nJordyn Rivera attended the concert with her mother\n\nCouple Denise Cohen and Derrick Bo Taylor had attended the concert together after travelling from California.\n\nTaylor, a prison corrections officer, had led inmates around the state helping to extinguish wildfires.\n\nCohen, a property manager in Santa Barbara, California, was very active in her church and had planned to volunteer an avocado festival this coming weekend, her friends say.\n\nLeana Orsua, Cohen's roommate, wrote online: \"Denise, we love you so much, I know you are in heaven right now dancing to a country song, and dancing and smiling at all of us.\"\n\nA fundraising page has been set up for the family of Rhonda LeRocque, from Tewksbury, Massachusetts. Her aunt, who set up the page, said she was a much-loved wife and mother of a six-year-old girl.\n\nYouth baseball and wrestling volunteer coach Bill Wolfe Jr, 42, had travelled from Pennsylvania with his wife for their 20th wedding anniversary.\n\n\"His leadership, enthusiasm, and care and concern for these children will be greatly missed and certainly never forgotten in this community,\" said the Shippensburg Little League association, where he volunteer coached for six years.\n\nCalifornia IT firm Technologent confirmed that one of its employees, Neysa Tonks, had died in the shooting. They described her as a great mother, colleague and friend who \"brought so much joy, fun and laughter... she will be greatly missed by all!\" They too have set up a fundraising page.\n\nDisney boss Robert Iger paid tribute to Carrie Barnette, who had been part of the Disney California Adventure culinary team for 10 years and \"was beloved by her friends and colleagues\". He also prayed for the recovery of another Disney staff member, Jessica Milam, who was seriously injured in the attack.\n\nKelsey Meadows, 27, worked as a substitute teacher and was honoured by one of her students who wrote \"thank you for all the great time you gave me as well as many other students\".\n\nHer alma mater, Fresno State University, said they would fly the flag on campus at half-mast for her.\n\nA vigil was held for 20-year-old country music fan Bailey Schweitzer at her place of work, Infinity Communications in Bakersfield, California, on Monday evening. \"She was everything to us,\" her colleague Amie Campbell was quoted as saying.\n\nThe Alaska Dispatch News reports that two Alaskans were killed in the shooting - Adrian Murfitt, 35, a salmon fisher who was at the country music festival with friends, and Dorene Anderson, 49, a stay-at-home mother who was there with her daughters. Both came from Anchorage.\n\nMr Murfitt was taking a picture with a friend when he was shot in the neck, the friend said\n\nKurt Von Tillow, 55, of Cameron Park, California, went with several members of his family to the concert. His sister and niece were wounded but are expected to recover, while his wife, daughter and son-in-law escaped uninjured, Sacramento TV station KCRA reported. His brother-in-law described him as a true patriot who loved a beer, \"smiling with his family and listening to some music\".\n\nAt least four Canadians are among the dead.\n\nCalla Medig had made visiting Las Vegas an annual adventure, but Sunday's concert would be her last. The 28-year-old waitress from Jasper, Alberta was remembered by colleagues as a \"beautiful soul\" whose smile lit up the room. The Jasper Royal Canadian Legion branch lowered its flag in Medig's memory.\n\nJordan McIldoon was not alone when he died in the Las Vegas shooting. When the 23-year-old from Maple Ridge, British Columbia, was separated from his fiancee Amber Bereza, bartender Heather Gooze took his hand and held it while he died.\n\nHis parents describe him as \"fearless\" and said he enjoyed outdoor sports like BMX biking and snowboarding.\n\n\"He was our only child and no words can describe our pain in losing him,\" his mother Angela McIldoon wrote in a statement.\n\nSingle mother of four Jessica Klymchuk was in Vegas with her fiance Brent Irla when the shooting started.\n\nThe 34-year-old from Valleyiew, Alberta \"wore many hats\" as a bus driver and an educational assistant and librarian at a local Catholic primary school.\n\n\"She did so much for her children, she went over and above for them,\" her former colleague Tina Moore told the Edmonton Journal.\n\nTara Roe, 34, was the third Albertan to be identified as a victim of Sunday's attack. A mother of two and model, she was shot after she was separated from her husband and friends at the concert.\n\nThe Okotoks, Alberta, resident is remembered for being a \"caring spirit\".\n\nThis page will be updated as more information comes to light", "People say the stampede that killed 23 people on Friday was an accident waiting to happen\n\nA deadly stampede at a busy Mumbai station that killed 23 people last Friday has caused anger, not only because it could have been avoided, but because residents feel that it is yet another example of the city suffering due to officials' apathy, writes the BBC's Ayeshea Perera.\n\nThe feeling is overwhelming. The stampede at Mumbai's Elphinstone Road railway station was an accident waiting to happen.\n\nThe stairway leading out of the station into a busy office district in central Mumbai was far too narrow to handle the thousands of passengers who used the station every single day. Daily commuters spoke of how it would unnervingly shake every time a train pulled in or out of the station.\n\nMumbai, with a population of roughly 22 million, is the world's fourth most populated city. And population has been its nemesis. Surrounded by water on three sides, the city has no space to expand. And the result is an enormous pressure on public services.\n\nThere had been a number of petitions to civic authorities, asking for Elphinstone bridge to be renovated, but to no avail.\n\n\"The foot overbridge and staircases are cramped, and the station was always at risk of a stampede. We often brought this up, but railway authorities ignored our concerns,\" Subash Gupta, a member of Mumbai's railway passengers' association told BBC Marathi.\n\nA report said Mumbai's residents showed an unusual \"willingness to put up with inconveniences for a livelihood\"\n\nIn a twist of irony, one newspaper reported that the long overdue funds to renovate the station bridges had been granted on the same day as the deadly accident. Another quoted the former minister of railways Suresh Prabhu as saying he had allocated 120m rupees ($1.8m;£1.3m) towards boosting the infrastructure in 2015 and did not know why it had not been used. Public documents accessed by a television channel show that of that sum, a meagre 1,000 rupees had been set aside for the repairs.\n\nAnd it's not just the railways that are the problem. A few weeks ago, heavy rains caused severe flooding, stranding tens of thousands of residents as roads literally turned into rivers. A few days later, a residential building collapsed, killing more than 30 people. The crumbling infrastructure of India's financial capital seems to be breaking down all at once.\n\nThe Mumbai Human Development Report of 2009, noted that a \"willingness to put up with inconveniences for a livelihood\" appear to be among the unique features of the city's residents.\n\nSo inconveniences like cramped and unhygienic housing, diminishing open space and crowded train travel are accepted as part and parcel of daily life.\n\nBut now people have just about had enough.\n\nThe anger is palpable. Fed up residents are being vocal about how much they feel their city is suffering due to political and official apathy.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Everything has gone wrong. Politicians either don't understand or they don't care. Mumbai pays a bulk of India's taxes, but it gets nothing back,\" senior urban planner Chandrashekhar Prabhu told the BBC.\n\nThe problem, according to Mr Prabhu, is that Mumbai is being \"slowly strangled\" by politicians and corporate lobbies who treat the city as a \"milking cow\" and have no sense of responsibility towards its people.\n\n\"We only notice when a stampede kills 23 people in one go. But about eight to 10 people die every day in stations due to issues like unsafe crossings and overcrowding. It's become so normal, no-one talks about it. It's like these deaths mean nothing\".\n\nMumbai's train system, according to a 2010 estimate by the World Bank, suffers from some of the most severe overcrowding in the world, carrying 4,500 passengers in trains with a rated capacity of just 1,700.\n\nIt funded a project to increase the number of carriages from 9 to 12 in an effort to decongest the lines, but the project took so long that, by the time it was implemented, it did very little to change the situation.\n\nNaresh Fernandes, the editor of Indian news portal scroll.in and an author of several books on the city, said the lack of planning in Mumbai could only be described as \"criminal\".\n\nSome urban planners believe Mumbai's infrastructure is in serious trouble\n\n\"Mumbai has had so many wake up calls and yet it's as if these things don't sink in,\" he told the BBC. \"Take the terrible flooding the city saw in 2005. There was so much anger and yet officials continue to pass and enact policies that only exacerbate the issue.\"\n\nThe 2005 Mumbai floods, when the city received an unprecedented 944 mm of rain, killed some 500 people and brought the city to a complete halt. The airport was shut for more than 30 hours, offices and schools were closed and citizens were stranded in waist deep water across the city.\n\nThe biggest issue at the heart of everything, both Mr Prabu and Mr Fernandes say, is poor urban planning, driven by Mumbai's high real estate values and a powerful builders lobby that influences policy in the city.\n\nThe result is that money is sucked out of essential public infrastructure projects and pushed instead into things like clearing land for new housing projects, gated communities for the very rich and infrastructure projects that not everyone can use.\n\n\"Mumbai is being taken away from its people,\" said Mr Fernandes who described this as his \"pet peeve\". \"It has given up on the notion of the public.\"\n\nThe 2005 floods were a \"wake up call\" that have not been heeded, says local journalist Naresh Fernandes\n\nMr Fernandes alleged that the railways suffered in particular because there was no money or kickbacks to be had from them any more. \"This is why we end up with things like sea links and the upcoming coastal road, which are essentially vanity projects,\" he said.\n\nTravel expert Sudhir Badami believes that part of the solution, at least, is a radical overhaul of the transport system. He is an avid proponent of introducing a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system to ease the congestion on the railways and give people another viable commuting option.\n\nBut Mr Fernandes says that Mumbai's citizenry also has to stand up and be counted. \"It is a callous system. It is tempting to blame individuals and yes, we are being serviced very badly, but plastic is in the drains because someone put it there. We should also take some responsibility.\"", "For most of her life in prostitution in New Zealand, Sabrinna Valisce campaigned for decriminalisation of the sex trade. But when it actually happened she changed her mind and now argues that men who use prostitutes should be prosecuted. Julie Bindel tells her story.\n\nWhen Sabrinna Valisce was 12 years old her father killed himself. It changed her life completely. Within two years, her mother had remarried and the family had moved from Australia to Wellington, New Zealand, where her life was miserable.\n\n\"I was very unhappy,\" says Valisce. \"My stepfather was violent, and there was no-one to talk to.\"\n\nShe dreamed of becoming a professional dancer and set up a lunchtime ballet class at her school, which proved so popular that a well-known dance group, Limbs, came to run lessons.\n\nBut within months she found herself on the streets, selling sex to survive.\n\nWalking through the park on her way home from school, a man offered her $100 for sex.\n\n\"I was in school uniform so there was no mistaking my age,\" she says.\n\nValisce used the money to run away to Auckland, where she checked into the YMCA.\n\n\"I tried ringing someone to ask for help in the phone booth which was outside the hostel, but it was engaged, so I waited,\" she says.\n\n\"The police stopped and asked what I was doing. I said, 'Waiting to use the phone'.\"\n\nThe officers pointed out that no-one was using the phone, so there was no need to wait. They thought they were being \"terribly clever\" Valisce says - but didn't seem to understand when she explained that it was the telephone she was calling that was engaged.\n\n\"They searched me for condoms thinking I was a prostitute because the YMCA was behind Karangahape Road, the infamous prostitution area.\n\n\"Ironically, that was what gave me the idea to go get some money. The police scared me but I knew I was going to be on the streets if I didn't get cash, and the act of leaning against a wall was all it took to be searched and threatened anyway, so I figured it made no difference if I was or wasn't.\"\n\nKarangahape Road pictured in 2003, shortly after the law legalising prostitution was passed\n\nValisce walked over to Karangahape Road and asked one of the women working there for advice.\n\nShe pointed out two alleyways where Valisce could work. \"She also gave me a condom, told me basic charges and advised me to make them fight for services I was prepared to do, to avoid fighting against services I wasn't prepared to do. She was very nice. Samoan, too young to be there, and clearly been there for too long already.\"\n\nIn 1989, after two years working on the streets, Valisce visited the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective (NZPC) in Christchurch.\n\n\"I was looking for some support, perhaps to exit prostitution, but all I was offered was condoms,\" she says.\n\nShe was also invited to the collective's regular wine and cheese social on Friday nights.\n\n\"They started talking about how stigma against 'sex workers' was the worst thing about it, and that prostitution is just a job like any other,\" Valisce remembers.\n\nIt somehow made what she was doing seem more palatable.\n\nShe became the collective's massage parlour co-ordinator and an enthusiastic supporter of its campaign for the full decriminalisation of all aspects of the sex trade, including pimps.\n\n\"It felt like there was a revolution coming. I was so excited about how decriminalisation would make things better for the women,\" she says.\n\nDecriminalisation arrived in 2003, and Valisce attended the celebration party held by the prostitutes' collective.\n\nWhen prostitution was legalised in 2003, job adverts appeared in the New Zealand press\n\nBut she soon became disillusioned.\n\nThe Prostitution Reform Act allowed brothels to operate as legitimate businesses, a model often hailed as the safest option for women in the sex trade.\n\nIn the UK, the Home Affairs Select Committee has been considering a number of different approaches towards the sex trade, including full decriminalisation. But Valisce says that in New Zealand it was a disaster, and only benefited the pimps and punters.\n\n\"I thought it would give more power and rights to the women,\" she says. \"But I soon realised the opposite was true.\"\n\nOne problem was that it allowed brothel owners to offer punters an \"all-inclusive\" deal, whereby they would pay a set amount to do anything they wanted with a woman.\n\n\"One thing we were promised would not happen was the 'all-inclusive',\" says Valisce. \"Because that would mean the women wouldn't be able to set the price or determine which sexual services they offered or refused - which was the mainstay of decriminalisation and its supposed benefits.\"\n\nAged 40, Valisce approached a brothel in Wellington for a job, and was shocked by what she saw.\n\n\"During my first shift, I saw a girl come back from an escort job who was having a panic attack, shaking and crying, and unable to speak. The receptionist was yelling at her, telling her to get back to work. I grabbed my belongings and left,\" she says.\n\nShortly afterwards, she told the prostitutes' collective in Wellington what she had witnessed. \"What are we doing about this?\" she asked. \"Are we working on any services to help get out?\"\n\nShe was \"absolutely ignored\", she says, and finally left the prostitutes' collective.\n\nUntil then, the organisation had been her only source of support, a place to go where no-one judged her for working in the sex trade.\n\nThe English Collective of Prostitutes also campaigns for decriminalisation\n\nIt was while volunteering there, though, that she had begun her journey towards becoming an \"abolitionist\".\n\n\"One of my jobs at NZPC was to find all of the media clippings. There was one thing I read: it was somebody talking about being in tears and not knowing why, and it wasn't until they were out [of the sex trade] that they understood what those feelings were.\n\n\"I had been through that for years [thinking], 'I don't know what's going on, why am I feeling like this?' and realised when I read that: 'Oh God, that's me.'\"\n\nFor Valisce, there was no turning back.\n\nShe left prostitution in early 2011 and moved to the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, seeking a new direction in life, but was confused and depressed. When her neighbour tried to recruit her into webcam prostitution, she politely declined. \"I felt like I had 'whore' stamped on my forehead. How did she know to ask me? I now know being female was the only reason\", says Valisce. Afterwards the neighbour hurled insults at Valisce whenever she saw her.\n\nValisce began to meet women online, feminists who were against decriminalisation and described themselves as abolitionists - the abolitionist model, also currently being considered by the UK's Home Affairs Select Committee, criminalises the pimps and punters while decriminalising the prostituted person.\n\nValisce set up a group called Australian Radical Feminists and was soon invited to a conference. Held at the University of Melbourne last year, it was the first abolitionist event ever to be held in Australia, where many states have legalised the brothel trade.\n\nMelbourne itself has had legal brothels since the mid-1980s, and although there is a lot of vocal support for the system, there is also a growing movement against it.\n\nOne Melbourne bordello floated on the stock exchange in 2002\n\nShe describes this period, when she became a feminist activist against the sex trade and began to feel free of her past, as \"the start of my new life\".\n\n\"I exited first emotionally, then physically and lastly intellectually,\" she says.\n\nAfter the conference Valisce went to a doctor and was diagnosed with PTSD.\n\n\"It was as a result of my time in prostitution - it had affected me badly, but I was good at covering up the effects,\" she says.\n\n\"It takes a long while to feel whole again.\"\n\nFor Valisce, the best therapy is working with women who understand what it's like to go through the sex trade, and those who also campaign to expose the harm prostitution brings.\n\nShe is also determined to ensure that the women who are usually silenced by their abusers have a voice.\n\n\"It's not my goal to trap people in the industry or tell anyone to go get out,\" she says. \"But I do want to make a difference, and that means speaking out as much as I can, in order to help other women.\"\n\nJulie Bindel is the author of The pimping of prostitution: Abolishing the Sex Work Myth\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Officers opened fire on a car on the A369 Portbury Hundred near junction 19 of the M5 on Wednesday\n\nA man who was shot dead by police near Bristol last week has been named.\n\nHe was 29-year-old Spencer Ashworth, whose last known address was in Portishead, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said.\n\nOfficers opened fire on a car on the A369 Portbury Hundred near junction 19 of the M5 on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe IPCC said information indicated officers had responded to a report of a man travelling on the M5 with a handgun who had threatened another motorist.\n\nA commission spokesman said it had also been informed of an earlier incident in which a similar report was received by West Mercia Police.\n\nAuthorised firearms officers from Avon and Somerset Police were involved, and a number of shots were fired by four officers. A non-police issue firearm found at the scene was undergoing ballistics and forensic tests.\n\nThe IPCC said it would not now be investigating Gloucestershire Police or West Mercia Police after the forces referred themselves to the organisation over how they dealt with information received from a member of the public before the incident.", "Amber Rudd has accused tech giants of not doing enough in the fight against extremism\n\nHome Secretary Amber Rudd has accused technology experts of \"patronising\" and \"sneering\" at politicians who try to regulate their industry.\n\nShe said Silicon Valley had to do more to help the authorities access messages on end-to-end encrypted services like WhatsApp.\n\nAnd she said she did not need to understand how they worked to know they were \"helping criminals\".\n\nShe was speaking at a Spectator fringe meeting at the Conservative conference.\n\nWhatsApp says all messages sent on WhatsApp have end-to-end encryption, meaning they are designed to be unreadable if intercepted by anyone, including law enforcement and WhatsApp itself.\n\nThe service is used by MPs, including Tory backbenchers, to swap confidential gossip, the meeting was told.\n\nMs Rudd is concerned it and other encrypted services, provided by Facebook and Google among others, are being used by terrorists to plot attacks.\n\nShe insisted she does not want \"back doors\" installed in encryption codes, something the industry has warned will weaken security for all users, nor did she want to ban encryption, just to allow easier access by police and the security services.\n\nAsked by an audience member if she understood how end-to-end encryption actually worked, she said: \"It's so easy to be patronised in this business. We will do our best to understand it.\n\n\"We will take advice from other people but I do feel that there is a sea of criticism for any of us who try and legislate in new areas, who will automatically be sneered at and laughed at for not getting it right.\"\n\nShe added: \"I don't need to understand how encryption works to understand how it's helping - end-to-end encryption - the criminals.\n\n\"I will engage with the security services to find the best way to combat that.\"\n\nMichael Beckerman, chief executive of the Internet Association, which represents Google, Microsoft, Amazon and other US tech giants, said it was an \"understandable goal\" for the home secretary to \"want to remove it from end-to-end\".\n\nBut, he went on, \"since it is just math and it has been invented it can't uninvented\".\n\n\"So even if every internet company that we represent said 'ok we are turning off encryption' you are just weakening the security for everybody in this room but that math, that technology still exists for others to use on other platforms.\"\n\n\"I am not suggesting you give us the code,\" the home secretary shot back, telling him: \" I understand the principle of end-to-end encryption - it can't be unwrapped. That's what has been developed.\n\n\"What I am saying is the companies who are developing that should work with us.\"\n\nShe added that \"we don't get that help - although we sometimes get it in a fulsome way after an event has taken place\".\n\nShe told the meeting Silicon Valley had a \"moral\" obligation to do more to help the fight against crime and terrorism.", "Some seven million metres of the hazardous cable was destroyed - but the remainder remains unaccounted for and much of it may be in homes or businesses\n\nMillions of metres of dangerous electrical cable may be in homes across the UK, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nIn 2010 it was discovered Atlas Kablo, a now-defunct Turkish company, had sold 11 million metres of cable that posed a potential fire risk in the UK.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive decided against a compulsory recall and only seven million metres were recovered.\n\nCritics say more should have been done. The HSE insisted its response was proportionate to the risk.\n\nThe British Approvals Service for Cables (Basec) had found the cable had too little copper, meaning it was at risk of overheating.\n\nChief executive Jeremy Hodge told the BBC: \"We identified about seven million metres, which was intercepted and scrapped, which means four million metres or 40,000 reels of cable are still out there.\n\n\"It will be tricky to find - most electricians don't keep a record of where cable has gone and there's no requirement to do that.\"\n\nThe unaccounted-for cable was enough to fully rewire 8,000 houses, electrical experts told the BBC.\n\nUnder the Electrical Equipment Safety Regulations (1994) it was within the HSE's power to order a full statutory recall of the cable, forcing retailers to act.\n\nBut after Basec raised the alarm, the HSE decided on a voluntary approach, writing to wholesalers and warning them about the product.\n\nIt was subsequently found on sale at four branches of Homebase and was still on shelves at the stores as late as 2013, although it is unclear how much of the cable the shops sold.\n\nSam Gluck, technical manager at electrical fire consultants Tower Electrical Fire and Safety, said this approach had \"planted a bomb in the system\".\n\nHe explained: \"If it overheats, it will ignite anything that touches it. If it's against a plasterboard wall that will ignite.\n\n\"There should have been an immediate recall and they [shops and electricians] should have been instructed to hand the cables back.\"\n\nIn laboratory conditions Basec replicated how the cable might reach 150C, melting and giving off smoke\n\nDr Maurizio Bragagni, chief executive of leading London-based cable manufacturer Tratos, said: \"It could be in any shopping centre, any venue, any building.\"\n\nOf the potential risk of fire, he said: \"On a scale of one to 10 it's an eight. I would not like to have this inside my house.\"\n\nAndy Slaughter MP, a Labour shadow minister for both housing and London, said: \"It's extremely alarming. It's revealed that we have inadequacy both in the regulations that are there, and we are not enforcing the ones we have.\"\n\nHe pointed out that both the Grenfell disaster and another fire in his Hammersmith constituency were caused by faulty white goods, and said it was sad that it had taken so many deaths to bring the issue of electrical fire safety into sharp focus.\n\n\"This shouldn't have happened. This is cable that's now hidden away in peoples' homes and could be a latent problem for years,\" he said. \"Clearly it should have been recalled. The horse has bolted.\"\n\nThe cable was sheathed in grey plastic and marked with the manufacturer's name. Basec advised that anybody worried about the cable in their home should commission an electrician to test the system.\n\nThe BBC has also learned that after the concerns were raised, a three-year sampling programme carried out by the HSE suggested 5% of cable on the market was not up to safety standards.\n\nAn HSE spokesman said: \"We acted as soon as we became aware of these claims. After the cabling failed independent tests, we worked to ensure that Atlas Kablo took steps to withdraw or recall the cabling from the market voluntarily.\n\n\"As a result, many millions of metres of the non-compliant cabling were taken off the market.\"\n\nHe continued: \"Following this issue, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy funded HSE to carry out a market surveillance project between 2010 and 2012. Most of the tested cabling met the relevant standards.\n\n\"HSE reminded distributors of their legal obligations and their liability for trading unsafe products.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Homebase said: \"The Atlas Kablo cable was withdrawn from sale in 2010, when Homebase was still owned by Home Retail Group.\n\n\"Following a full review, Home Retail Group's team of experts deemed the product low-risk, due to the specified usage of the cable for low-voltage items, and did not issue a public product recall.\n\n\"Homebase, which was acquired by Bunnings in February 2016, no longer sells this product. The safety of our customers is our number one priority.\"\n\nThe BBC was unable to trace anyone connected with Atlas Kablo to comment.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Demi Lovato: \"I know I have a platform and I want to make the biggest change in the world that I can\"\n\n\"Five, four, three, two, one!\"\n\nPop star Demi Lovato is doing her best impression of Nasa's mission control as she records an insert for a forthcoming TV show.\n\nStanding in an alcove of BBC Broadcasting House, as staff mill around with laptops and coffee cups, she's really giving it some welly - which is impressive considering she has literally no idea what she is counting down from, or to.\n\n\"Yeah, I don't know what that was for,\" laughs Lovato as she sidles into a seat to chat about her new album, Tell Me You Love Me.\n\nIt's the 25-year-old's sixth record since she began her career as a child actress on the TV show Barney and Friends. Since then, she's starred in Camp Rock alongside the Jonas Brothers, appeared as a judge on The X Factor USA, and become a fierce advocate for anti-bullying and mental health campaigns.\n\nThat's partly because she's had to face her own problems - including cocaine use, bulimia, self-harm, and bipolar disorder - culminating, in 2012, with a year-long stay in a sober living facility.\n\nThe star was going to take 2017 off, but was inspired to go back into the studio after a Grammy nomination for her last album, Confident\n\nShe addresses some of those issues for the first time on her new record, in particular on You Don't Do It For Me Anymore, which describes giving up drugs in the form of a break-up ballad.\n\nThe album also dwells on the end of her six-year relationship with actor Wilmer Valderrama (Lonely); and the lasting effects of her birth father's absence (Daddy Issues).\n\nBut there's also space for a few of her trademark party anthems and, on the title track, the vocal performance of her career.\n\nWith the countdown out of the way, Demi spills the beans on the stories behind the songs - and the time she almost killed a Beatle.\n\nI know it's a cliche, but this feels like your most personal album yet. Was that the goal?\n\nIt just came out in the writing. I would go into the studio with an idea based off of a personal experience… Like one of the songs, Games, I went on a bad date and I wrote a song about it.\n\nOh! I'd rather not say. But just being disrespected. This guy just treated me really poorly, and was playing games the whole time.\n\nIs it harder to date when you're in the public eye?\n\nIt's easy and it's difficult, too.\n\nBut it's kind of nice because if you find somebody attractive, you can just hit them up or, like, slide into their DMs [direct messages] and be like, \"Hey, what's going on?\"\n\nThe star's hits include Sorry Not Sorry, Cool For The Summer and Heart Attack\n\nOne of the songs on the album, Ruin The Friendship, is about making a move on a close friend. It's almost a comedy of errors...\n\nA lot of people read the title and think it's about animosity - but it's a very sexy song.\n\nHave you ever been tempted to hook up with a friend?\n\nYes! That's what I wrote the song about! A certain friendship that I have with someone - and I want to ruin that with them.\n\nHow long have you kept it secret?\n\nI think it's been a long time coming.\n\nI actually ended up sending this song to the person. And it turned out they had a song they wrote about me! So we, like, exchanged songs, which was funny.\n\nSo did that lead to something romantic, or did you just laugh about it together?\n\nOK... On Concentrate, you sing about listening to Coldplay while you're in bed with someone. I can't imagine a less sexy band...\n\nOh really? I think his voice is sexy! But also - I didn't write the song.\n\nSo what would be your baby-making music?\n\nI once asked Usher if he knew of any babies that been conceived to his music, and he said \"yes, my son\".\n\nOh. Wow. That's creepy. I can't say I listen to my own music while I'm… I'm doing it!\n\nThe singer says she is looking forward to performing her new album live\n\nYou employ a huge range of vocal colours and tones across the album. What's your favourite?\n\nMy favourite is to sing very soulfully. I think Tell Me You Love Me is my ideal, because I really get to sing in it.\n\nI didn't write that one - but when I recorded it I was going through a break-up, and it said exactly what I was wanting to tell that person. I wanted to hear them tell me that they loved me. So I really related to that song when I recorded it.\n\nDoes Lonely refer to the same relationship?\n\nYeah. I didn't write on that one either, but I definitely related to it.\n\nDaddy Issues has one of the most cutting lyrics I've heard this year: \"You're the man of my dreams because you know how to leave.\"\n\nThat was a lyric that I came up with. When you grow up with an absent father, you have relationship issues - and sometimes you go for the type of person who feels familiar. So that lyric was about something that felt familiar.\n\nIt's about anticipating disappointment and almost thriving off it.\n\nYes, feeling comfortable with it. Sometimes it's more comfortable to feel pain when that's all you've known in certain situations.\n\nLovato has remained close friends with her Camp Rock co-star Nick Jonas, and toured with him last year\n\nYou've just been named a mental health ambassador by Global Citizen. What does that involve?\n\nI partnered with Save The Children and Global Citizen, for the HEART programme [Healing and Education through the Arts], which is going to help displaced children and refugees in Iraq.\n\nIt started when I went over there last year, just see how I could help - and I talked to a bunch of Isis victims. I asked one girl, \"What is it that you want?\" and she said, \"I want to be happy again.\"\n\nI realised there was so much PTSD [post-traumatic stress disorder] that they deal with - so we're starting a pilot programme to try to help, using art therapy.\n\nYou've spoken quite candidly about your own mental health issues in the past. How do you keep on top of that when you're in the middle of promoting and touring a record?\n\nI maintain a very healthy lifestyle, so I eat very clean, I get a lot of sleep and I set aside some time to myself every day.\n\nWhat do you do in that time? Meditation?\n\nI make sure that I work out. And that's like an hour-and-a-half of me devoting to myself.\n\nAn hour-and-a-half a day? That's tough. I manage to run about half an hour a week.\n\nMixed Martial Arts. [She has a blue belt in Jiu-Jitsu]\n\nSo don't get on the wrong side of Demi Lovato.\n\nYes - don't mess with me!\n\nThe singer shows her fun side in the video for Sorry Not Sorry\n\nSpeaking of which, is it true you once nearly ran over Paul McCartney?\n\nYes, but it's not as dramatic as I made it sound! He was standing in a parking space I was trying to get into and I honked the horn because someone was in my way. Then he turned around and it was Paul McCartney!\n\nDid he give you the thumbs-up?\n\nHe turned around and said, \"Oh, I'm so sorry\" and I was like, \"Don't worry about it! You're a Beatle!\"\n\nYou realise no-one's honked their horn at Paul McCartney in years…\n\nYou know, I don't remember if I honked the horn, or if I just kept inching up so he would move…\n\nOh God, you could have crushed a Beatle!\n\nYes, it would have been a very bad headline! And the headline's bad enough already.\n\nDemi Lovato's album, Tell Me You Love Me, is out now on Polydor records.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "\"The roaring lion\" is the headline in the Daily Telegraph - referring to Boris Johnson's address to the Conservative conference which, it concludes, provided a \"dose of much needed optimism\".\n\nPeter Oborne in the Daily Mail agrees, calling it one of the best speeches of Mr Johnson's career and praising him for talking about Brexit \"with vim and gusto\".\n\nHe also thinks he was \"loyal\" to Theresa May, adding this is not a quality with which the foreign secretary is usually associated.\n\nThe Sun criticises Mr Johnson for being short on solutions for improving the lot of the young or the fed-up.\n\n\"What practical help will this roaring be to those paid less than they were in 2007,\" it asks.\n\nAccording to the lead in the i, one way the government may try to win over younger voters is through the re-introduction of maintenance grants to help the poorest students in England.\n\nIt reports that Education Secretary Justine Greening is battling with the Treasury to push through the plans.\n\n\"Inside the killer's lair\" is the Daily Mirror's front-page headline as it pictures the Las Vegas attacker lying dead in his hotel room beside two assault rifles.\n\nCrime scene tape frames a photo on the front of the Sun showing another of Stephen Paddock's weapons, primed and ready to fire.\n\nGuardian columnist Richard Wolffe accuses the gun lobby of trying to stifle debate about new controls.\n\n\"We don't stop talking about air safety after a passenger jet goes down,\" he writes. \"If we can't demand gun control after Las Vegas, then when?\"\n\nAccording to the paper, the Scottish government is facing claims it prioritised populism over the evidence of its scientific advisers.\n\nTrade body UK Onshore Oil and Gas tells the Scotsman that the SNP is cherry picking evidence to match dogma and argues that relying instead on low-carbon sources of energy will condemn more people to fuel poverty.\n\nBut the paper also hears from Friends of the Earth which says the decision will be celebrated around the world, with the potential health risks of fracking enough to merit a ban.\n\nThe looming postal strike makes the lead for the Daily Express and the Daily Mail, which both warn industrial action may target Christmas deliveries.\n\nThe Mail says workers could walk out on November 24th and 25th, coinciding with the so-called Black Friday sales when many families buy discounted items online.\n\nThe Mirror says there was a \"thumping majority\" in favour of the strike and Royal Mail needs to negotiate fast to head off problems.\n\nMerlot is making a comeback, according to the Times, but it has taken 13 years for it to recover after sales were destroyed by a cult comedy.\n\nThe paper reports that the variety suffered a big decline after the release of the film Sideways in which one of the characters, played by Paul Giamatti, declares he will leave if anyone orders Merlot.\n\nYet, the paper reports, although the movie was calamitous for one wine sales soared for the character's preferred tipple, Pinot Noir.", "What impact could 5G - the new high-speed mobile technology being trialled around the world - have on the way we work and play?\n\nSwedish transport company Scania believes lorries could use far less fuel if they drove much closer together, controlled by wirelessly communicating onboard computers.\n\nBut to prevent these \"platooning\" lorries crashing into each other, you'd better be sure your communications are fast and reliable.\n\nSo Scania is working with Ericsson on trials of the new 5G (fifth generation) wireless broadband technology, due to be rolled out globally in 2020.\n\nIt promises much faster data transfer speeds, greater coverage and more efficient use of the spectrum bandwidth.\n\n\"Platooning works very well with wi-fi, but in dense traffic situations with many vehicles communicating, 5G is designed to offer more reliable communication,\" says Andreas Hoglund, Scania's senior engineer for intelligent transport systems.\n\nThis is because 5G direct communication is designed to handle fast moving objects and congestion more efficiently, he says.\n\n\"Faster communication will make it possible to reduce the distance between vehicles in the platoon, which might further reduce the air drag and give positive effects on fuel consumption,\" he explains.\n\nThis could help create \"a more efficient, greener\" world.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n5G is designed to accommodate the growing number of devices reliant on a mobile internet connection - from fridges to cars - and is 10 times faster than the highest speed 4G can manage.\n\n\"It will enable a lot of applications which were unthinkable before,\" says Mischa Dohler, professor in wireless communications at King's College London.\n\nSouth Korea has plans to implement 5G for the Winter Olympics in February 2018, giving visitors access to virtual reality (VR) content on their mobiles.\n\nOne of the UK's first 5G test-beds is in Brighton, where non-profit innovation hub, Digital Catapult Centre, has just completed a series of workshops for small businesses.\n\n\"Hypothetically, 5G is fast enough to download a 100GB 4K movie in two-and-a-half minutes,\" says Richard Scott, innovation manager at Digital Catapult.\n\n\"But it isn't just about speed - [5G] has specific features that will unlock and enable new technologies.\"\n\nChiefly, these include fewer dropped connections and lower latency - the time it takes for data to be stored or retrieved.\n\n\"Wi-fi is fine if you are sitting with a few people in a meeting, or moving slowly around indoors,\" explains Rahim Tafazolli, head of Surrey University's 5G Innovation Centre.\n\n\"However, once you start to move quickly and the number of people increases to more than 10 - at Waterloo Station, for example - you need to have a system that can hand over connection between radio cells without causing a drop in signal, and which can accommodate several people simultaneously.\n\nThis is because every wi-fi signal has a defined range, whereas 5G will be flexible, enabling mobile devices to switch automatically between the various newly available frequencies.\n\nOne frequency will be for long-range connections, across rural areas for example; one will be for urban environments, providing high numbers of users with high-speed connectivity; and there will also be a high-capacity frequency for densely populated areas, such as sports stadiums and railway terminals.\n\nThis flexibility will lead to \"an ever-expanding array of new business services\", Mr Tafazolli believes, and could be critical to the success of autonomous vehicles and the internet of things.\n\nFaster wireless connectivity should also give VR and augmented reality (AR) technologies a boost, argues Digital Catapult's Mr Scott.\n\n\"If you have a very detailed, immersive VR experience and you try to run it over a mobile headset currently, there is enough latency... that it makes you feel sick,\" he explains.\n\nSo high-quality VR experiences rely on headsets being \"tethered\" to a computer, which provides the necessary computing power.\n\n5G offers the opportunity to recreate high-quality experiences on the move.\n\n\"It could enable you to have an experience comparable with home gaming on your mobile,\" says Mr Scott, \"allowing you to compete or collaborate with other people in real time.\"\n\nAndy Cummins of Brighton-based digital agency, Cogapp, says 5G will allow his firm to create much more exciting AR and VR content for visitors to museums and galleries.\n\n\"Without [5G] these types of experiences... would at best seem laggy and unintuitive,\" he says.\n\nAnd Tim Fleming, founder of Future Visual, another Brighton company preparing to trial 5G, says: \"We are very interested in in-store retail VR experiences, and creating a flagship VR experience that can be taken to any location.\n\n\"At the moment we have to use a dedicated PC, but with 5G you just need a headset and a mobile device. The heavy lifting is done in the cloud. That's very interesting.\"\n\n5G enthusiasts say it could underpin smart cities and augmented reality services\n\nOf course, 5G roll-out is not without its technical challenges.\n\nInstalling all the base stations and antennae is very expensive, and many of today's devices will not be compatible with the new technology.\n\nBut Ericsson's head of 5G commercialisation, Thomas Noren, is confident that 5G services will be cheaper to run because the network will be more energy efficient and production and operational costs will be lower.\n\nThere is clearly still much detail to iron out, but research consultancy Ovum predicts that there will be 389 million 5G subscriptions globally by the end of 2022.\n\nUsers still struggling with patchy 4G coverage maybe forgiven for being a little sceptical about the ambitious claims being made for 5G.\n\nBut the potential to transform a number of businesses - and create many new ones - is clearly there.", "It's fair to say there was plenty going on in the conference hall during Theresa May's speech earlier.\n\nOne thing that did not go unnoticed on social media, although it was not widely commented upon at the time amid the wider fallout from the speech, was the PM's unusual choice of accessory.\n\nShe was wearing a bracelet featuring a huge picture of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo as well as other images associated with the celebrated artist.\n\nKahlo, whose extraordinary life was the subject of a 2002 Hollywood biopic starring Salma Hayek, was a member of the Mexican Communist Party, and had an affair with Leon Trotsky.\n\nKahlo recovered from a near fatal accident aged 18 to become one of the most influential female painters of the 20th Century and a feminist icon.\n\nA footnote, perhaps, on a remarkable day but a statement all the same?", "Researchers are seeking about 500 NHS patients to try out a new \"universal\" vaccine against seasonal flu.\n\nThe experimental vaccine works differently from the one currently available, which has to be remade each year based on a \"best guess\" of what type of flu is likely to be about.\n\nThe new jab targets part of the virus that does not change each year.\n\nThis means the vaccine should work against human, bird and swine flu, say the team at University of Oxford.\n\nIt will offer people better protection, they believe.\n\nImmunisation is the best defence we have against flu but it is not always effective.\n\nLast winter's vaccine cut the risk of flu in adults under the age of 65 by about 40%, but barely worked in people over 65, despite being a good match for the type of flu in circulation.\n\nAs people age, their immune systems are often weaker and their bodies may not respond as well to a vaccine as younger people's bodies.\n\nProf Sarah Gilbert and colleagues believe that using their vaccine alongside the current one could help.\n\nIt is the world's first widespread human testing of such a vaccine, according to the National Institute for Health Research, which is supporting the project.\n\nPatients aged 65 or older and living in Berkshire and Oxfordshire will be invited to take part in the trial.\n\nHalf of the 500 volunteers will receive the usual seasonal flu jab and a placebo or dummy jab, while the other half with get the regular vaccine plus the new experimental one.\n\nThe new vaccine uses a novel way to get the body to ward off flu.\n\nFlu viruses look a bit like a ball covered in pins. Current flu jabs work by getting the body's immune system to recognise and attack the pin heads or surface proteins of the virus.\n\nBut these surface proteins can change, meaning the vaccine must change too.\n\nThe experimental vaccine instead encourages the body to make other immune system weapons, called T cells, against unchanging core proteins housed within the \"ball\" part of the virus.\n\nIt should fight multiple strains of influenza and will not need to be redesigned each year, unlike the current one used by the NHS.\n\nProf Gilbert, co-founder of Vaccitech, a spin-out company from University of Oxford's Jenner Institute that is part-funding the work, told the BBC: \"We expect that the protection from the new vaccine will last longer than a year, but we will need to test that with more clinical trials in the future.\n\n\"It is possible that, in future, vaccinations against flu might be given at longer intervals - maybe every five years instead of every year. But first we have to test protection in the first flu season following vaccination.\"\n\nFree NHS flu jabs are available for:\n\nShe said the current trial will take two years to complete. If further studies go well the vaccine could then be licensed for wider use.\n\nThe NHS is braced for a bad flu season this winter, following the worst outbreak in many years in Australia and New Zealand.\n\nFlu is easily transmitted and even people with mild or no symptoms can infect others.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A former all-female Oxford college, that was set up by a woman for women, has been criticised for fielding an all-male team in University Challenge.\n\nSt Hugh's College began admitting men in 1987, but presenter Jeremy Paxman joked: \"On the basis of tonight's team, we could be forgiven for thinking they'd (men) rather taken it over.\"\n\nThe quiz show has faced complaints in the past that it is male-dominated.\n\nSt Hugh's said team members were selected by students.\n\nThe BBC said each university has its own selection process.\n\nSt Hugh's was set up in 1886 by Elizabeth Wordsworth for women who could not afford the cost of existing colleges.\n\nFamous alumnae include Theresa May, politician Barbara Castle and actor and writer Rebecca Front.\n\nSome questioned the decision to have an all-male team on social media, including the pro-vice-chancellor of the University of Brighton, Professor Tara Dean:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Professor Tara Dean This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nViewers also pointed out the lack of women:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Stephanie Brooke This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne woman linked the show's lack of balance to her own choice to attend an all-female college at Cambridge:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Sophie Lyddon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 others argued that intelligence was not about gender:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPaxman himself addressed the issue earlier this year, writing in the Financial Times that \"since we know that intelligence is not determined by gender, it must be a question of taste.\"\n\n\"The teams are not chosen by the college or university authorities but by the students themselves,\" he wrote.\n\n\"The students are encouraged to enter teams which broadly reflect their institution. I suspect that - like football or darts - more males than females care about quizzing.\"\n\nHe added that \"long experience\" had convinced him that \"the contest cannot be engineered at any stage.\"\n\nA BBC spokesperson said: \"The make-up of each team is determined by the universities themselves, and whilst we do encourage them to reflect the diversity of their student population, ultimately each university has their own team selection process.\"", "Tom Petty was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002\n\nUS musician Tom Petty has died in California aged 66, says a statement issued on behalf of his family.\n\nPetty was found unconscious, not breathing and in full cardiac arrest at his Malibu home early on Monday.\n\nHe was taken to hospital, but could not be revived and died later that evening.\n\nPetty was best known as the lead singer of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, and his hits included American Girl, Breakdown, Free Fallin', Learning to Fly and Refugee.\n\n\"He died peacefully at 20:40 Pacific time (03:40 GMT Tuesday) surrounded by family, his bandmates and friends,\" said his long-time manager Tony Dimitriades.\n\nA statement on the singer's Twitter page described Petty's passing as an \"untimely death\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tom Petty This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPetty was also a co-founder of the Traveling Wilburys group in the late 1980s, recording albums with Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne and George Harrison.\n\n\"I thought the world of Tom. He was a great performer, full of the light, a friend, and I'll never forget him.\"\n\nOther tributes include those from fellow musicians Sir Paul McCartney, Carole King, Brian Wilson and Cyndi Lauper.\n\nMcCartney tweeted that he was \"sending his love\" to Petty and his family, while King said her \"heart goes out\" to \"family, friends and fans of Tom Petty, of which I'm one\".\n\nBeach Boys star Brian Wilson tweeted that he was \"heartbroken\" to hear of the news.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Brian Wilson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCanadian singer Bryan Adams thanked Petty \"for all the great rockin' music\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"Today America lost one of its musical giants. Thank you Tom Petty for all the music. To me you will live forever.\"\n\nPetty also found solo success in 1989 with his album Full Moon Fever, which featured one of his most popular songs, Free Fallin', co-written with Jeff Lynne.\n\nIn 2002, Petty was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Petty was known for his songs American Girl and and Free Fallin'\n\nPetty was born in Gainesville, Florida, on 20 October, 1950.\n\nHe endured a rough childhood, living in poverty with an alcoholic, abusive father - but his life changed in 1961 when he met Elvis Presley and shook his hand.\n\n\"That was the end of doing anything other than music with my life,\" he said.\n\nHe joined two bands at school, The Sundowners and The Epics, before dropping out to play with Mudcrutch, aged 17.\n\nAfter that band broke up, Petty and several of its members formed Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, releasing their debut album in 1976.\n\nTom Petty (right) and The Heartbreakers just last week wrapped up a tour to mark 40 years of the band\n\nTheir career was slow to take off, but heavy touring - including a well-received support slot with future E Street Band member Nils Lofgren in the UK - eventually pushed them into the chart.\n\nOver the next four decades, they became one of rock's most reliable live acts, doggedly sticking to their no-frills rock template, and producing a stream of radio staples including Don't Come Around Here No More and the Stevie Nicks duet Stop Draggin' My Heart Around.\n\nPetty scored solo hits with the platinum-selling albums Full Moon Fever and Wildflowers, while the 1991 album Into The Great Wide Open gave the band a number one single, Learning To Fly.\n\nThe video for the title track was also in constant rotation on MTV, thanks in no small part to cameos by Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway and a then-unknown Matt LeBlanc.\n\nPetty gave his last live shows just a week ago, playing three sold-out dates at the Hollywood Bowl as part of a 40th anniversary tour.\n\nLast December, he told Rolling Stone magazine: \"I'd be lying if I didn't say I was thinking this might be the last big one. We're all on the backside of our 60s.\n\n\"I have a granddaughter now I'd like to see as much as I can. I don't want to spend my life on the road.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Around one in nine of the more than 3,000 mothers questioned had lost their jobs\n\nThe scale of maternity discrimination is being hidden because of the use of gagging orders when women who have lost their jobs settle out of court, experts have told the Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"My boss said if I'm not going back to work, then I'd have to pay back all the maternity payment.\"\n\n\"Emma\" - not her real name - was working as a beautician when she became pregnant.\n\nShe did not realise at the time that her boss's request was against the law.\n\nShe was called into the salon and told by the owner she would no longer be needed at the company.\n\n\"I didn't know what to do. I'm a single mum, no family. No-one can help me,\" she tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"How can I pay my rent? How can I pay my bills? I was floored.\"\n\nEmma went on to settle out of court. She signed a confidentiality agreement preventing her from speaking out about the case - which is why she is anonymous.\n\nAround one in nine of more than 3,000 mothers questioned said they had been dismissed, made compulsorily redundant, or treated so badly they felt they had to leave their job, according to the Equality and Human Rights Commission in 2015.\n\nThis is despite the Employment Rights Act and Equality Act protecting women from unfair dismissal because they are pregnant or on maternity leave.\n\nLast year, the government described the findings as \"shocking\" and \"wholly unacceptable\", but no new protections have been brought in since.\n\nKaren Jackson believes confidentiality agreements should not be allowed\n\nKaren Jackson, director of law firm Didlaw and a specialist in discrimination cases, says the true scale of the problem is masked by the fact that many women sign settlement agreements containing a confidentiality clause - which stops them from speaking out.\n\n\"I've never seen a settlement agreement that didn't have a very strict confidentiality term in it,\" she says.\n\n\"I wish I could talk about some of the companies that I've dealt with and their attitudes to pregnancy and maternity.\n\n\"Household names, brands that we know, banks, insurers, utility companies, big conglomerates, retail - you name it, these companies have all at some point had some issues.\n\n\"If I look at the FTSE 100 there's a good chunk of companies on that list that I've acted against around pregnancy and maternity.\"\n\nConservative MP Maria Miller, chair of the Women and Equalities Committee, says women must be allowed to speak out.\n\n\"The government needs to take this situation very seriously indeed.\n\n\"We shouldn't have the problem hidden by confidentiality clauses,\" she explains.\n\nKiran Daurka, an employment solicitor at Leigh Day, says in 14 years she cannot recall one of her clients who was pregnant or had recently given birth taking her employer to a full tribunal.\n\nShe says such women are likely to settle and \"accept a lower offer, as they don't really want to be in litigation during that time for emotional and financial reasons, which employers often exploit\".\n\nCatherine McClennan won a maternity discrimination employment tribunal in 2015 against her employer, the TUC - which represents trade unions.\n\nShe received damages and costs of £21,000.\n\n\"My job and job title was omitted from the [company's] directory, which was really hard to see in print to be honest with you.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"At one point, when I said... 'Look, I've come back. I'm a competent, able, professional woman. I've always done a really good job. I just want to continue with my career', he asked a female colleague if I had post-natal depression,\" she continues.\n\nCatherine says she did not expect such treatment from the TUC.\n\n\"I was very sad actually because I felt, as an organisation who stand for fairness, equality and justice, a number of individuals were obviously bringing the reputation of that into disrepute.\"\n\nThe TUC says there was \"no malicious or conscious attempt to discriminate\", and that it challenged the tribunal case \"vigorously\".\n\nThe government says it is \"determined to tackle pregnancy and maternity discrimination\" and there should be \"zero tolerance\" of it.\n\nIt adds that it is still reviewing whether stronger protections are needed. No date has been given for when a decision will be made.\n\nThe Women and Equalities Committee has previously recommended to the government that it brings in a \"dismissal ban\", similar to the one in place in Germany.\n\nThis means that only in very rare circumstances can a woman be dismissed while pregnant, or for four months after they give birth.\n\nOne German discrimination solicitor, Anna Lindenberg, said in 10 years she had only had to represent one woman who was dismissed during this period of time - such was the effect of the ban.\n\nCatherine says she hopes change will come to the UK soon.\n\n\"It's a travesty really that women in 2017 are still faced with this level of discrimination,\" she says.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.", "Many front-page headlines use US President Donald Trump's words to describe the Las Vegas shootings: \"An act of pure evil.\"\n\nThe Daily Mirror's headline is \"Slaughter in Sin City\".\n\nThe Daily Mail asks: \"What turned Mr Normal into a mass killer?\"\n\nThe Times describes Stephen Paddock as a retired accountant with no criminal record.\n\nAccording to the Sun, he is thought to have had gambling debts.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph quotes an official as saying Paddock had a \"history of psychological problems\".\n\nDespite this, the paper adds, he was able to buy his arsenal legally.\n\nThe Guardian says Las Vegas will be seen as the first major test of a president for whom the gun lobby was a key part of his electoral coalition.\n\nThe Las Vegas Herald says Paddock's massacre of music fans sent chills down every American's spine.\n\nWhat distinguished his lethal attack from most mass shootings, the Washington Post says, were the size of the arsenal he smuggled into the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino and the great height from which he shot.\n\nFor the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the massacre has tarnished the Strip's reputation as one of the safest streets in the US.\n\nIt says experts believe hotels will have to rethink security procedures.\n\nWhile they cannot install metal detectors or other elements deemed intrusive without damaging the whole concept of hospitality, the paper adds, they will have to rely even more on the eyes and ears of housekeeping and front desk staff to detect unusual behaviour.\n\nElsewhere, there is extensive coverage of the collapse of Monarch Airlines.\n\nThe Telegraph says it understands the government was pre-warned that the airline faced financial ruin and has been planning for its collapse for a month.\n\nThe Daily Express reports that in the scramble for alternative flights passengers accused rival airlines of profiteering, with prices reportedly going up every minute as demand outstripped supply.\n\nThe Telegraph and the Sun, meanwhile, report that Brexit Secretary David Davis plans to retire in less than two years and leave Boris Johnson to steer the country through the transitional period following the UK's departure from the EU.\n\nFriends of Mr Davis have told the Telegraph that he believes Brexit will be his \"last big job\".\n\nAccording to the Sun, he has signalled that he has no wish to see the next phase through, saying: \"Someone else can do that, Boris can do that.\"\n\nGovernment proposals for a \"deposit return scheme\" for plastic bottles in England are welcomed.\n\nThe Sun thinks the plan by Environment Secretary Michael Gove to keep plastic bottles out of rivers and off beaches is worth pursuing.\n\nOnly 57% of them are recycled, it says, and must increase it somehow.\n\nThe Mail, which has campaigned on the issue, says after the charge on plastic bags and a ban on microbeads, the plastic bottles scheme would be another massive contribution to cleaning up polluted oceans, rivers and open spaces.\n\nIt praises Scotland and Wales for leading the way - and hopes England will not be far behind.", "St Vincent: \"The tone of the record is quite manic and painful\"\n\n\"Are you ready for this?\"\n\nSt Vincent's press officer is making small talk ahead of our interview, on a scorching hot summer's day in London.\n\n\"Sure,\" I reply. I've listened to her new album. I've made copious notes. I've jotted down about two dozen questions.\n\n\"No, but are you ready for this?\" he asks.\n\n\"I'm not sure what you mean.\"\n\nThe singer says the inspiration for her new artwork is \"The Cramps playing at a mental institution\"\n\nA few minutes later, a cloaked woman appears and, without speaking, leads me by the hand into the street, through a fire escape and into a bare concrete room.\n\nShe gestures to a billboard-sized poster of St Vincent, which has a non-disclosure agreement at the bottom. I sign it in pink felt tip, and am led to a prefabricated wooden cube. The monk woman unbolts a door, barely big enough for a medium-sized Labrador, and I stoop through.\n\nInside, the walls are bright pink. There are two pink standard lamps, with pink light bulbs, placed in opposite corners. And there, sitting at a cheap wooden table, is St Vincent, playing ambient guitar music through her iPhone.\n\nHer hair is, I think, painted blue and cut in a close bob. She makes unwavering eye contact as we shake hands and the door is shut (locked?) behind me.\n\n\"Wait til the paint fumes get to you,\" she deadpans. \"It'll be really awesome.\"\n\nAs she describes the room - \"it's like a psychedelic womb\" - the 34-year-old sips a drink through a bendy straw that's been moulded into the word \"No\".\n\n\"That's in case there's a yes or no question. We can just save time.\"\n\nThis, I suspect, will not be your average interview.\n\nThe musician has designed her own brand of guitar, which is more ergonomically suited to women's bodies\n\nSt Vincent is here, ostensibly, to promote her new album MASSEDUCTION (that's \"mass seduction\", not \"mass education\"). It's the follow-up to 2014's St Vincent, an expectation-defying art-pop record that cemented Texas-born Annie Clark as one of her generation's greatest guitarists.\n\nIf anything, the new record is even better - pitching wildly between jittery electronics and despondent ballads as Clark exposes her feelings on sex, drugs and sadness.\n\n\"It's an incredibly sad album,\" she says. \"Quite manic and painful.\n\n\"I listen to it, and some points of the album are so sad it makes me laugh. It's just so tragic. But that's human life.\"\n\nThe first single, New York, is a disarmingly simple ode to lost love.\n\n\"New York isn't New York without you, love,\" she sings over lonely piano chords, with the pulsing heartbeat of the city submerged deep within the mix.\n\n\"It's a kind of dance song that you listen to in your bed and cry,\" she says.\n\nClark became a tabloid fixture during her relationship with Cara Delevingne\n\nNew York is one of several break-up songs on the album. It's safe to assume they're about Cara Delevingne, the elaborately-eyebrowed supermodel she dated for 18 months until last September - but Clark isn't going into specifics.\n\n\"Songs are Rorschach tests,\" she deflects, referring to the inkblot psychological tests.\n\n\"The interpretation of the song, or the feeling of the song, has more to do with the listener than it does with my intention and I'm fine with that.\n\n\"But that song's a love letter to New York, certainly, and to me it's a composite of so many people and so many experiences in New York.\"\n\nThe album also continues the saga of Johnny, who first appeared on St Vincent's debut album, Marry Me. Back then, she pleaded to be his partner, singing, \"Let's do what Mary and Joseph did / Without the kid\".\n\nBy her fourth record, though, they were distant and estranged, as he embraced New York's party scene. In the latest instalment, Johnny is dependent on drugs and living on the street. When Clark crosses his path, he accuses her of abandoning him.\n\n\"What happened to blood. Our family?\" he hisses. \"Annie, how could you do this to me?\"\n\nIt's heartbreaking, and savagely self-critical - but Clark won't say whether it's based on a real person.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense to make a whole record that's brightly coloured and vibrant and then do an interview in a tea room.\"\n\nIt seems evasive. It is evasive. But the singer is a thoughtful, considerate interviewee. She seems to taste the questions, chewing them over before answering. Her responses are precise, but never abrupt.\n\nSo why, then, are we talking inside a bright pink Tardis?\n\nThe point, Clark explains, is to put both of us \"in uncomfortable positions\".\n\n\"You've done a million interviews. I've done a million interviews. There's only so many times you can repeat your Wikipedia page to someone.\n\n\"So what happens if we shake that up? Maybe you and I react differently, and that's interesting.\"\n\nWhat actually happens is that we spend 15 minutes talking about the process of being interviewed.\n\nShe winces as she recalls a journalist quizzing her on the time she played New York while dressed as a toilet.\n\n\"I had just made a horror movie,\" she says, referencing her short film Birthday Party, \"and this was a costume from it\".\n\n\"Then I had an interviewer say to me, 'Was that some Freudian display, as if you feel you've been pissed upon?'\n\n\"I was like, 'Wow, that says a whole lot more about you than it does about me.'\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrincipally, though, she's bored of being asked the same old questions.\n\n\"I'll give you an example!\" she says, grabbing her phone and scrolling through a series of about 30 voice memos.\n\n\"I get asked to justify my existence as a woman in music all the time, so here is an example of something I might say.\"\n\nShe clicks play and sits back in her chair, arms crossed. Her voice, in a bored monotone, emits from the speaker.\n\n\"Being a woman in music means being asked about being a woman in music. And when you ask me a question about being a woman in music, what you're really doing is presenting me with two very tired narratives, and asking me to choose one of them.\n\n\"The first one goes like this: I am a victim, and now is the time to list, in great detail, my many grievances in order to assert my place in the hierarchy of victimhood.\n\n\"Or you're asking me to defend now, in words, as if my work wasn't enough, why I deserve a spot at the table.\n\n\"I refuse to participate in either narrative.\"\n\nHer protest duly noted, we proceed to safer ground.\n\nClark notes that her new album was finished exactly 10 years after her debut was released, and marvels that she's made it this far.\n\n\"I've been happy every place that I've been - and every place that I've been, I felt like I had made it. Even when I was playing pizza parlours, or clubs in London for six people - three of whom were listening - I was like, 'I'm playing in London!'\n\n\"So for me, it's been a constant, irrepressible desire to make things.\"\n\nThe album was recorded in New York, and is set to appear in two versions - one electronic and one acoustic\n\nMaking this album with Jack Antonoff (Taylor Swift, Lorde), she employed the absurdist tactics of her idols David Bowie and David Byrne, placing \"motivational phrases\" on the music stand as she sang.\n\nOne, shared on Instagram last year, simply read \"dead meat.\"\n\n\"Sometimes, when you're doing vocal takes you have a pad and pencil there so you can make notes, and I'd subconsciously written 'Dead Meat'. It just made me laugh that that was whatever was coming out of my brain at that time.\"\n\nHer Freudian scribbling had no impact on the song, though. \"Self laceration is just another form of ego. It doesn't really help,\" she insists.\n\n\"I've learned that the hard way. Trust me, it's not that usable. You really have to get out of your own way, especially when singing.\"\n\nAnd that, it transpires, is what really motivates her - the \"meditative state\" she achieves while making music.\n\n\"I need it. And I realise I need it when I haven't done it for a while and I feel very agitated.\n\n\"You know, it's like some people get really frustrated and angry and they're like, 'Oh, I need to have an orgasm!'. And then you do that and you feel so much better. It's just that easy.\"\n\nAt that moment, the cloaked woman knocks at the door and our time is up.\n\n\"Thank you very much, it was a pleasure to meet you,\" says Clark.\n\n\"You too,\" I reply, expressing relief that I didn't trigger any of her \"stock answers\".\n\n\"You've done well!\" she laughs. \"You passed! Bye!\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The captain of the submarine HMS Vigilant is at the centre of the investigation, the BBC understands\n\nA nuclear submarine captain has been relieved of his command after an alleged \"inappropriate relationship\" with a member of his crew.\n\nThe Royal Navy captain is being investigated following the allegations, which involve a female member of crew.\n\nThe BBC understands the captain of the submarine HMS Vigilant is at the centre of the investigation.\n\nHMS Vigilant is a Vanguard class submarine based at HMNB Clyde at Faslane in Argyll and Bute.\n\nIt is one of four British submarines armed with the Trident ballistic missile system.\n\nThe Royal Navy has confirmed an investigation is ongoing but said it had not had an impact on current operations.\n\nA ban on women serving on board submarines was only lifted in 2011.\n\nSince then, a few dozen women have undergone specialist training to serve on board Royal Navy submarines.\n\nAll Royal Navy vessels have a \"no touching rule\" that prohibits intimate relationships on board, but the Navy takes a particularly harsh view when it might affect the chain of command.\n\nIn 2014, the first female captain of a Navy warship - HMS Portland - was removed from command after she was found to have breached strict rules on relations with a member of her crew.\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 chief executive of failed airline Monarch tells Today projected losses were too great to stay operating\n\nMonarch chief executive Andrew Swaffield has said he is \"absolutely devastated\" at the airline's collapse.\n\nMr Swaffield said the decision not to continue trading was made on Saturday night after estimating that losses for 2018 would be \"well over £100m\".\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme that Monday was a \"heartbreaking day\".\n\nMeanwhile, the first stage of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) rescue scheme led to nearly 12,000 people being brought back to the UK on Monday.\n\nA similar number of people are due to return to the UK on Tuesday.\n\nMonarch Airlines ceased trading early on Monday, leading to nearly 1,900 job losses and the cancellation of all its flights and holidays.\n\nThe collapse of the 50-year old company is the largest ever for a UK airline.\n\nMr Swaffield said every effort was being made to help Monarch's staff\n\nMr Swaffield blamed the company's demise on \"terrorism and the closure of some markets like Turkey, Tunisia and Egypt,\" which led to more competition on routes to Spain and Portugal.\n\n\"Flights were being squeezed into a smaller number of destinations and a 25% reduction in ticket prices on our routes created a massive economic challenge for our short-haul network,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe explained that it was impossible for the airline to keep on flying beyond the weekend once the decision to close had been taken.\n\n\"The UK insolvency framework doesn't allow airlines to continue flying unlike in Germany and Italy, where we see that Air Berlin and Alitalia continued when they were in administration.\n\n\"We tried to operate a normal schedule all day Sunday so we could be ready for the CAA rescue flights on Monday morning without causing a massive backlog.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What happened when passengers turned up at Manchester airport for their flights?\n\nMr Swaffield said the staff at Monarch had been a \"great family\" and said every effort was being made to find new employment for the 2,000 people who had lost their jobs.\n\n\"We are doing all we can,\" he said. \"We are talking to our competitor airlines, trying to organise job fairs and trying to connect staff with our competitors.\n\n\"We also have hundreds of head office staff in Luton and are trying to organise the same kind of conversations with employers in Luton and Bromley.\"\n\nAdministrators KPMG said all Monarch employees would receive packs of correspondence later this week to help them with making claims to the Redundancy Payments Office.\n\nCAA chair Dame Deirdre Hutton told the BBC that their programme to return holidaymakers to the UK had got off to a good start.\n\n\"Day one went really well and day two is going well so far but it is a huge undertaking and I'm sure there will be some glitches on the way,\" she said.\n\nDame Deirdre denied that the collapse of Monarch and cancellation of some winter flights by Ryanair meant that the airline industry was in trouble.\n\n\"The industry is very buoyant and during this year passenger numbers have been up, airlines have been doing very well and airports have been reporting record numbers of passengers,\" she said.\n\nShe also explained why the CAA could not act before Monarch's announcement, even though it was known the firm was in difficulty.\n\n\"The regulator really can't step in until a company goes into administration, that is completely a matter for the company directors,\" she said. \"It would be neither possible nor legal for us to give out confidential financial information while a company is still operating legally.\n\n\"Monarch didn't own the planes, the planes were leased so as soon as the company went into administration, the owners of the planes took them back and that's why we've had to acquire planes from 16 different countries.\"\n\nThe government is set to pick up the tab for flying Monarch passengers home, but is talking to credit card companies about sharing some of the cost.\n\nHave you got a flight booked with Monarch? Are you Monarch staff? Are you a travel agent? Email us at haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The film Kingdom of Us is due for a 13 October release\n\nA mother and her seven children trying to come to terms with their father's suicide have had their story turned into a Netflix documentary.\n\nVikie Shanks from Warwickshire, whose husband Paul died in September 2007, said the film was \"brutally honest\".\n\nSix of her children, who were aged six to 16 at the time, are on the autism spectrum, and she hopes the film will raise awareness about the condition.\n\nLucy Cohen spent three years filming the family for Kingdom of Us.\n\nIt will be premiered at the London Film Festival on Saturday and released globally on Netflix on 13 October.\n\nThere are six daughters and one son in the Shanks family\n\nFilmmaker Cohen described the Shanks as a \"fascinating and warm family\".\n\n\"Entering the Shanks household in the early days was a bit like walking into a whirlwind,\" she said. \"There are a lot of siblings, each with very different characters.\n\n\"There's laughter, tears and every emotion in between - sometimes all at once - as well as at least eight cats and dogs and sometimes chickens.\n\n\"But beyond the chaos, I immediately thought there was something very special there, an openness and a bravery in them all.\"\n\nVikie Shanks said her children had very different needs and experiences after her husband's death\n\nMrs Shanks - an advocate and campaigner from Kenilworth calling for a better understanding of autism and mental health - said the film was originally going to be about autism but via an \"evolutionary process\" became much wider.\n\n\"Lucy just felt the story was about more than just autism and she put her life into it for four years,\" she said.\n\n\"We built a very solid relationship with her, very much based on trust.\"\n\nThe filmmaker looked through hours of home videos made by Mr Shanks, who documented the children's lives, including shows and songs they had written with him.\n\nMrs Shanks said her husband could not have left \"any greater gift\" than the children\n\nThis footage was combined with her own during a year of editing.\n\nThe children talked to her about their father, the enormous impact of his death and their lives since.\n\n\"When we started filming we were all absolutely adamant that it had to be real, completely real, nothing staged,\" Mrs Shanks said.\n\n\"And when we started to see the edits, there were things in it that were very uncomfortable and we weren't happy with - but we had to stand by that initial philosophy.\"\n\nMrs Shanks said she knew her husband had been suffering with mental health problems and depression but he became much worse about six years before his death.\n\n\"He started to become quite scary and very worrying, and I also thought that was the point I felt it started to really affect the children more which I found very worrying,\" she said.\n\nAfter his death, she found he had built up debts of about £1m and had to deal with this while running the family's corporate entertainment business and caring for her grieving children.\n\nPaul Shanks filmed hours of home videos of his children\n\nMrs Shanks said the documentary traces how the \"mental process works\".\n\n\"I hope it raises a lot of awareness for mental health and also for autism and how autism affects the way you recover from things like this,\" she said.\n\nMirie, 22, one of her six daughters, found it difficult to watch \"because it is so honest as to who we all are as a family\".\n\nBut Mirie and sister Kacie, 23, said there was also much hope and laughter.\n\n\"It is a beautiful film. It has been made beautifully by Lucy,\" Mirie added.\n\nSpeaking about the time after her husband's death, Mrs Shanks said: \"I look back and think I was a bit like a runaway train.\n\n\"You just do it, bit by bit: it is sometimes minute by minute or hour by hour, day by day.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Natasha Slessor had worked as cabin crew for Monarch for nearly four years\n\nHolidaymakers and airline staff have been left \"devastated\" by the collapse of flight operator Monarch.\n\nHundreds of people arrived at Leeds Bradford, Gatwick, Birmingham, Luton and Manchester airports to find their flights had been cancelled.\n\nCabin crew member Natasha Slessor was one of nearly 1,900 staff made redundant on Monday.\n\n\"How can you wake up and not have a job?\" she said. \"I still can't believe it really.\"\n\nMonarch staff were in tears after being made redundant\n\nMs Slessor said she was keeping positive about her future.\n\n\"I love this job, I love my career,\" she said.\n\n\"I was hoping I would progress further and do it forever but I'm young enough to get another job. I will. I'm certain of that.\"\n\nMs Slessor said she was due to go on maternity leave and was worried for her colleagues.\n\n\"There's other people in this company who won't be so lucky and they've given their heart and soul to Monarch,\" she said.\n\nMonarch had employed about 2,100 people. Administrators said 1,858 staff had been made redundant, with the remaining workers helping to bring back 110,000 Monarch holidaymakers from overseas.\n\nFlight attendants Katie Leary, Kate Halbo, Debbie Jackson and Charlie Winter have worked for Monarch for 19 years and call themselves the \"sky sisters\".\n\nIt was more than just a job, it was \"a way of life\", they said.\n\nThe friends said they felt sorry for the customers who were stranded abroad and it pained them they could not be there to bring them back home.\n\nFrom left, Katie Leary, Kate Halbo, Debbie Jackson and Charlie Winter said they had given 19 years of their lives to Monarch\n\nPassenger Steve Walker said he was \"gutted\" he would miss defending his World Masters Powerlifting title in Sweden.\n\nThe 61-year-old from Hardingstone, Northamptonshire told the BBC he was off to compete in the 74kg Masters three class in Sundsvall on Tuesday.\n\nHe was on his way to Luton airport when he got a text from a friend at 04:30 BST telling him all Monarch flights were cancelled, he said.\n\n\"I'd been training for this for three months and this championship was supposed to be my last.\"\n\nHe added: \"I've just had to cut my losses. I'm absolutely gutted. The competition will be streamed live online, but I don't want to see it. I don't want to watch a competition I should be in.\"\n\nSteve Walker said he was \"absolutely gutted\" his cancelled flight meant he would miss a powerlifting competition\n\nCustomers in the UK yet to travel: Don't go to the airport, the CAA says.\n\nCustomers abroad: Everyone due to fly in the next fortnight will be brought back to the UK at no cost to them. There is no need to cut short a stay.\n\nThose with flight-only bookings after 16 October are unlikely to have Atol scheme protection, so will need to make their own arrangements.\n\nCustomers currently overseas should check monarch.caa.co.uk for confirmation of their new flight details - which will be available a minimum of 48 hours in advance of their original departure time.\n\nThe CAA also has a 24-hour helpline: 0300 303 2800 from the UK and Ireland and +44 1753 330330 from overseas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'So much for a cheap couple of days away'\n\nJenny Collin from Colchester was ready to fly from Luton to Barcelona with her husband for their golden wedding anniversary celebrations.\n\n\"We've got two cases all packed up ready to go,\" she said. \"I just feel devastated and let down.\n\n\"It's just made me sick. I won't trust a travel company again.\"\n\nAlan Jee said he and his family were \"stranded\"\n\nAlan Jee was due to get married in Gran Canaria on Saturday and arrived at Gatwick Airport with 30 members of his family.\n\n\"I have spent £20,000 on my wedding and now I can't even go and get married,\" he said.\n\n\"I am gutted, absolutely gutted, and my missus is in tears, an emotional wreck.\"\n\nAbout 250 passengers turned up Leeds Bradford Airport to find flights cancelled.\n\nPhil Morcom from Leeds said: \"Myself, my wife and my daughter were going to Dubrovnik for my niece's wedding on Wednesday.\n\n\"We are probably not going now but are busy scouring the web. We were not Atol-covered and had bought flights only so will lose the money it seems.\"\n\nFrom left Rickey Lal, Tony Lal and Steven Singh were going to Barcelona from Birmingham\n\nManchester Airport said a \"few hundred\" people turned up for Monarch's early morning flights.\n\nDenise Parry, 51, from Salford, said she had \"thrown up with the stress of it all\".\n\n\"We got to the airport at 03:00 and it was at 04:00 while we were in the queue that we found out,\" she said.\n\nMs Parry and her partner initially booked alternative flights to Dalaman with Thomson later on Monday but she was later told no more places were available on the plane.\n\n\"It is so annoying, we have had the holiday booked for 12 months. We're going home now,\" she said.\n\nRicky Lal, Tony Lal and Steven Singh were travelling to Birmingham Airport for their flight to Barcelona when they received a text from Monarch at 04:09.\n\n\"No one's told us anything, just given us these leaflets with no information,\" said Mr Lal.\n\nThe trio are now booked on another flight but say they are \"frustrated\" as they are out of pocket.\n\nAnne and Barrie Chittenden from Nottinghamshire and Walters and Cathy Flanagan from Hartlepool were off to Lisbon for six nights.\n\nThey saw the news on Twitter at 04:30 while they were on the bus to Birmingham airport and have not heard from Monarch.\n\nThey said they were in \"good spirits\" and would sit it out to see what happened.\n\nPeople due to return to England on Monarch flights have started to arrive back on planes drafted in from other airlines.\n\nJoe Simon flew from Palma, Majorca, to Manchester and said he found out about Monarch's collapse from the taxi driver taking him to the airport.\n\n\"When we got there it was all normal, everyone seemed to go with the flow and no-one was worried,\" said Mr Simon from Bagillt in North Wales.\n\n\"When we got off the pilot said if passengers were going to Leeds and Gatwick, people would help them in the airport.\"", "\"It was like living next to nothing,\" said a former neighbour of Paddock\n\nLas Vegas concert gunman Stephen Paddock was a wealthy former accountant and high-stakes gambler who appeared to be living in quiet retirement with his girlfriend in a desert community.\n\nThe 64-year-old, of Mesquite, Nevada, had pilot's and hunting licences and no criminal record, said authorities.\n\nOne former neighbour said twice-divorced Paddock was \"weird\".\n\nBut his brother described him as a regular guy who liked playing video poker, live music and eating burritos.\n\nPaddock has been identified by police as the man behind the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, with the death toll surpassing the 49 killed at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in June 2016.\n\nHe opened fire from the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino on Sunday night, killing 58 people and wounding almost 500 others, before turning the gun on himself as police closed in, said officials.\n\nPolice shared this updated timeline of events on Wednesday\n\nStephen Paddock had a troubled childhood, with a bank robber for a father, who regularly beat him, and a mother who struggled to bring him and his three brothers up, according to reports.\n\nOne of the gunman's brothers, Eric Paddock, told reporters the family were stunned.\n\n\"He liked to play video poker,\" he said. \"He went on cruises. He sent his mother cookies.\"\n\nTheir father was once on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What gunfire tells us about weapons used\n\nTwenty-three weapons were found in the 32nd-floor hotel room that Paddock checked into last Thursday.\n\nPolice found \"in excess of\" 19 firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition in his Mesquite home, within a quiet retirement community 80 miles (130km) north-east of Las Vegas.\n\nThey also found several pounds of an explosive called tannerite, and ammonium nitrate, a type of fertiliser used as an explosive, in his car.\n\nPolice said no manifesto or anything else had been discovered to explain Paddock's actions.\n\n\"I can't get into the mind of a psychopath at this point,\" Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said.\n\nThe FBI said its agents had established no connection between Paddock and any overseas terrorist group, despite so-called Islamic State describing him as a \"soldier of the caliphate\".\n\nPaddock only previous known brush with the law was a routine traffic violation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDavid Famiglietti, of the New Frontier Armory, told the BBC that Paddock had purchased firearms at his store in north Las Vegas last spring, meeting all state and federal requirements, including an FBI background check.\n\nHowever, the shotgun and rifle Paddock bought would not have been \"capable of what we've seen and heard in the video without modification\", Mr Famiglietti said.\n\nTwo gun stocks were found in the hotel room, AP news agency reported, which can enable a weapon to fire hundreds of shots per minute.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eric Paddock says he is in total shock after police named his brother, Stephen, as the shooter\n\nAccording to NBC News, Paddock recently made several gambling transactions in the tens of thousands of dollars, but it was unclear if those bets were wins or losses.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump on Las Vegas shooting: 'It was an act of pure evil'\n\nHe had shown no sign of financial problems and reports said he owned a number of properties that he rented out.\n\nSeparately, Eric Paddock said that Stephen came up with the cash to ensure that family members - including their elderly mother - were provided for.\n\n\"Steve took care of the people he loved. He helped make me and my family wealthy. He's the reason I was able to retire. This is the Steve we know, we knew. The people he loved and took care of,\" Eric Paddock said in a news conference, according to CBS News.\n\nHe described his brother as \"intelligent\" and \"successful.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witnesses say people were being trampled\n\nStephen Paddock moved to his two-storey house in Mesquite from Reno, Nevada, in June 2016.\n\nHe lived in the property in Babbling Brook Court with his girlfriend Marilou Danley, 62.\n\nPolice have ruled out any involvement by Ms Danley, who was overseas at the time of the massacre but has now returned to the US, where she is facing questioning.\n\nShe is an Australian citizen who moved to Nevada 20 years ago, the government in Canberra said.\n\nMarilou Danley, initially described as a person of interest, was located by police outside of the US\n\nA former neighbour, Diane McKay, 79, told the Washington Post the couple always kept the blinds closed at home.\n\n\"He was weird,\" she said. \"Kept to himself. It was like living next to nothing.\n\n\"You can at least be grumpy, something. He was just nothing, quiet.\"\n\nElsewhere the newspaper quoted neighbours in \"several states\" where Paddock owned retirement homes, describing him as \"surly, unfriendly and standoffish\".\n\nBut those who lived close to a house he owned in Melbourne, Florida, have described him as \"very friendly\".\n\nAccording to US media, Paddock had a licence to fly small planes and owned two aircraft.\n\nIn 2012, he filed a negligence lawsuit against The Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas, after a fall he said was caused by an \"obstruction\" on the floor, the Las Vegas Review Journal reported.\n\nThe legal action was reportedly dropped in 2014.\n\nThe relative lack of red flags in Paddock's personal history has only heightened the sense of bewilderment as a shocked nation asks: Why?", "Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said Libyan city Sirte could be the new Dubai, adding, \"all they have to do is clear the dead bodies away\".\n\nHis comments at a Conservative fringe meeting sparked anger, with a number of Tory MPs calling for his sacking and Labour labelling him \"crass and cruel\".\n\nMr Johnson claimed his critics had \"no knowledge nor understanding of Libya\".\n\nA Downing Street source said it was not an \"appropriate choice of words\" but the PM regarded the matter as closed.\n\n\"I look at Libya, it's an incredible country,\" Mr Johnson told the meeting.\n\n\"Bone-white sands, beautiful sea, Caesar's Palace, obviously, you know, the real one.\n\n\"Incredible place. It's got a real potential and brilliant young people who want to do all sorts of tech.\n\n\"There's a group of UK business people, actually, some wonderful guys who want to invest in Sirte on the coast, near where Gaddafi was captured and executed as some of you may have seen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Libyan politician Guma El-Gamaty: \"Some 750 young Libyan men died while liberating Sirte from IS\"\n\n\"They have got a brilliant vision to turn Sirte into the next Dubai.\n\n\"The only thing they have got to do is clear the dead bodies away,\" he said, before laughing.\n\nThe host of the conference fringe event, Legatum Institute chief executive Baroness Stroud, stepped in to say \"next question\", as the foreign secretary continued to speak.\n\nThe coastal city of Sirte is the former stronghold of so-called Islamic State, or Daesh, and recently the scene of fierce fighting.\n\nForces loyal to Libya's UN-backed government managed to oust IS fighters from Sirte, the birthplace of former leader Muammar Gaddafi\n\nReacting on Twitter, Ms Allen said: \"100% unacceptable from anyone, let alone foreign sec. Boris must be sacked for this. He does not represent my party.\"\n\nConservative MP Sarah Wollaston called on Mr Johnson to apologise and urged him to \"consider his position\", adding that the comments were \"crass, poorly judged and grossly insensitive - and this from the person who is representing us on the world stage. I think they were really disappointing.\"\n\nAnd Justice Minister Philip Lee tweeted that \"anyone decent\" would condemn the comments.\n\nBut fellow Tory MP Nadine Dorries tweeted that \"the campaign by Remain MPs on here calling for Boris to resign\" was \"co-ordinated and mendacious\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Johnson defended his remarks, adding on Twitter that he had been making a point about the need for optimism in Libya, after a recent visit to the country.\n\n\"The reality there is that the clearing of corpses of Daesh fighters has been made much more difficult by IEDs and booby traps,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"That's why Britain is playing a key role in reconstruction and why I have visited Libya twice this year in support.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tory MP Sarah Wollaston calls on Boris Johnson to \"consider his position\" after Libya 'dead bodies' comment\n\nBut Damian Green, the first secretary of state, told BBC 5 live he believed Mr Johnson's remarks were unacceptable, adding: \"It was not a sensitive use of language. As I say, we all need to be sensitive in our use of language, particularly in situations like that.\"\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, said: \"It is less than a year since Sirte was finally captured from Daesh by the Libyan Government of National Accord, a battle in which hundreds of government soldiers were killed and thousands of civilians were caught in the crossfire, the second time in five years that the city had seen massive loss of life as a result of the Libyan civil war.\n\n\"For Boris Johnson to treat those deaths as a joke - a mere inconvenience before UK business people can turn the city into a beach resort - is unbelievably crass, callous and cruel.\n\n\"If these words came from the business people themselves, it would be considered offensive enough, but for them to come from the foreign secretary is simply a disgrace.\n\n\"There comes a time when the buffoonery needs to stop, because if Boris Johnson thinks the bodies of those brave government soldiers and innocent civilians killed in Sirte are a suitable subject for throwaway humour, he does not belong in the office of foreign secretary.\"\n\nLib Dem deputy leader Jo Swinson said the \"unbelievably crass and insensitive comment\" was further proof Mr Johnson was \"not up\" to a job for which diplomacy was \"a basic requirement\".\n• None May: Johnson's not undermining me", "Spain is gripped by the duel between Prime Minister Rajoy (L) and Catalan leader Puigdemont\n\nEmotions are running high in Catalonia today. Of course they are.\n\n\"The Spanish government is like an abusive husband,\" one activist raged at me today. \"He says he loves you, that he can't live without you. Then, he beats you to stop you from leaving.\"\n\nSunday's scenes during the Catalan referendum were awful and played over and over again across social media.\n\nBarca football idol and Catalan-born Gerard Pique wept openly on Spanish television when questioned about the violence.\n\nBut it would be wrong to interpret the anger and anguish so palpable in Catalonia right now as an expression of political unity.\n\nCatalans are as divided as ever on the question of independence.\n\nWhat unites them today is a seething fury and resentment at the heavy-handedness of the Spanish government, represented by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, with what Catalans perceive as his Madrid-centric arrogance, brutishness and disregard for the rights of individuals.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Spanish police clashed with people trying to get to polling stations to vote\n\nThis is far less about separatism than populism. Anti-establishment, nationalist sentiment a la Catalana.\n\nWhile the majority of Catalans say they don't actually want to leave Spain, they demand the right to choose. Legally and with dignity, in contrast to the chaos and intimidation on show at the weekend.\n\nThey are frustrated that their region pays more in taxes to Madrid than it gets back in investment, such as new infrastructure.\n\nThey are irritated that pledges of increased autonomy for Catalonia (already one of Europe's most autonomous regions) were then watered down, and still smarting that ordinary people in Catalonia - as across Spain - suffered so much in the 2008 economic crisis, while their tax contributions were used to bail out the banks.\n\nTo give you an idea - Catalonia is one of Spain's wealthiest regions. Youth unemployment is far lower here than across the rest of Spain. But it's still a shocking 35%.\n\nCatalans want change, but that does not amount to a common call for independence.\n\nBefore this weekend, Mariano Rajoy - nicknamed by opponents as \"The Robot\", as he could never be accused of having the common touch - had all the cards:\n\nBut he's thrown those cards away.\n\nHe and the Catalan President, Carles Puigdemont, have walked if not arm-in-arm then at least back-to-back, duel-like, to the cliff's edge.\n\nA cynic might point out that both men benefit personally from this constitutional crisis - arguably Spain's most severe in the 40 years since the transition to democracy.\n\nMr Rajoy heads a minority government, so short of support that it recently withdrew plans for the 2018 budget, for fear it wouldn't make it through the Spanish parliament. Meanwhile, Mr Puigdemont presides over one of the largest regional debts in Spain.\n\nBoth men are tainted by allegations of corruption, which swirl persistently around their governments.\n\nThe Catalan question is a very public distraction from unwelcome financial questions.\n\nBoth men score political points from standing their ground now, as opinions in Catalonia and across Spain harden.\n\nAs for the EU, some analysts have painted a picture of Eurocrats quaking in their blue and yellow boots. Refusing to condemn Sunday's violence, as they fear the flames of separatism will now spread from Catalonia to Corsica, northern Italy, Flanders and beyond.\n\nBut that was the early 2000s, when Basque separatist violence raged too.\n\nNow Basque separatists support Prime Minister Rajoy in the Spanish parliament. Regional separatism is not a 2017 problem for the EU. Populism is.", "The Conservatives have a problem. More young people are voting than at any time in the last quarter of a century, but largely not for them - so what can the party do to change that?\n\nIt's been labelled - perhaps unfairly - the \"Tory Glastonbury\". Around 200 activists, MPs, sympathetic thinkers and business people meet in the low September sunshine to discuss how the party can attract young voters.\n\nJust two years ago, the split in support between Labour and the Conservatives among 18 to 29-year-olds was fairly even, 36% to 32%.\n\nFast forward to this June's general election and that small gap had become a chasm - according to pollsters YouGov - with Labour now on 64% to the Tories' 21%.\n\nIn fact, unless you were touching 50, you were in a minority if you voted Conservative.\n\nAddressing worried-looking party figures at the Big Tent Ideas festival in Berkshire, Lord Cooper - one-time director of strategy for ex-Prime Minister David Cameron - puts it starkly.\n\nOlder Conservative voters, he says, are dying. And younger, more \"open\" voters are not going to decide when they hit 50 that \"feminism and the internet and the green movement are a bad thing after all\".\n\nUnless the party responds, he adds, \"it is going to die\".\n\nBim Afolami says the party \"realises that there is a problem\" in not attracting enough young voters\n\n\"Somebody famous and clever said the Conservative Party only knows two modes - complacency or panic,\" says one of the Tories' youngest MPs. \"And we're definitely in panic mode.\"\n\nBim Afolami, an old Etonian and former banker, is 31 and has only been an MP for a few months, but his thoughts have already turned to this question.\n\n\"The party generally, collectively, realises that this is a problem,\" he says.\n\nWith the Budget less than two months away, he says Chancellor Philip Hammond recently told a meeting of Conservative backbenchers that the party must address two of the key issues for younger voters - housing and student debt.\n\nVictoria Borwick - who represented the safe seat of Kensington until she became one of the 33 Conservative MPs swept away by Labour's better-than-expected showing in June - echoes the message.\n\n\"Every single MP should go back to their own area and see how they can build more housing for the next generation.\"\n\nIt might be only 100 miles away, but the Big Tent Ideas Festival couldn't be further from Glastonbury.\n\nThe music is Bach - perfectly rendered by a violinist. The buffet is delicate and refined. And there are more MPs in attendance than the young voters whom the ideas are intended to reach.\n\n\"This is not Glastonbury,\" Mr Afolami points out. \"It's more akin to (literature festival) Hay-on-Wye.\"\n\nThe comparison is clearly unfair, but does it matter?\n\nThe story goes that the brains behind the event, Conservative MP George Freeman, saw Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn cheered by thousands at Glastonbury over the summer and asked, \"Why is it just the left who have all the fun in politics?\"\n\nMP James Cleverly says young people were offered an \"electoral bribe\" by Jeremy Corbyn\n\n\"Wow, a left-wing leader getting a good reception at a rock festival,\" he says, ironically.\n\n\"What kind of crazy world is it we live in that that kind of thing happens?\n\n\"It's a bunch of young people who've just been given a massive electoral bribe.\"\n\nMr Corbyn - who said before the election he would \"deal\" with student debt - will be punished for taking \"younger voters for fools\", Cleverly says.\n\n\"Being hip, being popular, being cool, that's really easy,\" says Cleverly.\n\n\"Until you have to make tough decisions. And when you have to make tough decisions, that veneer of coolness comes off real quick.\n\n\"So the better thing to do is to be right and be doing the right things for the right reasons rather than trying to be cool and popular and saying whatever thing is going to get good headlines or a big cheer at Glastonbury.\"\n\nWhat, then, can the party learn?\n\nLabour's general election campaign was praised for its use of social media and for reaching young people previously unmoved by party politics.\n\nTobi Alabi - a south Londoner who was invited to attend the ideas festival, and was courted by Conservatives there, but isn't a supporter - says the party was an irrelevance for most of his friends.\n\nLabour, he says, related and appealed to young people.\n\nTobi Alabi says the Conservative Party did not display diversity\n\n\"That's something the Conservative Party didn't do. They didn't display diversity. They didn't display an appeal to young people. You have to tap into young people's interests.\"\n\nSo - if they do that - could those young people won over by Jeremy Corbyn's Labour one day support the Tories?\n\n\"Those people can be won back,\" says a hopeful Bim Afolami.\n\n\"Those are not people who have decided forever to vote for one person or one party.\n\n\"I think if we show them that we've got the right policies - but, more importantly, the right values - those are people that we can at least compete for in the future.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "Former chief crown prosecutor Nazir Afzal said up to now the programme was \"to be applauded\"\n\nChild sexual exploitation victims may fear coming forward after a courtroom sketch of a grooming victim was shown in Coronation Street, it is feared.\n\nThe character Bethany Platt, 16, is at the centre of a grooming storyline. The soap showed a sketch of her being drawn during the trial of her alleged abuser.\n\nBy law, sexual assault victims are granted anonymity for life.\n\nFormer chief crown prosecutor Nazir Afzal said he was \"concerned\". ITV apologised for the mistake.\n\nIn the long-running story Nathan Curtis, played by Chris Harper, was arrested for sexual exploitation and accused of forcing the teenager to have sex with his friends in a series of \"parties\".\n\nMr Afzal said up to now the programme had been \"a very accurate reflection of a victim's experience\".\n\nThe story of Bethany being groomed by Nathan has gripped viewers\n\nHe said: \"I think it was especially brave before the watershed and it has undoubtedly encouraged victims to come forward.\n\n\"But I'm concerned over their mistake. A court artist must always draw from memory and must not draw victims.\n\n\"We make an enormous play of telling victims that nobody will know who you are.\n\n\"Those victims might pick up the mistake and it might make them uncomfortable and we shouldn't have to do that.\n\n\"We're having to put the genie back in the bottle; we're having to fix something, which should be unnecessary.\"\n\nA spokesman for ITV said the artist was \"solely used to illustrate the passing of time\".\n\nHe said: \"We accept this wasn't a true representation of court procedure and we apologise for including it.\n\n\"We repeatedly focused on support for victims throughout the court process, which we hope would encourage anyone watching to recognise the fact they would be in a safe place when giving evidence.\"\n\nIn June, five complaints were made to broadcast regulator Ofcom after child grooming scenes involving Bethany Platt were shown before the watershed.\n\nThe long-running Coronation Street storyline showed three men paying for sex then following the teenager, played by Lucy Fallon, into a bedroom.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government will ban the sale of acids to anyone under the age of 18, Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said.\n\nHer pledge, at the Conservative Party conference, comes as more than 400 attacks using corrosive substances were recorded in the six months to April.\n\nShe also said she would \"drastically limit\" sales of sulphuric acid, given that it can be used to make explosives.\n\nAnd Ms Rudd called on internet firms and social media platforms to \"act now\" and remove extremist content online.\n\nSpeaking at the conference in Manchester, she said: \"Acid attacks are absolutely revolting.\n\n\"We have all seen the pictures of victims that never fully recover - endless surgeries, lives ruined.\n\n\"So today, I am also announcing a new offence, to prevent the sale of acids to under-18s.\"\n\nThe government said new laws to target people caught carrying acid would be modelled on current legislation around knife carrying, which carries a maximum of four years in prison, a fine, or both.\n\nPlans to tackle the sale of corrosive substances would be similar to the law involving knives, which bans the sale to anyone under the age of 18 and carries a penalty of six months in prison, or a fine.\n\n\"We are currently considering the range of substances this would cover,\" the government added.\n\nMore than 400 acid or corrosive substance attacks were carried out in the six months to April this year, according to figures from 39 police forces in England and Wales.\n\nAccording to NHS Digital data, there have been 624 admissions since 2011/12 because of an \"assault by corrosive substance\". In 2016/17, there were 109 hospital admissions due to such attacks.\n\nMrs Rudd said the \"drastic\" crackdown on the sale of sulphuric acid would help tackle homemade explosive devices containing triacetone triperoxide - often referred to as \"mother of Satan\" explosives.\n\nSimilar devices were used in this year's Manchester Arena bombing and last month's attack at Parsons Green, in west London.\n\n\"This is how we help make our communities safer as crime changes,\" she told delegates.\n\nThe home secretary also unveiled plans to make it harder for people under the age of 18 to buy knives online and announced a major investment in technology to help track down indecent images of children online and remove them quickly.\n\nShe announced more than £500,000 of investment in a \"cutting-edge web crawler\", which experts say can process thousands of image hashes per second as a way of removing child abuse images.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andreas Christopheros was attacked with acid in 2013\n\nMrs Rudd told the conference there had been \"an exponential surge in the volume of child sexual abuse referrals\" and called on messaging service WhatsApp to help tackle the problem.\n\n\"Our investment will also enable internet companies to proactively search for, and destroy, illegal images in their systems,\" she said.\n\n\"We want them to start using it as soon as they can.\"\n\nIn another policy announcement, she also said people who repeatedly view extremist material online could face up to 15 years in prison.\n\nShe said extending prison sentence for those viewing extremist content online would close an important gap in the legislation, with tougher sentences only applying at the moment if people have downloaded or stored the material.\n\nMs Rudd told party activists in Manchester that security services had foiled seven terrorist plots this year.", "Kati Ringer (face obscured) leaves Norwich Magistrates' Court where she appeared for sentencing\n\nA woman who stole photos of babies from Instagram and claimed they were sick or dead in a bid to get money has been banned from social media.\n\nKati Ringer, 21, claimed the pictures, copied from accounts belonging to two unsuspecting mums, were her own.\n\nWhen challenged by her victims, Ringer became abusive and threatening, Norwich Magistrates' Court heard.\n\nRinger was caught after police traced her IP address to a computer at her mother's house.\n\nShe was sentenced to a two-year criminal behaviour order which bans her from using any social media accounts, passing any other person's photo off as her own or asking any third party for a donation unless as a legitimate volunteer for a registered charity.\n\nRinger was also handed a jail term of 30 weeks, suspended for two years, and ordered to pay £225 costs.\n\nKati Ringer was sentenced to a two-year criminal behaviour order which bans her from using any social media accounts\n\nJane Walker, prosecuting, said Ringer had targeted two women, copying photos of their babies from their Instagram accounts and reposting them on her own \"saying they were her child, the child had died and trying to get money\".\n\nShe said when challenged by the first victim, Ringer \"became threatening towards her and made threats to rape and harm the child\".\n\nThe court heard Ringer sent the mother a \"laughing face\" emoji on Instagram, then a further message saying \"I've already posted pictures saying she's dead, I've got £600 so far\".\n\nWhen the victim accused Ringer of being jealous, Ms Walker said, the defendant replied: \"Jealous of a disgusting little runt that should have been drowned at birth.\"\n\nRinger targeted the second victim by using images of her prematurely born daughter.\n\n\"The victim challenged the suspect and asked she stop using the images,\" said Ms Walker.\n\n\"It was then that she said she would find out where the victim lived and kidnap and rape her daughter.\n\n\"She was using the picture of the victim's baby reporting to people that the baby was premature, that she was seriously ill, struggling to pay for her treatment and funeral.\"\n\nIan Fisher, mitigating, said Ringer pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity and a number of events in her life had contributed to her \"lacking any ability to empathise\".\n\nHe said of the offences: \"They are made possible by the advent of quite complex social media forms on the internet, and the defendant set about something that no normal, decent human being would do.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fans have criticised three Kansas City Chiefs players who protested during the US national anthem amid a day of national mourning for a mass shooting.\n\nThe demonstration at Monday's game against the Washington Redskins came a day after a gunman killed 59 people and wounded hundreds in Las Vegas.\n\nFans held up signs such as one urging players, \"protest on your own time\".\n\nSome NFL players have been kneeling or sitting during the anthem to protest against racial inequality.\n\nCornerback Marcus Peters was the only player shown on TV seated as the anthem was played on Monday.\n\nBut his teammate Ukeme Eligwe sat, too, and Justin Houston knelt apparently in prayer.\n\nKansas City Star newspaper sports editor Jeff Rosen tweeted: \"Man, can't get behind Marcus Peters and Ukeme Eligwe sitting tonight.\n\nFlags flew at half mast at Arrowhead Field in Kansas City on Monday night, and a moment of silence was observed before the Star-Spangled Banner was sung.\n\nSports television network ESPN had already made a decision not to show the anthem due to ongoing protests, but reportedly reversed course after the Las Vegas shooting attack.\n\nThe Redskins team all stood for the anthem\n\nAt the stadium in Kansas City - Richard Conway, BBC Sport\n\nThe atmosphere outside the Arrowhead stadium was rowdy and loud as fans \"tailgated\" before going to see their team play.\n\nBut speaking to some, it was clear that many were not happy with players protesting during the national anthem.\n\nOne Chiefs fan even told me he wouldn't celebrate a touchdown if a protesting player scored.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFans held up counter-protest signs including one that said: \"Praying 4 Vegas - take a knee 4 the right reason\".\n\nThe national anthem protests began last year against police treatment of African-Americans, but took on a new lease of life after US President Donald Trump said such players should be fired.\n\nTheir defenders say they have the right to free speech under the constitution.\n\nThe Chiefs won 29-20 against the Redskins.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"It is up to us now... to let that lion roar.\"\n\nBoris Johnson has said it is time to \"let the British lion roar\" as he called for Brexit to be a moment of national renewal.\n\nThe foreign secretary told Tory activists the UK \"can win the future\" and should stop treating the referendum result as if it were \"plague of boils\".\n\nIn his speech, he praised Theresa May's \"steadfast\" leadership over Europe.\n\nAnd he insisted the whole cabinet was united behind her aim of getting a \"great Brexit deal\".\n\nIn a tub-thumping speech which was cheered by Tory activists, he played down claims of Brexit divisions, saying he and his colleagues agreed with \"every syllable\" of the PM's recent Florence speech about Brexit.\n\nAnd he suggested that the UK's best days lay ahead once it left the European Union.\n\n\"We can win the future because we are the party that believes in this country and we believe in the potential of the British people.\n\n\"We are not the lion. We do not claim to be the lion. That role is played by the people of this country. But it is up to us now - in the traditional non-threatening, genial and self-deprecating way of the British - to let that lion roar.\"\n\nMr Johnson's highly-anticipated speech, which Mrs May is reported to have read in advance, followed criticism of his recent interventions over Brexit, which have prompted speculation about a leadership challenge and led to calls from some MPs for him to be replaced.\n\nMr Johnson said global Britain would be \"team players\" around the world\n\nThe foreign secretary took aim at Labour's claim that it had won the snap election which saw the Tories lose their majority, pointing out that it had won nearly 60 fewer seats than the Conservatives.\n\n\"Jeremy Corbyn didn't win. You won - we won. Theresa May won.\n\n\"She won more votes than any party leader and took this party to its highest share of the vote in any election in the last 25 years and the whole country owes her a debt for her steadfastness in taking Britain forward as she will to a great Brexit deal.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson wants to send the \"superannuated space cadet from Islington\" into space\n\nAmid talk of continuing cabinet division over the terms of the UK's exit, he said he shared the PM's goal of creating a \"deep and special partnership\" with the EU after it leaves and believed that the UK would remain a \"quintessential European nation\".\n\n\"Based on that Florence speech on whose every syllable, I can tell you the whole cabinet is united,\" he said.\n\n\"Since it is manifestly absurd to argue that European values or culture or civilisation are somehow defined or delimited by the institutions of the EU, we will be no less European. Britain will continue to be European in culture, geography, history, architecture, spiritually, morally, you name it.\"\n\nThe prime minister was not in the hall for her foreign secretary's speech\n\nThrowing down the gauntlet to Labour, he joked Jeremy Corbyn was \"Caracas\" for his support for socialist regimes in Venezuela and elsewhere.\n\nBut, Mr Johnson said, at the same time as the Conservatives defended the benefits of free markets they must do more to make capitalism \"work better\" for people.\n\n\"We may have the most illustrious battle honours of any political party but now we have to win the battle for the future,\" he said. \"The way to win the future is not to attack the market economy, not to junk our gains but to make it work better.\"\n\n\"Make it work for all those who worry their kids will never find a home to own and make it work better for parents who can't find good enough childcare.\"\n\nMr Johnson's Labour shadow, Emily Thornberry, said mentions of the Yemen crisis, and Saudi Arabia's role, had been \"conspicuous by their absence\" in his speech.\n\nIn the run-up to Mr Johnson's speech, the prime minister insisted she was in charge of the government and Brexit negotiations but believed a range of voices around the cabinet table made for better decision-making.\n\n\"I think leadership is about ensuring you have a team of people who aren't yes men,\" she told the BBC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In full: Theresa May speaks to Laura Kuenssberg\n\nMr Johnson was one of a succession of top Tories to bang the drum for Brexit on day three of the conference. International Trade Secretary Liam Fox called for an end to \"self-defeating pessimism\" while Brexit Secretary David Davis urged people to disregard the noise coming out of Brussels and \"keep your eyes on the prize\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump on Las Vegas shooting: 'It was an act of pure evil'\n\nWhen attempting to interpret Donald Trump's statements on firearm regulation, and how they could shape a presidential policy response to the Las Vegas mass shooting, the key is to note when he said them.\n\nAs with many of his political opinions, Mr Trump's views on gun control have shifted to the right over the years.\n\nIn the 1990s and early 2000s, Mr Trump expressed support for a ban on so-called assault weapons - long rifles with military-style features to more easily fire multiple rounds.\n\n\"I generally oppose gun control, but I support the ban on assault weapons and I support a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun,\" he wrote in his 2000 book, The America We Deserve.\n\nIn 2012 Mr Trump praised Democrat Barack Obama's call for more firearm regulation after the shooting at a Newtown, Connecticut, school that claimed 26 lives, including 20 children.\n\nAs Mr Trump began more seriously contemplating a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, however, his views on gun control changed. By the time he announced his entry into the race in 2015, he was well within the mainstream of the Republican Party, which viewed most forms of additional gun regulation as a violation of Second Amendment constitutional protections.\n\nIt was Mr Trump's way of establishing his conservative cultural bona fides - proving that he wasn't the big-city liberal he had at times seemed.\n\nIn an October 2015 Republican debate, for instance, he boasted that he carried handguns \"a lot\" and said government-mandated gun-free zones in places like schools, churches and military bases were a \"catastrophe\" and made for \"target practice for the sickos\".\n\nMr Trump would frequently say the answer to mass shootings was having more citizens with firearms - contending that the death toll in the Paris and San Bernardino attacks would have been much lower if bullets had been going \"both ways\" - towards the victims and the assailants.\n\nTrump at a National Rifle Association event, the largest US gun lobby, in April\n\nTo the surprise of many, Mr Trump secured the endorsement of the National Rifle Association in May 2016, at a time when some Republicans were still uncomfortable with the New Yorker as their presumptive nominee.\n\n\"Now is the time to unite,\" NRA Executive Director Chris Cox said at the time. \"If your preferred candidate got out of the race, it's time to get over it.\"\n\nFrom then on Mr Trump - in his statements and on his campaign website - largely echoed the NRA's hard line on firearm issues. The group would end up spending more than $30m (£22m) to support Mr Trump's presidential bid.\n\nDuring the general election, Mr Trump attacked Democrat Hillary Clinton as being in favour of stringent gun control and pledged that he was the candidate that would protect the rights of the estimated 55 million Americans who currently own firearms.\n\nThere was one moment during last year's campaign, however, when Mr Trump did break with the NRA's line. After the Orlando nightclub shooting in June, he appeared to endorse limiting gun purchase for national security purposes.\n\n\"I will be meeting with the NRA, who has endorsed me, about not allowing people on the terrorist watch list, or the no fly list, to buy guns,\" he tweeted.\n\nNothing came of that meeting, however, and as president Mr Trump appears to have made little effort to follow through on it.\n\nMr Trump's only significant action on guns as president has been to sign a law rolling-back Obama-era limitations on the ability of those being treated for mental illness to purchase firearms.\n\nDuring a recent campaign rally in Alabama, Mr Trump even revisited his old attacks against Mrs Clinton, warning \"you'd be handing in your rifles\" if she had been elected.\n\nCongress is currently considering legislation that would make it easier for Americans to purchase silencers for their weapons - a proposal Mrs Clinton criticised in a tweet after the Las Vegas attack.\n\nThe president, so far, has not commented publicly on the legislation, which was expected to be approved by the House of Representatives but has little chance of passage in the Senate.\n\nIf the legislation becomes the centre of post-Las Vegas political controversy, however, it may be difficult for the White House to stay above the fray.\n\nIn the meantime, Mr Trump now has the unenviable task of trying to heal the nation after yet another \"deadliest mass shooting in modern US history\" and explaining what - if anything - he proposes to do to stop future tragedies.\n\nGeorge W Bush's turn came in April 2007, as a shocked nation mourned 32 dead on a Virginia college campus.\n\nBarack Obama had his moment in June 2016, following the Orlando Pulse nightclub attack that left 49 dead.\n\n\"This massacre is … a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school, or in a house of worship, or a movie theatre, or in a nightclub,\" he said after Orlando.\n\n\"And we have to decide if that's the kind of country we want to be. And to actively do nothing is a decision as well.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe story of Mr Trump's response is still unfolding. The number of dead has risen to 58, with the estimated number of wounded an astounding, incomprehensible 500.\n\nAfter tweeting out his \"warmest sympathies\" to the victims of the Las Vegas shooting on Monday morning, Mr Trump took to the lectern at the White House to deliver a statement heavy on prayers, mourning and calls for unity but light on hints of what comes next.\n\nDuring his morning remarks the president said that, in the search for \"meaning in the chaos\", answers do not come easy.\n\nIn coming days and weeks ahead, many answers for how to respond to the bloodshed in Las Vegas will be offered. They're already pouring in from the president's friends and critics.\n\nMany will be policies - often contradictory - that Mr Trump, at one time or another, has supported.", "Stephen Paddock has been identified by police as the man behind the deadliest shooting in modern US history\n\nAs details emerge about the Las Vegas gunman who killed at least 58 people and injured more than 500 others, an online debate has begun about why Stephen Paddock has not been labelled a terrorist.\n\nInstead the 64-year-old who opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel towards an open-air music festival on Sunday evening has been described by news outlets as a \"lone wolf\", a \"granddad\", a \"gambler\", and a \"former accountant\", but not a terrorist.\n\nWe do not know yet what motivated Paddock to carry out the deadly attack. There has been no link found to international terrorism and no confirmation of mental illness.\n\nYet on social media, many have been pointing out that if Paddock had been a Muslim, the term \"terrorist\" would have been used almost immediately to describe him, as a link to Islamist terrorism would be assumed even without evidence.\n\nCelebrities, TV personalities and academics have all been discussing why this hasn't happened in this case.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Russ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Nevada state law, an \"act of terrorism\" is described as follows: \"Any act that involves the use of violence intended to cause great bodily harm or death to the general population.\"\n\nAt federal level, the US defines \"domestic terrorism\" as activities that meet three criteria - \"dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law\", those that are intended to intimidate or coerce civilians or governments, and which occur primarily within the US.\n\nThe FBI, too, suggests there must be an intent to \"intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives\".\n\nThis element seems to be key - is the perpetrator of violence not only attempting to cause mass harm but trying to influence government or further a particular ideology?\n\nMany on social media shared an image of a definition of Nevada state law and questioned why, despite the clear outline, the sheriff of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Joseph Lombardo said during a press conference about Paddock: \"We do not know what his belief system was at this time. Right now, we believe it is a sole actor, a lone-wolf-type actor.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 venomous claire This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Twitter the phrase \"lone wolf\" has been used more than 200,000 times since Monday's attack. The words \"terrorist attack\" have been used more than 170,000 times as people argued about why there seemed to be a clear disparity between how white suspects and those of colour are described.\n\nOn Facebook the discussion has also been escalating. Mursal in Indonesia said: \"He's not considered an international terrorist? Maybe because his face is not Arabic!\"\n\nMuslim American Facebook user Mahmoud ElAwadi expressed his sadness at hearing the news, but described how the attack would not affect white people in the way his family was affected by Islamist attacks.\n\n\"Every mass shooting means my wife's life is in danger because she chose to cover her hair, that my son will be attacked at school because his name is Mohamed, that my 4 year old daughter will be treated unfairly because she speaks Arabic, unless the terrorist is a white and Christian then suddenly he is a mentally sick person and everything is normal.\"\n\nAt the BBC there is clear guidance on the use of the words terrorist, or terrorism. BBC editorial guidance says:\n\n\"There is no agreed consensus on what constitutes a terrorist or terrorist act. The use of the word will frequently involve a value judgement.\n\n\"As such, we should not change the word 'terrorist' when quoting someone else, but we should avoid using it ourselves.\n\n\"This should not mean that we avoid conveying the reality and horror of a particular act; rather we should consider how our use of language will affect our reputation for objective journalism.\"\n\nDespite an overwhelming majority of comments criticising officials and the media for not labelling Paddock a terrorist, there were some counter arguments and suggestions as to why.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Don Inverso This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 M. G. Mitchell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Preston This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBy UGC and Social News Team, additional reporting by BBC Reality Check", "Guess what. It's not about Boris Johnson. He sucks the oxygen, grabs the attention, \"the blond one\" excites the Tory crowds, as well as driving his colleagues up the wall with his behaviour.\n\nToday in a speech about \"the lion that will roar\", (wonder what he's trying to say there?) activists may cheer him and colleagues will gnash their teeth as, in a way only he can, he tickles the party's tummy.\n\nThe fuss around Boris Johnson is the symptom not the cause. The problem that is increasingly on people's minds at this grisly conference is that the Tories might be only at the start of a decline, which becomes impossible to escape.\n\nOne former minister says, \"there is a smell of decay\", another, that it is \"hopeless, but we are resigned to the nightmare\". Cabinet ministers fret that Theresa May simply doesn't have the ideas or imagination to reboot either her leadership or their party.\n\nOne of her colleagues says \"how did she blow the party up in 12 months?\", lamenting how her premiership has paralleled Gordon Brown, who after years of hoping to get to Downing Street arrived there with little to say, bewildered by the sudden challenge of the top job. Another says she looks \"bent and broken\".\n\nBut there is little evidence yet that there is anyone willing or brave enough to confront this publicly, the younger generations of Tory MPs are furious with the top brass, but none of them yet ready to step up to the plate.\n\nFor now, Mrs May's glum cabinet colleagues mostly believe the best option is to get behind her, to show loyalty with the hope of regaining authority to govern, the slow grind of government competence could restore credibility over time.\n\nThese are unpredictable times. One minister even told me they feel optimistic about the next election, believing the Corbyn phenomenon can't sustain for five years.\n\nBut in government and on the backbenches and in Manchester, optimism is a minority view. Stopping the slide the priority.\n\nThe fear here is not really that Boris Johnson is grabbing all the attention, it's that this party could be dying inside, and it finds itself with a leader who might struggle to stop the downward spiral.\n• None May: Johnson's not undermining me", "Beth Grant, who has lived with anorexia for 13 years, said selling the product was \"absolutely disgraceful\"\n\nAmazon has been described as \"irresponsible\" for selling a hoodie that describes anorexia as \"like bulimia, except with self control\".\n\nOne woman living with anorexia said it could \"damage\" the mental health of those with the conditions.\n\nAnorexia expert Dr Susie Orbach told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme the online retailer should \"remove it immediately\".\n\nAmazon said the hoodie was not sold on its UK website.\n\nIt has previously been criticised for stocking T-shirts which say: \"Keep calm and rape a lot\".\n\nBeth Grant, who has lived with anorexia for 13 years, said selling the product was \"absolutely disgraceful\".\n\n\"It could be extremely damaging to anyone suffering with either bulimia or anorexia,\" she told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"I think it could damage their mental health even further and cause them to potentially harm their life.\"\n\nDr Susie Orbach, a psychotherapist and expert on anorexia, described the hoodie as \"a way to make people feel really awful\" when they were \"already anguished enough\".\n\n\"This is terribly irresponsible on Amazon's part,\" she said.\n\n\"We're breeding a culture [where people think] you should transform your body, you should comment on it, and if it isn't the way you want it to be it's got to be some other way.\"\n\nDr Orbach called for Amazon to \"remove it immediately\".\n\n\"They really don't need to be making money this way,\" she added.\n\nAmazon declined to offer a statement, but a spokesman said the hoodie was not available to buy from the company's UK website.\n\nBeth Grant said this would make little difference to those with anorexia or bulimia.\n\n\"You can still see it on the internet,\" she said.\n\n\"It can still harm them, even if they're not wearing it.\n\n\"I think they should issue a statement saying it is 'so sorry it's on our website'.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "Yahoo has said that all of its three billion user accounts were affected in a hacking attack dating back to 2013.\n\nThe company, which was taken over by Verizon earlier this year, said an investigation had shown the breach went much further than originally thought.\n\nThe stolen data did not include passwords in clear text, payment card or bank account data, it added.\n\nPreviously the internet giant had said \"more than one billion\" of its accounts had been hit.\n\nYahoo said that while its latest announcement did not represent a new \"security issue\" it was sending emails to all the \"additional affected user accounts\".\n\nThe company added that it was \"continuing to work closely with law enforcement\".\n\nYahoo's takeover by the huge US telecoms firm Verizon was completed on 13 June.\n\nThe deal was first announced last year when the struggling company agreed to sell its main internet business to Verizon for $4.8bn.\n\nThat figure was later cut to $4.5bn after Yahoo disclosed that it had been the victim, in 2013 and 2014, of two huge security breaches.\n\nVerizon has combined its AOL subsidiary and Yahoo into a new business called Oath.\n\nIn Tuesday's statement Verizon's chief information security officer Chandra McMahon said: \"Verizon is committed to the highest standards of accountability and transparency, and we proactively work to ensure the safety and security of our users and networks in an evolving landscape of online threats.\"\n\n\"Our investment in Yahoo is allowing that team to continue to take significant steps to enhance their security, as well as benefit from Verizon's experience and resources.\"", "Corrie Mckeague was last seen entering a bin loading bay in Bury St Edmunds\n\nPolice investigating the disappearance of missing airman Corrie Mckeague are to resume a search of a landfill site.\n\nMr Mckeague has not been seen since he went on a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, in September 2016, when CCTV showed him entering a bin loading bay.\n\nSuffolk Police spent 20 weeks trawling through the landfill in Milton, near Cambridge, before calling off the search in July.\n\nThe search will restart this week and is expected to take up to six weeks.\n\nIt will focus on an area next to the site of the earlier search, which was identified as that most likely to contain Mr Mckeague.\n\nThe force said it took the decision to restart the search in conjunction with East Midlands Special Operations Unit, which is reviewing its investigation.\n\nDet Supt Katie Elliott, from the Suffolk force, said: \"We can't be 100% certain, and that's because of the variances there are with what happens to waste, but the information we have gathered has given us the case to go back there.\"\n\nShe said officers have \"explained fully\" why they are restarting the search to Mr Mckeague's family.\n\n\"They are pleased that there is a further active line of inquiry and some hope we may be able to provide the answers.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corrie Mckeague went missing after a night out in Bury St Edmunds\n\nCorrie Mckeague's girlfriend April Oliver (centre) announced the birth of their baby daughter on Father's Day\n\nMr Mckeague, who was 23 when he went missing, was last seen at 03:25 BST on 24 September 2016.\n\nThe gunner from Dunfermline, Fife, was out with friends from RAF Honington, where he is based.\n\nAlthough police established early on in the investigation his mobile phone tracked the same route as a bin lorry, the landfill search did not start until March.\n\nPolice later revealed Mr Mckeague had been known to sleep in bins during nights out.\n\nMaterial from the time and place of the serviceman's disappearance was found during the initial landfill search, but he was not found.\n\nIn June, Mr Mckeague's girlfriend April Oliver, from Norfolk, gave birth to their daughter Ellie-Louise.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MI5 chief Andrew Parker features on several of Tuesday's front pages\n\nThe Guardian leads with a warning from the head of MI5 that Britain is facing its most severe terror threat ever.\n\nThe paper says that Andrew Parker believes more attacks are inevitable.\n\nThe Daily Mail, which also has the story on its front page, says Mr Parker wants internet companies to do more to stop extremists using the \"safe spaces\" on the web to learn bomb-making techniques.\n\nThe BBC's decision to axe the evening edition of Crimewatch after more than three decades has been criticised in the Daily Telegraph as \"utter madness\" by the family of James Bulger.\n\nJames' stepfather Stuart Fergus, who also manages the James Bulger Memorial Trust, describes the programme as an institution and says it helped to bring justice for his stepson.\n\nIn the Times, the father of the murdered schoolboy Damilola Taylor has also called for the BBC to reconsider its decision.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph says that one of the City's most senior figures is warning that France and Germany risk starting a new global financial crisis - if they try to use Brexit as an excuse to dismantle London as one of the world's main financial centres.\n\nXavier Rolet, who is chief executive of the London Stock Exchange Group, warns Paris and Berlin against making \"a political point\".\n\nThe paper's business editor, Ben Wright, says that destabilisation of the City would undermine the whole global financial framework.\n\nAccording to the Daily Mail, sunflower oil is being tested to see if it could be used to fill cracks in the road to prevent potholes.\n\nThe paper says Highways England is carrying out the unusual trial after sunflower oil capsules were found to make roads \"self heal\" when added to asphalt.\n\nThe Mail says it costs more than £88 million each year to fill in the potholes in England's roads and - at about £1.15 a litre - the cooking oil is a cheaper alternative.\n\nThe Daily Mirror leads with research from the Financial Conduct Authority which suggests that a third of workers - 15 million people - are not paying into a pension.\n\nThe paper warns of what it calls a \"pension timebomb\" and says that many people will have to keep working into their 70s and 80s to make ends meet.\n\nAccording to the Daily Express, British researchers believe that a new once-a-day tablet could \"significantly\" improve the health of people with type 2 diabetes.\n\nThe paper says that semaglutide has the power to lower blood sugar and promote weight loss in just three months.\n\nOne of the lead researchers describes the findings as \"hugely promising\".\n\nAnd the Times reports that the Conservative MP, Tim Loughton, recommends an hour in the bath each morning to cleanse the body and clear the mind.\n\nMr Loughton, who is co-chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on mindfulness, was speaking at a conference exploring how meditation and greater self-awareness can improve the conduct of politics.\n\nHe admitted that an hour of topping up the hot water was not cheap - but added that \"one of the greatest causes of stress in the world was the invention of the shower\".", "Parts of Bombardier's C-Series planes are made in Belfast\n\nEuropean aerospace firm Airbus is to take a majority stake in Bombardier's C-Series jet project.\n\nBombardier has faced a series of problems over the plane, most recently a trade dispute in the US that imposed a 300% import tariff.\n\nBombardier's Northern Ireland's director Michael Ryan said the deal was \"great news\" for the Belfast operation.\n\nAbout 1,000 staff work on the C-Series at a purpose-built factory in Belfast, mostly making the plane's wings.\n\nAirbus and Bombardier's chief executives said the deal - which will see Airbus take a 50.01% stake - would help to boost sales.\n\nThe deal also gives Airbus the right to buy full control of the C-Series project in 2023.\n\nExperts have hailed the deal as hugely significant and described it as akin to a supervolcano exploding in the aviation world.\n\nBBC Northern Ireland's business and economics editor John Campbell said Airbus had effectively taken control of the C-Series project in a transformational deal.\n\nHe said it would use its financial muscle in procurement and sales, while Bombardier's manufacturing operations would continue to build the planes.\n\nIt's perhaps symptomatic of the difficulties the C-Series has faced that Airbus will not have to hand over any cash for its 50% stake.\n\nThe hope will be that Airbus' financial muscle will finally put an end to those difficulties.\n\nIn particular, Airbus thinks it can solve the C-Series tariff problem by assembling the plane for US customers inside the US at its factory in Alabama.\n\nBut, as trade expert Simon Lester of the Cato Institute pointed out to me, it may not be that straightforward.\n\nThat's because of something known as \"trade circumvention\" - in crude terms, when a company tries to avoid tariffs by superficially changing the country of origin of its products.\n\nWill the US trade authorities (and Boeing) see an Alabama-assembled C-Series as an attempt at circumvention?\n\nDavy Thompson, from the trade union Unite, said the deal was a \"welcome development\".\n\n\"My understanding of the deal, and what it means for Belfast, is the supply chain still seems to be what it is today, which would mean Belfast is integral to the overall process.\n\n\"That should, we believe, increase and assure people's jobs down in the C-Series plan, but there are still further challenges.\"\n\nHe said there were still some \"concerns\" over non-C-Series related contracts at Bombardier's Belfast plant, but the deal with Airbus should \"allow for more orders to be placed\" and help with long-term employment across the site.\n\nThe union GMB said it was potentially good news but that the \"devil was in the detail\".\n\n\"This deal is liable to further scrutiny from the US administration that may see it as an attempt to dodge their trade tariffs,\" said Ross Murdoch, GMB national officer.\n\n\"GMB hopes both Bombardier and Airbus have taken cast iron legal advice to ensure they don't get rid on one legal challenge only to open themselves up to another.\"\n\nBombardier was accused of anti-competitive practices by rival Boeing, which complained to the US authorities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The history of Bombardier in Northern Ireland\n\nBoeing accused the Canadian firm of selling the jets below cost price after taking state subsidies from Canada and the UK.\n\nThe firm said the agreement with Airbus \"looks like a questionable deal between two heavily state-subsidized competitors to skirt the recent findings of the US government\".\n\n\"Our position remains that everyone should play by the same rules for free and fair trade to work,\" 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 Phil Musser This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPhil Musser, Boeing's senior vice president of communications, tweeted: \"If @Airbus and @Bombardier think this deal will get them around the rules...#thinkagain\"\n\nUK Business Secretary Greg Clark said the Airbus tie-up was a \"positive step forward\".\n\nA US import tax on Bombardier jets could threaten jobs at the firm's Belfast factory\n\nMr Clark said the UK and Canadian governments had been working to \"safeguard jobs and manufacturing at Bombardier Shorts in Belfast, and the supply chain across the UK\".\n\nThe government was still pushing for a \"swift resolution\" to the Boeing dispute, he added.\n\nArlene Foster, leader of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, said she hoped the deal would \"safeguard\" the C-Series programme.\n\n\"I'm thrilled there is a bright future ahead following what has been a dark time for staff and management,\" she added.\n\nSinn Féin's Stormont leader Michelle O'Neill said the deal was a \"good news story for Bombardier\" that would \"come as a relief to the workers and their families and all those local businesses involved in the Bombardier supply chain\".\n\nLabour's Owen Smith, the shadow Northern Ireland secretary, said the deal \"looked good for both Bombardier and Belfast\".\n\n\"Boeing's bullying has united its rivals and hopefully secured the jobs,\" he tweeted.\n\nThe French government, which owns an 11% stake in Airbus, also welcomed the deal.\n\nFrench Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said it made Airbus and the European aircraft manufacturing industry \"stronger\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duchess of Cambridge and Paddington danced on Monday\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's third child is due in April, Kensington Palace says.\n\nIt said the couple were \"delighted\". They already have two children: Prince George, who is four, and his younger sister Charlotte, who is two.\n\nAs with her previous pregnancies, the duchess has suffered from hyperemesis gravidarum, or severe morning sickness.\n\nThe new baby will be fifth in line to the throne, after its grandfather, father and older siblings.\n\nThe duchess is expected to give birth at the private Lindo wing of St Mary's hospital in Paddington, where her other children were born.\n\nAn official visit to Norway and Sweden, planned for November, has been delayed until early 2018 because of Catherine's sickness.\n\nHowever, Prince William is going ahead with a solo trip to Finland in November.\n\nThe duchess joined Paddington Bear for a dance on a station platform during a surprise visit to a charity event on Monday.\n\nThe new baby will be fifth in line to the throne", "It is not yet known how Capt Christopher Butcher (right), who was 35 years old, died\n\nThe \"hero\" son of former England football captain Terry Butcher has died, his family has confirmed.\n\nEx-Army Capt Christopher Butcher, who had served in Afghanistan, died on Monday morning.\n\nAnnouncing the death on Facebook, his younger brother Ed described him as a \"hero\" and said he was the \"best brother\" he could have had.\n\n\"His death has hit the entire family hard,\" Mr Butcher, who lives in Southampton, added.\n\nCapt Butcher, who was 35, had served with the Royal Artillery.\n\nHis father, former Ipswich Town and Rangers defender Terry Butcher, who lives in Suffolk, has previously voiced his pride in his son's military service.\n\n\"The family are together and we will release the dates of the funeral in due time,\" Ed Butcher said.\n\n\"We know how greatly he was loved and we're sorry that we can't call every person who knew him to tell them.\n\n\"Chris you were my hero, you were my best friend and you were someone I would throw myself in the way of a truck for.\n\n\"This is for you and thank you for everything you ever taught me and I will miss you for the rest of my life but you will never be forgotten.\"\n\nOn his Facebook biography, Capt Butcher had written: \"Left the Army and now just a moody bitter vet.\"\n\nIpswich Town, for whom Terry Butcher made more than 250 appearances in the 1970s and 1980s, tweeted: \"The thoughts of everyone at #ITFC are with Terry Butcher and his family following the sad news of the passing of his son, Christopher.\"\n\nEast Anglian rivals Norwich City said: \"Everyone at Norwich City would like to pass on our condolences to Terry Butcher and his family at this sad time.\"\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.", "Charity Homeless Link said using one-way train tickets could leave rough sleepers \"more isolated\"\n\nA number of councils in England are regularly buying one-way train tickets for homeless people out of their area, the Victoria Derbyshire show has found.\n\nSome spent more than £1,000 a year on fares and charity Homeless Link called the scale \"worrying\".\n\nThe strategy can be used to reconnect rough sleepers with family, but one man said he was offered a ticket to a city he had never been to before.\n\nThe government said it was investing £550 million to tackle homelessness.\n\nThere were 4,134 people sleeping on the streets in England in 2016 - a 130% rise in six years, government figures suggest. The charity Crisis says this is a significant underestimate.\n\nTwenty councils with the highest number of rough sleepers in England were asked - some by Freedom of Information request - how many homeless people had been offered the \"reconnection\" policy of a one-way train ticket between 2012 and 2017.\n\nOf the 11 that responded, 10 said they had bought such tickets.\n\nManchester City Council - which had 78 rough sleepers in 2016 - said it had spent £9,928 on reconnecting homeless people in six years, but did not keep a record of how many people this involved.\n\nGareth Glendall-Pickton said being offered a one-way train ticket was \"soul-destroying\"\n\nIn Bournemouth - which had 39 rough sleepers in 2016 - the council said it had arranged 144 reconnections in three-and-a-half years.\n\nOne rough sleeper, Gareth Glendall-Pickton - who grew up in the seaside town - claimed he was recently offered a ticket to Manchester, where he did not know anyone and had never been to previously.\n\n\"It made me feel sick,\" he explained. \"I've lived here all my life... it's soul-destroying.\n\n\"I think what they want to do is to get the homeless people out of Bournemouth, because all the new people coming to the area are seeing all those homeless people sitting there.\n\n\"[The council] see it as making Bournemouth a bad place.\"\n\nSoup kitchen owner Claire Matthews described the buying of one-way tickets as a form of \"social cleansing\"\n\nClaire Matthews, who runs the local soup kitchen Hope for Food, described the practice as \"social cleansing, and an abdication of any responsibility on [the council's] part\".\n\nBournemouth Borough Council said it only offered one-way tickets to homeless people who did not have a local connection to the area and \"where it can be proven that the service user can be safely reconnected back to their area of locality\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nElsewhere, Bristol City Council said it had offered 167 homeless people a one-way bus, train or plane ticket since 2014 - saying the option was only suggested if accommodation had been confirmed in the new area.\n\nIt said: \"As a minimum a housing options appointment is set up with the local authority in the area\".\n\nThe charity Homeless Link described the Victoria Derbyshire programme's findings as \"worrying\".\n\nIts chief executive Rick Henderson said that if \"a person has a support network in a different area, then helping them reconnect can help to end their rough sleeping\".\n\nBut he added: \"Simply displacing rough sleepers without offering support is not solving the issue, and at worst can exacerbate their situation, leaving them more isolated and at risk of deteriorating physical and mental health.\"\n\nHomeless Link argued that while tight resources may impact councils' homeless services, vulnerable people should be able to seek support wherever they were and regardless of whether they had a local connection.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Communities and Local Government said: \"Even one person without a roof over their head is too many.\n\n\"That's why this government is investing £550 million to 2020 to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping, as well as implementing the Homelessness Reduction Act, which will require councils to provide early support to people at risk of becoming homeless.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.", "Many of the front pages have pictures of the effects of Storm Ophelia. The Guardian and the i show crowds watching as huge waves crash into the harbour wall and lighthouse at Porthcawl in south Wales.\n\n\"Rage of Ophelia\" is the headline in the i. For the Star, it's \"Hell Storm\".\n\nThe orange skies produced by the dust and debris blown in by Ophelia are widely featured.\n\nIt was, the Mail says, the day Britain turned orange. The Times and the Sun describe the phenomenon as \"Red October\".\n\nAccording to the lead in the Times, new peerages will have a 15-year time limit under a plan to shrink the House of Lords.\n\nThe proposal is being put forward by the Lords committee given the task of cutting membership of the chamber.\n\nIts report - to be published later this month - will also call on political parties and crossbenchers to commit to reducing their numbers in stages, the paper adds.\n\nAn apparent plan by the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, to carry out a Budget raid on older voters to pay for tax breaks for younger workers goes down badly.\n\nRoss Clark in the Daily Express describes it as \"madness\".\n\nHe says the idea, which would promote \"inter-generational fairness\", ignores the plight of pensioners who have lost out on interest on their savings for nearly a decade.\n\nThe size of the House of Commons is the focus of the Telegraph's main story.\n\nIt concludes that had the latest Boundary Commission review of parliamentary constituencies been implemented in time for the election in June, the Conservatives would have won an overall majority.\n\nThe review would also have delivered on a government pledge to cut the number of MPs by 50 - and the paper's leader column says a smaller House would ensure fairness, giving every constituency a roughly equal number of voters.\n\nThe Daily Mail's lead says cannabis growers are routinely being let off by police.\n\nEven those cultivating plants potentially worth tens of thousands of pounds are escaping with cautions, it adds.\n\nA spokesman for the Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers in England and Wales, tells the paper that forces have to prioritise crime.\n\n\"Looking at drugs, we have to put the most resources into tackling the ones that cause the most harm to society, and they are not cannabis\", he says.\n\nThe Sun reports that Crimewatch has been axed after 33 years.\n\nIt says BBC bosses are thought to have pulled the plug on the show because of falling ratings - and they also want to spend more on dramas instead.\n\nBut, the paper adds, the decision is expected to cause anger among police forces.\n\nIn response, the BBC says the move will allow it to create room for more innovative programmes in peak time - but Crimewatch Roadshow, which is shown during the daytime, will continue.", "Game of Thrones actress Lena Headey, who plays Cersei Lannister on the popular HBO show, has accused producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment.\n\nThe Hollywood mogul was \"furious\" after she resisted his sexual advances, she details in a series of Twitter posts.\n\nThe British actress joins a list of over 40 women who have accused the producer of misconduct.\n\nAlso on Tuesday, Weinstein resigned from the board of directors of his eponymous film production company.\n\nHe has been accused of rape, sexual assault and harassment, but has \"unequivocally denied\" any allegations of non-consensual relationships.\n\nDespite being fired as chairman of The Weinstein Company studio on 8 October he had continued until Tuesday to hold a position on the company's board.\n\nWeinstein, who has been expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that present the Oscar awards, still owns 22% of his company's stock, according to Variety magazine.\n\nAmid the fallout over the Weinstein accusations, Roy Price, the head of Amazon Studios, also resigned on Tuesday over allegations of sexual harassment, according to US media.\n\nMr Price took a \"leave of absence\" last Thursday after Isa Hackett, a producer on the Amazon series The Man in the High Castle, told the Hollywood Reporter he allegedly sexually harassed her in 2015.\n\nHarvey Weinstein was one of the most powerful men in Hollywood\n\nIn her Twitter posts, Headey described sharing a lift with Weinstein after he had invited her to his room to show her a script.\n\n\"The lift was going up and I said to Harvey, 'I'm not interested in anything other than work, please don't think I got in here with you for any other reason, nothing is going to happen,'\" she recalled.\n\n\"I don't know what possessed me to speak out at that moment, only that I had such a strong sense of don't come near me.\n\n\"He was silent after I spoke, furious.\n\n\"He walked me back to the lift by grabbing and holding tightly to the back of my arm,\" she said, adding that she felt \"completely powerless\".\n\nAfter he allegedly \"whispered\" that she should not tell anyone about the encounter, she writes: \"I got into my car and cried.\"\n\nHeadey's story comes as other Hollywood actresses shared their stories of sexual harassment and impropriety in show business.\n\nOn Monday, Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon said she had been harassed by an unnamed film director when she was 16 years old, during a speech to the Elle Women in Hollywood event.\n\nJennifer Lawrence, who has won a Best Actress Oscar, spoke at the same event and described a casting call where she was made to stand nude in front of producers who criticised her weight.\n\n\"After that degrading and humiliating line-up, the female producer told me I should use the naked photos of myself as inspiration for my diet,\" the star of Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle told the Los Angeles audience.\n\nDreamWorks film studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg meanwhile told a Wall Street Journal conference of Weinstein: \"Make no mistake about it: he is a monster.\"\n\nHe added Weinstein had been protected by other men around him, who he described as \"a pack of wolves\".\n\nJeffrey Katzenberg pictured with Harvey Weinstein at a charity event in 2005\n\nScreenwriter Scott Rosenberg also got involved by writing a Facebook post about his early days at Miramax Films.\n\nHe wrote the movies Beautiful Girls and Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead at the time Weinstein's profile was rising in the film industry.\n\nIn his post, he said that while he never heard any rape allegations, he was aware of Weinstein's \"dreadful\" behaviour - and said \"everybody\" else knew, too.\n\n\"I was there. And I saw you. And I talked about it with you,\" he wrote. \"You, the big producers; you, the big directors; you, the big agents; you, the big financiers.\n\n\"And you, the big rival studio chiefs; you, the big actors; you, the big actresses; you, the big models.\n\n\"You, the big journalists; you, the big screenwriters; you, the big rock stars; you, the big restaurateurs; you, the big politicians.\"\n\nHe said others chose to ignore what was going on because they were enjoying themselves and because women were told it would ruin their careers if they said anything.\n\nAt the end of the piece, Rosenberg apologised for not doing anything.\n\n\"I reaped the rewards and I kept my mouth shut,\" he said. \"And for that, once again, I am sorry.\"\n\nBeautiful Girls actress Lauren Holly has also come forward, sharing her story of harassment, describing an encounter she had with Weinstein.\n\nThe pair arranged a meeting in a hotel, which she didn't find \"abnormal at all\" because she had routinely met producers, writers and directors in their suites.\n\nShe described the early stages of the meeting as normal, but said things turned sour when Weinstein walked into the hotel suite \"wearing a hotel bathrobe\".\n\n\"He said, 'OK, let's get to it, this is what we've got going on at my company, these are the scripts we have in the pipeline, this is what I think might be right for you,' and he gestured for me to follow him.\"\n\nHolly recounted that she followed him into the bedroom part of the suite as he continued talking.\n\nWeinstein then showered and, when he emerged, was naked and started to approach her.\n\nHolly said she started to run away, but that Weinstein began to threaten her, saying she needed to \"keep him as [her] ally\" and that it would be a \"bad decision\" if she left the room.\n\nAt that point, Holly said, she \"pushed him and ran\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK's key inflation rate hit its highest for more than five years in September, driven up by increases in transport and food prices.\n\nThe Consumer Prices Index (CPI) climbed to 3%, a level it last reached in April 2012, and up from 2.9% in August.\n\nThe pick-up in inflation raises the likelihood of an increase in interest rates - currently 0.25% - next month.\n\nThe figures are significant because state pension payments from April 2018 will rise in line with September's CPI.\n\nUnder the \"triple lock\" guarantee, the basic state pension rises by a rate equal to September's CPI rate, earnings growth or 2.5%, whichever is the greatest.\n\nAt the moment, the full new state pension is £159.55 per week, equivalent to £8,296.60 per year.\n\nBusiness rates will go up by September's Retail Prices Index (RPI) of 3.9%.\n\nThe fall in the pound since last year's Brexit vote has been one factor behind the rise in the inflation rate, as the cost of imported goods has risen.\n\nONS head of inflation Mike Prestwood said: \"Food prices and a range of transport costs helped to push up inflation in September. These effects were partly offset by clothing prices that rose less strongly than this time last year.\"\n\nInflation has hit a five year high and is now 0.9% above the rate of wage growth - meaning that the incomes squeeze is becoming tighter.\n\nAnd if you are employed in the public sector - where pay rises are capped at 1% - or rely on benefits - which are frozen - that squeeze is even tighter.\n\nWith poor economic growth figures and uncertainty over the Brexit process, the Bank of England's decision on whether to raise interest rates next month is finely balanced.\n\nYes, \"price stability\" is the main purpose of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee which makes the decision.\n\nBut many believe that inflation may now have peaked as the effects of sterling's depreciation following the referendum dissipate.\n\nAn interest rate rise now, which increases prices for millions of mortgage holders and could dampen economic activity, could be just the medicine the economy doesn't need.\n\nThe Bank of England is tasked with keeping CPI inflation at 2%, and last month its governor, Mark Carney, indicated interest rates could rise in the \"relatively near term\" if the economy continued on its current path.\n\nThe governor of the Bank of England has to write a letter of explanation to the chancellor if the inflation rate is more than 1% either side of the 2% target.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Carney told MPs on the Treasury Committee that \"inflation rising potentially above the 3% level in the coming months is something we have anticipated\", because of the fall in the value of the pound.\n\nHe said he expected inflation to peak in October or November, and at that point he thought it would be \"more likely than not that I would be writing on behalf of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) a letter to the chancellor.\"\n\nLaith Khalaf, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: \"The tick upwards in inflation will increase expectations of a rate rise from the Bank of England later on this year, stoked by a flurry of hawkish rhetoric coming from Threadneedle Street.\"\n\nHowever, he added, it is not a foregone conclusion, \"so it's probably best not to count those chickens until they're hatched\".\n\nSuren Thiru, head of economics at the British Chambers of Commerce, said the Bank of England's policymakers \"should resist the temptation to raise interest rates, particularly during this period of heightened political uncertainty\".\n\n\"Raising rates before the UK economy is ready risks undermining consumer and business confidence, weakening the UK growth prospects further,\" he said.\n\nPensioners will be celebrating again. Today's CPI inflation figure means they will get a 3% rise next April, their largest pension increase for six years.\n\nThose on the new state pension will see their weekly income rise to £164.\n\nCompare that to workers, who've seen their earnings rise by 2.1% over the last year.\n\nThis is all thanks to the triple lock, which sees the state pension rise by the highest of earnings, prices or 2.5%.\n\nFood for thought for the chancellor, perhaps, who's reported to be considering tax concessions for younger people in his forthcoming budget, to even-up the inter-generational unfairness that the triple lock has contributed to.\n\nThe 2.5% element of the triple lock is due to be dropped in 2021.", "The Scout hut in Castle Douglas lost its roof in the high winds\n\nWinds gusting at more than 70mph and heavy rain have hit parts of Scotland as the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia reached the UK and Ireland.\n\nThe Met Office has extended an amber \"be prepared\" warning to cover the south-west of the country. It is valid from 12:00 to 23:00.\n\nA yellow \"be aware\" warning remains in place across much of southern and central Scotland.\n\nA further alert of strong winds is in place for many areas on Tuesday.\n\nOphelia reached Ireland early on Monday with gusts of almost 100mph (161km/h) reported on the south coast.\n\nBy Monday evening, gusts of 73mph were recorded in south-west Scotland.\n\nPolice Scotland said the storm was affecting Dumfries and Galloway with a number of trees being blown down in the region.\n\nIn Castle Douglas, high winds blew the roof off a Scout hut. The roof then became stuck on top of a nearby church.\n\nResidents living near the hut in Blackpark Road, Douglas Court Drive and Jubilee Terrace are being asked to remain indoors.\n\nThe A74 near to Castle Douglas was earlier closed after a tree came down over the road.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Scotland Weather This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Dumfries and Galloway Virtual Operations and Support Team said: \"Police Scotland are warning the public that they are currently dealing with a high number of calls from the public in relation to the effects of Storm Ophelia.\n\n\"Reports of trees down, roofs blown off buildings and other damage would indicate that the storm is now taking effect. Calls are incoming from Castle Douglas in the east through to Mull of Galloway in the west.\"\n\nPolice Scotland has advised against all but essential travel in the Galloway region.\n\nImages captured by the University of Dundee satellite receiving station show the scale of the storm\n\nGusts of up to 60mph are expected to hit the Glasgow area in the early hours of Tuesday morning.\n\nWeather experts predict the high winds will then move across eastern parts of the country.\n\nOn Sunday, the Met Office issued Northern Ireland with an amber \"potential danger to life\" warning.\n\nThat was subsequently extended to cover Dumfries and Galloway, Lothian and Borders and Strathclyde.\n\nEdinburgh Airport said its flights to Ireland had been cancelled but all others were unaffected.\n\nSP Energy Networks said it had a team of engineers on standby to tackle any power cuts.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency has issued a series of flood alerts and warnings for the south west of Scotland.\n\nDavid Faichney, duty flood manager, said: \"The storm this evening is expected to cause significant disruption to some coastal communities in the Solway Coast and Firth of Clyde.\n\n\"A combination of tidal surge and large waves will cause overtopping along exposed coastal areas, particularly the Mull of Galloway.\n\n\"Impacts are expected to coincide with high tide around 10pm this evening until the early hours of Tuesday.\"\n\nTransport Minister Humza Yousaf said disruption should be expected during rush hour on Monday evening and on Tuesday morning.\n\n\"The impacts will be felt at evening peak today across the west and then in central and southern Scotland the morning peak will probably feel some impact as well,\" he told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"The main message to commuters is when that yellow warning kicks in from 12:00 today, right the way through to effectively 15:00 tomorrow in different parts of Scotland, do check the Traffic Scotland website.\n\n\"Expect disruption whether you're on the trunk road network, ferries, whether you're taking a flight and even of course on the trains as well. Do expect some level of disruption so check ahead.\"\n\nThe Met Office warned on Sunday that areas covered by the weather warnings could see longer journey times with possible cancellations to rail, air and ferry services.\n\nThe forecaster added: \"Some damage to buildings, such as tiles blown from roofs could happen, perhaps leading to injuries and danger to life from flying debris.\n\n\"Coastal routes, sea fronts and coastal communities may be affected by spray and/or large waves.\"\n\nThe charity RNLI said the weather conditions could make seas around coastal areas \"particularly dangerous and unpredictable\".\n\nMeanwhile, Scottish airline Loganair has offered free flight changes to customers who face weather disruption on some of its west coast routes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWeather warnings have been lifted after the storm caused by the remnants of Ophelia moved away from the UK.\n\nSome 50,000 UK homes lost power during the storm - mainly in Northern Ireland - but most have been reconnected.\n\nHowever, in the Republic of Ireland, where three people died in the storm on Monday, about 170,000 customers are still without power. It could take days for all their supplies to be restored.\n\nSome 69,000 people are also without water in Ireland.\n\nHouseholds in the worst affected areas have been asked to conserve water.\n\nFather-of-two Fintan Goss, 33, was killed near Ravensdale, County Louth, when a car he was in was struck by a tree.\n\nClare O'Neill, 58, died when a tree fell on her car in strong winds near Aglish Village in County Waterford.\n\nMichael Pyke, 31, died in an incident when he was clearing a fallen tree with a chainsaw in County Tipperary.\n\nTrees felled in the storm have blocked roads and train lines\n\nThe front of a block of flats in Glasgow that had been due to be demolished was brought down\n\nDebris and fallen trees will continue to cause problems\n\nIn Northern Ireland, flights and ferries were cancelled as a result of the storm, and many roads are still closed due to fallen trees.\n\nMore than 400 incidents of weather-related damage in the country have left people without electricity - mainly in Counties Down, Armagh and Antrim. About 1,800 have yet to be reconnected.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland were closed for two days but are due to reopen on Wednesday.\n\nThree floors of the unoccupied building in Glasgow were damaged in the partial collapse\n\nIn Scotland, a clear-up is under way after roofs were torn off and trees brought down overnight, causing disruption to some rail services.\n\nIn Glasgow, part of a derelict block of flats already earmarked for partial demolition collapsed overnight, and a Scouts hall roof was blown off in Dumfries and Galloway as the region took the brunt of winds up to 77mph (123km/h).\n\nIn south-west Scotland, 600 homes were without power on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nSome train services in northern England have been disrupted as a result of trees falling across railway lines, including on the line between Halifax and Bradford Interchange.\n\nMore than 130 trees were cleared from roads on the Isle of Man.\n\nThe Irish Republic's Electricity Supply Board said help from Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK was expected to be drafted in on Wednesday to help restore power.\n\nCrews are already working to fix power lines but officials have warned that repairs will take several days, and up to 10 in the worst-hit areas.\n\nThe Health Service Executive in the country said there had been a significant impact on health services.\n\nAnd it warned of disruption in the \"coming days\", with some cancellations and delays expected to appointments and discharges from hospital.\n\nA stadium roof in Cork was damaged in the storm\n\nCentral London was among the places where a reddish could be spotted on Monday\n\nStrong winds of up to 70mph (112km/h) wreaked havoc in Cumbria on Monday night, damaging the roof of Barrow AFC's stadium and forcing police to close roads in the town.\n\nCumbria Police said they had reports of roofs and debris on the roads and overhead cables coming down - and it urged people to make only essential travel.\n\nOphelia was not only responsible for stormy weather - it also drew tropical air and dust from the Sahara, causing a reddish sky and red-looking sun throughout parts of the UK on Monday.\n\nThe charity Asthma UK warned the phenomenon could trigger \"potentially fatal asthma attacks\" and advised at the time that severe sufferers should stay indoors.\n\nAre you affected by Hurricane Ophelia? E-mail your stories and pictures to haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease do not put yourself in any danger to take images and please heed all safety warnings.\n\nYou can also contact us in the following ways:", "Nev Cartwright has been left with complications including chronic infections and emphysema.\n\nEvery month 60,000 ill and disabled people have their needs assessed for benefits. Some are so worried about the process that they are using mobile phones to secretly record those interviews, critics say. But using that evidence to overturn a decision is not straightforward.\n\nIn 2015, Nev Cartwright sat down with his specialist at a hospital in Leeds. He was told his hacking cough and breathing difficulties were caused by a tumour in his left lung. He was 45.\n\nSince then he has had three operations and a lung removed. Nev was awarded the highest rate of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) - a benefit meant to pay for the extra costs of his condition.\n\nBut a year later he received a letter saying the DLA was being replaced by a new benefit, the Personal Independence Payment, and his needs would have to be reassessed by a private company.\n\nThe night before his assessment he watched a documentary which questioned how they were being conducted.\n\n\"I was really nervous about it and made the decision to audio record the interview covertly. It was a safeguard, an accurate record of what had taken place,\" he says.\n\nThe face-to-face assessment is typically an interview with a health professional, such as a nurse or paramedic, lasting between 30 and 90 minutes. It can also include basic medical tests and a physical examination.\n\nThe claimant is assessed depending on their ability to complete day-to-day tasks. That report is sent to an official at the DWP who will then decide the final level of disability benefit that person is awarded.\n\nBut things did not go as planned. Nev says he had misgivings from the start but it was only later, when he saw the assessor's final report, that he realised something was seriously wrong.\n\n\"Some details discussed in the interview were not in the report and others were completely altered,\" he says.\n\n\"She said she'd done a physical examination of my mobility. It was very evident on the audio recording, that she never did that at all.\"\n\nOn his phone recording you can clearly hear the assessor carrying out a peak test to measure his lung function, and reading out the data.\n\nBut in the final report, his last reading appears to have doubled from 150 L/min to 300 L/min, making him seem better than he actually was.\n\n\"I totally agree that anyone entitled to benefits should have their needs assessed,\" he says. \"But everyone deserves just and fair treatment.\"\n\nAfter his interview Nev had his disability payments cut and had to return the car paid for by the mobility element of his benefits.\n\nHe wrote to the DWP and told them about his recording, sending them a written transcript put together by an independent firm.\n\nClaimants can record their assessments but only if they provide tamper-proof equipment like this, which can cost £1,500.\n\nUnder government rules, secret or covert recording like this is banned. If it is spotted, the claimant is told to stop. If they refuse it is likely that their benefit application will be rejected.\n\nThe government tried to get his recording thrown out before his appeal at tribunal.\n\nBut exceptionally, in his case the judge agreed a transcript could be entered into evidence. He went on to win his case and his car was eventually returned.\n\n\"I've wasted 12 months of my life in an unfair fight with a government department and the people who work for it,\" he said.\n\nThe private company which carried out his assessment says its \"high standards were not met on this occasion\" and it has now changed the way it gathers evidence in cases like this.\n\nCritics of the assessment process say formal audio recording of all PIP interviews should be mandatory and available to both sides.\n\n\"It would remove the distrust and give so much transparency to everyone,\" said Tony Lea, lead welfare rights officer at Benefit Resolutions, a disability advocacy service which has been campaigning for a rule change.\n\nAs things stand the official rules are complex.\n\nA claimant does have the right to ask for a PIP interview to be formally taped and used as evidence, but unlike other disability benefits like ESA, they have to provide their own equipment.\n\nThis must be a secure, tamper-proof double recorder which can cost as much as £1,500. A mobile phone, digital recorder or dictaphone does not meet the requirements.\n\nIn March, a major independent review of the PIP system commissioned by the government recommended switching to compulsory audio recordings with an opt-out for people who do not want it.\n\nThe government says it is \"considering the results\" of a pilot of recording in the West Midlands.\n\nA spokesman for the DWP said: \"Anyone is free to record their face-to-face consultation, but it must be done in a way that best protects both claimants and assessors.\"\n\nNev says his experience shows that some vulnerable people need more protection.\n\n\"I should probably be more diplomatic but I think the whole system is a mess,\" he adds.\n\n\"The importance for me of getting that audio recording into evidence was the potential to help other people in the future.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "\"Black is Cool\": Sebastian Kurz (sitting, centre) in a campaign photo in 2011\n\nIn Austria they call him \"Wunderwuzzi\" - meaning \"whizzkid\" or \"hotshot\".\n\nAt just 31, the conservative Sebastian Kurz is poised to become Europe's youngest leader, after giving the Austrian People's Party a dramatic makeover.\n\nNo detail is too small for the ambitious young politician eyeing the summit of political power.\n\nIn 2011 Mr Kurz posed on a jeep for a \"Black is Cool\" party campaign - when black was the party colour. But for this election, in which he emerged the clear winner, he made the party turquoise, in a big rebranding exercise.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The spotlight was on Sebastian Kurz in Austria's general election\n\nThe new colour obviously worked. But what else has propelled charismatic young politicians into power in recent years?\n\nMr Kurz is the latest youngster to take his country's political establishment by storm and shake it up.\n\nFrance elected President Emmanuel Macron, just 39, who revolutionised politics by launching a new liberal party, La République En Marche! (LREM). Just weeks after his presidential election triumph came LREM's clear victory in parliamentary elections.\n\nHe is France's youngest head of state since Napoleon.\n\nIn 2014 Italy got its youngest ever prime minister - Matteo Renzi, then aged 39 too. Like Mr Macron, he had never served in parliament, and was a novice in national politics.\n\nBut little Estonia upstaged even those \"Wunderkind\" examples. The vaulting political ambition of Taavi Roivas made him prime minister in 2014-2016, and he is still only 38.\n\nTheir success proves that voters are looking for much more than experience when they elect politicians. Youth and charisma clearly count for a lot, along with persuasive campaign rhetoric.\n\nSome fear that in this digital age, dominated by powerful images and social media, style may often triumph over substance in politics.\n\n\"They look slick, but do they have the same amount of substance?\" asks Kadri Liik, an Estonian political expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations think-tank.\n\n\"I sometimes fear what I call a 'davidcameronisation' of Estonian politics: politicians who look good, speak well, mean well, but lack true seriousness,\" she told the BBC.\n\nShe deplored a \"tendency to believe that life is all about PR [public relations], performance, speeches and party politics\".\n\nDavid Cameron's defeat in the UK's 2016 Brexit referendum was a PR disaster - for a man who had been a PR professional before rising to the top of British politics.\n\nWunderwuzzi's smart casual image showed he had a shrewd sense that young Austrians were yearning for political change.\n\nA penchant for open collars and swept-back hair conveyed a boyish image - not like the decades-old stereotype of Austrian coalition wheeling and dealing by men in grey suits.\n\nSmart casual was also the look of Matteo Renzi. His pose in a white T-shirt and leather jacket led The Guardian to ask if Mr Renzi was modelling himself on \"The Fonz\", star of the US hit sitcom Happy Days.\n\nSophie Gaston, deputy director of the British think-tank Demos, says this new breed of political leaders \"share an understanding of the modern forces at play in campaigning - particularly their grasp of digital and social media - and how to harness these to connect directly with voters\".\n\n\"This sets them apart from 'traditional' political elites in mainstream parties.\"\n\nMr Kurz, Mr Macron and Mr Renzi all rose through established party structures, but managed to convince voters that they were a breath of fresh air, intent on serious reform.\n\nIn that respect, Ms Gaston told the BBC, they have connected with many voters' rejection of the political establishment, especially since the 2008 financial crash.\n\n\"They are either seen as untainted by affiliation to this political hegemony or, as in the case of Macron, willing to take risks and challenge political orthodoxy.\"\n\nBarack Obama projected a sporty image early on - even before becoming president\n\nTheir communication skills enabled them to outmanoeuvre far-right and far-left populist parties which, Ms Gaston said, were quick to exploit social media.\n\nIndeed, the far-right Freedom Party in Austria accuses Mr Kurz of stealing its thunder on immigration controls.\n\nProjecting a fit and healthy image is a feature of these leaders' success.\n\nOn the presidential campaign trail in 2008 Barack Obama played basketball in a photo opportunity in Indiana.\n\nAnd as president he was often seen on the golf course - now something of a cliché for US presidents.\n\nMany leaders today have been photographed jogging, including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a youthful 45.\n\nBut Robyn Urback of Canadian national broadcaster CBC complained \"we keep falling for Trudeau's PR\".\n\nIt was no accident, she wrote, that his personal photographer snapped him jogging past \"a group of kids taking pictures on the boardwalk\". It made for a nice \"feel good\" picture.\n\nMr Macron also has a keen eye for image management. Just before his official photo shoot in the Elysee Palace he was filmed obsessively leafing through a book to find just the right page, so that it could be shown open and impressive on his desk.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Behind the scenes: Mr Macron takes care of the little things...\n\nWe are living in a time of \"general dissatisfaction with the status quo of politics\", says Prof Catherine de Vries, a European politics expert at Essex University.\n\nFor decades, she told the BBC, ambitious politicians had to work their way up the party ranks - but that is no longer the case.\n\nThey do, however, need \"extreme drive - it's not a nine-to-five job\". Youth is an asset, she said, along with vision and a will to change the system.\n\nMatteo Renzi was known as Il Rottamatore (\"The Scrapper\") because he fought the centre-left Democratic Party establishment. \"I didn't want to submit to their rules,\" he said.\n\nMr Macron abandoned the Socialists when he realised he could woo a vast number of discontented voters outside the party.\n\nBut his popularity has slumped in recent months.\n\nSo the acid test of the new leaders is whether they can walk the walk, as well as talk the talk.", "Sainsbury's has said it will cut up to 2,000 jobs from its human resources staff as part of plans to reduce costs.\n\nThe UK's second biggest supermarket chain says the \"difficult decision\" will affect roles in stores, as well as in the company's central offices.\n\nIt plans to make 1,400 payroll and HR clerks redundant and other changes could see another 600 posts removed.\n\nSainsbury's is looking to save £500m amid fierce competition from discounters and rising food costs.\n\nThe majority of the headcount losses will be from within its supermarket stores.\n\nThe 600 roles on which the group is consulting are predominantly HR roles across the supermarket chain, its newly acquired Argos chain, as well as Sainsbury's bank.\n\nSainsbury's also owns Habitat, and employs nearly 200,000 people in total.\n\nIt said it would offer affected staff alternative roles wherever possible, or redundancy packages.\n\nShopworkers union Usdaw said it would support Sainsbury's staff and look at the company's business case for the plans.\n\nSainsbury's said last November it aimed to reduce its running costs by £500m within three years. Earlier this year, in March, it said it would cut 400 jobs.\n\nIts biggest rival Tesco is also shrinking its headcount. Tesco said in June that it would cut 1,200 jobs from its head office, just days after revealing that more than a thousand jobs were going at its Cardiff call centre.\n\nAll the big established grocers are juggling rising costs and increased competition from the discounters.\n\nIt's hard to keep pace with the scale of cost cutting and restructuring underway at Britain's biggest grocers.\n\nAnd with the competition still cut throat from the discounters, they can't afford to recover those costs by putting up prices too much for the consumer.\n\nSainsbury's and its other main rivals are all trying to reduce operating costs and simplify their businesses to make them more efficient. It's a big, structural, shift and painful for all those affected.\n\nFigures released earlier on Tuesday by Kantar Worldpanel showed Lidl and Aldi adding sales in the double digits, while established giants were growing sales by around 2%.\n\nEven so, Tesco has 28% of the UK's grocery market, while Sainsbury has just short of 16%.\n\nSainsbury's latest figures, released in July, were its best in four years, with same store sales up by 2.3%.\n\nA Sainsbury's spokesman said the UK grocery market was \"changing at a rapid pace\" and meant the firm needed to \"transform the way we operate\".\n\nHe said the supermarket was proposing updates to its HR systems and changes to a number of other support roles as part of a consultation.\n\n\"This has been a difficult decision and we appreciate that this will be a tough time for those colleagues affected by the changes. We will support them in any way we can,\" he added.", "China is pouring billions of pounds' worth of investment into Greece and other Balkan countries to create a \"New Silk Road\" from the Mediterranean into the heart of the European Union.\n\nThe initiative, called One Belt One Road (OBOR) involves the transformation and upgrading of harbours, airports, roads and rail across the Balkans. The Chinese have also bought industries, including a steel factory near the Serbian capital, Belgrade.\n\nBut there are concerns that the European Union (EU) might eventually object to the level of investment if it poses a significant Chinese threat to European industries.\n\nLast year, the Chinese state-owned company Cosco purchased a controlling stake in the port of Piraeus, near Athens. The company is investing 385 million euros (£343m) in Piraeus to maximise both capacity and trade with the EU.\n\nNektarios Demenopoulos of the Piraeus Port Authority says Chinese investment has boomed\n\nPiraeus has always been of immense interest to the Chinese. Its geographical position means it is the first major port for shipments emerging from the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean, and its depth allows it to take the biggest container ships.\n\nNektarios Demenopoulos, a deputy manager of the Port of Piraeus Authority, told the BBC that Chinese investment in Piraeus had expanded significantly since the Chinese took control of the container port in 2009.\n\n\"In 2016 we handled 3.7 million twenty-foot (6 metre) containers,\" he explained. \"That's double what we handled back in 2009. And we will be expanding the container pier to create a capacity allowing us to handle 7.2 million containers. So we will double through-put again.\"\n\nThose Greeks who are working with the Chinese emphasised the important cultural relationship between the two countries.\n\nFotis Provatas, of the Athens-based Greek Chinese Economic Council, said. \"I was surprised to see how many people in China know about ancient Greek culture and they respect it very much. And they respect the Western culture because they think - and this is true - that it is a continuation of the ancient Greek culture.\"\n\nHe added that the Chinese have huge investment plans for Greece, including plans to buy and then vastly expand Athens airport. He also said China would upgrade the rail network in other Balkan countries, particularly the neighbouring Republic of Macedonia, and Serbia.\n\nMr Provatas welcomed the investment but said there was also a danger of a backlash from the EU. He added: \"Europe wants economic cooperation with China but in a different way to us.\n\n\"We do not have industries so we do not compete with the Chinese in that way. They are welcome to come here and make cars and other industrial products. This is not the same elsewhere in Europe. They are competitors.\"\n\nGreece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (l) met with China's President Xi Jinping (r) in Beijing in May 2017\n\nThe Greek government believes Chinese investment will be an important factor in the country's recovery from deep financial crisis.\n\nBut ministers insist China does not get preferential treatment and that Greece takes its obligations seriously as a member of the EU.\n\nStergios Pitsiarlos, Greece's deputy economics minister, told the BBC, \"We think Greece should take advantage of these new opportunities that the Chinese strategy opens up. Our strategy is to take advantage of our geographical position and to attract foreign investment.\n\n\"It is very clear that the Chinese would like to have a corridor towards Europe and the European market. At this point, the starting point for Greece is that we are a country that is a member of both the European Union and of the eurozone, and we will always respect European regulations.\"\n\nAna Brnabić, Prime Minister of Serbia, denies that China has any political influence in the region\n\nThe Chinese are also investing across the eastern Balkans, including in Serbia.\n\nLast year, Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in the city of Smederevo in eastern Serbia to inaugurate the local steel mill, which had been bought by the Chinese steel giant, Hesteel.\n\nIn an interview for the BBC, Ana Brnabić, the Prime Minister of Serbia, welcomed the Chinese investment, saying Serbia is already home to very many Chinese investments, including road and rail.\n\nShe denied that this investment would give China undue political influence in the Balkans, adding \"Without a doubt when you have a huge inflow of investment from one particular country, it always gives a bigger influence to that country. But I did not notice that it had any political influence.\"\n\nSerbia has applied to join the EU. Ms Brnabić added: \"China wants to get closer to the EU and EU markets and Serbia is happy to be one of the central countries in the One Road One Belt Initiative because it's important for our GDP growth and that is our number one priority today. Politically it doesn't interfere in any way with our EU integration.\"\n\nAndrew Hosken's report on Chinese investment in south-eastern Europe will be on The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4 at 22:00 on Tuesday 17 October and will be available later via BBC iPlayer.", "The killing of Kevin Nunes in 2002 remains unsolved after a string of police mistakes\n\nA promising young footballer shot dead. Five men jailed for his murder released after a catalogue of police mistakes.\n\nFifteen years on from his cold-blooded killing, the family of Kevin Nunes have no answers to their questions, no-one has been held responsible for his death and no police officers have been disciplined.\n\nHere, those at the centre of the saga tell their stories to File on 4.\n\nThings could have worked out very differently for Kevin Nunes. Arriving in the UK from Jamaica as a schoolboy, he began to show promise as a talented footballer.\n\nHe impressed scouts at Tottenham Hotspur, and was on Leyton Orient's books. When he moved to the West Midlands, he began playing for Stafford Rangers semi-professionally.\n\nAt about the same time, 18-year-old Leanne Williams, from Wolverhampton, caught his eye.\n\n\"A friend phoned me and said that somebody liked me, so I went to see who - I was quite intrigued,\" she recalls.\n\n\"He was a good person. He liked playing football, going to the gym and just hanging out really. He was very committed in football.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBy 2002, Leanne was pregnant with his son. But any hopes of Kevin realising his dream as a professional footballer had begun to fade.\n\nHe had started hanging around with a bad crowd - a gang of drug dealers linked to a notorious criminal gang in Heath Town, Wolverhampton.\n\nHe learned there was quite a bit of money to be made buying cheap cocaine in the West Midlands, and selling it on in Aberdeen.\n\nIn what was known as the \"Aberdeen run\", small-time dealers would board a train in Wolverhampton and head up to the Scottish city, making three or four times as much as they could back at home.\n\nKevin, then 20, began making several trips. But his money-making scheme did not last long after he clashed with gang members back in the Midlands.\n\nKevin's bullet-ridden body was found on a grass verge near a farm in the Staffordshire village of Pattingham in September 2002.\n\nLeanne, who had been frantically looking for her boyfriend after he failed to return home, was visited by Staffordshire Police and quizzed about his last known movements.\n\n\"The last thing they asked me was what was he wearing. I said 'red cardigan, jeans, white trainers', and they said 'sorry to tell you, it is Kevin we found'.\n\n\"I broke down and started crying. Up to this day I don't know what happened or why.\"\n\nDetectives took about 1,000 statements but, as is often the case with gangland killings, no-one was willing to put a name to anyone responsible.\n\n\"They said that they were met with reluctance and that wall of silence, which I know amongst the black community - it's a thing there between the police and ethnic minority, really,\" says Leanne.\n\n\"There's not really that trust there, because we don't believe that they're for us in that way, you know.\"\n\nBut in 2005, a man by the name of Simeon Taylor came forward with key information.\n\nHe told detectives that he had been there when Kevin was repeatedly shot and beaten by five men, having driven one of them to the scene.\n\nPolice said the killing of Kevin Nunes was gang related\n\nHe denied being involved in the murder, and said he was willing to give evidence at a trial.\n\nAlready in jail for another offence, when released, Taylor was given protective witness status. It was the job of Staffordshire Police's sensitive policing unit (SPU) to keep him safe ahead of the trial.\n\nThe force had their star witness. Five men were in custody awaiting trial for murder. But it is at this point that the investigation started to go very wrong indeed.\n\nAs the only person placing the five suspects at the murder scene, Taylor was afforded gold-plated police protection, and he knew it.\n\nHe continued to commit crime - such as being in possession of an offensive weapon - but was never charged amid fears it would harm his role as key witness.\n\nHis handlers had to clear up drugs paraphernalia he left behind in hotel rooms and safe houses - with no consequences for Taylor.\n\nHe was even taken on nights out drinking with officers.\n\nBut the most startling revelation is that while on the witness protection scheme, he and his relatives were sent on a lavish, taxpayer-funded trip to South Africa, believed to have cost up to £10,000, as part of a potential relocation package.\n\nHis behaviour was so bad, he was asked to leave the country.\n\nNights out and a trip to South Africa: Simeon Taylor was given gold-plated police protection\n\nJoe Anderson, a former detective inspector who had recently taken charge of the SPU, was flabbergasted.\n\n\"I found out he was sent to South Africa - his mother and his two brothers were also sent to South Africa, and spent several weeks over there having a holiday.\n\n\"Staffordshire Police was held to ransom, and Staffordshire Police gave in to the vast majority of [the] demands.\"\n\nDespite being informed about Taylor's behaviour - he had breached a behaviour code of conduct 76 times - Staffordshire's then head of crime, Assistant Chief Constable Suzette Davenport recommended he continue to be granted protected witness status.\n\n\"The bottom line is that because of the type of lifestyle he was involved in, I feared for his life,\" she now says, speaking for the first time on the subject.\n\n\"And one of the overriding drivers, because I am a public servant, is to protect life and property, and I absolutely feared that if he wasn't within that protection scheme - regardless of if he might have given evidence or not - that he would potentially have come to significant harm. I feared for his life.\"\n\nBut when Taylor cancelled a hotel booking police made for him, keeping the £320 refund, it was enough to make Det Insp Anderson turn whistleblower.\n\nHe believed colleagues had deliberately not recorded this, knowing it could jeopardise the investigation.\n\n\"Constantly the words that kept being used to me were, we must get him to court at all costs,\" said the officer.\n\nThis time, he went to Supt Jane Sawyers, the then head of Professional Standards for Staffordshire Police.\n\nHe told her he believed what was happening in his department amounted to corruption.\n\nJane Sawyers has now retired from Staffordshire Police, where she rose to be chief constable\n\nBut in her first interview about the case, she recalls a different conversation, during which Det Insp Anderson complained about a lack of professionalism and management support.\n\nMs Sawyers spoke to her line manager, the then Deputy Chief Constable Adrian Lee, who commissioned an internal review into the department's actions.\n\nIt was completed in 2007, before the murder trial took place. The report \"exposed failings in the structure, procedures, working practices, culture and management of the unit\".\n\nOfficers were criticised for socialising with Taylor, and concerns were also raised over the amount of money being spent on him.\n\nA defence lawyer could suggest this amounted to a bribe, the review added.\n\nOne member of the SPU was given formal advice by a senior officer, another was put in a different unit.\n\nBut the contents of the report were only circulated between a handful of senior officers, and were not disclosed to detectives investigating Kevin's murder.\n\nThe murder trial went ahead in January 2008, and five men were found guilty and handed life sentences.\n\nThese are the five men Simeon Taylor said were involved in Kevin Nunes' murder. Their convictions were later overturned\n\nAdam Joof and Antonio Christie were jailed for a minimum of 28 years; Levi Walker and Michael Osbourne were handed 27-year tariffs, and Owen Crooks was given at least 25 years in prison.\n\nLeanne, who had travelled to court with her mother and brother Benji, was overwhelmed at the verdicts.\n\n\"I cried and I was overjoyed, you know, because I didn't think anybody would get convicted of Kevin's murder.\n\n\"I just thought it would be another unsolved case, to be honest.\"\n\nLeanne and her family moved on with their lives. But two years later, rumours emerged the five men were appealing against their convictions.\n\nSimeon Taylor had been secretly recorded telling a friend he lied in court.\n\nStill concerned the case had been mishandled, Joe Anderson, says he approached Marcus Beale, then the assistant chief constable at the Staffordshire force.\n\nWhen he heard nothing back, he took his complaints to the CCRC.\n\n\"I think the word I'd use is 'shell-shocked',\" he says.\n\n\"They were clearly shocked at what I was telling them. They told me to go back to the force to secure whatever evidence I could, copy everything and retain everything and bring it back to them.\"\n\nThe chief constable of Derbyshire, Mick Creedon, was put in charge of the probe, which concluded the initial report into the handling of Taylor should have been disclosed long before the trial went ahead.\n\nAll five men's convictions were overturned at the Appeal Court on 4 July 2012.\n\nLord Justice Hooper said the case was \"seriously flawed\".\n\n\"It's to be hoped that the appropriate measures will be taken against those responsible for what appears to be a serious perversion of the course of justice,\" he concluded.\n\nThe Independent Police Complaints Commission took up the investigation.\n\nMeanwhile, the four senior officers under investigation had moved up the ranks since 2012.\n\nAdrian Lee was chief constable in Northamptonshire; Suzette Davenport was about to be promoted to be chief in Gloucestershire; Jane Sawyers was poised to become chief constable in Staffordshire, and Marcus Beale was an assistant chief constable in the West Midlands with responsibility for counter-terrorism.\n\nWhile Mick Creedon's review found the officers did have a case to answer for gross misconduct, the IPCC ultimately concluded no action would be taken following discussions with the officers' own police and crime commissioners.\n\nAgreeing there had been a collective failure, they all said that there was no evidence that could point to an individual being held responsible and so none faced misconduct charges.\n\nLeanne and her brother Benji still want answers over Kevin's death\n\nThree years after the report was completed, its findings were made public this month.\n\nWhile it found \"significant and serious collective failings within Staffordshire Police\" and serious problems with the handling of the protected witness, it concluded there was no deliberate conspiracy.\n\nJane Sawyers, who retired earlier this year, acknowledges \"serious mistakes\" were made.\n\n\"There was a cock-up, without a shadow of a doubt. There wasn't a cover-up and there wasn't a conspiracy,\" she adds.\n\nShe describes the family of Kevin as being \"incredibly dignified\" throughout the whole process.\n\n\"As I said right at the outset, they've lost a member of their family and they've had absolutely no closure on those responsible for the murder of Kevin. It's a regret of mine.\"\n\nFourteen officers were investigated by Operation Kalmia. Thirteen have retired including the three of the most senior. Only Mr Beale is still a serving officer.\n\nTwo of the five men cleared of Kevin's murder were awarded £200,000 in damages from Staffordshire Police earlier this year, and it is thought the others may lodge their own claims.\n\nLeanne, whose son is nearly 15, still dreams of justice for Kevin.\n\n\"Nobody has been punished, nobody is held accountable, so to me, a report is nothing.\n\n\"How is it that nobody, not one person, has been disciplined - nobody?\n\n\"It's just shocking to me, it's just absolutely shocking and I just think it's really, really, really, bad.\"\n\nThe full report can be heard on File on 4, Tuesday 17 October, at 20:00 and afterwards on iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Charlotte Waite says it is distressing when so many wrong fines are being issued\n\nGoing to the dentist is something that many would want to avoid - but how about if you also faced a penalty fine?\n\nMore than 40,000 people a year in England are getting fines of £100 - from an automated system that dentists say is hitting the most vulnerable.\n\nThey warn that people such as dementia sufferers are unfairly getting caught up in a system meant to stop fraudsters from getting free treatment.\n\nThe NHS accepts there is a problem with errors and is promising changes.\n\nThe fines, about £4m per year, are being applied by a random screening process that checks on whether people going to the dentist are really eligible for free treatment.\n\nBut dentists say rising numbers of people with dementia, or those with learning difficulties, are being unfairly fined for something as simple as ticking a wrong box in confusing paperwork.\n\nWhen these have been challenged, about 90% have been overturned as having been incorrectly applied.\n\nThe British Dental Association says the problem seems to be increasing and with an ageing population is only likely to get worse.\n\nCharlotte Waite, a senior dentist working in Loughborough, Leicestershire, says this is a problem appearing on a \"daily basis\".\n\n\"This has become a significant barrier to care. It can cause a lot of distress if people feel they are seen as fraudulent,\" she says.\n\nMrs Waite, vice-chair of the British Dental Association's England community dental services committee, is leading a campaign to stop a wave of fines for elderly and frail people, those with dementia or learning difficulties, who have made honest mistakes when filling in forms about free care.\n\nShe says even when patients are eligible for free treatment, an incorrect description of specific benefits or failure to renew documents can trigger a penalty fine, which rises to £150 if there is a delay in payment.\n\nAnd she says because it typically affects vulnerable and often low-income families, there has been a lack of a \"powerful advocate\" to raise the issue.\n\nMany such patients will be brought to the dentist by a carer, and Mrs Waite says they might not have the detailed information about types of benefit and exemption certificates.\n\nShe says this becomes a dilemma for dentists, whether to turn away patients or to treat them and then risk that patients could face a fine.\n\nPatients might turn up for the dentist and go away again without treatment because of confusion over benefits and entitlements and worries about being fined.\n\n\"I feel very strongly that clinical time should be spent on clinical work,\" she says, rather then trying to navigate the benefits system.\n\n\"It's an extreme waste of clinical time.\n\n\"We really need to sort this out now.\"\n\nWhat dentists say they've seen\n\n\"They were fined twice over an 18-month period, due to the change in exemption and Mum accidently putting the wrong thing on the form.\n\n\"Mum was having a bad year and the patient had suffered a few health problems, and these fines were very upsetting and caused lots of anxiety.\n\nThe NHS says it is going to launch an awareness-raising campaign and make information simpler\n\n\"We did manage to get the fines turned around, but this took long periods of time and many phone calls and a letter. We were constantly up against a brick wall.\"\n\n\"He contacted me in quite a panic and I had to reassure him and request that he brought in the paperwork to me to see, I completed the appeal form for him as he was entitled to claim free dental care.\n\n\"The appeal form that needed sending back was quite a complex letter, and I think our patient would have struggled to respond to it without help.\n\n\"I felt it was most unfair for him to have to go through that.\"\n\n\"I phoned on her behalf, but they would not accept my word regarding the patient's special needs and wanted a letter from the patient's doctor.\n\n\"It took three weeks for the patient to get in to see the doctor as it wasn't urgent. All I could get was a deferral in increasing the fine [for non-payment] while the patient waited for a letter from her doctor.\"\n\nWhat the NHS wants to do in response\n\nThe NHS Business Services Authority, which oversees the fining system, accepts there is a problem and is looking for a way to make improvements.\n\nA spokeswoman says no-one wants vulnerable people to be unfairly fined or for dentists to waste valuable clinical time.\n\nDentists say the fining errors need to be \"sorted out\" as soon as possible\n\nThe checks have an important role in making sure free treatment isn't being unfairly accessed by those who should pay.\n\nThe screening system compares what people have put on forms at the dentist against two databases of information about benefits and entitlements - and if these do not match, the fining system generates a penalty notice.\n\nThe most recent figures suggest almost 120,000 fines have been issued over the past three years.\n\nBut the British Dental Association says when 30,000 of these fines were checked, almost 90% were overturned, suggesting the scale of the error in the system.\n\n\"We want to make sure that patients, particularly those who struggle with literacy, understand if they are entitled to receive free dental treatment or if they should pay,\" says a NHS Business Services Authority spokeswoman.\n\n\"We recognise the importance of information and access to it for everyone.\"", "English Heritage staff said they saw a ghost of a little boy at Bolsover Castle\n\nA castle where the ghost of a boy was apparently seen holding visitors' hands without them noticing has been voted England's spookiest.\n\nEnglish Heritage (EH) staff gave the verdict on Bolsover Castle in Derbyshire, which is built on an ancient burial ground.\n\nThe 1,800 EH employees rated the site they work at on a \"spooky scale\".\n\nOther events at the ex-home of William Cavendish, include strange footsteps and slamming doors, EH reports.\n\nPeople also said they had felt like they were being pushed, had cold sensations and heard muffled voices.\n\nEH looks after 400 castles, abbeys and historic houses nationwide.\n\nWilliam Cavendish, the first Duke of Newcastle, inherited the Derbyshire castle\n\nSecurity guards said they have seen unexplained lights at the castle and one woman claims she heard a scream as she was locking up, only to find no-one there.\n\nKenilworth Castle was rated second in the \"spooky poll\"\n\nThe 900-year-old Kenilworth Castle, in Warwickshire, came a close second in the \"spooky poll\".\n\nStaff said they have encountered ghostly figures, an antique cot rocking by itself and the smell of pipe smoke.\n\nA young girl drowned in a well at Carisbrooke Castle\n\nCarisbrooke Castle, on the Isle of Wight, whose deep well was the site of a young girl's drowning, is believed to be haunted by several figures.\n\nEmployees said they often heard the sound of children laughing in rooms.\n\nDown House was the home of the scientist Charles Darwin\n\nLucy Hutchings, of EH, said: \"Our sites are soaked in history and from bloody battles to dark deeds, not all of their stories are sweetness and light.\n\n\"Our castles and palaces... can be eerie places and some of our team have seen and heard things they can't easily explain.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jeremy Vine and Tina Daheley have fronted the show since its relaunch last year\n\nCrimewatch, one of the BBC's longest-running shows, is being axed after 33 years.\n\nThe programme, which asks viewers for help to track down criminals, is hosted by Jeremy Vine and Tina Daheley.\n\nThe BBC said in a statement: \"We are incredibly proud of Crimewatch and the great work it has done over the years.\n\n\"This move will also allow us to create room for new innovative programmes in peak time on BBC One.\" Daytime series Crimewatch Roadshow will continue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Crimewatch presenter recalls his famous 'Don't have nightmares' line\n\n\"We believe the successful Crimewatch Roadshow format in daytime is the best fit for the brand going forward and we will increase the number of episodes to make two series a year,\" the BBC said.\n\nThe Sun, which first broke the story, said ratings had suffered as it was scheduled against Cold Feet and Broadchurch.\n\nThree episodes have aired this year - in February and March - watched by an average of almost three million viewers. That is down from 14 million who watched at its peak.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, former Crimewatch presenter Nick Ross said: \"I'm amazed that it's gone on for so long. And it's a tribute to the team they've kept it going.\n\n\"When it started, it was revolutionary. Up to that point, television and radio basically talked at the audience. There was no internet, very few phone-ins, this was a programme where the audience could talk back and could actually influence the end of the programme.\n\n\"This sort of revolutionary thing then had a huge impact on television generally and has kept going for 33 years despite all the changes in technology.\"\n\nRoss said falling ratings had had an impact on crime-solving.\n\n\"If you get 15 million people watching a programme and you have an appeal, the chance of finding somebody, that one witness who saw something they had no idea was connected with the crime... they can ring in.\n\n\"Once your audience starts plummeting, you go back to two million, one million, your chances of finding that person are so remote.\"\n\nOther previous Crimewatch presenters include Jill Dando, who was murdered in 1999 - with her own case being featured on the show.\n\nDando, one of the BBC's best-known TV personalities at the time, was shot dead on her doorstep in west London.\n\nBarry George was convicted of her murder in 2001 but was acquitted of the killing at a retrial in 2008 after doubt was cast on the reliability of gunshot residue evidence. Her killer has never been found.\n\nOther Crimewatch hosts over the years include Sue Cook, Kirsty Young, Fiona Bruce and Rav Wilding.\n\nFamous cases the show has featured and helped solve include the James Bulger murder, the killings of Lin and Megan Russell and the murder of schoolgirl Sarah Payne.\n\nBBC Today programme presenter Nick Robinson tweeted a tribute to the show, which gave him his first job 30 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 Nick Robinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJeremy Vine and Tina Daheley - who also reads the news on the Radio 1 breakfast show - took over as hosts of Crimewatch in September 2016.\n\nThe head of the Metropolitan Police described the programme as \"public service broadcasting at its best\".\n\nCressida Dick said: \"Criminals are behind bars right now because witnesses have seen the show and come forward and I would like to thank the Crimewatch team for their professionalism in bringing the appeals to life.\"\n\nThe Police Federation said it was a \"shame\" that the programme was ending, and that it had shown \"the complex side of policing and solve crime\".\n\nSimon Kempton, the Police Federation's head of operational policing, said: \"For those wider appeals which needed national coverage it was great and there has been nothing else that has been able to give cases such a wide reach, but if there aren't the audience figures and people aren't watching it then you have to move with the times.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Jeremy Vine to be new Crimewatch host", "Children play on the street in Moss Side in 1972\n\nMoss Side has long been associated with drugs, gangs and violence. But a collection of rarely seen images paint a very different picture of one of Manchester's most notorious neighbourhoods.\n\nWhen Daniel Meadows moved to the city in 1970, he had a less than complimentary view of it.\n\n\"It was a big dark city, it was very dirty, it was damp, it rained all the time.\n\n\"But it was full of the most wonderful mix of people.\"\n\nA family poses for a portrait in the street\n\nIt was a sharp awakening for the aspiring photographer, who recalls having a \"protected, sheltered childhood\" in Gloucestershire.\n\n\"By the time I was 18, I was exploding with curiosity about the world and I found myself in Manchester - I might as well have landed on the moon really.\"\n\nHe based himself in Moss Side \"because it was cheap\" and close to his art school at the former Manchester Polytechnic.\n\n\"I found myself living in the middle of this place where something epic was happening - they were completely bulldozing the place.\"\n\nA couple in cowboy hats are captured while watching a local parade\n\nDemolition in Moss Side was part of a nationwide slum clearance of Victorian terraces, where the houses were described by the area's former Conservative MP, James Watts, as \"unfit for human habitation\".\n\nIt made way for new accommodation and while some residents remained, many were relocated to other parts of the city or chose to move.\n\nProf Gus John joined other local figures in campaigning against the destruction while working at the University of Manchester.\n\n\"The houses were very sturdily built and could have been renovated with some help from government… the area could have been spruced up.\n\n\"What they were doing was not just demolishing old houses, they were demolishing communities - there never was that sense of integrated community identity [again].\"\n\nTwo young friends smile shyly for their photograph\n\nThe make-up of the neighbourhood included families of Irish, Polish, Asian and African-Caribbean origin - a \"good spread\" with a \"high level of integration\", Prof John said.\n\n\"The sense of mutual collaboration on all kind of issues... was absolutely fantastic.\n\n\"There were, and still are, people of all dispositions living in Moss Side, people who propped up the health service, people who propped up the industries in Trafford Park.\"\n\nThe portraits were taken in a studio in a disused shop\n\nKeen to document life in Moss Side, Mr Meadows rented a disused barber's shop in 1972 and set up a studio where residents could get their picture taken for free.\n\nHe also took snaps on the streets, with curious children edging into shot and people, both young and old, neatly turned out despite the deprivation.\n\nMany women were seamstresses and tailored stylish outfits for their daughters.\n\nChildren look at the images in the studio's front window\n\nThree girls edge into a shot in the street\n\nMany of the girls had stylish, tailored outfits\n\n\"Most of the parents had high aspirations for the young people,\" said Prof John, adding that there were several youth clubs and active churches.\n\n\"They had a thriving community... and a much greater level of economic activity among that population than you would find now.\"\n\nMr Meadows' subjects included local characters and a woman with her foster children\n\nFormer resident Christine Henry said: \"It was more friendly… if you were going out you would ask a neighbour to take a child in, or they would come to your house.\n\n\"I've still got friends [from then] - their kids call me auntie, my children call them auntie, we look at each other as family… we look at each other as sisters.\"\n\nAn elderly gentleman joins two girls to peer at the pictures in the studio's window\n\nLocal families struggled financially but affordable housing in Moss Side provided a rare opportunity to own a home.\n\nFormer resident Freddie Crooks recalled the demolition as a \"heartbreaking\" experience.\n\n\"The thing is [our home] was a beautiful house… with enough space for a couple and six children.\"\n\nProf John believes the destruction of the houses and by extension, the communities, contributed to the headline-grabbing crime of the 1980s onwards.\n\n\"There was something quite toxic about the way in which people were expected to live on those [new] estates - it was like herding people.\n\n\"You had to walk miles to a shop, there were no facilities for integrating people - no community centres, for example.\n\n\"The decision-makers thought that by simply renewing the physical infrastructure, they would actually be improving communities, but quite the opposite happened.\"\n\nDaniel Meadows, pictured at the back, poses with locals outside his studio\n\nMr Meadow's first exhibition was at the Manchester Caribbean Carnival\n\nMr Meadows held his first exhibition of photos showing life in Moss Side at the inaugural Manchester Caribbean Festival in 1972, nailing his pictures to a tree at Alexandra Park.\n\nHe continued to document everyday life, taking pictures as he toured England in a bus, which were later exhibited at Tate Britain.\n\nOver the summer, he returned to the festival to meet some of the subjects he photographed 45 years ago.\n\n\"Sometimes it got too much negative press,\" he said, reflecting on the escalation of crime in Moss Side after he left.\n\n\"Things happen elsewhere as well but they just concentrated too much on this part of it,\" he said.\n\n\"But I'd like to think that's the past.\"\n\nSee the full report on BBC Inside Out North West on BBC One at 19:30 BST 16 October.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe wi-fi connections of businesses and homes around the world are at risk, according to researchers who have revealed a major flaw dubbed Krack.\n\nIt concerns an authentication system which is widely used to secure wireless connections.\n\nExperts said it could leave \"the majority\" of connections at risk until they are patched.\n\nThe researchers added the attack method was \"exceptionally devastating\" for Android 6.0 or above and Linux.\n\nA Google spokesperson said: \"We're aware of the issue, and we will be patching any affected devices in the coming weeks.\"\n\nThe US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (Cert) has issued a warning on the flaw.\n\n\"US-Cert has become aware of several key management vulnerabilities in the four-way handshake of wi-fi protected access II (WPA2) security protocol,\" it said.\n\n\"Most or all correct implementations of the standard will be affected.\"\n\nMost wi-fi devices could be at risk\n\nComputer security expert from the University of Surrey Prof Alan Woodward said: \"This is a flaw in the standard, so potentially there is a high risk to every single wi-fi connection out there, corporate and domestic.\n\n\"The risk will depend on a number of factors including the time it takes to launch an attack and whether you need to be connected to the network to launch one, but the paper suggests that an attack is relatively easy to launch.\n\n\"It will leave the majority of wi-fi connections at risk until vendors of routers can issue patches.\"\n\nIndustry body the Wi-Fi Alliance said that it was working with providers to issue software updates to patch the flaw.\n\n\"This issue can be resolved through straightforward software updates and the wi-fi industry, including major platform providers, has already started deploying patches to wi-fi users.\n\n\"Users can expect all their wi-fi devices, whether patched or unpatched, to continue working well together.\"\n\nIt added that there was \"no evidence\" that the vulnerability had been exploited maliciously.\n\nTech giant Microsoft said that it had already released a security update.\n\nThe vulnerability was discovered by researchers led by Mathy Vanhoef, from Belgian university, KU Leuven.\n\nAccording to his paper, the issue centres around a system of random number generation known as nonce (a number that can only be used once), which can in fact be reused to allow an attacker to enter a network and snoop on the data being sent in it.\n\n\"All protected wi-fi networks use the four-way handshake to generate a fresh session key and so far this 14-year-old handshake has remained free from attacks, he writes in the paper describing Krack (key reinstallation attacks).\n\n\"Every wi-fi device is vulnerable to some variants of our attacks. Our attack is exceptionally devastating against Android 6.0: it forces the client into using a predictable all-zero encryption key.\"\n\nDr Steven Murdoch from University College, London said there were two mitigating factors to what he agreed was a \"huge vulnerability\".\n\n\"The attacker has to be physically nearby and if there is encryption on the web browser, it is harder to exploit.\"\n\nMore details can be found at this website.\n\nProf Alan Woodward explained the issue to the BBC.\n\nWhen any device uses wi-fi to connect to, say, a router it does what is known as a \"handshake\": it goes through a four-step dialogue, whereby the two devices agree a key to use to secure the data being passed (a \"session key\").\n\nThis attack begins by tricking a victim into reinstalling the live key by replaying a modified version of the original handshake. In doing this a number of important set-up values can be reset which can, for example, render certain elements of the encryption much weaker.\n\nThis attacks appears to work on all wi-fis tested - prior to the patches currently being issued.\n\nIn some it is possible to decrypt and inject data, enabling an attacker to hijack a connection. In others it is even worse as it is possible to forge a connection, which, as the researchers note, is \"catastrophic\".\n\nNot all routers will be affected but the people this could be most problematic for are the internet service providers who have millions of routers in customers' homes. How will they make sure all of them are secure?", "Central London was one of many parts to witness the phenomenon\n\nAn \"unusual\" reddish sky and red-looking sun have been reported across many parts of England.\n\nThe phenomenon was initially seen in the west of England and Wales before spreading to other areas.\n\nBBC weather presenter Simon King said it was due to the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia dragging in tropical air and dust from the Sahara.\n\nHe added that debris from forest fires in Portugal and Spain was also playing a part.\n\nThe dust has caused shorter wavelength blue light to be scattered, making it appear red.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Weather presenter Charlie Slater explains why the sun looks red\n\nThe red-looking sun was seen in Bristol city centre\n\nHe said: \"Ophelia originated in the Azores where it was a hurricane and as it tracked its way northwards it dragged in tropical air from the Sahara.\"\n\nThis meant dust from the Sahara was brought with it, he said.\n\n\"The dust gets picked up into the air and goes high up into the atmosphere, and that dust has been dragged high up in the atmosphere above the UK,\" Mr King explained.\n\nThe particles in the air cause blue light to scatter, leaving longer-wavelength red light to shine through.\n\nThe Met Office said the \"vast majority\" of the dust was as a result of forest fires in Iberia, which have sent debris into the air and that has been dragged north by Ophelia.\n\nAn orange sky was visible in Bransford in Worcestershire\n\nA red sun was spotted in the sky over Bromsgrove in Worcestershire\n\nThis was the scene in Ludlow, Shropshire\n\nMeanwhile, hundreds took to Twitter to share their theories and snaps of the unusual red sun and yellow skies.\n\nUsing the hashtags #redsun and #ophelia, pictures were posted with earnest tags insisting that: \"There is NO colour correction on this image\".\n\nAs the skies turned beige over London, Hugh Bennett‏ wondered if: \"This is what it must have been like living in the olden days when everything was sepia\", while James McNicholas‏ blamed \"the hipsters\" for putting \"an Instagram filter\" on the city.\n\nBut trending alongside #redsun, #yellowsky and #orangesky was the hashtag #apocalypse.\n\nLike many Ben Shephard posted that: \"Not messing around this light is really freaking us out!\", while Henry Tudor, said: \"This weird light is very disturbing. I keep expecting four blokes on horses to home galloping out of the sky.\"\n\nElliot Wagland said: \"I just looked out of the window and it appears the world is about to end\", and Archer Hampson‏ said: \"Somebody said we should head outside because the world was ending. We thought we'd take our cameras.\"\n\nLouise Lucas, meanwhile, wanted to know if she had missed the memo \"about going home early due to #apocalypse?!\" and Anthony Court posted that‏: \"If the world does end -please could it be before 10pm tonight when I start my nightshift.\"\n\nThis was the view from Gloucester Docks\n\nThe \"strange-coloured sun\" was photographed over Elkesley in Nottinghamshire\n\nBut not everyone was spooked, some were inspired to write poetry like @Scott_W88, who wrote: \"Ophelia, you're breaking the sun, You're shaking my garden fence daily\".\n\nWhile Helen Glew, said simply: \"The most amazing thing is just how much of the UK is actually seeing the sun on a single October morning.\"\n\nThis was the scene at midday in Cliburn near Penrith, Cumbria\n• None Why does the sun look red? Video, 00:00:26Why does the sun look red?", "Children, campaigners and some judges are calling for a change in the law so that children at the heart of family cases in England and Wales can talk in private to the judge if they so choose.\n\nMore than 100,000 children were involved in family court cases over the past year, according to the guardian service Cafcass.\n\nMany are at the centre of bitter fights - either between their parents or between their families and local authorities. The decisions made will have a fundamental impact on their lives.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Judge Sir James Munby says children should be more involved in court proceedings\n\nYet they do not give evidence directly, nor routinely meet the judge.\n\nInstead, Cafcass asks them about their wishes and feelings and reports to the court.\n\nThis is intended to protect the child - but many children are unhappy with this, and feel they don't have a voice. It can mean they distrust the process and won't support the decision made.\n\nAt a recent conference the president of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, said it always struck him as curious that children were \"invisible\" in family cases.\n\nArticle 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child states children are entitled to:\n\nAt present, judges do not hear from children in court in family cases in England and Wales\n\nOscar, now nine, is one of the youngest members of the Family Justice Children and Young People's Board. It is made up of 40 people now aged eight to 25 who were or are children in family cases.\n\nAt the age of seven, Oscar was the subject of a court fight between his parents over where he should live. He said he worried terribly about it, couldn't concentrate at school and would watch the clock, wondering what was happening in court.\n\nHe asked to meet the judge. After a brief tour of the courtroom, they talked about the case for an hour.\n\n\"I told him what I thought of the situation and what I wanted. Because it is actually about the child, in this case, me.\"\n\nHe is convinced the meeting made a difference, that he was listened to. The judge supported the outcome Oscar had asked for.\n\nFor years, district judge Nicholas Crichton argued children should be given the right to talk to judges privately if they wanted.\n\nIn 2010, he was asked to draw up guidelines for judges to support this.\n\nSince then, a working group of senior judges has been looking at the issue, including considering whether children should give evidence in court.\n\nAnd in 2014, the then Justice Minister, Liberal Democrat Simon Hughes, promised to change government policy.\n\nNatasha Phillips discovered that a plan to allow children to meet judges if they wanted had been shelved\n\nBut earlier this year, in response to a Freedom of Information request, the Ministry of Justice told campaigner Natasha Phillips the plan had been shelved.\n\nLord Justice Jackson was one of the most high-profile judges in the Family Division and has recently been promoted to the Court of Appeal.\n\nLast year, he heard the case of a young girl dying of cancer who wanted her body cryogenically frozen.\n\nShe was too ill to come to court, so he visited her in hospital instead, and decided to allow the freezing to go ahead.\n\nThe girl was thrilled with his judgement and called him \"my hero\".\n\nHe also published a separate judgment in simple language so the children in the case could fully understand it, and recently wrote a letter directly to a teenager who had brought a case asking to live with his father.\n\nLord Justice Jackson believes that meetings between judges and children should not be an automatic right\n\nLord Justice Jackson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme not every child would want to meet the judge - for some that could be intimidating, even harmful - and such meetings needed to be carefully planned.\n\n\"You want to make sure that the child leaves the room feeling better than they went in,\" he said. \"that the child or young person feels better for knowing who is making decisions about their future.\n\n\"And so therefore you have to think carefully about what the conversation should touch upon - sometimes what it should not touch upon - and prepare yourself properly for a meeting of that kind.\"\n\nAs for Oscar, he strongly believes all children should be invited to meet the judge.\n\n\"It would just give them a sort of feeling that they were wanted, they weren't the problem, because some children may feel they're the problem because the adults are battling it out for them.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Justice told Today \"protecting children and the vulnerable\" was at the heart of the family justice reforms and it would be discussing proposals with senior judges in coming weeks.\n• None New Family Court comes into being", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hear the 'sound' of two dead stars colliding\n\nScientists have detected the warping of space generated by the collision of two dead stars, or neutron stars.\n\nThey have confirmed that such mergers lead to the production of the gold and platinum that exists in the Universe.\n\nThe measurement of the gravitational waves given off by this cataclysmic event was made on 17 August by the LIGO-VIRGO Collaboration.\n\nThe discovery enabled telescopes all over the world to capture details of the merger as it unfolded.\n\nDavid Reitze, executive director of the LIGO Laboratory at Caltech in Pasadena, California, said: \"This is the one we've all been waiting for.\"\n\nThe outburst took place in a galaxy called NGC 4993, located roughly a thousand billion, billion km away in the Constellation Hydra.\n\nIt happened 130 million years ago - when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. It was so far away that the light and gravitational waves have only just reached us.\n\nThe stars themselves had masses 10-20% greater than our Sun - but they were no larger than 30km across.\n\nThey were the crushed leftover cores of massive stars that long ago exploded as supernovas.\n\nThey are called neutron stars because the process of crushing the star makes the charged protons and electrons in the atoms of the star combine - to form an object made entirely of neutrons.\n\nSuch remnants are incredibly dense - a teaspoonful would weigh a billion tonnes.\n\nIn the landscaped campus of one of the laboratories that made the detection, a fountain sprays jets of water skyward which are then pulled back down by gravity, sending ripples across the crystal clear pond.\n\nThe LIGO detector, sitting incongruously in the vast woodland of Livingston in Louisiana, was designed to detect the gravitational ripples across the Universe created by cataclysmic cosmic events.\n\nSince it was upgraded two years ago, it has four times sensed the collisions of black holes.\n\nGravitational waves caused by violent events send ripples through space-time that stretch and squeeze everything they pass through by a tiny amount - less than the width of an atom.\n\nThe LIGO lab at Livingston consists of a small building with two, two-and-a-half-mile pipelines stretching out at right angles. Inside each pipe is a powerful laser accurately measuring any change in its length.\n\nI walk along one of the pipes with Prof Norna Robertson, a Scot who used to work at Glasgow University - and more recently helped to design the instrument's detection system.\n\nProf Robertson's work has helped the LIGO-VIRGO Scientific Collaboration to make the first ever detection of the gravitational waves given off by the collision of two neutron stars.\n\n\"I'm really thrilled about what we have done. I started off as a student in Glasgow 40 years ago working on gravitational waves. It's been a long long road; there have been some ups and downs but now it's all come together,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"These last couple of years, first of all with the detection of black holes mergers and now a neutron star merger, I really feel we are opening up a new field, and that's what I wanted to do and now we've done it.\"\n\nThe detection enabled 70 telescopes to obtain the first ever detailed pictures of such an event.\n\nThese show an explosion 1,000 times more powerful than a nova - a burst called a kilonova.\n\nGravitational waves - Ripples in the fabric of space-time\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A visualisation shows the coalescence of two orbiting neutron stars\n\nResearchers had suspected that this huge release of energy leads to the creation of rare elements, such as gold and platinum.\n\nDr Kate Maguire, from Queen's University Belfast, who analysed the collision's burst of light, said that the theory was now proven.\n\n\"Using some of the world's best telescopes, we have discovered that this neutron star merger scattered heavy chemical elements, such as gold and platinum, out into space at high speeds.\n\n\"These new results have significantly contributed to solving the long-debated mystery of the origin of elements heavier than iron in the periodic table.\"\n\nDr Joe Lyman, of the University of Warwick said described the observations as \"exquisite\".\n\n\"They tell us that the heavy elements, like the gold or platinum in jewellery are the cinders, forged in the billion degree remnants of a merging neutron star.\"\n\nIt was also direct confirmation that short bursts of gamma-ray radiation are linked to colliding neutron stars.\n\nBy combining information from gravitational waves and the light collected by telescopes, researchers also used a new technique to measure the expansion rate of the Universe. This technique was first proposed in 1986 by the University of Cardiff's Prof Bernard Schutz.\n\nProf Stephen Hawking of Cambridge University told BBC News that this was \"the first rung of a ladder\" for a new method of measuring distances in the Universe.\n\n\"A new observational window on the Universe typically leads to surprises that cannot yet be foreseen. We are still rubbing our eyes, or rather ears, as we have just woken up to the sound of gravitational waves,\" he said.\n\nThe LIGO Louisiana lab has 4km-long pipes running out from its control centre\n\nProf Nial Tanvir, from Leicester University, uses the VISTA telescope in Chile.\n\nHe and his colleagues started searching for the neutron star collision as soon as they heard of the gravitational wave detection.\n\n\"We were really excited when we first got notification that a neutron star merger had been detected by LIGO,\" he said. \"We stayed up all night analysing the images as they came in, and it was remarkable how well the observations matched the theoretical predictions that had been made.\"\n\nLIGO is now being upgraded. In a year's time it will be twice as sensitive - and so will be able to scan eight times the volume of the space.\n\nThe researchers believe that detections of black holes and neutron stars will become common place. And they hope that they will begin to detect objects that they currently cannot even imagine and so usher in a new era of astronomy.", "Reversing the Brexit process would boost the UK economy, the international economic body, the OECD has said.\n\nA new referendum or a change of government leading to the UK staying within the EU would have a \"significant\" positive impact on growth, the OECD said.\n\nIt also warned \"no deal\" would see investment seize up, the pound hit new lows and the UK's credit rating cut.\n\nIt said the outcome of the Brexit negotiations was hard to predict.\n\nThe Chancellor, Philip Hammond, said the UK would consider the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)'s report and act where it could.\n\nIt's influential. It gets in the news a lot. But what on earth is it? First of all the OECD is an intergovernmental organisation. Its members are mainly the rich countries, though it also includes some of the more developed emerging economies such as Turkey and Mexico - the current Secretary General, Angel Gurria, is Mexican. The OECD does a lot of things that you would expect from a think tank. It publishes research about economic and social issues. It assesses the performance of member countries. But there's more. It's also a forum for its member countries to discuss issues and sometimes to agree on what to do about them, including bribery and tax evasion.\n\nAt a press conference following the release of the report, Mr Hammond reiterated that companies in the UK and the European Union would benefit from the certainty of a limited transition period after Brexit.\n\nHe said: \"[By] delivering a time-limited transition period, avoiding a disruptive cliff-edge exit from the EU, we can provide greater certainty for businesses up and down the UK, and across the European Union.\"\n\nAngel Gurria, the OECD secretary general, holds a copy of his report\n\nThe OECD's secretary general, Angel Gurria, said that any future relationship with the European Union should be close: \"It will be crucial the EU and the UK maintain the closest economic relationship possible.\"\n\nThe organisation's report highlights other challenges for the UK, including productivity and the growth of zero-hours contracts.\n\nIt says rules should be tightened to restrict self employment to \"truly independent entrepreneurs\".\n\nBut its most forceful language is on the subject of Brexit.\n\nAs well as foreseeing a fall in the pound and a freezing of business investment, it says heightened price pressures would \"choke off\" private consumption.\n\nIt also says the current account deficit could be harder to finance, as a fall in the UK's credit rating could lead to higher interest rates to attract lenders from other countries.\n\nThe group also commented that UK productivity growth had come to a \"standstill\", adding that the picture was weakest outside Greater London and the south east of England. It said that pattern \"may lead to, or be the result of, important differences among people in terms of income and wealth, jobs and earnings, and education and skills\".\n\nIt said these \"may have been one of the causes of Brexit, as less-educated workers in remote regions might have perceived to benefit less from the European project\".\n\nAmong its recommendations for boosting productivity are increasing policies that give more power to the regions.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson responded to the OECD's recommendations on productivity.\n\n\"Increasing productivity is a key priority for this government, so that we can build on our record employment levels and improve people's quality of life,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"Today, the OECD has recognised the importance of our £23bn National Productivity Investment Fund which will improve our country's infrastructure, increase research and development and build more houses.\"\n\nThe OECD suggests the growing use of what it calls \"non standard\" forms of employment, including self-employment and zero-hours contracts, can be \"detrimental\" to the acquisition of skills and the job quality of low-skilled workers.", "OK, in theory, if I am driving a car at four miles per hour and I speed up to eight miles per hour, technically I am accelerating.\n\nI may still be basically crawling along. I still may be late - very, very late - for my eventual destination. But, by the very action of pressing the pedal and going faster, I am actually speeding up.\n\nIf anyone accuses me of going nowhere, or slowing down - well, look at my speedometer. I am going faster and I have evidence that you are wrong!\n\nThat is why, in the next few days, don't be surprised if every Tory politician you see, hear, or read about is using that word (at least those loyal to the government) to claim that there is progress in the Brexit talks, just days after the chief negotiator on the EU side declared a deadlock.\n\nAs we've talked about before, Michel Barnier's choice of language last week didn't mean that nothing had happened or that there's been no movement at all.\n\nBut it made headlines, and all political negotiations of this ilk are in a sense a fight over words, too.\n\nSo tonight, the government, beset by its own rows about preparing for a deal, preparing for no deal, preparing to look like they know what they are doing, have a word - one word - that they can use as evidence that they are getting somewhere.\n\nLook, even the arch Eurocrat Jean-Claude Juncker agreed to \"accelerate\" the talks, you can almost hear them say. Give the news cycle another 12 hours and I'd bet a fiver that will have happened.\n\nBut what Number 10 is really hoping for is an agreement on Friday at the summit that points to the way ahead - not just a speeding up, but a commitment to the next junction - to allow the talks to start moving onto the transition.\n\nDespite the promise of acceleration, there is no sign yet tonight that either side is willing to budge far enough to inject some real vigour into the process.\n\nThere's no sign the UK is willing to put more cash on the table, yet. There's no sign that a majority of the other side are willing to expand the talks without that promise of more cash, yet.\n\nThe talks can accelerate all they like, but without one of the two sides being willing to budge to reach an accommodation, they could be going nowhere fast.\n\nPS: There is precious little detail so far of what actually was discussed at the dinner, and no sign yet of the huge leak of info from the last dinner between this group.", "The killing of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in a car bomb has left Malta in shock.\n\nOn one hand, it caused alarm that organised crime and political vendettas may have spiralled out of control. Caruana Galizia, 53, had relentlessly accused various Maltese politicians and other officials of corruption in her popular Running Commentary blog, and had been sued several times.\n\nBut her death near her home in Bidnija, a village in northern Malta, on Monday also represented the loss of \"one of Malta's most important, visible, fearless journalists\", in the words of former Home Affairs Minister Louis Galea.\n\nIn a career spanning more than 30 years Caruana Galizia was a pioneer of investigative journalism in Malta, said the Malta Independent newspaper.\n\n\"She was very reserved, almost shy, but had the strongest of standards on personal integrity, and held herself to those standards,\" a close friend of hers, lawyer Andrew Borg Cardona, told the BBC.\n\nBorn in Sliema on the northeast coast of Malta in 1964, Caruana Galizia grew up in \"normal, middle-class\" family, says Mr Cardona.\n\nHer father had a lift services business and briefly entered politics as a liberal.\n\nShe was a voracious reader and got an archaeology degree from the University of Malta.\n\nBefore launching her blog Caruana Galizia was a regular columnist for The Sunday Times of Malta, then for The Malta Independent.\n\nShe also wrote and edited lifestyle magazine articles, such as \"fluffy food and drink features\", Mr Cardona said.\n\n\"She made a living out of that\", he said, adding: \"the blog didn't pay the rent\".\n\nBut she became known as one of Malta's most influential writers, says Herman Grech, Times of Malta online editor. \"An impeccable writer and investigative journalist\" is how he describes her.\n\nThousands mourned the journalist in a silent, candle-lit vigil near Valletta\n\nCaruana Galizia's blog mainly attacked ruling Labour Party politicians and their supporters, but sometimes also officials of the centre-right Nationalist Party.\n\nShe alleged that the wife of Maltese PM Joseph Muscat was the beneficial owner of a secret Panama company used to channel funds from Azerbaijan's ruling Aliyev family.\n\nMr Muscat and his wife vehemently denied any wrongdoing. But after the scandal erupted he called a snap election, which he won in June.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Debris was strewn over the road and a nearby field\n\nAccording to the Panama Papers revelations, two of Mr Muscat's close associates - Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri - were also involved in secret offshore business.\n\nCondemning her death, Mr Muscat said: \"Everyone knows Caruana Galizia was a harsh critic of mine, both politically and personally... but nobody can justify this barbaric act in any way\".\n\n\"I will not rest until justice is done,\" he said.\n\nCaruana Galizia also criticised John Dalli, Malta's former European Commissioner, who was embroiled in a scandal over tobacco industry lobbying and lost his job as EU health policy chief.\n\nThe influential Politico website called her a crusading, \"one-woman Wikileaks\" in her role as a whistle-blower.\n\nIn December, Politico wrote that \"on a good day, Galizia gets 400,000 readers, more than the combined circulation of the country's newspapers (Malta's population is 420,000)\".\n\nThe controversy did not end with her death.\n\nInvestigators will be looking into reports in Maltese media that she told police two weeks ago that she had received threats.\n\nOpposition leader Adrian Delia - whom Caruana Galizia had also criticised - said her murder represented \"the collapse of democracy and freedom of expression\".\n\n\"We shall not be silenced,\" he added, in a tweet.\n\nMeanwhile one of her three adult sons, Matthew - also an investigative journalist - castigated the police on Facebook, accusing the authorities of negligence for failing to prevent the \"assassination\".\n\nHe called Malta \"a mafia state\" where \"a culture of impunity has been allowed to flourish by the government\".\n\nHe heard the explosion that killed her and has described running to the scene to find \"my mother's body parts all around me\".\n\nAs well as her sons, Caruana Galizia is survived by her husband, a lawyer.", "A Facebook page has been set up to help identify the victims of Somalia's deadliest terror attack in a decade as well as those still missing.\n\nA lorry full of explosives destroyed hotels, government offices and restaurants at a busy junction in the capital, Mogadishu, killing at least 281 people and injuring another 300.\n\nSomali authorities are struggling to identify the dead - leaving relatives helplessly searching for news.\n\nA group of young people have been raising money for relatives and posting pictures of the missing under the Facebook banner, Gurmad252. Gurmad means \"Come and help each other\" while 252 refers to Somalia's telephone code,\n\nThe Gurmad252 team has set up operation near the scene of the bombing\n\nPhotos are accompanied by brief information about where the person was last seen with a number to call should anyone have information.\n\nThe team, which has the backing of the government, is also posting the names of those who are being treated in hospital.\n\nIt is unlikely we will ever know the identities of everyone who died in the 14 October Mogadishu attack. But this is what we know so far.\n\nA medical student at Benadir University in Mogadishu, Maryam Abduallahi, 25, was preparing to graduate on Sunday.\n\nHer father, who lives in the UK, had travelled especially to Somalia for her graduation, but ended up attending her funeral.\n\nMaryam's sister Anfa'a Abdullahi Mohamed told the BBC Somali Service that she had tried to reach her sister after the explosion.\n\n\"I called her number after the explosion, no-one answered.\n\n\"I called back and a young man answered and said, 'Your sister is dead and her body is at Safari Hotel. May Allah have mercy on you.'\n\n\"Our family is saddened. My parents are most distressed. May God make their hearts strong,\" she said.\n\nHer older sister had been a role model who liked helping people at the hospital where she worked and at the university, she added.\n\n\"She was planning to start training at a mother and baby clinic after her university graduation. She had ambition.\"\n\nFa'iso Hassan Ali, 24, had a shop next to Safari Hotel, which was destroyed in the explosion.\n\nHer family have been looking for her since Saturday.\n\nOmar Haji Mohamed has appealed for information about two of his children, a son and daughter, who are thought to have died in the explosion.\n\nOmar Haji Mohamed has been unable to find son and daughter\n\nThey were at the family's shop in Soobe, the area where the attack happened, and have not been seen since.\n\nMr Mohamed has been moving between hospitals and help centres, but has not found them amongst the injured.\n\nA public transport conductor, Suleiman Nuur Ali, 29, had been at work on Saturday in Soobe.\n\nHe has not been seen since the attack.\n\n\"Please if you get him dead or injured, contact us,\" a message from his family says.\n\nBureeqo Abdullahi Adan, 17, was known to be travelling on a bus when the blast happened.\n\nHer relatives are asking for any information.\n\nAbdi Abiid was also last seen in Soobe. The area is near Somalia's CID headquarters and foreign ministry.\n\nHis family have not heard from him since Saturday.\n\nAccording to the director of a Mogadishu ambulance service, 15 primary school children were among those who died.\n\nAbdulkadir Adam told the Associated Press news agency that they had been on a school bus when the lorry exploded.\n\nFreelance cameraman Ali Nur Siad was killed while working for Voice of America, the news agency has said.\n\n\"On behalf of the entire agency, my deepest condolences go out to Mr Siad's family,\" said VOA Director Amanda Bennett.\n\nVOA reporter Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdulle was among those wounded in the attack. He suffered a broken hand, widespread burns and shrapnel wounds to his head and neck. He is receiving medical care in Turkey, the agency said.\n\nAmid all the sorrow and despair, Gurmad252 has found some good news to share. A young woman who had been reported missing has been found alive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Gurmad252 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kim Jong-un's officials described Opposite Number as being \"slanderous\"\n\nNorth Korean hackers targeted a British television company making a drama about the country, it has emerged.\n\nThe series - due to be written by an Oscar-nominated screenwriter - has been shelved.\n\nIn August 2014, Channel 4 announced what it said would be a new \"bold and provocative\" drama series.\n\nTitled Opposite Number, the programme's plot involved a British nuclear scientist taken prisoner in North Korea.\n\nThe production firm involved - Mammoth Screen - subsequently had its computers attacked.\n\nThe project has not moved forward because of a failure to secure funding, the company says.\n\nNorth Korean officials had responded in anger when details of the TV series were first revealed. Pyongyang described the plot as a \"slanderous farce\" as it called on the British government to pull the series in order to avoid damaging relations.\n\nThe North Koreans did more than protest though - they hacked into the computer networks of the company behind the show.\n\nThe incident was first reported by the New York Times, which cited Channel 4 as the main target. However, the BBC understands that it was actually Mammoth Screen that was hit by hackers.\n\nOpposite Number's screenwriter Matt Charman was nominated for an Oscar for the 2015 Spielberg movie Bridge of Spies\n\nThe attack did not inflict any damage but the presence of North Korean hackers on the system caused widespread alarm over what they might do.\n\n\"They were running around with their hair on fire,\" a TV executive from another company told the BBC, describing the level of concern.\n\nBritish intelligence was also aware of the attack.\n\nThe concern was compounded because Sony Pictures experienced a significant cyber-attack in November 2014. A group called the Guardians of Peace claimed it was behind it but US officials said they believed North Korea was responsible.\n\nThat attack was also in retaliation for a drama - in this case the planned release of the film The Interview, a comedy in which the North Korean leader was assassinated.\n\nThe studio had its emails stolen and publicly released but also had a significant portion of its computer network destroyed by the attackers. The film was eventually released online amid concerns that cinemas would not show it because of threats.\n\nSony pulled The Interview from US cinemas after it was hacked\n\nIt also led to a strong reaction from the Obama White House, including the imposition of sanctions. There was no commensurate complaint from the British government, despite officials knowing that a UK company had also been targeted - although not affected in the same way as Sony Pictures.\n\nIn the UK, Opposite Number has been shelved. The drama was due to be the second commission to come out of Channel 4's newly formed international drama division.\n\nAt the time, Mammoth Screen and its distribution partner, ITV Studios Global Entertainment, said they were seeking an international partner. But a spokeswoman for ITV Studios - which purchased Mammoth Screen in 2015 - told the BBC in February that \"the co-production hasn't progressed because third-party funding has not been secured\".\n\nThose involved will not comment on whether the failure to attract funding and move forward with the production was in any way linked to the cyber-attack.\n\nMammoth Screen went on to make the ITV/PBS series Victoria\n\nThe cyber-threats from North Korea have not stopped. Its hackers have proved increasingly aggressive and adept, targeting banks to steal money and media in South Korea.\n\nBritish officials also believe North Korea was behind the Wannacry ransomware that struck around the world in May, with significant parts of the NHS affected, although there has been no official response from the UK government to this incident.\n\nBut the revelations about an attack on a TV production company may raise further concerns about what North Korea is capable of and how companies in the UK - and the British government - react when it happens.", "A poem about death written by comedian Sean Hughes 23 years ago has resurfaced on social media as a poignant tribute.\n\nThe poem, published in Sean's Book in 1994, is titled Death and lays out a list of things he wanted to happen after he passed away.\n\nHe said he wanted people at his funeral to \"have a laugh, a dance, meet a loved one\". He also said he wanted people to say: \"I didn't know him but cheers\".\n\nThe former Never Mind the Buzzcocks captain died on Monday aged 51.\n\nOne fan dug out the poem from his book and posted it on Twitter after Hughes's death.\n\nI know how boring funerals can be\n\nI want people to have free drink all night.\n\nI want people to patch together, half truths.\n\nI want people to contradict each other\n\nI want them to say 'I didn't know him but cheers'\n\nadding more pain to their life.\n\nI want the Guardian to mis-sprint three lines about me\n\nor to be mentioned on the news\n\nJust before the 'parrot who loves Brookside' story.\n\nI want to have my ashes scattered in a bar,\n\non the floor, mingle with sawdust,\n\nWill trample over me… again\n\nTaken from Sean's Book by Sean Hughes, published by Pavilion Books\n\nSean appeared on Pointless Celebrities last year with Rhona Cameron\n\nThe London-born Irish comedian died in hospital in London. He was a team captain on BBC Two's Never Mind The Buzzcocks between 1996 and 2002.\n\nHe became the youngest winner of the Edinburgh Festival's Perrier Award (now known as the Edinburgh Comedy Award) in 1990 at the age of 24.\n\nComedians including Jack Dee, Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves), Sarah Millican, Katy Brand and Richard Herring were among those to pay tribute to him on Monday.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Claim: The UK could, in theory, walk away from the EU without paying any money at all.\n\n\"We don't as a matter of law owe anything at all\" - David Jones MP, 15 October\n\n\"We're actually under no legal obligation to pay any money at all after we've left\" - Bernard Jenkin MP, 22 September\n\n\"We don't owe them any money\" - John Redwood MP, 7 August\n\nReality Check Verdict: Leading Brexiteers are fond of saying that there is no legal obligation on the UK to pay anything at all to the EU as it departs. If there is no deal under the Article 50 process that is almost certainly correct as a strictly legal interpretation, but it is untested. And \"no deal\" on money would also mean \"no deal\" on any other issues as well.\n\nLegal and political considerations are obviously intertwined in the debate about a financial settlement as the UK prepares to leave the EU. But it is possible to separate them in some respects.\n\nArticle 70 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties states that the termination of a treaty… \"does not affect the right, obligation or legal situation of the parties created through the execution of the treaty prior to its termination\".\n\nIn other words, as the EU would argue, your obligations only come to an end on the day of the termination of an international treaty - the \"get-out clause\" doesn't apply to obligations made before you leave.\n\nBut - and it is a big but - there is a crucial caveat. Those terms apply under the Vienna Convention \"unless the treaty otherwise provides or the parties otherwise agree\".\n\nAnd the treaty in question - the Treaty on European Union (TEU) - does provide otherwise, in the form of the famous Article 50. So many (but not all) lawyers argue that Article 50 of the TEU trumps Article 70 of the Vienna Convention.\n\nNow, Article 50 doesn't say anything about money or rights or obligations. So, in this interpretation, the UK would not be required to pay anything if there were to be no withdrawal agreement, because the treaty itself says nothing about any such payments.\n\nArticle 50 says \"the treaties shall cease to apply to the state in question\" either when a withdrawal agreement takes effect, or two years after the Article 50 process has been triggered by the member state that intends to leave. This is the ticking clock.\n\nAn in-depth report on this debate, issued by the House of Lords, acknowledges that there are \"competing interpretations\" on what the UK should pay, but it reaches the conclusion that, because the European treaties do not say anything on the matter, there would be no enforceable obligation to make the UK pay any financial contribution at all.\n\nThe Lords has taken the view that Article 50 is in effect a \"guillotine\" and the UK would be free to walk away without any responsibilities should agreement not be reached. But, and we'll come back to this, it warns that there would be a price to pay.\n\nWould refusing to pay cause more problems than it would solve?\n\nIt is also important to emphasise that these are largely uncharted legal waters and some kind of legal challenge at an international level would probably be made. The EU itself could not bring a case against the UK at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, because it is not a sovereign state.\n\nBut the remaining 27 member states - acting either individually or collectively - could in theory appeal to the ICJ, or to another relevant international tribunal. They would want their money back.\n\nAnd this is where we have to get back to politics. No deal on money would mean \"no deal\" on any of the other issues being negotiated under Article 50, such as the rights of citizens and the future of the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.\n\nWalking away with no agreement would also do significant reputational damage to the UK - if we can't trust you on past obligations, EU officials would argue, why should we trust you on future ones?\n\nThat is why the British government says it wants a deal and it accepts that it does have financial obligations to meet. The trouble is there's no agreement so far on precisely what those obligations are.\n\nIn conclusion, it is easy to say - in isolation - that the UK has no legal obligation to pay anything at all. But the reality is that such a provocative move would cause far more problems than it would solve.\n\nMost leading Brexiteers acknowledge that, and accept (with varying degrees of reluctance) that the UK should pay something as a gesture of goodwill. On the EU side it is seen as rather more than that - it is a prerequisite for any deal to succeed.\n\nUpdate 31 October 2017: This article has been amended to make it clear that many (but not all) lawyers believe that Article 50 of the TEU trumps Article 70 of the Vienna Convention.", "Craig Smith and Daniella Hirst were sentenced at Scarborough Magistrates' Court\n\nA couple who had sex against the counter of a pizza delivery shop have been given community orders.\n\nDaniella Hirst, 29, and Craig Smith, 31, were captured on CCTV in a Domino's shop in Scarborough in February.\n\nHirst, of Bridlington, pleaded guilty to outraging public decency and Smith, also of Bridlington, was found guilty in his absence in September.\n\nMagistrates in Scarborough said the couple were \"very close to going to prison\".\n\nThe couple were caught on CCTV at Domino's on Castle Road in Scarborough\n\nAn 18-minute CCTV recording of the couple, which the court was shown in September, showed Hirst performing oral sex on Smith before the couple had sex leaning against the counter.\n\nChairman of the bench, Charles Davis told Hirst, of Gypsey Road, and Smith, of Field Road: \"You were both very close to going to prison.\n\n\"It was a brazen offence, committed in a public place over a prolonged period and in the presence of staff.\"\n\nThe couple were both handed a 12-month community order and made the subject of a curfew between 19:00 and 07:00 until 27 March.\n\nSmith was also ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid work.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been found guilty of murdering his neighbour in a \"savage and sustained\" knife attack that lasted more than 40 minutes.\n\nJeffrey Barry, who has paranoid schizophrenia, falsely claimed victim Kamil Ahmad was a rapist and terrorist.\n\nThe brutal attack in Bristol in July 2016 ended with Barry slicing off the Kurdish refugee's penis.\n\nBarry, 56, had denied murder but admitted manslaughter by diminished responsibility at Bristol Crown Court.\n\nDuring the trial, the jury was told he was racist towards Iraqi-born Mr Ahmad and had previously assaulted him.\n\nA post-mortem examination found injuries to Mr Ahmad included 25 stab wounds to his face and eyes.\n\nBarry, who has a long history of mental health problems, attacked Mr Ahmad hours after being released from hospital against the advice of psychiatrists. A mental health tribunal ruled that he should be discharged.\n\nIn the lead-up to the murder, Barry, of Wells Road, had been sectioned, treated at a psychiatric intensive care unit, transferred to an open ward and later released with medication after he promised not to drink or take drugs.\n\nDuring the trial, the jury was told he had written notes stating his intention to kill people in the shared supported housing unit where the pair lived.\n\nWeeks before the killing at the victim's flat, Barry told police during a phone call he thought Mr Ahmad was a rapist, a paedophile and a terrorist in Iraq.\n\nKamil Ahmad was killed by Barry in July last year\n\nSpeaking outside court, Mr Ahmad's family described the Kurdish refugee as \"a deeply loved member of our family\".\n\nIn a statement, they added: \"We have one question: Why was Kamil not protected by the authorities from this violent racist?\n\n\"We call on all the authorities to give an honest answer to this question without delay, so that Kamil can rest in peace and so that other vulnerable people are protected.\"\n\nLawyer Tony Murphy, who is representing Mr Ahmad's family, said the victim was known to be \"very vulnerable and particularly vulnerable and at risk from Barry\".\n\nHe said there was \"documented history\" of racist abuse, violence and threats to kill him.\n\n\"In those circumstances, the apparent and total absence of a plan to protect Kamil upon Barry's discharge is extremely concerning.\n\n\"Had there been a plan, Kamil would be alive today.\"\n\nAvon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust described the death as \"tragic and brutal\".\n\nIt said the trust was \"committed to close cooperation with all agencies in an effort to prevent such an event happening in the future\".\n\n\"We have reviewed and strengthened our ways of working with other service providers, including the police, to improve our sharing of clinical and additional relevant information,\" a spokesman added.\n\nAlex Raikes, from the campaign group Stand Against Racism and Inequality (Sari), said more help should have been available for Mr Ahmad.\n\n\"We're seeing cutbacks where we're seeing agencies losing more and more resources, more and more front-line resources, some of our most vulnerable people are even less safe,\" she said.\n\n\"That means that we, as the voluntary and charitable sector, have got to step up and we've got to do more than we ever have done before to be the eyes and ears of people who are so vulnerable, and Kamil was one of those individuals.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Richard Ocone of Avon and Somerset Police said Barry \"deliberately armed himself\" and \"purposefully went to Kamil's flat and brutally attacked him\".\n\nHe said: \"Jeffrey Barry may have a history of serious mental illness but at the time he attacked Kamil he knew exactly what he was doing.\n\n\"It is clear in the 999 call he subsequently made that he was already thinking of his defence, and the jury rightly recognised he was fully responsible for his actions.\n\n\"The public are now much safer with him off the streets for he is an exceptionally dangerous man.\"\n\nBarry will be sentenced on 10 November.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Anne Frank, who became a symbol of courage, died at the age of 15\n\nOnline retailers are removing a children's costume from websites after facing a backlash over its portrayal of teenage Holocaust victim Anne Frank.\n\nSeveral sites have ceased selling the outfit, though others continue to market it as a \"World War Two evacuee girl\".\n\nThe costume - a green beret, blue dress and brown satchel - has been criticised on social media for being insensitive.\n\nAnne Frank's famous diary tells of her life as a German Jew in hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam in World War Two.\n\nIts account of the two years her family spent living in a secret annexe of her father's business premises have made her a household name around the world, and she has come to symbolise courage, optimism and determination.\n\nThe Franks were eventually betrayed, arrested and transported to the Auschwitz camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.\n\nAnne and her sister Margot were later taken by train to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany in early 1945. They died just months later.\n\nOtto Frank, Anne's father, was the only family member to survive the war.\n\nPeople have been taking to Twitter to share their outrage at how such a symbolic figure could be used by fancy dress companies and advertised on websites among a catalogue of Halloween costumes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Far Right Watch This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Far Right Watch\n\nImages shared on social media show the costume was initially advertised on sites such as HalloweenCostumes.com - which uses the Twitter handle @funcostumes - as a \"WW2 Anne Frank Girls Costume\".\n\n\"Now your child can play the role of a World War Two hero,\" the original description reads. \"It comes with a blue button-up dress, reminiscent of the kind of clothing that might be worn by a young girl\" at the time, it adds.\n\nCarlos Galindo-Elvira, Arizona regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, tweeted that there were better ways to commemorate Anne Frank.\n\n\"We should not trivialise her memory as a costume,\" he wrote.\n\nAnother user, Lola, wrote that marketing Anne Frank in such a way was \"absurd\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Lola❤🕎🐾🕊✡ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHalloweencostumes.com later removed the outfit and a spokesman for the retailer, Ross Walker Smith, apologised for \"any offence it may have caused\".\n\n\"We sell costumes... for many uses outside of the Halloween season,\" Mr Walker Smith wrote, adding that user feedback had been \"passed along\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe product has also disappeared from the Walmart website.\n\nHowever, other sites such as Amazon have been selling the outfit without any reference to Anne Frank, calling it a World War Two \"evacuee girl costume\", described as \"perfect for carnivals, theme parties and Halloween\".\n\nThe latest controversy is not the first to involve a Halloween costume.\n\nIn 2015, US supermarket Walmart caused outrage for stocking an Israeli army Halloween outfit for children at a time of spiralling violence between Israel and the Palestinians.\n\nIn 2014, tens of thousands of people took to social media to debate whether an Ebola-themed Halloween costume was making light of the tragic health epidemic afflicting West African countries.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What can and can't you say in China?\n\nIf you control public communication you can control the way people think and how they behave. That's what Xi Jinping's government is counting on.\n\nAnd it is never more true than at the time of major political gatherings.\n\nThe Communist Party Congress, held every five years, is set to begin next week: an event which will culminate in the revelation of the new leadership team behind General Secretary Xi.\n\nSo the censors here are poised to restrict with one hand and disseminate with the other.\n\nWhat they're looking out for are key words and expressions popping up in social media. Anything signalling an intention to protest or ridiculing the country's senior political figures will be blocked and potentially see a user reported to the authorities.\n\nFor example, a message featuring the name of this country's ever-more powerful leader and his sometimes-used nickname \"Winnie the Pooh\" (小熊维尼) will simply not go through to group discussions on the messaging app WeChat.\n\nFunny stickers featuring Mr Xi or previous Chinese leaders also can't be sent to chat groups.\n\nThis meme comparing Xi Jinping and former US President Barack Obama to Winnie the Pooh and Tigger has been censored in China\n\nChina has all the appearances of an increasingly open society: flashy new cities with Hollywood movies advertised on bus stops; digital currency taken up like nowhere else; cool kids getting around on hire bikes zooming through a gleaming modern existence.\n\nAnd yet, since Mr Xi came to power five years ago, public discourse has been increasingly censored to try and control everything from political thought to sexual activity.\n\nIn the lead up to the Olympic Games in 2008, it felt as if freedom of expression was ever on the rise here.\n\nNew laws allowed foreign reporters to travel around the country without specific permission from local governments.\n\nIt's hard to believe it, but Google searches were not blocked then.\n\nInvestigative journalism from local Chinese publications - like the Southern Weekend newspaper and Caijing magazine - was becoming as good as anywhere in the world.\n\nI remember being at a function where a group of journalists were speaking to one of the foreign affairs ministry spokespeople. We had some concern or other, and he was reassuring us that everything would be all right.\n\n\"Don't worry,\" he said, smiling as he pushed an imaginary truck gear into position. \"In China we only have one gear, and it's forward.\"\n\nIt sometimes doesn't feel like that now.\n\nJust as China has its Great Wall, so does it also have a powerful internet firewall to block \"undesirable\" sites\n\n\"You can't control the internet,\" is something people would say in those years - part mantra, part celebration of a new global reality.\n\nBut Chinese officials have worked out that actually, you can.\n\nRather than connecting to the internet, this country has something more like an intranet within the boundaries of the Great Firewall of China.\n\nSites like Amnesty International, Facebook, and Twitter are unreachable for most Chinese, unless they have use of a virtual private network (VPN), which effectively punts their computer over the Great Firewall.\n\nSo, with the congress approaching, there's been an assault on VPN use. The government has ordered Apple to remove all VPNs from its Chinese app store.\n\nThe company has decided in favour of not being kicked out of this enormous market and is doing what Beijing wants.\n\nYears ago Google was given a similar ultimatum: allow Chinese officials to censor search results or you're gone. Google didn't cave in, and was blocked.\n\nWeChat is widely used in China\n\nChina's most effective censorship tool is also the country's most widespread method of communication.\n\nPretty much everybody here uses the phone app WeChat. It has text messaging, group chats, photo sharing, location searching and electronic payments.\n\nDuring periods of political sensitivity - like now - key words will trigger the blocking or monitoring of a post. If sensitive enough, they could even lead to state security knocking on your door.\n\nNew regulations also make a person who sets up a group chat responsible for what's said amongst the group.\n\nAs you can imagine, the administrators of football team chats might be feeling a little nervous about the content of late night posts from drunken players.\n\nSome will wonder how this is all possible as the app is not owned by the government but run by the hugely-powerful Chinese company Tencent.\n\nWell, under new regulations from the Cyber Administration of China, private entities which run these platforms are required to not only enforce content restrictions but also report those who violate them to the \"relevant authorities\".\n\nFor many Chinese people - even those overseas - WeChat has also become their main news feed. If you restrict this content you can close out certain news coverage.\n\nPotential challengers to WeChat's virtual monopoly are also being reined in. WhatsApp is not 100% within the domain of the Chinese state.\n\nSo, at times in recent weeks, its use has been impossible to reach without a VPN.\n\nIt is not clear whether the disruption of WhatsApp is a temporary measure to coincide with the congress or yet another restriction that's here to stay.\n\nIt is no secret that every Chinese newspaper and television station is under the complete control of the Communist Party.\n\nAnd yet last year, when Mr Xi visited the People's Daily newspaper, Xinhua wire service and state broadcaster CCTV, he still demanded the absolute loyalty of reporters who should follow the Party's leadership in \"politics, thought and action\".\n\nBut, just in case some journalists didn't get the memo, a set of rules have been sent around governing coverage of this year's congress, requiring all interviews with experts or scholars to be approved by the outlet's \"work unit leadership\" and the central propaganda department.\n\nHowever, China's censorship and propaganda model is also going beyond sensitive political matters.\n\nOnline bookstores must now work under a rating system from the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television which includes the promotion of \"moral values\".\n\nPopular blogs focusing on celebrity scandals and the intrigues of the rich and famous have been forced to close.\n\nTo talk about such matters has been deemed to be not in keeping with \"core socialist values\".\n\nFor a time, cheap online video dramas were pushing out the boundaries of what could be viewed here. There was a gay sitcom, for example.\n\nBut digital platforms have been ordered to stop showing hundreds of foreign shows, and their locally produced material is expected to follow the same restrictions as television.\n\nAs it is, on Chinese TV you rarely see anything approaching a passionate kiss.\n\nTwo years ago a TV drama was forced to reframe and zoom in on its shots so as to crop out the generous cleavage of its 7th Century maidens, in order to remain on air.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Many in China feel the authorities have gone too far in censoring The Empress of China, as John Sudworth reports\n\nThus goes the creeping imposition of a state-sanctioned morality under Mr Xi's administration.\n\nLast month, TV dramas were given notice of a new set of rules governing their content. They should \"enhance people's cultural taste\" and \"strengthen spiritual civilisation\".\n\nDirectors are supposed to come up with engaging characters beyond the realms of lewd behaviour, extra-marital affairs, gambling, drugs, homosexuality and other forms of \"immoral\" behaviour.\n\nThe notice suggested eulogising the Communist Party of China, the country, the people and also national heroes. And one figure is emerging via the propaganda machine to stand head and shoulders above all others.\n\nAs the censors shut down dissent, the party is urging a way of thinking about all that's good in China and tracing it back to a single source - Xi Jinping.\n\nAn exhibition focusing on the recent achievements of the Chinese government has opened in Beijing.\n\nVast rooms are dedicated to science, transport, the military, the economy, sport, ethnic minorities, and they are all dominated by massive photos of Xi Jinping. There must be hundreds of them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Songs have been written celebrating Chinese President Xi Jinping, one even has an accompanying dance routine\n\nThe English language newspaper China Daily has been rolling out a series of front page stories - one every day - about the \"impact of\" a visit from Mr Xi on various villages, towns and cities after the General Secretary passed on his advice.\n\n\"He asked people to protect the lake\", \"President Xi proposed moving people in the villages to the new settlement\", \"Xi emphasised the importance of afforestation\", et cetera.\n\nSome here are joking that this type of reporting is not all that far from what you might expect in the North Korean press describing its own god-like leaders.\n\nWhen Chinese officials make speeches now, they refer to this or that aspect of what they're up to \"with Xi Jinping at the core\".\n\nIt goes without saying that you cannot question \"the core\" without this nation's considerable censorship apparatus crashing down upon you.\n\nBut, short of such an obvious breach, the rules regarding what can and can't be said, broadcast, forwarded, analysed are thought to be kept deliberately vague.\n\nIn this way, everyone is on their toes and the authorities can shut down what they like at any time without having to give a reason.\n\nEditors, cartoonists, reporters, directors, bloggers, comedians, administrators running social media platforms and ordinary Chinese citizens posting to their friends are all staying well clear of certain subjects just in case it lands them in hot water.\n\nIn short: Chinese censorship works, and plenty of other governments around the world are looking on with admiration.", "Former submarine officer Mr Samwell died in hospital from his injuries on 23 April\n\nA widow sobbed as she told a court how she held her dying husband's hand and told him she loved him after he was run over by car thieves.\n\nMike Samwell, 35, had been woken in the early hours by a break-in at his home in Chorlton, Manchester, in April.\n\nThe city's crown court was told he ran out of the house and when his wife followed she found him on his back with tyre marks on his chest.\n\nRyan Gibbons, who denies murder, is accused of running over him twice.\n\nMrs Samwell, who was allowed to give evidence from behind a screen in the witness box to minimise her distress, broke down in tears.\n\nIn a police video interview played to the jury, Mrs Samwell said: \"When I got to him, he had tyre marks across his chest.\n\n\"There was blood coming out of the back of his head. He was making an awful noise.\n\n\"I was ringing the police and trying to talk to the police.\n\n\"I was shouting 'Help! Help! Somebody help me!'.\n\n\"I was just telling him that I loved him and holding his hand.\"\n\nAlistair Webster QC, prosecuting, told the court: \"One of the rear wheels was actually on Mr Samwell's chest. He was screaming.\"\n\nMr Webster said 29-year-old Mr Gibbons, despite his denial and claims he only felt a \"bump\", must have known he had driven over Mr Samwell.\n\nHe said that audio captured by a CCTV camera near the scene recorded \"a yelp, a shriek, a large crash, a small crash. Female screams, harsh engine acceleration and shouts for help\".\n\nThe court heard Mr Samwell, a nuclear engineer, suffered 39 separate external injuries, with \"catastrophic\" damage to his chest and heart.\n\nMr Gibbons, of Steven Court, Chorlton, admits burglary and aggravated vehicle taking without consent, but denies murder and manslaughter.\n\nCo-accused Raymond Davies, 21, of Castlefield Walk, Manchester, also admitted a count of burglary but denies manslaughter and aggravated vehicle taking without consent.\n\nHe is alleged to have transported Mr Gibbons to the scene of the crime and helped him escape afterwards.\n\nThe jury was told police believe two other men were involved in the burglary but have never been traced.\n\nStacey Hughes, 28, of Steven Court, Chorlton, is also on trial and denies a charge of assisting an offender.\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\nTwo men and a woman have been killed as the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia hit the British Isles.\n\nAs hurricane-force gusts battered the Republic of Ireland, one woman and a man died in separate incidents when trees fell on their cars.\n\nA second man died in a chainsaw accident while attempting to remove a tree felled by the storm.\n\nThousands of homes and businesses lost power in Northern Ireland and Wales, along with 360,000 in the Republic.\n\nThe power company Northern Ireland Electricity said 15,000 households in the province should prepare to spend Monday night without power.\n\nPolice in Scotland say the storm has hit Dumfries and Galloway and it is forecast to continue over the region into the evening.\n\nAnd in Cumbria, police in Barrow closed roads around Barrow AFC's stadium after wind damaged its roof.\n\nCumbria Police said it was dealing with \"numerous incidents\" related to the high winds, which reached up to 70mph in the area.\n\nThe force had received reports of roofs and debris on the roads and overhead cables which had come down and it was urging people to only make essential travel.\n\nIn Wales, roads and railway lines have been closed and a gust of 90mph was recorded in Aberdaron, Gwynedd.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance service said a woman has been injured after being hit by a falling branch in Wrexham.\n\nIn Ireland, the woman, in her 50s, died near Aglish, County Waterford, and a female passenger, in her 70s, was injured.\n\nHer injuries were not believed to be life-threatening, the Gardai, Ireland's police force, said.\n\nOne of the men died near Dundalk, Co Louth, after his car was struck by a tree at about 14:45 BST, the Gardai said.\n\nThe other man, in his 30s, was killed in Cahir, Co Tipperary.\n\nAll road users were urged to stay indoors and not travel unless their journey was absolutely necessary.\n\nFlights were also disrupted as several UK planes were forced to land or divert after reports of a \"smoke smell\" linked to weather conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A reporter at the scene is caught in Ophelia's wind\n\nBBC Weather said the strongest winds recorded so far were at Roches Point, near Cork in the Republic of Ireland, where they reached 97mph.\n\nIreland's meteorological service said its highest gust was 109mph at Fastnet Rock.\n\nThe Met Office's amber warning for Northern Ireland, western Wales and western parts of Scotland is still in force for wind.\n\nForecasters are predicting that the far south-west of Scotland will see winds of 80mph on Monday evening, followed by 60mph gusts over Glasgow and the central belt in the early hours of Tuesday morning.\n\nThe main danger facing Scottish commuters in the morning would be debris on roads, they said.\n\nOther parts of the UK have seen unseasonably warm temperatures.\n\nAnd skies have turned red and yellow as Ophelia drags dust from the Sahara through the atmosphere.\n\nAn amber warning is in force in Northern Ireland\n\nIt could be several days before power is restored to some homes in the Republic of Ireland, ESB Networks has warned.\n\nThe roof of Cork's football stadium has also been blown off by the winds.\n\nOphelia has arrived from the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean and coincides with the 30th anniversary of the UK's Great Storm of 1987.\n\nBBC Ireland correspondent Chris Page said it would be the most severe storm to hit Ireland in half a century.\n\nThe Irish Republic's Met Eireann said the storm was forecast to continue travelling north over western parts of Ireland, with \"violent and destructive gusts\" of 75mph to 93mph expected countrywide.\n\nIt also warned of possible flooding due to heavy rain and storm surges.\n\n\"There is a danger to life and property,\" it said.\n\nIt has issued a red alert for the country.\n\nIn England, three flood warnings - meaning flooding is expected - have been issued in the South West, and there are several flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible - across other parts of the country.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency has put a series of flood alerts and warnings in place for south-west Scotland.\n\nA trampoline was blown away by strong winds in Cork, Republic of Ireland\n\nThe storm hit Land's End leaving these two dogs windswept\n\nAnd at Trearddur Bay, Wales strong winds whipped up sea foam on to the road\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Reese Witherspoon said it had been \"a hard week for women in Hollywood\"\n\nOscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon has said she was assaulted by an unnamed film director when she was 16.\n\nIn a speech at an Elle Women in Hollywood event on Monday, the Legally Blonde and Walk the Line star said she felt \"true disgust at the director\".\n\nAnd she felt \"anger... at the agents and producers who made me feel silence was a condition of my employment\".\n\nShe said she had suffered multiple other \"experiences of harassment and sexual assault\" during her career.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Margot Robbie wants \"something positive\" to come out of the Harvey Weinstein allegations\n\nShe didn't go into detail about her experiences as a 16-year-old, but added: \"I wish I could tell you that that was an isolated incident in my career, but sadly, it wasn't.\"\n\nThe A-lister, who also stars in TV series Big Little Lies, said she didn't speak about those experiences \"very often\".\n\nBut she went on: \"After hearing all the stories these past few days... the things that we're kind of told to sweep under the rug and not talk about, it's made me want to speak up and speak up loudly because I felt less alone this week than I've ever felt in my entire career.\n\n\"And I've just spoken to so many actresses and writers, and particularly women who've had similar experiences, and many of them have bravely gone public with their stories.\n\n\"And that truth is very encouraging to me and to everyone out there in the world because you can only heal by telling the truth.\"\n\nThe actress said she didn't sleep before giving her speech because of \"the feelings I've been having about anxiety, about being honest, the guilt for not speaking up earlier or taking action\".\n\nShe referred to the fact it had \"been a hard week for women in Hollywood\" following the Harvey Weinstein allegations.\n\nBut she said she believed there was a new attitude towards harassment, which would address \"the abuse of power in this business and every business\".\n\nShe added: \"I feel really, really encouraged that there will be a new normal.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thieves stole a \"substantial quantity of cash\" from an elderly couple's home by pretending to be police officers.\n\nThe two thieves said they needed to turn the water stop-cock off because of damage from Storm Ophelia around 19:45 BST on 16 October.\n\nAfter they left, the couple, who live in Llay, Wrexham, noticed money missing and their closet had been searched.\n\nDet Insp Mark Hughes described it as a \"particularly mean crime against an elderly couple in their own home\".\n\nNorth Wales Police is searching for the two men and has warned residents to \"be aware of cold callers\".", "Dr Beth Steer collected dust samples from her car windscreen and put them under a scanning electron microscope\n\nAnalysis of tiny particles has confirmed that dust blown over from the Sahara caused the sun and sky to appear red in many parts of England.\n\nScientists at the University of Nottingham studied dust particles brought down in rainfall to determine the cause of Monday's phenomenon.\n\nThe dust was dragged in from the Sahara by the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia.\n\nDr Beth Steer collected samples from her car windscreen and put them under a scanning electron microscope.\n\nAnthony Newby captured the skies between Leeds and York\n\n\"I was able to collect the dust from my car due to the rain which mingled with the dust to create the muddy rain that has coated everyone's car yesterday,\" said Dr Steer, from the university's Nanoscale and Microscale Research Centre.\n\n\"The particles themselves contain sand grains [quartz], clays and feldspars - all of which are expected in Saharan dust.\"\n\nDr Beth Steer said a lot of the rounded grains are quartz, and the more jagged ones are clays\n\nThere were also suggestions the red sky was partly caused by debris from forest fires in Portugal and Spain.\n\nHowever Dr Steer said she would \"have to be inconclusive on that one\".\n\n\"It's possible that some of the carbon rich material I saw was originating from the forest fire, but it is more difficult to diagnose,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't see any clear pieces of charred wood or similar. Though I did see flakes of carbon, these could also have come from a variety of sources not linked to the fires.\"\n\nDr Beth Steer said the particles are all \"expected in Saharan dust\"\n\n\"I thought it would be informative for people to know what was causing the phenomenon and of interest to see it on a micron scale,\" said Dr Steer.\n\nThe scanning electron microscope uses a beam of electrons to create an image of a surface rather than light.\n\nThis allows things to be seen at much higher magnifications than they could by light.\n\nTony Todd snapped this photo in Dalton on Tees, North Yorkshire\n\nOphelia originated in the Atlantic where it was a hurricane and as it tracked its way northwards it dragged in tropical air from the Sahara.\n\nThe dust caused the shorter wavelength light (blue, violet etc) to be scattered away, leaving the longer wavelength light (red/orange) to shine through.\n\nHundreds took to social media on Monday to share their theories and snaps of the unusual red sun and yellow skies.\n\nTrending alongside #redsun, #yellowsky and #orangesky was the hashtag #apocalypse.\n\nPete Langford captured the phenomenon over Silkstone Common in Barnsley, South Yorkshire\n\nThe dust darkened the sky over Seaham, County Durham, on Monday afternoon\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. MI5 chief Andrew Parker: 'Over 3,000 extremists in the UK'\n\nThe UK's intelligence services are facing an \"intense\" challenge from terrorism, the head of MI5 has warned.\n\nAndrew Parker said there was currently \"more terrorist activity coming at us, more quickly\" and that it can also be \"harder to detect\".\n\nThe UK has suffered five terror attacks this year, and he said MI5 staff had been \"deeply affected\" by them.\n\nHe added that more than 130 Britons who travelled to Iraq and Syria to fight with so-called Islamic State had died.\n\nMI5 was running 500 live operations involving 3,000 individuals involved in extremist activity in some way, he said.\n\nSpeaking in London, Mr Parker said the tempo of counter-terrorism operations was the highest he had seen in his 34-year career at MI5.\n\nTwenty attacks had been foiled in the last four years, including seven in the last seven months, he said - all related to what he called Islamist extremism.\n\nThe five attacks that got through this year included a suicide bomb attack after an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena in May, killing 22.\n\nFive people were also killed in April during an attack near the Houses of Parliament, while eight people were killed when three attackers drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and launched a knife attack in Borough Market.\n\nA man then drove a van into a crowd of worshippers near a mosque in north London in June, while a homemade bomb partially exploded in tube train at Parsons Green station last month, injuring 30 people.\n\nIn some cases, individuals like Khuram Butt - who was behind the London Bridge attack - were well known to MI5 and had been under investigation by the security services.\n\nPeople left flowers in Manchester city centre after the Manchester Arena attack\n\nMr Parker was asked what was the point of MI5 surveillance when someone who had made \"no secret of his affiliations with jihadist extremism\" had then been allowed to go on to launch a deadly attack.\n\nHe said the risk from each individual was assessed on a \"daily and weekly basis\" and then prioritised \"accordingly\".\n\n\"One of the main challenges we've got is that we only ever have fragments of information, and we have to try to assemble a picture of what might happen, based on those fragments.\"\n\nHe said the likelihood was that when an attacked happened, it would be carried out by someone \"that we know or have known\" - otherwise it would mean they had been looking \"in completely the wrong place\".\n\nAnd he said staff at MI5 were deeply affected on a \"personal and professional\" level when they did happen.\n\n\"They are constantly making tough professional judgements based on fragments of intelligence; pinpricks of light against a dark and shifting canvas.\"\n\nMr Parker said they were trying to \"squeeze every drop of learning\" from recent incidents.\n\nIn the wake of attacks in the UK, there had been some, including some in the Home Office, who questioned whether the counter-terrorist machine - featuring all three intelligence agencies and the police, and with MI5 at its heart - was functioning as effectively as previously thought.\n\nHowever, there was no indication of a fundamental change in direction in his remarks, with a focus on the scale of the threat making stopping all plots impossible.\n\n\"We have to be careful that we do not find ourselves held to some kind of perfect standard of 100%, because that is not achievable,\" he said.\n\n\"Attacks can sometimes accelerate from inception through planning to action in just a handful of days.\n\n\"This pace, together with the way extremists can exploit safe spaces online, can make threats harder to detect and give us a smaller window to intervene.\"\n\nMany Britons still fighting in Syria and Iraq may not now return, Andrew Parker said\n\nHe renewed the call for more co-operation from technology companies.\n\nTechnology was \"not the enemy,\" he added, but said companies had a responsibility to deal with the side effects and \"dark edges\" created by the products they produced.\n\nIn particular, he pointed to online purchasing of goods - such as chemicals - as well as the presence of extremist content on social media and encrypted communications.\n\nHe said more than 800 individuals had left the UK for Syria and Iraq.\n\nSome had then returned, often many years ago, and had been subject to risk assessment. Mr Parker revealed at least 130 had been killed in conflict.\n\nFewer than expected had returned recently, he said, adding that those who were still in Syria and Iraq may not now attempt to come back because they knew they might be arrested.\n\nMr Parker stressed that international co-operation remained vital and revealed there was a joint operational centre for counter-terrorism based in the Netherlands, where security service officers from a range of countries worked together and shared data.\n\nThis had led to 12 arrests in Europe, he added.\n\nIn terms of state threats, Mr Parker said the range of clandestine activity conducted by foreign states - including Russia - went from aggressive cyber-attack, through to traditional espionage and the risk of assassination of individuals.\n\nHowever, he said the UK had strong defences against such activity.", "The home secretary said security co-operation must be at the heart of the UK's future relations with the EU\n\nThe prospect of Brexit happening without any deal being reached between the UK and the EU is \"unthinkable\", Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said.\n\nMs Rudd was responding to a question about the impact on security of nothing being agreed before the UK leaves.\n\n\"We will make sure there is something between them and us to maintain our security,\" she assured MPs.\n\nEarlier Brexit Secretary David Davis defended keeping the \"no deal\" option open in the on-going negotiations.\n\nAfter five rounds of Brexit negotiations, the EU has described the talks as in \"deadlock\" and there has been an increased debate about the possibility of the UK leaving without a deal in place.\n\nOne of the UK's aims is for a new security treaty with the EU, and Ms Rudd told the Commons Home Affairs Committee contingency plans were being made in case this was not in place by the UK's departure in March 2019.\n\nAsked whether, if there was \"no deal of any form\", Britain would be as safe and secure as it currently is, she replied: \"I think it is unthinkable there would be no deal.\n\n\"It is so much in their interests as well as ours - in their communities', families', tourists' interests to have something in place.\"\n\nMs Rudd also said it was \"unthinkable\" EU citizens would be asked to leave the UK after Brexit, but was unable to offer guarantees while negotiations continue.\n\nMr Davis was asked about a \"no deal\" scenario as he updated MPs on Monday's dinner between Theresa May and EU officials.\n\nReaching agreement with the EU is \"by far and away the best option\" he said, adding: \"The maintenance of the option of no deal is for both negotiating reasons and sensible security - any government doing its job properly will do that.\"\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liam Fox said there was no reason to fear the impact on the economy of no deal being agreed, saying it \"would not be the Armageddon that people project\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"I think that we need to concentrate on the realities, get rid of the hyperbole around the debate and focus on the fact that if we can get a good agreement with the EU, both Britain and the EU would be better off for it.\"\n\nA UK-EU free trade deal cannot be discussed until the EU deems sufficient progress has been made on other matters and gives the green light.\n\nIn his statement to MPs, Mr Davis said the UK was \"reaching the limits of what we can achieve\" in Brexit talks without moving on to talk about trade.\n\nHe urged EU leaders to give counterpart Michel Barnier the green light at this week's EU summit to begin trade talks.\n\nMr Barnier said he wanted to speed up talks but \"it takes two to accelerate\".\n\nThis was a reference to comments made by Mrs May after her dinner with the EU's chief negotiator, in which she said the two sides had agreed on the need to \"accelerate\" the process.\n\nMrs May and Mr Juncker embraced after their working dinner in Brussels\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, Mr Barnier said a \"constructive dynamic\" was needed over the next two months but \"there was a lot of work to do\" and issues must be tackled in the \"right order\".\n\n\"At the moment we are still not yet at the first step which is securing citizen rights, guaranteeing the long term success of the good Friday agreement and finalising the accounts,\" he said.\n\nThe talks - which were held as EU member states prepare to assess progress so far on Thursday - were said to be \"constructive and friendly\" but the UK's financial settlement with the EU continues to be a sticking point and the EU will not discuss trade until this has been settled.\n\nAlong with the UK's \"divorce bill\", the EU is insisting agreement be reached on citizens' rights and what happens on the Northern Ireland border before agreeing to open talks on the free trade deal Mrs May's government wants to strike.\n\nIn his Commons statement, Mr Davis urged the EU to give Mr Barnier a mandate to start discussing its future relations with the UK, including trade and defence, telling MPs he was \"ready to move the negotiations on\".\n\nHe suggested the UK was \"reaching the limits of what we can achieve without consideration of the future relationship\".\n\n\"Our aim remains to provide as much certainty to business and citizens on both sides. To fully provide that certainty, we must be able to talk about the future.\"\n\nOn citizens' rights, he said key issues such as the rules on family reunion, the right to return, the onward movement of British expats in Europe and the right of EU residents to export benefits had still to be settled.\n\nAnnouncing that EU citizens who currently have permanent residence in the UK would not have to go through the full process of re-applying before Brexit, he said the UK had consistently \"gone further and provided more certainty\" on their status than the EU had done.\n\nWhile the UK had \"some way to secure the new partnership with the EU\", he was \"confident we are on the right path\".\n\nSpeaking in the Commons earlier on Tuesday, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said he thought a reported bill of £100bn was too high and urged the EU to \"get serious\" and agree to settle the citizens' rights question.\n\nFor Labour, shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said EU and UK citizens were still no wiser over their future while it \"appeared the deadlock over the financial settlement is such that the two sides are barely talking\".\n\n\"Nobody should underestimate the seriousness of the situation we find ourselves in. At the first hurdle, the government has failed to hit a very important target.\"", "Prime Minister Theresa May, seen here travelling to Brussels, wants to speed up the pace of Brexit talks\n\n\"Magic solutions\" were the words used by one EU diplomat to describe what British Prime Minister Theresa May was looking for during her dinner in Brussels on Monday night.\n\nThese elusive solutions are meant to address what the UK sees as EU intransigence in moving to the next stage of Brexit negotiations: trade and transitions agreements.\n\nFor now the talks remain at stage one - agreeing the rough outline of a divorce deal, including what happens to Northern Ireland's borders, to EU citizens in the UK and vice versa and how big a divorce bill the UK will pay.\n\nI stood outside the European Commission as the informal dinner between Theresa May and Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker began.\n\nA number of Commission employees walked past me on their way home, eyebrows raised.\n\nIt's seen as ironic by many here that the British government came to Mr Juncker seeking help over Brexit.\n\nThat same Jean-Claude Juncker is painted almost as the devil incarnate by some British newspapers.\n\nMrs May and Mr Juncker embraced after their working dinner in Brussels\n\nBut the UK has caught glimpses of flexibility from the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, who was also at Monday night's dinner.\n\nHe recently raised the possibility of moving to stage two of the talks.\n\nAlthough Mr Barnier complained last week of deadlock between the UK and EU over the Brexit divorce deal, he has recognised that good progress has been made on other issues.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michel Barnier: 'We've reached a state of deadlock which is very disturbing'\n\n\"Theresa May still doesn't understand how Brussels works,\" one diplomatic high level source complained to me.\n\n\"Even if the Commission thought it were time to move on to transition talks, EU member states are their master in this. And they won't budge on money.\"\n\nAnd that's what it comes down to - money.\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel told the prime minister in a phone call this weekend that she needs to elaborate on the Brexit speech she gave in Florence last month, when she insisted Britain would honour commitments made while it was an EU member.\n\nBut which financial commitments exactly? EU countries want to know.\n\nEU sources emphasise they understand the British argument that it can't commit fully to a divorce bill until it knows what the future relationship with the EU will look like.\n\nNo-one expects the UK to agree a final sum until all negotiations are over. They say they don't need the i's dotted and the t's crossed.\n\nBut what the EU wants from the UK now is a list of liabilities it accepts - such as pension payments, contributions to multi-annual budgets and loans to countries like Ukraine and Turkey.\n\nReports in the UK of late have focused on Germany and France being the main blocks in the road to talks of transition and trade. But sources close to Mrs Merkel told me that, while a couple of EU countries are keen to move forward, the majority demand \"more progress on the financial settlement first\" .\n\nThis is EU-speak for wanting Britain to cough up more cash.\n\nOf course German taxpayers are reluctant for the UK to pay a smaller sum than the EU is looking for. As the biggest net contributors to the EU budget, they know they'll be under pressure to make up the shortfall.\n\nBut smaller countries also clamour for UK feet to be held over the fire. A big hole in EU finances means they risk losing subsidies, grants and infrastructure budgets.\n\nOn Monday night post-dinner, when Mrs May's office jumped on Mr Juncker's joint statement with the prime minister agreeing that Brexit talks should be \"accelerated in the coming months\", EU eyes rolled again.\n\n\"We all want acceleration. That's hardly news,\" one European diplomat told me. \"Time for talks are running out and we all - the UK and EU - want a deal but London has to move over on money or negotiations will move nowhere.\"\n\nThe working dinner on Monday raised eyebrows among some employees at the European Commission\n\nThe UK had hoped the EU would vote to start Brexit discussions on trade and transition deals at a summit of EU leaders later this week.\n\nBut the EU has no intention of allowing the UK to use the money issue as a bargaining chip when discussing their future relationship.\n\nThat's why Brussels insists on separating settling the UK's financial liabilities - which, it says, deal with past commitments - from discussions on trade and transition, which look to the future.\n\nTalking about this to a group of European students last week, Mr Juncker said - imagine going into a bar, inviting your friends to a round of drinks and then telling them they have to pay the tab themselves.\n\nThat's how the EU views the divorce settlement with the UK.\n\nThe British government has signed up to the sequencing on Brexit talks. Now the EU says it must respect the plan.\n\nFrustrated German MEP Jens Geier told me that blaming Germans or the French for lack of progress was ridiculous. The UK needed to bring concrete proposals to the table, he said.\n\nTheresa May has been told that the EU will approve moving to stage two in December at the earliest - during the next EU summit.\n\nBut there is one condition: as the famous song from the film Cabaret goes, \"money makes the world go around\". The EU insists it is what will make Brexit talks accelerate too.", "One man died at the scene of the stabbing\n\nA man has died and two others have been injured in a stabbing outside Parsons Green Tube station in London.\n\nThe attack happened just after 19:30 BST on Monday at the station where 30 people were injured in a terror attack last month.\n\nA 20-year-old man died in the stabbing, which is not being treated as terror-related.\n\nThe two injured people were taken to hospital and one was subsequently arrested.\n\nThe dead man's next of kin have been informed although formal identification has yet to take place.\n\nHe was pronounced dead at the scene at 20:30.\n\nTwo men were taken to hospital, one of whom has been arrested\n\nCordons are in place at the scene of the incident\n\nOne man remains in hospital although his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening. The arrested man was taken to a west London police station for questioning.\n\nParsons Green Lane and the station were closed by police and cordons put in place. The station has since been re-opened.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The team on Crimewatch have been working with the public to solve cases for 33 years\n\nAfter 33 years of appeals and reconstructions, Crimewatch will be hanging up its phone lines for the last time as the BBC axes the ground-breaking programme.\n\nThe BBC One institution called on the public to help solve some of the UK's biggest crimes and people would call in their droves with anything they thought could help.\n\nAnd help they did, with some very high profile cases being solved thanks to the prime time programme.\n\nWe take a look at some of the most prominent stories featured on Crimewatch and how its viewers helped secure convictions.\n\nJames Bulger was two-years-old when he was murdered by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson in 1993\n\nTwo-year-old James Bulger was snatched from a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside, on 12 February 1993 whilst out with his mother.\n\nHe was taken by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who were just 10 years old themselves.\n\nCCTV showed the pair leading James away by his hand. Soon after, they beat him with bricks and iron bars, before leaving his body on a railway line.\n\nIt took two days before police discovered the toddler's body.\n\nAfter the footage was shown on Crimewatch, the two boys were identified by viewers, and convicted of James' murder in November 1993.\n\nSarah Payne disappeared when walking back from her grandparents' house in 2000\n\nThe disappearance of eight-year-old Sarah Payne on 1 July 2000 led to 16 days of frantic searching before her body was discovered.\n\nSarah had been walking home from her grandparents' house through a field in Kingston Gorse, West Sussex, when she went missing, and was never seen alive again.\n\nCrimewatch carried out two appeals and in both rounds, Roy Whiting was named as a prime suspect.\n\nFibres from a patterned curtain were found on Sarah's shoe and a viewer recognised the fabric, as she had left it in a van her boyfriend sold to Whiting.\n\nIn 2001, Whiting was convicted of the murder and sentenced to life in prison.\n\nThe motorway surrounding the capital became the focus of a manhunt in 2001 and 2002 when a number of attacks were carried out on women.\n\nThe incidents took place in Kent, Surrey, London and the Thames Valley, and included a victim as young as 10.\n\nAn e-fit picture was shown on Crimewatch in October 2002 to try to track down the serial sexual attacker.\n\nA viewer recognised the face and directed police to Antoni Imiela.\n\nHe was originally called the Trophy Rapist, as he took items of clothing from the victims as souvenirs.\n\nThe 50-year-old was sent to prison for a minimum of 99 years for his crimes, which included seven rapes, kidnap, indecent assault and attempted rape.\n\nLin Russell (left) and her daughter Megan were killed when Michael Stone attacked them with a hammer in 1996\n\nLin Russell was on a walk in Nonington, Kent, with her two daughters - nine-year-old Josie and six-year-old Megan - when they were attacked by a man with a hammer on 9 July 1996.\n\nJosie was left for dead, but managed to survive. However, her mother and sister were both killed.\n\nCrimewatch showed a reconstruction of the attack in September and presented the public with an e-fit of the perpetrator.\n\nA year on from the crime, the programme made a further appeal for people who worked in mental health who might have been able to help.\n\nAmong 600 calls from the public, one proved to be the key to solving the case and Michael Stone was arrested before being convicted of both murders.\n\nJulie Dart was just 18 when she was murdered in Leeds by Michael Sams\n\nEstate agent Stephanie Slater suffered an horrific ordeal in January 1992 when showing someone around a house.\n\nThe 25-year-old was attacked before being blindfolded and hidden in a coffin for eight days in Newark, Nottinghamshire.\n\nA ransom was paid for her release.\n\nAfter hearing her describe her attacker, the police believed he may have had links to the murder of teenager Julie Dart the year before in Leeds.\n\nCrimewatch broadcast a recording of the kidnapper's voice, which was heard by his ex-wife. She came forward.\n\nAs a result, Michael Sams was arrested and convicted for both the kidnapping and murder.\n\nThe murder of TV presenter Jill Dando in 1999 remains unsolved\n\nFor all of Crimewatch's success stories, there are still cases that remain unsolved, and perhaps none as closely linked to the show as that of Jill Dando.\n\nThe TV presenter had been working on the programme since 1995 and gained high praise, including being awarded the BBC Personality of the Year award in 1997.\n\nBut in 1999, the 37-year-old was shot in the head on her doorstep in Fulham, west London.\n\nHer case was then featured on the show she had presented for four years.\n\nLocal man Barry George was convicted of her murder in 2001 and sentenced to life imprisonment. However, his conviction was quashed after he appealed against it for the third time, and a second trial ended in his acquittal.\n\nThe question of who murdered Ms Dando has remained unanswered.", "Lavinia Davolio says selling her luxury sweets on Amazon Marketplace has been good for business\n\nWhat are the best ways to sell online? And how do you make sure you have a website that really works? Part one in our eight-part series exploring all things e-commerce.\n\nLavinia Davolio makes luxury handmade sweets inspired by her Italian heritage. She says her business received a boost when she opened a store on Amazon's Marketplace.\n\n\"It's easy for clients to discover something unique and handmade if it's available through such a trusted online platform,\" she says.\n\n\"And it means we can offer convenient next day delivery at a competitive price and give our boutique confectionary an incredible reach and visibility.\"\n\nLavinia is one of thousands of small businesses who've decided to set up shop on an e-commerce marketplace - Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Alibaba's Taobao, Rakuten to name some of the largest - rather than go through the hassles of setting up their own websites.\n\nAmazon charges retailers a 15% commission, but in return even the very smallest entrepreneurs can get a slice of the retail titan's global pulling power just by uploading images and descriptions of their products and then setting their pricing.\n\nFor an additional fee, Amazon will store and dispatch your goods - the kind of one-stop convenience that is ideal for newbies, suggests Alan Braithwaite, a visiting professor at Cranfield School of Management.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Despite the convenience of online shopping, people still love the physical store\n\n\"Something like Amazon Marketplace is a no-brainer,\" he says. \"Entry costs are very low and straightaway you have a very wide marketplace at your fingertips.\n\n\"When you're starting out with your own website you're having to attract the traffic, which means a lot of search engine optimisation [SEO]. This can be complicated and mean extra costs if you need outside help.\"\n\nSome e-tailers want more creative control over their online shops, however - and to keep more of the sales income for themselves.\n\nGoing it alone is certainly a lot cheaper than it used to be, but according to payment processor WorldPay, the average small business spends £2,500 on setting up an e-commerce platform.\n\nAt its most basic this will cover product display and listing, navigation structure, a shopping cart facility, search features and secure payment gateways - a checklist that swells with business growth.\n\nDIY website providers such as Wix, Weebly and SquareSpace, help the technical novice with design templates and SEO support from as little as $4.50 (£3.40) a month.\n\nAnd these days, off-the-shelf \"software-as-a-service\" add-ons can give a basic website selling and fulfilment functionality that \"means you can be online and trading for as little as £500,\" says Prof Braithwaite.\n\nBut \"cheap isn't always best,\" he warns. \"It's your front window so it can be worth spending a bit extra - around £5,000 on a developer.\"\n\nAnd Clare Jackson, founder of e-tailer The Wooden Furniture Store, points out that you have to be prepared to improve and adapt your website constantly or risk losing sales. You can't pay your set-up fee then sit back and relax.\n\nClare Jackson says she had to adapt her website's content for mobile screens\n\nWhen they discovered that most customers were coming to their website from mobiles, they had to completely rethink the design.\n\n\"With mobile users likely to be on slower connections it's crucial to get more speed into the user experience, so we introduced image optimisation and a content delivery network.\n\n\"This adapts content to the sizes of screen and devices being used, meaning that the images load much quicker.\"\n\nResearch by application performance company, Apica, finds that 40% of online shoppers refuse to wait more than 10 seconds for a website to respond.\n\nThe website change cost just $200 but has contributed to a 500% hike in sales from mobile and a 230% upturn in mobile visitors, says Ms Jackson.\n\n\"As a small business, we combine our agility with the kind of technologies which just a few years ago would have been unaffordable for someone our size,\" she says.\n\nWife-and-husband team Claire Kent and Bill Byrne moved their running wear business to Shopify\n\nClaire Kent and Bill Byrne, the husband-and-wife team behind luxury running wear, Iffley Road, found that replacing their bespoke website with the \"easy and intuitive\" e-commerce platform, Shopify, made a big difference to their online business.\n\nThey liked the fact that they were no longer reliant on a third party but could make changes to the site themselves in minutes.\n\nMs Kent, a former Morgan Stanley equity analyst who had never used Facebook or Twitter before, and who admits to being \"completely untechnical\", says she has found analysing customer data surprisingly straightforward using Shopify.\n\nA range of tools gives her data on purchase frequency, customer lifetime value, gross margins and net profit - insights she credits with doubling sales.\n\n\"It's like I've suddenly got glasses on whereas before I was blind,\" she says. \"I'd say to anyone that you really need to be looking at analytics every day as you learn so much.\"\n\nShe advises retailers to accept that a website will need to evolve with customers' changing expectations.\n\n\"Many SMEs prioritise aesthetics over function; you can have a site that looks amazing but if you don't have the right platform then it just isn't going to deliver.\"\n\nListening to feedback and acting on it is also crucial, argues Prof Braithwaite.\n\n\"Get friends and families to transact on [your website] and listen to feedback, making sure that payment is secure and seamless is an absolute priority; customers won't come back if this isn't right.\"\n\n\"Fail fast, fail often\" may be the mantra amongst the technology giants in Silicon Valley, but it is also apt for online retail entrepreneurs. You have to make mistakes, learn from them, and adapt quickly to achieve success in this global online marketplace.\n\nThe next feature will look at the best way to take payments and market your online shop.", "\"Gentility of speech is at an end,\" thundered an editorial in London's City Press, in 1858. \"It stinks!\"\n\nThe stink in question was partly metaphorical: politicians were failing to tackle an obvious problem.\n\nAs its population grew, London's system for disposing of human waste became woefully inadequate. To relieve pressure on cess pits - which were prone to leaking, overflowing, and belching explosive methane - the authorities had instead started encouraging sewage into gullies.\n\nHowever, this created a different issue: the gullies were originally intended for only rainwater, and emptied directly into the River Thames.\n\nThat was the literal stink - the Thames became an open sewer.\n\nCholera was rife. One outbreak killed 14,000 Londoners - nearly one in every 100.\n\nCivil engineer Joseph Bazalgette drew up plans for new, closed sewers to pump the waste far from the city. It was this project that politicians came under pressure to approve.\n\nThe sweltering-hot summer of 1858 had made London's malodorous river impossible to politely ignore, or to discuss obliquely with \"gentility of speech\". The heatwave became popularly known as the \"Great Stink\".\n\nIf you live in a city with modern sanitation, it's hard to imagine daily life being permeated with the suffocating stench of human excrement.\n\nFor that, we have a number of people to thank - but perhaps none more so than the unlikely figure of Alexander Cumming.\n\n50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations that helped create the economic world.\n\nA watchmaker in London a century before the Great Stink, Cumming won renown for his mastery of intricate mechanics.\n\nKing George III commissioned him to make an elaborate instrument for recording atmospheric pressure, and he pioneered the microtome, a device for cutting ultra-fine slivers of wood for microscopic analysis.\n\nAlexander Cumming's S-bend was crucial in the development of the flushing toilet\n\nBut Cumming's world-changing invention owed nothing to precision engineering. It was a bit of pipe with a curve in it.\n\nIn 1775, Cumming patented the S-bend. This became the missing ingredient to create the flushing toilet - and, with it, public sanitation as we know it.\n\nFlushing toilets had previously foundered on the problem of smell: the pipe that connects the toilet to the sewer, allowing urine and faeces to be flushed away, will also also let sewer odours waft back up - unless you can create some kind of airtight seal.\n\nCumming's solution was simplicity itself: bend the pipe. Water settles in the dip, stopping smells coming up; flushing the toilet replenishes the water.\n\nWhile we've moved on alphabetically from the S-bend to the U-bend, flushing toilets still deploy the same insight.\n\nRollout, however, came slowly: by 1851, flushing toilets remained novel enough in London to cause mass excitement when introduced at the Great Exhibition in Crystal Palace.\n\nUse of the facilities cost one penny, giving the English language one of its enduring euphemisms for emptying one's bladder, \"to spend a penny\".\n\nHundreds of thousands of Londoners queued for the opportunity to relieve themselves while marvelling at the miracles of modern plumbing.\n\nIf the Great Exhibition gave Londoners a vision of how public sanitation could be - clean, and smell-free - no doubt that added to the weight of popular discontent as politicians dragged their heels over finding the funds for Joseph Bazalgette's planned sewers.\n\nMore than 170 years later, about two-thirds of the world's people have access to what's called \"improved sanitation\", according to the World Health Organization, up from about a quarter in 1980.\n\nBut that still means two and a half billion people don't have access to it, and \"improved sanitation\" itself is a relatively low bar.\n\nIt \"hygienically separates human excreta from human contact\", but it doesn't necessarily treat the sewage itself.\n\nFewer than half the world's people have access to sanitation systems that do that.\n\nThe economic costs of this ongoing failure to roll out proper sanitation are many and varied, from health care for diarrhoeal diseases to foregone revenue from hygiene-conscious tourists.\n\nThe World Bank's Economics of Sanitation Initiative has tried to tot up the price tag.\n\nAcross various African countries, for example, it reckons inadequate sanitation lops one or two percentage points off gross domestic product (GDP), in India and Bangladesh over 6%, and in Cambodia 7%.\n\nOpen sewers are a common sight in Kibera, in Nairobi, Kenya\n\nThe challenge is that public sanitation isn't something the market necessarily provides. Toilets cost money, but defecating in the street is free.\n\nIf I install a toilet, I bear all the costs, while the benefits of the cleaner street are felt by everyone.\n\nIn economic parlance, that's a \"positive externality\" - and goods that have positive externalities tend to be bought at a slower pace than society, as a whole, would prefer.\n\nThe most striking example is the \"flying toilet\" system of Kibera, in Nairobi, Kenya.\n\nThe flying toilet works like this: you defecate into a plastic bag, and then in the middle of the night, whirl the bag around your head and hurl it as far away as possible.\n\nReplacing a flying toilet with a flushing toilet provides benefits to the toilet owner - but you can bet that the neighbours would appreciate it, too.\n\nContrast, say, the mobile phone. That also costs money, but its benefits accrue largely to me. That's one reason why, although the S-bend has been around for 10 times as long as the mobile phone, many more people already own a mobile phone than a flushing toilet.\n\nIf you want to buy a flushing toilet, it also helps if there's a system of sewers to plumb it into, and creating one is a major undertaking - financially and logistically.\n\nJoseph Bazalgette, standing top right, views the Northern Outfall sewer being built below the Abbey Mills pumping station in 1862\n\nWhen Joseph Bazalgette finally got the cash to build London's sewers, they took 10 years to complete and necessitated digging up 2.5 million cubic metres (88 million cubic ft) of earth.\n\nBecause of the externality problem, such a project might not appeal to private investors: it tends to require determined politicians, willing taxpayers and well-functioning municipal governments.\n\nAnd those, it seems, are in short supply. According to a study published in 2011, just 6% of India's towns and cities have succeeded in building even a partial network of sewers. The capacity for delay seems almost unlimited.\n\nLondon's lawmakers likewise procrastinated- but when they finally acted, they didn't hang about. As Stephen Halliday recounts in his book The Great Stink of London, it took just 18 days to rush through the necessary legislation for Bazalgette's plans. What explains this sudden, impressive alacrity?\n\nThe Houses of Parliament, photographed in 1858, the year of the Great Stink\n\nA quirk of geography: London's Parliament building is located right next to the River Thames.\n\nOfficials tried to shield lawmakers from the Great Stink, soaking the curtains in chloride of lime in a bid to mask the stench.\n\nBut it was no use. Try as they might, the politicians couldn't ignore it.\n\nThe Times described, with a note of grim satisfaction, how MPs had been seen abandoning the building's library, \"each gentleman with a handkerchief to his nose\".\n\nIf only concentrating politicians' minds was always that easy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Debris was strewn over the road and a nearby field\n\nA prominent blogger in Malta, who had accused the island's government of corruption, has died in a car bomb attack, according to police.\n\nDaphne Caruana Galizia, 53, was reportedly killed when the car she was driving exploded shortly after she left her home in Bidnija, near Mosta.\n\nLocal media say one of her sons heard the blast and rushed outside.\n\nPM Joseph Muscat, whom Caruana Galizia accused of wrongdoing earlier this year, denounced the killing.\n\n\"I condemn without reservations this barbaric attack on a person and on the freedom of expression in our country,\" he said in a televised statement.\n\n\"Everyone knows Ms Caruana Galizia was a harsh critic of mine, both politically and personally, as she was for others too.\"\n\nDaphne Caruana Galizia was reportedly killed just after leaving her home on Monday afternoon\n\nBut he stressed there could be \"no justification... in any way\" for such action.\n\n\"I will not rest before justice is done.\"\n\nOn Monday evening, thousands of people attended a candlelit vigil in the resort town of Sliema.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jacob Borg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMalta Television reported that Caruana Galizia had filed a complaint to the police two weeks ago to say she had received threats but gave no further information.\n\nNewspaper reports said the explosion had left debris from the rental car she was driving strewn across the road and in a nearby field.\n\nPolice and forensics experts went to the scene of the blast\n\nCaruana Galizia's death comes four months after Mr Muscat's Labour Party won an election he called early because of the blogger's allegations linking him and his wife to the Panama Papers scandal.\n\nThe couple denied claims that they had used secret offshore bank accounts to hide payments from Azerbaijan's ruling family.\n\nCaruana Galizia's popular blog had also targeted opposition politicians, calling the country's political situation \"desperate\" in her final post.\n\nA spokeswoman for the prime minister's office told the BBC that although there were rumours the attack could be politically motivated, this would be jumping to conclusions. But no lines of inquiry would be ruled out.\n\nMalta has asked for international help - including the FBI in the US - to find the perpetrator, the spokeswoman said.\n\nMeanwhile, Caruana Galizia's family has requested that the magistrate in charge of the investigation be replaced, the Malta Independent reports.\n\nIt said the current magistrate had on a number of occasions been the subject of criticism by Caruana Galizia.\n\nDaphne Caruana Galizia was loved and resented in equal measure in politically divided Malta - but she will go down in the Mediterranean island's history as one of the most influential writers.\n\nHer uncompromising blog and scathing pen spared no punches, hitting out mainly at exponents of the ruling Labour Party and their supporters, but also sometimes criticising officials of the centre-right Nationalist Party, including its newly-elected leader.\n\nStarting off as a columnist for The Sunday Times of Malta, her colourful reportage saw her embroiled in several legal battles along the years, including Malta's prime minister.\n\nBut beyond all, even her fiercest critics acknowledge she was an impeccable writer and investigative journalist. Her digital cross-investigation into the Panama Papers, which saw the Maltese government's top officials embroiled, effectively triggered off a premature general election last June.", "Even for an international sportsman, Jonny Bairstow's story is extraordinary.\n\nThat the Yorkshireman has had his share of setbacks on the way to becoming one of the leading wicketkeeper-batsmen in the world, or that the young Bairstow was an extremely talented footballer and rugby player are noteworthy, but only a small part of his tale.\n\nJonny's father David, also a wicketkeeper, had a 20-year career with Yorkshire and played four Tests for England. In 1998, he took his own life.\n\nTo mark the release of his autobiography, A Clear Blue Sky, Bairstow spoke to former England captain Michael Vaughan for a BBC Radio 5 live special.\n\nHe talks openly about his father, his family, his emotional maiden Test century in Cape Town, thoughts of quitting cricket to play rugby and what it is like to spend Christmas at Geoffrey Boycott's house.\n\n'We went to school the next day'\n\nSuffering from depression, worried about money and facing a drink-driving charge, David Bairstow ended his own life at the age of 46.\n\nHe was discovered by eight-year-old Jonny, his younger sister Becky and their mother Janet, who at the time was undergoing treatment for breast cancer.\n\n\"Me and my sister were both very young. In some ways, yes, you do remember everything that went on because it is only us who will remember that. At the same time there are bits of it you choose not to remember, that you choose to park.\n\n\"We went to school the next day. For me, that was really powerful. It was mum's way of dealing with it, her way of saying 'yes, that's happened now, but we have to deal with it in a certain way'.\n\n\"It makes you grow up very quickly. There's a huge sense of realisation around everything. At the same time, when you're eight years old, you don't really know everything that's happened. You understand it a bit, but you don't understand all of it.\n\n\"There are questions that are unanswered, but there's no point in revisiting those questions on a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly basis. If you're constantly striving for questions that are never going to be answered, then you're only being detrimental to your own mental health.\n\n\"There are so many bits that I didn't know right away, but I've learned, even when I've been doing the book. Having a setback like that can make you mature very quickly.\"\n\nBy taking his own life, David nullified his life insurance policy. In his autobiography, Jonny explains that he knew money was sometimes tight when he was growing up.\n\n\"That's why it's been so good to keep pushing forward and represent England, to make Mum proud for the days she took to me to train with Leeds United, three times a week from the age of seven to 15, as well as bringing me to Headingley, looking after my sister, taking us to school and feeding us.\n\n\"If you stack everything that Mum did with the help of Grandma and Grandpa and all of our friends, it was ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.\n\n\"Mum never made an excuse, even when she had cancer and had a lot on her plate. You have to have huge admiration for the way she brought us up. Hopefully she has brought two role models into the world.\n\n\"You think of what might have been different if dad had been around, or how I might have turned out as a person. You just don't know. I might not even be playing cricket.\n\n\"There will have been questions along the way, but there's not just one, because there's 20 years of learning off dad that I haven't had.\n\n\"If he was here now, I think he'd just tell me to keep going.\"\n\nBairstow made his Test debut in 2012 and, despite making 95 in his fourth match against South Africa, needed more than three years to earn a regular spot in the England side.\n\nWhen Bairstow faced South Africa again, he once more found himself on 95, this time at lunch on the second day of the second Test in Cape Town.\n\n\"I was dripping wet. I didn't take my pads off, I didn't eat, I just sat there saying 'it's not happening again'.\n\n\"I knew they would start with Morne Morkel after lunch, but when they then used the medium-pace of Stiaan van Zyl, I just wanted him to bowl a short, wide one.\n\n\"Getting to that first hundred was just a relief. I was five short four years earlier, so it was four years of questions. Will I get the opportunity again? What could have I achieved if I had made that ton?\"\n\nThe roar that Bairstow let out when he reached three figures could be heard all around Newlands and was followed with a look to the sky. On Test Match Special, an emotional Jonathan Agnew said: \"You won't find a more popular individual. You can't resist the thought of his father looking down and how proud he would be.\"\n\n\"The years of waiting really came through. I don't know how I celebrated, I just ran and shouted. I welled up and got a jittery bottom lip. There was a huge heap of emotion. It's a very, very proud moment.\n\n\"There were more tears when I saw my mum and Becky at the end of the day. There's never anything wrong with shedding a tear.\n\n\"There's all the time which you spend thinking about it. Are you good enough? Will you get an opportunity? Where and when will it be? I have let myself and my family down by not getting a hundred already and there are people that have spent money coming to watch you.\n\n\"That makes you prouder. It reminds you that you're not only representing yourself, but your family and the people who have kept an eye on you throughout your career.\"\n\nDavid Bairstow was a close friend of Yorkshire and England batsman Boycott, whose relationship with the Bairstow family continued after David's death and to this day.\n\nBoycott, who scored 8,114 runs in 108 Tests for England, remains a forthright pundit on Test Match Special and in his newspaper column.\n\n\"Geoffrey presented me with my cap on the day I made my England Test debut. He'd already presented a special cap to Ian Bell to mark his 75th Test. He said to him 'you're one of the best batsmen in the world, but please stop playing the sweep shot'. That got us all laughing.\n\n\"When it came for me to get my cap, I could feel myself going in the back of my throat and in my chest. I had to hold back a little bit. After the hundred in Cape Town, I did an interview with Geoffrey and got emotional then.\n\n\"I've perhaps not spoken about cricket enough with him. I've wanted to find it out for myself. Looking back, maybe I should have done it more, but that's my inner stubbornness. I knew that he was there if I needed to speak to him. If I picked up the phone right now, he would be there and would help me if he can.\n\n\"The opinions that he has do not cause a massive issue in the dressing room, especially with the group of players we have now. Something could be said that is too close to the bone, but players are close to pundits now - we see them every day and can speak to them for ourselves if we have an issue.\n\n\"He once nailed me in front of 400 people at a game at Abbeydale Park in Sheffield. Everyone knows the nature of what pundits do - they are paid to write columns and have opinions. I perhaps didn't realise that at the start and took too much criticism to heart.\n\n\"We've had Christmas at his house in South Africa. It's entertaining around the Boycott Christmas table - it's not just him talking about himself.\"\n\n'I thought about giving up to play rugby'\n\nIn the autobiography, Bairstow reveals his admiration for rugby player Jonny Wilkinson.\n\nIn the aftermath of England's 5-0 whitewash on the 2013-14 Ashes tour of Australia, Bairstow, a fly-half in his youth, even thought of attempting to start a rugby career of his own.\n\n\"Wilkinson changed the game of rugby. He captivated so many kids. I used to watch his DVD when I went to bed on the night before rugby games and I got a real sense of inspiration.\n\n\"I looked at the way he trained, the way he prepared and how he never left the training ground until he was content.\n\n\"Before he retired, he took a team talk for Toulon in French and English. To be able to be an inspiration to your team-mates in two languages sums the bloke up.\n\n\"He got a lot of injuries. The mentality that he had to keep doing the rehab, to answer the questions that people posed of him when he kept coming back resonates with me very firmly.\n\n\"He put his body in places that he shouldn't have put his body. He did things that he knew he shouldn't be doing. He wanted to keep pushing.\n\n\"When you're going through difficult times, like I was after the 2013-14 Ashes, you start thinking about different bits. Rugby is a huge passion of mine, a lot of my friends play.\n\n\"When all the lads are throwing a ball around, you go and play some touch and have an amazing time doing something you stopped when you were 17. You have thoughts of 'shall I, could I, what would happen if?'.\n\n\"I don't know who I would have played for. It wasn't a thought that lasted for a long time.\"", "More than 25 officers were on patrol each day during the week-long Hull Fair\n\nPolice officers pictured riding the dodgems at Hull Fair were doing so as \"light-hearted public engagement\", force bosses say.\n\nThe Sun newspaper printed the pictures taken from an officer's Twitter page and said residents were \"furious\".\n\nBut, Humberside's deputy chief constable Andy McDyer said he was \"really disappointed in the article\".\n\nMore than 25 officers were on duty during the eight-day event, which attracted more than 500,000 visitors.\n\nMore than 110 people have commented on the BBC Look North Facebook page, with most in support of the police.\n\nOne post described it \"as little light hearted fun that hurts nobody\".\n\nAnother said : \"It shows that they are human too and like to have fun a move which I think will make it easier for children to approach them instead of being frightened.\"\n\nComments on a BBC Facebook page expressed support for the police officers\n\nA spokesman for the Sun said the newspaper \"stands by its story\".\n\nHe added: \"We are happy with the story we ran and it speaks for itself.\"\n\nMr McDyer said the officers were on a break and the photographs showed the \"public face of policing\".\n\n\"Our officers had been out there for eight days,\" he said.\n\n\"They've worked between 10 to 12-hour shifts, invariably not taking the rest periods they're allowed because they want to be out supporting the public.\n\n\"This is about an opportunity at 12:30 last Saturday, before the fair was fully opened, before the public was really around to engage with stallholders because they are one of our major partners in this.\"\n\nDeputy chief constable Andy McDyer said the pictures showed the \"public face of policing\"\n\nMr McDyer added officers were praised by the public about the way they had policed the fair, which this year included armed patrols.\n\nThe force said it had made four arrests during the week for minor offences.\n\nEarlier this year, it was rated as \"requiring improvements\" by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary.\n\nThe annual fair attracted 500,000 people during with police making four arrests for minor offences\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 man with his face disguised who claims to have attacked EU immigrants\n\nThe number of hate crimes in England and Wales has increased by 29%, according to Home Office statistics.\n\nThere were 80,393 offences in 2016-17, compared with 62,518 in 2015-16 - the largest increase since the Home Office began recording figures in 2011-12.\n\nThe biggest rise was in disability and transgender hate crimes, but this was due to better crime recording and more people coming forward, the report said.\n\nIt also noted a spike in hate crime around the time of the EU referendum.\n\nThere were also rises after the Westminster Bridge, Manchester Arena and London Bridge attacks this year.\n\nHome Secretary Amber Rudd said there was \"absolutely no place for hate crime in our society\" and said the rise after 2017's terror attacks were \"undoubtedly concerning\".\n\nThe Home Office report said: \"The increase over the last year is thought to reflect both a genuine rise in hate crime around the time of the EU referendum and following the Westminster Bridge terrorist attack, as well as ongoing improvements in crime reporting by police.\"\n\nDisability or transgender hate crimes increased by 53% and 45% respectively, but the majority of hate crimes were racially motivated.\n\nRegarding disability, transgender and sexual orientation hate crimes, the report said the rise \"suggests that the increases are due to the police improving their identification and recording of hate crime offences and more people coming forward to report these crimes - rather than a genuine increase\".\n\nSome crimes were recorded as having more than one motivating factor.\n\nMs Rudd said she was \"heartened\" more victims were coming forward and police recording of crime was improving, but \"no-one in Britain should have to suffer violent prejudice\".\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the rise was \"unacceptable\".\n\n\"The Tories have made great claims about tackling burning injustices,\" the Labour MP said.\n\n\"But they are clearly not tackling the great injustice of being attacked simply because of your religion, your sexuality, the colour of your skin or your disability.\"\n\nZainab Talat Mir, a student at Goldsmith's University in London, was verbally harassed on the Tube.\n\n\"A lady stood up, she pointed at me and she said \"you're the reason our country is terrorised,\" and she just got off the train.\n\n\"She did it when the doors were open, she ran off the train.\"\n\nMs Mir said she was so upset she did not go to university, instead returning home to tell her father what had happened.\n\nHe \"was quite adamant\" that she report it, to organisation Tell MAMA.\n\n\"They were quite good, they asked me details of what she looked like and what she was wearing. They then reported it to the police.\n\n\"But then I got a letter a couple of weeks later, telling me that there was no CCTV.\"\n\nMs Mir said the lack of action \"put me off a bit on future reports. I was wondering whether I would want to report anything - if it did happen to me - again.\"\n\nBut she said that, as a \"quite stubborn\" person, she still would.\n\n\"I feel that if you report something, even if it's not taken account of, they still see something, they still see the numbers.\n\n\"I really think it's important for us to report, no matter what.\"\n\nMustafa Field, the director of the Faiths Forum for London group, which organised a vigil after the Westminster attack, said: \"We must continue to encourage all those affected by hate crimes to speak out, and in doing so send a clear message that hate and prejudice can have absolutely no place in modern Britain.\n\n\"Victims need to know that their voices will be heard and that they will receive both justice and the support they need.\n\n\"Perpetrators need to know that such offences will not be tolerated in our communities, and that they will be dealt with under the full force of the law.\"\n\nThe hate crime figures were expected to go up, but the size of the increase is unexpected.\n\nThe Home Office is pointing to better police recording as one of the reasons for the rise.\n\nBut the EU referendum result and spate of terror attacks show how both politics and the security situation play a role in this most personal of crimes.\n\nWhile race hate is behind the bulk of the offences, there has been a rise in all types of hate crime - abuse and attacks directed towards those with disabilities have gone up by more than 50%.\n\nPolice and prosecutors will be pleased that more complainants are coming forward, but these figures only paint a partial picture.\n\nThe Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders, has acknowledged that hate crime generally is under-reported.\n\nA hate crime is defined as \"any criminal offence which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice\" based on one of five categories: religion, faith or belief; race, ethnicity or nationality; sexual orientation; disability; or gender identity.\n• None The truth about hate crime and Brexit", "The tbh app had been downloaded five million times in nine weeks\n\nAn app that encourages teens to be nice to each other has been acquired by Facebook for an undisclosed fee.\n\nThe app - called tbh, meaning \"to be honest\" - is just nine weeks old, but had already been downloaded five million times.\n\nThe app's creators said it will remain a standalone program but will now have more resources thanks to Facebook.\n\n\"We were compelled by the ways they could help us realise tbh’s vision and bring it to more people,\" tbh said.\n\nAccording to start-up news site TechCrunch, the deal was for \"less than $100m\", and tbh's four person team would become Facebook employees.\n\nOne expert commented that Facebook keeps a close eye over new companies and is willing to pay a premium to buy them rather than risk them developing into a threat.\n\n\"This is the latest example of Facebook snapping up a start-up that could potentially game-change the way people consume social media and erode its own user base,\" commented Prof Mark Skilton from Warwick Business School.\n\n\"Tbh appeals to the teen market - which we know is a very fickle age group - and Facebook knows that it and other apps like it can go viral and explode in popularity very quickly.\n\n\"So, this can be seen as a protective measure, and $100m is the equivalent of an account sheet rounding error - it's no money to them.\"\n\nIn a statement, Facebook said: \"tbh and Facebook share a common goal of building community and enabling people to share in ways that bring us closer together.\n\n\"We’re impressed by the way tbh is doing this by using polling and messaging, and with Facebook’s resources tbh can continue to expand and build positive experiences.\"\n\nTbh said the app's success was a sign of teenagers craving more positive interactions online.\n\n\"While the last decade of the internet has been focused on open communication, the next milestone will be around meeting people’s emotional needs,\" it said.\n\nThe acquisition has been welcomed by a leading anti-bullying charity - but it added that other efforts were still required.\n\n\"We are encouraged to see Facebook taking further steps to create a more positive atmosphere online,\" said a spokeswoman from the NSPCC.\n\n\"However social media companies, including Facebook, need to do more to provide safe environments across all of their platforms - and be more transparent about what they do.\n\n\"The NSPCC wants to see a clear set of minimum standards that all social media companies will be held to account to, including clear community guidelines and bespoke accounts for under 18s.\"\n\nTbh's achievement has been to create an anonymous app that hasn't descended into a cesspit of trolling and harassment - something many apps before it have dramatically failed to do.\n\nAfter a user uploads their contacts, the app will ask pre-determined, positive questions such as \"best to bring to a party?\", and the option of selecting one of four friends.\n\nUsers are notified when they are selected, but the details of who chose them is kept anonymous.\n\nFacebook now has over 2 billion users worldwide\n\nMimicking Facebook's early growth - where it was only available in a handful of colleges for a short time, the makers of tbh only made the app available to users in certain states. Word of mouth would spread at schools as the app was enabled.\n\n\"We shipped it to one school in Georgia,\" explained co-founder Nikita Bier, speaking to TechCrunch.\n\n\"Forty percent of the school downloaded it the first day. The next day it was in three more schools, and then the next day it was in 300 schools.\"\n\nFacebook would not provide any more details about the deal, but the firm is clearly eager to snap up the next big thing in its infancy, save it become another competitor like Snapchat.\n\nAn investment bank's recent survey of 6,100 US teens suggested that Snapchat was the preferred social media platform for teenagers - the average age of participants was 16.\n\nFacebook reportedly tried to buy Snapchat in 2013 for $3bn. Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, is today worth $19bn.\n\nYou can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "Omid Saidy was stabbed to death outside Parsons Green Tube\n\nA man killed outside Parsons Green Tube station was stabbed after confronting a drug dealer, Scotland Yard has said.\n\nOmid Saidy was fatally wounded and two others were injured in the attack on Monday night.\n\nThe 20-year-old from Fulham died after confronting a drug dealer and another man who was with him, the Met confirmed.\n\nThe injured 16-year-old was discharged from hospital and arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.\n\nA 20-year-old man suffered serious but non life-threatening injuries.\n\nTwo men were taken to hospital after the incident, one of whom has been arrested\n\nAfter confronting the drug dealer, the victim chased the two suspects in the direction of Beaconsfield Walk, police said.\n\nWhen he caught up with the pair, he was fatally stabbed.\n\nA 20-year-old man who was a friend of the deceased came to his aid and was also stabbed.\n\nOne of the suspects, described as a black male dressed in dark clothing, fled down Harbledown Road in the direction of Fulham Court.\n\nThe second suspect, a young white male, ran into Beaconsfield Walk.\n\nPolice believe he called for an ambulance a short time later for his own injuries.\n\nDet Ch Insp Noel McHugh said: \"A young man has tragically lost his life for simply asking a drug dealer to move on.\n\n\"I urge anyone who can assist our investigation to come forward without delay.\"\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 was an open secret\" a producer tells the BBC\n\nWhen actor Seth MacFarlane announced the Oscar nominations for best supporting actress in 2013, he cracked a now infamous joke: \"Congratulations, you five ladies no longer have to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein.\"\n\nAt the time, it was a rare public reference to what has since become a very public scandal.\n\nAnd it is a telling sign that Weinstein's alleged behaviour was - as it's been repeatedly described in the past week - Hollywood's \"open secret\".\n\nBut how many people knew what was going on, and why wasn't it reported sooner?\n\nMacFarlane has explained that he made the quip after his Ted co-star Jessica Barth told him about Weinstein's attempted advances two years earlier.\n\nThe actress told The New Yorker the mogul tried to persuade her to give him a naked massage in bed. She walked out.\n\nActress Lea Seydoux, writing in The Guardian about how Weinstein \"suddenly jumped on me\" in his hotel room, also recalled how she had seen him \"hitting on\" other young women and trying to convince them to sleep with him at parties.\n\nLea Seydoux: \"It's unbelievable that he's been able to act like this for decades\"\n\n\"Everyone could see what he was doing,\" she wrote. \"That's the most disgusting thing. Everyone knew what Harvey was up to and no one did anything.\n\n\"It's unbelievable that he's been able to act like this for decades and still keep his career. That's only possible because he has a huge amount of power.\"\n\nWeinstein has denied any non-consensual sexual contact with any women.\n\nBut allegations of improper behaviour were common knowledge among some who worked for him, according to the New York Times.\n\nWhen the paper broke the story, it reported that dozens of his former and current employees, from assistants to top executives, \"said they knew of inappropriate conduct while they worked for him\".\n\n\"It wasn't a secret to the inner circle,\" Kathy DeClesis, a former assistant to Weinstein's brother and business partner Bob, told the paper.\n\nOne of the common themes of the accounts that have emerged is that Weinstein employees would set up meetings with young women and often accompany them to hotel rooms before disappearing and leaving the women and the producer alone.\n\nHarvey Weinstein on the red carpet in 2012\n\nThe New York Times related how a young female employee quit after complaining of being forced to arrange what she believed to be assignations for him. She said she couldn't comment because she had signed a non-disclosure agreement.\n\nMany people have suggested such employees could have gone public. But Weinstein was one of the most powerful men in Hollywood and his domineering persona - aside from any sexual harassment - was legendary.\n\nIn a memo quoted by the paper, another former employee, Lauren O'Connor, described the experiences of women at the company, including herself. She wrote: \"The balance of power is me: 0, Harvey Weinstein: 10.\"\n\nWhat about those in Hollywood and New York beyond Weinstein's own companies? Stories of his sexual advances spread among actors, agents and others in the film industry.\n\nAlison Owen didn't know her own sister-in-law had been preyed upon\n\nMany celebrities who have commented in recent days have said they didn't know what was going on, even if they knew he had a sleazy reputation.\n\nOscar-nominated actress Annette Bening told BBC Radio 4's Front Row she knew he was \"boorish\" - but wasn't aware of what went on behind closed doors.\n\nBritish producer Alison Owen, who has worked on films like Saving Mr Banks and Suffragette, told BBC News his behaviour was \"an open secret\".\n\n\"Everyone had heard the stories about Harvey,\" she said. \"If you were in the film industry, there was no way you could not have heard those stories about Harvey.\n\n\"I never heard a story from the horse's mouth. But there were always stories about, 'Oh an actress told me', or 'Someone working at Harvey's company told me', or 'Did you hear about that intern who worked for Harvey?'\n\n\"So they were always second-hand but they were many and multifarious.\"\n\nSuch was the level of chatter that Owen said she wouldn't let young women meet Weinstein alone. Those who were preyed upon had nowhere to turn, she says.\n\n\"If you had been an actress and Harvey had groped your breasts while you were supposed to be auditioning for him, what are you going to do?\n\n\"You're not going to go to the police. They're not going to take that seriously. You're not going to call a journalist because at that point Harvey had the whole media world in his pocket and no-one was going to go up against Harvey Weinstein.\n\n\"There was only a downside to reporting it... Harvey's going to destroy your career.\"\n\nWeinstein with his estranged wife Georgina Chapman in 2015\n\nOwen's sister-in-law Laura Madden worked for Weinstein - but never told Owen about his overtures towards her. The producer only found out about them when she read the New York Times.\n\n\"Such is the strength of shame, I think,\" Owen told BBC Radio 4's PM. \"That's another reason people don't come out.\"\n\nThe revelations have surfaced now, Owen believes, because \"the prevailing culture has changed\".\n\n\"The winds have shifted to the opposite direction [and] people have now been prepared to go on record.\"\n\nBut shouldn't the media have reported the allegations before?\n\nA string of journalists have said in recent days that they tried. But the difficulties of persuading his accusers to go on the record, coupled with the force of Weinstein's legal threats, meant none were able to publish.\n\nSharon Waxman, a former New York Times reporter who went on to set up film site The Wrap, told BBC Newsnight how she chased the story in 2004 and tracked down a woman who had reached a settlement with Weinstein.\n\n\"I did manage to meet with the woman who had taken a payoff in London, but she literally wouldn't say anything,\" Waxman said.\n\n\"She actually just met with me and didn't speak. A very frustrating conversation. She was terrified that she was violating her non-disclosure.\"\n\nIf they wanted to publish, media outlets had to ensure their stories were watertight in case Weinstein sued.\n\n\"Any negative story that was going to be printed about him, he would go full-on aggressive,\" Waxman recalled.\n\n\"Any card he could play, any tool he could use to get that story not to appear in print… I was told that he had visited the newsroom personally to speak to my superiors. I don't know what he said. I don't know what threats were issued.\"\n\nOthers tried to pursue Weinstein too. The Hollywood Reporter editor-at-large Kim Masters and New York Times media columnist David Carr came close to finalising stories - but their sources backed out at the last minute, The New York Times said.\n\nVanity Fair special correspondent Gabriel Sherman, who helped uncover sexual harassment by late Fox News boss Roger Ailes, said one crucial piece of evidence in the New York Times story was the internal memo in which Lauren O'Connor raised concerns against Weinstein.\n\n\"That piece of printed material became one of the foundations of the New York Times report,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Media Show.\n\nRebecca Traister wrote on New York magazine's The Cut website that she first heard the allegations in 2000 - but that Weinstein \"could spin - or suppress - anything\".\n\nShe continued: \"For decades, the reporters who tried to tell the story of Harvey Weinstein butted up against the same wall of sheer force and immovable power that was leveraged against those ambitious actors, the vulnerable assistants, the executives whose careers, salaries, and reputations were in his hands.\"\n\nSo for years, people who did know could only talk in whispers or, like Seth MacFarlane, under the guise of jokes that were funny only because they rang true.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "They seek it here, they seek it there - but the centrepiece of the government's Brexit legislation, the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, seems to have gone into hiding.\n\nMost Westminster observers expected the Commons to embark on eight days of detailed debate, in Committee of the Whole House, pretty much as soon as their conference recess was over.\n\nEyebrows were raised when it was not on this week's agenda - and they shot skywards when it was not put on the agenda for next week.\n\nIt is not a postponement, because the committee stage has never been scheduled, but something seems to be afoot.\n\nWhat might it be? Challenged in Commons business questions by the SNP's Pete Wishart, Leader of the House Andrea Leadsom noted that MPs had proposed more than 300 amendments and 54 new clauses to the Bill and these were being studied by ministers.\n\nAnd there is little doubt that some of these pose a real threat to the government's tenuous Commons majority.\n\nThe threat-in-chief is posed by amendments from the Conservative former attorney general, Dominic Grieve, to limit ministers' powers to re-write the law in the process of enacting Brexit.\n\nRemember, this Bill is designed to allow the government to reprocess four decades of accumulated EU law into British law, so that the UK has functional legislation on all kinds of crucial areas, come Brexit Day.\n\nThe powers are pretty sweeping, because the Bill provides a toolkit to build an edifice which has not yet been designed - and Mr Grieve's amendments express the qualms of some MPs (including those of many strong Brexiteers) about their extent. He is the man most likely to amend.\n\nI suspect the government is already whispering to him, behind the scenes, to produce an appropriate compromise, probably with the helpful endorsement of the Commons Procedure Select Committee behind it.\n\nWas that the PM's bag-carrier, Seema Kennedy, I spotted in the public galler, when Mr Grieve set out his stall in evidence to the Procedure Committee on Wednesday?\n\nIf ministers can craft a compromise amendment, via ProcCom, face can be saved and division averted.\n\nBut with plenty more amendments still raining down, Mr Grieve is not the only threat. A recent addition is an amendment co-signed by the Nottinghamshire axis of Conservative ex-chancellor Ken Clarke and Labour's arch-Europhile, Chris Leslie.\n\nThis is a cunning production which takes the PM's commitment to a transition from full EU membership to Brexit, made in her Florence speech, and seeks to put it on the face of the Bill.\n\nIt follows her words precisely. But the killer point is that, if there's no transition, then a fresh act would be required to trigger Brexit day. In other words, if no transition, then they must come back and ask Parliament \"what next?\"\n\nNow the government is not legislating against the clock as it was on the Article 50 Bill, when it was racing to get the measure through Commons and Lords before the end of the last Parliamentary year.\n\nBut its schedule is clearly slipping a little.\n\nNext week is to be devoted to a little humdrum legislation, an opposition day debate and backbench business - that leaves seven debating weeks before Parliament embarks on its Christmas recess.\n\nTake out one week to debate the Budget, and another for the November mini-half term (when a lot of select committee visits have been scheduled) and you have six weeks in which to cram the promised eight committee stage days devoted to the Bill, and the minimum of two days needed for report stage and third reading. Not impossible - but it does make for a packed Parliamentary programme, with little room for anything else.\n\nThere is rising speculation that the continuing delay in getting going reflects ministerial indecision about how to handle the amendments to the Bill - although another theory is that the government is waiting until next week's European summit is done, in the hope that it can firm up the terms of a possible transitional arrangement.", "Next weekend Britain's Lewis Hamilton could secure his fourth Formula One title at the United States Grand Prix.\n\nHis Mercedes team is a staggering 145 points ahead of arch-rivals Ferrari despite the sport introducing rules this year which aimed to put the brakes on the dominance of a single outfit. They came at a hefty cost.\n\nThe new regulations were designed to make for closer racing by increasing aerodynamic and mechanical grip through the introduction of wider tyres and wings.\n\nAccording to one of the teams it has \"rewritten\" the rulebook and the impact is just as noticeable off track as on it.\n\nBut if some had hoped the rules might stop Mercedes from running away with the F1 championship they will have been disappointed. Ironically, they have also forced up its rivals' costs.\n\nOnly the frontrunners have had the resources to foot the bill from their cashflow whilst one of the outfits lower down the grid even had to get a driver to cover the cost.\n\nResearch has revealed that new regulations fuelled a £167.6m increase in the F1 teams' costs in 2016. They rose 14.5% to hit a combined £1.3bn - the highest-ever total recorded in the sport.\n\nF1 cars are designed the year before they race so the bulk of the investment in them is paid for then, too. It means that the cost of this year's campaign is reflected in the teams' 2016 accounts and the final one of them was filed last week.\n\nEight of F1's ten teams have to file publicly-available accounts - the only exceptions are Ferrari as its outfit is run by the car manufacturer itself, and Swiss-based Sauber where firms don't have to release their finances.\n\nThe costs of the teams' operating companies came to an average of £165.9m in 2016, topped by Northamptonshire-based Mercedes which spent £274.9m excluding the investment in its engines.\n\nIt is the highest ever total recorded on the accounts of a British F1 team and even eclipses the turbocharged spending levels before the 2008 economic crash which drove Toyota and Honda out of the sport.\n\nAt the other end of the spectrum is last year's new entrant Haas F1 which spent a third as much as the championship leaders.\n\nHaas has managed to keep its costs down by taking advantage of a new rule allowing teams to buy in more parts than before. Haas uses a Ferrari engine with a chassis created by Italian manufacturer Dallara which also makes the cars for the F2 junior series.\n\nRelying on suppliers reduces research and development expenditure which, along with staffing and engine costs, is one of their biggest costs - it rose across the board in 2016 as teams had to design cars to meet the new regulations.\n\nThey were introduced by F1's governing body the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) to address criticism that the outcome of races was clear before they started due to the dominance of Mercedes.\n\nHaas has kept costs down by buying in more parts than before\n\nWith Hamilton at the wheel it has won both the constructors' and the drivers' championship for the past three years running. This year is set to be no different but there has been a far higher price to pay.\n\nWriting in the introduction to its accounts Mercedes' team boss Toto Wolff notes that there has been \"an increase of £27.9m in operating costs mainly due to the impact of technical regulation changes and movement in foreign exchange rates\".\n\nThe 2016 accounts for Force India, also based in Northamptonshire, give more insight into the effort required to meet the new rules.\n\nIt says that combined with the change in tyre-sizes \"our traditional method of retaining 50% of the previous season's car and updating the remaining 50% is not possible for 2017\". Over 90% of Force India's car this year is completely new.\n\nForce India has helped cover its increased costs with cash from driver Nikita Mazepin\n\nThe team planned to cover its increased costs with income from an unlikely source: a driver contract signed with Russian youngster, Nikita Mazepin, \"secured a cash injection ahead of significant regulation changes ahead of the 2017 season\", said Force India.\n\nMazepin was just 16 when he signed up last year and he has tested for the team twice since then, most recently in July after the Hungarian Grand Prix. He has ample resources to pay as his father Dmitry became a billionaire through owning the mineral fertiliser producer Uralchem.\n\nDespite this, Force India still chalked up a net loss of £11.6m - the largest of any team in 2016.\n\nThe regulation changes even dented the bottom line of British manufacturing giant McLaren. Its went from a net £3.4m profit in 2015 to an after-tax loss of £3.2m the following year.\n\nFor F1 teams, victory on the track is more important than making a profit\n\nOverall the teams made a combined net loss of £2m last year. Perhaps surprisingly this is nothing new as unlike most businesses, profit is not the barometer of success in F1.\n\nInstead teams judge their performance on racing results and tend to spend all of their income on this in a bid for victory.\n\nSome even pump in more than they make, with additional funds usually coming from owners' pockets or debt. The theory is that it is better to win and make no profit than make money and finish low in the standings.\n\nVictory on track increases a team's ability to bring in more sponsorship,, as brands are prepared to pay more to be associated with a winner.\n\nThe teams' revenue generally comes from three sources with two providing the lion's share. They are fuelled by F1's huge television audience (390m viewers last year). The first key revenue source is sponsorship which comprises around a third of the teams' revenue,\n\nAnother third comes from prize money. F1's parent company, which is owned by American investment firm Liberty Media, pays the teams around 66% of its annual profits as prize money and it came to $985.5m (£742m) in 2016.\n\nDespite numerous failed attempts there are new proposals to introduce a budget cap for F1 teams\n\nPayments from owners represent around half of the teams' remaining revenue and the marketing benefit from the exposure on TV compensates for this investment.\n\nIf costs increase these payments often rise to compensate and last year Red Bull poured in four times more money into its flagship team. Its investment into Red Bull Racing hit £40.6m as costs surged 9.2% to £197m.\n\nAs its owner has deep pockets Red Bull Racing doesn't need to rely on drivers who pay but income from them is the remaining source of revenue for F1 teams. They are a hallmark of teams at the bottom of the grid but their days could be numbered.\n\nDespite numerous failed attempts F1 hasn't given up on introducing a budget cap and recent reports suggest that Liberty Media will shortly present plans to the teams for introduction in 2021 when their current race contracts expire. But it will be the sport's governing body, the FIA, that will ultimately decide on any changes\n\nA limit of £114m has been suggested and this would level the playing field as the smallest teams are already below this whilst the frontrunners would have to scale back.\n\nAlthough it may seem like a logical direction for the sport to go in it would make the recent boost in spending seem all the more pointless.", "Springsteen's wife Patti Scialfa joins him on stage for two songs in the show\n\nBruce Springsteen is breaking box-office records with his one-man show, Springsteen on Broadway.\n\nThe rock star made $2.3m (£1.8m) in his first week of previews, behind only Hamilton and Hello, Dolly! - which both played more shows in the same period.\n\nMixing live music and storytelling, the show is set to run for 16 weeks, with The Boss taking up residence in the 960-seat Walter Kerr Theater.\n\n\"It's probably the smallest venue I've played in the last 40 years,\" he said.\n\nThe show officially opens on Thursday night - but the BBC's Elysa Gardner managed to catch one of the previews.\n\nThe star will play five performances a week until February 2018\n\nBruce Springsteen's first Broadway show is neither a musical nor a concert in the tradition of his previous solo tours.\n\nWritten and directed by The Boss, Springsteen On Broadway - which arrives roughly a year after his autobiography, Born To Run - is a meticulously crafted, deeply personal journey with set words and music, with the star alternately accompanying himself on guitar and piano.\n\nBut the two-hour program is also, in its distinctly intimate, sometimes darkly earnest fashion, an affirmation of the passionate showmanship and vivid storytelling that Springsteen's rock and roll shares with musical theatre.\n\nAs a songwriter, we're reminded, he's as much an inheritor to Rodgers and Hammerstein as any contemporary pop artist - an unabashed romantic with a probing social conscience, whose soaring tunes give full-throated voice to American dreams and the demons that haunt them.\n\nThe songs in Springsteen On Broadway are clearly chosen less to show off Springsteen's array of memorable characters (or hits, for that matter) than to acknowledge the people and events that shaped them.\n\nNot surprisingly, more time and detail are devoted to his youth than his nearly 45 years as one of the most famous people on the planet.\n\n\"I come from a boardwalk town where everything is tinged with a bit of fraud,\" he announced at a preview before the official opening night, before tearing into his first number, the early classic Growin' Up. Two verses in, as if to underline the point, he paused to quip, \"I've never held an honest job in my life... and yet that's all I've written about.\"\n\nSuch self-deprecating humour, which extends to tales of Springsteen's wayward youth and early career struggles, was offset by moving, lyrical tributes to his father, a depressive who sought refuge at the local bar, and his defiantly positive mother.\n\n\"She gave the world a lot more credit than it deserves,\" Springsteen observed, heading to the piano for an achingly tender The Wish.\n\nThe show concentrates on the foundations of Springsteen's career\n\nSpringsteen also played the rock and roll preacher, naturally, applying a shrewdly scaled-down version of the shamanistic intensity that has whipped packed stadiums into frenzies. The script used winking but seductive repetition, with playful references to the pleasures of the flesh, as well as the general promises of youth - captured in exhilarating readings of Thunder Road and The Promised Land.\n\nAs the show progressed, though, the emphasis shifted to more mature concerns and rewards. It's here that Springsteen's ability to open his heart and transcend sentimentality - as the most affecting rock and musical theatre artists almost invariably do - came to the fore. Back at the piano for a muscular Tenth Avenue Freezeout, he held forth without reserve about late E Street Band sax hero Clarence Clemons.\n\nJoined by wife and fellow E Street member Patti Scialfa for two songs, he chose to wrap with Brilliant Disguise, an account of the frailty of love, written while Springsteen was married to another woman, made all the more poignant by a couple that has survived it.\n\nPolitics did not go entirely unmentioned; after noting that folk don't like rock stars advising them on such matters, Springsteen made reference to \"the mess we're in\" - embellishing that observation with a colourful adjective, but avoiding the T-word.\n\nNodding to an era when his lyrics were twisted by another president, Springsteen introduced Born in the USA with blistering, Eastern-flavoured chords (the show's most flamboyant demonstration of his guitar virtuosity), then sang the first lines a cappella, his voice raw and weary.\n\nBut that's plainly not the USA Springsteen chooses to see, or represent. One of the evening's most rousing numbers was The Rising, an account of courage, sacrifice and, yes, transcendence that was the title track of an album Springsteen released less than a year after 9/11. Its hero and narrator is a firefighter working that day, facing the abyss but also looking beyond it.\n\nIt's an image that, 16 years later, carried a fresh sense of urgency. Springsteen spoke of finding \"beauty and power\" in American stories, a goal that has found him consistently defying jingoism, and prodding us to keep dancing in the dark, while reaching for the light.\n\nThe star was joined by his wife and bandmate Patti Scialfa at the preview show\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ipswich Town Football Club's Portman Road ground was broken into twice\n\nThieves who broke into a football stadium and stole giant TVs raided fridges to stage a food fight with frozen cheesecakes.\n\nPolice said the break-ins at Ipswich Town Football Club's Portman Road ground took place overnight on Saturday and in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nDuring the first raid, the intruders partied on wine and food, the BBC understands.\n\nA club spokesman said they have increased the stadium's security.\n\nIt is understood the thieves got into hospitality boxes - one next to chairman Marcus Evans' personal box - and helped themselves to \"expensive vintage\" wine and food.\n\nThey then took the lift down to the kitchens beneath the stands to raid the fridges.\n\nThe football club said it has increased its security following the two break-ins\n\nThe same gang of at least four people carried out the raids on both occasions, it is understood.\n\nSuffolk Police said officers were called to the ground at 07:50 BST on Sunday and at 06:00 on Wednesday.\n\nA number of plasma television information screens from public areas around the ground were stolen on the gang's second visit, it is understood.\n\nPolice said no arrests have been made and inquiries are ongoing.\n\nAn Ipswich Town spokesperson said: \"We can confirm there have been two incidents over the last week of intrusion at the stadium.\n\n\"The police are aware and are investigating. We have increased our security as a matter of course.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"Deadlock!\". \"L'impasse\". \"Quelle Horreur\". You can hear the cries from across the Channel, and the cages of the City rattling in fear, as Michel Barnier's language took a dramatic turn at this morning's press conference, painting the Brexit talks as at a brick wall.\n\nTrue, not even Brexit's biggest cheerleader could claim the discussions in Brussels have been going well. And there are visible frustrations on both sides.\n\nBut before claiming this morning's drama means the whole thing is doomed there are a few things worth remembering.\n\nAt the very start of this whole process, the hope was that in October, the EU would agree to move on to the next phase of the talks, to talk about our future relationship. But for months it has been clear that the chances of that were essentially zero.\n\nIt is not, therefore, a surprise to hear Mr Barnier saying right now, he doesn't feel able to press the button on phase 2, however much he enjoyed the drama of saying so today.\n\nSecond, behind the scenes, although it has been slow, there has been some progress in the talks but officials in some areas have reached the end of the line until their political masters give them permission to move on.\n\nForgive what comes next as nerdy detail, but it hopefully helps make this clear.\n\nFor example, the UK side is unwilling to move on to talking in more detail about the money, until the EU side is willing to talk about transition (the idea is, until we know what we might get in future, whether access to certain agencies, or EU programmes, how can we assess what we might be prepared to pay).\n\nMr Barnier is understood to have asked the EU 27 last Friday if he can start exploring transition for that reason, but Germany is resisting. So in this area, it is a possible, and would be a positive outcome for the UK, if at next week's political summit, Barnier asks the 27 for formal permission to talk transition.\n\nIt would not be as big a step as moving on to phase 2, but it is the next political decision that could ease the deadlock in this area. And there was a clue from Mr Barnier in his remarks this morning that this is what he will continue to pursue.\n\nAnd third, if you had been writing the script of these negotiations before they even began, there's no question that at some point in the plot, there would have been a declaration of digging in, a cry that it's all impossible, it is almost the end of the road, all is lost!\n\nThen, at the last moment in a late night summit, emerges the one side of A4 in the clammy hand of an official. On it, not many details, but a few lines that sketch out agreement, show some progress. Finally, the heroic politicians have snatched victory from the jaws of defeat! (Leaving officials in a quiet way to work out the boring details for the next ten years)\n\nThat is not to say for a second that all is well or indeed to minimise the real and possibly very serious consequences of the talks genuinely breaking down.\n\nAnd whether it is all pantomime or real politics, the remarks will of course stir the pot in Westminster too, likely adding to the drum beat among some Brexiteers that a swifter exit with no deal is better than this drawn out agony - and Remainers' deep anxiety and uncertainty for business about whether a deal can really be done.\n\nBut both on the UK side and the EU side, to translate this morning's remarks into certain Armageddon for the deal would be to misunderstand.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adama Jammeh told the BBC \"every day I'm more angry\"\n\nA security guard who claims he was sacked from Tesco after being wrongly accused of stealing has spent the night in the supermarket's roof space.\n\nAdama Jammeh has been on the girders above the checkouts in Tesco Extra, Reading, for more than 20 hours, live-streaming on Facebook.\n\nShoppers were told to abandon their trolleys and leave the store as he climbed to the roof yelling.\n\nMr Jammeh told the BBC he was \"stressed and angry\".\n\nTesco said it was \"assisting police with the matter\".\n\nThe 46-year-old said he was falsely accused of stealing electrical goods worth £20,000 by the supermarket chain, which led to his sacking by security firm Total Security Services (TSS).\n\nThe father-of-two has spent the past six months staging a one-man protest outside the Portman Road store with banners.\n\nMr Jammeh, originally from Gambia, started the roof protest just after 18:00 BST on Thursday and says he has not slept and barely eaten.\n\n\"I'm stressed and angry but I'm still surviving up here,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Jammeh's wife Dawn said her husband \"could be up there for days\"\n\n\"I've been protesting my innocence for six complete months and nothing has been done about it, they [Tesco] have ignored me.\n\n\"Every day I'm more angry. I'm only alive when I come out here to Tesco protesting my innocence.\n\n\"So yesterday I decided it was the last straw for me.\"\n\nMr Jammeh said he would only come down if Tesco bosses apologise and \"pay lost earnings\".\n\nIn one of his videos on Facebook, he apologised to shoppers.\n\n\"Sorry for some of you that are supposed to come here shopping in this store,\" he said. \"It's inconvenient, sorry for that people but it's something I have to do.\"\n\nMr Jammeh apologised to shoppers in one of his Facebook videos\n\nHis wife of 18 years, Dawn, is outside the supermarket supporting him.\n\nShe told BBC Berkshire reporter Nick Johnson \"he will not be coming down willingly\" and they are prepared to \"accept the consequences\".\n\n\"He's been wrongfully accused of stealing,\" she said. \"Tesco accused him, told his workplace and his workplace sacked him straight away.\n\n\"Police went through CCTV which took them 10 months to go through and said he was an innocent man and that it was somebody else.\n\n\"He's had no apology off Tesco, no apology off TSS, and this is why he's protesting now.\"\n\nMr Jammeh began streaming his protest online at about 18:15 BST on Thursday\n\nThe store's management team is also outside but refusing to comment.\n\nA Tesco spokesperson said they have nothing further to add.\n\nA TSS spokesperson said: \"We are aware of the incident involving a former employee of Total Security Services and are assisting the police and Tesco in this matter.\"\n\nThames Valley Police is yet to respond to claims of Mr Jammeh's innocence.\n\nTesco said it was helping police with the matter\n\nThe security guard has banners outside the supermarket\n\nThe Tesco Extra West store was evacuated just after 18:00 BST on Thursday after the police received reports concerning the \"welfare of a man\".\n\nTesco said the company was still establishing the circumstances of the incident but believed the man had not been directly employed by Tesco but was a member of security staff.\n\nA statement said: \"We're aware of an incident at our Reading West Extra store and are assisting police with the matter.\"\n\nThames Valley Police said officers were called to reports of a \"fear for welfare of a man\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scientists are now developing an ultra-fast quantum internet that will be partly based on light\n\nImagine super-fast computers that can solve problems much quicker than machines today. These \"quantum computers\" are being developed in laboratories around the world. But scientists have already taken the next step, and are thinking about a light-based quantum internet that will have to be just as fast.\n\nIt's not easy to develop technology for a device that hasn't technically been invented yet, but quantum communications is an attractive field of research because the technology will enable us to send messages that are much more secure.\n\nThere are several problems that will need to be solved in order to make a quantum internet possible:\n\nA quantum computer is a machine that is able to crack very tough computation problems with incredible speed - beyond that of today's \"classical\" computers.\n\nIn conventional computers, the unit of information is called a \"bit\" and can have a value of either 1 or 0. But its equivalent in a quantum system - the qubit (quantum bit) - can be both 1 and 0 at the same time. This phenomenon opens the door for multiple calculations to be performed simultaneously.\n\nHowever, qubits need to be synchronised using a quantum effect known as entanglement, which Albert Einstein termed \"spooky action at a distance\".\n\nThere are four types of quantum computers currently being developed, which use:\n\nQuantum computers will enable a multitude of useful applications, such as being able to model many variations of a chemical reaction to discover new medications; developing new imaging technologies for healthcare to better detect problems in the body; or to speed up how we design batteries, new materials and flexible electronics.\n\nQuantum computers might be more powerful than classical computers, but some applications will require even more computing power than one quantum computer can provide on its own.\n\nIf you can get quantum devices to talk to each other, then you could connect several quantum computers together and pool their power to form one huge quantum computer.\n\nHowever, since there are four different types of quantum computers being built today, they won't be all be able to talk to each other without some help.\n\nSome scientists favour a quantum internet based entirely on light particles (photons), while others believe that it would be easier to make quantum networks where light interacts with matter.\n\n\"Light is better for communications, but matter qubits are better for processing,\" Joseph Fitzsimons, a principal investigator at the National University of Singapore's Centre of Quantum Technologies tells the BBC.\n\n\"You need both to make the network work to establish error correction of the signal, but it can be difficult to make them interact.\"\n\nIt is very expensive and difficult to store all information in photons, Mr Fitzsimons says, because photons can't see each other and pass straight by, rather than bouncing off each other. Instead, he believes it would be easier to use light for communications, while storing information using electrons or atoms (in matter).\n\nQuantum encryption will make communications much more secure\n\nOne of the key applications of the quantum internet will be quantum key distribution (QKD), whereby a secret key is generated using a pair of entangled photons, and is then used to encrypt information in a way that is impossible for a quantum computer to crack.\n\nThis technology already exists, and was first demonstrated in space by a team of researchers from the National University of Singapore and the University of Strathclyde, UK, in December 2015.\n\nBut it's not just the encryption that we will need to build in order to secure our information in the quantum future.\n\nScientists are also working on \"blind quantum computer protocols\", because they allow the user to hide anything they want on a computer.\n\n\"You can write something, send it to a remote computer and the person who owns the computer can't tell anything about it at all except how long it took to run and how much memory it used,\" says Mr Fitzsimons.\n\n\"This is important because there likely won't be many quantum computers when they first appear, so people will want to remotely run programs on them, the way we do today in the cloud.\"\n\nThere are two different approaches to building quantum networks - a land-based network and a space-based network.\n\nBoth methods work well for sending regular bits of data across the internet today, but if we want to send data as qubits in the future, it is much more complicated.\n\nTo send particles of light (photons), we can use fibre optic cables in the ground. However, the light signal deteriorates over long distances (a phenomenon known as \"decoherence\"), because fibre optics cables sometimes absorb photons.\n\nIt is possible to get around this by building \"repeater stations\" every 50km. These would essentially be miniature quantum laboratories that would try to repair the signal before sending it on to the next node in the network. But this system would come with its own complexities.\n\nArtwork: a ground station beams a message contained in a light signal up to the Micius satellite\n\nThen there are space-based networks. Let's say you want to send a message from the UK to a friend in Australia. The light signal is beamed up from a ground station in the UK, to a satellite with a light source mounted on it.\n\nThe satellite sends the light signal to another satellite, which then beams the signal down to a ground station in Australia, and then the message can be transmitted over a ground-based quantum network or classical internet network to the other party.\n\n\"Because there's no air between the satellites, there's nothing to degrade the signal,\" says Dr Jamie Vicary, a senior research fellow at Oxford University's department of computer science and a member of the Networked Quantum Information Technologies Hub (NQIT).\n\n\"If we want to have a really global-scale quantum internet, it looks like a space-based solution is the only way that will work, but it's the most expensive.\"\n\nQuantum teleportation via space has been conducted successfully, and scientists are currently vying to demonstrate longer and longer distances.\n\nScientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences generated headlines in June when they succeeded in teleporting entangled photons between two towns in China located 1,200km apart. They used a specially developed quantum satellite called Micius.\n\nThe same Chinese scientists recently topped their own record on 29 September, by demonstrating the world's first intercontinental video call protected by a quantum key with researchers at the Austrian Academy of Sciences - over a distance of 7,700km.\n\nThe call lasted for 20 minutes and the parties were able to exchange encrypted pictures of the Micius satellite and Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger.\n\nRupert Ursin, senior group leader at the Austrian Academy of Sciences' Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information believes the quantum internet will need land-based and space-based networks to operate in parallel.\n\n\"In the cities, we need a fibre network, but long haul connections will be covered by satellite links,\" he explains.\n\nThe video call between Austrian and Chinese scientists on 29 September 2017\n\nTo understand how QKD works, let's go back to the video call made between the Austrian and Chinese scientists. The Micius satellite used its light source to establish optical links with the ground stations in Austria and the ground stations in China.\n\nIt was then able to generate a quantum key.\n\nThe great thing about quantum encryption is you can detect whether someone has tried to intercept the message before it got to you, and how many people tried to access it.\n\nMicius was able to tell that the encryption was secure and no one was eavesdropping on the video call. It then gave the go ahead to encrypt the data using the secret key and transmit it over a public internet channel.\n\nMultiple groups of scientists are developing land-based networks by working on the technologies for quantum repeater stations, which are located every 50km, connected by fibre optic cables.\n\nThese repeater stations, also known as \"quantum network nodes\", will need to perform several actions in order to route, or direct, messages around the network.\n\nFirst, each node needs to repair and boost the signal that was damaged from the previous 50km stretch of the network.\n\nImagine that you're using an old fax machine to send a one-page document to someone else, and each time you send the page, a different part of the message is missing, and the other party has to piece the message together from all the failed attempts.\n\nThis is similar to how a single message may have to be sent between different nodes on a quantum network.\n\nFibre optic cables will be used for land-based quantum networks\n\nThere will be many people on the network, all trying to talk to each other. So the node, or repeater station, will also have to figure out how to distribute its available computing power in order to piece together all the messages being sent. It will also have to send messages between the quantum internet and the classical internet.\n\nThe University of Delft is building a quantum network using nitrogen vacancies in diamonds, and it has so far shown the ability to store and distribute the links needed for quantum communications over quite large distances.\n\nThe University of Oxford and the University of Maryland are both currently building quantum computers that work in a similar way to a network. Their quantum computers consist of trapped ion nodes that have been networked together to talk to each other.\n\nThe bigger the computer you want, the more nodes you have to add, but this type of quantum computer only transmits data over a short distance.\n\n\"We want to make them small so they can be well-protected from decoherence, but if they're small then they can't hold many qubits,\" says Dr Vicary.\n\n\"If we connect the nodes up in a network, then we can still have a quantum computer without being limited by the number of qubits, while still protecting the nodes.\"\n\nThe repeater station will also need to have a quantum memory chip. The nodes create \"links\", which consist of entangled pairs of light particles. These entangled pairs are prepared in advance.\n\nWhile the node calculates the route across the network that the message will need to take, it needs to store the entangled pair of photons somewhere safe, so a quantum memory chip is needed. It has to be able to store the photons for as long as possible.\n\nDr Rose Ahlefeldt and associate professor Matthew Sellars operate a high-resolution dye laser to study rare earth crystals at ANU\n\nResearchers from the Australian National University (ANU) have developed a telecom-compatible quantum memory chip using an erbium-doped crystal. This device is able to store light in the right colour and it is able to do so for longer than one second, which is 10,000 times longer than all other attempts so far.\n\n\"The biggest challenge is now to demonstrate a quantum memory with a large data storage capacity,\" associate professor Matthew Sellars, program manager in the Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T) at ANU tells the BBC.\n\n\"It will be the memory's storage capacity that will limit the data transmission rate through the network.\n\n\"I think it will take about five years before the technology [for the quantum internet] is practical.\"", "Carly Mackie had ignored hundreds of private parking notices\n\nA Dundee woman ordered to pay a private parking company £24,500 in unpaid charges has been declared bankrupt.\n\nCarly Mackie had ignored hundreds of parking tickets for leaving her car at Dundee's Waterfront without a permit.\n\nMs Mackie, 29, who now lives in Paisley, has debts of £37,546 according to Scotland's insolvency service Accountant in Bankruptcy.\n\nVehicle Control Services (VCS) took her to court last year after she failed to pay £18,500 in private parking notices.\n\nMs Mackie said that she had a right to park in the area as she was living there at the time and that the charges were unenforceable.\n\nSheriff George Way said the charges were from a \"valid contract\" and she was liable for them.\n\nIn a written judgement, the sheriff said Ms Mackie had \"entirely misdirected herself\" on both the law and \"the contractual chain\" in the case.\n\nHe said: \"The parking charges flow from a valid contract between the pursuers and the defender and she is liable for them.\"", "We hear a lot about the under-representation of women in so-called STEM fields - science, technology, engineering and maths.\n\nBut the proportion of women in economics is by some measures smaller.\n\nIn the US, only about 13% of academic economists in permanent posts are women; in the UK the proportion is only slightly better at 15.5%.\n\nOnly one woman has ever won the Nobel Prize in economics - American Elinor Ostrom in 2009.\n\nAnd there wasn't even a single woman on some of the lists floating about guessing who this year's prize winner would be - it went to the behavioural economist Richard Thaler.\n\nSome have argued that these figures aren't necessarily the result of bias.\n\nMaybe, they say, women are simply behaving rationally and choosing different disciplines that are perhaps more suited to their temperament and skills, or choosing to work in different but related fields.\n\nBut Cambridge University economics lecturer Victoria Bateman says that can't really explain all of the gap.\n\n\"I think that that way of thinking about the problem is completely false,\" says Dr Bateman, who is a fellow at Cambridge's Gonville & Caius college.\n\n\"But I think [it] helps explain why economists have for too long hushed up this problem.\n\n\"Because if economists' models are suggesting that sexism doesn't exist, that it's all a result of people's free choices and... their personal characteristics, then you deny the fact there is a problem.\"\n\nIn fact, there is a growing body of research suggesting that there are some biases - overt and subconscious - that might be contributing to the lack of women in academic economic departments.\n\nThe proportion of women choosing to study economics at the undergraduate level in the UK has declined over the last decade.\n\nA study published by University of California, Berkeley's Alice Wu made waves earlier this year.\n\nUsing natural language processing, Wu analyzed over one million posts on a website called EconJobRumors.com, which is a sort of online forum where academic economists discuss job openings and candidates.\n\nLike many places on the internet, the conversations aren't particularly pretty or politically correct.\n\nWu found that when posters on the site discussed female economists, they used starkly different terms than those that were used to discuss male economists.\n\nMany of those words are incredibly offensive. Posters tended to discuss a woman's physical appearance (hot and hottie were in the top ten) whereas those terms used with men tended to emphasise their intellectual ability (Wharton and Austrian - for the school of economic thinking - were in the top terms for men).\n\nThe paper caused a lot of debate within the economic community - with many saying that what people say on the internet isn't necessarily an indication of how they truly think.\n\nUniversity of Bristol professor Sarah Smith says: \"I think it's an extreme view. I don't think it's a representation of everyone in the profession.\"\n\nBut, she adds: \"I don't think it's surprising when you tie it up with looking at the proportion of women at different levels.\"\n\nProf Smith - who is also the chair of the Royal Economic Society's Women's Committee - cites other evidence that suggested a bias against women in the economics profession, such as a paper published by Harvard researcher Heather Sarsons.\n\nHeather Sarsons found that women's contributions to co-authored papers tended to be undervalued\n\nThat paper found that an additional co-authored paper on an economist's resume correlates to an 8% increase in the probability of a male economist getting a tenured post - but only a 2% increase for female candidates.\n\nInterestingly, the gap decreased if women co-authored papers with other women.\n\nMs Sarsons wrote in the paper: \"While solo-authored papers send a clear signal about one's ability, co-authored papers do not provide specific information about each contributor's skills. I find that women incur a penalty when they co-author that men do not experience.\"\n\nHer paper, she added in a footnote, was intentionally single-authored.\n\nThere are more studies - ones that suggest that female economists' papers take six months longer to peer review in top journals than their male counterparts; that when women get tenured faculty jobs in economics, they get paid less; and that even if a woman makes it to the front of a lecture hall - there might be no men listening to them.\n\nVictoria Bateman organised a Women in Economics day at Cambridge in 2015 to encourage more young women to enter the field.\n\n\"There was a very interesting and quick bit of number crunching that was done by the Centre for Global Development which has headquarters in both Washington and London,\" says Cambridge's Dr Bateman.\n\n\"When they looked at male attendance at the seminars that they run they found that it fell off quite dramatically whenever gender was mentioned in the seminar topic.\"\n\nDr Bateman says the fact that there are so few women at the top has meant that many young women can't view themselves in those positions. She notes that in the early 2000s the proportion of women studying economics in British universities was around 30%.\n\nIt's down to just 26% today.\n\nThat women aren't even choosing to enter the discipline really surprised me. So I went to Cambridge to speak to some of the current undergraduates in economics.\n\nPaulin Nusser says she noticed that there were very few women teaching her economics courses.\n\nI met Paulin Nusser, a final year economics, student at the University Centre on a busy Sunday. I asked her what her experience studying economics had been like.\n\n\"When I think back to my lectures last year for instance out of the 11 lecturers and supervisors I had throughout the year that are based in the faculty - just one was a woman,\" she says.\n\nThis is why she says it can sometimes be hard to imagine a career in academic economics, even though she hopes to pursue it at postgraduate level.\n\n\"Representation is just something that does affect me because I am subconsciously looking for role models or someone where I can say you know, 'oh that could be me standing up there teaching this lecture'.\"\n\nClara Starrsjo, a second-year student says she notices that her male and female classmates approach economics problems differently - which often leads to better, more comprehensive answers.\n\nThis is why she's become passionate about increasing the number of women who study economics - including meeting with potential female economics students at a Women in Economics day each autumn.\n\nI ask her why she tells these women they should enter the field - even if the odds may seem stacked against them.\n\n\"For the moment economists have only looked at the world around them through male eyes and this only provides us with half the story,\" she says she tells them.\n\n\"And with only half the story how can we get results that will help the whole population?\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adama Jammeh was led out of the store by police officers shortly before 15:00 BST\n\nA sacked security guard's 21-hour protest in the roof space of a Tesco store has ended after he received a letter to review his dismissal.\n\nAdama Jammeh climbed onto the girders above the checkouts in Tesco Extra, Reading, on Thursday evening.\n\nIn a series of Facebook videos, the 46-year-old said he was sacked after being wrongly accused of stealing.\n\nIn its letter, Tesco said evidence suggested Mr Jammeh may have suffered \"a significant injustice\".\n\nThe former guard was led out of the store by police shortly before 15:00 BST.\n\nHe was arrested on suspicion of public order offences, a Thames Valley Police spokesman said.\n\nMr Jammeh came down after his wife told him he had received a letter from Tesco\n\nShoppers had been told to abandon their trolleys and leave the store as Mr Jammeh climbed to the roof, with police confirming they had received reports concerning \"the welfare of a man\".\n\nHe claimed he was falsely accused of stealing electrical goods worth £20,000 by the supermarket chain, which led to his sacking by security firm Total Security Services (TSS).\n\nThe father-of-two has spent the past six months staging a one-man protest outside the Portman Road store with banners.\n\nMr Jammeh, originally from Gambia, said he had not slept and barely eaten since starting the protest at 18:00 on Thursday, and that he would only come down if Tesco issued an apology.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adama Jammeh told the BBC \"every day I'm more angry\"\n\nMr Jammeh ended the protest after his wife told him he had received a letter from the supermarket saying the \"circumstances of the situation\" that led to his dismissal and protest would be \"reviewed\".\n\nIt added: \"No formal proceedings involving yourself have been instigated which supports your view that you have been the subject of a significant injustice.\"\n\nMr Jammeh had earlier said he was \"stressed and angry\" and he was protesting because Tesco had \"ignored\" him.\n\nA TSS spokesperson said it had been aware of the incident and had been assisting police and Tesco.\n\nThames Valley Police is yet to respond to claims of Mr Jammeh's innocence.\n\nMr Jammeh apologised to shoppers in one of his Facebook videos\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chester Bennington (front right) in Apple Music's Carpool Karaoke days before his death in July\n\nAn episode of Carpool Karaoke starring Linkin Park - recorded less than a week before lead singer Chester Bennington killed himself - has been released.\n\nThe 23-minute episode is being streamed for free on Facebook with the permission of Bennington's family.\n\nIt was filmed for Apple Music on 14 July this year - six days before his body was found at a private home in LA County on 20 July.\n\nThe coroner ruled that Bennington, 41, had apparently hanged himself.\n\nThe episode sees Bennington, along with band mates Mike Shinoda and Joe Hahn, driving around Los Angeles with US comedian Ken Jeong and singing along to their hits, including Numb, In The End and Talking To Myself.\n\nBennington was found hanged at a private home in LA on 20 July this year\n\nIt also sees a smiling Bennington join in with renditions of songs by Aerosmith, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Lynyrd Skynyrd.\n\nThe singer jokes with Jeong that the comedian should \"join the band\", saying: \"Finally we have some leadership!\"\n\nHe also revealed a love for Dungeons and Dragons, and that his trademark scream was created early on in the band's career.\n\n\"It's a funny thing,\" he said. \"We were in the studio and working on a song and Mike was just like, 'Do you think you could scream this thing?' Then he was like, can you just do that all the time, forever, on every song?\n\nAt the start of the episode, a screen reads: \"With the blessing of Chester's family and his bandmates, we share this episode and dedicate it to the memory of Chester.\"\n\nEarlier this month, the band revealed they were back in rehearsals for the first time since Bennington's death.\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 phoenixlp 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\nBass player Dave 'Phoenix' Farrell posted a picture on Instagram, adding: \"Home from the #dunhilllinks and back to \"work!\" Good to be back with the guys.\"\n\nThe band were practising ahead of a special tribute gig to Bennington at LA's Hollywood Bowl on 27 October, where they will be joined by the likes of Blink 182 and Korn.\n\nThe full episode of Carpool Karaoke can be streamed on Linkin Park's Facebook page.\n\nIf you are affected by the topics in this article, the Samaritans can be contacted free on 116 123 (in the UK) or by email on jo@samaritans.org. If you are in the US, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 1-800-273-8255.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The couple boasted about their holiday on social media\n\nA \"greedy\" couple made \"fake\" holiday sickness compensation claims while boasting about holidays full of \"sun, laughter and fun\", a court heard.\n\nDeborah Briton, 53, and partner Paul Roberts, 43, were jailed at Liverpool Crown Court after admitting fraud.\n\nThey tried to claim nearly £20,000 saying their two children fell ill on holidays to Majorca in 2015 and 2016.\n\nJudge David Aubrey QC said there had been an \"explosion\" in gastric illness claims made by UK holidaymakers.\n\nBriton, who was jailed for nine months, and Roberts, who received a 15-month term, bragged about their holidays on social media, the court heard.\n\nThe pair, from Wallasey, Wirral, both admitted four counts of fraud in the private prosecution, brought by holiday company Thomas Cook.\n\nFamily members, including Briton's daughter Charlene, who had initially been charged with two counts of fraud that were later dropped, shouted out in court as the couple were jailed\n\nThe court heard that had they succeeded, the couple would have also cost the holiday firm a further £28,000 in legal expenses.\n\nJudge Aubrey said their claims had been a \"complete and utter sham\".\n\n\"They were bogus from start to finish, you were both asserting on your behalfs and on behalf of your two children that on two separate holidays you had suffered illness.\n\n\"They were totally and utterly fake.\"\n\nHe said the claims, made in August last year, must have required planning and premeditation.\n\nHe said: \"Why? Pure greed. Seeking to get something for nothing.\"\n\nThe judge said those tempted to make a dishonest claim must \"expect to receive an immediate custodial sentence\" if convicted.\n\nA Thomas Cook spokesman added \"We had to take a stand to protect our holidays and our customers from the minority who cheat the system.\"\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. Police released CCTV of men they want to trace\n\nA teenage girl was sexually assaulted by three different men within an hour as she walked home from a night out.\n\nPolice said the 17-year-old was attacked in Bethnal Green, east London, after becoming separated from friends.\n\nThey believe the girl, who was found \"distressed\" by a member of the public, may also have been drugged.\n\nImages have been released of two men police want to speak to in connection with the attacks, which happened on the night of 29 and 30 September.\n\nPolice want to speak to a bearded man who was on a racing bike\n\nThe victim was spotted on camera shortly before midnight being carried by a man, who was wearing dark clothing, in Cambridge Heath Road.\n\nThe pair appeared to go into a doorway on the same road, and some of the girl's clothing was later found nearby.\n\nShortly after midnight, the girl was seen on CCTV stumbling down Mint Street, followed by another man on a racing bike who is described as having a beard and wearing a baseball cap backwards and a hooded zipped jacket.\n\nShe was then attacked for a second time.\n\nMinutes later, detectives believe the girl suffered a third attack, possibly involving two or three men.\n\nThey say she was approached by a third man, who police describe as walking unevenly, \"perhaps being slightly bow-legged\".\n\nThe man with a beard was wearing a baseball cap backwards\n\nPolice say she was then found by a member of the public who saw her lying in Corfield Street in \"a state of distress\" and rang 999.\n\nDet Insp Suzanne Jordan said: \"This is a horrific multiple sexual assault on an young female who was simply making her way home after a night out.\n\n\"We would like to thank the members of the public who intervened to help her and possibly prevented her ordeal from continuing even further.\"\n\nShe urged anyone with information about the \"hideous crimes\" to contact them urgently.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Stillbirth is rarely spoken about. But insights from those who have navigated the heartbreaking experience can help parents come to terms with their grief.\n\nA new website, Stillbirth Stories, which collects detailed interviews with mothers, fathers and clinicians, has been launched to coincide with Baby Loss Awareness Week.\n\nIt aims to nurture a conversation about a once-taboo subject. Here are extracts of some of those stories.\n\n\"There was a cold cot that I could put Jannah in. She could stay overnight. And that was really lovely - it was special.\"\n\nAt 41 weeks, Rabia went into labour. But in hospital, she and David were told there was no heartbeat. Jannah was stillborn. The couple were able to stay with their baby for two days in the hospital's bereavement suite.\n\nDavid recalls the time they spent together as a family:\n\n\"I was with her for two days in the hospital - they were absolutely amazing, what they did. They had their own bereavement suite, so you [could have] your own time with the baby.\n\nI never let Jannah be on her own at any moment. I wanted someone always with her - even though I knew she had gone. But I always felt that she had the right to be loved for those days - to be hugged and kissed and whatever, and not left alone. Like a baby.\n\n\"The bereavement suite had a double bed, so I could stay as well. It was like us three sleeping together. It was quite nice to have her with us as part of our family. We spent a lot of quality time with her [there]. We talked to her, made lots of videos, lots of photography, and tried to keep as much memory of her as [we] could. I don't know if it's odd or not, but I looked at every little part of her, right down to between her toes.\n\n\"I've got somewhere I can go, and I know she's there. I can put flowers on her grave - but it's not the same.\"\n\nAlexis was stillborn at term. It was 1963 and neither Marjorie nor her husband, Alex, were allowed to see, or hold, their baby. It would be another 50 years before they found out where she had been buried.\n\n\"I knew Alex had to go and register the baby. I must have said to him: 'What are they going to do with her?' And he just said: 'Well, you know, they're going to have her buried.' We went to the hospital at one point and asked where she was, and they just said that she had been buried somewhere in Stockport, in one of the cemeteries.\n\n\"I'd started to have more children, and it was, you know, one day we will find her. Until the day came that we did go and look for her.\n\n\"We went to the big crematorium in Stockport, and they sent us to the central library. They said everything was on microfilm, and we looked through it and we found two burials around the time Alexis would have been taken there. She was born on the 15th [of April], there was just this one buried on the 17th - a girl of 31. And underneath it said: \"Stillborn\". So I knew they'd put a stillborn in the grave. And that's when we went back to the cemetery. I saw a different lady, and she said: 'Oh did they not get the little book out for you? We have a little book for all the stillborn babies.' She brought it, and it was there, and she gave us a grave number.\"\n\nStillbirth Stories is a collection of honest interviews from parents and and those who have worked with them. Besides offering emotional support, the site is a learning resource for clinicians. The project is supported by Wellcome.\n\n\"We went to look for it, and couldn't find it. There was no stone, it was just grass. Eventually, I did ask if I could put something on [the grave]. They said: 'No. The grave belongs to somebody, it's registered to somebody. You can put flowers on, but no, you can't put anything else on.' So, for a while, I just bought something that you could stick in the grass and put flowers on. Then I got a bit angry about it. I've had a proper stone flowerpot with her name put on it.\n\n\"Over the other side [of the cemetery] is where all the babies are buried. And that haunts me - to think that she was just put in a grave with somebody that I don't know. I just hope and pray it never happens to anybody else, because it's one of the cruellest things you can do to a couple. I know I can go there and put flowers on for her, but it's not the same.\"\n\n\"I bathed him for the funeral, which you do in Muslim culture.\"\n\nMohammed was stillborn at 27 weeks gestation. Parents Shazia and Omar decided to bury their baby according to the Muslim faith. Shazia says the hospital midwife appreciated the need to have the body released for the funeral as quickly as possible, and helped with the process.\n\nIt was Omar who performed the Ghusl - or ritual bath - for the funeral.\n\n\"So it was just me and him, and a priest. That was the time, I guess, it was just us two.\n\n\"That was the toughest part of all of this for me. That's where, you know, you're sort of past the birth and it's the day of the burial, and the funeral. It's a duty that you need to do. At that time, I guess, religion sort of took on a different aspect for me.\n\n\"And it was this grief that actually cemented my religion a little bit: maturing and going through that experience, learning what you do when, when it's your responsibility for the funeral. That point where I was bathing him, was the point where I was close to totally breaking down. But I soldiered through - for want of a better phrase.\n\n\"Something that I'm proud of, is that me and Shazia made it through it, having seen some really, really low, low times, to where we are now.\"\n\nAt the time of interview Shazia and Omar had recently had their fourth child.\n\n\"I just want people to understand it's much more common than they think. There's like over 300 babies a month stillborn.\"\n\nGuy was stillborn on 13 November 2015 at 25 weeks and five days, to parents Sam and Martin.\n\n\"We had a couple of close friends we'd told at the time [when Guy died]. I just physically couldn't even speak to get the words out to tell people.\n\n\"Once he was born, we just decided to use Facebook. We thought that is the quickest way to get the message out there and not have to speak to anybody really.\n\n\"I got such an overwhelming response from that. So many people messaged me privately to say that they'd had similar experiences; that they'd had losses, various stages, and that was - I want to say comforting, to know that there were other people out there. But I wondered why nobody had ever said anything. And even then, they were posting it privately to me and I thought, well, tell people.\n\n\"It was nice to know that they'd opened up and they'd gone on to have their own children, and were trying to put that little bit of hope out to us.\n\n\"People sharing their stories is the biggest help, the biggest comfort - because a lot of people will shy away from it.\n\n\"The thing about meeting people online, is that you don't know if they're who they say they are. But these were all genuine people sharing their stories. I ended up meeting a few [of them] at a memorial service. A couple of the girls that I was following were going, so we said we'd meet up there, just to put faces to the names, and the stories. Over the last few months, I've just found my own little group of friends\n\n\"I've put [Guy's] story out there quite a lot. I've done a lot of fundraising, mostly for Tommy's. Then we've done some for Aching Arms, because they're the charities we feel have helped us the most.\"\n\n\"We had like a little selection of little knitted dresses, little gowns that a woman had made via a charity\"\n\nPetal was born at 23 weeks and 6 days of pregnancy to Aimee and Marc. In the UK, the definition of 'stillborn' is a baby born with no signs of life at 24 or more weeks of gestation. Had Petal been born one day later she would have been legally 'stillborn'.\n\n\"Before I was induced, the bereavement midwife come round and she gave us a selection of clothes that Petal could have to wear. She was too small for babygros and things. We'd bought blankets and dolls and things for her [the day before], but none of the clothes would fit her. We had a selection of little knitted dresses, little gowns that a woman had made via a charity. It was really personal to be able to pick something for Petal to wear. So, when I delivered her, Marc bathed her and then dressed her in a little purple, pink gown, with a little hat and gloves.\n\n\"It was precious. It's all we have of her. That's the memory that I have of her that feels real - that she was really here.\n\n\"She was classed as a late miscarriage instead of a stillbirth. If she would have been born 22 hours later, I would have been able to register her and she would have had her own death certificate. We don't have any legal documentation for her.\n\n\"Sometimes I feel like that because she doesn't have a death certificate, she never existed.\n\n\"Since I lost Petal, I felt that people pitied me because of that experience, but I don't want to be defined as the mother who lost a child. I'm also a mother of three healthy children as well, who just wants to say that there is help out there for bereaved parents to carry on.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Deadly wildfires in northern California have destroyed more than 3,500 buildings and forced 25,000 people to leave their homes.\n\nFirefighters are still battling the fires which have at least 40 dead and left scars across 170,000 acres (265 square miles) of land. Satellite images show the extent of the around the city of Santa Rosa.\n\nThe fires have been fanned by north-easterly winds known as Diablo winds.\n\nThe Tubbs fire - between Santa Rosa and Calistoga turned housing estates to rubble and ash in some parts of Santa Rosa.\n\nHundreds of people are still missing and thousands of firefighters are working to stop the fires spreading.\n\nWildfires also raged through the hills of the Napa County wine growing regions, burning estates, ranches and farmland.\n\nBefore now, California's deadliest fire was in October 1933, when 29 people died in the Griffith Park fire in Los Angeles.", "It is the latest management upheaval at the firm after the heir of the entire Samsung Group was imprisoned for corruption in August.\n\nMr Kwon is one of three co-chief executives of Samsung Electronics.\n\nHis resignation comes on the same day the firm forecast record quarterly profits, citing higher memory chip prices.\n\nMr Kwon said he had been thinking about his departure \"for quite some time\" and could \"no longer put it off.\"\n\n\"As we are confronted with unprecedented crisis inside out, I believe that time has now come for the company [to] start anew, with a new spirit and young leadership to better respond to challenges arising from the rapidly changing IT industry,\" he said in a statement.\n\nHe will remain on the board of Samsung Electronics until March 2018.\n\nRyan Lim, founding partner of the Singapore technology consultancy QED said \"Samsung is in a leadership crisis situation\".\n\nMr Lim said \"the current management structure seems to be a complicated web that does not clarify, but rather confuses\".\n\n\"This needs to be resolved soon as it can be worrying not to know who is truly steering the Samsung behemoth into the future,\" he said.\n\nIn response to the criticism, a spokesperson for Samsung Electronics told the BBC that a successor would be appointed \"soon\" but could not give a timeframe.\n\nSamsung Electronics is regarded as the jewel in the crown of the Samsung Group conglomerate, which is made up of 60 interlinked companies and is one of South Korea's massive family-run businesses known as chaebols.\n\nIn August, the group's heir apparent Lee Jae-yong was convicted of bribery and corruption and sentenced to five years in jail.\n\nMr Lee was accused of giving donations worth 41bn won ($36m; £29m) to non-profit foundations operated by Choi Soon-sil, a friend of South Korea's former President Park Geun-hye, in return for political favours.\n\nHe was back in court on Thursday, appealing against his jail term.\n\nLee Jae-yong was convicted in August on corruption and bribery charges\n\nAndrew Milroy, head of advisory services at technology consultancy Ovum, said Samsung needed to regain the confidence of the government and financial markets in the aftermath of the corruption scandal.\n\n\"This may mean new senior management who are not associated with the past,\" he said.\n\nHowever, the leadership troubles do not appear to have hit the company's bottom line yet.\n\nAhead of the announcement from Mr Kwon, Samsung Electronics said it would report a record quarterly profits thanks to surging chip prices.\n\nThe world's largest smartphone maker said operating profit in the three months to the end of September is expected to have tripled from a year earlier.\n\nThe forecast profit of 14.5tn won (£9.65bn; $12.81bn) beats market expectations for the quarter.\n\nWhile memory chips were the main driver of Samsung's profits, its mobile phone business was given a boost by its new Note 8 smartphone which received the firm's highest number of pre-orders.\n\nBut scope for continued earnings growth from smartphones is likely to narrow. Ovum's Mr Milroy said the market was slowing and despite record results the company \"faces a lot of risk\".\n\n\"It may be felt that someone new can drive greater innovation and manage the firms move into new areas as the smartphone market matures,\" he said.", "Fire crews battle the fast-moving flames near the evacuated town of Calistoga\n\nThe number of people confirmed dead in wildfires sweeping northern California has climbed to 31, as officials warned that conditions would worsen.\n\nHundreds of people remain missing as at least 22 fires rampaged across the state's famous wine country.\n\nMore than 8,000 firefighters are now battling the flames.\n\nThe wildfires have destroyed more than 3,500 buildings and homes over 190,000 acres (77,000 hectares) and displaced about 25,000 people.\n\nSeventeen people are now confirmed killed in Sonoma County, with another eight in Mendocino County, four in Yuba County and two in Napa County, officials said.\n\nThe updated casualty figures mean the wildfires are the deadliest in California since 1933, when 29 people died in fires at Griffith Park in Los Angeles.\n\nStrong winds that have fanned the flames eased in recent days, but forecasters warned they were set to pick up again on Friday night.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrison inmates have been called in to help fight the fires\n\n\"We are not even close to being out of this emergency,\" Mark Ghilarducci, state director of emergency services, told reporters.\n\nSonoma County Sheriff Rob Giordano said recovery teams with cadaver dogs were searching the smouldering ruins of homes.\n\n\"We have found bodies that were completely intact, and we have found bodies that were no more than ash and bone,\" he said.\n\nTen victims, with an average age of 75 years old, have been identified so far, Sheriff Giordano said.\n\nSome of the elderly victims were identified by \"a piece of metal left from somebody's surgery, like a hip replacement, with an ID number that helped us identify the person\", he added.\n\nIt is not yet clear what started the fires on Sunday night, but officials say power lines blown over by strong winds could be the cause.\n\nOne of the greatest threats to life is believed to be around the town of Calistoga, Napa County, where the entire population of 5,000 has been ordered to evacuate.\n\nCalistoga Mayor Chris Canning warned residents to stay away since rescuers would not be able guarantee their safety.\n\n\"You are on your own,\" said Mayor Canning.\n\nOnly chimneys remain standing in fire-ravaged districts of Santa Rosa\n\nGeyserville, a town of around 800 people, and the community of Boyes Hot Springs, both in Sonoma, were also evacuated.\n\nThe huge fires have sent smoke and ash over San Francisco, about 50 miles away, and over some towns and cities even further south.\n\nAt least 13 Napa Valley wineries have been destroyed, a vintners' trade group says.\n\nCannabis plantations in fire-scorched Mendocino County could lose millions as many are uninsured, according to Nikki Lastreto of the local industry association.\n\nMarijuana farmers cannot insure their businesses since federal law bans the drug.\n\nThough recreational cannabis was legalised in the state in 2016, California's retail market does not open until next January.", "As allegations of sexual assault mount up against Harvey Weinstein, his wife of 10 years has left him.\n\nBritish fashion designer Georgina Chapman said her \"heart breaks\" for all the women who suffered pain because of him.\n\nThe Hollywood producer's been accused of inappropriate behaviour by a number of actresses, including Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow.\n\nAnd now the scandal is hitting his wife's fashion label Marchesa - a favourite with stars on the red carpet.\n\nCelebrity fashion stylist Alex Longmore told Newsbeat: \"If any celebrity is seen wearing Marchesa at the moment, it's almost like they're slightly supporting what's gone on before.\n\n\"Harvey got his leading ladies like Jennifer Lawrence and Nicole Kidman to wear Marchesa. It was a statement and Georgina's brand kind of went hand in hand with Harvey's.\"\n\nGeorgina Chapman is a co-founder of Marchesa, which launched in 2004 - the same year she started her relationship with Weinstein.\n\nThe label's dresses cost thousands of pounds and are very popular on red carpet premieres at events like the Oscars and the Golden Globes.\n\nHarvey Weinstein was often seen on the front row at Marchesa fashion shows.\n\nMandy Moore (second left), Harvey Weinstein, and Anna Wintour attend the Marchesa fashion show during New York Fashion Week 2017\n\nAlex Longmore, who's styled the likes of Little Mix and Emma Bunton, believes actresses in Hollywood may no longer want to wear Marchesa because \"they will not want anything to do with Harvey, his entourage or his family\".\n\nThe celebrity stylist met Georgina Chapman in London and told Newsbeat: \"She works very hard. Up until now, her and her business partner have been clever with how they've marketed their brand.\"\n\nRita Ora is often seen in Marchesa. She starred in Southpaw alongside Jake Gyllenhaal, which was produced by the Weinstein Company.\n\nOthers who have worn the label include Selena Gomez and the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has worn Marchesa in the past\n\nSo how will the allegations against Weinstein affect the Marchesa brand?\n\nAn American jewellery company was due to produce a range with Marchesa but in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, Helzberg Diamonds said: \"The company is not launching the Marchesa brand at this time.\"\n\nThe diamonds are still available on Helzberg's website but without the name Marchesa.\n\nMarchesa has also postponed its Spring Summer 2018 preview.\n\nBrand strategist Andi Davids told Newsbeat that Marchesa needs to do damage control and \"make clear that they don't condone his [Weinstein's] behaviour\".\n\n\"Her brand started to take off right around the same time as their relationship.\n\n\"But if it comes out that she didn't know about these types of allegations, people would actually support her as a potential victim as well.\"\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "Some 3.5 million passengers and 40,000 drivers use the Uber app in London\n\nUber has filed an appeal against the decision by London authorities to deny it a licence to operate in London.\n\nLast month, Transport for London (TfL) refused Uber a new private hire licence, saying the ride-hailing firm was not fit and proper.\n\nTfL said it took the decision on the grounds of \"public safety and security implications\".\n\nThe appeal process could take months, during which time Uber can continue to operate in London.\n\n\"While we have today filed our appeal so that Londoners can continue using our app, we hope to continue having constructive discussions with Transport for London. As our new CEO [chief executive] has said, we are determined to make things right,\" an Uber spokesperson said.\n\nTfL \"noted\" the appeal but said it would not be commenting before the hearings.\n\nSome 3.5 million passengers and 40,000 drivers use the Uber app in London.\n\nEarlier this month, Uber's new chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi met Mike Brown, who runs Transport for London.\n\nUber described those talks as \"constructive\", while TfL said the talks \"centred on what needs to happen to ensure a thriving taxi and private hire market in London\".\n\nWhen TfL denied Uber its licence last month it listed four main concerns about Uber's operation:\n\nUber disputed those complaints, saying it had a special procedure for dealing with allegations of criminal offences.\n\nIt argued that DBS checks were properly handled by a third party organisation and that TfL's concerns over its use of software were unjustified.\n\nUber's trouble in London adds to a long list of problems faced by the company.\n\nIn July, chief executive Travis Kalanick, who helped found the company in 2009, resigned following a series of scandals and criticism of his management style.\n\nIn June, 20 staff were sacked in the US after a law firm investigated complaints made to the company about sexual harassment, bullying and retaliation for reporting problems.\n\nLast year, Uber lost a landmark employment tribunal in the UK which ruled drivers should be classed as workers rather than being self-employed.", "Philip Hammond's role as chancellor is challenged by some of the papers\n\nThe Daily Telegraph says the prime minister has been forced to put her Brexit plans on hold because of what it calls a \"potentially disastrous\" Tory rebellion.\n\nAccording to the paper, the government has delayed parliamentary scrutiny of the EU Withdrawal Bill because it faces defeat on more than a dozen hostile amendments.\n\nThe Guardian says Theresa May's government is \"struggling to respond\" to the \"deluge\" of amendments which now amount to about 300. The paper says the growing scale of the discontent in Parliament just underlines the challenge facing Mrs May over Brexit.\n\nMeanwhile, the Financial Times reports that Whitehall is planning to hire 2,000 extra staff to deal with Brexit in a sign, it says, of how its resources are increasingly being diverted towards the challenges of leaving the EU.\n\nThe Times focuses on the intervention of the former Conservative Chancellor, Lord Lawson, who has called on the current incumbent, Philip Hammond, to be sacked.\n\nHe says Mr Hammond's unwillingness to prepare properly for the eventuality of no deal being struck at the end of the Brexit talks is close to sabotage and should lead to his dismissal.\n\nNigel Lawson's demand is also the lead for the Daily Mail which carries the simple headline: \"sack 'saboteur' Hammond\".\n\nThe Sun claims an exclusive with its report that the disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein propositioned the singer and TV presenter Myleene Klass with what it calls a \"sex contract\".\n\nThe paper says she declined the offer which was apparently made over lunch in 2010.\n\nAccording to the LA Times, Hollywood is already starting to, in its phrase, \"kick the tires\" of the Weinstein Company.\n\nIt says studios, production companies, distributors and other investors have been calling bankers to assess whether to bid for pieces of the company if the firm is unable to stay afloat amid the scandal.\n\nA number of papers carry a photograph of a Western family who have been rescued after being held by militants in Pakistan for nearly five years.\n\nThe Times reports that Caitlan Coleman, her Canadian husband Josh Boyle and their three children, had survived death threats during their captivity.\n\nJosh Boyle told the Ontario Star that he and his family had been in the boot of their kidnappers' car when the rescue operation took place and five of their captors were shot dead by Pakistani security forces.\n\nThe Daily Mail is among a number of papers to tell the extraordinary story of a Dorset fisherman.\n\nThe unnamed 28-year-old had just caught a small Dover Sole which he was holding up near his face when the fish slipped out of his hands and down his throat, blocking his airways and provoking a heart attack.\n\nHis friends gave him CPR until help arrived, the fish was extracted and his pulse returned to normal.\n\nA paramedic who treated him at the scene said: \"I have never attended a more bizarre incident and I don't think I ever will.\"\n\nAnd the Daily Telegraph recounts the distressing ordeal of Keith Boleat - a veteran of the Jersey Petanque Association.\n\nMr Boleat and his playing partners were on their way to an international competition in Denmark when the suitcase carrying his three steel boules was confiscated by airport authorities because they suspected they were bombs.\n\nThe 62-year-old had to make do with a borrowed set and the team duly lost - to Germany.", "A difficult and disgusting operation to clear London's largest \"fatberg\" from a London sewer raises a number of issues about our approach to waste disposal.\n\nFatbergs are not natural - they are creatures of the modern age - and the blockages they cause can lead to raw sewage flowing up into shops, offices and people's homes.\n\nIt is not a subject for the faint-hearted but there are 10 large fatbergs in London right now and hundreds of smaller ones across the country.\n\nThey form when oil and grease, poured down drains, coagulates around the likes of tampons, baby wipes and condoms flushed down toilets.\n\nThe result is the creation of a pale, tough substance with the strength of rock - a form of artificial geology that in the case of the Whitechapel fatberg has choked 80% of the flow of the sewer.\n\nThe basic problem is that we inherited a network of underground sewers built 150 years ago that was never designed to cope with what's now thrown into it.\n\nHowever far-sighted Sir Joseph Bazalgette and his fellow Victorian engineers were, they can have had no idea how the populations of our cities would explode and how changes in diet and lifestyles would create a potentially devastating onslaught.\n\nThe gentle gradients of their designs were meant to create steady streams of human waste and water - not exactly fragrant but \"they don't smell bad if they're working properly,\" one sewage expert told me.\n\nThe smell from the Whitechapel \"fatberg\" was bad enough to cause David Shukman to gag\n\nBy contrast, the noxious blast of fetid air that rose when the manhole cover was lifted during yesterday's operation was enough to make me gag and cover my face with my jacket.\n\nThree metres beneath the heavy East End traffic, a monstrous mass of fat is acting in the same way that plaque does in arteries and, as with heart trouble, the problem is usually unseen until it's too late.\n\nAs the engineers donned what looked like spacesuits to head underground - double gloves, hoses bringing fresh air, electronic sensors to spot dangerous gases - a small crowd gathered to watch.\n\nThe street is lined with fast-food restaurants, just the kind of places that have flourished as the demand for fried takeaways has soared. One of the onlookers wore the striped apron of a chef.\n\nResearch by Thames Water mapped the locations of fatbergs and of restaurants, and came up with a remarkable conclusion: if you live within 50 metres of a fast-food place, your chances of being flooded with sewage are eight times higher than if you live further away.\n\nSo the company has sent teams to visit more than 700 restaurants to explore what steps they're taking to stop the flow of fat leaving their kitchens.\n\nThe answer? The vast majority are doing nothing at all.\n\nThames Water executives believe this is not through wilfulness but ignorance. There are devices to trap fat, and they cost only a few hundred pounds, but few seem to have heard of them.\n\nSo the first step in the battle against the bergs is to encourage, cajole or shame restaurant owners into forking out for the small boxes that sit atop a drain and clean the flow.\n\nTalks with the big chains are under way. The response so far has been one of surprise that the scale of the problem had not been realised, so maybe the coming months will see fat traps becoming more common.\n\nFatbergs have to be cleared out of narrow tunnels, often by hand\n\nBut the survey also found that where a small number of restaurants had invested in the devices, few had maintained them. So there lies another challenge.\n\nAnd the key to all this may be our own attitudes - whether any of us demand change.\n\nJust as it's become more common for people to expect vegetarian options or food prepared without gluten or dairy products, might anyone demand to know whether a restaurant's kitchen is sewer-friendly before paying for a meal?\n\nThere's now a term for our unthinking but damaging approach to what we flush away: sewer abuse.\n\nOne answer is to support and expand schemes to collect restaurant fat and turn it into fuel - a logical form of renewable energy - and this is what will happen to the fatbergs.\n\nAt the heart of this question is our consumer culture's approach to waste, the belief that we can just chuck anything away without consequence, \"away\" being an abstract and distant concept that we need not care about.\n\nBut \"away\" is a real place, like an east London sewer jammed with a fatberg weighing the same as 11 buses, and now being chipped away by shovel by brave teams straining in heat so intense they can last only 40 minutes at a time.\n\nThe image of a dark figure hunched in a tiny tunnel working by hand is startling to us in 21st Century Britain. But in a curious way, it's also an unintended throwback to the grimmer Victorian times when the sewers were built in the first place.", "Freshers' fair? Maureen, a 79-year-old law student, says she had a great time socialising\n\nWhat does a student look like?\n\nForget the stereotypes. Think of diversity in a different way. And meet some of the country's oldest undergraduates.\n\nMaureen Matthews is starting a three-year law degree at the tender age of 79.\n\nShe's not even the oldest student on her new course at the University of West London in Brentford.\n\nSitting next to her in lectures is 84-year-old Craigan Surujballi.\n\nThis isn't dabbling in learning with an evening course - it's an intensive, full-time degree, studying alongside people with ambitions to become lawyers.\n\n\"You may look at me and see an older face - as may many young people,\" says Maureen.\n\nCraigan and Maureen have begun a three year, full-time law degree\n\n\"But through my eyes I'm experiencing the same aspirations that I had before.\n\n\"It's always been to engage in involving myself in education,\" she says.\n\nMaureen says older people should not be intimidated by the prospect of learning in an environment traditionally associated with the young.\n\nThink of the law school film Legally Blonde, but in terms of overturning ageism rather than sexism.\n\n\"All older people are capable of being up for a challenge. They've been through life where they've had to meet many challenges,\" says Maureen.\n\nIf there are practical problems, such as mobility, she says they are never insurmountable and help is available.\n\nThe law class at the University of West London has a much wider variety of ages than usual\n\n\"I would say to older people, recognise the fact that your hearing may have decreased, your eyesight may not be as good as it was before, maybe you can't use the computer very well, but think about strategies that will enable you.\"\n\nThis extended to taking part in the freshers' week events for new students, which she says gave her a chance to socialise with other new students at the university.\n\nBut this is not a sugar-coated story.\n\nCraigan came to England from the Caribbean in the early 1960s, after a long journey by sea.\n\nForget your stereotypes about age, says Millie Mbabazi: \"It is literally just me, but older.\"\n\nHe says it was a time of much discrimination, in housing and work, but he had a deep hunger to keep studying and educating himself.\n\nHe was in his 30s before he studied for his A-levels - but his ambition to become a lawyer eluded him.\n\nAt least until now. Even if he doesn't get to practise as a lawyer, he says he might be able to help with legal problems at a Citizens Advice office.\n\nWhen about half of young people now go into higher education, it's easy to forget how much university was once out of reach for the vast majority of people.\n\nLaw lecturer Mike Derks says the different age groups fit together \"seamlessly\"\n\nIn the 1950s, when Craigan and Maureen were in their 20s, there were fewer than 20,000 student places each year.\n\nEven though the number of older students has increased, it's still only a relatively tiny number grabbing this second chance to learn.\n\nThe most recent figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show there were 25 students starting full-time undergraduate degrees after the age of 70, out of a cohort of almost half a million.\n\nHowever, the fees system is in many ways more generous to older students. There is no upper age limit on loans to cover tuition fees - and with repayments based on earnings, it's unlikely that many pensioners will ever pay back what they have borrowed.\n\n\"It's crazy how much they know,\" says Patrice Murdoch, impressed by her older classmates\n\nThe University of West London is unusual in the extent of the diversity of its intake. This is a long way from the Pimms and ivy-clad-buildings end of higher education.\n\nAlmost three-quarters of students here are over the age of 21 when they enter.\n\nIt has one of the highest proportions of state school pupils - 98% - and more than half of students are from ethnic minorities and from families where no-one has previously been to university.\n\nThe university has other students beginning degree courses at a time of life when some of their age group would be thinking about early retirement.\n\nRita is also studying law - and is a university student at the same time as two of her daughters.\n\nRita says she wants to study law to help women in her community\n\nShe wants to study law because of the injustices she says she has seen facing women in her community, particularly over issues such as domestic violence.\n\nClifford, sitting with her in the university cafe, worked when his son was going through university.\n\nNow it's his turn and he wants to be able to understand the law so that he can stand up for people more effectively as a union representative.\n\nLaw lecturer Mike Derks says the range of ages \"fit together quite seamlessly\".\n\nClifford is taking his chance at university, after seeing his son getting a degree\n\nTeaching older students is very rewarding. \"They seem to get more out of it. It's unusual, but they're still very engaged.\"\n\nBut what do the young students make of finding themselves alongside classmates old enough to be their grandparents?\n\n\"At first it was quite weird. But it was actually quite good, because you admire them,\" says Patrice Murdoch.\n\nOmar Idrees says the determination of older students to learn is an inspiration\n\n\"It shows you can start education at any age and you can always go back. It's crazy how much they know. It makes us look not so up with it,\" she says.\n\n\"If anything I feel it's inspirational that they can come back into education and they always seem to have more knowledge,\" said Millie Mbabazi.\n\n\"I don't have any negative stereotypes about older people. It is literally just me, but older.\"\n\nOmar Idrees says: \"Maureen and Craigan are an inspiration to all of us.\n\n\"They've proved to us that no matter how old you are, no matter what life has put you through, you can walk in and say, 'This is what I've always wanted to do. I'm still young, I can still do it.'\"", "Anti-segregation protestors gathered outside the court at an earlier hearing\n\nAn Islamic faith school's policy of segregating boys and girls is unlawful sex discrimination, a court has ruled.\n\nThe case was heard at the Court of Appeal as Ofsted challenged a High Court ruling clearing the Al-Hijrah school in Birmingham of discrimination.\n\nOfsted's lawyers argued the segregation left girls \"unprepared for life in modern Britain\".\n\nAppeal judges ruled the school was discriminating against its pupils contrary to the Equality Act.\n\nHowever, the court did not accept the argument the school's policy had disadvantaged girls more than boys.\n\nThe appeal judges also made it clear the government and Ofsted had failed to identify the problem earlier and other schools operating similarly should be given time \"to put their houses in order\".\n\nAbout 20 schools - Islamic, Jewish and Christian - are thought to have similar segregation policies.\n\nFrom Year Five boys and girls are completely separated for lessons, breaks, trips and clubs\n\nThe three appeal judges heard boys and girls, aged four to 16, attend the Birmingham City Council-maintained Al-Hijrah school, in Bordesley Green.\n\nBut from Year Five, boys and girls are completely separated for lessons, breaks, school trips and school clubs.\n\nIn 2016, Ofsted ruled the school was inadequate and it was put in special measures, saying its policy of separating the sexes was discrimination under the 2010 Equality Act.\n\nIn November, High Court judge Mr Justice Jay overruled the inspectors, saying that they had taken an \"erroneous\" view on an issue \"of considerable public importance\".\n\nOfsted's Amanda Spielman said the policy failed to prepare pupils for life in modern Britain\n\nSpeaking after the Court of Appeal ruling Amanda Spielman, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools, said educational institutions should never treat pupils less favourably because of their sex.\n\n\"The school is teaching boys and girls entirely separately, making them walk down separate corridors, and keeping them apart at all times,\" she said.\n\n\"This is discrimination and is wrong. It places these boys and girls at a disadvantage for life beyond the classroom and the workplace, and fails to prepare them for life in modern Britain,\" she said.\n\nIn the ruling, the appeal judges said Ofsted had made it clear if the appeal succeeded, \"it will apply a consistent approach to all similarly organised schools\".\n\nGiven their failure to identify the problem earlier, the education secretary and Ofsted had \"de facto sanctioned and accepted a state of affairs which is unlawful\" and should give the affected schools time to \"put their houses in order\", the judges said.\n\nThe ruling means state schools which segregate pupils risk being given a lower rating by Ofsted. It only applies to mixed-sex schools.\n\nDuring the appeal hearing, Peter Oldham QC, speaking for Al-Hijrah's interim executive board, said the boys and girls at the school were treated entirely equally while segregated.\n\nHe said Ofsted did not claim separation was discrimination until 2016 and its actions were \"the antithesis of proper public decision-making\".\n\nBirmingham City Council said the issue was about schools being inspected against unclear policy and guidelines\n\nBirmingham City Council said it took the High Court action it had because it felt Al-Hijrah school had been held to a different standard than other schools with similar arrangements, which had not been downgraded by Ofsted as a consequence.\n\nColin Diamond, corporate director of children and young people at the Labour-run council, said the case had always been about fairness and consistency in the inspection process.\n\n\"We would therefore highlight comments made in this judgement about the secretary of state's and Ofsted's 'failure to identify the problem',\" he said.\n\nHe added the council had a strong history of encouraging all schools to practise equality but if it was national policy that schools with gender separation were discriminating against pupils then local authorities and the schools needed to be told so they knew the standards they were being inspected against.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4, Mr Diamond said: \"In questioning the judgement itself, the logic whereby you can say having, in one part of our city here, a boys' school and a girls' school adjacent to each other, with a fence between them... so that's okay is it?\n\n\"Whereas it's not okay to have boys and girls in the same school, when parents have signed up for that form of Islamic education. We don't see the logic, the equity in any of that.\"\n\nMatt Bennett, shadow cabinet member for children and family services, said the verdict did not reflect well on Al-Hijrah, the council, Ofsted or the DfE.\n\n\"It is now clear that practices breaching the Equality Act 2010 have been allowed to continue at this school, and others across the country. Action is now required at local and national level,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carly (right) walking down the aisle just moments before her collapse\n\nAbout 10,000 people die each year because bystanders do not know how to do CPR if they see someone in cardiac arrest, the British Heart Foundation says. One woman says she owes her life to people who acted quickly when she collapsed.\n\nThe photos capture Carly Williams smiling as she walks up the flower-lined aisle as maid of honour at her sister's wedding.\n\nBut moments later she collapsed without warning and had a cardiac arrest in front of her family, friends and two young sons.\n\nHer heart had gone into a dangerously irregular rhythm and stopped beating.\n\nCarly, 34, has no memory of her collapse but says she felt totally normal in the lead-up to the ceremony at a central London hotel in July.\n\n\"Apparently I said I was dizzy and I thought I might faint. I actually collapsed as soon as I sat down with my head in the other bridesmaid's lap,\" she tells the Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"People realised there was something wrong as I didn't stand for the bride and I started breathing in an irregular way.\"\n\nJodie, centre, pictured with Carly to her left and the rest of her bridal party.\n\nThere were calls for a first aider and ambulance. One of the guests was a childminder who realised Carly's heart had stopped and started performing CPR, helped by her two cousins who had completed a first aid course two weeks earlier.\n\n\"The hotel had a defibrillator but the staff had no idea how to use it. My cousins learned how to use it on the course. They shocked me and it worked - I had a pulse but still wasn't conscious,\" she says.\n\nMeanwhile, her sister Jodie - who had been planning her £70,000 wedding for a year - had been taken out of the room along with the other guests.\n\n\"It was so surreal, like a nightmare,\" she says on looking back and seeing her sister undergo CPR.\n\nCarly, pictured holding her daughter Matilda, says she felt totally normal before the ceremony.\n\nJodie believes it was lucky that she had chosen the hotel for the venue, just minutes away from St Thomas', a specialist heart hospital. She describes it as \"the best decision I have ever made\".\n\n\"I had been feeling very guilty worrying that this was Carly worrying about the wedding that had brought this on. My dad told me my wedding had saved her life,\" she says.\n\nAnother decision was also crucial. Carly had wanted to return to their hotel room to collect the corsages, but her dad said to leave them. \"It was lucky I didn't go, as my heart might have stopped when I was alone in the room,\" she says.\n\nCarly was taken to hospital where she was put in an induced coma. Jodie said all she wanted to do was get out of her gown and see her - so they called off the wedding, sending the 115 guests home.\n\n\"I expected it to be the best day of my life but it was the worst. I felt like I was about to fall off the edge of the world.\"\n\nCarly emerged from the coma within 24 hours. A few days later she asked if the wedding had gone ahead and felt \"really bad\" when Jodie explained what had happened.\n\nCarly has been fitted with a defibrillator called an S-ICD in case her heart fails again.\n\n\"We were so excited about the wedding - but she didn't mind at all. The chances of this happening in a room with three first aid-trained people and a defibrillator are so slim that actually I was lucky that it did,\" she says.\n\nCarly has had a device fitted called an S-ICD, a defibrillator that she describes as \"insurance\" in case it happens again. \"My heart is now doing its normal thing - but they don't know why it happened,\" she says.\n\nThe sisters are campaigning with the British Heart Foundation for more people to learn how to do CPR and use defibrillators as part of its Restart a Heart campaign - which will see 150,000 people learn CPR on 16 October.\n\nAnd Jodie says she still wants to get married, once Carly is well enough.\n\n\"I still feel traumatised and get upset by it,\" she says. \"My big worry on the day was the kids not walking down the aisle on their own. It's hard to believe that worried me now - health is all that matters,\" she says.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "It's the weekly news quiz - have you been paying attention to what's been going on in the world over the past seven days?\n\nIf you missed last week's quiz, try it here\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter", "Harvey Weinstein and Rose McGowan appeared at a premiere for the film Grindhouse in 2007\n\nThe scandal deluging Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has deepened after US actress Rose McGowan publicly accused him of raping her.\n\nIn a series of tweets, McGowan also accused Amazon Studio chief Roy Price of having ignored her when she made the allegation earlier.\n\nAmazon has put Price - himself accused on Thursday of sexually harassing a female producer - on leave of absence.\n\nWeinstein denies any sexual assaults. There was no comment from Price.\n\nPolice forces in the US and UK police have launched investigations into sexual assault allegations against Weinstein:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAddressing Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos on Twitter, McGowan - who has appeared in Scream, The Black Dahlia and TV series Charmed - criticised the company for doing business with Weinstein.\n\n\"I told the head of your studio that HW raped me,\" she wrote. \"Over & over I said it. He said it hadn't been proven. I said I was the proof.\"\n\nPrice was separately accused by Isa Hackett, a producer on one of Amazon's shows, of having lewdly propositioned her in a taxi and at a corporate dinner in 2015, the Hollywood Reporter writes.\n\nAmazon Studio's Roy Price has been suspended from his job\n\nHackett reported the incident to Amazon executives immediately, she was quoted as saying, and an outside investigator was brought in.\n\nShe was not told the outcome of the investigation but did not see Price again at any events involving her shows, she added.\n\nIn a statement, Amazon said: \"Roy Price is on leave of absence effective immediately. We are reviewing our options for the projects we have with The Weinstein Co.\"\n\nThree women earlier accused Weinstein of rape in an investigative article in The New Yorker magazine.\n\nThey are Italian actress and director Asia Argento, former aspiring actress Lucia Evans and a third woman who was anonymous.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emma Thompson: \"This man is at the top of a very particular iceberg\"\n\nThe same article says 10 other women told the author that Weinstein had either sexually harassed or assaulted them between the 1990s and 2015.\n\nThe New York Times broke the story on 5 October when it detailed decades of allegations of sexual harassment against Weinstein.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Film producer Stephen Woolley tells Today film industry \"should be ashamed\" of the way it handled Weinstein\n\nWeinstein has insisted through a spokeswoman that any sexual contacts he had were consensual.\n\nOscar-winning director Oliver Stone has said he believes that Weinstein should not be judged prematurely.\n\n(L-R) Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Cara Delevingne, Lea Seydoux, Rosanna Arquette, Mira Sorvino have all spoken about their experiences with Harvey Weinstein\n\n\"If he broke the law it will come out,\" he told reporters on a visit to South Korea for a film festival. \"I believe that a man shouldn't be condemned by a vigilante system.\"\n\nIn a subsequent social media post, however, Stone expressed a wish to \"recuse\" himself from a TV series about Guantanamo Bay \"as long as The Weinstein Company is involved\".\n\nThe director wrote on Facebook that he was \"appalled\" by the allegations made against Harvey Weinstein and \"commend[ed] the courage of the women who've stepped forward\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jane Fonda: \"I should have been braver\"\n\nIn another development, Twitter briefly suspended McGowan for violating its terms and policies after she included a personal phone number in tweets about sexual abuse allegations.\n\nSome prominent US figures, notably from the entertainment world, said they would boycott the platform on Friday in protest, using the hashtag #WomenBoycottTwitter.\n\nTom Hanks, Colin Farrell and Ryan Gosling have all spoken out on the issue\n\nQuentin Tarantino was \"stunned and heartbroken\" to hear the claims about his \"friend for 25 years\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The CoppaFeel! advert encourages people to check themselves for signs of breast cancer\n\nThe first advertisement to appear on UK daytime television with a female nipple fully visible has been broadcast, with the full advert being shown on Monday.\n\nCreated for the CoppaFeel! charity, it is being shown during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.\n\nIt was broadcast on Good Morning Britain on Friday, during a discussion about the disease with the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire.\n\nBreast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK, with one person diagnosed every 10 minutes, with almost all of them women.\n\nTV stars AJ Odudu and Olivia Buckland feature in the advert\n\nThe advert encourages people to examine their own breasts to check for signs of irregularities, which could be symptoms of cancer.\n\nIt shows inanimate objects being touched, as well as men and women touching their own chest and nipples.\n\nScheduled to run on TV and in cinemas, in 60 and 40-second versions respectively, it will not be shown in or around children's programmes.\n\nIt also shows inanimate objects, encouraging viewers to explore them by touch\n\nNatalie Kelly, CEO of CoppaFeel!, said: \"In demonstrating the power of our hands and celebrating our touch as the best tool for checking, we hope to encourage more young people across the UK to adopt a healthy boob-checking habit, which could one day save their life.\"\n\nOne in eight women in the UK will develop breast cancer in their lifetime.\n\nSome 5,000 people will be diagnosed during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.\n\nSurvival rates for the disease are improving, and have doubled in the last 40 years in the UK.\n\nAlmost nine in 10 women survive breast cancer for five years or more, while every year about 11,400 people die from breast cancer in the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A BBC News animation shows how you should check your breasts\n\nSee your GP if you notice:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Australia's football association will not take action against Tim Cahill after it was claimed he used a goal celebration to promote a sponsor.\n\nThe striker made a \"T\" sign after scoring for Australia in the World Cup qualifying win over Syria on Wednesday.\n\nIn a now-deleted Instagram post, a travel agency hailed the gesture and Cahill replied with eight emojis.\n\n\"We don't believe Tim's breached any laws,\" a Football Federation Australia (FFA) spokesman told the BBC.\n\nCahill, who plays for Melbourne City and previously had spells with Millwall, Everton and New York Red Bulls, later tagged the sponsor in an Instagram post of his own.\n\n\"Another chapter written and plenty more to come. Amazing team performance and really proud of everyone tonight, team, staff and fans,\" Cahill wrote, before tagging the agency.\n\nWorld football's governing body, Fifa, told BBC Sport it is \"reviewing and analysing the reports from the referees and the match commissioners for all matches in Fifa competitions\". They added that \"any events which require further attention may be communicated accordingly\".\n\nFifa's laws of the game prohibit advertising on some garments and on the field of play.\n\nThe FFA says it has not been contacted about the matter.\n\nIn 2012, Danish footballer Nicklas Bendtner was fined 100,000 euros (£80,000) by European football's governing body, Uefa, for exposing sponsored underwear.\n\nThe Cahill celebration has generated much discussion in Australia, where sport writers have said Cahill \"blew an iconic Australian football moment\" and \"held the pose long enough\" to make it conspicuous.\n\nThe win earned Australia a 3-2 aggregate win over the Syrians and a play-off against Honduras, with the victors earning a place at next summer's World Cup in Russia.\n• None The rising profile of football in Australia", "A hotel worker has said he alerted staff to report a gunman had opened fire before the suspect shot dead 58 people at a Las Vegas music festival.\n\nStephen Schuck said he was responding to a jammed fire door on the 32nd floor when he heard gunfire and spotted a colleague who had been shot.\n\nHe called dispatchers and told them to call police as the gunman sprayed bullets down the hallway, he said.\n\nHis account has intensified questions about why the gunman was not stopped.\n\n\"As soon as I started to go to a door to my left the rounds started coming down the hallway,\" Mr Schuck said on Wednesday.\n\n\"I could feel them pass right behind my head.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police officers who entered the Las Vegas gunman's hotel room describe what they saw.\n\nMr Schuck said he encountered hotel security guard Jesus Campos, who had been shot in the leg by gunman Stephen Paddock.\n\nMr Campos told the maintenance man to take cover.\n\n\"It was kind of relentless so I called over the radio what was going on,\" said Mr Schuck.\n\n\"As soon as the shooting stopped we made our way down the hallway and took cover again and then the shooting started again.\"\n\nSoon afterwards, Paddock, 64, sprayed bullets upon a nearby crowd at the Route 91 country music festival, perched above in his suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel.\n\nPaddock apparently took his own life after the attack, the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, leaving 58 dead and 500 wounded.\n\nAccording to CBS News, gunfire could be heard as Mr Schuck told a dispatcher on his radio: \"Call the police, someone's firing a gun up here. Someone's firing a rifle on the 32nd floor down the hallway.\"\n\nThe BBC has asked the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department for comment.\n\nMr Schuck's account adds more questions about why police were unaware of the shooting on the 32nd floor before Paddock opened fire on concert-goers below.\n\nPolice initially said Mr Campos, the injured security guard, interrupted the gunman as he was firing upon the crowd from his hotel suite.\n\nBut on Monday police revised the timeline to clarify that Mr Campos was actually shot in the leg and wounded six minutes before Paddock began shooting at the music festival.\n\nHowever the 3,200-room Mandalay Bay hotel disputed the police chronology, telling the BBC that the official police timeline is based on an erroneous initial report compiled by hotel staff.\n\n\"We are now confident that the time stated in this report is not accurate,\" a spokesperson for the hotel said in a statement.\n\n\"We know that shots were being fired at the festival lot at the same time as, or within 40 seconds after, the time Jesus Campos first reported that shots were fired over the radio.\"\n\n\"Metro officers were together with armed Mandalay Bay security officers in the building when Campos first reported that shots were fired over the radio,\" the statement continued, adding that the police and armed hotel security guards \"immediately responded to the 32nd floor\".\n\nPolice said Paddock, who had placed security cameras outside his room, shot Mr Campos through the door of his suite, firing 200 rounds into the hallway.\n\n21:59 Paddock shoots security guard Jesus Campos outside his 32nd floor room. The hotel says they are \"confident\" this is not the accurate time.\n\n22:05 Paddock opens fire on concert-goers below after smashing his window with a hammer\n\n22:17 The first police arrive on the scene and find the wounded security guard near Paddock's room a minute later\n\n23:20 Swat team breaks into Paddock's room and finds him dead from a suspected self-inflicted gunshot", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michel Barnier said there was \"deadlock\" over the UK's Brexit bill\n\nThe EU is to begin preparing for its post-Brexit trade negotiations with the UK, while refusing to discuss the matter with the British government.\n\nAn internal draft document suggests the 27 EU countries should discuss trade among themselves while officials in Brussels prepare the details.\n\nThe draft text could yet be revised.\n\nEU Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said a lack of compromise over the UK's financial commitments was impeding progress - saying \"they have to pay\".\n\nSpeaking in Luxembourg, Mr Juncker used the analogy of someone covering the bill after ordering 28 beers at a bar to explain the EU's position - and added that the Brexit negotiating process was taking longer than expected.\n\nHe also dismissed the wrangling over citizens' rights - another sticking point - as \"nonsense\", calling on the UK to adopt a \"common sense\" approach and say \"things will stay as they are\" after Brexit.\n\nDowning Street said \"good progress\" was being made in the talks.\n\nAs the fifth round of talks ended in Brussels on Thursday, the EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, said there was \"deadlock\" over the UK's Brexit bill.\n\nHe said there had not been enough progress to move to the next stage of post-Brexit trade talks - as the UK had hoped - but added that he hoped for \"decisive progress\" by the time of the December summit of the European Council.\n\nThe draft paper submitted to the 27 EU states by European Council president Donald Tusk, suggests free trade talks could open in December - should Prime Minister Theresa May improve her offer on what the UK pays when it leaves.\n\nThe government is wading through proposed amendments to the EU Withdrawal Bill\n\nThe BBC's Europe correspondent Adam Fleming said the paper contained \"something for everyone\" - with the reference to trade talks accompanied by a call for the UK to do more to bridge the gap on the key negotiating points.\n\nThe document calls for talks - about a transition period and the future relationship - to move to the next phase \"as soon as possible\".\n\nThe draft conclusions - to be put to EU leaders next Friday - also call for more concessions from the UK on its financial obligations and the rights of European nationals who wish to stay after Brexit.\n\nThe paper confirms Mr Barnier's assessment, that there has not been \"sufficient progress\" on three key elements of a withdrawal treaty for leaders to agree to open the trade talks now.\n\nBut it says the leaders would welcome developments on these key issues: the rights of three million EU citizens in the UK, protecting peace in Northern Ireland from the effect of a new border and Britain's outstanding \"financial obligations\".\n\nThe council would then pledge to \"reassess the state of progress\" at their December summit.\n\nBernd Kolmel, chairman of Germany's Eurosceptic Liberal Conservative Reformers, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there appeared to have been little progress between the first and fifth round of talks - something he described as a \"disaster\".\n\nHe called on the EU to expand the talks to include its future relationships and trade with the UK.\n\nAnders Vistisen, a Danish Eurosceptic MEP and vice-chair of the EU Parliament's foreign affairs committee, agreed, adding: \"The most integral thing is the future relationship. If we are making a bad trade deal for Britain we are also hurting ourselves.\"\n\nThe document states that in order \"to be fully ready\", EU leaders would ask Mr Barnier and his officials to start preparing now for a transition - albeit without actually starting to talk to the UK about it.\n\n\"The European Council invites the Council (Article 50) together with the Union negotiator to start internal preparatory discussions,\" the draft reads.\n\nA Downing Street spokeswoman would not comment on the draft EU document but said Theresa May \"has been clear all along that we need to reach a settlement\", adding that UK would honour its financial commitments.\n\nMeanwhile, a crucial plank of the government's Brexit legislation faces a raft of attempted amendments by MPs as ministers seek to steer it through Parliament.\n\nThe EU (Withdrawal) Bill will end the supremacy of EU law in the UK and incorporate existing Brussels legislation onto the UK statute book.\n\nCommons Leader Andrea Leadsom said going through the proposed changes was \"taking a bit of time\" as she confirmed there would be no debate on the bill next week.", "The Patels about to get on their plane\n\nA cohort of Indian-Americans who have made their fortune in the US are increasingly turning to large-scale philanthropy. Kiran Patel's giant gift to a Florida university is the new high-water mark.\n\nEvery day at school, eight-year-old Kiran Patel would watch longingly as his younger brother and friends snacked on chocolate and soda bought with their pocket money. His one shilling a day pocket money could easily pay for those goodies. But to him it was a waste - he dropped it in a piggy bank instead.\n\nIn a few years, he had saved enough to buy the ship fare from Zambia to India for himself, his parents and his two siblings - their first trip home in 12 years.\n\nSix decades later, Dr Kiran C Patel recounts the story aboard his 14-seater private Bombardier jet on his way to Tampa, Florida. He has come a long way from that small town in Zambia.\n\nJust hours prior, he and his wife, Dr Pallavi Patel, pledged $200m to a Florida university - the largest donation ever from an Indian-American to a US institution. Nova Southeastern University (NSU) will use the gift to create two medical colleges - one in Florida, another in India.\n\n\"I learnt a few very early lessons in life,\" he says. \"A penny saved is a penny earned and one should drop it where it makes the maximum impact.\"\n\nPatel grew up in the era of racial segregation in Zambia, where he had to move 80km to go to school as there was none in his town for non-white students. He attended medical school in India and moved to the US with his wife, also a medical doctor, on Thanksgiving Day in 1976.\n\nPatel went from cardiologist to businessman when he created a network of physicians with different specialities. But the real breakthrough came in 1992 when he took over a health insurance company on the verge of bankruptcy.\n\nTen years later when the Patels sold the firm, it had more than 400,000 members and revenue in excess of $1bn. His business empire is not without controversy - earlier this year, two of his businesses paid more than $30m in a settlement after accusations of artificially inflating costs for care. The firm has not admitted wrongdoing as part of the settlement.\n\nPatel likes to call himself an \"aggressive entrepreneur\" and believes in the old Gujarati adage \"When the goddess of wealth comes knocking, don't run away to wash your face\".\n\n\"I'm a risk taker and a 90 miles per hour guy, always pressing the accelerator,\" he says, then points to his wife of 44 years Dr Pallavi Patel. \"She is the one who applies the brakes.\"\n\nIn recent years, many successful Indian-Americans have changed their giving habits, moving from donations to temples and religious institutions to using their newly acquired wealth to shape societies back home and in the United States.\n\nThe Patels are not alone in the scale of their givings. New York couple Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon pledged $100m to the NYU School of Engineering in 2015. The Sanju Bansal foundation provides backing to a number of non-profits and foundations in the Washington, DC area.\n\nPatel says philanthropy would be part of his life even if he wasn't rich.\n\n\"My father didn't have a lot but be it in Zambia or Gujarat he was always helping those who were in need,\" he says.\n\nAmong the biggest beneficiaries of the Patels' largesse is the University of South Florida, where they established a research centre focused on solving problems in the developing world in a sustainable way, and a Tampa arts conservatory.\n\nThey also fund a number of initiatives in India, including a 50-bed hospital in a Gujarat village.\n\nPatel says $50m of his donation to NSU will go directly to the school and $150m will go towards building a medical education complex in nearby Clearwater.\n\nThe aim is partly to improve healthcare in India and Zambia and to train healthcare professionals in these countries at an affordable cost.\n\nThe ultimate plan is to have Florida students get practical experience in India, and Indian students spend a year at the Florida school.\n\nBy bringing American-style education to India, the philanthropist says he will be able to reduce the expenses considerably.\n\n\"A Zambian student can stay in India for less than $2,000, including accommodation and food,\" Patel says. \"We are able to help thousands of people, and at the same time provide the same quality of education as imparted in the US.\"\n\nAmerican students in India will benefit from exposure to a lots of different diseases and health situations, he says.\n\n\"To stretch the same dollar to impact 10-fold, 20-fold, 100-fold, that's what I enjoy,\" he says.\n\nWhat he also seems to enjoy, though, is grandiose spending.\n\nIn the last five years, he purchased four private jets and is halfway through building a palace-like home that's talk of the town in Tampa, Florida.\n\nThe nearly-40 bedroom mansion, built entirely in red sandstone shipped from India, is impossible to miss. More than 100 people have been working on it for the past five years. When it's finished, Patel hopes three generations of his family will live in it - including his three children and several grandchildren.\n\nSo what would he say to the child who thought spending a shilling on soda and snacks was a waste?\n\n\"I like to have the best,\" he says. \"I know many will criticise me for this extravagance but some will also say - why not?\"\n\nHis wife says flying in private jets or owning beachfront properties doesn't make them any happier than what they felt as a middle-class family.\n\n\"He has given more than he has splurged on himself,\" she says. \"I think he has earned the right to enjoy as well.\"\n\nShe says her husband is still frugal at heart, and that's how he's brought up his children.\n\nWhen their son, Shilen, was nine, he returned from school one afternoon and asked, \"Dad, are we rich?\"\n\nThey were taken aback, but her husband responded: \"Maybe I am rich but you are not.\"\n\n\"This is how we reminded them that they have to make their life on their own,\" she says.", "Joy for now, but will the truce deal last?\n\nSome Palestinians have been taking to the streets of Gaza to celebrate the new reconciliation deal agreed by their rival political factions, Hamas and Fatah.\n\nOthers I speak to are more cautious, but desperately hope an end is in sight to a decade-long feud they feel has damaged the nationalist cause.\n\nThe deal, brokered by Egypt, is expected to see the Palestinian Authority (PA), dominated by Fatah, resume full control of the coastal territory by 1 December.\n\nThe PA and its security forces were ousted from Gaza in 2007, when Hamas seized control, a year after winning legislative elections.\n\nFor Naim al-Khatib, a father of six, \"Hamas are showing some flexibility which is unprecedented. It gives us hope that people are being pragmatic, seeing themselves as Palestinians, rather than as part of a global, Islamic group.\"\n\n\"There are lots of difficult issues still to tackle - but the opposite of reconciliation is a very gloomy situation which I would hate us to step into,\" he adds.\n\nRecently, Gaza's nearly two million residents have suffered as political divisions deepened and President Mahmoud Abbas piled financial pressure on Hamas.\n\nThere is already no electricity in the Gaza Strip for up to 20 hours per day\n\nWaste-water treatment has largely halted, resulting in the discharge of sewage into the sea\n\nHis PA imposed heavy taxes on fuel for the strip's only power plant and reduced the amount of electricity bought from Israel for Gaza.\n\nMains electricity now comes on for just a few hours a day. This leaves water desalination and sewage treatment plants unable to work properly.\n\nOver 60,000 civil servants, still getting salaries from the PA even though they cannot work, were cut by a third. Supplies of medicines were halted.\n\nThe reconciliation deal was signed by Fatah's Azam al-Ahmed (right) and the deputy head of the Hamas politburo Saleh al-Aruri\n\nNow it is expected some sanctions will be reversed.\n\n\"We hope electricity will come back immediately. It's a basis for normal life,\" says Amal, a teacher.\n\n\"I think this will solve our sewage problem. We Gazans are very attached to the sea and we hope it will be clean again.\"\n\nIsrael and Egypt tightened their blockade of Gaza after the Hamas takeover.\n\nThe new agreement is expected to see PA forces return to border crossings, which could ease the movement of people and goods.\n\n\"We want to see free movement in and out of Gaza - to the West Bank, Egypt and Israel for medical purposes and for education,\" Amal says. \"Such steps will make us feel reconciliation is serious.\"\n\nPrevious reconciliation deals have quickly fallen apart, and the latest announcements from Cairo have not made clear how some long-standing sticking points can be resolved.\n\nThey include the fate of Hamas's 25,000-strong military wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades.\n\nHamas is also classed as a terrorist organisation by Israel, the United States and the European Union. The latter are both major donors to the PA - but would find it difficult to support a unity government that includes Hamas.\n\nWill Mahmoud Abbas now visit Gaza - for the first time in a decade?\n\nMore tricky negotiations are now due to be held ahead of a meeting of all the Palestinian political movements in Cairo on 21 November.\n\n\"What's happened is a good step, it's positive, but this is just the beginning,\" says Mustafa Barghouti, general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative.\n\n\"The next few weeks are very crucial because what's been agreed must be implemented. All the Palestinian factions, not just Hamas and Fatah, must then decide on a unified government and a date for elections.\"\n\nSome reports suggest that if all goes to plan President Abbas could soon visit Gaza for the first time in a decade as part of the reconciliation effort.\n\nThat would be a huge turnaround: a recent Palestinian opinion poll indicated that demand for his resignation stood at 67% overall and 80% in Gaza.\n\nWhich, paradoxically, brings out one of the reasons why some commentators believe this bid at reconciliation has better chances of success.\n\nAt 82, some reason that Mr Abbas has an eye on his political legacy and little to lose.\n\nLikewise Hamas, an ideological offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, has found itself on the wrong side of recent regional events.\n\nFaced with increased isolation, it has reached out to Cairo for help.\n\nIn turn, Egyptian leaders are very keen to improve security in the restive Sinai Peninsula, which borders Gaza, and after the turbulent years following the Arab Spring, they are looking to restore their role as regional power brokers.", "Moors Murderer Ian Brady's remains must be disposed of with \"no music and no ceremony\", a High Court judge has ruled.\n\nTwo councils asked the judge to step in to ensure the disposal of the serial killer's body did not cause \"offence and distress\" to his victims' families.\n\nSir Geoffrey Vos said Brady's executor had failed to make proper arrangements for disposal of his remains.\n\nBrady died aged 79, on 15 May, but his remains have not yet been disposed of.\n\nBrady and Myra Hindley, who died in prison in 2002, tortured and murdered five children in the 1960s.\n\nKeith Bennett's body has never been found\n\nSir Geoffrey acted after Oldham and Tameside councils raised concerns that five months after Brady's death his executor, solicitor Robin Makin, had failed to make proper arrangements for the disposal.\n\nIn his judgement, he noted assurances sought by coroner Christopher Sumner over concerns Brady's ashes might be scattered on Saddleworth Moor, where at least three of his victims were buried.\n\nTameside and Oldham councils brought the action over similar concerns from relatives, with parts of the moor in both boroughs.\n\nThis was compounded by Mr Makin's reluctance to discuss arrangements for the disposal of the remains.\n\n\"We know that the relatives and residents alike found even the suggestion that his ashes may be scattered over Saddleworth Moor to be abhorrent and distressing, especially because 13-year-old Keith Bennett has never been found,\" the councils said after the hearing.\n\nAs part of his ruling, Sir Geoffrey accepted a proposal for a Tameside council officer to arrange for the disposal was the \"best available\".\n\n\"I am satisfied also that it is both necessary and expedient for the matter to be taken out of Mr Makin's hands,\" Sir Geoffrey said.\n\n\"Even after a hearing that has lasted for one and a half days, the parties have not been able to agree precisely how the deceased's body should be disposed of.\"\n\nSaddleworth Moor has been the scene of several searches for the remains of Brady's victims\n\nIn issuing directions about the body's disposal, Sir Geoffrey said: \"I decline to permit the playing of the fifth movement of the Symphony Fantastique at the cremation, as Mr Makin requested.\"\n\nHe quoted the Wikipedia page for the piece that states the musician sees himself \"at a witches' sabbath, in the midst of a hideous gathering of shades, sorcerers and monsters of every kind who have come together for his funeral\".\n\n\"I have no difficulty in understanding how legitimate offence would be caused to the families of the deceased's victims once it became known that this movement had been played at his cremation,\" Sir Geoffrey said.\n\nThe judge said Mr Makin could not be \"entrusted\" with Brady's ashes because he had been \"so secretive\".\n\nSir Geoffrey said: \"Had he (Mr Makin) discussed the matter openly with the claimants and with Sefton Borough Council and given clear undertakings that he was not intending to scatter the deceased's ashes in their areas, these proceedings might have been avoided.\n\n\"Even now, he has refused to say what he intends to do with the ashes if he is allowed custody of them.\"\n\nBrady was jailed in 1966 for murdering John Kilbride, aged 12, Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward Evans, 17.\n\nIn 1985, he also admitted killing Pauline Reade, 16, and 12-year-old Keith Bennett, whose body has never been found.\n\nDespite pleas from Keith's mother Winnie Johnson, who died in 2012, Brady did not reveal where her son was buried.", "George Weah is senator for Montserrado County in Liberia\n\nPartial results from Liberia's presidential election show former football star George Weah has taken an early lead.\n\nFigures from the National Elections Commission (NEC) put Mr Weah ahead in 11 out of 15 counties, although most votes have yet to be counted.\n\nHis main rival, incumbent Vice-President Joseph Boakai, leads in one county and is second in most others.\n\nA candidate needs more than 50% of the votes for outright victory.\n\nIf no-one achieves that, a second round will be held in November.\n\nThe election is to choose a successor to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - Africa's first elected female president and a Nobel Peace laureate.\n\nAs the results came in, the manager of Arsenal Football Club, Arsene Wenger, was apparently duped by false reports that Mr Weah had won.\n\nArsene Wenger coached George Weah in the 1990s when he was in charge of French club Monaco\n\n\"I would like to congratulate one of my former players, who became president of Liberia,\" Mr Wenger told reporters.\n\n\"It's not often you have a former player who becomes president of a country. So well done, Georgie.\"\n\nNEC Chairman Jerome Korkoya hit out at false reports and said his officials were doing their best to get accurate official results out as quickly as possible.\n\n\"This commission has not declared any winner,\" he stressed.\n\nInternational election observers said they had not identified any major problems with Tuesday's voting.\n\nHowever, parties supporting three of the 20 candidates have alleged irregularities and said they would contest the result, Reuters reported.\n\nVice-President Joseph Boakai says the Liberian people want to see more development\n\nMs Sirleaf, 78, who is stepping down at the end of two terms, hailed the election as a success.\n\n\"We believe that all Liberians are ready for this process. I thank them for participating in this process,\" she said.\n\nLiberia, which was founded by freed US slaves in the 19th Century, has not had a smooth transfer of power in 73 years.\n\nMs Sirleaf took office in 2006, after her predecessor, Charles Taylor, was forced out of office by rebels in 2003, ending a long civil war.\n\nTaylor is currently serving a 50-year prison sentence in the UK for war crimes related to the conflict in neighbouring Sierra Leone.\n\nMr Weah, 51, has chosen Taylor's ex-wife Jewel Howard Taylor as his running mate.", "Signs warning about the instability of the cliffs are in place approaching the area\n\nA student fell to her death while posing for a photograph on cliffs at Seven Sisters, an inquest heard.\n\nHyewon Kim, 23, came to the UK to study English and on 22 June took a trip to Cuckmere Haven, East Sussex, alone.\n\nShe asked a stranger to take her picture, but as she jumped in the air for the shot she lost her footing and fell 200ft (60m).\n\nThe court heard Ms Kim, from South Korea, suffered catastrophic injuries in the fall.\n\nSpeaking after the inquest, Mark Webb from East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service, said: \"This was an incredibly sad incident leading to the unnecessary loss of a very young life.\n\n\"What we would say is to urge people to stay well away from cliff edges.\n\n\"The day before this incident we had a very severe rock fall in the same sort of area, so it's clear some of these cliff edges can be very unstable.\"\n\nSeveral large sections of the cliffs have crumbled into the sea in recent months\n\nSigns warning about the instability of the cliffs are in place approaching the area.\n\nAn option for more signs in foreign languages was considered by Seaford Town Council in July 2017 but was rejected.\n\nCraig Williams, from the town council, said it was a unanimous decision from representatives of East Sussex County Council, Lewes District Council, the coastguard and South Downs National Park Authority.\n\n\"We've decided to keep the signs as they are; we felt more would just confuse matters. Instead we've tackled this at source.\n\n\"We've been approaching coach companies and tour operators who run trips to the area and take people up on the cliffs to discuss having plans in place to warn people.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK economy grew at a muted rate in the third quarter of 2017 despite progress in the manufacturing sector, the British Chambers of Commerce says.\n\nThe number of manufacturers reporting improved domestic sales and orders rose in the quarter to its highest level since early 2015, the BCC said.\n\nExport sales and orders in the sector also improved.\n\nBut in services, domestic sales and orders remained static, as did the sector's employment expectations.\n\nThe BCC said its survey also showed the prevalence of recruitment difficulties facing UK businesses, which worsened further during the quarter.\n\nAlmost three-quarters of manufacturers reported difficulties hiring staff, and in services, the percentage rose to its highest since early 2016.\n\nBCC director general Dr Adam Marshall said: \"The uninspiring results we see in our third-quarter findings reflect the fact that political uncertainty, currency fluctuations and the vagaries of the Brexit process are continuing to weigh on business growth prospects.\n\n\"The chancellor's autumn Budget is a critical opportunity to demonstrate that the government stands ready to incentivise investment and support growth here at home.\n\n\"While much of Westminster and Whitehall is distracted by Brexit, business needs action now on the home front. The solutions to some of the biggest issues currently facing our firms - including high up-front costs, a lack of incentive to invest, and a need for better infrastructure - are entirely within the power of the UK government to deliver.\"\n\nThe BCC also said that in the current economic climate, it seemed \"extraordinary\" that the Bank of England was considering raising interest rates.\n\n\"We'd caution against an earlier than required tightening in monetary policy, which could hit both business and consumer confidence and weaken overall UK growth,\" said BCC head of economics Suren Thiru.\n\n\"While interest rates need to rise at some point, it should be done slowly and timed to not harm the UK's growth prospects.\"\n\nBuoyancy in the UK manufacturing sector is not universal at the moment, one company said.\n\nAndrew Varga, managing director of Seetru, a Bristol-based manufacturer of safety valves for industry, told the BBC's Today programme his firm was \"slightly more pessimistic\" than the BCC.\n\n\"We see some startling results. Despite the buoyant European economy, we see an accelerating reduction in order pull from Europe. Clearly uncertainty is having a really significant effect on customers' choices of which country they buy from, and they're not buying from the UK any more.\"\n\nHe added that the UK market was \"depressed\".\n\n\"Like-for-like sales are clearly down - down about 10%,\" he said. \"This is all due to [Brexit] uncertainty at the moment.\"\n\nClare Flynn Levy, founder and chief executive of financial behavioural analytics software firm Essentia Analytics, told the BBC that for her company \"life's a bit more optimistic\".\n\n\"But I'm not surprised to hear that the services sector is static, because there is a massive energy suck toward people decisions and mobility decisions that are caused by Brexit, and the uncertainty is just causing energy that would otherwise be devoted to selling and delivering services to clients to be pulled into scenario planning... so people are sort of frozen,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mission Beach is a popular stopover for backpackers travelling along the Queensland coast\n\nThree skydivers have died in Queensland after they apparently collided mid-air, say Australian authorities.\n\nParamedics and police were called to Mission Beach, a popular skydiving spot about 140km (87 miles) south of Cairns.\n\nTwo men in their 30s, and a woman in her 50s, were found dead at the scene, Queensland police said in a statement.\n\nPolice said initial investigations found one person may have collided with tandem skydivers, and their parachutes failed to deploy correctly.\n\nQueensland's ambulance service told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that one skydiver was found in the garden of a residence, and the other two were found close by.\n\nA resident was also quoted as saying the bodies were found about 1.5km north of the usual landing site.\n\nOperating company Skydive Australia told local media that it had suspended its operations at Mission Beach while an investigation took place.\n\nThe solo skydiver was a \"highly experienced instructor who had completed thousands of jumps\", while the other two were a customer and another experienced instructor, it said in a statement.\n\n\"The company extends its deepest sympathies and heartfelt condolences to the individuals and families involved and the broader skydiving community,\" it added.\n\nAn unnamed eyewitness told the Cairns Post that he saw one of the skydivers falling. \"You could see one chute was tangled and it wasn't opening.\"\n\n\"I was just watching him in free fall until he went behind the trees, and that was the last I saw,\" he said.\n\n\"It wasn't good to watch. I had my heart in my mouth.\"\n\nThe area's local mayor, John Kremastos, told the ABC that the incident was \"horrible news\", saying: \"Three people in one accident is very, very sad.\"\n\nSkydiving is a popular tourist activity in the area, with many of the backpackers who travel the Queensland coast stopping by Mission Beach.", "The award was presented by Ian Walker and Julian La Bastide, who had both met the princess\n\nPrince Harry has paid tribute to his late mother's work in raising awareness of HIV and Aids, and urged more people to \"embrace regular testing\".\n\nThe prince was speaking at the Attitude magazine awards, where Princess Diana was posthumously honoured with the Legacy award, 20 years after her death.\n\nPrince Harry said if his mother were still alive, she would be \"standing alongside\" those living with HIV.\n\nThe prince collected the award on Thursday night on her behalf.\n\nIn April 1987, Princess Diana opened the UK's first purpose built HIV/Aids unit that exclusively cared for patients infected with the virus, at London Middlesex Hospital.\n\nIn front of the world's media, she shook the hand of a man suffering with the illness.\n\nShe did so without gloves, publicly challenging the stigma and notion that HIV/Aids was passed from person to person by touch.\n\n\"She knew that Aids was one of the things that many wanted to ignore and seemed like a hopeless challenge,\" he told the awards ceremony in London.\n\n\"She knew that the misunderstanding of this relatively new disease was creating a dangerous situation when mixed with homophobia.\n\n\"So, when, that April [in 1987], she took the hand of a 32-year-old man with HIV, in front of the cameras, she knew exactly what she was doing.\"\n\nPrincess Diana visiting the London Lighthouse, a centre for people affected by HIV in October 1996\n\nThe prince said he and his brother, the Duke of Cambridge, were \"incredibly proud of what our mother achieved\".\n\nIf she were still alive, he said she \"would be demanding\" free and available testing and treatment for people all across the world.\n\n\"I believe that she would be telling everyone across society - not just those most at risk - that with effective treatment being free and available in the UK, that we must all embrace regular testing - both for our own sake and for those that we love,\" he added.\n\nAs he accepted the award, the publication unveiled its new, limited edition magazine cover featuring a black-and-white photograph of Diana by Patrick Demarchelier.", "It is the second catastrophic season for the southern penguins in five years\n\nAll but two Adelie penguin chicks have starved to death in their east Antarctic colony, in a breeding season described as \"catastrophic\" by experts.\n\nIt was caused by unusually high amounts of ice late in the season, meaning adults had to travel further for food.\n\nIt is the second bad season in five years after no chicks survived in 2015.\n\nConservation groups are calling for urgent action on a new marine protection area in the east Antarctic to protect the colony of about 36,000.\n\nWWF says a ban on krill fishing in the area would eliminate their competition and help to secure the survival of Antarctic species, including the Adelie penguins.\n\nAdelie penguins pictured at the French monitoring station in Dumont d'Urville in east Antarctica\n\nWWF have been supporting research with French scientists in the region monitoring penguin numbers since 2010.\n\nThe protection proposal will be discussed at a meeting on Monday of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR).\n\nThe Commission is made up of the 25 members and the European Union.\n\n\"This devastating event contrasts with the image that many people might have of penguins,\" Rod Downie, Head of Polar Programmes at WWF, said.\n\n\"The risk of opening up this area to exploratory krill fisheries, which would compete with the Adelie penguins for food as they recover from two catastrophic breeding failures in four years, is unthinkable.\n\n\"So CCAMLR needs to act now by adopting a new Marine Protected Area for the waters off east Antarctica, to protect the home of the penguins.\"", "A fancy dress company has been criticised by psychiatrists for selling a Halloween costume they say stigmatises mental illnesses.\n\nEscapade's \"psychotic nympho\" dress has straitjacket sleeves, a lace-up collar and optional face paint for the \"seductive goth\" look.\n\nThe Royal College of Psychiatrists said it was one of the worst examples of such an outfit it had seen.\n\nEscapade has not yet responded to the BBC's requests for a comment.\n\nA description of the costume on Escapade's website says it is a \"sensual outfit\" that \"expresses a lot of deep desires without you having to utter a single word\".\n\nThe company also sells other outfits with the word \"psycho\" in it, including the \"cell block psycho\" costume and \"psycho nurse Sally\".\n\nDr Tony Rao, a psychiatrist and member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said outfits of this kind stigmatised those with mental illnesses by suggesting people should be afraid of them.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"If you're going to use words like \"psychotic\" and associate it with \"nympho\", very pejorative, dramatic and shocking terms that are designed to get sales, then I think that is misleading both the perception of mental illness and misleading the public in promoting the idea that it's something we should be afraid of.\"\n\nIn recent years a number of retailers have withdrawn similar items from sale after they were criticised.\n\nIn 2013, Tesco and Asda withdrew two Halloween outfits - a psycho ward costume and a mental patient outfit - following complaints.\n\nThe retailers apologised and agreed to make donations to the mental health charity Mind.\n\nDr Rao said there were \"far fewer offensive costumes\" for this year's Halloween, but he said those that are sold set back the public perception of mental illnesses \"several decades\".\n\nThis could contribute to people being discouraged from seeking treatment, he said.\n\n\"The royals, reality TV stars, music stars, have done an excellent job in encouraging people to keep the conversation going about reducing stigma.\n\n\"But what these costumes are doing is portraying an ignorance of those with severe mental illness, which is still in some ways seriously misunderstood by the public.\"\n\nEscapade has yet to respond to requests for a comment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On some red carpets, Harvey Weinstein is not a welcome subject\n\nHarvey Weinstein's brother, Bob, has denied media reports that the film production company they co-founded could be closed or sold.\n\n\"Our banks, partners and shareholders are fully supportive of our company,\" he said in a statement. \"Business is continuing as usual.\"\n\nThe company fired Harvey Weinstein on Sunday amid a slew of sexual harassment allegations.\n\nThe claims have prompted police investigations in both the US and UK.\n\nOn Friday, the scandal surrounding Weinstein - who produced films including Pulp Fiction, Shakespeare in Love and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - deepened when he was accused of rape by US actress Rose McGowan.\n\nBob Weinstein co-founded the studio with his brother in 2005\n\nHe was already facing claims of rape, sexual assault, groping and harassment.\n\nWeinstein, who is believed to be in Europe seeking therapy, has insisted through a spokeswoman that any sexual contacts he had were consensual.\n\nSince the avalanche of claims began, the company has been trying to disassociate itself from its co-founder and save the business, reports say, with efforts made to buy Harvey Weinstein out, rebrand and keep creative partners on board.\n\nBut reports in the Los Angeles Times said that financers had begun to pressure the company to sell and potential buyers were circling.\n\nThe Wall Street Journal also reported the company was \"exploring a sale or shutdown\" and was \"unlikely to continue as an independent entity\".\n\nThe Weinstein Company fired Harvey Weinstein last weekend, but there remains intense speculation about its future\n\nThe company is thought to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars but before the recent allegations had already faced questions about its future prospects amid increasing competition from media streaming services.\n\nInvestment bank Goldman Sachs said on Friday it was investigating options to sell the small stake it holds, citing the reported \"inexcusable behaviour\".\n\nOn Saturday, the organisers of the Oscars film awards will hold emergency talks amid speculation it could suspending Harvey Weinstein's membership. Bafta, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, has already done so.\n\nThe New York Times broke the story on 5 October when it detailed decades of allegations of sexual harassment against Weinstein.\n\nSince then police forces in the US and UK have launched investigations into sexual assault allegations against Weinstein:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Police searching for a missing woman in Australia say she is likely to have been killed by a crocodile.\n\nAnne Cameron, 79, was reported missing from a nursing home near the Queensland town of Port Douglas on Tuesday.\n\nClothes and a walking stick bearing the name of Ms Cameron, who suffers from dementia, were found next to a creek.\n\nOn Friday, police said remains found nearby had been confirmed as human and they were \"highly likely\" to belong to Ms Cameron.\n\n\"We strongly suspect now that there has been involvement of a crocodile attack,\" Acting Inspector Ed Lukin said.\n\n\"There will be forensic tests done on those remains, but I will stress that there are no other missing persons in the Port Douglas area.\"\n\nPolice suspect that Ms Cameron was attacked after walking into bushland about 2km (1.2 miles) from the nursing home.\n\nShe had moved to the nursing home recently to be closer to relatives, local media said.\n\nWildlife officers will set crocodile traps in the area where the remains were found.\n\nCrocodile attacks have claimed nine lives in Queensland since 1985, including a spear fisherman in March.", "The six-inch (14cm) Dover sole (not pictured) wriggled out of the man's hand and jumped into his mouth\n\nAn angler had to be resuscitated after accidentally swallowing a fish he had just caught.\n\nThe man was kissing the Dover sole in celebration of his catch when the six-inch (14cm) fish wriggled out of his hand and jumped into his mouth, a friend said.\n\nThe 28-year-old stopped breathing and suffered a cardiac arrest at the scene on Boscombe Pier, Bournemouth.\n\nParamedics managed to remove the fish with forceps in an ambulance.\n\nThe man had been fishing at Boscombe Pier, Bournemouth\n\nAmbulance worker Matt Harrison said: \"It was clear that we needed to get the fish out or this patient was not going to survive the short journey to Royal Bournemouth Hospital.\n\n\"I was acutely aware that I only had one attempt at getting this right as if I lost grip or a piece broke off and it slid further out of sight then there was nothing more that we could have done to retrieve the obstruction.\"\n\nMr Harrison said the fish's barbs and gills became stuck but he eventually succeeded in extracting it in one piece.\n\nHe said it was the \"most bizarre\" call-out he had ever attended.\n\nMembers of Boscombe Pier Sea Anglers performed CPR on their friend before the arrival of emergency crews at about 23:00 BST on 5 October.\n\nIan Cowie from the group said: \"He was kissing the fish when it jumped down his throat. It's a tradition to kiss your first catch.\"\n\nParamedics managed to restart the unnamed man's heart at the pier after working on him for three minutes.\n\nMr Harrison said: \"We're all so glad the patient has no lasting effects from his cardiac arrest, which could so easily have had such a tragic and devastating outcome.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The chancellor has labelled the European Union's Brexit negotiators as \"the enemy\" - a remark he subsequently described as a \"poor choice of words\".\n\nDuring a television interview, Philip Hammond also called the negotiators \"the opponents\" and said they should \"behave like grown-ups\".\n\nBut he tweeted later: \"I was making the point that we are united at home. I regret I used a poor choice of words.\"\n\nMr Hammond is in Washington for an International Monetary Fund meeting.\n\nHe has been criticised for saying that the Brexit process has created uncertainty, and this week a former chancellor claimed he was trying to sabotage the talks.\n\nDuring a series of media interviews in Washington, Mr Hammond told Sky News that \"passions are high\" in the party \"but we are all going to the same place\".\n\nBut he added: \"The enemy, the opponents, are out there on the other side of the table. Those are the people that we have to negotiate with to get the very best deal for Britain.\"\n\nDespite his regrets, Mr Hammond's comments drew fire from political opponents. Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said it was an \"inept approach from a failing government. Insulting the EU is not the way to protect our economic interests\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDuring his interviews, the chancellor also has described as \"bizarre\" and \"absurd\" accusations he is talking down the economy.\n\nMr Hammond said he was a realist and that he wanted to \"protect and prepare\" the economy for the challenges ahead.\n\nThe chancellor said: \"It is absurd to pretend that the process we are engaged in hasn't created some uncertainty. But the underlying economy remains robust.\n\n\"I am committed to delivering a Brexit deal that works for Britain,\" he added.\n\nHe refused to answer how he would vote if another referendum was held now. \"We've had the referendum,\" he said. \"You know how I voted in it.\"\n\nThis week, former Conservative Chancellor Nigel Lawson called for Mr Hammond to be sacked, saying he was unhelpful to the Brexit process.\n\nLord Lawson said: \"What he [Mr Hammond] is doing is very close to sabotage\".\n\nResponding to these comments, Mr Hammond said: \"Lord Lawson is entitled to his view on this and many other subjects and isn't afraid to express it, but I think he's wrong.\"\n\nThe chancellor, who has been accused of being too pessimistic about Brexit, told the Treasury Committee of MPs this week that a \"cloud of uncertainty\" over the outcome of negotiations was \"acting as a dampener\" on the economy.\n\nBut speaking on Friday, Mr Hammond said he was optimistic about the UK's economic future and was in Washington to promote it.\n\n\"What I'm doing here in Washington is talking Britain up, talking about Britain's future as a champion of free trade in the global economy, seeking further moves on liberalisation on trade in services which will hugely benefit our economy.\"\n\nHe added that Britain had \"a very bright future ahead\", but added that it was \"undoubtedly true\" that the process of negotiations had created uncertainty for business.\n\n\"If you talk to businesses, they would like us to get it done quickly so that they know clearly what our future relationship with the European Union is going to look like.\"\n\nMr Hammond said the Cabinet was united behind Prime Minister Theresa May's recent speech in Florence setting out her Brexit plans.\n\n\"We know what our proposal is, we put it on the table effectively. Now we want the European Union to engage with it… challenge us… but let's behave like grown-ups.\" he said.\n\nMr Hammond said the government would not spend taxpayers' money preparing for a \"no-deal\" Brexit until the \"very last moment\".\n\nHe said he would not take money from budgets for other areas such as health or education just to \"send a message\" to the EU.\n\nOne former minister, David Jones, has said billions of pounds should be set aside in November's Budget for a \"no deal\" scenario.\n\nHe argued that if this did not happen it would be seen as a \"a sign of weakness\" by EU leaders, who would think the UK was not serious about leaving the EU without a deal.\n• None Hammond's 'last moment' plan for 'no deal'", "Hull is the UK's only city to have banned sex workers from its red light district, effectively making prostitution illegal. The council says the policy is working, but Millie, who once worked on the streets herself, says it increases the danger for the women involved.\n\nSex work \"slithered\" into Millie's life when she was in her twenties. \"It happens quite slowly at first and then all of a sudden you're in this mad cyclone and you can't find your feet, you get lost,\" she says.\n\nThe cocky bravado of the women in Hull's red light district made it seem like an easy way of funding her drug addiction. But now, with more than five years on the streets behind her, she knows all that banter is just body armour against the violence and vileness that comes with the job.\n\n\"Oh, you must love sex,\" punters would say with a smirk. \"No. I love heroin,\" was Millie's sharp retort. \"There is no love of sex, working on the streets - it's always a last resort.\"\n\nMillie's drug addiction began as a teenager, when she would steal her mum's sleeping pills and Valium. When her mum's mental illness was at its height, she would whisper menacing things through Millie's bedroom door at night: \"There's evil inside you, I can see it. You are a demon, spawned from demon seed.\" The pills helped to block it all out. From there she graduated to ecstasy, opioids - and eventually, heroin.\n\n\"Then you get trapped in addiction because you end up needing the drugs to get through it, to block out the things you've had to do,\" says Millie.\n\nShe remembers how women would steel themselves for a night on Hessle Road - Hull's red light district - telling themselves that they wouldn't do anything for less than £60. But their resolve would weaken as soon as withdrawal symptoms set in. \"When you're rattling you'll get in that car for less than £20 - you'd do it for a fiver, simple as that,\" says Millie.\n\nWhen we meet, Millie has just finished reading a book about the Victorian serial killer, Jack the Ripper, and can relate to his victims. \"Back then we were referred to as 'unfortunates',\" she says. \"We have different names now but still the same social problems: the poverty, the addiction, the violence.\"\n\nIn Hull, the fishing industry and the sex trade have always been intertwined, she says, the poorest women in the fishing community at risk of sliding into prostitution. Millie knows lots of sex workers today whose fathers were trawlermen in the 1970s, when the industry went into steep decline.\n\n\"Generation after generation of women from these fishing families are working the streets - it is a terrifying prospect.\"\n\nBut while Hull has celebrated its fishing heritage with statues and murals as UK City of Culture this year, it takes a hard line on the sex trade. Three years ago - not long after its status as 2017's city of culture had been confirmed - it became the only local authority in the UK to effectively make prostitution illegal.\n\nAn end-of-terrace mural on Hessle Road, created for Hull's year as UK City of Culture\n\nIt did this by obtaining powers from the county court to issue injunctions under Section 222 of the Local Government Act 1972, to people found loitering, soliciting or having sex in the Hessle Road area. If they continue their anti-social behaviour they have broken the injunction, and can be arrested, prosecuted, and even jailed.\n\nThe policy currently affects more than 100 women. Last year the Lighthouse Project, a charity, had contact with 113 women working on the streets of Hull, and another 15 who had stopped - either temporarily or permanently. Women who break free may be back in a few years, charity workers say.\n\nMillie, who has been out of the sex trade and clean from drugs for about 10 years, says Section 222 has forced the sex workers out of sight, making their lives more dangerous. To dodge police, they work increasingly in back streets or on isolated industrial estates - areas that are poorly lit and away from surveillance cameras.\n\n\"Even without Section 222 to contend with, it's lonely, it's frightening, it's degrading - and it's a secretive life,\" Millie says.\n\n\"I can understand that Hull City Council wants to clean up the streets, but I think the best way to do that is not an Asbo, or to victimise victims, I think it is to provide support and proper treatment and look at the social issues - the homelessness, the domestic violence, the exploitation, the drug addiction, the mental health problems.\"\n\nMillie is one of 11 women who worked with the Lighthouse Project to produce An Untold Story, a book documenting the reality of being a sex worker in Hull. In the three-and-a-half years it took to prepare, five women working on the streets were murdered. Another 11, including two of the book's contributors, died from other causes - pneumonia, drug overdoses or other conditions resulting from years of sex work, and drug or alcohol abuse.\n\nSorry. It's only one word containing five letters. It's not enough, it will never be enough.\n\nI miss being a mum. It's down to me that I'm not any more. I hold my hands up to all the mistakes and bad decisions I've made, but it's not enough. It will never be enough.\n\nIt's not just birthdays, but the silly little things, like making up daft songs about what we were having for tea and singing them all the way home from the shops. Or writing teeny tiny letters from the tooth fairy in minuscule writing, thanking them for an incredible tooth and to keep up the good work. That their tooth would be used to help build the fairy kingdom.\n\nI miss being a Mum. My memories of my three children are tainted by guilt, filled with shame, saddened by regret.\n\nSince the policy came into force, 29 women have been arrested and served with court orders and four have been prosecuted. Two women have been sentenced to jail; one to 14 days, the other to one month, though her sentence was suspended for a year. Five women are currently waiting for a court date. \"Sending them to prison for two weeks won't do anything and it isn't even enough time to provide rehabilitation,\" argues Millie, who served short sentences in prison herself, and would go back on the streets the day she was released.\n\nA couple of times a month, Millie goes out at night on a Lighthouse Project bus. Women who board it are given condoms, hot drinks and information on dangerous individuals - passed on by Ugly Mugs, a charity that collects reports of incidents from sex workers and fields them out to warn others.\n\n\"They come to unburden their day - they're telling me their problems and they're the same ones I faced,\" says Millie. She commiserates with them on painful anniversaries - the day their children were taken away by social services, or the last time they spoke to their parents.\n\nBut since Section 222 came into force, women have been more afraid to use outreach services, says Emma Crick, who led the Untold Stories Project.\n\nDuring the day, Hessle Road is a busy shopping street\n\n\"Many times when I have been working in evening outreach, police are around and appear to be waiting for the women to get on or off the vehicle so they can target them,\" she says.\n\nAs a result of the strong police presence, Hull's sex workers have also become more dispersed, making it harder to offer them support services, Crick says.\n\nThe director of Ugly Mugs, Georgina Perry, says the charity has received just two incident reports for Hull in 2016/17 - well below average for a city of its size. In Nottingham, a similarly-sized city, 35 incidents were reported during the same period, she says.\n\n\"What we see in every authority where there is a heavy-handed enforcement approach is that the number of reports [to Ugly Mugs] goes down and the number of women then willing to take it to the police goes down too, because they are frightened about criminalisation,\" she says.\n\nPerry brands Hull council's approach to sex workers a \"quick and dirty way of superficially dealing with a problem that is about poverty and deprivation\".\n\nYou're usually \"sorting somebody out\" [buying their drugs]. I was sorting out my boyfriend, and a couple of his mates. There's always spongers who just soak up everything that they can get hold of, drug-wise.\n\nA lot of fellas, they say, \"I'm looking after our lass,\" and, \"I'm looking after my girl.\" No they're not! They don't want to miss out, so they need to be there when the punter drops her off. If not, they might not get anything.\n\nBy contrast, Graham Paddock, anti-social behaviour team leader at Hull City Council, says the ban has \"been a success so far\" and was renewed in December 2016 for another three years.\n\n\"We had reports of sexual intercourse in gardens and against fences, so we had to do something to protect the community,\" he says.\n\n\"We are never going to stamp out prostitution in Hull entirely, but at the end of the day we have to send a message out that that kind of behaviour will not be tolerated.\"\n\nDoing sex work is known in Hull as \"going down the lane\", after the former red light district, Waterhouse Lane\n\nResidents reported an improvement after the policy based on Section 222 was introduced, he says.\n\nBut is this a case of \"victimising victims\", as Millie puts it?\n\n\"I can see that argument, but I guess our number one responsibility is the local community being affected,\" Paddock replies.\n\nHe adds that police tactics have changed over time, so that it isn't just the women who are targeted.\n\n\"When it first came into place in 2014 we were concentrating a lot on the girls themselves, but it was always intended for anyone - whether it be pimps, partners, boyfriends - so I've noticed there's been a change recently where more punters are actually being served with the orders now.\"\n\nNo men have yet been prosecuted, however.\n\nSlum housing on the edge of the red light district has been demolished in recent years, to make way for modern homes\n\nA multi-agency group made up of representatives from the police, the council and charities - including the Lighthouse Project - is now meeting to discuss the best way of using Section 222, while also supporting the women involved in sex work. But Millie is frustrated that no-one with experience of sex work has been invited to take part. She thinks she could have made a useful contribution.\n\nShe would have argued that if the goal is to protect the local community, then the women and most of their clients are also members of the local community. And she would have underlined that they can be helped to find a way out of prostitution.\n\n\"The saying 'once a junkie always a junkie' isn't true - you can break free from addiction,\" she says. It wasn't easy - she relapsed many times - but after moving into a hostel and getting the right counselling, she started to claw back control of her life.\n\nShe remembers the first time she decided not to use her money to buy heroin - she bought a necklace instead. It was a silver cross with her mum's birthstone in it - amethyst.\n\n\"I remember the pride I felt - I wasn't used to feeling pride, it was an emotion I'd lost long ago.\"\n\nKate's been my ever-patient mentor for all the years I've volunteered for Lighthouse...\n\nWe continue our walk up the main road of the red light district in Hull, towards the next working girl, stood on the next street corner. The Lighthouse car pulls up in front of us again, playing a crazy game of leap frog with us, keeping Kate and I within sight.\n\nAnother working girl opens the side door as we arrive at the car. She's in a hurry so she just needs a hot drink and a goody bag, then she's on her way.\n\nFor the next two hours we stop and talk to every working girl we see. Most we know. Some are new.\n\nWhen the night shift is over and I'm snuggled up under the duvet with my dog curled up behind my knees, my husband breathing rhythmically sleeping beside me, a man who's never once thrown my past in my face, I once again realise how fortunate I am.\n\nMillie's name has been changed\n\nSee also: My work as a prostitute led me to oppose decriminalisation\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The majority of most people's contact with the NHS is with GPs\n\nAddressing a room full of doctors, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt reminded the audience of his promise in 2015 that there would be 5,000 more general practitioners working in the NHS in England by 2020.\n\nWe're halfway to Mr Hunt's deadline - so how is the government doing at meeting this target?\n\nIn 2015, there were about 34,500 GPs working in the NHS in England. The government wants there to be about 39,500 by 2020.\n\nBut the latest figures published by the NHS show that there are actually about 350 fewer GPs now than there were in 2015, when the target was announced.\n\nThese numbers include registrars - trainee GPs who are qualified doctors but have not yet completed their specialist training.\n\nAfter two foundation years, medical school graduates pick a specialism. It then takes another three years to become a fully fledged GP.\n\nSo far, then, it doesn't look like they're on track.\n\nHow do you get more GPs into the NHS?\n\nThe NHS is trying all three.\n\nAnd the last of these appears to be proving a particular problem.\n\nMr Hunt told the Royal College of GPs' annual conference that the NHS was doing \"pretty well\" at getting more medical graduates into general practice.\n\nHealth Education England, the part of the NHS responsible for making sure enough people with the right skills are trained and recruited into the health service, said it would make sure a minimum of 3,250 trainees per year were recruited to GP training programmes by 2016.\n\nThe number is up 9% since 2015 but is still slightly behind the target.\n\nThe National Audit Office, which scrutinises public spending , said in January that 3,019 places had been filled, or 93% of the target.\n\nSo, the number of medical graduates being recruited into the GP specialism is going up.\n\nBut it's not yet having an impact on the overall numbers because more doctors are retiring or leaving the profession.\n\nBetween 2005 and 2014, the proportion of GPs aged 55 to 64 leaving the profession doubled, according to health think tank the King's Fund.\n\nThe NHS has launched a range of initiatives to encourage GPs to stay in the profession, for example offering more flexibility, training and financial support, but it's too soon to know how well they are working.\n\nIn July, the NHS also announced it would recruit more GPs from overseas by 2020-21 to meet its staffing targets. It's too soon to say how effective this recruitment drive has been.\n\nAnd on Thursday the Health Secretary announced newly qualified GPs would receive a one-off payment of £20,000 if they started their careers in parts of the country that struggled to attract family doctors.\n\nEfforts are clearly being made, but progress has been slow.\n\nThe King's Fund says that \"the actions taken to deliver 5,000 more GPs by 2020 will need to be significantly more successful in the next few years for this pledge to be met\".", "Most of the papers reflect on the attempt by Conservative backbenchers, led by ex-party chairman Grant Shapps, to oust Theresa May.\n\nThe verdict of the Daily Express is \"Theresa slaps down rebels\", reporting that the prime minister appears to have secured her position, thanks to a \"ruthless operation\" to discredit those seeking to undermine her.\n\nUnder the headline \"rout of the pygmies\", it says the plot to remove Mrs May \"collapsed into a shambles yesterday\" as MPs and ministers united to condemn what it labels \"the betrayal of rivals seeking revenge.\"\n\nThe paper also offers its readers pen portraits of the \"traitors gallery\" of senior Conservatives it says are part of Mr Shapps' attempted coup.\n\nThe paper's columnist Peter Oborne says Mrs May must \"destroy her Tory enemies before they destroy her\".\n\nHowever, even if the rebellion has been seen off, doubts about the prime minister most definitely remain for some.\n\n\"PM clings to power - for now\" is the i newspaper's take.\n\nMeanwhile, the Sun endorses Mrs May, but only because - as its editorial puts it - \"there is no obvious replacement\".\n\nUntil one emerges the Tories must unite behind her, the paper says.\n\nThe Financial Times urges the PM to sack lacklustre members of the cabinet and bring in new talent. The FT concedes that it is a strategy that carries risk, but, it says, \"she has nothing to lose.\"\n\nThe Daily Mirror laments that at a time when the nation is crying out for strong leadership, it has been left rudderless by a \"top of the flops\" prime minister.\n\n\"Britain deserves much better than these incompetent Tories,\" says its leader.\n\nThe Daily Mirror reports on another beleaguered leader: Ryanair's Michael O'Leary.\n\nThe paper says it has seen a letter to Mr O'Leary written on behalf of his pilots, responding to his \"grovelling\" pledge to improve their pay and conditions.\n\nIn it, the pilots accuse their boss of \"considering us nothing more than aircraft parts\".\n\nOne pilot tells the Mirror that Mr O'Leary's offer was \"the ramblings of a desperate man\".\n\nOne of the most successful glossy magazines of recent years is ceasing its monthly print edition and going online, the Times reports.\n\nGlamour's decision to go \"digital first\" is the result of tumbling sales and alarm about the future of beauty and celebrity titles.\n\nThe Financial Times says there is in fact a broader challenge to the magazine industry.\n\nIt says it's partly the result of the \"abundance of free news and entertainment\" available on the internet - and also a \"changing of the guard\" at some of the world's top titles.\n\nIt cites the retirement of Vanity Fair's longstanding editor, Graydon Carter.\n\nThe FT quotes the founder of Rolling Stone, which in another sign of the times was recently put up for sale.\n\nHe says \"publishing is a completely different industry than what it was.\"\n\nIt could be worse, though, as various long-lens photos of Wayne Rooney doing community service at a garden centre attest.\n\nIt follows his conviction for drink-driving last month. He's been painting park benches at the centre.\n\n\"Tired and emulsional\", is the Sun's headline.\n\nTo avoid the glare of publicity, Wayne Rooney could perhaps have benefited from the new England rugby kit, which, as the Daily Telegraph reports sceptically, \"purports to use state of the art camouflage technology to mask player movement\".\n\nAn expert in visual perception doubts the manufacturer's breathless claim and points out that in any case, any advantage gained from the design is counteracted by the fact the shirts have a large, highly visible advertiser's logo in the middle of them.\n\nThe Telegraph says fans have grumbled that the replica strip costs £95 and it is the eighth new kit in the last three years, meaning that, transparently, it is merely a \"revenue raising stunt.\"", "Thousands of travellers had their holiday plans ruined by a Ryanair scheduling mistake\n\nEmbattled low-cost airline Ryanair said its chief operations officer will depart the company at the end of the month.\n\nMichael Hickey will be the first executive to leave the company after a rostering error led to the cancellation of thousands of flights.\n\nIn his role, Mr Hickey was responsible for scheduling shifts for pilots.\n\nChief executive Michael O'Leary earlier faced calls to resign over his handling of the mishap.\n\nMr O'Leary on Friday said Mr Hickey \"will be a hard act to replace\".\n\nRyanair announced its first wave of 2,100 cancellations in the middle of September, after it rearranged pilots' rosters to comply with new aviation rules requiring a change in how their flying hours are logged.\n\nTowards the end of September it announced 18,000 further flights would be cancelled over the winter season. These moves affect more than 700,000 passengers.\n\nIn the airline's first wave of cancellations Ryanair offered affected passengers a £40 voucher per cancelled flight as a way to say sorry.\n\nThis was short of European rules governing flight cancellations and passenger rights, and Ryanair was eventually forced to bow to regulator demands and spell out the options on offer to affected passengers.", "Alice McBrearty committed \"the grossest breach of trust\", a judge said\n\nA teacher who had a \"full-blown sexual relationship\" with a 15-year-old boy has been jailed for 16 months.\n\nAlice McBrearty, 23, admitted the four-month relationship with a pupil she taught at an east London school.\n\nSnaresbrook Crown Court heard McBrearty kissed the youngster in a classroom, and had sex with him at her parents' home in Wanstead Park, east London.\n\nShe pleaded guilty to seven counts of sexual activity with a child while in a position of trust.\n\nProsecutors said the relationship began when the teacher sent the boy a friend request on Facebook.\n\nBarrister Lisa Matthews said the teenager, who cannot be named, \"felt special\" and \"appeared to be besotted\" with McBrearty.\n\nThe court heard the pair met in several locations, including a hotel room McBrearty had booked, and had sexual contact.\n\nTheir relationship ended when the boy's father contacted police.\n\nMcBrearty put her head in her hands and sobbed when she was sentenced by Judge Sheelagh Canavan.\n\nThe judge described her as a \"bright, intelligent and gifted young woman, who knew right from wrong,\" but who had committed the \"grossest breach of trust\".\n\n\"You engaged in a full-blown sexual relationship with a 15-year-old child,\" she said.\n\n\"I accept he was consenting - what 15-year-old schoolboy would turn down such an attractive offer?\n\n\"I accept you truly believed this was a great romance, you were in love with him and vice versa, and that age didn't matter. But it did.\n\n\"You were supposed to keep him safe, to help him make the right decisions. Instead, you helped him make all the wrong ones.\"\n\nEmma Shafton, defending, said her client, who is no longer a teacher, has had \"a spectacular fall from grace\".\n\n\"She has been utterly disgraced by this,\" she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tens of thousands prayed in numerous locations around Poland's borders\n\nTens of thousands have taken part in a controversial prayer day in Poland.\n\nCatholics were encouraged to go to designated points along the country's borders for a mass rosary prayer for the salvation of Poland and the world.\n\nChurch leaders say the event is purely religious, but there are concerns it could be seen as endorsing the state's refusal to let in Muslim migrants.\n\nThe feast day marks the anniversary of a Christian victory over Ottoman Turks at the sea battle of Lepanto in 1571.\n\nPeople were bussed in from more than 300 churches to points all along the border.\n\nThey stood in lines, some on beaches on the Baltic Sea, some in fields and some in towns.\n\n\"We come to the border of Poland to pray for the Poles and for the whole world,\" said one woman.\n\nMany people said they were praying for their Catholic faith\n\nSeveral hundred took part in the port of Gdynia\n\n\"We want our Catholic faith to continue, to keep our children safe, that our brothers from other countries can understand that our faith is unwavering and that we feel safer, not only in Poland but also in the world.\"\n\nMateusz Maranowski, a Polish radio journalist, said he had come out to thank the Virgin Mary for his child, who was born prematurely.\n\nHe said about 300 people took part in the event in the sea port of Gdynia.\n\n\"At first I wanted to pray alone on the beach but it turned out that many people from nearby parishes came out to the beach to take part in the... event,\" he said.\n\nHalina Kotarska, 65, said she was expressing thanks for the survival of her son in a car crash, but also praying for the survival of Christianity in Europe.\n\n\"Islam wants to destroy Europe,\" she said, quoted by the Associated Press. \"They want to turn us away from Christianity.\"\n\nSome priests and Church commentators said the event could be seen as support for the government's refusal to accept Muslim migrants, a policy backed by a majority of Poles.\n\nOrganisers said the prayer was not directed against anyone or anything.\n\nThe border was chosen, they said, because it symbolised their desire to encompass the world with prayer.\n\nPoland, along with Hungary and the Czech Republic, refused to take part in an EU deal in 2015 to relocate refugees from frontline states Italy and Greece.\n\nThe Polish position has put it at odds with the Vatican, with Pope Francis urging greater acceptance of migrants on a visit to Poland last year.\n\nBishops have urged the government to assist selected Syrian refugees but the plan has failed to secure politicians' backing.", "A council paid out more than £1.8m in a single compensation claim involving a pothole, it has emerged.\n\nSomerset County Council paid out £1,836,000 to a third party for \"general damages\" following an accident \"involving a pothole defect\".\n\nDetails released to the Somerset County Gazette under a Freedom of Information request also reveal £2.1m was paid in 31 compensation claims in 2016 to 2017.\n\nThe council said it was unable to give further details for legal reasons.\n\nDocuments also reveal a rise in the total amount of compensation paid out by the authority.\n\nIt paid about £170,000 to 28 claimants in 2014 to 2015, and almost £900,000 to 33 claimants in the following year.\n\nThis financial year, however, the authority has had to pay out £2,137,167, with £1.8m of it going to just one person.\n\nAcross the county, the FoI revealed the most common claim for compensation was for potholes, followed by drains and gullies and then \"erosion of road\".\n\nThe lowest compensation pay out was £11.99 for \"damage to clothing caused by overgrown brambles that were not maintained\".\n\nA spokesman for Somerset County Council said, \"data protection legislation\" meant it could not give \"any further details about individual claims against the local authority\".\n\nBut he added, to successfully claim compensation claimants would need to prove the council had neglected or breached its \"statutory duty\".\n\n\"Often events occur that are unfortunate but not due to any party's negligence,\" he said.\n\n\"As such, there is no automatic entitlement to compensation or any guarantee that making a claim will be successful.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "New Orleans residents fill sandbags as forecasters warn that Nate will make US landfall as a category two hurricane\n\nA state of emergency has been declared in four southern US states with Hurricane Nate gathering strength as it heads towards the Gulf Coast.\n\nLouisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and parts of Florida have issued hurricane warnings and evacuation orders.\n\nThe measures apply to parts of the city of New Orleans, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina 12 years ago.\n\nNate killed at least 25 people as it swept through Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Honduras as a tropical storm.\n\nThe storm, which brushed past Mexican beach resorts, is still strengthening, and is now expected to make landfall as a category two hurricane overnight.\n\nAlthough not as strong as last month's Maria and Irma, Nate will still bring strong winds and storm surges. Its latest recorded wind speeds reached 90mph (150km/h).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video shows passengers climbing out of the windows of a bus, after it was stranded in flood water\n\nUS President Donald Trump has issued an emergency declaration for Louisiana, allowing the state to seek federal help with preparation and possible relief efforts.\n\nIn Alabama, Republican Governor Kay Ivey has urged residents in areas facing heavy winds and storm surges to take precautions.\n\nFive ports along the Gulf Coast have also been closed to shipping as a precaution.\n\nMost oil and gas platforms in the US Gulf of Mexico have evacuated their staff and stopped production ahead of the storm.\n\nThe hurricane warning issued to parts of the Gulf Coast includes the threat of life-threatening storm surge flooding. Evacuation orders have been put in place for some low-lying areas.\n\nLouisiana Governor John Bel Edwards has declared a state of emergency ahead of the hurricane, which is due to make landfall on Saturday night local time.\n\nHe said more than 1,000 National Guard troops had been mobilised with a number sent to New Orleans to monitor the drainage pumps there. \"Anyone in low-lying areas... we are urging them to prepare now,\" he said.\n\nStar Wars fans dressed as storm troopers walk the streets of New Orleans ahead of Nate's arrival\n\nA mandatory curfew from 18:00 (23:00 GMT) is in place in New Orleans, where residents from areas outside the city's levee system have been evacuated.\n\n\"Nate is at our doorstep, or will be soon,\" the city's Mayor Mitch Landrieu said, adding that the winds could cause significant power outages.\n\n\"We have been through this many, many times, there is no need to panic,\" he added.\n\nNate went past Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula - home to the popular beach resorts of Cancun and Playa del Carmen - on Friday night as it headed north, the US National Hurricane Center in Miami said.\n\nThe governor of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, Carlos Joaquin, earlier said that although the worst of the storm had been expected to pass just east of the peninsula, it could still bring torrential rains and flooding.\n\nCosta Rica is among central American countries hit by storm Nate\n\nNate caused heavy rains, landslides and floods which blocked roads, destroyed bridges and damaged houses as it tore through central America.\n\nAt least 13 people died in Nicaragua, eight in Costa Rica, three in Honduras and one in El Salvador.\n\nThe tail of the storm is still causing problems in the region, where thousands have been forced to sleep in shelters and some 400,000 people in Costa Rica were reported to be without running water.\n\nAre you in the affected area? Email us with your experiences at haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The government has not released funds to make tower blocks safe following the Grenfell Tower fire, according to some councils.\n\nSeveral local authorities in England and Wales say funding requests for refurbishments such as new cladding and sprinkler systems are not being met.\n\nJane Urquhart, from Nottingham City Council, said some works were regarded as \"additional rather than essential\".\n\nThe government said it had asked councils for more detailed proposals.\n\nPolice believe at least 80 people died when fire engulfed Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, west London in the early hours of 14 June.\n\nMs Urquhart, a Labour councillor, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that \"safety must come at the top of the list\".\n\nShe said: \"Given that in the refurbishment of the Houses of Parliament sprinklers are considered essential... we thought it was quite incredible that they were essential for the Houses of Parliament but not essential for residents of high-rises.\"\n\nAdam Hug, leader of the Labour opposition group on Westminster City Council, said the authority had faced difficulties securing funding from Communities Secretary Sajid Javid's department to pay for the removal of cladding and installation of sprinklers.\n\n\"Ultimately these are things that the London Fire Brigade says have to be done and ultimately the cost is having to be borne by the housing revenue account, which is tenants' rents and service charge fees,\" he said.\n\n\"Councils across the country are asking the government for the help that Sajid Javid promised and they are being told 'no, only in exceptional circumstances when you literally don't have the money in any form'.\"\n\nCladding has been removed from many tower blocks following the Grenfell Tower fire\n\nMr Hug described the situation as a \"national civil emergency across the country\", adding that councils have complied with regulations but \"the government is not stepping up to the plate\".\n\nAccording to the Guardian other councils, including Croydon and Wandsworth, have also seen requests for funding declined.\n\nFire safety expert Paul Atkins, who was previously contracted to work on Grenfell Tower, told the BBC last month that sprinklers would have stopped the flames from spreading.\n\n\"If they'd had a sprinkler system the fire would have been deluged before it got to the cladding,\" he said.\n\n\"People would've had plenty of time to leave the building.\"\n\nMr Atkins said no-one had ever died in a fire when a sprinkler system was present in the building.\n\nThe Grenfell Tower fire started in a Hotpoint fridge freezer, and was not deliberate, police have said.\n\nThe flames ignited the cladding on the outside of the building, spreading across the exterior of the tower block with what police described as \"unexpected\" speed.\n\nPolice also said the building's cladding and insulation failed subsequent safety tests.\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Communities and Local Government said public safety was \"paramount\".\n\nHe added: \"Building owners are responsible for funding measures designed to make a building safe.\n\n\"We've been clear that where a local authority has concerns about funding essential fire safety measures, they should contact DCLG as soon as possible to discuss their position.\n\n\"The department has written to Nottingham, Croydon and Wandsworth councils inviting them to provide more detail about the works they propose. To date these authorities have not submitted this information.\"", "Myles Bradbury was sentenced to 22 years in prison for abusing child patients\n\nA hospital where a doctor abused child patients has said it has paid out £611,750 in compensation to victims and their families.\n\nMyles Bradbury was jailed for 22 years in December 2014 after admitting abusing 18 victims at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.\n\nThe hospital said it received 31 claims, 15 of which have been settled.\n\nIt said the age range of patients was from six to 17. The claims were made over the period of 2014-2017, it said.\n\nThe information was disclosed by Addenbrooke's Hospital in response to a Freedom of Information request by the BBC.\n\nBradbury, of Herringswell, Suffolk, admitted 25 offences, including sexual assault, voyeurism and possessing more than 16,000 indecent images.\n\nAddenbrooke's Hospital said it has paid out £611,750 in compensation to Bradbury's patients and their families\n\nThe blood cancer specialist used a spy pen to take pictures of his victims.\n\nIt contained 170,425 images of \"boys partially clothed... none indecent\", Cambridge Crown Court heard at the time of his sentencing.\n\nThe images of his victims, some of whom had haemophilia, leukaemia and other serious illnesses, were gathered at Addenbrooke's Hospital.\n\nSamantha Robson, who has represented nine of Bradbury's victims, said some of those cases have been settled with damages awarded between £17,500 and £30,000.\n\n\"To date only a small proportion of the potential victims of Bradbury have come forward.\n\n\"The fact that not all of Bradbury's victims were named in the criminal proceedings should not prevent others from coming forward with their claims.\"\n\nIn addition to his jail term, Bradbury was placed on the sex offenders register for life and made subject of a sexual offences prevention order for life.\n\nAt the time, Addenbrooke's Hospital said it was \"sickened\" by Bradbury's \"abhorrent betrayal and manipulation of his position as a doctor\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The November edition of Glamour magazine, published this month\n\nUK Glamour magazine is going \"digital first\", stopping its monthly editions and instead producing a \"collectible, glossy\" issue twice a year.\n\nA spokeswoman told the BBC the \"mobile-first, social-first\" move with a focus on beauty was based on how readers are \"living their life today\".\n\nGlamour will be going into consultation over jobs but \"can't confirm numbers\" at this stage.\n\nThe last monthly print edition will be published in November.\n\n\"We are taking our lead from our readers, who are largely women aged 20 to 54,\" she 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 British GLAMOUR This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 move is for the \"beauty obsessed\", the magazine said, adding the content will still include \"some celebrities and fashion\".\n\nThe twice-yearly magazines will be out in spring and autumn, reflecting beauty and style \"for the coming season\".\n\nThe move will also see the editorial and commercial teams becoming \"fully integrated\". The BBC understands the move will result in the loss of some editorial and publishing staff.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Leonie Roderick This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"Today's Glamour consumer moves to a different rhythm than the one who bought the magazine when it launched in 2001. It is a faster, more focused, multi-platform relationship,\" the magazine said, adding the \"quality of ideas, vision and execution remain central\".\n\nSimon Gresham Jones, chief digital officer of Conde Nast Britain said: \"We look forward to inspiring the Glamour audience in new ways.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Lebby Eyres This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChanges to the site will begin in the coming weeks.\n\nThis move is taking place in the UK only, although the magazine is published in 17 markets including Brazil, France, Germany and the US.\n\nGlamour is not the first magazine to change its focus to digital content - last year In Style magazine closed its print edition, while in 2014 Company magazine did the same.\n\nWhat can Glamour do online that others can't? Be better - more smart, beautiful, easy to use - perhaps. But that won't be easy.\n\nThere is no getting around the deeper structural forces that are driving this change, which is the flight of readers from print to online, and the pursuit of those readers by advertisers for whom print is an ever lower priority.\n\nThe claim that integrating editorial and commercial departments is \"a further innovative move\" is not up to much, because many others have been forced to do the same. And when editorial and commercial departments merge, it's generally because the money is running out and so the commercial team actually control the editorial content.\n\nJo Elvin is the editor of the UK's Glamour magazine\n\nAnd that must be the concern for staff and indeed readers. The danger is that by moving online and focusing ever more on the traffic-generating beauty content, Glamour invests less and less in quality journalism. Of course they will deny that is either the intention or the probable danger, but it is a substantial risk.\n\nIt has felt over recent months like an era is passing in magazine culture. In the US, the editors of Vanity Fair, Time, Glamour and Elle all departed. Not so long ago Rolling Stone was sold. And in recent weeks Hugh Hefner and Si Newhouse, two giants of magazine publishing, have died.\n\nIt may seem a stretch to link those events to Glamour becoming an online beauty destination, but there is a link: the huge upheaval in journalism, driven by technology.\n\nHigh quality magazine journalism still has a future online of course, but only if people pay for it. Everyone who wants to see journalism thrive will wish Glamour well, and hope it focuses on quality as it navigates this transition.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Bono named on 'women of the year' list", "Jamie Harron has been prevented from leaving the country and has had his passport confiscated\n\nA Scot is facing a three-year jail sentence in Dubai for reportedly putting his hand on a man in a bar.\n\nJamie Harron, who is 27 and from Stirling, said he was trying to avoid spilling his drink in the crowded Rock Bottom Bar when the incident happened.\n\nHe was locked up for five days and has now been prevented from leaving the city in order to attend court.\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it was providing consular assistance on the matter.\n\nThe arrest follows the case of an Edinburgh man who was also detained in Dubai after attempting to exchange a fake £20.\n\nWilliam Barclay, from Edinburgh, returned home on Friday after being held in a Dubai jail for three days during a family holiday.\n\nThe campaign group Detained in Dubai said Mr Harron was arrested for public indecency after touching the man on his hip.\n\nMr Harron, who works as an electrician in Afghanistan and was on a two-day stopover in the United Arab Emirates, is said to have since lost his job and spent more than £30,000 in expenses and legal fees, since the incident on 15 July.\n\nRadha Stirling, chief executive of Detained in Dubai, said: \"It is quite outrageous that he has been held in the country for so long already.\n\nJamie Harron was at the Rock Bottom Bar when the incident reportedly happened\n\n\"This is another example of how vulnerable tourists are to arrest and detention in Dubai and at how drawn-out and disorganised legal proceedings are.\"\n\nThe organisation claims it was only after Mr Harron and his friend sat at a table that the man who had been touched seemed aggravated.\n\nPolice arrived at the scene \"20 to 30\" minutes later and arrested Mr Harron, according to his representatives.\n\nThe charges he faces in connection with the incident are said to be twofold - drinking alcohol and public indecency.\n\nMr Harron was reportedly locked up for five days in Al Barsha prison, before being released on bail and having his passport confiscated.\n\nMs Stirling added that following a conversation with Mr Harron, it was clear that he was under \"immense pressure and stress\".\n\nShe said: \"He was expecting to appear in court this Sunday, but the court moved the date without telling him or his lawyer.\n\n\"This led to a sentence of 30 days' imprisonment for failing to present himself at the hearing.\"\n\nA Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesman said: \"We have been in contact with a British man following his arrest in Dubai in July. We are providing consular assistance.\"", "The US president and his North Korean counterpart are at loggerheads over Pyongyang's nuclear programme\n\n\"Only one thing will work\" in dealing with North Korea after years of talks with Pyongyang brought no results, US President Donald Trump has warned.\n\n\"Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years,\" he tweeted, adding that this \"hasn't worked\".\n\nMr Trump did not elaborate further.\n\nThe two nations have been engaged in heated rhetoric over North Korea's nuclear activities, with the US pressing for a halt of missile tests.\n\nPyongyang says it has recently successfully tested a miniaturised hydrogen bomb which could be loaded on to a long-range missile.\n\nThe US has been conducting military exercises with South Korea as part of what it describes as show of force missions\n\nThere are fears that North Korea will soon have the capacity to hit the US mainland with a nuclear-tipped missile\n\nPresident Trump has previously warned that the US could destroy North Korea if necessary to protect America's national interests and defend its allies in the region.\n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Saturday praised nuclear weapons as a \"powerful deterrent\" which guaranteed his country's security, state media reported.\n\nIn a speech addressing \"the complicated international situation\", he said such weapons had safeguarded \"the peace and security in the Korean peninsula and north-east Asia\" against the \"protracted nuclear threats of the US imperialists\".\n\nHe said his country's policy of simultaneously pursuing the development of nuclear weapons in parallel with moves to strengthen the economy was \"absolutely right\".\n\nNorth Korea recently launched two missiles over Japan and defied international condemnation to carry out its sixth nuclear test in September. It has promised to carry out another test in the Pacific Ocean.\n\nThere are fears in the West that is rapidly reaching the point where it is capable of developing a nuclear-tipped missile that could reach the US mainland.\n\nSaturday's tweets by President Trump are another cryptic announcement by America's leader, the BBC's Laura Bicker in Washington says.\n\nUS Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (above) has denied reports of a rift with President Trump\n\nLast week, it was suggested that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had direct lines of communication with Pyongyang to try to resolve the escalating tensions.\n\nMr Trump then tweeted: \"Save your energy Rex, we'll do what has to be done!\"\n\nOn Saturday, the US president insisted he had a good relationship with his secretary of state, but added that Mr Tillerson could be tougher.\n\nEarlier in the week, Mr Tillerson had denied rumours of a rift between the two men, amid media reports he had called the president a \"moron\".\n\nMr Trump's latest comment on North Korea could just be bluster - but the fear is that Pyongyang will interpret it as a threat, our correspondent says.\n\nAt a speech to the UN later that month, Mr Trump threatened to annihilate North Korea, saying the country's leader, Kim Jong-un,\" is on a suicide mission\".\n\nIn exchange, Mr Kim in a rare statement, vowed to \"tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire\".\n\nA group of \"young pioneers\" on the way home on the Pyongyang metro", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police blocked off Moscow city centre, but generally kept a low profile during the protests there\n\nMore than 250 people have been arrested as supporters of opposition leader Alexei Navalny held protests in some 80 cities across Russia, reports say.\n\nThey were demanding he be allowed to stand in 2018 presidential elections.\n\nClashes and dozens of arrests were reported in St Petersburg, where the main protest was taking place.\n\nThe rallies coincided with President Vladimir Putin's 65th birthday. Most were unauthorised, including those in Moscow and St Petersburg.\n\nMr Navalny is currently serving 20 days in jail for repeatedly violating a law on organising public meetings.\n\nIt is the third time this year that Mr Navalny has been jailed.\n\nRussia's electoral authorities say he cannot stand in the March vote because of a separate suspended sentence.\n\nIn recent months he has travelled across Russia in a bid to bolster his makeshift election campaign.\n\nMr Navalny was arrested again for protests in Moscow this month\n\nMr Navalny had been due to attend the main rally taking place on Saturday evening in St Petersburg, Mr Putin's home city.\n\nAs many as 3,000 people were at the demonstration in Russia's second city, many of them carrying \"Navalny 2018\" banners.\n\nMedia reports say there were a large number of arrests after a group of demonstrators tried to break through a police line.\n\nAccording to the human rights website OVD-Info, 62 people were detained. Most were later released.\n\nSeveral other organisers of the rally and leaders of the pro-democracy group Open Russia - sponsored by exiled former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky - were arrested in the city earlier on Saturday, the website said.\n\nEarlier several people were arrested as hundreds rallied in Moscow's Pushkin Square, though all were reportedly later released.\n\nThe main event was in St Petersburg, where clashes occurred\n\nProtests were held earlier in the day in eastern cities like Vladivostok\n\nPolice urged people to disperse but did not move to break up the rally. Some protesters marched towards the Kremlin, but were blocked by police.\n\nElsewhere demonstrations ranged from a few dozen people to more than 100 in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk.\n\nProtest organisers were pre-emptively detained in Smolensk, Tver, Stavropol, Irkutsk, Yakutsk and Perm, media reports say.\n\nOVD-Info put the total number of arrests at 271 in 26 cities, with 57 in Yaroslavl, 21 in Krasnodar and 20 in Lipetsk.", "A child gets sucked down a drain by a scary clown\n\nEarlier this month, horror movie It (based on the Stephen King novel) was released in cinemas. You may well have seen It.\n\nBut surely only the bravest among you would've gone to the \"immersive\" screenings of the movie.\n\nSuch fans would've had the pleasure of a real-life Pennywise the Clown creeping round the auditorium during the film, jumping out at them from behind and basically scaring the living daylights out of everyone there.\n\nWhile many of us may think this sounds like the most utterly hideous experience in the world, not everyone feels that way - immersive horror is becoming quite a thing.\n\n\"There's huge growth in this area,\" says Simon Oakes, CEO of British horror brand Hammer, who have just premiered their first immersive show, The Soulless Ones.\n\nHammer's immersive show's contemporary look is a far cry from that of its gothic horrors of the 1950s-70s\n\n\"It's a generational thing, newer audiences want something that's more tangible, emotional, more physical an experience, which is different from the promenade shows that you would've seen before, or even traditional theatre.\"\n\nAs anybody who has been to the cinema in the last decade knows, many people struggle to go for more than about four-and-a-half minutes without checking their WhatsApp, so the appeal of immersive theatre may be down to being totally engrossed in something and disconnected from the outside world.\n\nOf course, we've seen hugely popular immersive shows before with the likes of Punchdrunk and You Me Bum Bum Train.\n\n\"There's a whole generation of younger audiences who are excited about the idea of being involved in a story rather than told it,\" says Oscar Blustin, the co-writer and co-director of The Soulless Ones.\n\n\"I think gaming has a lot to do with it, and how young audiences expect things to be interactive.\n\nNow who wouldn't want this friendly chap jumping out at them in a dark cinema\n\n\"When you watch TV, we've all shouted at the screen, 'Don't go in there!' or 'Don't go upstairs', I think artists are recognising that this can engage audiences more with the narrative.\"\n\nIn the case of The Soulless Ones, Simon says: \"We wanted to come up with something completely original.\"\n\n\"With something like The Great Gatsby or Alice in Wonderland, the audience knows what they're going to get. If you know the show, you've already bought into what the creative expectation might be.\n\n\"So we chose to start with a completely new show, this isn't a Frankenstein or Dracula, so as a story it's original.\"\n\nHorror is arguably the genre which provides the most potential to create an immersive experience for theatregoers.\n\n\"I think that's because it's able to shed a light on your deepest fears,\" says Simon.\n\nStephen King wrote It - immersive screenings of which have been terrifying audiences\n\n\"We don't want to frighten people and scare people as much as unsettle them. But it's not a jump-scare performance, which a lot of the modern horror films are.\n\n\"The general philosophy behind horror is that if you don't care about the people, you don't care about what happens to them, and with the great genre directors like Kubrick and Hitchcock, you were invested in the characters.\"\n\nWhile the immersive screenings of Stephen King's It were just a few special ones organised to promote the film, The Soulless Ones has a residency at Hoxton Hall in London from this week until 31 October.\n\nOscar explains the show is about \"a hive of vampires who are trying to perform a ritual which will let them walk in the daylight - it's our take on the vampire legend\".\n\n\"That is the over-arching story, but there are 14 characters, and 18-20 different rooms around the building, they all interweave and interlink, it's a patchwork of narrative threads.\"\n\nThat may sound a little overwhelming, but Simon argues one key aspect of the show's appeal is the potential for repeat visits.\n\nThe Soulless Ones has a residency in Hoxton Hall for the month of October\n\n\"Because of the number of rooms, we've got 14 hours in total of prepared material,\" he says.\n\n\"And I hope that's one of the reasons people might want to see it again. You'd comfortably be able to see the show four times, and never see the same show twice, if you were clever about the route you take.\n\n\"Whichever room you walk into, you'll get a different side of the same story.\"\n\nOscar points out that audiences would struggle to play with their phones during performances even if they wanted to, \"mostly because the Victorian music hall we're performing in has absolutely no signal\".\n\nAnd if fans enjoy the experience, it could well lead to other similar projects.\n\n\"We're not like Marvel or DC comics,\" says Simon, \"at Hammer we feel immersive theatre is an intriguing part of what we do in terms of creating intellectual property.\n\n\"But what we do have is a place in this area, if it's successful, to be a building block to others.\"\n\nOscar adds: \"People are so on the hunt for unique and one-off experiences in particular.\n\n\"There's so much to talk about with immersive theatre, audiences who can compare notes on what they've seen and the different experience they've had at the same show.\n\n\"In the bar afterwards I'm anticipating a lot of 'What did you see?' conversations.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A woman has been arrested for trying to climb the front gates of Buckingham Palace, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nShe was detained by police officers at 17:40 BST and did not gain access to the palace grounds.\n\nThe woman, believed to be in her 30s, was arrested on suspicion of trespass and is currently in custody at a central London police station.\n\nThe incident is not being treated as terrorism-related, a police statement added.\n\nVideos on social media showed a woman who appeared to be shouting as she was led to a waiting police car.\n\nA crowd of tourists had gathered, with many of them filming the incident on their phones.", "An 18-year-old man has been stabbed to death in a north-west London street.\n\nHe was found with multiple wounds in Tanfield Avenue, Neasden, on Friday afternoon.\n\nPolice and paramedics were called but the man died at the scene. His family have been informed.\n\nA 15-year-old boy was arrested and taken to a north London police station for questioning. The police have appealed for witnesses.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Security is always tight around Times Square in the centre of New York\n\nA jihadist plot to attack New York City including Times Square and the subway system was foiled with the help of an undercover FBI agent, officials say.\n\nOne man in the US and two others in Pakistan and the Philippines are under arrest and face charges of plotting the attacks which they hoped to carry out in the name of the Islamic State group.\n\nOne of the suspects allegedly said he wanted to create \"the next 9/11\".\n\nThe trio allegedly used chat apps to plan their attack.\n\nIt was prevented last year with the help of an undercover FBI agent - posing as an IS supporter - who communicated with the three plotters. Details of the alleged plot were released on Friday as prosecutors revealed the charges.\n\nNew York's subway system is alleged to have been a target of the bombers\n\nThe trio are alleged to have wanted to attack Times Square when it was heavily crowded\n\nPolice on Friday announced charges against Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, 19, a Canadian citizen detained in New York; Talha Haroon, also 19, a US citizen based in Pakistan and Russell Salic, 37, from the Philippines.\n\nEl Bahnasawy was arrested in May 2016 and pleaded guilty last October to seven terror-related charges. He is awaiting his sentence.\n\nHaroon was arrested in Pakistan in September 2016, while Salic was arrested in the Philippines the following April. Both men are due to be extradited to the US.\n\n\"The planned attacks included detonating bombs in Times Square and the New York City subway system and shooting civilians at specific concert venues,\" a Department of Justice statement said.\n\nThe trio hoped to carry out the attacks during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan in 2016, inspired by an attack the previous year on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris and by an attack on the metro in Belgium.\n\nNew York was the target of the 11 September 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people and led to President George W Bush's \"war on terror\"- which included the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.\n\nThere was an attempted car bomb attack in Times Square in 2010 - for which Faisal Shahzad was sentenced to life in prison after the petrol and fertiliser device he planted failed to go off.\n\nThe Pakistani-born US citizen was described by prosecutors as a \"remorseless terrorist\".", "The overwhelming message on Sunday's front pages is summed up in a Sunday Telegraph headline, which says the Tories are \"at war\".\n\nRebel MPs are said to have given Theresa May until Christmas to make real progress on Brexit to avoid another attempt to oust her.\n\nThe paper says Mrs May has decided to commit billions of pounds on preparing Britain to leave the EU without a deal - to send a signal to pro-Brexit MPs that she's serious about regaining the upper hand in negotiations.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Times, the prime minister will reassert her authority with a cabinet reshuffle in which she is prepared to demote Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.\n\nTory sources have told the paper she will shake up her top team later this month.\n\nIn an interview with the paper, Mrs May says: \"It's never been my style to hide from a challenge and I'm not going to start now.\"\n\nIn his article in the Mail on Sunday, Sir John Major tells the plotters it is time to focus on the needs of the British people rather than their own ambitions if they want to avoid two 'neo-Marxists' being in government - a reference to Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell.\n\nIn an editorial, the Mail urges Mrs May to seize the moment and attack.\n\n\"While willing to wound,\" it says, \"her foes fear to strike\".\n\nIt advises her to \"get rid of unreliable and worn-out ministers\".\n\nAccording to the Sunday Express, \"Brexit's big three\" - Boris Johnson, Liam Fox and David Davis - \"have thrown their weight behind Theresa May\" and urged Tories to rally round her as leader.\n\nIn an article for the paper, Dr Fox praises the prime minister's \"great inner strength\".\n\nBut Nigel Nelson in the People says Mrs May is no longer \"she who must be obeyed\" and instead labels her: \"She who's being abandoned.\"\n\nThe Sunday Mirror has a front page picture which it says shows prisoners cooking steaks smuggled into their jail.\n\nPictures inside the paper are said to expose the lifestyle of convicts - with no fear of authority - partying on drugs, vodka and take-away pizzas and fried chicken.\n\nThe paper says the pictures \"shame our failing prison system\".\n\nA spokesman for the Prison Service is quoted saying: \"This behaviour is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nThe Sun on Sunday also features a prison story.\n\nIt says \"prison chiefs have been blasted\" after reports that a mother was groomed from behind bars by the jailed paedophile, Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins.\n\nIt says it led to the woman's two-year-old daughter being taken into care, after police and social services were alerted.\n\nThe paper says it's only the latest in a series of scandals and the prison bosses who allowed it should be ashamed of themselves.\n\nMany of the Spanish papers carry pictures of the demonstrations for national unity that took place on Saturday, calling on Catalans to reject independence.\n\nThe country's biggest selling newspaper, El Pais, criticises the authorities in Catalonia, saying they should never have encouraged a large part of their population to go outside the legal framework and vote in a referendum already banned by the constitutional court.\n\nThe Observer says huge numbers are expected at a demonstration by Catalans opposed to independence in Barcelona today.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Times, \"Spain is a powder keg\" as Catalans edge closer to breaking away.", "Cabin crew reduced to tears, pilots refused days off even for their weddings, and workers \"left in exile\" thousands of miles from their homes and families.\n\nAfter budget airline Ryanair was forced to cancel thousands of flights - repeatedly blaming a rostering error rather than an alleged pilot shortage - chief executive Michael O'Leary has written to pilots offering them better pay and conditions.\n\nHere, a long-serving pilot explains why the offer is \"too little, too late\", and explains why his colleagues are leaving the airline.\n\nRyanair said it had \"messed up the allocation of annual leave\", but pilots claim their colleagues are leaving to fly for other airlines\n\nMr O'Leary is partly right to say the cancellations have been caused by problems accommodating pilots' leave, says the pilot.\n\nBut this has been exacerbated by unhappy staff seeking new jobs with rival airlines, he believes.\n\n\"The Irish Aviation Authority has changed the rules where pilots cannot fly more than 1,000 hours in a rolling year, and the flight hours have to be taken from January to December, whereas Ryanair were using April to April.\n\n\"Ryanair have been given two years' notice but the company have left it to the last minute,\" the pilot says.\n\n\"It's been the perfect storm because, at the same time, other airlines are hiring crews, so they are leaving for pastures new.\n\n\"If it wasn't for the crews' goodwill I think this crisis would have come sooner, because for a long time now they've been asking people to work days off.\n\n\"Pilots are being used as the scapegoat to cover for incompetency in the upper management, and it's just totally disgusting.\n\n\"Instead of O'Leary standing up and taking the blame he's directing the problems and the blame at pilots and saying it's because we're taking leave and holidays.\n\n\"That's simply not true. It may be true in a very few cases, but people are working harder now than ever to try to make up this shortfall in crewing levels that we have.\"\n\nRyanair staff have been sharing memes among each other that compare the management of Ryanair to the North Korean regime\n\nThe pilot said he and many other newly-qualified pilots joined Ryanair following the recession of 2008 when it was one of the few airlines still recruiting.\n\n\"A lot have remained here ticking along, but now that the market has become a lot more buoyant and there are other competitors offering much better terms and conditions, they've had enough and they are leaving,\" he said.\n\n\"On a local level the company is fantastic and I'm very fortunate to work with some very highly-skilled individuals.\n\n\"Then you have the management at the upper level and it's run like a communist regime in some respects. It's dictated from the top and you are just expected to get on with it.\n\n\"I know of colleagues that have had leave denied to get married and then these pilots rely on the goodwill and conscience of other pilots to cover their rostered flights so they can get married.\n\n\"This company will happily fire pilots to quell any uprising, even to the point where they would close a base or multiple bases to send a message to the rest: 'You just get on and do your job and keep doing what we tell you to do'.\n\n\"We have some memes that have been doing the rounds which we feel accurately portray the situation and feelings of the crew - comparing the company to the North Korean communist regime.\n\n\"The way they treat the staff is not much better, if not worse, than the way they treat their customers.\n\n\"People have just had enough of the toxic atmosphere that's been created here.\"\n\nThe BBC contacted Ryanair with these claims and a spokesman said it was \"untrue\" there was a toxic atmosphere among staff.\n\nRyanair chief executive Michael O'Leary has said he would \"challenge any pilot to explain how this is a difficult job or how it is they are overworked\"\n\nMr O'Leary has said pilots fly for no more than 18 hours a week. However, the British Airline Pilots' Association (Balpa) has said this \"does not seem to have any basis in reality\".\n\n\"In reality our hours are much longer than that,\" he said.\n\n\"[Mr O'Leary] has divided the maximum amount of hours a crew can fly in a year, which is 900 hours, by 52 weeks.\n\n\"I typically fly between 30 to 40 hours a week. This is what is called 'flight duty' and starts from reporting to work to when we set the parking brake at the end of the day.\n\n\"This does not include turnarounds and post-duty paperwork, which we are not paid for.\n\n\"If Ryanair advertise to their customers that the flight leaves at five o'clock and arrives at seven o'clock then we only get paid for those two hours.\n\n\"We are not paid for the time spent getting back to base either. Sometimes it's a case that you can't get back on the same day and you are having to pay for a hotel out of your own money, then catch a flight the following day to get home or catch multiple flight connections if the base isn't particularly well connected.\"\n\nRyanair declined to comment on whether pilots are paid only for the advertised length of the flight. It has said previously that pilots receive \"great pay and industry-leading terms and conditions\".\n\nThere is a lack of basic benefits such as crew meals and drinks, the pilot said\n\n\"Cabin crew are employed under similar conditions, on agency contracts, and the things I've seen are pretty disgusting,\" said the pilot.\n\n\"They are given unachievable sales targets, and if they've not reached sales targets they will be berated in a debriefing afterwards by a base supervisor, who is acting as a minion for Dublin.\n\n\"It's known for cabin crew to cry after their debriefings. I've seen them lined up almost like a military parade before being inspected, having their bags searched and all kinds of things.\n\n\"These people are not earning very much money - around £1,000 a month.\n\n\"In some bases the cabin crew even have to rent one room together, and sleep in the same bed - maybe one person who works early shifts and one person who works late shifts - because they are not paid enough to even afford their own accommodation in those particular areas.\n\n\"It's quite common for them to be threatened to be moved to a less desirable base, further away from home, unless their sales improve.\n\n\"There is also a lack of basic benefits - no free bottles of water, coffee or tea and no crew meals. All of this needs to be brought to work by the pilot and it's the same for cabin crew.\n\n\"They provide a water dispenser at every crew room, where you need to take an empty bottle to fill up. You also pay for your own uniform through a Ryanair-approved supplier.\"\n\nThe BBC asked Ryanair to comment on cabin crew being threatened and berated for not meeting sales targets, not being able to afford accommodation and sharing beds with colleagues. Ryanair responded: \"These claims are untrue.\"\n\nThe British Airline Pilots' Association (Balpa) has \"urged Ryanair to do more to encourage pilots to stay with the airline\"\n\n\"Some competitors do have similar work arrangements, but nothing to the extent that Ryanair do,\" the pilot said.\n\n\"They've copied the low cost business model from Southwest Airlines [in the United States] but gone to the extreme.\n\n\"Southwest make good profits and it's been ranked as one of the best airlines in America to fly for, as they take good care of crews and pay them well.\n\n\"However, Michael O'Leary seems to have taken enjoyment from taking the low road and taunting his customers and crews because he knows he can get away with it.\n\n\"Passengers want a British Airways service, but ultimately when it comes to booking they will book with Ryanair because he's offering a 10-euro seat.\n\n\"However, the tactics of ruling by fear and divide and conquer are outdated in the pilot market we're in now.\n\n\"Now, with the invention of WhatsApp people are openly discussing what's going on, and people are starting to see that there is more unity coming together.\n\n\"If there's no improvement here, and the management continue to bury their head in the sand, many people will continue to leave and the mass exodus will just continue.\"\n\nThe pilot said Mr O'Leary's offer of better pay and conditions \"does not come across as sincere and genuine\".\n\n\"People want to stay, they want to work and do a good job, but management are treating us like the enemy when we are the assets of the company,\" he said.\n\n\"We are an airline and without pilots and cabin crew the aircraft go nowhere.\"\n\nIn his latest letter to pilots, Mr O'Leary said he had interacted with many pilots over 30 years. \"Over this period I have always tried to be courteous, respectful and grateful for the outstanding job that you do, and this will remain my approach.\"\n\nMichael O'Leary, pictured outside a British Airways travel shop in 1998, has taken cost-cutting culture to the extreme, said the pilot\n\nThe BBC agreed not to identify the pilot.", "A colourful, shimmering spectacle detected by weather radar over the US state of Colorado has been identified as swarms of migrating butterflies.\n\nScientists at the National Weather Service (NWS) first mistook the orange radar blob for birds and had asked the public to help identifying the species.\n\nThey later established that the 70-mile wide (110km) mass was a kaleidoscope of Painted Lady butterflies.\n\nForecasters say it is uncommon for flying insects to be detected by radar.\n\n\"We hadn't seen a signature like that in a while,\" said NWS meteorologist Paul Schlatter, who first spotted the radar blip.\n\nThe Painted Lady is often mistaken for the monarch butterfly\n\n\"We detect migrating birds all the time, but they were flying north to south,\" he told CBS News, explaining that this direction of travel would be unusual for migratory birds for the time of year.\n\nSo he put the question to Twitter, asking for help determining the bird species.\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\nAlmost every response he received was the same: \"Butterflies\".\n\n\"Migrating butterflies in high quantities explains it\", he later wrote on the NWS Boulder Twitter account.\n\nNamely the three-inch long Painted Lady butterfly, which has descended in clouds on the Denver area in recent weeks.\n\nThe species, commonly mistaken for monarch butterflies, are found across the continental United States, and travel to northern Mexico and the US southwest during colder months.\n\nThey are known to follow wind patterns, and can glide hundreds of miles each day.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 kiki cannon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video shows a man being pinned to the ground near the Natural History Museum\n\nA crash outside a London museum that injured 11 people was not terror-related, police have said.\n\nA black Toyota Prius hit the people outside the Natural History Museum in Exhibition Road, South Kensington.\n\nVideo footage that emerged on Twitter showed a man, believed to be the driver, being restrained on the ground.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police later said the incident was thought to be a \"road traffic collision\" and a man in his 40s had been arrested at the scene.\n\nHe was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and received hospital treatment before being taken to a north London police station for questioning.\n\nLondon Ambulance said the people it treated - including the detained man - had mostly sustained head and leg injuries. Nine were taken to hospital.\n\nThe Met said none of the injuries were believed to be life-threatening or life changing.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May tweeted her thanks to first responders and members of the public, adding: \"My thoughts are with the injured.\"\n\nA picture of the car at the scene on Exhibition Road\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan also tweeted his thanks and hopes for a \"swift recovery\" for those injured.\n\n\"For Londoners and visitors planning to visit our excellent museums and attractions in the area, please be assured they will be open as usual tomorrow.\"\n\nThe current terror threat in the UK is at \"severe\" - the second highest level - meaning an attack is highly likely.\n\nExhibition Road is an area popular with tourists as it is home to the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.\n\nOliver Cheshire, a model and popstar Pixie Lott's fiance, was involved in helping hold the man down after the incident.\n\nHe tweeted: \"I'm OK. Thank you to the men who helped me pin him down and the police for coming so quickly.\"\n\nBBC reporter Chloe Hayward, who was leaving the Natural History Museum as the crash happened at 14:20 BST, said she saw a car \"diagonally across the road\", looking like it had hit a bollard, before armed officers arrived.\n\nWe have been to the south end of Exhibition Road nearest the Tube and the area, normally a busy destination for Saturday afternoon dining by locals and tourists, is deserted.\n\nEyewitnesses told us that police came rushing into each bar and restaurant and told people to get out.\n\nWe can see coats on chairs - some knocked over - half-eaten meals and half-drunk glasses of wine.\n\nPolice helped one restaurant owner to recover staff belongings, like house keys, because it was unclear when the area would reopen.\n\nAn eyewitness who was walking to the Science Museum said: \"When waiting for the light, we heard what I thought was gunshots and saw a car drive over the pavement. We just ran. My friend dived on the floor and cut her hands.\"\n\nThe woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said: \"When it calmed down we walked back to where we'd been and saw a gentleman on the floor being restrained by police.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ellie Mackay, who lives opposite South Kensington tube station, said she heard \"a couple of loud bangs\"\n\nConnor Honeyman, from Essex, who was in the queue for the museum, said: \"We heard a horrible thudding noise and a car engine. Everyone started running and screaming inside.\n\n\"We ran in, everyone was following us, and then all the security guards ran out and they closed the main entrance. There was much confusion before the police got there.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Chloe Hayward said she saw a car diagonally across the road", "Parts of Bombardier's C-Series planes are made in Belfast\n\nThe US Department of Commerce has again ruled against aerospace firm Bombardier in its dispute with rival Boeing.\n\nA further tariff of 80% has been imposed on the import of Bombardier's C-Series jet to the US for alleged below-cost selling.\n\nThis is on top of an earlier tariff of 220% which related to subsidies Bombardier got from Canada and the UK.\n\nThere have been warnings that the import tariffs could threaten Bombardier jobs in Belfast.\n\nAbout 1,000 jobs are linked to the C-Series, the wings of which are made at a purpose-built £520m factory in the city.\n\nA spokesperson for Bombardier said: \"We strongly disagree with the commerce department's preliminary decision.\"\n\nThe firm said the ruling represented an \"egregious overreach and misapplication of U.S. trade laws\".\n\n\"The commerce department's approach throughout this investigation has completely ignored aerospace industry realities,\" it said.\n\n\"This hypocrisy is appalling, and it should be deeply troubling to any importer of large, complex, and highly engineered products.\"\n\nThe programme is not just important to Bombardier jobs in Belfast, but also to 15 smaller aerospace firms in Northern Ireland - and dozens more across the UK - which make components for the wings.\n\nThe US Department of Commerce rulings, which could more than triple the cost of a C-Series aircraft sold into the US, could jeopardise a major order placed last year from US airline Delta.\n\nA final ruling in the case is due early next year.\n\nDavy Thompson from the Unite union said workers are very concerned.\n\n\"It looms very large over these workers and it's time for the British government to actually step up for British workers,\" he said.\n\n\"We see the British government being bullied by Boeing.\n\n\"The EU needs to step in, because effectively they are being bullied too. It needs to stop and it needs to stop now.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The history of Bombardier in Northern Ireland\n\nA government spokesperson described the latest development as \"disappointing\", but said it was \"hardly surprising given last week's preliminary ruling sided with Boeing\".\n\n\"As with the investigation into subsidies, this is only the first step in the process,\" they added.\n\n\"Since the interim finding, we have had further Cabinet level engagement with the US Administration and Canadian government.\n\n\"We continue to make all efforts alongside the Canadian government to get Boeing to the table to resolve the case.\"\n\nIn a statement Boeing said: \"Today's decision follows a fact-based investigation by the Commerce Department and it validates Boeing's dumping complaints regarding Bombardier's pricing in the United States.\n\n\"This was an avoidable outcome within Bombardier's control. The laws governing global trade are transparent and well known.\"\n\nUS Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said: \"The United States is committed to free, fair and reciprocal trade with Canada, but this is not our idea of a properly functioning trading relationship\".\n\n\"We will continue to verify the accuracy of this decision, while doing everything in our power to stand up for American companies and their workers.\"\n\nThe Canadian aerospace firm employs more than 4,000 workers across four sites in Northern Ireland.\n\nComponents of the C-Series jet are manufactured at a purpose-built factory in east Belfast and many other local firms are involved in the supply chain.\n\nThe punitive tax would significantly raise the price of the jet in the US market, and threaten the future of the product.\n\nBoeing took the case after accusing Bombardier of anti-competitive practices.\n\nIt claimed its rival was selling the C-Series jets below cost price after taking state subsidies from the Canadian and British governments.\n\nWhen the preliminary tax ruling was made last week, Wilbur Ross said: \"The subsidisation of goods by foreign governments is something that the Trump administration takes very seriously.\"\n\nThe US trade commission is due to rule on the Department of Commerce's 220% tax proposal next year, but the Irish Small and Medium Enterprise (ISME) Association said the EU should not wait for the final decision.\n\nIts chief executive, Neil McDonnell, said the EU \"should signal right now that it will unconditionally, unequivocally and aggressively oppose protectionist measures by the US with tariffs of like effect\".", "Kim Wall (right) went missing after boarding Peter Madsen's submarine (left)\n\nThe head of Swedish journalist Kim Wall has been found, two months after she disappeared on a trip with a Danish submariner, Danish police say.\n\nDivers found bags containing her head, legs and clothing in Koge Bay, just south of Copenhagen, the city's police inspector Jens Moller Jensen said.\n\nThey were found not far from where Ms Wall's torso was discovered 11 days after she boarded Peter Madsen's submarine on 10 August.\n\nHe also denies a charge of mutilating her corpse.\n\nMr Moller Jensen said the bags, found on Friday, had been weighed down with pieces of metal.\n\n\"Yesterday morning we found a bag within which we found Kim Wall's clothes, underwear, stockings, and shoes. In the same bag laid a knife, and there were some car pipes to weigh the bag down,\" he said.\n\nHe said a post-mortem examination confirmed the head was Ms Wall's and that it showed \"no sign of fracture... [or] any sign of other blunt violence to the skull\".\n\nThis would seem to contradict Mr Madsen's statement that she had died after hitting her head on a hatch.\n\nMs Wall, 30, was last seen alive on the evening of 10 August as she departed with Mr Madsen on his self-built 40-tonne submarine, UC3 Nautilus, for a story she was writing about his venture.\n\nHer boyfriend raised the alarm the next day when she did not return from the trip.\n\nInitially, Mr Madsen said he had dropped her off safely in Copenhagen, but he later changed his story to say it had been a \"terrible accident\", that he had \"buried her at sea\" and planned afterwards to take his own life by sinking his submarine.\n\nMs Wall's torso was found on 21 August; a post-mortem examination revealed knife wounds to her genitals and ribcage, which were believed to have been caused \"around or shortly after her death\".\n\nDanish Prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen told a court earlier this month that footage of women being decapitated alive had been found on a hard drive believed to belong to Mr Madsen.\n\nMr Madsen, who denied the hard drive was his, was detained for a further four weeks while investigations into the case continue.\n• None Kim Wall: What really happened on Peter Madsen's submarine?", "Everton star Wayne Rooney was among the mourners\n\nFamily and friends have gathered for the funeral of former Newcastle United chairman Freddy Shepherd.\n\nFormer club captain Alan Shearer, ex-Magpies managers Kenny Dalglish and Sam Allardyce, and Everton star Wayne Rooney were among mourners at St George's Church, in Jesmond, Newcastle.\n\nThe service got under way at noon and was followed by a private cremation ceremony.\n\nMr Shepherd, 75, passed away at home on 25 September.\n\nHe engineered the £15m deal which took Shearer from Blackburn back to his native Newcastle in July 1996.\n\nPaying tribute during the service, Shearer said: \"It is well-documented that there was another, so-called big club after me, but it was Freddy along with Kevin (Keegan), Sir John (Hall) and Douglas (Hall) who was instrumental in getting me home.\n\n\"I left 10 years later with him as my great friend, playing for my club, breaking the goal-scoring record, living my dream.\n\n\"I can thank Freddy for all of that.\"\n\nHe ended his eulogy by saying: \"We miss you Mr Chairman, we miss you Freddy.\"\n\nThe club's record goal-scorer and former captain, Alan Shearer, paid tribute during the service\n\nMr Shepherd (l) paid £250,000 for a brass statue of former striker Shearer outside St James' Park last year\n\nSir John Hall, who was chairman before Mr Shepherd and who teamed up with him to take over the club when it was in trouble in the 1990s, said Newcastle became other fans' second team and their brand of entertaining football \"lifted Tyneside\".\n\nDuring Mr Shepherd's time at Newcastle, the club twice finished as Premier League runners-up, reached two FA Cup finals and enjoyed two Champions League campaigns.\n\nIn addition, he oversaw the redevelopment of an ageing stadium, boosting its capacity from about 36,000 to more than 52,000.\n\nSir John Hall handed over the role of club chairman to Mr Shepherd in 1997\n\nFormer Newcastle United and England manager Sam Allardyce was another guest\n\nAston Villa manager Steve Bruce was among the big names from the world of football in attendance\n\nLocal Labour MP Nick Brown told mourners Mr Shepherd created the Soccer Aid charity with Robbie Williams to help the world's poorest children, and it has raised £25m since 2004.\n\nAway from football, Mr Shepherd was a major employer on Tyneside, having built up his offshore industry business with his brother Bruce.\n\nOn a floral tribute, Mr Shepherd's son Kenneth said his father was his best friend, adding: \"My rock, Mr Charisma, Big Fred you are - but more, you are dad.\"\n\nFloral tributes were placed outside the church\n\nTelevision presenter Declan Donnelly was accompanied by his wife, Ali Astall\n\nMr Shepherd was to be cremated in a private service following the funeral\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The torc is made of 730g (26oz) of almost pure gold\n\nOne of England's \"most important Bronze Age finds\" has gone on display for the first time near to where it was found.\n\nThe £220,000 gold torc was unearthed by metal detectorists in an east Cambridgeshire field last year.\n\nIt was probably left as a \"gift to the gods\" and its diameter is \"larger than any adult male trousers\" according to Neil Wilkin, from the British Museum.\n\nThe bracelet-like ring is more than 3,000 years old and was bought by Ely Museum using a series of grants.\n\nIt was declared treasure at an inquest and the finder and landowner will receive a reward.\n\nElie Hughes, Ely Museum curator, said the detectorist \"had no idea what it was until he cleaned it\", at which point he reported it to the county finds liaison officer.\n\nThis is how the torc looked once the dirt was washed off - it has not required any polishing, according to Ely curator Elie Hughes\n\nDr Wilkin, who is responsible for the British Museum's British and European Bronze Age Collection, described it as \"one of the most important Bronze Age finds that's ever been made in England\".\n\nHe said the torc is the \"largest of its type in the whole of Europe\" and its diameter is \"larger than any adult male trousers that you can buy in a shop today\".\n\nHe speculated the torc could have been worn over bulky clothing or by a sacrificial animal but its use \"remains a guessing game\".\n\nAt this time in the Bronze Age, people were no longer being buried with important objects - instead they deposited them at \"important places in the landscape\".\n\nDr Wilkin said: \"We don't necessarily know why, but we think it was a gift to the gods, designed to secure good harvests or a healthy family.\n\n\"I've calculated you could probably make 10 smaller objects out of this one, so it's a really big sacrifice of wealth and status.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Metropolitan Police have released a statement confirming that a \"road traffic investigation\" is under way.\n\nThe force said the injuries sustained to the 11 people were \"not believed to be life-threatening or life-changing\".\n\nThe detained man is under arrest, the police said, and is in custody at a north London police station.", "The system can destroy incoming missiles at altitudes beyond the Earth's atmosphere\n\nThe US government has approved the sale to Saudi Arabia of its advanced Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) missile defence system.\n\nThe State Department said the $15bn (£11.5bn) deal furthered US national security and foreign policy interests.\n\nIt would boost Saudi and Gulf security against Iranian and other regional threats, the state department added.\n\nThe announcement comes a day after Saudi Arabia agreed to buy air defence systems from Russia.\n\nThe deal would not alter the military balance in the region, the Pentagon's Defense Security Co-operation Agency said.\n\nThaad systems are being deployed in South Korea to protect against a possible missile attack from North Korea.\n\nBut many South Koreans have objected, fearing it would become a target and endanger the lives of those who live near its launch sites.\n\nChina also voiced opposition to the system, saying it would affect the regional security balance.\n\nThe system destroys incoming missiles at altitudes beyond the Earth's atmosphere, making it especially useful in countering missiles that might carry a nuclear warhead.\n\nThe Thaad interceptor is produced by the US company Lockheed Martin.\n\nThis latest multi-billion-dollar deal will help satisfy the Trump administration's desire to be seen to be protecting and increasing jobs at home.\n\nDonald Trump has also made it abundantly clear that he is completely in tune with the Saudi view of Iran as the biggest threat in the region - which is a key rationale behind this new Saudi spending spree.\n\nHe may be less pleased, though about the arms deal the Saudis agreed with Russia during King Salman's visit to Moscow this week.\n\nIt showed perhaps how Riyadh is hedging its bets, as US influence has been diminishing in the Middle East.\n• None What impact could Thaad have in South Korea?", "In the flesh, Wayne May (not his real name) is an affable gentleman in his late 40s, softly spoken with a lilting Welsh accent.\n\nWhen we meet he's casually dressed in jeans and a Batman T-shirt. He works full-time as a carer.\n\nOn the net, he's a tireless defender of scam victims and a fearless scam baiter - a person who deliberately contacts scammers, engages with them and then publishes as much information about them as possible in order to warn others.\n\nHe regularly receives death threats, and his website, Scam Survivors, is often subjected to attempted DDoS attacks - where a site is maliciously hit with lots of web traffic to try to knock it offline.\n\nBut Mr May is determined to continue helping scamming victims in his spare time, and has a team of volunteers in the US, Canada and Europe doing the same.\n\n\"Wayne May\" says victims need to accept that they are unlikely to get their money back\n\nScam Survivors is not an official platform - in the UK victims are encouraged to contact Action Fraud - but the team has dealt with 20,000 cases in the past 12 years, he claims.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics there were 1.9 million reports of \"cyber-related\" fraud in the year ending March 2017 in England and Wales. But the report also says that many incidents go unreported.\n\nThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission website says nearly AUS$13m (£8m, $10m) has been lost this year to romance fraud alone.\n\nScamming may be an old trick but it's still an effective one.\n\nMr May, who does not charge but invites donations on his website, says his website gets up to 10,000 hits a day and the group also receives up to two dozen messages a day from people who are victims of sextortion - when a person is blackmailed after being persuaded to carry out a sex act on webcam, which is then recorded.\n\n\"A lot of people, when they come to us are already so far deep into it, they have nowhere to turn,\" he says.\n\n\"They're not stupid, they're just unaware of the scam.\"\n\n\"It's not obvious [that it's a scam] if they've never experienced it before.\"\n\nHe discovered he was \"rather good\" at baiting romance scammers and found relatives of victims were approaching him to help loved-ones.\n\n\"I started dealing more with the victims of the scams rather than the scammers themselves, so my priorities changed then from just having fun to actually helping people.\"\n\nMany scams are not a particularly sophisticated form of fraud.\n\n\"There are constantly new scams coming out, and we need to be aware of those,\" says Mr May.\n\n\"But a lot of the scams aren't high-tech, they simply write messages to people and that's it.\n\n\"You might think, 'I'm not going to fall for this scam' but then you'll fall for another one. The scammers will find a chink in your armour.\"\n\nDaniel Perry, 17, died in a fall from the Forth Road Bridge in July 2013 - he was a victim of sextortion\n\nThe first thing Mr May has to explain to those who get in touch is that Scam Survivors cannot recover any money the victim has been persuaded to hand it over.\n\nIn his experience, the average victim will end up around £1,000 out of pocket, but some will go a lot further - one man who recently made contact with the support group had given more than £500,000 to a male Russian scammer he thought he was in a relationship with.\n\n\"We say upfront, we can't get your money back. We can't offer you emotional support. We're not psychiatrists. We're just people who know how scams work and how to deal with them,\" he says.\n\nTo prevent being a victim, his advice is simple: \"Google everything.\"\n\nSearch the images you are sent, the messages you receive - often scammers use the same material and the more widely shared it is, the more likely it is to end up on a website dedicated to exposing scams.\n\nIf you fear blackmail, Mr May suggests setting up an alert so that you are notified if your name is mentioned online. If, in the case of sextortion, a video is published on the net, you will then know straight away and can report it, as you are likely to be tagged in it.\n\n\"Be aware and learn how to search everything,\" he says.\n\n\"If someone sends you a picture or text, search it, try to find out as much as you can. If you're unsure don't send them money.\"\n\nAction Fraud, the UK's national fraud and cyber-crime reporting service, said all scams reported to it are passed on to the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau, which is part of City of London Police.\n\nHowever, a spokeswoman told the BBC that only around 30% of all fraud cases had \"viable lines of inquiry\".\n\n\"We know that at these levels it is difficult for law enforcement agencies to investigate all these crimes,\" said a spokeswoman.\n\n\"We have to maximise our resources where there is the best chance of a successful investigative outcome.\"\n\nProfessor Alan Woodward, cyber-security expert from Surrey University, said it was still important to keep reporting scams to the national body even if individual justice was not always possible.\n\n\"For those contacting Action Fraud UK to report a crime it may appear that little happens, but your information is vital in constructing an accurate picture of where, when and how online scams are occurring,\" he said.\n\n\"It may be that the police are unable to solve your individual crime but by studying the big picture they are able to zero in on the scammers.\n\n\"Your report could be vital in completing the overall picture and enable law enforcement to prevent others suffering as you have.\"\n\nSome people argue that the scammers themselves are also in desperate situations - many of them operate in some of the poorest parts of the world, such as West Africa and the Philippines.\n\nWayne May has no sympathy.\n\n\"These people aren't Robin Hood types,\" he says.\n\n\"If you go online and scam people you have the money to go online, if you can't afford food you can't spend hours in an internet cafe.\"\n\nHe is, however, haunted by one occasion when a woman from the Philippines he was scam-baiting offered to perform on webcam for him. When he declined she then asked if she should involve her sister.\n\n\"She called this girl over and she couldn't have been more than nine or 10,\" he recalls.\n\n\"That horrified me. I said, 'Don't do this, not for me, not for anybody. You shouldn't do this'. I couldn't talk to her again after that. I had to completely walk away.\"\n\nHe says he has no idea what happened to her.\n\n\"I can't let it affect me too much, otherwise I wouldn't be able to do what I do,\" he said.\n\n\"I've been doing it for almost 12 years now, and if I let every case affect me I'd be a gibbering wreck in the corner.\"\n\nRomance - when a scammer builds an intense online relationship with someone, then asks for money\n\nSextortion - when a victim is persuaded to carry out a sex act on webcam which is then videoed and the scammer demands a ransom in return for not publishing the content on the net\n\nPets - a pet is advertised for sale, and then fees are demanded in order to get the pet to its new owner. The pet does not exist.\n\nHitman - Someone claims to be a hitman and says that they have been paid to kill you. They then say that if you are prepared to pay more, they will not carry out the threat.\n\n419 - named after section 419 of the Nigerian criminal code - claiming money from another person under false pretence: such as needing assistance to release a large sum of fictional inheritance.", "Jade Carter has spent a lot of her life in hospital.\n\nRheumatoid arthritis causes the 20-year-old such intense pain she sometimes can't move. That's where music helps.\n\n\"I kind of enter this different world when I'm singing. I feel like I can just let go of the reality of life,\" she tells Newsbeat.\n\nNow Amy Winehouse's charity is helping her find her voice and launch a singing career.\n\n\"I was singing since I was six-years-old, when my mum would leave me in Great Ormond Street hospital,\" she says.\n\n\"I just wrote songs all the time because that's pretty much all I could do. I couldn't go to school a lot of the time.\"\n\nLast night Jade performed for some of the biggest names in UK music, including Emeli Sande, Naughty Boy and Trevor Nelson, at the Amy Winehouse Foundation Gala, an event in memory of the late singer.\n\nShe's one of a small group of musicians chosen for Amy's Yard, a 12-week project which gives them time in the late singer's studio, working with a producer on their own track.\n\n\"It was a really lovely experience,\" says Jade, \"Too much information, but I would sit on the toilet and be like 'Amy probably sat on this toilet,\" she laughs.\n\nJade, from London, was diagnosed with arthritis as a baby.\n\n\"I was on and off lots of trial drugs as well as arthritis drugs. Without those I think I would be in a wheelchair now.\n\n\"I can't bend my arm properly, sometimes I can't move my legs. I feel like I literally can't move my entire body.\"\n\nEmeli Sande performed at the event at The Dorchester hotel\n\nShe says she's spent years feeling ashamed of having the condition.\n\n\"People used to look at me and be like 'you're not disabled. You're just making it up'. I'd be scared to tell people I'm in pain.\"\n\nTaking part in Amy's Yard has taught her a lot about the music industry, she says.\n\n\"We had a lot of wellbeing talks, about staying healthy and positive while you're trying to become someone. That's part of the reason I'm now so confident talking about my illness.\n\n\"I want to use my disability to show people they shouldn't hide who they are. I want to do music, and tell people about my condition. Don't let anything stop you.\"\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "Sarah Vincent changed her daughter's school when the rules suddenly got very strict\n\n\"Everyone will sit up extra straight, eyes front, looking at the teacher. You will follow their instructions first time, every time.\"\n\nParents may well agree that this excerpt from Great Yarmouth Charter Academy's school rules is no bad thing.\n\nThe rules also require pupils to read with a ruler and to wait for teacher's instructions before picking up a pen or anything else.\n\nWhen they are not reading or writing they must sit up straight with their arms folded and they must \"track the teacher\" around the room.\n\n\"You never turn around - even if you hear a noise behind you. You don't look out of the window. You don't lose focus,\" the rules from new academy sponsors, Inspiration Trust, say.\n\nWell, a group of parents did not think so and responded by contacting newspapers with claims children had wet themselves in class because they were not allowed to go to the toilet.\n\nOne upset parent, Sarah Vincent, said: \"If we treated our children like that we would be reported to social services.\"\n\nHer daughter, Summer, had become \"withdrawn\" and \"miserable\" after being repeatedly pulled up for uniform infringements, she said.\n\nShe was then given a demerit because she did not have her arms folded as per the school rules, Sarah added.\n\nOthers complained pupils were being isolated for as little as dropping a pencil, and parents of at least 16 children have applied to move them to other schools.\n\nBut the school, which the new academy trust is trying to turn around after it was rated inadequate, insists it is simply trying to enforce new, high standards of behaviour where they had been lacking.\n\nChildren were in school to learn, not look out of the window, a trust spokesman said.\n\n\"Setting out clear expectations means everyone knows what is expected and lessons start promptly and run efficiently, so that every pupil gets the most of their time in school.\"\n\nPupils had been getting out of their chairs and sometimes leaving classrooms and it was necessary now to enforce order, he said.\n\n\"It's very early days,\" he added.\n\n\"And there's been a culture shock from where the school was previously.\"\n\nAnd some parents have been delighted with the change.\n\nParent Tanya McCormick said it had been \"so far so good\" for her daughter and that she thought parents might be \"pleasantly surprised\" by the effect of the new regime by the end of term.\n\nBut the case has certainly prompted parents, particularly those of children new to secondary school, to ask how strict is too strict.\n\nDavid, an 11-year-old who has just started a very popular London boys' state school, describes all the things for which you can get a detention.\n\n\"For talking too loudly in the playground, for talking while you are lining up...\n\n\"You can get one if you don't take your bag off within five seconds of going inside, if you take more than 10 minutes to eat your lunch, or if you have a sweet wrapper in your pocket.\n\n\"It just feels like you're only really behaving because you are scared you will get a detention,\" he says.\n\nChristopher, a pupil at another successful boys' state school, says about 80% of the boys in his class had been given a detention in the first week.\n\nHe says his best friend crosses himself every time a detention is dished out in class, like he has \"dodged a bullet\".\n\nBut are these boys enjoying their new schools?\n\nThe answer's yes - they love them. But both think teachers should stop handing out quite so many detentions.\n\nJarlath O'Brien, director of schools with the Eden Academy Trust, says every September a slew of stories about parents horrified at the strictness of their new schools hits the headlines.\n\n\"No teacher would say 'we don't really care about bullying or the lessons being disrupted',\" he says.\n\n\"My concern is when you have a set of rules which start to interfere with the flow of things.\"\n\nHe gives the example of a school allowing short or long-sleeved shirts in its uniform, but not allowing rolled-up sleeves.\n\n\"A child might inadvertently roll his sleeves up, and then the lesson is disrupted because the teacher has to pick the child up on it.\"\n\nOld school ties? Some schools specify how to tie them, as well as which to wear\n\nThere has been a tendency in recent times to equate smart uniform with high standards of behaviour, he says, but the two are not the same.\n\nBeing too strict can \"smack of professional insecurity\", he says, adding that this can backfire when \"kids find themselves getting into bother without even trying\".\n\nThe government's behaviour tsar Tom Bennett says people outside the UK \"marvel at our obsession with school uniform\".\n\nHe says the media pander to it by reporting examples of entire forms being sent home for wearing the wrong shoes or some such.\n\nBut it can used as a way of fostering a sense of belonging, he says, and letting pupils know: \"This is the way we do things around here.\"\n\nThe best behaviour policies balance a culture of discipline with lots of pastoral support, he says.\n\n\"You need to have the compassion within the school structure.\n\n\"If you have that, if you have the love as well as the discipline, then things can really sky-rocket.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A lawyer for the 42-year-old artist denied the allegations\n\nRapper Nelly has been arrested after a woman accused him of raping her on his tour bus following a concert near Seattle.\n\nPolice in Auburn said they arrested the artist after a woman called emergency services at 03:48 (10:48 GMT) to report a sex assault.\n\nThe singer strongly denies the allegations and has now been released.\n\n\"I have not been charged... therefore no bail was required,\" he tweeted.\n\nNelly, 42, is currently on tour with the Backstreet Boys and Florida Georgia Line\n\nThe singer tweeted that he was \"beyond shocked that I have been targeted with this false allegation\".\n\n\"I am completely innocent,\" he said. \"I am confident that once the facts are looked at, it will be very clear that I am the victim of a false allegation.\"\n\nNelly, whose real name is Cornell Iral Haynes Jr, was taken into custody on a second degree rape charge, TMZ said.\n\nIn a statement his lawyer also described the allegation as \"completely fabricated\".\n\n\"Our initial investigation clearly establishes this allegation is devoid of credibility and is motivated by greed and vindictiveness,\" Scott Rosenblum said in a statement.\n\nNelly is best known for his US number one hits \"Hot in herre\" and \"Dilemma\". He last released a studio album in 2013.\n\nIn 2015 he was arrested on felony charges after police found drugs and guns on board his tour bus.\n\nThe 42-year-old is currently on tour with the Backstreet Boys and Florida Georgia Line, and performed in Auburn on Friday night.\n\nThe bus was parked near a local Walmart at the time of the alleged incident. A police statement said they were continuing to investigate.\n\nNelly was due to perform on the Smooth Stadium Tour in Ridgefield near Portland on Saturday evening.", "Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has urged colleagues to \"get behind\" the PM because \"people are fed up with this malarkey\".\n\nIn a WhatsApp message he urged Tories \"talk about nothing except policies\".\n\nIt comes after ex-party chairman Grant Shapps said about 30 Tory MPs backed his call for a leadership contest.\n\nThe party's leader in Scotland, Ruth Davidson, said it should \"get its house in order\", back Theresa May and \"let her get back to governing\".\n\nMs Davidson said critics should \"put up\" and \"shut up\", adding that the calls were not led by anyone \"serious\".\n\nFolks I am away but just read all this!\n\nWe have JUST HAD AN ELECTION and people are fed up with all this malarkey\n\nGet behind the pm. Ordinary punters I have spoken to thought her speech was good and anyone can have a cold\n\nCircle the wagons turn the fire on Corbyn and talk about nothing except our great policies and what we can do for the country\n\nThe prime minister has said she has the \"full support of her cabinet\".\n\nSpeaking on Friday, she insisted she was providing the \"calm leadership\" the country needed.\n\nNigel Evans MP, of the Tory backbench 1922 committee, said Mr Shapps's \"sniping\" was doing the party \"no favours\" and could have a negative impact on Brexit negotiations.\n\nDismissing supporters of a plot to oust Mrs May as \"the coalition of the disappointed\", he told BBC Breakfast: \"Any talents he thinks he's got he should really now direct towards backing Theresa May on the difficult negotiations on Brexit.\"\n\nFormer leadership contender Andrea Leadsom also gave her support to the PM, telling BBC Radio 4's Any Questions: \"Like a lot of my colleagues have said today, [Mr Shapps] should shut up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: \"Look, I've had a cold this week\"\n\nPressure on the prime minister has grown since her party conference speech was plagued by a series of mishaps, as she struggled with a persistent cough and was interrupted by a prankster.\n\nMr Shapps, who was co-chair of the party between 2012 and 2015, said he believed it was \"time we actually tackle this issue of leadership\" adding that \"so do many colleagues\".\n\nHowever, cabinet ministers including Environment Secretary Michael Gove and Home Secretary Amber Rudd were among those who backed the PM on Friday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Tory party chairman Grant Shapps said Theresa May should face a leadership election\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Political Thinking podcast, Ms Davidson, leader of the Scottish Conservatives, suggested the prime minister's critics should \"put up, shut up and get off the stage\", adding there were \"an awful lot of people in our party who need to settle down\".\n\n\"I think if the plotters were serious, they would be led by someone a bit more serious,\" she said.\n\n\"One of the irritants over the last couple of days, for me, particularly as a woman, is this idea that all of these men are supposed to be making decisions on Theresa May's behalf,\" she added.\n\n\"Well, have they actually met Theresa May? This is a woman with agency, with grit, with determination.\n\n\"I backed her in the leadership, I back her now and I will back her in the future.\"\n\nTo trigger a vote of confidence in the party leader, 48 of the 316 Conservative MPs would need to write to the chairman of the backbench 1922 committee.\n\nA leadership contest would only be triggered if Mrs May lost that vote, or chose to quit.\n\nMr Shapps said no letter had been sent and that his intention had been to gather signatures privately and persuade Mrs May to stand down.\n\nBut he claimed party whips had taken the \"extraordinary\" step of making it public by naming him as the ringleader of a plot to oust the PM in a story in the Times.\n\nHe said: \"The country needs leadership. It needs leadership at this time in particular.\"\n\nFormer minister Ed Vaizey was the first MP to publicly suggest Mrs May should quit on Thursday, telling the BBC: \"I think there will be quite a few people who will now be pretty firmly of the view that she should resign.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. China Editor Carrie Gracie takes a look at the country's new senior leadership committee\n\nUS President Donald Trump has congratulated Chinese leader Xi Jinping on his \"extraordinary elevation\" after this week's Communist Party congress.\n\nMr Trump also praised Mr Xi in a TV interview in the US, and said \"some might call him king of China\".\n\nMr Xi cemented his hold on China when he had a second five-year term confirmed, with no clear successor, at the congress.\n\nHis name and doctrine have been written into the party's constitution.\n\nThe two leaders are due to hold talks at a state visit to China next month, having met at the G20 summit in July.\n\nThe pair also discussed North Korea and trade, President Trump said in a tweet. Hours later North Korean leader Kim Jong-un also congratulated Mr Xi.\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\nIn the phone call with Mr Trump, Mr Xi expressed a desire to work with the US president to \"jointly blueprint future development of China-US ties\", Chinese state media report.\n\nSeparately, Mr Trump praised Mr Xi as a \"very good person\" with whom he had \"a very good relationship\", in an interview with Fox Business Network.\n\nDescribing Mr Xi's elevation as something that \"really virtually never happened in China\", Mr Trump called the Chinese leader \"a powerful man\".\n\n\"People say we have the best relationship of any president-president, because he's called president also. Some people might call him the king of China, but he's called president.\"\n\nChina has the world's second-largest economy after the US, its biggest trading partner.\n\nHowever, relations have been strained by Beijing's territorial disputes in the South China Sea and East China Sea with Washington's allies in East Asia.\n\nMeanwhile North Korean state media agency KCNA reported that leader Kim Jong-un sent a congratulatory message to Mr Xi.\n\nThe message \"expressed the conviction that the relations between the two parties and the two countries would develop in the interests\" of the Chinese and North Koreans.\n\nIt also officially acknowledged Mr Xi's political doctrine, noting that China had \"entered the road of building socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era\".\n\nThough relations have cooled in recent years, amid Pyongyang's nuclear and missile tests, China remains North Korea's closest ally.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Xi was formally handed a second term in office at the close of the Communist Party congress in Beijing.\n\nHe is now on a par with the founder of the state, Mao Zedong, and questions have been raised over whether the 64-year-old intends to rule beyond 2022.\n\nFive new appointments were made to the seven-member Politburo Standing Committee, China's most powerful body.\n\nThe two presidents met in Hamburg this summer\n\nThere had been speculation Mr Xi would elevate his protégé Chen Miner and Guangdong party secretary Hu Chunhua, both of whom are in their 50s and young enough to be credible successors.\n\nBut the fact that the new appointees are all in their 60s, and likely to retire at the end of this five-year term, fuels speculation about Mr Xi's long-term intentions.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin sent a telegram in which he said the re-election showed Mr Xi's \"political authority\" and the \"broad support\" his policy to develop China and strengthen its international position enjoyed.\n\nSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in congratulated Mr Xi on his re-election in a letter, writing that he looked forward to creating a \"practical strategic partnership\".\n\nMr Xi has assumed an unprecedented number of positions since coming to power in 2012, including the title of \"core\" leader of China.\n\nHis first term has been marked by significant development, a push for modernisation and increasing assertiveness on the world stage.\n\nIt has also seen growing authoritarianism, censorship and a crackdown on human rights.\n\nHe has spearheaded a sweeping anti-corruption campaign which has seen more than a million officials disciplined. It has been seen by some as a massive internal purge of opponents.\n\nSeveral major Western news organisations were barred from Wednesday's ceremony to reveal the new Politburo Standing Committee.\n\nOfficially no reason was given for barring the BBC, Financial Times, Economist, New York Times and Guardian, but unofficially journalists were told that their reporting was to blame - another sign of Xi's determination to control the message at home and abroad.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aasim Saeed says he was taken to a secret detention facility and beaten\n\nA Pakistani blogger who went missing earlier this year has applied for asylum in Britain after alleging he was tortured by a \"state intelligence agency\" during his disappearance.\n\nAasim Saeed was one of a group of five liberal social media activists who were abducted in Pakistan in January 2017 before being released after several weeks. The Pakistani military has repeatedly denied any involvement in the case.\n\nMr Saeed told the BBC that prior to his abduction he had been involved in running a Facebook page critical of Pakistan's military establishment, called Mochi, \"because since the inception of Pakistan they've always been ruling us directly or indirectly\".\n\nPakistan has been ruled by the military for nearly half of its 70 years.\n\nMr Saeed was working in Singapore but visiting Pakistan for his brother's wedding in January 2017 when he says a number of men in plain clothes arrived at his house and ordered him into a car.\n\n\"'Do you know why you've been picked up?' they asked. I said, 'I have no idea'. Then he started to slap me. They said, 'Let's talk about Mochi'.\"\n\nMr Saeed told the BBC he had been ordered to hand over the passwords to his email accounts and mobile phone before being taken to a secret detention facility where he was held alongside men he believed to be \"religious terrorists.\"\n\nThe independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan reported that 728 people were forcibly \"disappeared\" in 2016. Pakistan's intelligence services have been accused of \"disappearing\" social and ethnic nationalist activists, as well as those accused of links to militant groups, instead of producing them in court.\n\nAuthorities in Pakistan have often said the security services are unfairly blamed for disappearances and that the number of missing people is inflated.\n\nFew first-hand accounts have ever emerged of what happens to those in detention. Mr Saeed alleges he was beaten with a leather strap.\n\n\"I don't remember what happened, I fell down and someone was holding my neck in his feet, and the other guy kept beating and beating and beating.\"\n\nHe describes his arms and back being left \"shades of purple, blue and back\".\n\nPakistani rights activists wave pictures of missing bloggers during a January 2017 protest in Lahore\n\nAt another detention facility which he believes to be near the capital Islamabad, Mr Saeed says he was made to undergo polygraph tests whilst being repeatedly questioned about links to the Indian intelligence service, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).\n\n\"Have you ever been associated with RAW? Who is your handler? Have you ever received money from RAW?\"\n\nHe denies any links to any foreign intelligence services and says interrogators also analysed his Facebook posts and questioned him about why he was \"critical of the army\".\n\nIn May 2017 Human Rights Watch raised concerns that the Pakistani government was \"clamping down on internet dissent at the expense of fundamental rights\".\n\nProtests were held across cities in Pakistan by other liberal activists calling for the release of Mr Saeed and the other \"missing bloggers\", as they came to be known. Mr Saeed, though, says he believed while in detention that he would be killed, because normally \"missing persons don't go home\".\n\nWhilst pressure was building on the Pakistani authorities to provide information about the whereabouts of the bloggers, a counter-campaign was begun by right-wing religious clerics and TV anchors accusing them of having committed blasphemy.\n\nReligious students and activists have previously demanded the removal of all \"blasphemous\" content from social media\n\nBlasphemy is legally punishable by death in Pakistan and a number of those accused of it have been murdered by lynch mobs.\n\nMr Saeed returned home after several weeks in detention. He told the BBC it was only then that he realised he had been accused of blasphemy. He denies any involvement in writing blasphemous material.\n\nOne of the other missing bloggers has alleged the blasphemy allegations were an attempt \"to shut us down - to threaten our families - to build pressure on us\".\n\nMr Saeed returned to Singapore shortly after being released and arrived in the UK in September to visit friends. He told the BBC he had then decided to apply for asylum as the terms of his employment visa in Singapore meant he had no guarantee he would be allowed to keep living there if he ever lost his job, and his life would be in danger if he returned to Pakistan.\n\nNonetheless, Mr Saeed told the BBC he did not regret his activism, as \"people have to stand up\".", "Brand's latest book deals with his own addictions to drugs, alcohol, sex and fame\n\nAddiction and mental health may not be the kinds of issues you'd normally expect to be addressed at a stand-up comedy gig.\n\nBut Russell Brand has never been your conventional comedian - and it's precisely these subjects that he's tackling in his new book and at one of his upcoming London shows.\n\n\"Society is collapsing,\" the comedian tells the BBC, \"and people are starting to recognise that the reason they feel like they're mentally ill is that they're living in a system that's not designed to suit the human spirit.\n\n\"People are realising 'Hold on a minute, is it natural to work 12 hours a day? Is it natural that I live in an environment that is designed for human beings from one perspective but not from a holistic perspective?' Breathing dirty air, eating dirty food, thinking dirty thoughts. So really what this is, is a time of transition.\n\n\"Yes, the conversation is changing because the communication is becoming so much more expedient, but what's really changing is people are starting to notice that the system is not working for them.\"\n\nThe comedian says he prefers theatres to large arenas when it comes to performing comedy\n\nThe 42-year-old's latest book - Recovery: Freedom From Our Addictions - is released this month, and sees him discussing his own addictions, namely drugs, alcohol, sex and fame.\n\nBut, he says, the book isn't just for people who have had chemical addictions, and argues that pretty much all of us have some kind of vice.\n\n\"Everyone's living their lives on addictions really,\" he says. \"Everyone is living their life thinking they've got the answer to their own little problem. If there's something they get, something they do, they're going to feel a little bit better.\n\n\"Addicts are just a more pronounced version, and end up usually with a drug issue, but look at what people can do to themselves with food.\n\n\"People can destroy their lives with food, and so addiction really, we're all on the spectrum, we're all on the scale, it just depends how severe we are, and I think that unless you're happy in your life, there's room for a program.\n\nHe continues: \"Unless you're like 'I'm really happy with my job, my diet, my relationship, my body', if that's how you feel, that's fine. You deserve to feel like that, people should feel like that.\n\nBrand has turned to activism more recently and attended an austerity march in London in 2015\n\n\"I'm not talking about stupid simple pleasures like eating an ice lolly, that's only very temporary, we're looking at peak and contentedness which we can find our way to, if we're willing to change the way we think.\"\n\nBrand clearly isn't going to be short of material when he discusses the topic at a special gig at the Hammersmith Apollo on 1 November.\n\nIn addition to his usual stand-up show, he's going to turn up early to do some readings from Recovery.\n\n\"It's the only time I'm ever going to do it,\" he explains. \"So if people want to come at 6.30, I'll read from the book, and then do the show, Rebirth.\"\n\nIt's interesting that Brand is playing somewhat smaller venues than the arenas we've seen other A-list comics perform at in recent years.\n\nMichael McIntyre and Chris Rock have both toured arenas in recent years\n\nThe recent generation of \"rock star comedians\" like Michael McIntyre, Chris Rock and Peter Kay are more likely to sell out the O2 than play an impromptu gig at the Comedy Store, but Brand says he prefers the intimacy of slightly smaller venues.\n\n\"People that have played both arenas and theatres, most people prefer theatres, and I'd say the same,\" he says.\n\n\"It's a great privilege to perform in front of 20,000 people at once like at the O2, it's lovely, but there's all sorts of reasons for not doing it... but I love doing stand-up comedy, so I'm happy to do two nights in Brixton and two nights in Hammersmith rather than one night at the O2, and it is a better experience for the audience and for the performer.\"\n\nSpeaking about his own live dates, Russell adds: \"The stand-up is full of audience interaction. The thing that excites me most is what people create when they come together in groups.\"\n\nBrand has become increasingly vocal as an activist and campaigner in recent years\n\nDespite his recent activism, which has included charity work, austerity protests and endorsing Jeremy Corbyn, it's unlikely that Russell will be entering the world of politics anytime soon.\n\n\"If you think the political process doesn't work, why would you think, I'm going to get involved with it?\" he asks.\n\n\"If you swap the word 'political process' for 'car', you wouldn't think 'I'm going to get in that car and try and drive it in a different direction. If you think people should be riding horses, start riding a horse.\n\n\"So just do what you think is the correct thing to do. If you think your school should be run differently, start running your school differently, and then when you find obstacles to that, confront the obstacles, but never alone, always in groups.\n\n\"The thing I've learned from recent conversations from people who are experts, like Prof David Harvey, is to start establishing systems you believe in, and operate within them. So the work I'm doing already is the work that I think should be done.\n\n\"So I think if people start communicating honestly and openly, they'll realise, 'Everyone is more similar to me than I imagined.'\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Theresa May has said she is confident there will be enough time for MPs to get a Brexit vote before the UK leaves.\n\nDuring Prime Minister's Questions, she was pressed on comments by David Davis who earlier said a vote might not happen before the March 2019 deadline.\n\nHe said the vote's timing hinged on when a deal was done and this may be at the \"59th minute of the 11th hour\".\n\nBut Mrs May said she believed it would happen \"in time for Parliament to have the vote we committed to\".\n\nThe government agreed earlier this year to give Parliament a \"meaningful\" say on the outcome of the current negotiations but Downing Street has not said when it will be.\n\nThe Brexit secretary told a Commons committee it had always been the government's goal that the vote would take place before the European Parliament gave its own verdict, expected to be in late 2018 or early 2019.\n\nBut he said that \"it can't come before we have the deal\" and pressed on whether this might not happen before the end of March 2019, he replied \"yes that's correct, in the event that we don't do the deal until then\".\n\nThe comments have been seized on by Labour MPs one of whom - Stephen Kinnock - asked the PM how Parliament \"could have a meaningful vote on something that has already taken place\".\n\nMrs May said it was right that negotiations could continue right until the scheduled date of Brexit but suggested that it was in the interest of all parties to conclude them before then.\n\n\"It is not just this Parliament that wants to have a vote on that deal - there will be ratifications by other Parliaments,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stephen Kinnock asks PM to explain how it is possible to have a \"meaningful vote on something that has already taken place\"\n\n\"I am confident, because it is in the interests of both sides, that we will be able to achieve that agreement and negotiation in time for this Parliament to have the vote we committed to.\"\n\nBut Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said ministers were making up policy \"on the hoof on a daily basis\" while Lib Dem spokesman Tom Brake said not to have a vote before Brexit would be \"an insult to democracy\".\n\nFormer Tory education secretary Nicky Morgan said it would be \"completely pointless\" to have a vote after the UK had left and was therefore pleased about the PM's reassurances.\n\n\"The danger of answering hypothetical questions as David Davis has done this morning is you end up in hotter water,\" she told the BBC's Daily Politics. \"The sovereign Parliament has to have a final meaningful vote.\"\n\nBut former Conservative chancellor Ken Clarke said he was not concerned about there being a vote before Brexit as the UK would leave anyway under the terms of the Article 50 process, which he voted against.\n\nHe told the BBC there was no way a trade deal would be agreed by March 2019 and until that happened - and Parliament approved it - the UK would remain signed up to whatever transition deal came into force.\n\nThe government, Mr Davis told MPs, was aiming to conclude all its negotiations - including a future trade deal - by the time of its withdrawal and while this was perfectly feasible, it could be a close-run thing.\n\n\"It is no secret that the way the union makes its decisions tends to be at the 11th minute... 59th minute of the 11th hour of the 11th day and so on and that's precisely what I expect to happen here.\"\n\n\"It will be very high stress, very exciting for everyone watching, but that's what will happen. In technical terms, there is no reason why we can't do this in the time available... I am quite sure in my mind we can do this.\"\n\nMr Davis suggested the talks could go up to the wire\n\nUnder the terms of existing EU treaties, the UK would not be able to sign a trade deal with the EU until it becomes a \"third party\" and has left the EU.\n\nMr Davis said \"technically\" this was true, but that a deal could be signed almost immediately, or as he put it, \"a nano second\" afterwards.\n\nThe Department for Exiting the European Union released a statement afterwards clarifying Mr Davis's position, saying he had been asked about hypothetical scenarios and both the UK and EU hoped to finalise a deal by October 2018, giving time for Parliament to vote on it before the UK leaves.\n\nOn Monday, Mrs May suggested the two-year implementation period she was hoping for was dependent on details of the final \"partnership\" being clear at the time of exit.\n\nThis alarmed business groups, which warned earlier this week that the UK risks losing jobs and investment without an interim deal agreed much sooner.\n\nPressed on this during the hearing, Mr Davis said that by the first quarter of next year, it \"should be pretty plain what we are trying to deliver\" in terms of transition, which he said would look \"much like\" the status quo in terms of trade, migration and other arrangements.\n\nHowever, he noted the EU had not yet drawn up their final negotiating guidelines on any transition and both sides needed to know what the UK's final destination would be before this was settled.\n\nWhile the UK wanted a full trade deal, he said there was the possibility of what he described as a \"bare bones\" agreement where there were understandings in key areas but no over-arching agreement. An outcome where the two sides were unable to agree anything was \"off the probability scale\", he added.", "Fats Domino was one of the most influential rock and roll performers of the 1950s and 60s.\n\nHe was already a star on the R&B circuit in his native New Orleans in the 1950s, but the advent of rock and roll propelled him to global popularity.\n\nHe sold more than 65 million records, more than any other rock and roller - with the exception of Elvis Presley.\n\nHis style was a major influence on several important artists, including John Lennon and Paul McCartney.\n\nAntoine \"Fats\" Domino Jr was born in New Orleans on 26 February 1928, the son of a violinist. His parents were of Creole origin, and French Creole was spoken in the family. He was musically inclined from an early age and learned piano from his brother in law, the jazz banjo player, Harrison Verrett.\n\nBy the mid 50s he was one of America's biggest stars\n\nHe was given his nickname by bandleader Bill Diamond, for whom he was playing piano in honky-tonks as a teenager. He said the youngster's technique reminded him of two other great piano players, Fats Waller and Fats Pichon.\n\nDomino left school at the age of 14 to work in a bedspring factory by day, and play in bars by night. He was soon accompanying such New Orleans luminaries as Professor Longhair and Amos Milburn.\n\nIn the mid-1940s, he joined trumpeter Dave Bartholomew's band, and the two co-wrote Domino's first hit The Fat Man. Suddenly, the New Orleans sound became popular nationwide.\n\nDomino had further hits with Every Night About This Time in 1951, Goin' Home in 1952 and Going to the River in the following year.\n\nThough Fats Domino never had the personal charisma of Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard or Chuck Berry, his R&B style lent itself ideally to the rhythm of rock, and many of these artists covered his material.\n\nIt was an era in which a new and exciting sound - born of black America - took over from the established white-dominated pop of Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney and Perry Como.\n\nAlong with Jerry Lee Lewis and James Brown, he was one of the first inductees in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame\n\nBut it was not until 1955 that Fats Domino finally broke into the mainstream pop world with Ain't That a Shame.\n\nThe following year, he had his biggest hit with Blueberry Hill, a slow, bluesy sing-along - originally a Louis Armstrong tune - which became Domino's theme song.\n\nHis popularity soon crossed the Atlantic - along with Bill Haley he was blamed for causing Teddy Boy riots in the UK in the 1950s.\n\nBy 1960 - the year he recorded Walkin' to New Orleans - he was rivalling Presley as one of the world's top-selling rock artists.\n\nBetween 1955 and 1963, Fats Domino had 35 Top 40 US singles, including Whole Lotta Loving, Blue Monday and I'm in Love Again.\n\nIn 1968, interest in his music was revived after he released a version of The Beatles' Lady Madonna.\n\nThe era of The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, of guitar bands and outrageous stage performances, was light years away from Fats Domino's laid-back and assured style.\n\nThe father of eight children, whose first names all began with the letter A, Fats Domino continued to tour into old age - most notably with other rock'n'roll legends like Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.\n\nEMI released a definitive box-set of his recordings in 1991 and two years later came his first recorded album for 25 years, Christmas is a Special Day.\n\nHis New Orleans house was damaged during Hurricane Katrina\n\nFats Domino lived in style in New Orleans and in later years didn't like to travel far from his native city.\n\nHowever, in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit, his house was ruined and most of his possessions, including his gold and platinum discs, were destroyed by the floods.\n\nIn 2007 he played a benefit concert in aid of the city he was so closely identified with and which remained his home.\n\nUniversally accepted as a rock and roll legend, an unassuming Fats Domino once said of himself: \"I'm glad that people liked me and my music. I guess it was an interesting life. I didn't pay much attention, and I never thought I'd be here this long.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "They are not exactly hanging out the bunting at the Treasury, but today's better-than-expected economic growth figures have put a bit of a spring in the step of the chancellor.\n\nAnd that is not just for economic reasons.\n\nPhilip Hammond is under increasing political pressure from cabinet colleagues to loosen the purse strings in his Budget on 22 November.\n\nSajid Javid, the communities secretary, has gone public, suggesting that the government should borrow more for housebuilding.\n\nAnd another senior cabinet minister I spoke to, with excellent knowledge of the prime minister's thinking, also suggested to me that some fiscal largesse might be just what the country needs.\n\nPhilip Hammond is not of that view - and the better economic data will give him a little more headroom in the public finances without having to borrow more.\n\nHis hand has been strengthened.\n\nIn his interview with me, Mr Hammond made it clear that he remains a fiscal conservative, focused on \"balancing the books\" and bringing the deficit down to zero by the middle of the next decade.\n\nI asked him whether he saw any merit in delay.\n\n\"Well, we've already moved the target for balancing the books out from 2020 to 2025, but continuing to drive down the deficit in a measured and sensible way over a period of years, so that we are living within our means, and reducing the debt we are passing on to our children, has to be the right way to go,\" Mr Hammond told me.\n\nThere is certainly a robust argument going on in government.\n\nThere are those who believe that Mrs May's administration needs some eye-catching initiatives.\n\nAnd given that tax rises are difficult to push through Parliament (just remember what happened to those March plans to increase National Insurance contributions for the self-employed), borrowing more seems the easiest route to paying for popular policies.\n\nShould we borrow to build?\n\nMany economists believe that the present deficit of 2.6% is low enough to satisfy the markets that the government is fiscally competent and has public debts under a modicum of control.\n\nAnd Mr Javid said that \"taking advantage of record low interest rates can be the right thing if done sensibly\".\n\nThat does not appear to be the view of Mr Hammond.\n\n\"The government's borrowing costs are not at record low levels, they've risen over the last six or eight months,\" he said.\n\nThat's because higher inflation has increased the cost of servicing the government's debt.\n\n\"But the most important point here is that we still have a very large deficit and we have a debt which is 90% of our national income. That leaves us very exposed to any future shocks to the economy.\n\n\"So we want to continue to get the deficit down in a measured and sensible way over the medium term, giving ourselves room to support the economy, support our public services, invest in Britain's future through productivity-stimulating investment, but still moving over time to get that deficit down and starting to see our debt shrinking as a share of our GDP, so we don't simply pass on an unsupportable debt to the next generation.\"\n\nThe government's approach to borrowing will be a vital to the tone and feel of the Budget.\n\nAs far as Mr Hammond is concerned, \"living within our means\" is still the key message he wants to emanate from the Treasury.", "China's new leadership line-up was the last scene to play in the carefully scripted drama of the Communist Party Congress. Yet again Xi Jinping defied convention.\n\nHalfway through one Party chief's decade in power, a leader-in-waiting would normally appear in a red carpet ceremony at the Great Hall of the People.\n\nBut the men beside Mr Xi were all in their 60s, too old to be an heir.\n\nBreaking the mould on the succession, as with so much else, is part of the Chinese president's New Era, as he has termed it.\n\nBut don't imagine that now the Congress is over, you can forget about Mr Xi's New Era.\n\nIn the clash of political civilisations, he has put China on the offensive.\n\nIn his three-and-a-half hour speech to Congress, he set out a vision not just for the five years ahead but for 30, and talked of a socialist model which provides, \"a new option for other countries and nations who want to speed up their development while preserving their independence\".\n\nAt home China is already a surveillance state accelerating its ability to listen to every call and track every face, online posting, movement and purchase. Expect it now to export not just the governance model but the cyber weapons to make that work.\n\nMr Xi wants China's socialism to be a model for others to follow\n\nGone is the insistence that China must hide its light under a bushel and be a modest player abroad. Mr Xi told Congress that China must be a \"great power\" with a first class military \"built to fight\".\n\nBut the president's New Era doesn't rely solely on hard power.\n\nOver the past four decades China has built a market economy under a one party state. Now Mr Xi hopes to correct its flaws to deliver his citizens a better quality of life.\n\nHe dreams of an innovative powerhouse driven by well educated citizens with unshakeable faith in the superiority of their system. His speech to Congress promised more control of the internet to \"oppose and resist the whole range of erroneous viewpoints\".\n\nBut he hopes to win the battle for hearts and minds even earlier and his education minister said schoolchildren would soon begin to study \"'Xi Thought'\".\n\nThe full slogan is \"Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era\". Behind the rhetoric, this means an enormous centralisation of power for Xi and his Party over China's economy and society.\n\nOfficial media have dwelled on the \"lies\" of western democracy and the failures of capitalism, a system \"swamped by crisis and chaos\". In the words of one commentary by state news agency Xinhua, \"The wealth gap widens, the working class suffers, and the society remains divided\".\n\nIn absolute GDP, the United States may still be the world's largest economy, but President Trump has withdrawn American leadership on free trade and climate change and Xi's China has neatly stepped into the gap.\n\nMr Xi talks about guiding the international community \"towards a more just and rational new world order\". The latest Pew opinion survey across 37 countries suggests more people now trust the Chinese leader to do the right thing than the American one.\n\nOn its current trajectory, the Chinese economy will overtake the US some time in the next decade to become the world's largest.\n\nCritics dismiss the challenge of the China model, predicting that rigid politics will cramp innovation and growth will succumb to market distortions. Certainly most countries that make it to the world's rich club go democratic first.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What can and can't you say in China?\n\nBut China has always seen itself as exceptional by virtue of its scale, its history and its culture. Xi Jinping says China's road to a great nation will be \"different from that of traditional great powers\". He is no keener to adopt what he sees as American values than the US is to adopt Chinese ones.\n\nSeveral things follow from this control mission. Firstly, the values of liberal democracy are by definition the enemy. The appeal of free media, independent judiciary and pluralistic civil society are discredited wherever possible. In fact, since Mr Xi came to power, public discussion of these values has become taboo in China.\n\nBy contrast, Mr Xi is expanding his formal and informal control network through Communist Party cells. They now operate not just in domestic companies but in more than two thirds of foreign invested ones on Chinese soil. All foreign economic engagement in China is increasingly on the Party's terms, permitted only in sectors and at a pace which is designed to meet China's interests rather than those of its trading partners.\n\nAnd for those partners, the debate over how to respond is likely to become more polarised in this New Era.\n\nMr Xi's admirers will insist that China's ruling party deserves credit for pulling many millions of its citizens out of poverty and point out that at nearly 7% Chinese growth is one of the engines of the global economy.\n\nMr Xi wants China centre stage in a new world order\n\nHis detractors will argue that his Party deserves little credit for an economic miracle won by the hard work and ingenuity of the Chinese people despite its rulers rather than because of them. Some will even point to the rise of Hitler and Stalin as lessons in the cost of not confronting dictatorships.\n\nFour trillion dollars in foreign reserves, and control over the fastest growing consumer market in the world, give Xi Jinping powerful weapons to influence this debate.\n\nEven as the Communist Party unveiled its new leadership on Wednesday, it excluded several major western news organisations from the ceremony.\n\nOfficially no reason was given for barring the BBC, Financial Times, Economist, New York Times and Guardian, but unofficially journalists were told that their reporting was to blame. Another sign of Xi's determination to control the message at home and abroad.\n\nAs Mr Xi declares China ready \"to move towards centre stage in the world\", it's not clear whether his mission to control will help or hinder him.\n\nFor his public the slogan of the moment is not \"Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics For a New Era\". It is the far simpler \"awesome China\" in red and gold on banners, bicycle wheels and social media posts.\n\nFew would deny that China is awesome. But exactly how is in the eye of the beholder. For many Chinese patriots, \"awesome China\" signals pride. For many outsiders it means admiration. But for others there's an undercurrent of ambivalence and even fear.\n\nThe only certainty is that none will be untouched by China in Mr Xi's New Era.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An MEP's assistant catalogued three years of harassment in the parliament\n\nJeanne Ponté had only been in her job as an assistant to a French member of the European Parliament for two weeks when it happened for the first time.\n\n\"During a conference he was watching me with a lot of insistence,\" she says, recalling the behaviour of one German MEP back in 2014.\n\n\"After a while I was relieved because I didn't see him anymore… [but] he was waiting for me at the exit.\n\n\"He stopped me walking past and put his arms around my waist, asking me if I was new.\"\n\nIt was the first time Jeanne, now 27, would experience sexual harassment or sexist comments in her job at the European Parliament.\n\nIt prompted her to keep a diary of future incidents. Three years on, she has recorded nearly 50 cases involving her and her colleagues, ranging from sexist comments to physical touching and intimidation.\n\nThe parliament's existing anti-harassment committee deals with any allegations\n\nJeanne is one of several female staff members who have spoken out against sexual harassment in the European Parliament in the wake of the allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.\n\nShe has been closely supported by her MEP, Edouard Martin, who has joined her in campaigning for change.\n\n\"I am horrified by what she has gone through,\" he said. \"We need to find a way to better protect assistants, interns and other administrative staff.\"\n\nDuring a debate about sexual harassment at the European Parliament on Wednesday, several MEPs held up 'Me Too' placards in the chamber in solidarity with victims and to demonstrate that they had also had negative experiences.\n\nThe 'me too' campaign went viral after actress Alyssa Milano tweeted about it amid widespread allegations in Hollywood\n\nAmong them was Terry Reintke, a Green MEP from Germany, who said she was shocked by the intensity of the harassment described in some of the women's stories.\n\nShe believes that victims in the parliament are still afraid to make official complaints.\n\n\"The stigma is still so high,\" she says.\n\n\"We need to do more to encourage women to come forward. It's a general problem that women who report these incidents are still not being trusted - their experiences of assault and harassment are not trusted.\"\n\nMs Reintke and her MEP colleagues at the European Parliament have written a letter calling for an external investigation into sexual harassment at the institution in response to the allegations.\n\nThe letter is addressed to the president of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, and asks for a special dedicated committee on sexual harassment to be set up, and for legal and medical support to be provided to victims.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Terry Reintke This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 letter calls for mandatory training on gender awareness and harassment for all parliamentary staff. It also asks for male MEPs and staff in particular to \"show solidarity with victims by disassociating themselves from, and denouncing such behaviour whenever it occurs\".\n\nEdouard Martin agrees it is everyone's responsibility to tackle the issue.\n\n\"I am not proud to say it now, but I have been part of conversations where sexist comments have been made,' he says.\n\n\"I should have taken a stand and said that those comments were unacceptable… we need to stop normalising this behaviour.\"\n\nThe French Socialist Party MEP was elected in 2014\n\nThe parliament's existing anti-harassment committee deals with all forms of harassment.\n\nBut it consists mostly of MEPs with no independent experts - a set-up that many believe does not go far enough in providing the right support to victims.\n\nCatherine Bearder, head of the committee, says that assistants and other staff are represented, but that victims just do not want to come forward.\n\nShe says this is particularly a problem for assistants who worry about the impact of reporting sexual harassment on their careers.\n\n\"We must get better at encouraging the victims to come forward by providing guarantees they will not lose their job,\" she says.\n\nPart of the problem is that MEPs personally choose their assistants - a situation which Ms Reintke believes makes it even more difficult for victims to report incidents of concern.\n\n\"There is such a direct relationship between MEP and assistants… there is a procedure in place for when an MEP wants to let a staff member go, but it's still the case that they can ask to terminate your contract if and when they so wish.\"\n• None When does flirting become sexual harassment?", "Melanie Owen will be seen in Albert Square in the new year\n\nTamzin Outhwaite is returning to EastEnders after more than 15 years away from the show.\n\nShe's returning to Albert Square in her role as Melanie Owen, having made her first appearance in 1998.\n\nAn EastEnders spokeswoman confirmed she was coming back to the soap as a regular character.\n\nOuthwaite, seen most recently in New Tricks, said: \"EastEnders is in my DNA and I always knew deep down that someday I would revisit Mel.\"\n\nHer first scenes will be broadcast in the new year.\n\nEastEnders creative director John Yorke promised an \"incredible storyline\" that will \"awaken a lot of old ghosts, some great memories, and a whole new series of adventures too\".\n\nOne of Mel Owen's storylines focused on her relationship with Ian Beale, played by Adam Woodyatt\n\nHe added: \"We're thrilled and flattered to have Tamzin back and we can't wait to reveal just where she's been, and just who Melanie Owen is now.\"\n\nOuthwaite said it was an \"honour\" to be asked back by Yorke, saying he \"created Mel's most memorable storylines\".\n\nShe added that her character is \"a strong independent woman with lots more stories to tell.\n\n\"To be stepping back into Mel's shoes nearly twenty years after I first started feels just perfect.\"\n\nViewers last saw Mel in April 2002 when she left Walford following the death of her husband Steve Owen - played by Martin Kemp. She faced a prison sentence but then fled the country after Phil Mitchell put up £30,000 bail money.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "US President Donald Trump has seized on reports that Hillary Clinton's team bankrolled a sleazy dossier of allegations linking him to Russia.\n\nClaims that Mr Trump had been filmed with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel surfaced in the closing stretch of last year's White House race.\n\nMrs Clinton's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) reportedly helped fund the research.\n\n\"The victim here is the President,\" Mr Trump tweeted on Wednesday.\n\nAccording to US media reports, Perkins Coie, a law firm representing the Clinton campaign and DNC, hired intelligence firm Fusion GPS in April 2016.\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\nFusion GPS, based in Washington DC, was paid to dig up dirt on Mr Trump, who was then Mrs Clinton's rival for the presidency.\n\nThe intelligence firm subcontracted Christopher Steele, a former British spy who previously worked in Russia, to compile the research.\n\nAttributed to unnamed sources, it claimed that Mr Trump had colluded with Russian officials during the election campaign.\n\nThe unsubstantiated dossier also alleged that Kremlin spies filmed Mr Trump with prostitutes at Moscow's Ritz-Carlton hotel in 2013.\n\nChristopher Steele, a former British spy who worked in Russia, compiled the research\n\nThe opposition research was initially funded by an unknown Republican consulting firm, which pulled the plug once Mr Trump captured the party's nomination.\n\nThe Clinton campaign then picked up the tab, according to the reports.\n\nAs he headed off to Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday, President Trump told reporters on the White House lawn: \"It's very sad what they've done with this fake dossier.\"\n\nHe added: \"Hillary Clinton always denied it, the Democrats always denied it.\n\n\"I think it's a disgrace, it's a very sad commentary on politics in this country.\"\n\nIn January shortly before he was sworn in as president, Mr Trump dismissed the dossier as \"fake news\".\n\nWhite House press secretary Sarah Sanders tweeted on Tuesday: \"The real Russia scandal? Clinton campaign paid for the fake Russia dossier, then lied about it & covered it up.\"\n\nPolitical campaigns have been in the business of digging up dirt on their rivals since the dawn of democratic elections. A choice bit of \"opposition research\", deployed at an opportune moment, can be a decisive factor in a close election.\n\nSo it should come as little surprise that supporters of a Republican candidate went to work building a file on Donald Trump during the party primaries or that Democrats took the baton as the general election geared up.\n\nWhat's unusual - and what will pique the interest of investigators and fuel the suspicions of conservatives - is that after the election, once Hillary Clinton was defeated, the FBI would pick up funding for this investigation.\n\nA topic as sensitive as this - allegations of foreign influence on a presidential campaign - doesn't seem like something the US government should be outsourcing.\n\nThere have been plenty of accusations, on both sides of ideological divide, that the FBI has become politicised. Stories like this won't help diminish those concerns.\n\nIn fact, they will almost certainly be cited to undermine the results of ongoing inquiries into Mr Trump's possible Russia ties, whether or not the eventual findings have a connection to this now-infamous dossier.\n\nThe DNC said its new leadership had nothing to do with creation of the dossier.\n\nA spokeswoman told the Washington Post, which broke the story: \"But let's be clear, there is a serious federal investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, and the American public deserves to know what happened.\"\n\nEarlier this week, a US judge gave Fusion GPS until Thursday to reach an agreement with congressional investigators who issued a subpoena to see the firm's bank records over the last two years.\n\nSome of Mr Steele's allegations began circulating in Washington in the summer of 2016 as the FBI began looking into whether there were any links between Trump aides and the Kremlin.\n\nSpecial counsel Robert Mueller and several congressional panels are investigating the same alleged connections, but to date have revealed no conclusive evidence.\n\nA few weeks ago Mr Mueller's team questioned Mr Steele about the assertions in the dossier.", "Hector Trujillo was arrested in December 2015 in Florida, during a Disney cruise with his family.\n\nA former Guatemalan judge who led his country's football federation has become the first person to be sentenced in a US investigation into corruption in Fifa.\n\nHector Trujillo was sentenced to eight months in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy.\n\nHe admitted to accepting almost $200,000 in bribes from a sports marketing company.\n\nThe US has indicted around 40 football and marketing executives.\n\nMr Trujillo admitted offering media and marketing rights to Guatemala's World Cup qualifier matches in return for bribes.\n\nThe US investigation was first revealed in May 2015 and has seen federal prosecutors in New York indict around 40 sports and football executives linked to football in the Americas.\n\nMany of the charges involve bribes paid around the organisation of regional tournaments and World Cup qualifying games.\n\nProsecutors in Switzerland have also been investigating and Fifa has conducted internal enquiries.", "Scientists have demonstrated an \"incredibly powerful\" ability to manipulate the building blocks of life in two separate studies.\n\nOne altered the order of atoms in DNA to rewrite the human genetic code and the instructions for life.\n\nThe other edited RNA, which is a chemical cousin of DNA and unlocks the information in the genetic code.\n\nThe studies - which could eventually treat diseases - have been described as clever, important and exciting.\n\nCystic fibrosis, inherited blindness and other diseases caused by a single typo in the genetic code could ultimately be prevented or treated with such approaches.\n\nBoth studies were performed at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.\n\nThe first, published in the journal Nature, developed tools called base editors.\n\nDNA is built out of the four bases: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). If a single one of them is in the wrong place, it can cause disease.\n\nBase editors alter the molecular structure of one base to convert it into another. Researchers can now manipulate the four bases.\n\nAnd the team used base editing to correct an inherited disease that leads to dangerously high levels of iron in the blood.\n\nProf David Liu of the Broad Institute said: \"We are hard at work trying to translate base editing technology into human therapeutics.\"\n\nHowever, he admits there are still issues around safety and implementation:\n\n\"Having a machine that can make the change you want to make is only the start. You still need to do all this other work, but having the machine really helps.\"\n\nThe second study, published in the journal Science, focused on RNA, another of the molecules essential for life.\n\nDNA is the master copy of the genetic code, but in order for a cell to use the genetic instructions, it must first create an RNA copy.\n\nIt is like going to a library where you cannot read any of the books, but can only use photocopies.\n\nThe researchers used their RNA approach to correct an inherited form of anaemia in human cells.\n\nFeng Zhang - also of the Broad Institute - said: \"The ability to correct disease-causing mutations is one of the primary goals of genome editing.\n\n\"This new ability to edit RNA opens up more potential opportunities to... treat many diseases, in almost any kind of cell.\"\n\nAll of the experiments were on human cells growing in the laboratory.\n\nDr Helen O'Neill, from UCL, said: \"This is an exciting week for genetic research.\n\n\"These papers highlight the fast pace of the field and the continuous improvements being made in genome editing, bringing it closer and closer to the clinic.\"\n\nScientific advances in genetic engineering are taking place at an incredible pace.\n\nAnd the same technologies work on plants, animals and micro-organisms too, posing questions for areas like agriculture.\n\nDr Sarah Chan, a bioethicist at the University of Edinburgh, said we can no longer pretend the technology is too dangerous to contemplate.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"We can't hide any more.\n\n\"The science is moving fast in the sense it is becoming less risky, more certain, more precise and more effective.\n\n\"It is absolutely past time for us to engage more widely with publics on the issue of gene editing.\"", "The suggestion that the NHS could start paying people £50 a night to look after hospital patients who are recovering from surgery is the lead story for The Guardian, The Times and The Daily Mirror. Writing in the Mirror, the shadow minister for social care, Barbara Keeley, thinks the proposal is \"terrifying\" as there are \"clear safety risks\" if patients are forced to accept this \"cut-price\" care.\n\nThe paper agrees, arguing that the initiative is a \"sticking plaster\" for an NHS close to collapse, when what is needed is a national care service to operate alongside the health service.\n\nLabour's suspension of the MP for Sheffield Hallam, Jared O'Mara following the emergence of racist, sexist and homophobic comments he made online more than a decade ago is widely welcomed, but several papers are critical of the time taken to reach the decision.\n\nThe Times suggests parliament \"should not miss him too much\" as he is the only MP elected in June not to have spoken in the Commons. While the Sun argues it is \"a disgrace\" that Labour bosses knew about his antics more than a month ago \"but chose to do nothing\".\n\nThe Reaction website questions how such a \"clearly unsuitable candidate\" could be selected by Labour in the first place. It says supporters of Jeremy Corbyn seized the opportunity to back him when the initial candidate was forced to rule himself out after just starting a new job.\n\nArguing that Mr O'Mara \"is just the tip of the Corbynista iceberg\", it says Labour \"has become cultish, and now values loyalty to the hard left more than suitability and capability\".\n\nThe lead story in the Daily Mail highlights what it describes as a \"string of examples\" of senior figures at universities speaking out in favour of the European Union. It believes it's a \"troubling insight\" into the extent of anti-Brexit bias at universities, following the row about a Conservative MP who asked professors for details of their courses on the UK's departure from the EU.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph agrees, using its editorial to urge lecturers to turn their minds to mapping out Britain's post-EU future, instead of telling their students how they think the decision is wrong.\n\nThe political editor of the Spectator, James Forsyth, believes that political meddling is putting the independence of universities at risk. He claims the political class is \"remarkably unappreciative\" of the fact that Britain's universities are some of the best in the world, and says \"too many\" MPs want to interfere in ways that would undermine the institutions.\n\nHe argues that if universities want to safeguard themselves against meddling politicians, \"then the way to do that is to go fully private\".\n\nA number of papers highlight a study which claims red squirrels infected with leprosy may have brought the disease to medieval England along Viking trading routes.\n\nThe lead researcher has told the Daily Mail this would explain why leprosy was endemic in coastal areas of East Anglia earlier than it was in other parts of Britain. The Daily Telegraph isn't convinced, noting that we are happy to blame rats for plague, \"but red squirrels have such a good press that even now it is hard to see them as bringers of zoonotic disease\".\n\nThe Scottish government is expected to announce that it will allow women to take the abortion pill at home, according to the Buzzfeed website.\n\nCurrent rules dictate that the drug misoprostol must be administered and taken in a registered clinical setting. A leading gynaecologist has told the website that Holyrood is set to announce a revision of the licensing of misoprostol in Scotland, describing the move as a \"huge step forward\".\n\nBuzzfeed says a spokesperson for NHS Health Scotland has confirmed that an announcement on the licensing of misoprostol is \"imminent\".", "Tim Nguyen's team restores lighthouses all over the world\n\nFor more than 150 years, glassmakers in one of England's landlocked regions gave light to the seafarers all over the world. It has fallen to one man on the other side of the planet to preserve their legacy.\n\nShining a fresh light on the forgotten past of the Midlands-based Chance Brothers is Tim Nguyen, who has dedicated himself to restoring their work in 2,000 lighthouses across the globe.\n\nThe Australian's quest to restore their optics using original parts and methods is unmatched by anyone.\n\nHe has spent 20 years honing his craft and hopes he will soon find a skilled glassblower to complete the team in Melbourne and recreate the traditional techniques used by the original Black Country firm.\n\nChance Brothers Glassworks in Smethwick manufactured glass used in everything from glazing the Houses of Parliament and Crystal Palace to the production of novelty ashtrays.\n\n\"If it was made in glass then Chance Brothers made it,\" said Ray Drury, the firm's final chief engineer, on its 150th anniversary.\n\nWhen the company was founded in 1824, the world was changing rapidly. The booming shipping industry meant wrecks became a regular occurrence as more ships had to navigate treacherous coastlines, according to historian Malcolm Dick.\n\nIn response to this, Chance Brothers created optic lenses for lighthouses that were sent around the world, illuminating coasts and saving thousands of lives.\n\nBut since shutting its doors in 1981, the number of their lighthouses has dwindled and with it, the traditional skills needed to produce their hallmark glass.\n\nWorkers at the glass firm made prisms for the lighthouses\n\nThe Chance Brothers factory in Smethwick closed its doors in 1981\n\nMr Nguyen has no attachment to the original company, which employed 3,500 people at its height.\n\nBut his team, which adopted the name Chance Brothers Lighthouse Engineers, has dedicated itself to restoring and repairing lighthouses using traditional methods and original parts and has done so at more than 100 sites.\n\nTravelling the world, they gather broken parts and repair them and now have enough to be able to fix any lighthouse without replacing anything with modern technology.\n\nTim Nguyen says his team are the only people taking on the preservation work of lighthouses\n\nAlthough he repairs lighthouses around the world, including this one in the US, Mr Nguyen said the work made him feel closer to the West Midlands\n\nMr Nguyen said: \"We travel the world to assist in restoration and salvage parts.\n\n\"Basically, we're like a car-wrecker. That's how we work until one day when we team up with a glassblower who can make crown glass - then we can make anything.\"\n\nCrown glass is the original type of glass used in Chance Brothers' optics.\n\nBut new production methods mean that the colour and composition of modern glass would not match the original glass if it was added now.\n\nLighthouses made in the Midlands saved thousands from shipwrecks as the shipping industry boomed\n\nMr Nguyen has so far not been able to find anyone with the glassblowing skills in Australia to replicate the Chance Brothers' methods.\n\n\"We've looked everywhere and can't find anyone that can cast crown glass,\" he said.\n\n\"I believe some people in England can probably do it. If we have a chance of finding someone who can do it, it'll be there.\"\n\nThis lighthouse in south Wales also has an original foghorn made in Smethwick\n\nMr Nguyen said with a crown glassblower on the team, they would be able to recreate the Chance Brothers' original workshop and even return it to Smethwick.\n\n\"One day, when we have this operational workshop we would like to move it back to the Black Country,\" he said.\n\n\"We're trying to do this project on our own, which isn't easy - but I believe it will be done in my lifetime.\n\n\"The community over there, their jaws would drop if we brought it back.\"\n\nThere are about 2,300 lighthouses around the world with lenses that were made in the Black Country\n\nRegional heritage projects and plans to redevelop the factory site go some way to ensuring the past is not forgotten, but Mr Nguyen wants to go further.\n\n\"Archives preserve the documents, the restoration will preserve the buildings, but nobody is trying to preserve the techniques,\" he said.\n\n\"We are here to preserve and carry on the engineering side, because if we don't it'll be lost. After doing this work for 20 years, that knowledge is too valuable to be lost.\n\n\"Basically, we're the only ones doing this work.\"\n\nBut is Mr Nguyen vainly fighting the tide of modernisation?\n\nNash Point lighthouse switched to a more modern bulb in 1998\n\nLike many others, Nash Point lighthouse, near Marcross in south Wales, made the change to a new automated lens several years ago.\n\nAttendant Chris Williams said the new 150 watt lens has a \"much smaller bulb\" but is \"more reliable and stays brighter for longer\".\n\nThe original Chance Glass optic, which typically contained a 1,500 watt bulb, was left on display but out of use.\n\nThe original optics at Nash Point are no longer in use, but remain on display\n\n\"Generally speaking, traditional optics are being phased out because new technology is so much more efficient,\" according to David Taylor from the Association of Lighthouse Keepers.\n\n\"Restoring a glass optic is hugely expensive. Within 15-20 years there probably won't be any left.\"\n\nRegardless, Mr Nguyen persists, so keen is he to preserve this slice of history. But he's not the only one with an interest in keeping the tradition alive.\n\nThe small team based in Melbourne travel the world preserving lighthouse optics\n\nMark Davies founded Chance Glass Works Heritage Trust after stumbling across a Chance Brothers lighthouse, purely by happenstance, in Australia.\n\nThe group plans to regenerate the original factory site in Smethwick and build a 30m tall lighthouse to teach people about the area's industrial legacy, which Mr Davies says is \"our best-kept secret\".\n\n\"The story started at the top of a lighthouse in Australia. I saw the manufacturer's plate and it said 'Made in Smethwick' and it stunned me.\n\n\"I was born four miles away and I didn't know about it myself. Outside Sandwell, there aren't many people that know about Chance Brothers.\"\n\nThe Black Country's history of light, it seems, needs a spotlight itself.", "Abby Sams tweeted the difference between days in and out of her wheelchair\n\nUsing the hashtag #InvisiblyDisabledLooksLike, Twitter users across the world with hidden disabilities have been sharing pictures and stories to challenge society's perceptions.\n\nMany people live with hidden disabilities - a physical, mental, sensory or neurological condition which don't have physical signs but are painful, exhausting and isolating.\n\nThey must also deal with the frustration, misunderstandings and false perceptions arising from the unseen nature of their conditions.\n\nA billion people around the world live with some kind of disability according to the World Health Organization, and one US survey found 74% of those with disabilities do not use a wheelchair or anything which might visually signal their disability.\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\nDani Barley, from Sydney, Australia, told the BBC she \"can walk around a bit,\" but uses a wheelchair to help others be \"comfortable with the idea of me as a younger person being disabled.\n\nDani says her wheelchair helps others feel comfortable with the idea of her disability\n\n\"If I tried to self identify as disabled due to mental health and chronic pain issues, people would minimise it, saying, 'Oh, I don't see you as disabled,' as if it were some kind of self-slur rather than a valid identity.\n\n\"Now, as a mum and university student, people assume the only access issues I have are stairs, not course content, weather, timing of classes, etc., related to PTSD and chronic pain.\n\n\"And the reason I love these hashtags, and have started to participate in them, is they are so educational for those of us inside and outside of the disability rights community.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mark Falconer shared his story of having an invisible disability and his experience of how others have seen him.\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\nDanielle, studying in Cambridge, UK, has a combination of myalgic encephalopathy (ME), fibromyalgia, and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, and tweeted she was \"terrified of using a walking aid, asking for priority seats,\" and being \"judged.\"\n\nDanielle tweeted she was terrified of being 'judged'\n\n\"My disabilities mean that some days I can attend lectures, and be functional,\" she told the BBC. \"Others, I am bed bound, unable to shower, make meals, and am consistently being physically sick from pain.\n\n\"The only support I've had is cognitive behavioural therapy, which obviously is not helpful for pain, just for learning to live with the disabilities. It is frustrating, because I know that there is incredible research going on in private medicine and treatments that could possibly change my life, but I can't access them. All I am offered is more and more painkillers; tramadol and codeine, gabapentin - at my worst, I was on upwards of 20 tablets a day.\n\n\"I decided to be open on twitter because I have a moderately large following. ME is such a stigmatised and misunderstood illness - even with professionals.\n\n\"I want to use my platform to the best of my abilities, especially as I am very aware many have it much worse than me.\"", "Harvey Weinstein could be stripped of his CBE following allegations of sexual assault made against the Hollywood producer, the BBC understands.\n\nThe removal of the honour is believed to be being \"actively considered\" by the government's Honours Forfeiture Committee for the first time.\n\nHe was awarded an honorary CBE for outstanding contribution to the British film industry in 2004.\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesman said forfeiture action \"is confidential\" and he could not comment on whether a specific case was being considered by the committee.\n\nMore than two dozen women - among them actresses Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Rose McGowan - have made accusations against him including rape and sexual assault.\n\nWeinstein insists sexual relations he had were consensual.\n\nThe latest claim against him came from actress and writer Brit Marling, who described an encounter in 2014 in which she claimed the movie mogul suggested they shower together.\n\nA number of organisations have distanced themselves from the American.\n\nThe Oscars board voted to expel the 65-year-old, whose films have won 81 Oscars.\n\nThe British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) suspended him and said it hoped the announcement would send \"a clear message\".\n\nA group of Labour MPs, including Jess Phillips and Chi Onwurah, have written to the prime minister calling for his CBE to be removed.\n\nCBE stands for Commander of the Order of the British Empire and is a rank in the UK's honours system - one step below a knighthood.\n\nTaking honours away, called \"forfeiture\", is done when someone is judged to have brought the honours system into disrepute.\n\nThe Honours Forfeiture Committee considers cases and the prime minister then sends recommendations to the Queen.\n\nPrevious recipients of honours to have had them removed include banker Fred Goodwin.\n\nThe former boss of the Royal Bank of Scotland was heavily criticised over his role in the bank's near-collapse in 2008.\n\nOther high-profile cases include jockey Lester Piggott, who was stripped of an OBE after he was jailed in 1987 for tax fraud.\n\nThe former spy Anthony Blunt was stripped of his knighthood in 1979 for supplying hundreds of secret documents to the Soviets while a wartime agent for MI5.", "It is hoped the Essex trial will see around 30 patients waiting for discharge from hospital care stay\n\nAirbnb-style accommodation may be used to free-up NHS hospital beds as part of a pilot scheme under consideration.\n\nIt is hoped the Essex trial will see around 30 patients waiting for discharge from hospital care stay with local residents who have a spare room.\n\nHealthcare start-up firm CareRooms is recruiting \"hosts\" to take in people recuperating from a hospital stay.\n\nEligible patients may be recruited from Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.\n\nBut the hospital has said final approval for the pilot has not yet been given.\n\nCareRooms said it will transform spare rooms and annexes with a private bathroom into \"secure care spaces for patients who are waiting to be discharged\".\n\nEligible patients will be recruited from Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust\n\nProspective hosts, who can earn up to £1,000 a month, need to pass security checks before they are approved for the scheme.\n\nThey would be required to heat up three microwave meals each day and supply drinks for patients and are offered \"host protection\" as well as a helpline and training.\n\nThe company's website said it aims to \"provide patients with a practical alternative to hospitals and care homes to recuperate in\".\n\nThe news comes amid the crisis of delayed discharges in hospitals.\n\nLast week, Age UK warned that increasing numbers of elderly and frail patients are being \"marooned\" in hospital beds, despite being medically fit.\n\nNHS figures show that last year, 2.2 million hospital \"bed days\" in England were lost due to delayed transfers of care.\n\nThe proposed trial will take place in Essex, it was first revealed by the Health Service Journal (HSJ).\n\nCareRooms said the \"micro pilot\" would involve just five to 10 hosts over a three-month period.\n\nThe trial will not start until all parties are assured that the process is \"safe or safer than standard practice\", it said.\n\nYvonne Blücher, managing director of Southend University Hospital, said: \"We would like to make it clear that only preliminary discussions have been held. Clearly if a decision to pilot such a proposal was made we would expect all safety, quality and regulatory arrangements to be satisfied.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Claim: Kensington and Chelsea Council says it will spend more on the rehousing and recovery operation for the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire than the government has promised to spend on housing in one quarter (three months) in the whole of the UK.\n\nReality Check Verdict: The £235m that the council has set aside so far for Grenfell is less than the additional £250m allocated for affordable housing in England and Wales a quarter, so on these figures the council is wrong. The council predicts it will ultimately end up spending more on Grenfell but hasn't provided the figures. However the government is due to spend a total of £455m a quarter on affordable housing up to 2021.\n\nThe Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea says it has set aside £235m so far on what it calls the Grenfell \"recovery\" operation.\n\nThere's no doubt that all of this is going to cost a fortune - not least because the borough is one of the most expensive areas of the UK. But even taking into account the sky-high prices of west London land, the council's claim doesn't stack up.\n\nSo why did it get it wrong? It's not hard to understand why the council got into a muddle.\n\nIt all comes down to one of the biggest problems faced by anyone trying to get their head around government spending: knowing for sure when the cash is going to be spent.\n\nThe council told BBC Reality Check that it was comparing its spending with the government's Affordable Homes Programme.\n\nThis is the key scheme overseen by the Department for Communities and Local Government to funds new homes in the social sector.\n\nThe AHP was set up in 2010 and it runs until 2021. Up until the end of the summer, the Treasury had approved £7bn for the second five-year phase which we are now in. That works out at £350m a quarter. But that's not the figure to which the council is referring.\n\nGrenfell Tower is situated amongst some of the most expensive housing in London.\n\nInstead, it is referencing a new part of the affordable homes spending: an additional £2bn that the prime minister announced at October's Conservative Party Conference.\n\nIf that £2bn was spread over the five years to 2021, it would work out as £100m per quarter. That's lower than Kensington and Chelsea's Grenfell spending - so the council looks like it's right.\n\nBut in fact, that new money is an additional investment for only the final two years of the Affordable Homes Programme.\n\nThat works out at £250m per quarter. And that's more than the council has set aside so far for the Grenfell recovery bill. The council predicts it will ultimately end up spending more on Grenfell but hasn't provided the figures.\n\nBBC Reality Check likes to challenge itself by discovering new and complicated ways to push figures further.\n\nWe lumped all £9bn of the government's current affordable homes spending together, without worrying too much about which particular year it applied to. When you spread that total over the five years of the programme, the projected quarterly average was £455m - still more than the council has set aside so far.\n\nThis article was amended on 24 October to reflect new information from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.", "The suspect carried out break-ins dressed as a ninja (file photo)\n\nJapanese police say they have finally caught a prolific thief who dressed as a ninja to carry out raids - and were surprised to find he was 74.\n\nAfter his usually covered face was caught on a security camera this year, he was put under surveillance which led to his arrest in July.\n\nPolice now believe he is the so-called \"Ninja of Heisei\", thought to have carried out more than 250 break-ins.\n\nHe has been charged with thefts worth 30m yen ($260,000; £200,000).\n\nPolice had been baffled by a series of burglaries over eight years carried out by a suspect wearing black, assuming they had been carried out by someone younger.\n\nInvestigators observed the suspect, whom they say seemed little different from most elderly men, during the day.\n\nBut they say he then went into an abandoned building and changed clothes before waiting until it got dark to steal.\n\n\"He was dressed all in black just like a ninja,\" a senior official in the western Japanese city of Osaka said.\n\nPolice said the thief displayed great physical ability, running effortlessly on top of walls instead of taking the streets.\n\nAfter his arrest, the man was quoted as saying: \"If I were younger, I wouldn't have been caught. I'll quit now as I'm 74 and old enough.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fats was the father of eight children, whose first names all began with the letter A\n\nFats Domino, one of the most influential rock and roll performers of the 1950s and 60s, has died aged 89.\n\nThe American rock and roll artist was best known for his songs Ain't That A Shame and Blueberry Hill.\n\nThe New Orleans singer sold more than 65 million records, outselling every 1950s rock and roll act except Elvis Presley.\n\nHis million-selling debut single, The Fat Man, is credited by some as the first ever rock and roll record.\n\nAn official from New Orleans coroner's office confirmed the death, which was earlier announced by Domino's daughter to a local television station.\n\nFats Domino had more than 30 hit singles\n\nFats Domino - whose real name was Antoine Domino Jr - was one of the first rhythm and blues artists to gain popularity with a white audience and his music was most prolific in the 1950s.\n\nDomino had 11 US top 10 hits and his music is credited as a key influence on artists during the 1960s and 70s.\n\nElvis Presley referred to Fats Domino as \"the real king of rock n roll\" and Paul McCartney reportedly wrote the Beatles song Lady Madonna in emulation of his style.\n\nIn 1986 he was among the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but by his later life Domino would no longer leave his Louisiana hometown - not even to accept the award.\n\nNew Orleans-born musician and actor Harry Connick Jr is among those who have paid tribute to Domino on Twitter, saying he had \"helped pave the way for New Orleans piano players\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Harry Connick Jr This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRapper LL Cool J paid tribute to Domino for being an inspiration to so many:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 LLCOOLJ. This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Samuel L Jackson cited the lyrics of one of Domino's best loved songs:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Samuel L. Jackson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAntoine \"Fats\" Domino Jr was born in New Orleans on 26 Feb 1928, the son of a violinist. His parents were of Creole origin, and French Creole was spoken in the family.\n\nHe was musically inclined from an early age and learned piano from his brother in law, the jazz banjo player, Harrison Verrett.\n\nHe was given his nickname by bandleader Bill Diamond for whom he was playing piano in honky-tonks as a teenager. He said the youngster's technique reminded him of two other great piano players, Fats Waller and Fats Pichon.\n\nDomino left school at the age of 14 to work in a bedspring factory by day, and play in bars by night. He was soon accompanying such New Orleans luminaries as Professor Longhair and Amos Milburn.\n\nIn the mid-1940s, he joined trumpeter Dave Bartholomew's band, and the two co-wrote Domino's first hit The Fat Man. Suddenly, the New Orleans sound became popular nationwide.\n\n\"Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret...And New Orleans home cooking\"\n\nIn an interview with the BBC in 1973, Domino spoke about his early life.\n\nHe said: \"I was 17 when I made my first record in 1949. I never thought about being professional. I used to work in a lumberyard and that's where I first heard a number on a jukebox and I liked it. It was a piano number. It was called 'Swanee River Boogie' by Albert Ammonds.\"\n\nDespite both musical heavyweights coming from New Orleans, Fats Domino said he only met Louis Armstrong twice in his life.\n\nHe told the BBC in a later interview: \"I liked the way he was singing 'Blueberry Hill'. See, a lot of people think I wrote 'Blueberry Hill' but I didn't.\n\n\"That number was wrote in 1927 and I recorded that song in 1957. We just put a different background and I just sing it the way it would fit me and it came out great for me.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Five things about Fats Domino. Video, 00:00:12Five things about Fats Domino", "Conservative MP Nicky Morgan has told Brexit Secretary David Davis that Tory MPs who support an amendment requiring a final Brexit deal to be approved by Parliament are \"deadly serious\".\n\nShe says the government should accept amendment 7 to the EU Withdrawal Bill, which is in the name of the former attorney general Dominic Grieve.\n\nDavid Davis told MPs he won't pre-empt the discussion on the bill but those reports [that the rebel Tory MPs are not being taken seriously] are not true.\n\nMr Davis was answering an urgent question in the Commons about when Parliament might vote on a deal with the EU.", "A Peace Festival was held in Mosul weeks after IS was ousted\n\nFor almost three years, while her home city of Mosul was under occupation by so-called Islamic State (IS), Tahani Salih kept a daily diary documenting their crimes.\n\nTahani, now 27, filled almost 500 pages with her experiences and those of her family and friends, as well as her hopes and dreams for the time when IS would be defeated.\n\n\"Just before our neighbourhood was liberated, IS began to harass people and force their way into their homes to carry out searches. One day I took out those hand-written pages and started to reread them, and I was shocked,\" she said.\n\n\"I realised that the content could put my life and my family at risk, as well as people I had mentioned in my diary. So I had no choice but to destroy those papers.\n\n\"I sat down, and started to burn one page at a time. Later, I blamed myself for not hiding my diary or burying it in our garden.\"\n\nAlthough the diary is gone, Tahani remembers every word of the plans she made. Now IS has been defeated, Tahani is throwing herself into putting them in place.\n\nThe young woman - who has been trained and supported by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) - is one of a new group of Mosulite activists who are determined to not only rebuild the city but also help rehabilitate fellow residents traumatised by the events of the last three years.\n\n\"There are about 40 of us - we're ambitious, educated, respectable young people who love their city and fellow human beings, and want to have a decent future,\" she said.\n\nTahani's own priority is to ensure that young women like herself can get involved.\n\n\"We live in a culture in which women think it's improper to speak up, or to work outside the home or lead a campaign, which is not true. I know girls who are very strong and motivated, but are scared of harassment or are being forced to stay at home by their families.\n\n\"People need to know that being a girl is not shameful,\" she continued, arguing that a culture of fear and repression was \"the very condition that helped IS come in\".\n\nTahani Salih (R) with Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai in Irbil in July\n\nSo when Tahani got involved with an ambitious scheme to restore Mosul university's library, which was destroyed by IS during the occupation, she delighted in encouraging other young women to defy gender stereotypes.\n\nHerself one of the first to enter the bombed-out library, she remembers seeing \"a boy approaching a girl carrying five or six heavy books.\n\n\"He said: 'No, you don't have to carry that much. It's too heavy for you, just carry what you can.' She said: 'Of course I can carry the books, I've come to do just that. Please do your work and carry books, and I'll carry mine.'\"\n\nTahani also put together a football tournament for the library project's volunteers, initially forming one for men and one for women, before deciding this looked too much like gender segregation. To her colleagues' astonishment, she mixed the teams together - an unprecedented move that proved successful.\n\n\"The next day, they brought the ball, and said: 'Let's play again.' So we did.\"\n\nTahani said that it was not just Mosul's physical fabric that needed rebuilding; it was crucial to harness young people's enthusiasm for freedom in the first few months of liberation.\n\nArt and other expressions of culture were banned under IS for three years\n\n\"So we started with cultural events - books, music, festivals, colours, painting, photography.\n\n\"We wanted to draw media attention to Mosul so that a young person could see his or her image on a global platform and admire themselves and realise their value.\"\n\nTahani organised the first concert in the city after IS' defeat, with live music played in front of the university campus.\n\nThe University of Mosul was heavily damaged in the fight against IS\n\n\"One of the girls took me by the hand and told me: 'Tahani, this is the first time I feel really alive,'\" she recalled.\n\nAnd together with some friends, Tahani set up a Facebook page called Women of Mosul, a place where they could air views and share ideas for projects.\n\nThe work by young Mosulites like Tahani seems to be gaining some traction. Last month, a day-long peace festival set up by other activists drew a crowd of 25,000 people to the city's main stadium.\n\nBut Tahani said there was much more to be done, arguing that true success would come when women felt totally free to walk on the street without wearing hijab, or when a bar selling alcohol could function freely in the centre of the city.\n\nTahani said people in Mosul \"need to know that being a girl is not shameful\"\n\n\"Only then will I be reassured that the city has begun to truly accept everyone, and accept the world.\"\n\nThat seems a long way away, given the conservative attitudes still dominant in the city.\n\nMany fear that former IS supporters remain in the city, trying to blend into the civilian population.\n\nTahani acknowledges that she has received threats over her activism, but refuses to be intimidated.\n\n\"If I get scared, then I'll have to return to just sitting at home, which I won't accept. There's no way I will go back to that and forget all my hopes and dreams, no matter the price.\"\n\nThe Institute for War and Peace Reporting is a non-profit organisation which supports local reporters, citizen journalists and civil society activists in three dozen countries in conflict, crisis and transition around the world.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MP Jared O'Mara has been suspended by Labour while it investigates misogynistic and homophobic comments he is alleged to have made.\n\nThe Sheffield Hallam MP has apologised for online remarks from 2002 and 2004 but denies some more recent claims.\n\nLabour initially said it would not be suspending the MP while these allegations were investigated.\n\nBut Jeremy Corbyn had decided to act when yet more comments emerged on Wednesday, a spokesman said.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell told the BBC: \"There will be a full investigation by the Labour Party and then, as a result of that, a final decision will be made about his future.\"\n\nAsked about Labour colleagues who had defended Mr O'Mara in recent days, Mr McDonnell said: \"They were basing that judgement on the information they had before them and the information that was provided to them by Jared himself and others.\n\n\"New information has come to light, so quite rightly the Labour Party has acted swiftly. He's been suspended, the whip has been withdrawn.\"\n\nAsked about the case at Prime Minister's Questions, Theresa May said: \"All of us in this House should have due care and attention to the way in which we refer to other people and should show women in public life the respect they deserve.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May says MPs should \"should show women in public life the respect they deserve\"\n\nOn Monday, Mr O'Mara resigned from the women and equalities committee after political website Guido Fawkes unearthed offensive comments made by the 35-year-old MP online as a younger man.\n\nThen on Tuesday, Sophie Evans told the BBC's Daily Politics she had met Mr O'Mara on a dating app and there had been \"no hard feelings\" when things did not work out between them.\n\nBut in an incident in March, Mr O'Mara, who was DJing in a nightclub, made comments to her that \"aren't broadcastable\" and called her an \"ugly bitch\", she said.\n\nA spokesman for Mr O'Mara said the MP \"categorically denies\" the allegation.\n\nThe Guido Fawkes site has also found another post made by Mr O'Mara in his mid-20s, a review of an Arctic Monkeys gig, in which he calls women \"sexy little slags\".\n\nAnd it has published details of a post to a music forum, allegedly made by Mr O'Mara in 2009, which includes offensive remarks about women.\n\nLabour launched an investigation into Mr O'Mara's conduct on Tuesday, saying it was specifically looking at \"comments and behaviour which have been reported from earlier this year\".\n\nBut it has now said it is also looking at his online remarks from 2002 to 2004 and the newer alleged comments.\n\nLabour's shadow education minister Tracy Brabin said Mr O'Mara's suspension was \"probably a wise move\".\n\nBefore the news broke, she had described his actions as \"unpleasant and unacceptable\", adding that the episode \"doesn't look fantastic\".\n\nConservative MP Mims Davies, chairwoman of the all-party parliamentary group for women in Parliament, said it was \"right\" that Mr O'Mara had been suspended over his \"vile\" comments.\n\nBut she added: \"Why on earth has it taken so long?\"\n\nPressed on why the party had waited until Wednesday to suspend Mr O'Mara, a Labour spokesman said the MP had gone to the Parliamentary Labour Party meeting on Monday night and made \"a very thorough-going apology and talked about the journey that he'd been on. That was welcomed.\"\n\nBut \"new information about things that he'd allegedly written more recently\" had emerged, prompting Mr Corbyn to take action.\n\nThe Labour leader had made clear \"this kind of abusive, misogynistic, sexist language is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated in the Labour Party,\" he added.", "Mobile phone footage showed police in Cromer dealing with trouble on the streets\n\nPolice failed to properly deal with disorder in a seaside town because senior officers \"misread the significance of events\", a report says.\n\nA Norfolk Police review into why Cromer went into \"lawless lockdown\" after 100 travellers visited was instigated by the chief constable.\n\nPubs, shops and restaurants closed over the weekend of 19 August following reports of rape, theft and assault.\n\nPoor \"information flow\" was blamed for the failure to deploy extra officers.\n\nIn a statement, the force outlined the recommendations of its review, identifying four areas of concern over leadership, the sharing of intelligence, not scanning social media correctly and officers failing to utilise powers to deal with unauthorised traveller encampments.\n\nThe findings said officers were notified by Suffolk Police a group of travellers had left Lowestoft after being involved in a disturbance there, and was heading for the county.\n\nHowever, \"the information and actions were not recorded on official systems\" which meant it was not shared with key senior staff across the Norfolk force.\n\nPublic information on social media about the level of threat was ignored, with commanders not realising the effect the travellers' presence and behaviour was having on the community and \"as a result insufficient additional resources were deployed\".\n\nOfficers at the scene were therefore outnumbered and \"unable to take positive action\" to deal with 37 reported offences over the weekend, the report found.\n\nThe review found senior officers also put out \"an ill-judged statement on social media referring to the disorder as 'low-level'\".\n\nChief Constable Simon Bailey said \"We've truly come to understand the power of social media.\"\n\nCromer Pier said its Theatre Bar was closed because of the disorder\n\nThe travellers arrived in Cromer at the end of the town's festival week.\n\nAccording to the Chief Constable the group are not popular among the wider travelling community.\n\nRestaurants and pubs including the Theatre bar on Cromer Pier closed early following reports on social media of thefts and anti-social behaviour.\n\nThe findings said \"These decisions combined meant that the travellers were not moved on quickly enough.\"\n\nChief Constable Simon Bailey held a meeting to discuss the police response to the disorder\n\nChief Constable Simon Bailey said: \"We got this wrong and I feel terribly sorry that the people of Cromer feel let down by our response.\n\n\"If we'd drawn together the intelligence that was available and was known at the time and in different pockets of the organisation... we'd be in a very different position,\" he said.\n\nThe chief constable also said resources were stretched that weekend as the force was \"in the middle of investigating\" the killing of dog walker Peter Wrighton, in East Harling, \"which left us exposed\".\n\nThe review was welcomed by Laurie Scott, of Breakers cafe, who applauded the chief constable's \"openness and honesty\" in admitting they made mistakes.\n\n\"If a similar incident were to happen in Cromer tomorrow, I'm confident the police would be all over it like a rash,\" he said.\n\nAryun Nessa Uddin said officers in three cars watched while she and her family tried to remove aggressive people from their restaurant, the Masala Twist\n\nNashim Uddin, of the Masala Twist restaurant, said he hoped \"police stick to what they've recommended and don't brush this under the carpet\".\n\nA further independent review of the decisions made by individual commanders is still being carried out by Cumbria Police.\n\n\"Any specific recommendations regarding leadership actions and decisions will be implemented once the independent review by Cumbria has been completed,\" the statement said.\n\nNorfolk Police said a number of crimes committed over the weekend are still being investigated.\n\nTwo men have arrested and bailed in connection with a rape.\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. Tom Morgan described the flight as \"magical\"\n\nA British adventurer has flown 25km (15.5 miles) across South Africa suspended from 100 helium balloons.\n\nTom Morgan, from Bristol, reached heights of 8,000ft (2,438m) while strapped to a camping chair, in scenes reminiscent of the Pixar smash Up.\n\nThe 38-year-old spent two days inflating balloons ahead of the flight, which he described as \"magical\".\n\nThe challenge moved to South Africa on Friday after several failed attempts in Botswana.\n\n\"The problem was finding a good weather window and it was difficult to protect the balloons as they kept bursting,\" Mr Morgan said.\n\nWith just enough helium left for one more attempt, the adventurer and his team moved their base to just north of Johannesburg.\n\nMr Morgan took two days to blow up the balloons\n\nDescribing the experience as \"unbelievably cool\", Mr Morgan also admitted feeling \"somewhere between terrified and elated\" as he rose in the air.\n\nAs the balloons drifted towards the inversion layer of the atmosphere - where the temperature rises - he said the flight started to accelerate very quickly.\n\n\"I had to keep my cool and start gradually cutting the balloons.\"\n\nThe flight had originally been due to take place in Botswana\n\nMr Morgan, who has lived in Bristol for 15 years and runs an adventure company, wants to eventually set up a competitive helium balloon race in Africa.\n\n\"We will have to avoid areas with lots of spiky bushes though,\" Mr Morgan said.\n\nMr Morgan's feat is reminiscent of the film Up, in which helium balloons are used to lift a house", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is going to swap the despatch box for Gogglebox when he appears in a celebrity special.\n\nMr Corbyn will feature in the hit Channel 4 TV programme next week to help raise money for Stand up to Cancer.\n\nHe is expected to share a sofa with a mystery celebrity to chew over a selection of TV programmes.\n\nIt is not yet known which shows will be dissected by the Labour leader, who is not expected to be filmed at home.\n\nHowever, he has previously expressed a fondness for EastEnders - and also revealed he watched Casualty on the eve of this year's Labour Party conference in Brighton.\n\nThe show is being filmed this weekend.\n\nA Labour source added: \"He's really looking forward to it - it's a great programme for a great cause.\"", "Earlier this week, Kate Nash took to Twitter to criticise BuzzFeed for their article about noughties singers who are no longer in the charts.\n\nThe listicle features 33 artists who \"only exist in the memories of British millennials\", but Nash was quick to argue that a lack of recent chart success doesn't stop them from being active or credible musicians.\n\n\"I have huge problems with how the industry disposes of artists,\" she tweeted, \"it's a difficult career to maintain.\"\n\nBuzzFeed told the BBC: \"We love Kate Nash and really did want to be her! Many of our posts reference nostalgia for things we love and this list is one of those, definitely not intended to be taken literally.\"\n\nBut Nash's comments raised questions about the wider issue of how much high chart positions and record deals equate to success in the music industry.\n\nThe 30-year-old's last top 40 hit may have been in 2010, but she has recently written for Willow Smith and Rita Ora, and will release a new album next year.\n\nNash also has several film and TV credits and is currently filming the second series of hit Netflix show Glow.\n\nRebekka Johnson, Sydelle Noel, Kate Nash and Kia Stevens all star in Netflix's GLOW\n\nPeter Robinson, music writer and creator of Popjustice, told the BBC: \"Hit records have a magical ability to take us to a specific time or place in our lives so it's fair to say Kate Nash's hits will have a special significance for a certain age group.\n\n\"But several entries in the article might have benefitted from a brief visit to Wikipedia.\"\n\nThe musicians on the list included Ms Dynamite, Blazin' Squad, Diana Vickers, Mis-Teeq, La Roux, 5ive, Rachel Stevens, The 411, and So Solid Crew.\n\n\"If you're a fan, it's natural to be excited when your favourite artist does well commercially, and disappointed if their latest release looks like a failure, particularly because labels tend to drop acts when sales take a dip,\" Robinson said.\n\n\"But if you're ignoring new music because it's not selling, and if you're allowing your tastes to be dictated by whose records are selling well, then, well, enjoy your Bradley Walsh album.\"\n\nThe BuzzFeed piece refers to millennials - people that grew up in the 00s.\n\nBut according to singer Sandi Thom, who is also one of the 33 artists on the list, they are not as fickle as some may think.\n\nSandi Thom performing at her album launch in 2008\n\n\"Some of my biggest fans are kids under 10, and with the new era of Spotify anyone is discoverable or re-discoverable,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I couldn't care less what a journalist writes about me and my career.\n\n\"Making music is a privilege and if you can continue to do so throughout your career like all of the artists have been doing that were mentioned in the article, you're one lucky person!\"\n\nRobinson also addressed Nash's tweets about the mental health impact of being an artist who is trying to make it in the industry.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Kate Nash This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Kate Nash This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"Being dropped is like being made redundant, which is gutting in any line of work, except to make matters worse, for an artist it happens in public,\" he said.\n\n\"And whereas most of us could bounce back and look for other work in the same area, in the music industry people are often seen as damaged goods: they had their chance, they blew it.\n\n\"The irony of course is that many of the planet's biggest artists, from Lady Gaga and Beyonce to Katy Perry and Bruno Mars, were all dropped before they became huge.\"\n\nPeter Robinson says Beyonce was dropped by her record label before she became famous\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\nBeing dropped is something Nash discusses in her tweets, saying its unfair to make fun of \"artists that got dropped or aren't in the charts anymore.\n\n\"Most artists I know are struggling to be able to continue and may have to give up.\"\n\nThe BuzzFeed article describes Nash as \"the cute vintage-dress-wearing girl we all wanted to be back in 2007.\n\n\"Presumably these days she's wearing baggy jumpers and DMs [Doc Martens] but who knows?\"\n\nNash references these comments in her tweets, saying \"the media have talked about me this way my entire career, since I was 20 years old\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Kate Nash This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSandi Thom agreed: \"It doesn't matter what anyone writes in the press because me and Kate and whoever certainly aren't sitting crying into our cornflakes about it, we're out there keeping on keeping on!\n\n\"Doing what we love, being discovered and rediscovered every day thanks to the advent of streaming and playlists.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The track Lose Yourself is one of Eminem's biggest hits\n\nA New Zealand political party has been ordered to pay NZ$600,000 ($412,000) in compensation in a breach of copyright suit filed by US rapper Eminem.\n\nThe National Party used a track with a similar melody and rhythm to Eminem's Lose Yourself in an election advert.\n\nThe song, entitled Eminem-esque, bore only minimal differences to the original, according to a court ruling.\n\nThe case, which began in May, is the latest to test the legality of so-called sound-alike music.\n\nEminem's music publisher, Eight Mile Style, filed proceedings after the National Party used an unlicensed version of the Oscar-winning song in a 2014 campaign advert.\n\nThe party's lawyers had argued that the track used was not actually Lose Yourself, but a song called Eminem-esque, which they bought from a stock music library.\n\nHowever the court ruled on Wednesday that the track was \"sufficiently similar\" to Eminem's \"highly original work\", adding that it did indeed infringe copyright laws.\n\nThe judgment considered the drum patterns, background chords and violin tones of each version, all of which it said bore \"close similarities\".\n\n\"The nature of the use is not what Eminem or Eight Mile Style would endorse,\" the judgment added.\n\nEminem's Lose Yourself, which appeared in the rapper's 2002 film 8 Mile, is one of his biggest hits.\n\nThe backing track used in the National Party's advert, which appeared more than 100 times on TV during the 2014 campaign, had been taken from a library made by production music company Beatbox.\n\nSongs which sound similar to famous tracks - but different enough to avoid breaching copyright - routinely feature in free-to-use commercial music libraries.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis week's presidential election re-run in Kenya has implications not only for the country but also for much of the continent, says the BBC's new Africa editor, Fergal Keane.\n\nThe last days have passed in a swirl of chanting crowds, arguments in the courts, and meetings between powerful politicians and election commissioners. The tension ahead of the polls crackles like static on the streets of Nairobi.\n\nAt the Githurai junction on the city's outskirts, several thousand people gathered to cheer President Uhuru Kenyatta.\n\nPassing cars were surrounded and plastered with party stickers. Briefly enmity flared. A man leaned out of a passing coach and drew his finger across his throat, shouting abuse at the President's supporters. They surged forward but bus and man were quickly gone.\n\nThe days tremble with rumours. The election may happen. Or it may not. The Independent Election Boundaries Commission has warned it can't guarantee a credible poll in the prevailing circumstances.\n\nOld friends I have spoken with express alarm at the rise in ethnic antagonism. International diplomats seem in a quandary - fearful of election day violence while acknowledging that the fresh poll was ordered by the country's highest court.\n\nA billboard urges Kenyans to support President Uhuru Kenyatta in the forthcoming election\n\nWhen I first reported from Africa, back in the Cold War days of the 1980s, there were only very occasional elections, usually resulting in the return of the incumbent with 90% or more of the vote.\n\nSo when Kenya had its first democratic election in 1992, it was easy to be carried along by enthusiasm for the new age. After all, President Daniel arap Moi had been in power for 14 years, during which time there had been a long spree of looting of state assets, worth billions, by an entrenched elite connected to the ruling party.\n\nPolitical enemies were locked up and worse. But Moi was elected - twice. He knew how to manipulate tribal rivalries to his advantage - and his party machine had very deep pockets. Still there was now at least the possibility of democratic change.\n\nAcross Africa it seemed as if a new order of accountability was coming. The great kleptocrat Mobutu Sese Seko had been swept from power in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The apartheid state in South Africa was transformed into a multi-racial democracy.\n\nI had met Mobutu and Moi and the leaders of the apartheid regime in South Africa and witnessed the brutality and bribery through which power was maintained in much of the continent. I had also listened to diplomats, among them representatives of Her Majesty's government, tell me that President Moi at least guaranteed stability in Kenya. He kept the tribes from tearing each other asunder.\n\nThe French would have told you the same thing about any of the despots they supported in Francophone Africa. It was an attitude of mind rooted in deeply patronising attitudes towards Africans, and it ignored the role of foreign interests in creating much of the mess.\n\nBut Africans were hungry for change. The Cold War had ended and with it the sorry history of support for despotic regimes by both the West and the Soviet bloc. Some of the new leaders came to power through war, but in those heady days of the late 1990s all the talk was of democratising.\n\nThe most remarkable movement in the continent's post-colonial history was not led by warlords or tribal chiefs but by a generation of Africans who believed their destiny would be shaped by their own actions. From Accra to Johannesburg to Nairobi, and thousands of points in-between, civil society began to mobilise.\n\nI watched the Kenyan campaigner John Githongo forensically detail the corruption of the ruling elite and publish his results. In the remote Congolese village of Kachanga I met a women's association treating victims of mass rape and gathering evidence against the perpetrators.\n\nThe idealistic and energetic also mobilised around issues like the environment, economy, health and free media. The pace and dynamics of change were dictated by the internal realities of each state. But an overarching theme became apparent - the one-party state was becoming the exception.\n\nThe essential change was psychological. Young Africans saw themselves becoming agents of change much as their forebears had done in the years around, and just after, the end of colonialism. Two decades ago I could not have imagined the recent peaceful elections in Liberia, a state written off as irredeemably \"failed\".\n\nBut in a large swathe of the continent - central, eastern and much of southern Africa - I underestimated how efficiently the elites would take control of the machinery of modern democracy.\n\nIn different places they used different tactics - some buying up media outlets to promote their cause, others bribing enemies so that they became friends or manipulating ethnic antagonism into a weapon to be used on the campaign trail, and still more changing the law to extend presidential terms or silence outspoken opponents.\n\nSome members of the new governments merely continued the corrupt practices of the old, siphoning off millions as the moribund economies of one-party states made the transition to a free market.\n\nIn South Africa it gave rise to a new class - the so called \"tenderpreneurs\" - whose connections to the powerful guaranteed lucrative government contracts.\n\nAcross much of this region - from the Democratic Republic of Congo, to Uganda, Rwanda, Eritrea and others - authoritarianism is on the rise. Elections are postponed, independent media are silenced, presidential term limits are expanded and opposition figures locked up.\n\nIt is in this regional context that Kenya's Chief Justice, David Maraga, emerges for many - if not for President Kenyatta's supporters - as a man of great courage.\n\nThe Supreme Court's decision to annul the elections because of irregularities in the electoral process, told the world that this Kenyan court would not accept a second-class democracy. Across Africa there was a sense of pride in this singular decision. Maraga was seen as speaking for the many who still stand for and demand accountable rulers and an independent civil service.\n\nSince the Supreme Court decision tension has steadily risen. Elections are set for Thursday, but the opposition leader Raila Odinga refuses to take part.\n\nIt is possible to simultaneously take heart from the courage of the chief justice and the changed Africa he represents, and to be deeply worried about the escalating tension gripping the country in the wake of the court's decision.\n\nKenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga is refusing to take part in the election\n\nFor Kenyans know that political violence often goes unpunished, particularly when the instigators are powerful people. So, often, does brazen corruption. The long struggle is not between political elites at the polling booth. It is a fight waged by a still resourceful civil society, independent judges and honest political campaigners to demand accountability.\n\nThe conduct of these elections and what happens in their aftermath matters hugely to Kenyans, millions of other Africans and the broader international community. An unstable Kenya has serious implications for the fight against terrorism in Somalia and, potentially, for the aid operations in South Sudan.\n\nA peaceful resolution to this democratic crisis would be an example to the continent. Mr Githongo told me that \"democracy is entering a dark tunnel but there might just be light at the other side\".\n\nThe struggle to protect the gains made by honest men and women across this region is entering a critical phase.", "Xi Jinping is set to start a historic third term as China's president\n\nXi Jinping is set to embark on a historic third term at the 20th Communist Party congress later this month.\n\nIt paves the way for the party to reappoint him as president at the National People's Congress next year. China's leaders voted in 2018 to remove the two-term presidential limit that has been in place since the 1990s.\n\nUnder Mr Xi's rule since 2012, China has become more authoritarian at home, cracking down on dissent, critics and even influential billionaires and businesses. Some have described him as \"the most authoritarian leader since Chairman Mao\".\n\nUnder his rule, China has established \"re-education\" camps in Xinjiang that have been accused of human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other minority ethnic groups. It has tightened its grip on Hong Kong and vowed to \"reunite\" with Taiwan, by force if necessary.\n\nIn a clear sign of his influence, the Communist Party voted in 2017 to write his philosophy - called \"Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for the New Era\" - into its constitution. Only party founder Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, the leader who introduced economic reforms in the 1980s, have made it into the all-important fundamental law of the land.\n\nBorn in Beijing in 1953, Xi Jinping is the son of revolutionary veteran Xi Zhongxun, one of the Communist Party's founding fathers and a former vice-premier.\n\nBecause of his illustrious roots, Mr Xi is considered a \"princeling\" - a child of elite senior officials who has risen up the ranks.\n\nBut his family's fortunes took a dramatic turn when his father was imprisoned in 1962. A deeply suspicious Mao, fearing a rebellion in party ranks, ordered a purge of potential rivals. Then in 1966 came the so-called Cultural Revolution when millions were branded as enemies of Chinese culture, sparking violent attacks across the country.\n\nMr Xi's family suffered too. His half-sister - his father's first daughter through an earlier marriage - was persecuted to death, according to official accounts, though a historian familiar with the party elite said she had probably taken her own life under duress, according to a New York Times report.\n\nA young Xi was pulled out of a school attended by children of the political elite. Eventually, at 15, he left Beijing and was sent to the countryside for \"re-education\" and hard labour in the remote and poor north-eastern village of Liangjiahe for seven years.\n\nBut far from turning against the Communist Party, Mr Xi embraced it. He tried to join several times, but was rebuffed because of his father's standing.\n\nHe was finally accepted in 1974, starting out in Hebei province, then occupying ever more senior roles as he slowly made his way to the top.\n\nIn 1989, at the age of 35, he was party chief in the city of Ningde in southern Fujian province when protests demanding greater political freedom began in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.\n\nThe province was far from the capital but Mr Xi, along with other party officials, reportedly scrambled to contain local offshoots of the massive demonstrations under way in Beijing.\n\nThe protests - an echo of a rift within Communist Party ranks - and the bloody crackdown that ended them have effectively now been scrubbed from the country's history books and public record. China even lost the bid to host the 2000 Olympics because of the abuses in Tiananmen Square. Estimates of the number killed range from hundreds to many thousands.\n\nAlmost two decades later, however, Mr Xi was put in charge of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. China was keen to show it had moved on and was a worthy host - and it appeared to be working, with the Games symbolising China's rise as a growing power.\n\nAs for Mr Xi, his increasing profile in the party propelled him to its top decision-making body, the Politburo Standing Committee, and in 2012 he was picked as China's president.\n\nMr Xi's wife, Peng Liyuan (right), is a famous folk singer in China\n\nMr Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, a famous singer, have been heavily featured in state media as China's First Couple.\n\nThis is a contrast from previous presidential couples, where the first lady has traditionally kept a lower profile.\n\nThe couple have a daughter, Xi Mingze, but not much is known about her apart from the fact that she studied at Harvard University.\n\nOther family members and their overseas business dealings have been a subject of scrutiny in the international press.\n\nMr Xi has vigorously pursued what he has called a \"great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation\" with his China Dream vision.\n\nUnder him, the world's second largest economy has enacted reform to combat slowing growth, such as cutting down bloated state-owned industries and reducing pollution, as well as the multi-billion dollar One Belt One Road infrastructure project aimed at expanding China's global trade links.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What China's One Belt, One Road really means\n\nThe country has become more assertive on the global stage, from its growing forcefulness in the South China Sea, to its exercise of soft power by pumping billions of dollars into Asian and African investments.\n\nSome of this economic growth however, which in past decades has increased meteorically - has now slowed substantially, worsened by the Chinese leader's uncompromising \"zero-Covid\" strategy that has locked out the rest of the world since the pandemic.\n\nThe country's once-booming property market is in a deep slump and the outlook for the global economy has weakened sharply in recent months.\n\nA bitter and damaging trade war with the US shows no sign of ending.\n\nSince reaching top office, Mr Xi has overseen a wide-reaching corruption crackdown extending to the highest echelons of the party. Critics have portrayed it as a political purge.\n\nUnder his rule, China has also seen increasing clampdowns on freedoms.\n\nIn Xinjiang province, human rights groups believe the government has detained more than a million Muslim Uyghurs over the past few years in what the state defines as \"re-education\" camps. China denies accusations from the US and other that it is committing genocide there.\n\nBeijing's grip over Hong Kong, too, has grown under Mr Xi.\n\nThousands turned out in Hong Kong to take part in protests against a planned extradition law\n\nMr Xi put an end to pro-democracy protests in 2020 by signing the National Security Law, a sweeping edict that gives Beijing powers to reshape life in the former British colony, criminalising what it calls secession, subversion and collusion with foreign forces, with the maximum sentence of life in prison.\n\nThe law has led to mass arrests of prominent pro-democracy activists and politicians, as well as the closure of prominent news outlets including Apple Daily and Stand News.\n\nUnder Mr Xi's leadership, China has also intensified its focus on the self-ruled island of Taiwan, vowing \"reunification\" and threatening to use military force to prevent any move towards formal independence there.\n\nGiven China's power and influence, the world will be watching Mr Xi as he embarks on his third term as president. With no heir apparent, the 69-year-old is arguably the most powerful leader China has had since the death of Mao Zedong in the 1970s.\n• None BBC World Service - BBC Minute, BBC Minute- On who is Xi Jinping-", "Occupying seven square miles off the coast of Essex, Canvey Island is home to more than 40,000 people\n\nThey are two battles for independence taking place 700 miles apart: one fighting for the future of Catalonia, the other for the reclaimed land of Canvey Island.\n\nWhile Catalonia's Carles Puigdemont wants to separate from Spain, the aim of the Canvey Island Independence Party is to wrestle back control of the Thames estuary island from the mainland's Castle Point Borough Council.\n\nThe movements may differ in size and scope, but both share a view that they are different and a resentment that their affairs are being run from elsewhere.\n\nSo who are Canvey's islanders and what has inspired their fierce sense of pride and tangible community spirit?\n\nCouncillor Dave Blackwell says others are \"jealous\" of Canvey's community\n\nCouncillor Dave Blackwell is the leader of the Canvey Island Independence Party (CIIP).\n\nOver a pot of tea in the Labworth cafe, just off the seafront, he says Canvey people have always been different.\n\nIt is partly because Canvey is an island, he says, and partly because of the way they are seen by outsiders.\n\nHis party currently has 15 of 17 councillors on the island itself. Yet there are 24 other councillors on Castle Point Borough Council from the mainland.\n\nThis has led to Canvey's councillors being consistently outvoted, Councillor Blackwell says, resulting in the island becoming the \"poor relations\" of the mainland.\n\nHe claims that following the party's recent election successes, one opposing activist posted a comment online saying they did not mind losing seats in Canvey as it was \"a wart on the landscape\".\n\nCouncillor Blackwell says people on the mainland like to make Canvey the butt of their jokes. They are, he says, \"jealous\" of the pride locals take in the area.\n\nHe beams when asked about the work put in to rejuvenate the beaches and facilities through \"Canvey Bay Watch\".\n\n\"All we want is to be treated equally,\" he says.\n\nGary Tivey, moved to Canvey 28 years ago and still jokes he is a newcomer.\n\nHe says the high number of islanders who originated from London's East End brought their morals and values to Canvey.\n\nHe tells a story about when he was having a house built and the sale of his own property fell through.\n\nThe builder said \"don't worry about it, I know how much you want this house\" and waited for him to remarket his house.\n\n\"That wouldn't happen anywhere else,\" he says.\n\nFor Canvey's population there is \"no next town\" to go to, he adds, \"so you can't fall out with people\".\n\nDanielle Low says going to the pub can feel like a therapy session\n\nGary's daughter Danielle Low is a 34-year-old mum of two who has lived on Canvey since she was six.\n\nWhenever her 11-year-old son is out and about, she says her \"little spies\" are keeping an eye on him.\n\nBut she admits living in such a close community does have its downside.\n\n\"If I go into to my local pub it can be like a soap opera,\" she says.\n\n\"If anyone is in trouble or having an affair everyone knows about it. Going for a drink can be like a therapy session.\"\n\nIf fans of US reality TV really wanted a shock, Danielle says, they should film a series of \"Real Housewives of Canvey Island\".\n\nShe says her proudest moment was helping to raise more than £50,000 with 25 friends on a 70-mile walk.\n\nThey were greeted by the \"whole island\" on their return, she says, adding: \"That is what Canvey is all about.\"\n\nPrefab sprout: Canvey has more than 2000 \"park homes\" for over 55s\n\nJoel Friedman (right) and colleagues looking at JCoCI's latest house purchase\n\nDespite the deep roots of many residents, Canvey's population is changing.\n\nIn the last 15 months, the Jewish Congregation of Canvey Island (JCoCI) has been established to find homes for people from north London's strictly orthodox Haredi community.\n\nSpiralling property prices have prompted some to look beyond the confines of London.\n\nJCoCI trustee Joel Friedman says he could not have received a warmer welcome.\n\n\"Other councils didn't want us, but the attitude has been very different [in Canvey], both from the islanders and Castle Point.\"\n\nMr Friedman acknowledges there could be challenges ahead.\n\n\"We are moving from one of the top Remain areas in the country to one of the top Brexit areas,\" he shrugs.\n\n\"We need homes that are available and affordable and the perception of Canvey has perhaps helped in that respect.\"\n\nHis was one of six original families that move to the island in the summer of 2016.\n\nThere are now 28 families and about 200 people. Mr Friedman estimates eventually there will be 70 to 80 Haredi families, making a community of more than 450.\n\nChris Fenwick has managed the band, Dr Feelgood, for 43 years\n\nOne of those helping the new community settle down is a man with a complicated CV.\n\nChris Fenwick is probably best known as the manager for the last 43 years of Dr Feelgood, Canvey's best known band.\n\nHe also owns the Oysterfleet, the largest pub and hotel on the island.\n\nHe is heavily involved in helping the JCoCI become established and is keen to explain how the island will benefit from their arrival.\n\nHe laughs at comparisons between Canvey and Catalonia, but says the way the island is seen by people a few miles away is a problem.\n\nHe talks about going to a business lunch where one speaker described Canvey as the \"biggest open prison in England\".\n\nCanvey's sea wall has several murals portraying the 1953 flood\n\n\"They despise us,\" he says. \"They look down on us, but they never come here. Canvey has more multi-millionaires per head than anywhere else around.\"\n\nHe says you can't begin to understand why Canvey is different without talking about a flood that hit the island in 1953, killing 59 people and leading to 13,000 more being evacuated.\n\nChris claims to be the product of the flood. \"The storm hit on 31 January and I was born early November. I was a flood baby,\" he says.\n\nHe says Canvey is now booming because people are making the same calculation that some in the Jewish communities have made.\n\n\"House prices mean London has turned into another country,\" he says. \"Canvey is benefitting.\"\n\nJohn Huet says in many ways time has stood still in Canvey\n\nSeventy-year-old John \"The Professor\" Huet is a former electrical engineer and lecturer.\n\nHe moved to Canvey from east London 61 years ago to what he thought was \"a beautiful playground\".\n\n\"Canvey isn't part of the mainland and isn't part of the Thames, we're something other,\" he says.\n\nHe says the island has moved with the times in many ways. But in a lot of other ways it has stayed the same.\n\n\"Time has stood still, but 40 years ago my house was in the middle of field, now it's surrounded.\"\n\nHe backs the demands for an \"independent\" Canvey.\n\n\"It was taken away by political chicanery,\" he says. \"We need to get it back.\"\n• None Voters look again at referendum choice", "Husband-and-wife mountaineering team Romano Benet and Nives Meroi were attempting a winter ascent of the world's fifth-highest mountain, Makalu, when things went badly wrong. It was the first of two serious challenges that could have brought their climbing careers, and even their lives, to an end.\n\nThe biggest problem on Makalu was the freezing wind.\n\nConsidered one of the most difficult mountains in the world to climb, in early 2008 a relentless gale was making it almost impossible.\n\nTwo years before, French mountaineer Jean-Christophe Lafaillle had died trying to make a winter ascent. But Benet and Meroi, and their fellow Italian Luca Vuerich, had not yet given up hope of success.\n\n\"For a month the gusts knocked us from here to there, and we couldn't even sleep at night,\" Meroi remembers.\n\nDespite everything, the trio reached 7,000m (22,966 ft) - about 1,500m below the summit - and decided to hang on, hoping that the wind would die down.\n\n\"Instead, the jet stream exploded in a furious crescendo,\" Meroi says.\n\n\"We were running for our lives, when a gust of wind picked me up.\n\n\"My feet lost their grip on the gravel, I slipped between two big boulders and I fell, with my body twisting on my trapped foot.\n\n\"The wind continued to howl while I heard the sharp sound of my bone snapping.\"\n\nWith a broken leg, she could not move unaided.\n\nLuca Vuerich carrying Nives Meroi - he died in an avalanche in the Alps two years later\n\nSo for two days Benet and Vuerich took turns to carry her on their shoulders. They walked through fog and along a glacier to reach Camp Hillary at 4,860m (16,000ft) where a rescue helicopter was able to pick them up and fly them to Kathmandu.\n\n\"Despite 40 years of climbing we still fear the mountains,\" Meroi says.\n\nMeroi and Benet first met at high school in Italy, and started hiking and climbing together after discovering their shared passion for the outdoors.\n\n\"Romano likes to say it was a matter of convenience,\" Meroi says. \"It was easier to have a girlfriend who could also climb, so he didn't have to struggle to find a climbing partner every weekend.\"\n\nThe couple's marriage, in 1989, was actually triggered by their desire to go climbing in the Peruvian Andes, on the Cordillera Blanca range.\n\n\"It was a dream we had, but we had no money or leave days,\" Meroi says. \"So we decided to get married because our employers would give us two weeks off, and we asked our friends and family to pay for the trip.\"\n\nThe first successful winter ascent of Makalu was made in 2009 - the year after Meroi, Benet and Vuerich's attempt\n\nListen to Nives Meroi and Romano Benet talking about their extraordinary mountaineering success on Outlook on the BBC World Service.\n\nThe year after the ill-fated Makalu trip, once Meroi's leg had healed, the couple to set out to climb Kangchenjunga, the world's third-highest mountain, which straddles India and Nepal. They were closing in on the 8,586m summit when Benet felt unwell.\n\n\"I was tired and slower than usual so I decided to stop, but I told Nives to continue,\" he says.\n\nIf Meroi had climbed the remaining few hundred metres to the summit, she would have stood a good chance of becoming the first woman to climb all of the world's 14 peaks above 8,000m (26,247ft). But she didn't think twice about turning round.\n\n\"When I realised there was something wrong with Romano I decided to descend as fast as we could,\" she says.\n\n\"I thought, 'What's the point of me going up there alone?' If Romano had waited in the tent at 7,600m while I was trying to climb to the top I might not have found him alive when I came back.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nives and Romano talk about their self-sufficient approach to tackling the world's eight-thousanders\n\nBenet was eventually diagnosed with aplastic anaemia, a very rare and potentially life-threatening condition in which your bone marrow fails to produce enough new blood cells.\n\nThe couple refer to this as their 15th eight-thousander, and the most difficult one.\n\n\"If it wasn't for the difficult situations that we had experienced in the mountains, I don't think I would be able to bear all this,\" Benet used to tell Meroi during the months of his illness.\n\nHe was to undergo nearly two years of treatment, including dozens of blood transfusions.\n\n\"Mountaineering is about facing one problem at a time, and about knowing that every step forward is a step we'll have to take coming back down,\" Meroi says.\n\n\"We like to think that climbing mountains gave us the skills to face the disease. It taught us to place one step after the other, to be patient, and to never give up.\"\n\nBut every therapy that the doctors tried on Benet failed. Their last hope was to give him a bone marrow transplant. Finally a matching donor was found and the transplant was carried out. But it didn't work.\n\n\"The doctors had run out of ideas,\" Meroi says. \"But then they decided to experiment with something new - in mountaineering terms, to open a new route.\"\n\nThey thought a second bone marrow transplant from the same donor might just work, even though the first had failed.\n\n\"The person who had donated the bone marrow in the first place was asked to go through the entire process for a second time,\" Meroi says. \"And, bless him, he agreed to do that.\"\n\n\"That's what brought Romano back to life. To this day we don't know who this person is, but his silent and generous act really gives us hope in humanity.\"\n\nIt wasn't only the anonymous donor, Benet says, who helped him to overcome his illness.\n\n\"For two years Nives was the best partner I could imagine,\" he says. \"She never left my side. We approached it as we always do, as a team, roped together.\"\n\nA few years later, Benet and Meroi put on their backpacks again and returned to Kangchenjunga for another attempt.\n\n\"I was so thrilled to be back on the mountains - it was like unleashing a chained dog,\" Benet remembers.\n\nBut in their excitement to be back in the mountains the pair accidentally climbed up the wrong gorge.\n\n\"I think we are the first mountaineers in the history of the Himalayan ascents to get the wrong peak,\" Benet says. \"But for me being there and knowing that I could still make it was enough.\"\n\nIn 2014 they returned to Kangchenjunga for a third time.\n\n\"That time we got the right mountain,\" Meroi says. \"We were the first climbers of the season, so we had to open the route. It was just the two of us, but when we got to the top we realised we weren't alone - the anonymous donor was up there with us, the young man without a name who had chosen to give a stranger a chance of life. We wouldn't have made it without him.\"\n\nAlthough Meroi missed out on being the first woman to climb all of the eight-thousanders, in May this year she and Benet became the first couple to climb all 14 - an achievement all the more notable for their method of climbing without Sherpas or bottled oxygen.\n\nThis brings with it real dangers.\n\nBeyond 2,400m, the human body becomes susceptible to altitude sickness, which can progress to life-threatening conditions including high-altitude pulmonary oedema (HAPE) or high altitude cerebral oedema (HACE), when blood vessels begin leaking fluid into the lungs or brain.\n\nBy the time you reach 8,000m you have entered the \"death zone\", where the air is so thin it is insufficient to sustain human life.\n\n\"The human body is not designed to live at those altitudes - even a tiny problem can escalate very quickly,\" Meroi says. \"And it's not just a physical challenge - even thinking about your next move is tiring.\"\n\nThe couple often climb during the night so that they can arrive at a mountain's summit just after dawn, meaning they can make their descent - which technically can be more difficult and dangerous than the ascent - in daylight.\n\n\"When you climb at night you're guided by the light of the stars and sometimes it feels like you're actually above them,\" Meroi says.\n\n\"And when you get to the top the first thing you experience is a sense of elation,\" says Benet.\n\n\"The view from the top of an eight-thousander is something you'll never forget because from up there you can actually see the Earth curving at the horizon.\"\n\nFor Meroi, reaching the summit of one of the world's highest mountains gives her a different perspective on life.\n\n\"You really get a sense of how fragile human life is and how small it is compared to the power of nature, and you realise that the ambitions that drive us mad at sea level are completely irrelevant up there,\" she says.\n\n\"I feel like I am at peace with nature and that's probably what makes me want to keep climbing, to find that feeling again.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Former Chancellor Lord Lawson's claims on climate change were made on BBC Radio 4's Today programme\n\nThe BBC should have challenged the views of climate sceptic Lord Lawson in an interview in August, the complaints unit for the corporation has ruled.\n\nThe ex-chancellor claimed in an interview with the Today programme that \"official figures\" showed average world temperatures had \"slightly declined\".\n\nThis view, shown to be false by the Met Office, was not challenged on air.\n\nThe BBC admitted it had breached its \"guidelines on accuracy and impartiality\".\n\nConservative peer Lord Lawson's appearance on Radio 4's flagship Today programme sparked a number of complaints from listeners.\n\nHe had been invited on to discuss the latest film on climate change by former US Vice President Al Gore.\n\nDuring the interview, Lord Lawson said \"official figures\" showed that \"during this past 10 years, if anything... average world temperature has slightly declined\".\n\nHe also claimed the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had confirmed there had not been an increase in extreme weather events for the last 10 years.\n\nDr Peter Stott, of the Met Office, came on the programme the following day to confirm that Lord Lawson's statistics, which he did not cite at the time, were incorrect.\n\nDr Stott also said the IPCC has clearly indicated an increase in extreme weather events across the globe were linked to human use of fossil fuels.\n\nThe Global Warming Policy Foundation, a campaign group chaired by Lord Lawson, later confirmed his statistics were \"erroneous\".\n\nThe BBC's media editor Amol Rajan said the Today programme had a remit to offer dissenting opinions, aimed at challenging lazy thinking and consensus views.\n\nBut he said the BBC's complaints department ruled that a lack of scrutiny of Lord Lawson's claims meant the interview fell short of editorial standards.\n\nIt ruled that the peer's statements \"were, at the least, contestable and should have been challenged\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lord Lawson's claims about climate change are \"simply not true\", says the Met Office's Peter Stott\n\nA paper by Skeptical Science claims that 97% of scientists across the globe believe climate change is caused by humans.\n\nIn 2014 the BBC Trust stated the corporation has \"a duty to reflect the weight of scientific agreement but it should also reflect the existence of critical views appropriately\".", "Money and drugs found by police in a property which had been taken over by a dangerous drug network\n\nAbout 4,000 teenagers from London are being exploited and trafficked every year to sell drugs in rural towns and cities, a leading youth charity says.\n\nKnown as \"county lines\", gangs use children as young as 12 to traffic drugs, using dedicated mobile phones or \"lines\".\n\nAnti-Slavery Commissioner Kevin Hyland said the figures were \"shocking\" and the exploitation was only slowly being recognised.\n\nIt comes as the Home Office announced it was putting £300,000 into a new pilot project to help young victims.\n\nFile on 4 spoke to one teenager about what it is like to be involved in a county lines gang.\n\nMichael* was 13 years old when a friend at his school approached him about selling drugs.\n\nLured in by the prospect of making money, he began selling in his local area, but things escalated quickly.\n\nThe gang was soon sending him on jobs out of London with the promise he could make around £500 a week.\n\nHe was sent to the house of a vulnerable drug user that the gang had taken over in the Midlands, a practice known as cuckooing.\n\nUsing this as his base, he was out on the street selling heroin and crack cocaine, day and night.\n\n\"I was a bit shaky, I was actually scared,\" he says.\n\n\"But from the time you see the money, you're just thinking, 'OK, I can just bear a bit more.'\"\n\nMichael describes having a normal upbringing and a close relationship with his family.\n\nFrantic about his long absences, he says, they would try to stop him by taking away his mobile phone - but as soon as he left his house, the gang would start hassling him again.\n\nThey would take him to a house where they ran a kind of breakfast club.\n\n\"Before you go to school you have breakfast there. I'd probably have a quick ride to school and then after school they come and pick you up as well,\" he says.\n\nDespite living with a group of drug users, Michael says he \"didn't really recognise the risks\" or see how easily he could be attacked.\n\nHe describes how he once ended up staying in a graveyard after being left stranded hundreds of miles from home with nowhere to stay.\n\n\"They [drug users] could have found another drug dealer and told him 'listen, this guy is in a graveyard and he's got drugs'... anything could have happened, that experience was crazy.\"\n\nAfter being arrested for possession of drugs, Michael decided to stop selling, but says it was not easy to leave the gang behind.\n\n\"They were trying to get at me but I moved away from the area, so I think that helped me a lot.\n\n\"I started to gain different knowledge and actually make my life something else and not just be another number.\"\n\nThe charity Safer London has dealt with many teenagers like Michael, who are exploited to sell drugs for older gang members.\n\nThe charity's chief executive, Claire Hubberstey, said a frightening number of young people were at risk of being involved in county lines dealing.\n\n\"We have started recording when we've got concerns,\" she says.\n\nBased on the number of young people they see, they estimate at least 4,000 young people are at risk every year.\n\nShe compares it to the way children are lured in to sexual grooming, saying initial promises soon turn into threats.\n\n\"Young people often talk about being physically locked in premises so they're not able to actually get out.\n\n\"Threats of coercion or violence mean they can be too scared to try to make their own way back - even if they have the means to do so.\"\n\nShe wants all of these young people placed on the National Referral Mechanism - meaning they would be treated as victims of trafficking and modern slavery, rather than being treated as criminals.\n\n\"They are exploited children, and they are being manipulated and exploited. Even if they don't see it, that doesn't mean that it's not happening\", she says.\n\nAnti-Slavery Commissioner Kevin Hyland said the extent of county lines exploitation was only slowly being recognised.\n\n\"We're waking up to it. Are we fully awake to it yet? Probably not, but we are starting to.\"\n\nHe says tackling it will require a change in the psyche of the police and other authorities to see young drugs traffickers as victims not criminals.\n\n\"It makes an enormous difference. You get it right, the whole process changes because you don't have that person in the dock, you start looking for someone else to put in the dock.\"\n\nSarah Newton, minister for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability, said as well as new funding, the government had also taken measures including passing legislation to allow police to shut down the phone lines used to market drugs.\n\n\"It sends a very clear message that we will not tolerate this criminal activity.\"\n\n*Michael's name has been changed to protect his identity.\n\nListen to more on this story on File on 4, on Tuesday 24th October at 20:00 BST on BBC Radio 4.\n• None 'My son was groomed to sell drugs'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jay Hunt will begin work at Apple at the start of 2018\n\nApple has hired Jay Hunt - the former controller of BBC One and chief creative officer of Channel Four - to join its video team.\n\nMs Hunt was responsible for TV shows including Sherlock and Luther at the BBC before helping Channel 4 sign up the Great British Bake Off.\n\nHer title at Apple will be creative director, Europe, worldwide video.\n\nApple has not specified what it involves, but she is expected to commission programmes on its behalf.\n\nUntil now, Apple's own programming has served as an adjunct to its Music subscription service and included Planet of the Apps - a business reality TV competition - and Carpool Karaoke - a spin-off from James Corden's Late Late Show.\n\nHowever, the US firm has committed $1bn (£754m) to acquire and produce further content over the coming months, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.\n\nMs Hunt helped Channel 4 take Bake Off from the BBC\n\nEarlier in the year, Apple revealed it had hired two Sony Pictures TV executives.\n\nJamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg had overseen Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and Rescue Me among other US shows.\n\nThese developments have fuelled speculation that the company is preparing to launch a video subscription service to rival Netflix and Amazon Video, with original content, after failing to convince the US networks to let it sell bundles of their programming.\n\n\"It seems like Apple is going for a worldwide push already, even though it hasn't yet made much headway in the US,\" said Tom Harrington, an analyst at research firm Enders Analysis.\n\n\"Jay Hunt is exceptional in the commissioning space. She's exceptional at finding programmes that fit the outlet she's working at.\n\n\"She could have worked anywhere she wanted.\"\n\nApple is not the only US tech giant investing in the TV industry.\n\nFacebook launched its Watch service in the US in August, offering cookery, fitness and travel-themed programmes among other content.\n\nTwitter is developing news programming in conjunction with Bloomberg and Buzzfeed, and has also acquired streaming rights to several sports events.\n\nGoogle continues to invest in its YouTube Red service, which produces ad-free films and shows for subscribers.\n\nSherlock was one of Ms Hunt's most successful commissions at the BBC\n\nWhen Jay Hunt missed out on the job of chief executive at Channel 4, where as chief creative officer she had overseen a series of big hits and bought Great British Bake Off from the BBC, everyone in the industry asked the same question. What jobs in British TV might she actually now want? Answer: not many.\n\nAs television is reinvented - from linear, scheduled programmes watched by families around a single television set, to on-demand shows watched largely on mobile phones and tablets, or sometimes through multiple screens - it is the big American technology companies that are driving innovation.\n\nLast week, Netflix showed impressive quarterly growth in subscribers. Many senior figures in the industry say Amazon is changing the rules of the game, by offering massive budgets for drama and documentaries. And there is talk aplenty about social media giants buying up live sports rights.\n\nIn hiring Ms Hunt, Apple has reinforced the message that it is taking television and original content very seriously. At her leaving party in Channel 4's London headquarters recently, the universal feeling was that it would be to one of these big technology companies that she moved. That has now come to pass.\n\nJay Hunt poached Bake Off from the BBC in a move that was met with widespread scepticism, and plenty of derision. Yet with six million viewers per episode, its switch has been a success.\n\nWhat show might she poach from another broadcaster next - perhaps even her former employers?\n\nGiven Apple's market capitalisation of more than $800bn (£603bn), I suspect money won't be an issue. Ms Hunt is going to enjoy her new budget.", "The advert featured the words 'Black Is Beautiful' which have since been removed.\n\nA toilet paper manufacturer in Brazil has dropped the slogan \"Black Is Beautiful\" from its black-coloured brand.\n\nIt is not so much the colour of the toilet roll, but the advert for it, which has attracted the most criticism.\n\nPersonal VIP Black toilet paper was launched on Monday by Sao Paulo manufacturers Santher.\n\nIt showed white actress Marina Ruy Barbosa draped in the black paper alongside the words 'Black Is Beautiful.'\n\nThe words have been removed following criticism by racial equality campaigners for the misappropriation of a slogan synonymous with a historic cultural movement intended to empower black communities.\n\nPaulino Cardoso, a professor at Universidade de Estado de Santa Catarina and an organiser of black Latin American academics, railed against what he called a \"band of damned racists.\"\n\nHe posted: \"It is good to boycott and denounce all this propaganda\".\n\nCampaigner Steve Biko used the term 'Black Is Beautiful' as part of the Black Consciousness Movement\n\nThe term \"Black Is Beautiful\" emerged in the 1960s from African-American communities fighting for civil rights. It later become more prominent in the writings of the Black Conciousness Movement of Steve Biko during the anti-apartheid era.\n\nThe term was intended to promote black features such as skin colour and hair textures as equal to white beauty standards.\n\nRio de Janeiro-based writer Anderson Franca articulated why the term was offensive in a Facebook post.\n\n\"If you search 'Black Is Beautiful' anywhere in the world you'll find references to Angela Davis, Malcolm X, The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, Fela Kuti, James Baldwin, and Nina Simone, but not in Brazil,\" he posted.\n\n\"People died for this expression to be revered to this day. People are still dying and this expression is more important and vital than ever before.\n\n\"But in Brazil, if you type #blackisbeautiful you will find toilet paper.\"\n\nFranca's post has been shared almost 3,000 times since being published on Monday evening with the discussion spreading across social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lip This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"In Brazil #blackisbeautiful is not a cause, it is toilet paper. Where do black lives matter?\" agreed one Twitter user.\n\nOthers were less critical, suggesting the campaign was more ill-judged than racist.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 esforçado This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhile another Twitter user said he was not offended by the advert at all: \"Mate, I'm black and I wasn't offended by this. Black is the colour of the paper, it doesn't refer to race. Crazy people need to stop trying to make a problem out of everything\".\n\nManufacturer Santher withdrew the slogan and issued a statement on its website and the Facebook page of its Familia Personal brand.\n\n\"We would like to clarify that we have never had any intention of provoking a racial discussion through the launch of our Personal VIP Black Toilet Paper,\" read the statement.\n\nThe company also apologised for \"the possible mistaken association of the phrase adopted by the black movement, which we respect and admire so much,\" and added \"it's always time to learn.\"\n\nBarbosa, who featured in the advert, has also apologised on her Twitter page for any offence caused.", "Confused and scared, two-year-old Hazera holds on to her mother after reaching Bangladesh from Myanmar\n\nMyanmar's military has brutally evicted more than half a million Muslim Rohingya people from the country's northern Rakhine state. The UN human rights office says their homes and villages have been burned down, and their crops and livestock destroyed to stop them coming back.\n\nRohingya who fled to neighbouring Bangladesh say that the security services' \"clearance operations\" involved mass civilian killings, torture, and child rape.\n\nThe military denies committing genocide, insisting it has only targeted Rohingya militants. But for those who fear being homeless or worse, the semantics are immaterial.\n\nBangladesh's UN ambassador says more than 600,000 people have crossed the border since late August, joining the 300,000 or so who fled earlier outbreaks of violence.\n\nThey are starving and exhausted. Many are traumatised, and most have children with them. BBC photographer Salman Saeed took these pictures near the refugee camps in Palongkhali, Kutupalong and Balukhali, in the Cox's Bazar area of Bangladesh.\n\nThese Rohingya families have been walking for more than a week without food, but have finally arrived in Bangladesh after witnessing atrocities in Myanmar's Rakhine state.\n\nThey carry their few belongings and blankets on sticks over their shoulders.\n\nUN experts believe it is \"highly likely\" that Myanmar's security forces planted landmines along the border in recent weeks, making an arduous journey yet more fraught with danger.\n\nThe owner of these weary legs waded through mud to reach a refugee camp.\n\nInternational observers say some Rohingya people have walked for up to three weeks before arriving at government-run settlements like Kutupalong. The children have welts on the soles of their feet.\n\nRohingya people are using any available transport to escape Rakhine. Some are trekking to the Naf River, which forms the border, while others are sailing up the coast.\n\nDozens have already died trying to cross into Bangladesh in small, rickety fishing boats.\n\nThe Dhaka Tribune reports that 28 boats have capsized since 24 August, killing 184 people - mostly women and children.\n\nThe boats are often overcrowded, and the risk of disaster considerable. Some of those on board are unable to swim.\n\nThis man, Abu Tabel, arrived in Bangladesh with his few salvaged belongings gathered in sacks and a basket.\n\nThe caged chicken below was his only companion on the long journey to find a new home.\n\nWhen they reach the camps, the displaced people find - and build - makeshift accommodation along the roads and hillsides around the border town of Cox's Bazaar.\n\nThe settlements are muddy, wet and overcrowded, with a shortage of clean water and poor sanitation. There are very few toilets. Torrential rain has increased the hardships - and the risk of diseases like cholera.\n\nMany of those crossing the border already have relatives in Cox's Bazar, whom they are desperate to find.\n\nOn 16 October, the Red Cross opened a 60-bed field hospital in Cox's Bazar the size of two football fields.\n\nIt has three wards, an operating theatre, a maternity ward, and a psychosocial support unit.\n\nThis young Rohingya boy is comparatively lucky - he has received some medical treatment.\n\nBangladesh has announced plans to build a refugee camp that could ultimately accommodate about 800,000 Rohingya.\n\nIt would be the largest such settlement in the world.\n\nThis family was photographed resting and having their first meal in several days.\n\nSurvivors say starvation had helped drive them from their villages, as food markets in Rakhine state have been shut and aid restricted.\n\nRasida, who is nine months pregnant, is one of thousands of mothers-to-be who have fled - knowing they could give birth any day.\n\nThe United Nations Population Fund estimates that of the nearly 150,000 Rohingya women of reproductive age (15-49 years), some 24,000 are pregnant and lactating.\n\nSome have had no choice but to give birth by the roadside.\n\nOn 17 October, the United Nations warned that thousands of Rohingya were still stranded near the Myanmar-Bangladesh border.\n\nIt urged Bangladesh to speed up the vetting of up to 15,000 affected people, and move them inland to safety.\n\nAndrej Mahecic, a UN refugee agency spokesman, said it wanted Bangladesh to \"urgently admit these refugees fleeing violence and increasingly difficult conditions back home\".\n\nHe added: \"Every minute counts, given the fragile conditions they're arriving in.\"\n\nFor now, the influx continues. Thousands on thousands, caught in the world's fastest-growing humanitarian crisis.\n\nAll pictures were shot by Salman Saeed in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Should all schools be fitted with sprinklers?\n\nAll new and refurbished schools in the UK should be fitted with sprinklers, fire chiefs say.\n\nCurrently, sprinklers are mandatory in new school buildings in Scotland and Wales, but not in England and Northern Ireland - and the National Fire Chiefs Council says that must change.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade Commissioner Dany Cotton accused the government of \"playing with children's lives\".\n\nThe Department for Education said the safety of children was their priority.\n\nFire safety in public buildings like schools has come under close scrutiny since the Grenfell Tower fire in west London in June.\n\nThere are about 700 school fires a year in England.\n\nRift House in Hartlepool had no sprinkler system\n\nLast year, the DfE in England began a consultation on new draft guidance which said building regulations no longer required \"the installation of fire sprinkler suppression systems in school buildings for life safety\".\n\n\"Therefore,\" it added, \"[guidelines] no longer include an expectation that most new school buildings will be fitted with them.\"\n\nMs Cotton told BBC Breakfast she was appalled when she saw that draft guidance.\n\n\"I think it was outrageous,\" she said. \"I thought, 'How can we play with children's lives like that?'\n\n\"I just do not understand why it wouldn't be made compulsory and wouldn't be made a requirement to fit sprinklers in schools at new-build stage.\n\n\"And what I don't want to see is a very large school fire to be the thing that brings about that change.\"\n\nThe consultation was dropped after Grenfell so the guidance was never changed.\n\nIt continues to state that it is the DfE's \"expectation that all new schools will have sprinklers fitted\", unless a school is \"low risk\" and installation \"would not be good value for money\".\n\nDespite this, less than a third of the 260 schools built since 2014 under the Schools Building Programme have sprinklers.\n\nMs Cotton said the London Fire Brigade recommended sprinklers in 184 new or refurbished schools last year, and yet advice was taken in only four of these cases. Other fire services have given BBC Breakfast equivalent figures, following a similar pattern.\n\nThe National Fire Chiefs Council said the proportion of new schools built with sprinklers had dropped from about 70% a decade ago to a third last year - and overall, in England and Wales, just 5% of schools have sprinklers.\n\nLondon fire chief Dany Cotton said sprinklers should be compulsory in all schools\n\nThe construction industry says schools can be designed to be low fire risk with exit routes, fire doors and reinforced walls.\n\nAndrew Alsbury, from construction firm Willmott Dixon, told the BBC: \"I think if there were more money involved in school buildings I'd be looking at the need for new school places around the country - the bits of the school estate which are in really poor condition - rather than say that sprinklers was the first call.\n\n\"Because intrinsically, pupils are safe in their schools today.\"\n\nThe DfE says all schools must have a Fire Risk Assessment and new schools undergo an additional safety check while being designed.\n\n\"It has always been the case that where the risk assessment recommends sprinklers in a school building, they must be installed,\" a spokesman added.\n\nThe Local Government Association said it \"fully supports the installation of sprinklers in new school buildings as a cost-effective measure which can help save lives, protect property and improve firefighter safety\".", "The Guardian leads on Wednesday with a scathing indictment of the Brexit vote by the former mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg.\n\nHe has launched a new headquarters for his eponymous financial media firm in London and described the decision as the \"single stupidest thing any country has ever done\" - one only \"Trumped\" by the US election result.\n\nHe adds that he may not have invested in his \"two big, expensive buildings\" had he known the British people would choose to \"drop out\" of the EU.\n\nHuffpost UK, meanwhile, carries a warning from the Food and Drink Federation that a Brexit-induced labour shortage is affecting crisp production.\n\nThe trade body's chief executive, Ian Wright, tells the website that fewer EU migrants are travelling to the UK for work, and calls on the government to do more to reassure them that they're welcome.\n\nThe Washington Post reveals that Hillary Clinton's supporters and the Democratic National Committee helped fund research that resulted in a dossier that made allegations about Russian links to Trump's election campaign.\n\nIt says a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC retained the Washington firm, Fusion GPS, to conduct the research, which, in turn, hired the report's author, a former British intelligence officer. None of the parties involved has commented on the story.\n\nSeveral papers feature a study which has concluded that blood thinners could cut the risk of developing dementia by almost half.\n\nIt's the lead in the Daily Express, which hails the finding as a \"breakthrough\" that \"has given fresh hope that a disease-modifying therapy is now in sight\".\n\nSeparately, the Times reports that brain changes linked to Alzheimer's disease have been found in dolphins, the first time the condition has been discovered in a wild animal. Researchers say the findings could have profound implications for the study of dementia in humans.\n\nThere's a heart-warming tale in the Daily Mirror of a surrogate mother who is having a second baby for a gay couple, and has refused to take any payment.\n\nBecky Harris, who gave the men a daughter six years ago, tells the paper she is waiving the expenses she could legally claim because \"they're such great dads\". She says they joke that this is their buy-one-get-one-free baby.\n\nFinally, revealing letters from the author Harper Lee, which are due to be auctioned, are uncovered by the Guardian.\n\nIn one communication, written on the day of Barack Obama's inauguration, she discloses that President Lyndon B Johnson hoped there would one day be a black, female leader of the free world. She recalls how he was asked by the actor Gregory Peck if they would see a black president in their lifetime.\n\n\"No,\" came the reply, \"but I wish her well.\"", "The two notes sold for $1.56m and $240,000 - way higher than their estimates\n\nA note written by Albert Einstein containing advice on happy living has sold at an auction house in Jerusalem for $1.56m (£1.19m).\n\nEinstein gave the note to a courier in Tokyo in 1922 instead of a tip.\n\nHe had just heard that he had won the coveted Nobel prize for physics and told the messenger that, if he was lucky, the notes would become valuable.\n\nEinstein suggested in the note that achieving a long-dreamt goal did not necessarily guarantee happiness.\n\nThe German-born physicist had won the Nobel and was in Japan on a lecture tour.\n\nWhen the courier came to his room to make a delivery, he did not have any money to reward him.\n\nEinstein (seen here in 1950) wrote the hotel notes shortly after winning the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics\n\nInstead, he handed the messenger a signed note - using stationery of the Imperial Hotel Tokyo - with one sentence, written in German: \"A calm and humble life will bring more happiness than the pursuit of success and the constant restlessness that comes with it.\"\n\nA second note written at the same time simply reads: \"Where there's a will, there's a way.\" It sold for $240,000, Winner's auction house said.\n\nThe winning bids for both notes were far higher than the pre-auction estimated price, the auctioneers said.\n\nIt said the buyer of one of the notes was a European who wished to remain anonymous.\n\nThe seller is reported to be the nephew of the messenger.\n\nWe cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them\n\nThe true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination\n\nWe still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us\n\nWhen you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity", "Both the US and Afghanistan released photos of the meeting, with a crucial difference - a clock above the TVs\n\nA photo of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Afghanistan appears to have been altered to suggest he was in Kabul, not a US air base miles away.\n\nImages show him meeting President Ashraf Ghani in a windowless room at Bagram Airfield, under a US military clock and a red fire alarm.\n\nBut an Afghan press release with a similar photo minus the clock or alarm says Mr Ghani \"received\" Mr Tillerson.\n\nBoth sides initially said that the meeting took place in Kabul.\n\nThe US State Department later issued a correction, saying it had taken place at Bagram, the biggest American military base in Afghanistan.\n\nA press release from the US embassy in Afghanistan includes a photo with the wall above the two men's heads cropped out.\n\nHowever, another photo tweeted by the embassy clearly shows the clock and alarm, \"in what would be a giveaway that it was an American military facility\", the New York Times notes.\n\nThe digital clock shows \"Zulu\" time (the military term for GMT), local time and Eastern Time.\n\nBut in the Afghan government's photo, there is no clock or alarm, with one expert telling the Times there was \"no question\" it had been manipulated. Neither side has explained the discrepancy.\n\nThis was the photo released by the Afghan president's office, with no clock on the wall\n\nA photo of the meeting from the US embassy cropped out the upper wall\n\nBut another US embassy image showed the clock and alarm\n\nMr Tillerson's visit, said by the New York Times to have lasted just two hours, was kept secret until the trip ended amid increasing security concerns in the country.\n\nSeveral weeks ago, rockets targeted Kabul airport during US Defence Secretary James Mattis's visit.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emily Warburton-Adams (r) tells of being harassed and Zoe Strimpel on #MeToo\n\nHalf of British women and a fifth of men have been sexually harassed at work or a place of study, a BBC survey says.\n\nOf the women who said they had been harassed, 63% said they didn't report it to anyone, and 79% of the male victims kept it to themselves.\n\nThe ComRes poll for BBC Radio 5 live spoke to more than 2,000 people.\n\nThe survey was commissioned after sexual assault claims against Harvey Weinstein resulted in widespread sharing of sexual harassment stories.\n\nWomen and men who have been sexually harassed have been revealing their experiences on social media using the hashtag \"me too\" to show the magnitude of the problem worldwide.\n\nThat followed allegations, including rape and sexual assault, against Mr Weinstein from more than two dozen women - among them actresses Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Rose McGowan.\n\nThe Hollywood producer insists sexual relations he had were consensual.\n\nThe Radio 5 live survey, of 2,031 British adults, found that 37% of all those asked - 53% of women and 20% of men - said they had experienced sexual harassment, ranging from inappropriate comments to actual sexual assaults, at work or a place of study.\n\nMore than a quarter of people surveyed had suffered harassment in the form of inappropriate jokes or \"banter\" and nearly one in seven had suffered inappropriate touching.\n\nOf those who had been harassed, 5 live's survey suggests one in 10 women had been sexually assaulted.\n\nMore women than men were targeted by a boss or senior manager - 30% compared with 12% - and one in 10 women who had experienced harassment said it led to them leaving their job or place of study.\n\nSarah was assaulted by a teacher and a professor during her education\n\nSarah Killcoyne, from Cambridge, told BBC News she was sexually assaulted when she was still in education by two different men - a school teacher when she was a teenager and later by a college professor.\n\nShe said: \"I would very much like to see the people around the predators - we know there's only a few of them - to stop enabling them.\"\n\nOne man, who did not want to be identified, said he had been harassed by his female boss.\n\nHe said: “She made constant comments about my appearance and how I dressed - comments asking about my hairy chest and what I liked in a woman.\n\n\"[It was] all laughed off by other mainly female office staff, but it left me feeling dirty and uncomfortable.\n\n\"I ended up with depression and confidence issues and had time off with anxiety as a result.”\n\nSince the allegations about Mr Weinstein surfaced, many high profile names have used social media to highlight the problem of sexual assault, some also detailing the harassment they have endured.\n\nJess Phillips and Mary Creagh were among the MPs to reveal their accounts as they wanted to encourage victims of abuse to speak out.\n\nLabour's Ms Phillips told the London Evening Standard how she had been left \"paralysed by fear\" when she woke up at a party to find her boss undoing her belt and trying to get into her trousers.\n\nFellow Labour MP Ms Creagh said she was just seven when she was sexually assaulted by about 12 boys during a school playground game of kiss-chase.\n\nThe results of the BBC survey follow research published last year by the TUC which also suggested more than half of women say they have been sexually harassed at work - and most had not reported it.\n\nPeople often fail to report sexual harassment for a range of reasons, Manuela Barreto , the University of Exeter's professor of social and organisational psychology, told the BBC.\n\nThey might feel the harassment took place in a \"subtle\" way, or was couched in humour.\n\nWhen one case is exposed in the media, however, those effects change. \"It facilitates understanding, and therefore detection, of what qualifies as sexual harassment,\" she says.\n\n\"It gives the message that it's a serious matter and that there are many out there who support the perception that this is a problem.\"\n\nActivist Tarana Burke is the founder of the original Me Too campaign - launched 10 years ago in the United States to provide \"empowerment through empathy\" to survivors of sexual abuse, assault, exploitation, and harassment in underprivileged communities.\n\nShe told 5 Live she feels there is now momentum behind a genuine change in the way sexual harassment is handled.\n\n\"From what I'm seeing and hearing, and from the groundswell of support for this, it doesn't feel like it's stopping,\" she said.\n\n\"My ultimate goal is to make sure this is not just a moment, that this is a movement, and we will continue to raise our voices, we will continue to disrupt, we will continue to tell our stories until we are heard and until we move the needle.\"", "In October 1957, BBC Radio 4's Today programme went on the air for the first time. A lot has changed in the last 60 years: we are living much longer; attitudes to sex and marriage have become more relaxed; house prices have risen and the demographics of the UK have changed. But do you know by how much?\n\nTest your knowledge by drawing in the missing information on the charts below. The charts give you the latest figure, all you have to do is hold and drag the orange dot on each graph and draw the rest of the chart back to 1957, then use the \"Show me the answer\" button to see how you did.\n\nAll the charts have been produced in collaboration with the Office for National Statistics.\n\nYou draw the chart: How low were house prices in 1957?\n\nHouse prices have rocketed over the last few decades. But how modern is this phenomenon - hold and drag the orange dot to trace the trend line back to 1957?\n\nThe 2017 figure is an average of the monthly figures from January to August. Sources: HM Land Registry and ONS.\n\nIf you can't see the charts, click this link to open the same story outside of Google AMP or the Twitter app.\n\nYou draw the chart: How long could you expect to live in 1957?\n\nImprovements in medical care and fewer people smoking mean that we are now living longer than ever. A baby boy born in the UK in 2014 could expect, on average, to live to 79; for baby girls born that year it was 83. But what do you think the average life expectancy was for a boy born in 1957? Can you draw the trend line back 60 years?\n\nFigures for 1957 to 1980 relate to England and Wales and figures for 1981 to 2014 are for the UK. Source: ONS\n\nYou draw the chart: Did many people divorce?\n\nMarriage has dropped in popularity since 1957. That year 52 out of every 1,000 unmarried women tied the knot. In 2014 it was only 21 women out of every 1,000 unmarried women. But what about divorce, how has it changed and what was the divorce rate in 1957? We've given you the latest figure for the number of women divorcing for every 1,000 married women. Tap on the orange marker and draw the trend line back.\n\nYou draw the chart: How many children were born outside of marriage?\n\nToday there are nearly as many children born to unmarried parents, as those whose parents are married. Not so in 1957. But do you know what the percentage was back then? The orange marker is the latest number. Hold and drag to draw the trend line back.\n\nSince 2009, data also include those born outside of civil partnerships. Source: ONS\n\nYou draw the chart: What percentage of people living in the UK were born abroad?\n\nThis measure does not always mean what people think it means: it's not a count of foreigners living in the UK. For example, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and the actress Emma Watson were both born abroad but would not be seen as foreigners by most people. The figures also include people born in Germany who are often children of British service people who were based out there.\n\nCaveats aside though, this number has grown over the time the Today Programme has been on the air. The orange marker shows today's figure. But what was the trend and what was this number in the 1950s? Hold and drag to draw your line.\n\nChart drawn from census data from 1951-2011. Census data is collected every ten years. Estimates between these years are not official statistics. Sources: ONS, National Records of Scotland, Census Office for Northern Ireland\n\nYou draw the chart: What was the average age of a first-time mum in 1957?\n\nThe average age of a first-time mum today is 29. This is higher than it was 60 years ago. Can you draw the line back to 1957? Hold and drag the orange marker to make your guess.\n\nProduced by Wesley Stephenson in collaboration with the Office for National Statistics - Callum Thomson, Zoe Hartland, Sophie Warnes, John Nixon and Robert Fry. Design by Zoe Bartholemew (BBC).", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Davis tells MPs Parliament's vote on a Brexit deal may come after March 2019.\n\nThe Brexit Secretary, David Davis, has suggested that Parliament might not get a vote on a Brexit deal until after March 2019.\n\nIt's prompted criticism from some MPs, who are worried their votes will be meaningless because by that point, the UK will have already left the EU.\n\nAlso significant is Mr Davis' claim that the European Parliament might have to wait to have its say too.\n\nAccording to Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which the UK triggered seven months ago, the withdrawal agreement must be passed by a majority of members of the European Parliament.\n\nEven if a deal was done at \"the 11th hour\" as Mr Davis suggested when giving evidence to the Commons Brexit committee, it would be too late for MEPs to debate it and vote it through.\n\nSo the upshot of a last-minute deal could be no deal at all.\n\nThe Brexit department later clarified that Mr Davis was talking about \"hypothetical scenarios\" and ministers are working to reach an agreement in \"good time\" before March 2019.\n\nIt's not entirely clear what \"deal\" Mr Davis was referring to.\n\nThe European Union has broken down the negotiations into two parts.\n\nThe first focuses on the issues associated with withdrawal, such as the rights of EU citizens, the Northern Irish border and the UK's financial obligations.\n\nThe second covers what our future relationship might look like, including areas such as trade, scientific research and consumer rights.\n\nThe British government says it's not possible to separate the two parts, because in many respects, they're intrinsically linked.\n\nIf the \"deal\" that Mr Davis was talking about this morning encompasses both, it must be ratified on or before 29 March 2019, which means an agreement would need to be reached in time for that.\n\nThe future relationship part could be ratified after the deadline, but only if part one is rubber-stamped before the deadline.\n\nThe EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, is hopeful of reaching a withdrawal agreement by autumn 2018 and the Brexit department said that was their aim as well.\n\nTechnically it is possible to extend the Article 50 period, currently fixed at two years, if there's unanimous agreement from the 27 remaining member states.\n\nBut that option would be a hard sell.", "MPs are to carry out an inquiry into e-cigarettes amid concerns there are \"significant gaps\" in what is known about them and how they are regulated.\n\nThe science and technology committee will look at their effectiveness as a stop-smoking tool and the impact of their growing use on health.\n\nNearly three million people in the UK now \"vape\" regularly - four times more than in 2012.\n\nBut committee chair Norman Lamb said there was mixed messaging on vaping.\n\nThe Liberal Democrat MP said: \"They are seen by some as valuable tools that will reduce the number of people smoking 'conventional' cigarettes, and seen by others as 're-normalising' smoking for the younger generation.\n\n\"We want to understand where the gaps are in the evidence base, the impact of the regulations, and the implications of this growing industry on NHS costs and the UK's public finances.\"\n\nThe announcement comes after e-cigarettes were included in this year's Stoptober campaign - aimed at helping people stop smoking - for the first time.\n\nThe government-backed campaign, which has been running during October, now features vaping in its TV adverts.\n\nIt came after the smoking devices proved to be the most popular tool for quitting during the 2016 campaign.\n\nBut despite this, e-cigarettes are not yet officially prescribed on the NHS.\n\nNew draft guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) does not list e-cigarettes as a recommendation to help people quit either.\n\nBut it does say patients should be told some smokers have found them helpful when they want to give up.\n\nNICE advises that patients should be told that there \"is currently little evidence on the long-term benefits or harms of these products\".\n\nThe cross-party group of MPs has asked for written evidence to be submitted by 8 December.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ms Lind said the alleged incident took place in 2014\n\nFormer US President George Bush Senior has apologised for any distress caused after an actress accused him of sexual assault.\n\nHeather Lind said the 93-year-old former president had \"touched me from behind from his wheelchair\" and told a \"dirty joke\" while posing for a photo.\n\nMs Lind made the allegation on social network Instagram, in a post which has since been deleted.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Bush said the incident was an attempt at humour.\n\n\"President Bush would never - under any circumstance - intentionally cause anyone distress, and he most sincerely apologises if his attempt at humour offended Ms Lind,\" a statement supplied to outlets including the Daily Mail and People magazine said.\n\nBoth websites preserved the contents of Ms Lind's post before it was deleted.\n\nMr Bush served one term as US president from 1989 to 1993, and is the father of George W Bush, who served two terms in the office between 2001 and 2009.\n\nHe suffers from a form of Parkinson's disease.\n\nMs Lind said a photo of Barack Obama shaking Mr Bush's hand had disturbed her\n\nThe incident allegedly took place during an event for the television show Turn: Washington's Spies, in which Ms Lind is one of the main cast members.\n\nIn her Instagram post, Ms Lind said she was spurred to make the claim after seeing a photo of Barack Obama shaking Mr Bush Senior's hand at a recent fundraiser for hurricane victims, which she said had \"disturbed\" her.\n\n\"He sexually assaulted me while I was posing for a similar photo. He didn't shake my hand. He touched me from behind from his wheelchair with his wife Barbara Bush by his side,\" she wrote, according to the Daily Mail's transcript of the deleted post.\n\n\"He told me a dirty joke. And then, all the while being photographed, touched me again,\" she added.\n\nMs Lind finished her post with the hashtag #metoo, which has seen widespread use by victims of sexual assault to share their experiences in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein Hollywood scandal.\n\n\"What comforts me is that I too can use my power, which isn't so different from a president really,\" she said.\n\n\"I am grateful for the bravery of other women who have spoken up and written about their experiences.\"", "Victoria Cilliers was giving evidence for the first time at the trial of her former husband\n\nThe wife of an Army fitness instructor accused of tampering with her parachute \"despised\" him over suspicions he was having an affair, a court heard.\n\nVictoria Cilliers, 40, suffered multiple injuries in a 4,000ft fall at Netheravon Airfield, Wiltshire in 2015.\n\nEmile Cilliers, 37, denies attempting to murder his former Army officer wife.\n\nGiving evidence at Winchester Crown Court, Mrs Cilliers said she wanted to \"get her own back\" on him, and changed her will to cut her husband out of it.\n\nMr Cilliers also denies a second attempted murder charge and a third charge of tampering with a gas fitting at their home in Amesbury, Wiltshire, on 30 March 2015.\n\nMrs Cilliers told the court their marriage began to fail in November 2014.\n\n\"Cracks were starting to show, I was aware around that time, I had suspicions before that he was having an affair,\" she said\n\nMrs Cilliers said she also knew her husband was in financial difficulty as he was \"bad with money\".\n\nBeing also pregnant at the time, she was \"starting to feel insecure in the marriage\".\n\nMrs Cilliers told the court she changed the terms of the will to leave the house to their children.\n\nIn a letter to her husband to accompany the new document, she wrote: \"I do hope Emile you understand my reasons.\n\n\"I love you and you are an amazing father to the children, I just want to ensure that they have the access to education I had.\"\n\nWalking unaided into the wood-panelled courtroom, Victoria Cilliers was largely composed as she spent just over an hour giving evidence standing in the witness box.\n\nAt times Mrs Cilliers lingered before answering questions from the prosecution but the former Army physiotherapist addressed the jury clearly and articulately, showing little sign of emotion.\n\nHowever, there were moments when the witness prickled in response to certain statements. As the prosecution prepared her for \"sensitive questions\", she retorted: \"My life's been public for the last few years.\"\n\nProsecutors allege Mr Cilliers, a sergeant with the Aldershot-based Royal Army Physical Training Corps, twisted the lines of her main parachute and sabotaged a reserve chute the day before her jump.\n\nMrs Cilliers, who suffered broken vertebrae, ribs and pelvis in the fall, admitted in court she gave differing accounts to police about the amount of time her husband was alone with her parachute.\n\nWhen asked if she had always told the truth over that, she replied: \"Not always. The extent of his lies and deceit had been disclosed to me and I just wanted to get my own back to a certain extent.\"\n\nThe Army fitness instructor denies attempting to murder Victoria Cilliers in April 2015\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Johnson is quizzed on Radio 4's Today whether Chris Heaton-Harris should have sent Brexit letter\n\nTory MP Chris Heaton-Harris \"should probably not have sent\" a letter to universities asking for details of Brexit courses, a minister has said.\n\nUniversities minister Jo Johnson said his colleague, a government whip, was \"regretting very much\" his decision,\n\nHe said the MP was \"pursuing inquiries of his own\" which may lead to a book on \"the evolution of attitudes\" to Europe rather than acting for the government.\n\nUniversities enjoyed \"24 carat academic freedom\" in the UK, he insisted.\n\nLecturers reacted with anger to the letter, calling it a \"sinister\" attempt to censor them and accusing Mr Heaton-Harris of conducting a \"McCarthyite\" witch hunt.\n\nDowning Street distanced itself from the letter by Mr Heaton-Harris, a member of the pro-Brexit European Research Group of Tory MP, after he wrote to universities asking for the names of professors teaching Brexit-related courses and details of their syllabuses.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris has not said himself what his intentions were, but said he believed in \"open\" debate about the UK's departure from the EU.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today Mr Johnson, who said he had spoken to Mr Heaton-Harris, said: \"Chris was acting in an individual capacity as an MP rather than as a government minister… Chris has a very longstanding interest in European affairs and the history of European thought.\n\n\"He was pursuing inquiries of his own which may, in time, lead to a book on these questions. It was more of an academic inquiry rather than an attempt to constrain the freedom that academics rightly have.\"\n\nAsked if the letter should have been sent, he said Mr Heaton-Harris \"probably didn't appreciate the degree to which this would be misinterpreted\".\n\nHe said: \"I am sure Chris is regretting this very much. The critical thing is that the government is absolutely committed to academic freedom and to freedom of speech in our universities.\n\n\"A letter which could have been misinterpreted should probably not have been sent.\"\n\nThe letter was sent to universities across the UK\n\nOpposition parties have suggested that Mr Heaton-Harris was seeking to compile a list of \"Brexit heretics\" and called for him to be stripped of his role as a whip.\n\nFormer Conservative chairman Lord Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University, said the letter should be chucked in the bin, describing it as an act of \"offensive and idiotic Leninism\".\n\nMr Johnson suggested this was something of an \"over-exaggeration\" given the independence of universities was protected under the law and the government had extended the statutory duty to secure free speech earlier this year so that it will apply to all providers of higher education.\n\nChris Heaton-Harris is facing calls to explain why he wanted the information\n\n\"There is 24 carat academic freedom in this country. We have entrenched it in statute, only as recently as April.\n\n\"Academic staff are free to test and challenge received wisdom and free to put forward new ideas and controversial or unpopular opinions. That is the law and we support it.\"\n\nA number of Tory MPs have backed Mr Heaton-Harris, Philip Davies condemning what he said was the \"false outrage\" from academics and suggesting universities had been \"rumbled\".\n\nHe told the Daily Telegraph that universities were full of \"left wing lecturers forcing their opinions on their students\" and they should be \"more balanced in their teaching\"\n\nAnd tweeting a picture of a flyer for a stop-Brexit rally, Paul Scully said: \"This is what a lecturer was handing out to my daughter who spends £9k per annum for him to be teaching engineering, not politics.\"", "The number of people switching their current account to another provider has fallen to a new low, according to industry figures.\n\nJust 57,779 used the seven day switching service to move accounts in September, the lowest number since the scheme was launched four years ago.\n\nThe drop came in spite of an advertising campaign during the month, designed to raise awareness.\n\nAdverts were placed on TV, radio, in national newspapers and online.\n\nThe reluctance to move also comes in spite of the potential savings on offer, and financial incentives being offered by the banks.\n\nThe Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks are currently offering account holders £250, for example, while HSBC is offering £200 if people move and stay loyal for a year.\n\nThe number of people switching in September was half the number it was in March last year, when 120,774 moved account.\n\nAdvertising campaigns have consistently failed to persuade people to switch\n\nBACS - which runs the Current Account Switching Service - already promised to improve the scheme in January this year.\n\nIt told the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that it would extend the period in which money is redirected from a customer's old account to the new one.\n\nThe idea was to give consumers extra confidence that their money would not go astray.\n\nBut account holders do not appear to have been convinced that switching is worthwhile.\n\nThat is despite the fact that, after a two-year inquiry, the CMA said consumers could save up to £92 a year if they moved their account.\n\nThe news will also be a blow to the Treasury, which originally said it would rely on the scheme to improve competition in the banking sector.\n\nBACS said that over four million customers had moved their accounts since 2013.\n\nThe banks that are gaining the most account-holders are Nationwide, TSB and HSBC. The ones losing the most are Barclays, Clydesdale and NatWest.\n• None The Current Account Switch Service - your guarantee to a successful switch The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former shadow education secretary Lucy Powell, right, said Labour MP Jared O'Mara should be suspended while being investigated for misogynistic and homophobic language by the Labour Party\n\nA prominent Labour MP says Jared O'Mara should be suspended from the party while claims he made misogynistic and homophobic remarks are investigated.\n\nFormer shadow education secretary Lucy Powell made the comments on ITV after Mr O'Mara was accused of making offensive comments in March 2017.\n\nLabour has launched an investigation into his behaviour.\n\nThe Sheffield Hallam MP apologised for remarks made online in 2002 and 2004, but denies the more recent allegations.\n\nOn Monday Mr O'Mara resigned from the women and equalities committee after political website Guido Fawkes unearthed offensive comments made by the 35-year-old MP.\n\nThen on Tuesday, Sophie Evans told the BBC's Daily Politics she had met Mr O'Mara on a dating app and there had been \"no hard feelings\" when things didn't work out between them.\n\nBut in an incident in March 2017 Mr O'Mara, who was DJing in a nightclub, made comments to her that \"aren't broadcastable\" and called her an \"ugly bitch\", she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sophie Evans on Jared O'Mara comments: \"I just thought wow, he is not a very nice man\"\n\nMr O'Mara said this was \"categorically untrue\".\n\nMs Powell, MP for Manchester Central, told ITV's After The News: \"One of the key questions you're asked when you become a candidate for the Labour Party - and you have to sign a contract to say this - is there anything in your past that would bring the party into disrepute?\n\n\"And I don't understand, in all honesty, how Jared could have signed that paper. That's why I think he should be suspended while that investigation is taking place.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable has also called for Mr O'Mara to have the Labour whip removed.\n\nBut shadow chancellor John McDonnell said: \"He has apologised for what we knew yesterday. He issued a profuse apology.\n\n\"Any language like that we know is unacceptable and I'm hoping he will apologise for that.\"\n\nThe offensive comments published by Guido Fawkes included messages where he claimed singer Michelle McManus only won Pop Idol \"because she was fat\" and it would be funny if jazz star Jamie Cullum was \"sodomised with his own piano\".\n\nMore comments, involving homophobic language, then emerged dating back to 2002.", "Arthur Collins says he was trying to prevent a date rape drug being used to spike clubbers' drinks\n\nThe ex-boyfriend of reality TV star Ferne McCann told her family she was pregnant hours before he sprayed a crowd of nightclub revellers with acid, a court has heard.\n\nArthur Collins, 25, the father of Ms McCann's unborn child, said they broke the news at a barbecue on 16 April.\n\nIn the early hours of 17 April, more than a dozen people were injured at the Mangle E8 club in Dalston, east London.\n\nMr Collins admits throwing the liquid but says he did not know it was acid.\n\nMr Collins and his co-accused, 21-year-old Andre Phoenix, deny causing grievous bodily harm with intent and actual bodily harm in relation to the incident, in which several people were disfigured.\n\nJurors at Wood Green Crown Court heard that Mr Collins had been in a serious relationship with The Only Way Is Essex star Ms McCann for about a year at the time, and had found out she was pregnant just weeks earlier.\n\n\"It was the happiest I have ever felt. We were both really happy,\" said Mr Collins, who was living with his parents in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire.\n\nThe court heard how after breaking the news, Mr Collins left the barbecue to attend a LoveJuice event at Mangle.\n\nSixteen people were injured in the incident at Mangle\n\nMr Collins - who had entered the club wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the words \"Candy Killer\" - told the jury he had been drinking at the venue but was not drunk.\n\nCCTV footage of the alleged attack showed victims clutching their faces after Mr Collins was seen dousing revellers from a bottle with a substance later found to have contained a liquid with a rating of pH1 - indicating a strong acid.\n\nMr Collins told the jury he had thought the bottle actually contained a date rape drug.\n\nHe said he had snatched it after hearing two men planning to spike a woman's drink.\n\nMr Collins said: \"I wanted to show them the drugs was gone so they wouldn't spike any girl's drink and show them there was nothing left in the bottle.\"\n\nHe said the men were \"really aggressive\" as they came towards him in a bid to get the bottle back.\n\n\"I remember undoing the bottle and I threw it at the males,\" he told the jury.\n\nBefore Mr Collins gave evidence on Wednesday, jurors were told a number of the charges against him and Mr Phoenix had been dropped following legal argument.\n\nMr Collins denies five counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent and nine counts of causing actual bodily harm against 14 people.\n\nMr Phoenix, of Clyde Road, Tottenham, north London, denies four counts of GBH and two counts of ABH.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Karon Grieve was given the VIP treatment during her flight on Sunday\n\nA woman who paid just £46 for a flight to Crete has spoken of her amazement at being the only passenger on board.\n\nKaron Grieve, from Dunlop in Ayrshire, described her Jet2 flight from Glasgow to the Greek island - which normally carries 189 passengers - as \"surreal\".\n\nShe was given the VIP treatment after two other passengers booked on the flight failed to turn up.\n\nJet2 said it was \"not unusual\" for the final flight of the season to have fewer bookings than normal.\n\nMs Grieve, who was travelling to Crete to write a crime novel, said it was immediately obvious there were very few passengers when she turned up at the airport for her 16:30 flight on Sunday.\n\nShe told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"I turned up at the check-in desk and was joking with the staff, saying 'how many people are on this flight?'\n\n\"The guy was laughing at me and he said 'oh come on, guess'.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Karon Grieve said she behaved like a five-year-old\n\n\"We got it down from 10 to four and he said 'you'll never guess it, there's only three of you'.\n\n\"But when I got to the actual gate, the other two people hadn't turned up.\"\n\nMs Grieve said that, because she was the only passenger, all of the flight crew knew her name.\n\nShe said: \"We were all on best friend terms before we'd even got on the plane.\n\n\"The captain was fantastic. She came and sat beside me while the first officer did all the flight checks and we were chatting away about the flight.\"\n\nKaron is intending to spend the next month in Crete writing a crime novel\n\nWhile the plane was in the air, Ms Grieve said that the captain addressed her by name from the cockpit.\n\nShe said: \"Every time she made an announcement she said, 'Hi there Karon, you'll see Croatia on your left-hand side', and then we flew through this amazing lightning storm and she suddenly came on and said, 'Hi Karon and the girls, quickly run to the other side of the plane and look at this, it's amazing'.\n\nMs Grieve said she intended to spend the next month in Crete writing her book before returning to Scotland. However, she acknowledged the chances of experiencing a similar return journey were remote.\n\nA spokeswoman for Jet2 said: \"This was our last flight to Crete from Glasgow Airport this year, marking the end of a very busy and successful season.\n\n\"We're delighted that Karon got to experience our VIP customer service in style onboard our award-winning airline.\n\n\"It is not unusual for the final outbound flight of the season to have fewer bookings than normal, and the return flight back to Glasgow was completely full with customers returning from a lovely holiday. We hope Karon has a fantastic time in Crete and that we got her trip off to a great start.\"", "A chance meeting between two childhood friends helped one begin a journey back from drug addiction after many years living on the street.\n\nIt was early October and Wanja Mwaura, 32, was on her way to the market in Lower Kabaete, not far from Nairobi, when she heard someone shout out her name.\n\nShe looked up and was surprised to see a tall man with bulging eyes, an emaciated frame, dirtied black overalls and an equally stained thick woollen hat, sitting on the side of the road. She did not recognise him.\n\nBut when Patrick \"Hinga\" Wanjiru, 34, introduced himself, Wanja says she found herself in shock. Standing before her was a friend she had known since she was seven years old.\n\n\"Patrick, or Hinga as we called him, and I had met at primary school in 1992,\" says Wanja, who is a nurse from Kiambu County, just outside the Kenyan capital.\n\n\"Hinga used to be a great soccer player all throughout school. We nicknamed him 'Pele'.\"\n\nHinga was estranged from his parents and lived with his grandmother in a squat. When she couldn't afford to pay his school fees, he was forced to skip classes. Eventually they were evicted even from the squat. But against all the odds, Hinga did well in his exams, until his grandmother died - then he dropped out of school and his life began to take a downward trajectory.\n\nHinga started abusing drugs, first marijuana and then heroin. He spent hours sifting through garbage to find things he could sell on the streets.\n\nWhen they met again, more than 15 years later, Hinga had been homeless for more than a decade. He looked nothing like the childhood friend who had once been known as \"Pele\".\n\nSensing Wanja's dismay, Hinga reassured her that he had only wanted to say hello. She asked him if she could buy him lunch. At a local cafe, she ordered the dish she remembered had been his favourite years earlier - pork ribs and mashed potatoes. She said he appeared distracted, unable to finish sentences.\n\n\"I gave him my mobile telephone number and told him to call me if he needed anything,\" Wanja says.\n\nOver the next couple of days, Hinga borrowed phones and would regularly call his childhood friend, often just to hear her voice for a chat. He told her that he was committed to getting clean from drugs.\n\n\"I decided then, that something needed to be done to help him,\" Wanja says.\n\nTaking to social media, Wanja appealed to her friends to see if she could raise funds for drug rehabilitation.\n\n\"Rehab here is very expensive and I had no ways of raising funds on my own,\" she says.\n\n\"We set up a crowdfunding page, but we only managed to raise around 41,000 Kenyan shillings (£300) initially. However the cost of nine days rehabilitation at Chiromo Lane Medical Center in Nairobi was more than 100,000 KES.\n\n\"I wasn't sure how we would be able to cover this.\"\n\nBut Wanja had promised to help Hinga, so she took him to the centre anyway, unsure how they would cover the cost.\n\nA spokesperson for the rehab programme says Hinga was a dedicated patient, who committed fully to the nine-day detox.\n\nWithin days Hinga had gained weight and his concentration improved. Wanja took to Facebook to speak about her pride at her friend's transformation in such a short period of time.\n\n\"A week ago Hinga and I couldn't hold a normal conversation without me trying to hold his head up with my hand in order for him to concentrate. Today we can have a normal conversation with him confidently looking at me,\" she wrote.\n\nMombasa businessman Fauz Khalid spotted Wanja's public post on Facebook and said he wanted to share the story on a wider platform. He posted the photos on Twitter and his post has now been shared more than 50,000 times.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 FK This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 that, the Kenyan media began to cover the story and Chiromo Lane Medical Center agreed to waive the entire fee for Hinga's treatment.\n\nWanja says this was \"a blessing\", but she was keen for her friend to undergo a more sustained recovery, and is now raising funds for him to follow a 90-day programme at The Retreat Rehabilitation Centre, where he is currently staying.\n\n\"Unfortunately, there is still great stigma around drug abuse in Kenya,\" Wanja says. This may be one reason why the government doesn't provide free drug rehab treatment.\n\n\"Rehabs are expensive and out of reach for many people, not only in Kenya but also the greater part of Africa. I am committed to crowdsourcing so I can support my friend at this time,\" says Wanja.\n\n\"Wanja is an angel sent from God. I owe her my life. She has stuck with me more closely than a brother or a sister,\" Hinga tells the BBC.\n\nOn Twitter several users echoed this sentiment. Abraham Wilbourne‏, a financial analyst from Nairobi, told Wanja \"You have a seat in heaven!\" Many called her a \"mashujaa\", which means \"hero\" in Swahili.\n\n\"People say I changed Hinga's life, but he changed mine too.\" says Wanja. \"I realise now that a small act can change a person's life.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murdering an 18-month-old boy who fell from a sixth-floor flat window.\n\nIt \"quickly became apparent\" the boy had died when police were called to Newcastle House in Barkerend Road, Bradford, at 17:10 BST on Saturday.\n\nA 23-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of murder is receiving medical assessment in custody.\n\nOne woman told how she, her husband and a friend tried to save the child, who was naked when he fell.\n\nDanuta Tomaszewicz, 59, said she had been on her phone, looking out of the window from a first-floor flat when she suddenly noticed the child on the ground below.\n\nShe thought the child was a doll at first, she said.\n\nHer niece, Monika Tomaszewicz, said: \"She screamed for help and her husband and his friend ran downstairs.\n\n\"The friend took his shirt off because the baby was naked.\"\n\nShe said the ambulance arrived after about 20 minutes.\n\nMrs Tomaszewicz's niece added: \"She could not sleep at all last night.\n\n\"She doesn't know how she is going to live here as every time she looks out of the window she will see the baby.\n\n\"They tried their best for the baby.\"\n\nAndrew White, 53, said he lived on the same landing as the flat where the baby fell.\n\nHe said a couple with two young children live there.\n\nMr White, a father-of-three with four grandchildren, said: \"They are a nice young couple who keep themselves to themselves which is normal here.\"\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said it was an \"extremely traumatic incident\".\n\nDet Supt Nick Wallen said: \"Specially trained officers are working to support the child's family members and those who witnessed what took place.\n\n\"It is no exaggeration to say those who witnessed this incident will have been deeply traumatised by what they saw.\"\n\nPolice said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the death.\n\nNewcastle House, which is in the city centre, is a seven-storey block of flats with shops on the ground floor.\n\nAn unnamed resident, who lives on the same landing where the boy had fallen from, said: \"There's quite a high turnover of people in these flats, you wouldn't necessarily know your neighbours. I just keep to myself.\"\n\nHe said there were people of different nationalities living in the block.\n\nThe resident said he saw police activity in the flats on Saturday night but only discovered what happened the next morning by watching the news.\n\n\"It's horrible,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Robert Mugabe is frequently taken to task over human rights abuses\n\nThe new head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) is rethinking a plan to appoint Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador.\n\nHe had previously praised Zimbabwe for its commitment to public health.\n\nBut Mr Mugabe's critics say Zimbabwe's healthcare system has collapsed under his 30-year rule, with staff often going without pay while medicines are in short supply.\n\nIt led Zimbabwean human rights lawyer Doug Coltart to take to Twitter to question how the WHO felt about having \"a Goodwill Ambassador who destroyed the health sector in his country\".\n\nOther social media users accused the president - who, at 93, has outlived his country's average life expectancy by more than three decades - of travelling abroad to receive his own medical treatment.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Alex T Magaisa This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK government described his selection as \"surprising and disappointing\" given his country's human rights record, and warned it could overshadow the WHO's work.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he \"thought it was a bad April Fool's joke\", while the US state department said it \"clearly contradicts the United Nations ideals of respect for human rights and human dignity\".\n\nZimbabwe's leader has been frequently taken to task over human rights abuses by both the EU and the US.\n\nCritics have long argued that Zimbabwe's health service is not meeting the needs of patients\n\nOther groups who have criticised Mr Mugabe's appointment include the Wellcome Trust, the NCD Alliance, UN Watch, the World Heart Federation and Action Against Smoking.\n\nDr Tedros had said Zimbabwe was a country that \"places universal health coverage and health promotion at the centre of its policies to provide health care to all\".\n\nHowever, the Ethiopian said on Saturday he was \"rethinking his approach in light of WHO values\".\n\nMr Mugabe was supposed to be goodwill ambassador \"to help tackle non-communicable diseases\", which includes things like heart attacks and asthma.\n\nDr Tedros is the first African to lead the WHO. He was elected in May with a mandate to tackle perceived politicisation in the organisation.", "The World Health Organization has revoked the appointment of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador following a widespread outcry.\n\n\"I have listened carefully to all who have expressed their concerns,\" WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement.\n\nHe had previously praised Zimbabwe for its commitment to public health.\n\nBut critics pointed out that Zimbabwe's healthcare system had collapsed in recent years.\n\nDuring the first 20 years of his 37-year rule, Mr Mugabe widely expanded health care, but the system has badly been affected by the collapse of the Zimbabwean economy since 2000.\n\nStaff often go without pay, medicines are in short supply, and Mr Mugabe, who has outlived the average life expectancy in his country by three decades, travels abroad for medical treatment.\n\nMr Tedros said he had consulted with the Zimbabwean government and decided that rescinding Mr Mugabe's position was \"in the best interests of\" the WHO.\n\nHe said he remained \"firmly committed to working with all countries and their leaders\" to build universal health care.\n\nMr Tedros, elected in May under the slogan \"let's prove the impossible is possible\" had said he hoped Mr Mugabe would use his goodwill ambassador role to \"influence his peers in the region\".\n\nBut the appointment was met by a wave of surprise and condemnation. The UK government, the Canadian prime minister, the Wellcome Trust, the NCD Alliance, UN Watch, the World Heart Federation, Action Against Smoking and Zimbabwean lawyers and social media users were among those who criticised the decision.\n\nThe BBC's Andrew Harding in Johannesburg reports that Mr Mugabe's supporters are likely to see this episode as Western meddling in Africa.\n\nFollowing the storm of criticism from human rights groups and expressions of dismay from many member states, the WHO had little choice but to cancel its plan to make Robert Mugabe a goodwill ambassador.\n\nThe about-face will raise questions over the leadership of the WHO's new director general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.\n\nThe decision to honour Mr Mugabe is likely to have been taken several weeks ago, and at no point did Mr Tedros seem aware that appointing as goodwill ambassador a man who has been accused of human rights abuses, and of neglecting to the point of collapse his own country's health service, might be controversial.\n\nThe WHO was supposed to be embarking on a new era of reform. Instead, it is mired in a public relations disaster.", "Rosemary Leach played the Queen in Margaret, a BBC drama about Margaret Thatcher\n\nActress Rosemary Leach, best known for her roles in the films A Room With A View and That'll Be The Day, has died, her agent has said.\n\nLeach, who also played Grace in episodes of the sitcom My Family, died in hospital after a \"short illness\", Caroline de Wolfe said in a statement.\n\nThe stage and screen actress, 81, won an Olivier Award in 1982 for her part in the play 84 Charing Cross Road.\n\nShe was also twice nominated for a Bafta award as best supporting actress.\n\nLeach is survived by her actor husband, Colin Starkey.\n\nRosemary Leach appeared alongside Ronnie Corbett in Now Look Here, in the 1970s\n\nShe again starred alongside Corbett in the 1974 series The Prince of Denmark\n\nLeach again played Queen Elizabeth II in the 2005 series Tea with Betty", "Two teenagers have been charged with the murder of a 15-year-old boy in Manchester.\n\nKyron Webb was found unconscious on Worsley Avenue in Moston at 19:10 BST on Tuesday with serious stab wounds. He died in hospital on Friday.\n\nTwo boys, aged 16 and 17, have been charged with murder, Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nKyron's mother paid tribute to him, in a poem released through police, saying he had aspired to become an architect.\n\nShe said: \"You were blessed with wisdom, on the gifted and talented register you were placed.\n\n\"You were artistic, a singing voice like an angel and yes you had my face.\n\n\"Your talents were endless, what you touched turned to gold.\n\n\"Your deepest ambition to become an architect you told.\"\n\nShe added that his death had left \"a hole, a void, a pain\".\n\nCh Supt Wasim Chaudhry from GMP said it was a \"tragedy\".\n\nHe added: \"A boy's life has been taken away and his family deserve answers.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A view of Muzaffarabad, where the Neelum River divides the main city from hillside settlements\n\nTowering some 550 metres (1,800 ft) above the Pakistani town of Garhi Habibullah to the west, and the Kashmiri city of Muzaffarabad to the east, Dub Gali looks serene on a cool October morning.\n\nSome two dozen shops sit quietly on both sides of a security barrier that marks the border between Kashmir and the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.\n\nThere is nothing to suggest that hordes of militant Pathan tribal warriors who invaded Kashmir exactly 70 years ago to start one of the world's most enduring territorial conflicts actually broke into the region through this very point.\n\nBut a local villager, Mohammad Hasan Qureshi, 86, clearly remembers those stormy days.\n\n\"A week before the Pathans came, there were rumours that Kashmiri Sikhs [who had a significant population in this area] were planning to attack Muzaffarabad,\" he says.\n\n\"A couple of days later, we heard that Pathans were coming.\"\n\nMohammad Hasan Qureshi says he saw hundreds of Pathans with axes and swords\n\nSuch rumours were natural, coming as they did amid a series of upheavals that shook the princely state of Kashmir when the so-called 3 June Plan was announced.\n\nUnder the plan, British India, a Hindu-majority colony, was to be partitioned to create the Muslim state of Pakistan.\n\nThe fate of Kashmir, a princely state with a Muslim majority but a Hindu ruler, hung in the balance.\n\nMuslims in the western districts of the state revolted against the ruling maharaja in June and there were anti-Muslim riots in southern Kashmir in September. There were also reports of a leaked Pakistani plan for raising a tribal column of 20,000 fighters to attack and annex Kashmir.\n\nMr Qureshi remembers the evening of 21 October, when he and some friends climbed a ridge to have a view of the western valley. They saw trucks carrying Pathans drive down the Batrasi hills into Garhi Habibullah.\n\n\"We stayed up all night, waiting. They came in the morning - just before daybreak. There were hundreds of them. Most of them carried axes and swords. Some had muskets, others just sticks. The Maharaja's guards at the barrier had vanished.\"\n\nFirst clashes took place on their way down to Muzaffarabad, some 8km (5 miles) of steep descent.\n\nThis 1947 picture shows Pathan tribesmen waiting for trucks and more ammunition as they prepare to go into battle\n\nGohar Rahman, a World War Two veteran from Battagram, 80km north-west of Garhi Habibullah, was in the column that crossed from Dub Gali.\n\n\"We knew the area so we led one group through this shorter route, on foot,\" he says.\n\n\"The bulk of the Frontier tribesmen - Wazir, Mahsud, Turi, Afridi, Mohmand, the Malakand Yusufzais - went via the longer but easier Lohar Gali route in lorries and trucks.\"\n\nAround 2,000 tribesmen stormed Muzaffarabad that morning and easily scattered the Kashmir state army deployed there. Military historians estimate it was just 500-strong at the time and had also suffered defections by Muslim soldiers.\n\nFlushed with victory, the tribesmen got down to wanton looting and arson.\n\n\"They plundered the state armoury, set entire markets on fire and looted their goods,\" Mr Rahman says.\n\n\"They shot everyone who couldn't recite the kalima - the Arabic-language Muslim declaration of faith. Many non-Muslim women were enslaved, while many others jumped in the river to escape capture.\"\n\nThe streets were littered with signs of mayhem - broken buildings, broken shop furniture, the ashes of burnt goods and dead bodies, including those of tribal fighters, state soldiers and local men and women. There were also bodies floating in the river.\n\nThe raiders spent about three days in Muzaffarabad before sense prevailed and the leaders urged them to move on towards Srinagar, the state capital some 170km to the east.\n\nFrom here, one column drove in trucks down the Jhelum river, breezing past Uri and reaching Baramulla where another round of looting and arson ensued.\n\nGohar Rahman says the tribesmen shot non-Muslims when they stormed Muzaffarabad\n\nMr Rahman was part of the column that headed north on foot to Teetwal from where they turned east and went past Kupwara to arrive at the outskirts of Srinagar, a journey of well over 200km.\n\nThey did not face any resistance. The maharaja's army had scattered, and Hindus and Sikhs had fled the villages. They only met Muslims on the way.\n\n\"Muslim women would sometimes offer us food but the Pathans were reluctant to accept, thinking it may be poisoned. They would instead capture those people's goats and sheep, slaughter them and roast the meat on fire.\"\n\nOne night the fires attracted aircraft that dropped bombs, killing scores of them. \"Bodies were strewn over a large area in a forest.\"\n\nUnbeknown to them, the maharaja had by then signed an instrument of accession with India. Between 26 and 30 October, the Indians flew in enough troops to Srinagar to tilt the balance against tribal fighters.\n\nThe tribesmen still had numerical superiority but they were more adept at guerrilla war than infantry-style battles.\n\nAt that point, Pakistan's attempt to launch a formal attack on Srinagar in aid of the tribesmen was frustrated due to opposition from the British joint command of the as-yet-undivided militaries of India and Pakistan.\n\nBy November's end, the tribesmen had mostly pulled back to Uri, where the Jhelum gorge becomes narrower and easy to defend. Soon the winter snows arrived and put an end to the Indian advance towards Muzaffarabad.\n\nIt was here that the line that divides Kashmir between the Indian and Pakistani parts stabilised. Pakistani forces formally arrived on the scene in the spring of 1948 to reinforce this border.\n\nHussain Gul, a resident of Shalozan village in the Kurram tribal region who was then a soldier of the paramilitary Kurram Militia, was part of that force.\n\n\"We were there to attack and recapture [the 2,800-metre] Pandu ridge which the Indians had occupied during autumn,\" he says.\n\n\"It was a good victory. We were able to occupy a considerable part of Kashmir but we still lost most of it. It made one feel sad, like when you lose a part of your house,\"\n\nHis father, who went in with a band of friends to fight during the previous season, \"came back defeated\".\n\n\"They brought back war booty though; gold and some women,\" he chuckles.\n\nHussain Gul holds the rifle he used in the battle for Pandu ridge\n\nIn his mid-90s now, and with a fading memory, he is not sure what happened to the women. As for gold, \"they were cheated out of it by Majoor\", an ethnic Hazara businessman in Parachinar, the central town of Kurram.\n\nGohar Rahman returned to Garhi Habibullah when the first winter snows came. With him were many other tribesmen.\n\n\"They had returned with war booty,\" he says.\n\n\"Some had brought cattle, some horses. Most of them had brought arms, and many brought women. One Afridi tribesman walked back with two women in tow. They wept incessantly and just wouldn't stop. A local feudal lord took pity on them and forced the Afridi man to release them.\"\n\nThe invasion not only traumatised a previously well-settled and peaceful Kashmiri society, it also set a disastrous pattern for India-Pakistan relations.\n\nMajor-General Akbar Khan, an army officer who is widely believed to have played a pivotal role in starting the invasion, emerged as \"the architect of (the) philosophy of armed insurrection by aiding non-state actors as state proxies\", writes a military historian, Major (Retd) Agha Humayun Amin, in his book , The 1947-48 Kashmir War: The War of Lost Opportunities.\n\nPakistan repeated this strategy in Kashmir in 1965, during the Kashmir insurgency of 1988-2003, as well as in the Kargil War of 1999. It also used non-state actors in Afghanistan.\n\nBut instead of liberating Kashmir or taming Afghanistan, it has led to the weakening of political processes, and has militarised society not only in Kashmir and Afghanistan, but also in Pakistan.\n\n3 June 1947: The June Plan, also called the Mountbatten Plan, is approved in a meeting. It culminates in the Independence of India Act 1947 which partitions British India into independent states of India and Pakistan. The Act receives royal assent in July.\n\n15 June: Agitation in the form of a No-Tax campaign starts in Poonch, an internal principality of Kashmir state.\n\n15 August: Killings are reported from Bagh in Poonch principality when pro-Pakistan groups try to hoist a Pakistani flag to mark independence and clash with the state police.\n\n12 September: Prime Minister of Pakistan Liaquat Ali Khan holds a meeting with military and civilian officials where a go-ahead is reportedly given to two plans: raise a tribal force to attack Kashmir from the north and arm the rebels in Poonch.\n\n4 October: Rebels clash with state forces at a place called Thorar, and go on to besiege state forces in Poonch.\n\n22 October: Tribal bands attack Muzaffarabad, then move eastwards to capture Baramulla. Some of the fighters reach the outskirts of Srinagar.\n\n24 October: Sardar Ibrahim, a pro-Pakistan landlord from Poonch principality, announces the founding of the government of Azad (free) Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) at a place called Palandri, and appoints himself as its head.\n\n26 October: The Maharaja of Kashmir, earlier inclined to stay independent due to the demographic composition of his state, accedes to India, presumably under duress.\n\n27 October: Indian air and ground troops start landing at Srinagar, tilting the balance against tribal invaders and leading to the partition of Kashmir along the line that more or less exists today", "Taxpayer-funded medical research is producing medicines which are increasingly unaffordable for patients who need them, says a new report.\n\nCampaigners claim that the NHS spent more than £1bn on drugs developed from publically funded research in 2016.\n\nA government spokesperson said it wanted the UK to be a global leader in research and development\".\n\nBut NHS England said it was concerned about price \"anomalies\", and questioned whether regulatory action was needed.\n\nIt said that was essential that drug companies price their products responsibly.\n\nIt added: \"Although the responsibility for the how prices are set for medicines lies with the Department of Health, and in general the system delivers value for money for patients, we are concerned about pricing anomalies at a time when the NHS needs to make significant savings which suggests further regulatory action may be needed.\"\n\nThe government said that it was committed to ensuring patients could access the effective medicines they needed, at a price that represented value for the NHS and for taxpayers.\n\nA new report, seen by 5 live Investigates, claims that UK taxpayers and patients worldwide are being denied the medicines they need, despite the public sector playing a pivotal role in the discovery of new medicines.\n\nThe report, published by campaign groups Global Justice Now and Stop Aids, says that even when the government has part-funded the research and development, there is no guarantee that patients will be able to access the medicines at an affordable price.\n\nIt says: \"In many cases, the UK taxpayer effectively pays twice for medicines: first through investing in R&D, and then by paying high prices for the resulting medicine once ownership has been transferred to a private company.\"\n\nIt claims the high prices of new medicines are \"unsustainable for an already underfunded NHS\".\n\nIndustry representatives counter that the situation is not that straightforward.\n\nThey say that turning scientific discoveries into medicines takes years of scientific trials and costs billions of pounds, and the process is risky, so not every drug they test will make it to market.\n\nHowever, campaigners say drug companies are generating huge private profits from public funds.\n\nEmma believes drug companies should reduce the price of cancer drugs\n\nEmma Robertson, 35, has incurable breast cancer and is taking the drug, palbociclib.\n\nThis drug was originally developed using work carried out by publicly funded Cancer Research UK scientists in the 1980s, for which they won the 2001 Nobel Prize.\n\nIn February, the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (Nice) made a provisional decision not to recommend the drug because the cost was too high in relation to its potential benefits.\n\nHowever Ms Robertson is receiving the drug through a free trial provided by the drug company Pfizer.\n\nA full course of treatment with palbociclib costs £79,650, which campaigners say means the manufacturer is vastly overpricing the drug.\n\nThey claim it could be made and sold for a profit for £1 per pill, but say in fact it is currently sold for 140 times more.\n\n\"Pfizer needs to dramatically reduce the price that it wants to charge for this drug,\" Ms Robertson says.\n\n\"We need to be asking some really serious questions about how drugs are researched and developed,\" she adds.\n\nIt told the BBC that it took more than 20 years to build on the work of the Cancer Research UK scientists.\n\nTurning scientific discoveries into medicines takes \"billions of pounds of investment, millions of hours of science and thousands of clinical trials,\" the firm explained.\n\nThere are around 45,000 new diagnoses of breast cancer each year in England.\n\nMeanwhile, health bosses estimate that around 5,500 people in England would be eligible for treatment with palbociclib.\n\nRichard Sullivan, professor of cancer and global health at Kings College London, said that while some drug companies price their drugs correctly, others \"vastly overprice\" their drugs.\n\n\"Many of these drugs are extremely profitable\", he said, \"but there is absolutely no link between the price set and with the returns on the research - it's a complete myth.\"\n\n\"When a drug is refused by Nice there's only one reason it's refused - the company has knowingly overpriced the drug.\"\n\nProfessor Sullivan told the BBC that the public sector had contributed anywhere between \"30% and up to 90% of the overall research intellectual input\" in the development of drugs.\n\n\"The public sector is essential for developing new medicines for cancer patients,\" he added.\n\nThe Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry responded by saying that the suggestion that companies intentionally overpriced drugs \"doesn't make sense\" because their overall objective is to ensure that the drugs are approved by Nice and then used by patients.\n\nIn 2015, the UK government spent £2.3bn on health research and development and the relationship been public funding and profits is complex.\n\nCampaigners say more needs to be done to reform the system and that research and development should not be linked to sales revenue.\n\nInstead, campaigners argue, companies should be rewarded for their research in exchange for limiting the price of drugs.\n\nHowever the pharmaceutical industry says it provides thousands of jobs and the current system is crucial to encouraging drug development.\n\n5 live Investigates is broadcast on Sunday 22nd October 2017 at 11am BST. If you've missed it you can catch up on the iPlayer.\n\nHave you got something you want investigating? We want to hear from you. Email us.\n• None Drug firms go to court over cost limits\n• None NICE - The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It was the year Australia went to war in the Gulf, when Monica Seles and Boris Becker won tennis grand slams in Melbourne, and The Simpsons was first shown on Aussie television, while a swooning Bryan Adams was a hit with love-struck teenagers (\"Look into your heart, baby\").\n\nIt was 1991, and the last time Australia tasted the bitter economic taste of recession, defined in these parts, at least, as two or more back-to-back quarters of negative growth in real gross domestic product, or the value of all services and goods.\n\nSince then, Australia has sidestepped the worst effects of the Asian financial crisis in 1997 and its more destructive big brother that hammered global markets a decade or so later.\n\nAustralia's economy - the \"wonder down under\" - has somehow dodged the unstoppable forces that sent other wealthy countries tumbling into reverse.\n\nFor this, a nation of 24 million people must thank not only sound judgement by those in charge but also good fortune, according to Shane Oliver, chief economist at financial services company AMP in Sydney.\n\n\"I certainly don't see Australia as being a miracle,\" he says. \"It has had a bit of good luck and good management, but it would be dangerous to assume that it is never going to have a recession again.\"\n\nThe economy is growing by about 1.9% per year, according to the Reserve Bank. In 2012, that figure was 3.7%. Weaker growth means that pay packets are shrinking for many workers when adjusted for the rising cost of living, and near-record levels of underemployment are stifling wage increases.\n\nIn August, retail sales posted their biggest retreat in about four-and-a-half years, falling by 0.6%, with cafes and restaurants reporting declining turnovers.\n\nRocks, coal and demand from China insulated this country from the global financial meltdown in 2008, as a red-hot mining industry delivered unprecedented wealth.\n\nSurging commodity prices fuelled the bonanza in Western Australia and Queensland, which propped up under-performing states in the south-east, where most Australians live.\n\nShane Oliver says the situation has now \"been turned on its head\" and Australia is once again in transition.\n\nThe mining boom has faded, but areas that once struggled have bounced back in part because of record low interest rates that have unleashed a frenzy into the housing market.\n\nMeanwhile, eye-watering wads of public money have poured into infrastructure projects, which are redefining parts of New South Wales, the most populous state.\n\nThere was another critical factor that helped Australia to largely avoid the ravages of the global financial crisis - unprecedented spending by the Labor government that boosted public expenditure by a whopping 13% in an attempt to stimulate growth.\n\nIt was a classic Keynesian economic manoeuvre to use billions of dollars to sustain household spending, demand and employment.\n\nAustralia loves to win. Here international cricket matches are akin to \"wars\" and Olympic gold medals - or a lack thereof - are greeted with congratulatory back-slapping - or hand-wringing.\n\nIf there was a podium for economic success, this is a country that would be bending forward to accept the award. More than 25 years of uninterrupted growth is a remarkable achievement, although there is debate about the competition.\n\nSome commentators believe the recent economic prosperity enjoyed by the Netherlands lasted for (only) 22 years, putting it firmly into silver medal position behind the Aussies.\n\nTim Harcourt, an economics fellow at the University of New South Wales, believes Australia deserves the plaudits.\n\n\"This time the 'lucky country' made its own luck.\n\n\"The Hawke-Keating [government] reforms of the 1980s and 1990s - the currency float, tariff changes, and embrace of Asia - set up us up for a quarter of a century of growth.\n\n\"Australia found itself in the right place at the right time and embraced the Asia century,\" he argues.\n\nBut as the economy has soared, some Australians have been left behind. At almost 13%, youth unemployment is more than twice the national average.\n\nLabouring work had left 21-year-old Mohammad Al-Khafaji, the son of an Iranian refugee, with endless back pain and homelessness soon followed.\n\n\"I was just trying to apply for jobs online, and then people were just putting me down saying 'you are never going to get that job', so I just stopped trying,\" he says.\n\nMohammad is now employed by a hire car company in Sydney, and has ambitions to one day be the boss.\n\nHe works with Shiv Dhingra, an Indian migrant from Punjab. They are proof that much of Australia's economic might is down to immigration.\n\n\"I am the only one working in my family,\" Shiv explained. \"I am the main financial support they have. I am working seven days a week for the last year. I've got plans for my own business.\"\n\nBoth young men were helped by Charity Bounce, a Sydney-based non-profit organisation that uses basketball to reach out to the disadvantaged and long-term unemployed, who, according to chief executive, Ian Heininger, also deserve a slice of Australia's prosperity.\n\n\"We find a lot of the young people are desperate to find work,\" he says, \"desperate to find an opportunity that is going to get them into a place where they are contributing back to the world.\"\n\nBut will they be part of an ever-expanding economy? Mr Oliver thinks Australia's luck will eventually run out, but not for a while.\n\n\"The Aussie economy is probably going to continue muddling along, not fantastically strong as housing slows and consumer spending remains a bit weak,\" he predicts.\n\n\"We are probably going to go for at least another few years before we have that recession some people say is inevitable.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Megan Westwood: \"We got evacuated one by one\"\n\nA suspected gunman was arrested after police ended a four-hour siege at a bowling alley in Nuneaton.\n\nOfficers were called to MFA Bowl in Bermuda Park at around 14:30 BST on Sunday after reports a man with a shotgun had taken two hostages.\n\nA 53-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of making threats to kill after police stormed the building at about 18:30 BST.\n\nThe suspect was treated for minor injuries. Two other men were uninjured.\n\nCh Supt Alex Franklin-Smith, from Warwickshire Police, said officers brought the incident to \"a peaceful resolution\".\n\nThe siege was \"unconnected\" to terrorism, he added.\n\nPolice said at about 19:00 BST that the cordon at the retail and leisure complex had been lifted and advised people they could now and any vehicles left there overnight.\n\nThe gunman reportedly walked into MFA Bowl and yelled \"game over\" before ordering people to get out.\n\nAbout 40 or 50 people were said to be inside the complex at the time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eyewitness: \"The guy ran up to the door with a gun\"\n\nBoth of the hostages - a duty manager and a bowling lane host - were unharmed but treated for shock.\n\nChris Clegg, operations director of MFA Bowl, said: \"It's obviously not an everyday situation. The ambulance, police were checking them and making sure they were OK.\"\n\nThe firm's chief executive Mehdi Amshar said he understood the man was known to a member of staff at the bowling alley.\n\nSpecialist firearms officers and police negotiators were sent to the scene, and used flash bangs - which create a loud noise and bright light - to enter the premises.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 WMAS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWarwickshire Police said officers were called to reports of a man - described by eyewitnesses as \"in his 40s\" with a gun \"slung\" over his shoulder - with a firearm at 14:30 BST.\n\nOne witness, Chris Turner, told the BBC he was walking past the front entrance to the bowling alley when the man \"ran up to the door\".\n\nHe had \"a gun in his hand\" and told him to \"get out of the area\", he said.\n\nMr Turner said the man shouted at a crowd of people outside to leave, saying: \"I've already told you once.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We were trying to keep all the kids together'\n\nEyewitnesses also spoke about how they fled the bowling alley, while others hid in toilets, as the gunman brandished a weapon above his head.\n\nAlex Mulholland said he was bowling when he looked up to see a man holding a gun over his head.\n\n\"He was saying 'game over, game over', everyone was shouting, screaming, panicking, trying to get out and I didn't know what to make of it, really,\" he said. \"I ran, got my things as quickly as I could and got out of there.\"\n\nOther businesses in the leisure park, including a children's soft play centre and restaurants, were put into lockdown.\n\nFamilies inside the soft play centre told the BBC they barricaded the front door with tables and chairs.\n\nWarwickshire Police said the incident was unconnected to terrorism\n\nA number of ambulances were dispatched to the area around the bowling alley\n\nKelly Perrett, who was at the Frankie and Benny's restaurant, told the BBC she was \"hiding in the toilet with about 20 people\".\n\n\"It looks like police have got the bowling alley surrounded. The police told me that the gunman is near the door with a hostage,\" she said as the incident unfolded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage posted on social media showed police officers at the scene in Bermuda Park\n\nMegan Westward said she was about to leave a children's soft play centre when staff told her to move away from the windows.\n\n\"There are quite a few bullet proof vans,\" she said. \"We've just seen an air ambulance take off, there are ambulances and there are police in full body suits with guns.\"\n\nShe was then evacuated to a nearby hotel.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Warwickshire 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\nFollowing the conclusion of the siege, forensics officers were examining the scene and a red Peugeot 307 car was removed by police on the back of a vehicle transporter.\n\nAre you in the area? If it is safe to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nStorm Brian has eased after the UK saw gale-force winds and high seas, although disruption was not as bad as had been feared.\n\nGusts of 78mph were recorded in Capel Curig and Aberdaron, north Wales, with 84mph recorded on the Isle of Wight.\n\nThe Environment Agency said three properties had been flooded in the upper Calder Valley in West Yorkshire.\n\nThere are Red and amber flood warnings in much of northern England and people are urged to \"take immediate action\".\n\nThere are also flood warnings in place in the South West and Wales, while the south of England and London were under yellow wind warnings.\n\nThe storm comes after three people were killed and hundreds of thousands of people - mostly in the Irish Republic - were left without power after the remnants of Storm Ophelia battered the British Isles after weakening from its earlier hurricane force.\n\nStrong winds and high seas first reached the western coast of Ireland overnight on Friday.\n\nGusts hit 80mph (130km/h) in the country, said Irish weather agency Met Éireann, and there was flash flooding in several Irish cities, including Limerick.\n\nA race meeting at Fairyhouse was cancelled and the Cliffs of Moher tourist attraction in County Clare was closed.\n\nFlooding was caused by the storm in Limerick, Ireland\n\nIn Wales, trains and ferries were cancelled and seafront roads closed as a result of the weather.\n\nNatural Resources Wales said the coastline was likely to be \"extremely dangerous this weekend\".\n\nA lifeboat was sent to help a person in difficulty at Skrinkle, while Porthcawl RNLI warned people to watch the storm waves on its live feed, after people were spotted taking photographs from the harbour wall.\n\nCeredigion council also warned people to \"keep away\" from seafronts and \"be careful\" on low-lying land where coastal flooding was possible.\n\nFlood barriers have been put up in Cornwall to protect costal towns\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued 30 flood warnings - meaning flooding is expected - in the north-west and south-west of England.\n\nFlood barriers have been put in place in areas including Fowey in Cornwall, but Frank Newell, from the Environment Agency, said the surge had been lower than forecast.\n\n\"In terms of impact, we've had spray overtopping quaysides, but we don't have at the moment any reported property flooding,\" he said.\n\nIn Wales and southern England, fallen trees and other debris on railway tracks caused cancellations and disruption on some lines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Waves crash into the seafront in Aberystwyth, Wales, as Storm Brian hits the UK\n\nThe Environment Agency's national flood duty manager, Ben Lukey, warned people against posing for photos during the hazardous conditions.\n\nHe said: \"We urge people to stay safe along the coast and warn against putting yourself in unnecessary danger by taking 'storm selfies' or driving through flood water - just 30cm (11in) is enough to move your car.\"\n\nWaves crashed over Mullion Harbour in Cornwall on Saturday\n\nHave you been affected by Storm Brian? If it is safe to do so, share your pictures, video and experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's coalition has won a resounding victory in Sunday's general election, according to exit polls.\n\nOn hearing of his victory he said he would \"firmly deal with\" threats from North Korea.\n\nThe public broadcaster NHK put Mr Abe's Liberal Democratic Party-led (LDP) coalition at 312 seats, allowing it to retain its two-thirds \"super majority\".\n\nThis is vital to his ambition to revise Japan's post-war pacifist constitution.\n\nMr Abe has pushed for a shift in Japan's defence policy, calling for formal recognition of the military in the constitution.\n\nHe said he would try to \"gain support from as many people as possible\" for the task.\n\nHe said on Sunday: \"As I promised in the election, my imminent task is to firmly deal with North Korea.\n\n\"For that, strong diplomacy is required.\"\n\nMr Abe announced the election on 25 September, saying he needed a fresh mandate in order to deal with the \"national crises\" facing Japan.\n\nThe crises include North Korea, which has threatened to \"sink\" Japan into the sea. Pyongyang has also fired two missiles over Hokkaido, the northernmost island in Japan.\n\nA win in the election raises Mr Abe's chances of securing a third three-year-term as leader of the LDP when the party votes next September.\n\nThat would give him the opportunity to become Japan's longest serving prime minister, having been elected in 2012.\n\nJapan went to the polls on Sunday as Typhoon Lan lashed parts of the country. The category four storm brought strong winds and heavy rain to the south of the country, causing flights to be cancelled and rail services to be disrupted.\n\nIt is expected to blow into the Tokyo area early on Monday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, one observer described voting for Mr Abe's Liberal Democratic Party as TINA, or \"there is no alternative\".\n\nThe snap election was called a year ahead of schedule", "The six-week waiting time for universal credit must be cut as the idea that people have a nest egg to fall back on is \"grotesquely ignorant\", the Archbishop of York has said.\n\nWriting in The Sunday Times, Dr John Sentamu said ministers must take a \"courageous\" look at the benefit.\n\nAddressing the delay must be a priority, he said.\n\nThe government said it was determined to ensure people would not face hardship.\n\nChanges recently announced to the system of advanced payments meant people could access these as soon as they got into the system, a spokesman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Holly Sargent has had to sell her possessions because of problems receiving universal credit\n\nSince it began rolling out four years ago, almost a quarter of the 610,000 claimants receiving the benefit have had to wait for a month and a half for the first payment.\n\nAlthough Dr Sentamu praised the concept of a single welfare payment, he wrote that the current system \"seems to assume that everyone has a nest egg that will tide them over as they wait a minimum of 42 days for payouts\".\n\n\"That assumption is grotesquely ignorant, because millions of people, especially those in need of support, are already in debt and have nothing to fall back on,\" he said.\n\nDr Sentamu added that the UK's poorest were at risk of falling into a downward spiral of debt, with some taking out expensive loans to bridge the 42-day benefit gap, so that the repayment of loans or of interest \"becomes the first call on any payment they receive\".\n\nHe wrote: \"In the Bible, the hardest-pressed of all poor people were summarised as 'widows and orphans' for they were the group most at risk and with least support.\n\n\"Our concern should be for their present-day successors whose essential outgoings are costing more and more and their incomes standing still or going down.\"\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has warned that an additional 340,000 people will be in poverty by 2022 because of cuts implemented by former Chancellor George Osborne to the universal credit work allowance.\n\nThe independent charity claimed that a lone parent working full-time on the national living wage will be £832 a year worse off because of the cut. The equivalent figure for couples with a single breadwinner working full-time is £468, it said.\n\nLast week, Prime Minister Theresa May agreed to scrap premium rate charges for phone calls to the universal credit helpline, which can be up to 55p a minute.\n\nHowever, she refused to pause the roll-out of the scheme despite a non-binding vote by the opposition backing the move. Tory MPs were ordered to abstain from voting.\n\nStephen McPartland, a Conservative MP who threatened to rebel, told BBC Radio 4's Week at Westminster that he thought a resolution to the issue was close.\n\nHe would like a reduction in the delay to four weeks and said: \"I think the Secretary of State [David Gauke] has found it very difficult to justify inside the parliamentary party why they need to defend a six-week wait.\"", "The Daily Mirror leads with a claim that 50 children a week are now referred to gender realignment clinics - some as young as four.\n\nA gender dysphoria expert and a clinical psychologist tell the paper the rise in cases could be the result of a growing acceptance of gender issues.\n\nHowever, another gender expert cautions that it could be be \"a fad among parents who indulge their children\".\n\nElsewhere on Monday, business leaders take to the Financial Times to \"sharply criticise the state of capitalism\".\n\nA panel of more than 50 leading figures in finance, business and policymaking describe capitalism as in need of reform, as \"management greed, corporate tax dodging and investor short-termism\" have caused it to \"lose its way\", focusing too much on delivering for shareholders, rather than increasing productivity.\n\nThe Times reports that US President Donald Trump's dismissal of so much of the media as \"fake news\" has led to a rise in young Americans paying for newspaper subscriptions.\n\nOnline payments for news have gone up 7% in the past year in the United States.\n\nThe Times says Mr Trump's \"tirades\" have persuaded millennials that print media is cool again.\n\nPerhaps unsurprisingly, the paper argues that investment in quality journalism is needed now more than ever.\n\n\"No mercy for the jihadis\", declares the Daily Express, as it welcomes the suggestion by government minister Rory Stewart that the \"only way\" to deal with British fighters for the Islamic State group is to kill them.\n\nIn its comment piece, the paper says it is \"refreshing to hear a government minister speak forthrightly\" on the issue.\n\n\"Those we spare will not hesitate to return to our shores and murder us,\" it goes on, adding: \"They have forfeited any right to mercy.\"\n\nAs the government brings in measures to tackle so-called health tourism in the UK, the Daily Telegraph reports that there has been a trebling in the past three years in the number of British nationals seeking healthcare overseas.\n\nThe paper says record waiting times prompted almost 144,000 people to go abroad for treatment last year, compared with 48,000 in 2014.\n\nIn other news, the Queen and Prince Philip are keeping their platinum wedding anniversary celebrations low key by refusing to hold a national celebration to mark the event next month, according to the Daily Express.\n\nThe paper says they will be the first Royal couple in Britain to celebrate 70 years of marriage.\n\nBut it points out they have a little way to go to beat the world record for the longest Royal marriage: Japan's Prince Mikasa and Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, were together for 75 years.\n\nFinally, the tabloids offer up some grim weather prospects for the coming season.\n\nThe Daily Mirror warns of the potential for 120mph (193km/h) winds.\n\nThe Daily Star predicts there will be a calm before the storm - a mini-heatwave later this week, with temperatures of 21C (70F).\n\nAnd the Daily Express forecasts a \"choppy winter of discontent\", with 11 more potentially damaging storms between now and the new year.", "O'Reilly is known to have settled at least six sexual harassment suits\n\nFormer Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly was handed a new contract in January, despite the network's parent company knowing he had recently settled a sexual harassment case.\n\nThe $32m (£24m) settlement was paid to former Fox legal analyst Lis Wiehl, according to the New York Times.\n\nIn a statement, parent company 21st Century Fox said was aware of the settlement, but not the sum, when it signed a $25m-a-year contract renewal.\n\nHe was forced to resign in April following a raft of sexual harassment allegations.\n\nThe settlement with Wiehl - which was \"extraordinarily large\" for such cases, according to the Times - is one of six involving O'Reilly that are in the public domain, totalling $45m.\n\nSeveral of those suits also involved former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, who stepped down in 2016 amid accusations of harassment.\n\nWiehl had worked for Fox for 15 years at the time of the settlement with O'Reilly and appeared regularly on his show The O'Reilly Factor. She left at the time of the settlement.\n\n\"When the company renewed Bill O'Reilly's contract in February, it knew that a sexual harassment lawsuit had been threatened against him by Lis Wiehl, but was informed by Mr O'Reilly that he had settled the matter personally, on financial terms that he and Ms Wiehl had agreed were confidential and not disclosed to the company,\" 21st Century Fox said in a statement.\n\nThe company signed a $25 million-per-year deal with the commentator, but added corporate protections against future allegations of harassment against him.\n\nO'Reilly denied the allegations to the New York Times. \"I have never mistreated anyone,\" he said, adding that he had resolved matters with Wiehl privately because he wanted to spare his children from controversy.\n\nThe commentator was forced to resign in April after a string of smaller settlements was reported by the Times and advertisers pulled out of his programme.\n\nIn a statement to Reuters, Mark Fabiani, a spokesman for O'Reilly, criticised the Times for printing \"leaked information... that is out of context, false, defamatory, and obviously designed to embarrass Bill O'Reilly and to keep him from competing in the marketplace\".\n\nHe also denounced the newspaper for not printing what he said was an affidavit signed by Wiehl withdrawing her allegations following the settlement.\n\nThe disclosure of the Wiehl settlement follows a string of sexual assault allegations against Hollywood film mogul Harvey Weinstein, including accusations of rape, that sparked a international conversation about harassment in the film industry and beyond.\n\nWeinstein, 65, who was sacked by his own production firm, The Weinstein Company, and suspended by the board of the Oscars, has denied having non-consensual sex with anyone.", "We recently revealed some of the posters that have adorned London's transport system for more than 100 years. Here's more from the women who have shaped the way people see the city.\n\nFemale graphic designers have been producing artwork for the Underground since 1910, yet many remain largely unrecognised.\n\nSome of their work was published under the name of an advertising agency, others were unsigned, and more still simply used their initials.\n\nThe Poster Girls exhibition at the London Transport Museum is showcasing the pieces.\n\nUnlike many of the designers, Mabel Lucie Attwell was a well-known illustrator, famous for her wide-eyed depictions of children.\n\nThe Underground Group started to use her designs to advertise specific events at off-peak times, such as pantomimes. A 1912 poster advertising a country fair to raise money for an animal charity is one of the earliest uses of a female artist on the underground.\n\nA butcher's daughter, Attwell was born in 1879 - the ninth of 10 children. She never finished formal education, yet the first pictures she gave an agent sold overnight.\n\nBy 1911 she was producing hugely popular postcards and greetings cards featuring chubby toddlers based on her daughter Peggy.\n\nWorking in watercolour and ink, she was a commercial success, although her work was looked down upon by some critics for \"sentimentalising\" childhood.\n\nThe Dorothy Dix work, The Hop Gardens of Kent, was used in 1922 to promote travel to the country by bus. The image depicts an oast house on a hop farm - a familiar sight in the Kent countryside.\n\nShe was an accomplished painter and exhibited two paintings at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition; Evening in a Cotswold village (1931) and Winter cheer (1947).\n\nMary Koop was the designer of the 1925 artwork Summer Sales Quickly Reached. Little is known of Koop, other than that she studied at the Croydon School of Art and the London School of Art.\n\nA print of her torrent of umbrellas sold in 2012 for nearly £9,000, and the image has been widely reproduced, including on real umbrellas and postage stamps.\n\nArnrid Banniza Johnston was Swedish by birth and the daughter of a corn and grain merchant.\n\nShe first made her name as a sculptor, before branching out into poster design. Her 1930 Regents Park zoo poster, which switches the role of animals and spectators, was meticulously researched and led her into the book illustrating industry.\n\nShe died in 1972, and one obituary said of her: \"Her many friends found her robust generous personality as characterful as her animals\".\n\nAnna Katrina Zinkeisen and her sister Doris were privately educated at home before they both won scholarships to the Royal Academy Schools.\n\nIn 1935, they were commissioned by the Clydebank shipbuilders John Brown and Company to paint murals on the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary. Their work can still be seen, in the Verandah Grill room, on the ship now permanently moored in Long Beach, California.\n\nAnna was also working on illustrations for books and magazine covers as well as designing posters, such as a promotion for the Royal Tournament at Olympia.\n\nDuring World War Two she worked as a medical artist and nursing auxiliary at St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington. After completing a day's shift working on a ward as a casualty nurse, Zinkeisen would use a disused operating theatre as her studio to work on her paintings.\n\nCarol Barker's psychedelic London for Children poster was used in 1973.\n\nBarker used a variety of techniques and media in her works, including combining fragments of clothes, vintage photographs and knitted lace to create a nostalgic scrapbook image of London's past.\n\nShe also illustrated children's books - H. E. Bates wrote the text of Achilles the Donkey specifically to go with her images.\n\nRuth Hydes' poster for Epping Forest echoes earlier images designed to tempt Londoners out of the city and was part of a set she designed in 2015 celebrating London's open spaces.\n\nShe said she is inspired by \"buildings, colour, pattern, random objects and natural history\".\n\nThe exhibition is on until January 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The letter was written by Oscar Holverson to his mother\n\nOne of the last known letters to have been written on the Titanic has sold for a world record price at auction.\n\nThe letter, written by American businessman and Titanic passenger, Oscar Holverson, fetched £126,000.\n\nIt was sought-after because he wrote it on 13 April 1912 - the day before the Belfast-built ship hit an iceberg.\n\nIt is the only known letter, on headed Titanic notepaper, to have gone into the Atlantic and survived.\n\nThe sea-water stained document was sold to a British buyer, whose bid to the auction in Wiltshire came in via phone.\n\nThe auctioneer, Andrew Aldridge, described the anonymous customer as someone \"who collects iconic items from history\".\n\nMr Holverson, a successful salesman, wrote the letter to his mother while travelling on the ill-fated ship with his wife, Mary.\n\nThe couple boarded the Titanic in Southampton and planned to travel back to their home in New York.\n\nIn his note, the writer seems in awe of his surroundings, telling his mother that \"the boat is giant in size and fitted up like a palatial hotel\".\n\nMr Holverson, who has an idiosyncratic style to his syntax, also writes about seeing \"the richest person in the world at that time\" - John Jacob Astor - on the ship, accompanied by his wife.\n\n\"He looks like any other human being even tho (sic) he has millions of money,\" he adds. \"They sit out on deck with the rest of us.\"\n\nThe letter had a reserve price of between £60,000 and £80,000.\n\nSpeaking ahead of Saturday's sale, Mr Aldridge said that \"even if the letter was virtually blank, it would still rank as amongst the most desirable, such is the nature of the paper, its markings and history\".\n\nHaving been an auctioneer of Titanic memorabilia for 20 years, he said that its content takes it to another level, \"because of its date, the fact it went into the Atlantic and the observations it contains\".\n\nOne prophetic entry in Mr Holverson's letter never came true, when he wrote: \"If all goes well we will arrive in New York Wednesday AM.\"\n\nWhen the Titanic sank, Oscar Holverson, along with JJ Astor, died along with more than 1,500 people.\n\nHer husband's body was recovered and, inside a pocket book, the letter was found.\n\nIt still bears the stains of the sea water and the water mark of the White Star shipping line.\n\nThe letter eventually made its way back to his mother.\n\nMr Aldridge said that makes it \"possibly, the only onboard letter written by a victim that was delivered to its recipient without postage\".\n\nThe letter still bears the stains of the sea and the water mark of the White star shipping line\n\nMr Holverson was buried in Woodlawn cemetery in New York, unaware that, 105 years later, his unposted letter would generate such interest.\n\nMr Aldridge, who has auctioned everything from a set of Titanic keys for £85,000, to a violin that was played as the ship sank, for £1.1m, said he was also excited to see the letter.\n\nHe said it was \"one of the most iconic and important items from the Titanic ever offered at auction and shows that interest in the ship and its passengers remains incredibly strong\".\n\nOther items in Saturday's auction included a set of keys belonging to a steward in the Titanic's First Class, which fetched £76,000.\n\nTwo previously unpublished photos of the Titanic went for £24,000.\n\nThe previous world record for a Titanic letter sold at auction was £119,000, set in April 2014, for a letter written a few hours before the ship hit the iceberg.", "Sir Keir Starmer wants six changes to the government's repeal bill\n\nLabour will back Conservative rebels over Brexit unless the prime minister accepts changes to its repeal bill, the party's shadow Brexit secretary says.\n\nSir Keir Starmer wants six changes to the bill, which aims to transfer EU legislation into British law.\n\nIf these are not accepted Labour will back Tory rebels in an attempt to force a vote on the final EU deal, he said.\n\nThe government said it would listen to MPs about possible improvements to the bill but would not let it be \"wrecked\".\n\nThe loss of the government's Commons majority in the June general election means a relatively small revolt by Conservative MPs could derail the legislation.\n\nHundreds of amendments to the bill have already been tabled by Tory rebels, as well as opposition MPs.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Times, Sir Keir said the government had withheld the legislation from the House of Commons for two weeks running because it fears defeat on at least 13 amendments at the hands of Tory rebels.\n\nHe said it was \"clear\" that ministers could not proceed with the bill as it stands and threatened to \"work with all sides\" to get his changes made - unless ministers adopted them and end the \"paralysis\".\n\nThe shadow Brexit secretary wrote: \"I believe there is a consensus in Parliament for these changes.\n\n\"And there is certainly no majority for weakening rights, silencing Parliament and sidelining the devolved administrations.\n\n\"There is a way through this paralysis.\n\n\"Labour will work with all sides to make that happen.\"\n\nTheresa May is due to update the Commons on the progress made on Brexit at the European Council meeting\n\nSir Keir's intervention comes days after EU leaders agreed to begin scoping work on trade talks.\n\nBut they also made clear Britain must make further concessions on its divorce bill to unlock talks on a future trading relationship.\n\nBrexit Secretary David Davis will travel to Paris for Brexit talks on Monday after France appeared to emerge as the most hardline EU member state on the exit bill.\n\nThe prime minister is due to update the Commons on Monday on the progress made during the summit on Thursday and Friday.\n\nMrs May is expected to say that while negotiations on Brexit are \"deeply technical\" she has never forgotten that millions of people are at the heart of the process and they remain her \"first priority\".\n\nShe will also say that the millions of European citizens living in the UK make an \"extraordinary contribution\" to our society and that \"we want them to stay\".\n\nA government spokesman said the repeal bill was \"essential\" to deliver on the result of the referendum while ensuring the maximum possible legal certainty for businesses and citizens.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU in March 2019, following last year's referendum result.", "Steve and Paula Boone have run more than 1,000 marathons between them\n\nWhy are more people running marathons in all 50 states - and what does it say about modern America?\n\nIn 1988, Steve Boone was a computer systems designer who played football in his spare time.\n\nOne of his customers was training for the Houston Marathon. He bet Steve - a 39-year-old who had never run 26 miles - that he couldn't finish the race.\n\nIt's safe to say Steve won that bet.\n\nHe finished the 1988 Houston Marathon, and has returned to the race every year since. The 2018 event will be his 31st in a row, and his 700th marathon in total.\n\n\"It was a principle bet,\" says Steve. \"No money at stake.\"\n\nIn 1997, Steve was at the Boston Marathon, waiting outside a hotel for a bus that didn't turn up.\n\nBy this point, he had run more than 100 marathons, including one in all 50 states. He had the idea after running in San Francisco. \"It was one of those obsessions,\" he admits.\n\nWhile waiting for the bus, he got talking to one of his fellow runners, Paula. \"By the time we walked back to the hotel we were best friends,\" he says.\n\nThey were married 18 months later.\n\nIn 2001, the Boones decided to start a club for people who had run - or wanted to run - marathons in all 50 states. They began with 82 members; Steve thought they might get 400 or 500 total.\n\nAt the last count, there were 4,326 members. In total, more than 1,500 have finished all 50 states.\n\nOf the finishers, more than a third are female, and almost all come from the US, although there are members from Brazil to Bermuda.\n\nBut the interesting thing isn't where they come from. It's why they run in the first place.\n\n50 State Marathon Club: The rules (or some of them)\n\nShe ran her first, in her home state of Utah, a year earlier while \"getting in shape after having my two kids\". But after meeting Steve the pace picked up.\n\nBy 2003, she too had run a marathon in all 50 states. She now has 330 marathons in total, including at least four in each state.\n\n\"Steve was a really bad influence,\" she says.\n\nPaula - who's 51 and lives with her husband in Humble, Texas - says she isn't an elite athlete. Her last marathon took seven hours, although she ran her first in three hours and 59 minutes.\n\nSo if she's not breaking records, or winning races, why does she keep going - step after step, state after state, more than 8,000 miles and counting?\n\n\"The actual running is really difficult,\" she says. \"But I love to travel, that's my favourite thing to do. It's really the best way to see the country.\"\n\nFor example - one race took Paula to Minot, North Dakota, a town that's not in many travel brochures. \"The middle of nowhere in the middle of nowhere,\" she says.\n\nThere's also the social side. Jody Reed, a 58-year-old lawyer from Ashburn, Virginia, ran her first marathon in 1987 and has now done 152 - including at least one in every state.\n\n\"At this point, it's the friends [that keep me going],\" she says, speaking from Milwaukee where she's about to run another race. \"I'm here with a friend who I met last fall. We've done several races together since then.\n\n\"It would be a very unusual marathon where I'm not with people I know. And not just people I know - friends.\"\n\nBut while camaraderie is important, Paula thinks there's a deeper reason why people run.\n\n\"Most of us have pretty cushy jobs,\" she says. \"We're not out there sweating, and as humans we like to have some sort of striving, some kind of drive.\n\n\"The marathon fulfils that. We want to work towards some kind of goal; [to have] some kind of stress and strain.\"\n\nSo running marathons is a counterforce to the comfort of modern life?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London Marathon: An inspirational end to the Marathon for two runners\n\n\"I think so,\" says Paula.\n\n\"The people who join our club are from every walk of life - people who are very poor, people who are very rich, and everything in between. The one thing that ties everybody together is they all strive. They are all self-driven.\n\n\"The mountains have all been climbed, everything has been discovered, but this is manageable - while being out of your comfort zone.\"\n\nRoss Brennan, a 57-year-old from Washington, DC, ran his first marathon in 1990. Back then, he says, marathon running \"was just becoming a thing - it was still a little bit exotic\".\n\nNow, marathons are certainly a thing. During the weekend of October 21-22, at least 26 cities in the US and Canada will host one according to marathonguide.com. There are 15 the weekend after and 24 the weekend after that.\n\nThere are a number of reasons for that, says Ross. More people keep fit; the internet makes it easier to find races; and technology has made running \"less boring\".\n\n\"You can nerd-out on the IT stuff,\" he says. \"There are heart rate monitors, you can listen to tunes. In the 80s you couldn't do that.\"\n\nAnd, like Paula, Ross thinks modern life makes marathons more appealing.\n\n\"From time to time, it's kind of primal,\" he says. \"It's me and a pair of shoes, I'm not thinking about work, I'm not doing a PowerPoint presentation, and I've still got it.\n\n\"You can think 'my job sucks, I feel like crap, I'm getting old' but once in a while you show up and still do 26 goddamn miles.\"\n\nBut - while that may explain running marathons - it doesn't explain doing one in every state.\n\n\"Oh, I'm a total geography nerd,\" admits Ross. \"I love travelling in the US. It's so heart-warming to turn up in a small town. The whole place welcomes you and it's wonderful.\n\n\"There are banners, free ice creams at the ice cream parlour, a party in the city park... I need that reality check. It's so much part of why I do it.\"\n\nAt first, Ross didn't realise he was collecting states.\n\nHe ran on holiday. He ran during work trips. But it was only when looking at his spreadsheet - all runners have a spreadsheet, it seems - he noticed he was covering the country, slowly but sorely.\n\nRoss was helped by the rise of \"series marathons\", when races are organised back-to-back over a week or so - often for people who want to complete all 50 states.\n\n\"The most I did was five in a week,\" he says. \"It was the Riverboat Series - Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, I think - four of which I hadn't done before.\"\n\nRoss told his wife he wanted to run in 50 states only three years ago. \"I did it in quite a subtle way,\" he says. \"It was like: 'Here's this thing I'm doing...'\"\n\nBut when he flew to Hawaii to complete the set, his family came to watch him cross the line.\n\nThe date was 26 June 2016; his time was just under five hours. A journey that began 26 years earlier, 5,000 miles east, had ended.\n\nHe has now run 71 marathons and there are no plans to stop. \"Even if I'm not planning to run, I'll log onto Marathon Guide and see what's out there.\"\n\nWhile that may be \"eccentric\", as Ross says, it's nothing compared to some members of the 50 State Marathons Club.\n\n\"I remember being on a shuttle bus in a race in Montana, or somewhere,\" says Ross. \"This guy said to me 'It's number 11.'\n\n\"I said 'Cool - are you going to do all 50 states?' He replied 'No - I've done all 50 states. This is the 11th time round.'\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "President John F Kennedy was given a state funeral, after hundreds of thousands of people viewed his casket\n\nDonald Trump has said he plans to allow the opening of a trove of long-classified files on the assassination of former president John F Kennedy.\n\nThe president tweeted to say he would allow the release \"subject to receipt of further information\".\n\nThe files are scheduled to be opened by the US National Archives on 26 October, but the president is entitled to extend their classified status.\n\nKennedy was shot dead by a sniper on 22 November 1963 in Dallas, Texas.\n\nThe National Archives has already released most documents related to the assassination but a final batch remains under lock and key.\n\n\"Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened,\" Trump said in a tweet.\n\nCongress ruled in 1992 that all JFK documents should be released within 25 years, unless the president decided the release would harm national security.\n\nThe archive contains more than 3,000 previously unreleased documents, and more than 30,000 that have been released before but with redactions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. JFK at 100: 'His life was not as glamorous as you think'\n\nIt is unclear whether Mr Trump intends to allow the release in full or with redactions.\n\nKennedy assassination experts do not think the last batch of papers contains any bombshells, according to a Washington Post report.\n\nBut the files may shed more light on Lee Harvey Oswald's activities in Mexico City just months before the assassination.\n\nOswald was arrested in Dallas on the day of the shooting and charged with the president's murder. He denied the charges, claiming he was a \"just a patsy\".\n\nHe was gunned down by nightclub owner Jack Ruby while in police custody two days later, and the plot to kill Kennedy became the most powerful conspiracy theory in American history.\n\n\"The American public deserves to know the facts, or at least they deserve to know what the government has kept hidden from them for all these years,\" Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of a book about Kennedy, told the Associated Press news agency.\n\n\"It's long past the time to be forthcoming with this information.\"", "Home-buying and selling in England and Wales could be \"faster and less stressful\" under plans to simplify sales and tackle gazumping.\n\nCommunities Secretary Sajid Javid launched an eight-week review, saying he wanted to \"hear from the industry\" on how to streamline home-buying.\n\nWays of locking in deals and stopping sellers accepting higher offers at the last minute will be considered.\n\nBut Labour said the plans were \"feeble\" and \"smack of political diversion\".\n\n\"This is a government out of touch and out of ideas,\" said Shadow housing secretary John Healey. \"After seven years of failure, ministers still have no plan to fix the housing crisis.\"\n\nThe current 'call for evidence' follows proposals announced this month to look at new ways to protect leaseholders and tenants from \"rogue agents\" - both part of a drive by Mr Javid to modernise and improve the housing market.\n\nAlthough a million homes are bought and sold in England every year, a quarter of sales fall through, wasting hundreds of millions of pounds.\n\nGazumping - when a seller accepts a higher offer from a new buyer, having previously accepted a lower offer - is among the most contentious of house-buying practices.\n\nMinisters will look at schemes such as \"lock-in agreements\" as a means of building confidence in the housing chain, which often collapse leaving those involved disappointed and out of pocket.\n\nThe review will also look at ways of speeding up the process of home-buying, and will consider how to advise home buyers and sellers so they are sale-ready.\n\nMr Javid called on estate agents, mortgage lenders and solicitors to share their experiences of the housing market - in order to \"help save people money and time so they can focus on what matters - finding their dream home\".\n\nHe said: \"Buying a home is one of life's largest investments, so if it goes wrong it can be costly. That's why we're determined to take action.\n\n\"We want to help everyone have a good quality home they can afford, and improving the process of buying and selling is part of delivering that. \"\n\nAlex Neill, of consumer magazine Which?, described the house-buying process as \"outdated and flawed\".\n\n\"Buying a home can be one of the most stressful experiences in life, with sales often taking too long or falling through, with some consumers losing substantial sums of money.\n\n\"The government must put consumers first, ensuring that estate agents deliver a better service for both home-buyers and sellers and that the conveyancing process is simplified.\"\n\nMark Hayward, of the National Association of Estate Agents Propertymark, agreed there was \"scope to improve the process for home buying and selling\".\n\nBut the estate agent Robert Red from Wright Marshall estate agents said stopping gazumping was difficult to avoid because it was a legal obligation to pass on an offer to a client.\n\n\"No matter how distasteful I might find it, I have to, by law, report [an increased offer] to my client, and my client will make the decision about that offer, and I have to carry out their instructions via the legal process,\" he told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nIn a government survey of more than 2,000 people who have bought or sold a home recently, nearly half (46%) of sellers had concerns about a buyer changing their mind after making an offer.\n\nThe survey found a quarter (24%) of sellers said they would use a different estate agent if they had to go through the process again, while almost a third (32%) of sellers and 28% of buyers were dissatisfied with the other party's solicitor.\n\nHave you ever been gazumped or affected by the issues raised in this story? Please email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk with your experiences.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Spain is the most popular destination for Britons living in other EU countries\n\nBritons living in Spain will not have their lives \"disrupted\" after Brexit - even if there is no UK-EU deal, the Spanish foreign minister says.\n\nThe two sides are yet to reach an agreement about how the rights of expats will be protected after Brexit.\n\nTheresa May has called for \"urgency\" from the EU side in finding a solution.\n\nAnd speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Alfonso Dastis sought to reassure more than 300,000 Britons living in Spain.\n\n\"I do hope that there will be a deal,\" the minister said.\n\n\"If there is no deal we will make sure that the lives of ordinary people who are in Spain, the UK people, is not disrupted.\n\n\"As you know, the relationship between the UK and Spain is a very close one in terms of economic relations and also social exchanges.\n\n\"Over 17 million Brits come to Spain every year and many of them live here or retire here and we want to keep it that way as much as possible.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. British expats sum up Brexit in one word\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics, Spain is host to the largest number of British citizens living in the EU (308,805), and just over a third (101,045) are aged 65 and over.\n\nCitizens' rights are one of the first subjects being negotiated in the first round of Brexit talks - which have moved so slowly there has been increased talk of no deal at all being reached between the two sides.\n\nThe role of the European Court of Justice in guaranteeing the rights of EU nationals in the UK has been a sticking point. The EU argues this must continue, but ministers say the EU court will no longer have jurisdiction in the UK after Brexit.\n\nAhead of last week's Brussels summit, Mrs May said the two sides were \"in touching distance\" of finding an agreement.\n\nOn Monday she is expected to tell MPs she will \"put people first\" in the \"complicated and deeply technical\" negotiations.", "The building was officially opened in an extravagant ceremony\n\nThe Church of Scientology has opened a £4.2m HQ in Birmingham.\n\nGrade II listed Pitmaston House, in the Moseley suburb, was snapped up in 2007 by the group, which was founded by science fiction author L Ron Hubbard.\n\nThere was a heavy security presence around the building during an opening ceremony, at which senior church figures gave speeches.\n\nA request for an interview about the new \"Ideal Org\", or headquarters, was turned down.\n\nThe church claims the building, which is the second of its kind in the UK, will house a training centre and a chapel.\n\nA huge blue rosette and ribbons were draped across the front of the building ahead of the opening ceremony, while lighting and camera equipment could also be seen.\n\nSpeeches were played back on two large screens erected on either side of the main entrance.\n\nGroups of protesters, including ex-church members, gathered outside during proceedings, according to the Birmingham Mail.\n\nThere was a heavy security presence outside the building\n\nPeople take courses of dianetics counselling, known as auditing, in the hope of ridding themselves of destructive influences from their current or past lives.\n\nScientologists say it is a religion, but a string of defectors have accused it of being a dangerous cult. They allege physical and emotional abuse, brainwashing and unethical fundraising, which the church has always strongly denied.\n\nIt has a number of celebrity followers, including Tom Cruise and John Travolta.\n\nA promotional video released by the church claimed the new HQ would provide \"community programmes for the betterment of Birmingham\".\n\nIt claims to have had a dedicated following in the area since the 1980s.\n\nPlans to convert Pitmaston House met with some opposition when they were approved in 2013, although a local community group said its main worry was an increase in traffic.\n\nCoaches and other vehicles obscured views of the proceedings\n\nThe church's promotional video says the centre will serve western and central England", "David Davis is holding Brexit talks in Paris on Monday\n\nThe UK risks losing jobs and investment without an urgent Brexit transition deal, Britain's five biggest business lobby groups have warned.\n\nIn a joint letter being sent to Brexit Secretary David Davis, the groups including the CBI and Institute of Directors, say time is running out.\n\nThe head of the CBI said firms wanted an agreement on the transition period by the end of the year.\n\nA government spokesman said the talks were \"making real, tangible progress\".\n\nThe other lobby groups backing the letter are the British Chambers of Commerce, the Federation of Small Businesses, and the EEF manufacturers' body.\n\nCBI director-general Carolyn Fairbairn told the BBC: \"One of the big messages from firms is 'get on with it' on both sides.\n\n\"This is real, this is urgent and a transition agreement by the end of the year would help enormously to keep investment and jobs in the country,\" she said.\n\nTheresa May has suggested a transition period of about two years, with the UK and EU trading on broadly similar terms to now and payments to Brussels to meet Britain's budget commitments.\n\nFirms in the City of London are drawing up Brexit contingency plans\n\nBut although EU negotiators have agreed to start preliminary work on a future relationship, they still want more concessions on the UK's so-called \"divorce payment\" before starting talks on trade and transition.\n\nThe five business bodies - which together represent firms employing millions of people - are calling for more urgency, with less than a year and a half left until the UK leaves the European Union.\n\nConcern about the loss of UK jobs and investment was underlined last week when the boss of investment banking giant Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, tweeted that he will be \"spending a lot more time\" in Frankfurt.\n\nEarlier this month, the deputy governor of the Bank of England, Sam Woods, warned that the UK and the EU must agree a transition deal by Christmas or companies would start triggering contingency plans.\n\nAnd in a survey released on Monday, the EEF said that Brexit uncertainty was holding back the plans of manufacturing firms to invest in new plants and machinery.\n\nMr Davis is holding Brexit talks in Paris on Monday after France appeared to emerge as the most hardline EU member state when it comes to the divorce bill.\n\nThe prime minister is also due to update the Commons on the progress made during last week's summit of EU leaders in Brussels.\n\nIt is thought that Mrs May will say that negotiations are \"deeply technical\", but she has not forgotten that the lives of millions of people are at the heart of the process.\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Exiting the European Union said the prime minister proposed a strictly time-limited implementation period in her Florence speech.\n\nHe said: \"We are making real and tangible progress in a number of vital areas in negotiations. However, many of the issues that remain are linked to the discussions we need to have on our future relationship.\n\n\"That is why we are pleased that the EU has now agreed to start internal preparatory discussions on the framework for transitional arrangements as well as our future partnership.\"", "The five living former US presidents have gathered for a concert in aid of victims of the hurricanes which ravaged the US this year.\n\nBarack Obama, George W Bush, Bill Clinton, George HW Bush and Jimmy Carter appeared in Texas on Saturday.\n\nThe three Democrats and two Republicans came together behind The One America Appeal, set up to help those caught up in the devastating trails of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria.\n\nIt has raised $31m (£23.5m) so far.\n\nThe politicians launched the appeal in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, which caused billions in damage after it made landfall in Texas in August.\n\nHowever, it has since been expanded to include the communities in Florida, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands which were hit by the storms which followed.\n\n\"As former presidents, we wanted to help our fellow Americans begin to recover,\" Mr Obama explained to concertgoers in a pre-recorded message.\n\nHis immediate predecessor added: \"People are hurting down here but as one Texan put it, we've got more love in Texas than water.\"\n\nAll five presidents appeared on stage for the anthem, before taking their seats to watch acts including Lee Greenwood, who opened with Proud to be an American, and Lady Gaga.\n\nThe One America Appeal was launched after Hurricane Harvey\n\nThey were not joined by sitting President Donald Trump, who sent a message ahead of the show praising their \"wonderful\" work and expressing his \"deep gratitude\".\n\nBoth Mr Obama and the younger Mr Bush have made speeches in the last week which have been seen as veiled criticism of the former reality TV star's tenure in the White House.", "Mr Babis and his colleagues celebrated their poll-topping performance\n\nPopulist billionaire candidate Andrej Babis and his party have won the Czech Republic's general election.\n\nMr Babis, 63, is the country's second-richest man and campaigned on an anti-establishment and Eurosceptic platform.\n\nWith all votes counted, his centrist movement ANO (Yes) collected a share of almost 30% - nearly three times that of its closest rival.\n\nThe centre-right Civic Democrats and the Pirates Party came second and third with more than 10% each.\n\nThe Pirates will make their debut in parliament with 22 seats, the news agency AFP reported.\n\nMr Babis is now set to become prime minister after coalition negotiations. However, he told news agency Reuters that while he had \"invited everyone for talks\", he was not prepared to \"cooperate\" with either the far-right, anti-EU Freedom and Direct Democracy party or the Communist Party.\n\nThe 63-year-old made his estimated $4bn (£3bn) fortune in chemicals, food and media - but he has also faced numerous scandals including a fraud indictment and accusations he was a communist-era police agent.\n\nHe says he would not bring the Czech Republic in to the eurozone but he wants the country to stay in the EU, telling Reuters he would propose changes to the European Council on issues like food quality and a \"solution to migration\".\n\nThe ANO's current coalition partner, the ruling centre-left Social Democrats (CSSD), saw its share of the vote tumble to become the sixth-largest party, and has talked down the possibility of another coalition.\n\nThe Civic Democrats have also ruled themselves out of governing alongside Mr Babis.\n\nFar-right and anti-establishment groups made gains in the election. The largest parties now include:\n\nThe BBC's correspondent in Prague, Rob Cameron, said the SPD's performance was particularly noteworthy, as the far-right party wants to ban Islam in the Czech Republic. Its leader has urged Czechs to walk pigs near mosques.\n\nAndrej Babis has long decried what he says is a \"campaign\" against him by a self-serving political establishment.\n\nHe sees the hand of this shadowy deep state everywhere; the media, the Czech prosecutor's office, the Slovak Constitutional Court, even the EU's anti-fraud unit. A host of enemies ranged against him in a vast anti-Babis conspiracy.\n\nWell, if there was such a conspiracy, it's failed.\n\nHis message to voters - that he alone could heal the ills of the Czech political and economic system, that he alone could decapitate the hydra of corruption, that he alone could defend Czech national interests - appears to have been heard. They have given him a convincing mandate. He has truly crushed his rivals.\n\nHe still needs friends - 78 seats is far from enough in a 200-seat lower house to do much of anything, let alone the sweeping constitutional changes he dreams of.\n\nWith eight other parties in parliament - from centre-left to far-right - he has a bewildering choice of coalition partners. It's a choice that will determine the future course of the country.\n\nThe country's outgoing leader, Social Democrat Bohuslav Sobotka, headed a coalition formed with Mr Babis's party after a 2013 snap election.\n\nBut in May, Mr Sobotka submitted his government's resignation because of a disagreement with Mr Babis, who was serving as finance minister at the time.\n\nHe was unhappy about alleged unexplained business dealings involving Mr Babis.\n\nOn seeing the rise of the SPD Mr Sobotka was shocked, saying; \"How is it possible that in the Czech Republic, in a situation when the country is doing very well, when we are a stable, safe country, we have achieved many things in the social sphere in the past four years, people are increasingly in favour of extreme views?\"\n\nThe Social Democrats' tally of 7.3% was their worst result since the Czech Republic split from Slovakia in 1993.\n\nOutgoing leader Bohuslav Sobotka (R) has had a turbulent relationship with Andrej Babis (L)\n\nAfter the vote, Mr Babis thanked his voters and said he had not expected the result after \"lies\" in a \"massive, massive disinformation campaign against us\".\n\n\"I`m glad you did not believe that, that you gave us the confidence to get a chance to form a government,\" he said.", "But his message to Catalonia's devolved government, which spearheads the pro-independence movement, was blunt. He said Madrid would remove its leaders and impose direct rule.\n\nMariano Rajoy is conservative by party, and in his political style.\n\nHe has meandered his way through other crises; a financial one for his country; a corruption scandal that tainted his party. His \"keep calm and carry on\" strategy worked each time.\n\nBut Catalonia today is a completely different ball game.\n\nThis Spanish region has enjoyed a high degree of autonomy since the 1980s - only the Basque Country has more.\n\nIt's also important to note that in cultural terms, Catalonia is arguably the most distinct of Spain's regions.\n\nThe Catalan language is widely spoken and from the folkloric dance of Sardana to human towers, there is a long list of cultural traditions here, which enforce the sense of Catalan identity.\n\nAnd a large part of Catalan society will see Madrid's planned takeover as an affront to their whole way of life.\n\nCompetitions to build tall and elaborate human towers are a common sight at Catalan regional festivals\n\nThe word among the pro-independence camp is that, in the coming weeks, peaceful direct action will be the order of the day.\n\nThe Spanish government has outlined a clear strategy, couched within a legal framework.\n\nAdvisers close to the prime minister emphasise that the decision to intervene was not taken lightly but they also argue that Mr Rajoy was left with no choice.\n\nAt stake, they say, is Spain's entire system of governance; no other Western government would allow a regional administration to ride roughshod over its constitution and laws.\n\nCatalonia's independence, or a legitimate vote on the matter, has never been and never will be an option, they exclaim.\n\nBut over the next days Mariano Rajoy's government faces an unfathomably delicate task.\n\nIt must now reassert Madrid's authority in Catalonia.\n\nThe practicalities of that won't be straightforward.\n\nSome within Catalonia's civil service will be die-hard supporters of independence. Others will simply hate the concept of Madrid being ultimately in charge.\n\nCatalonia's regional police force, Mossos, insists it remains impartial. \"We are policemen, not politicians,\" Inspector Albert Oliva told me.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police inspector: 'We are not politicians'\n\nBut he admits that his force is in the middle of a \"political hurricane.\" Over the coming weeks the loyalties of Catalan police will be tested to the absolute limit.\n\nBefore we reach that point, the Spanish senate will have to approve Madrid's proposals. That could take days.\n\nIn the meantime, the soon-to-be-sacked Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont will try and convene the regional parliament, before it is stripped of powers.\n\nIf that happens, he will probably make a more emphatic declaration of independence.\n\nThe vast majority of Spaniards will, in turn, declare that meaningless.\n\nBut every twist and turn from now will play into an already febrile political atmosphere.\n\nEvery time I speak to a taxi driver or an old lady pushing her shopping trolley down the street, be it in Catalonia or in the neighbouring region of Aragon, people's views, on both sides, have hardened.\n\nTo the naked eye of a tourist, Spain is a country at ease, a country of sun, sea, beautiful buildings and friendly people.\n\nScratch below and there are deep political divisions.\n\nAnd in Catalonia the situation is becoming fractured beyond belief.", "One 26-year-old has died and another has been taken to hospital\n\nA man has died in a crash involving a car and a fire engine.\n\nThe silver BMW collided with the Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service on southbound carriageway of the A563 Lubbesthorpe Way at 05:00 BST\n\nThe 26-year-old BMW driver was taken to the Leicester Royal Infirmary, where he died shortly afterwards.\n\nA passenger, also 26, is being treated at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire for non life-threatening injuries.\n\nPictures from the scene of the crash show extensive damage to the car.\n\nThe road was closed by police in both directions, with a diversion put in place.\n\nThe crash involving the BMW and a fire engine happened at about 05:00, police said\n\nA passenger in the BMW has been taken to hospital with injuries police said were not life-threatening\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 15-year-old boy who had been missing in London has been found.\n\nBenjamin Moorcroft, from Shrewsbury, had been separated from his family while they were on a trip to the capital on Saturday evening in Covent Garden.\n\nHe was found shortly before 07:30 BST on Monday in the Waterloo area.\n\nIn a statement, the Metropolitan Police thanked a member of the public who spoke to the teenager and called police.\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. Local television catches Nemo the dog in the act\n\nVideo has emerged of French President Emmanuel Macron's dog Nemo urinating on a fireplace at the Elysée palace.\n\nThe footage shows the black Labrador-Griffon cross relieving himself in the background as Mr Macron talks with three junior members of his government.\n\n\"I wondered what that noise was,\" says the junior minister for ecology, Brune Poirson, who had previously been talking, as they all laugh.\n\nMr Macron then says that Nemo has done something \"quite exceptional\".\n\nThe incident was captured by French TV station TF1, which was recording the discussion.\n\nJunior minister for planning Julien Denormandie asks if this is something that \"happens often\".\n\nNemo appeared in Mr Macron's entourage in August, continuing a tradition of French presidents having a \"first dog\".\n\nMr Macron and his wife Brigitte reportedly bought him from an animal rescue centre for €250 (£225).\n\nIt is not the first time a French first dog has caused trouble for its master. French investigative website Mediapart reported that Nicolas Sarkozy's dogs damaged valuable furniture in the palace that cost thousands of euros to restore.\n\nMeanwhile Jacques Chirac's miniature white Maltese, Sumo, became unhappy at having to leave the Elysée with its spacious garden and began attacking Mr Chirac, the Guardian reported.", "The Faroe Islands are home to an impressive array of seabirds but there is only one colony of gannets, located on the most westerly island, Mykines. The young birds are considered a delicacy by the islanders. So, once a year, hunters abseil down the cliffs to catch the birds.\n\nIt takes eight fit men to carry the 150m of thick rope which will form the essential lifeline for the bird catchers.\n\nAs thick as a man's wrist, it has to be lugged along a cliff-top path and then across a narrow gorge to the adjoining island of Mykinesholmur.\n\nOscar Joensen lays out the long rope needed for the climb\n\nSkirting a colony of chattering puffins outside their burrows, I followed the men for an hour towards the gannet cliffs, 150m high, and dropping almost vertically into the Atlantic swell.\n\nCarrying the rope out to the bird cliffs takes a strong team\n\nAs dusk fell I could see the ghostly white shapes of the adult birds, cruising silently above the darkening ocean.\n\nAbout 50 men had taken the small ferry out to the island to help with the hunt, essential now that Mykines's single village only has about a dozen full-time residents.\n\nOn a steep grassy incline we stopped to rest. In the half-light, food supplies were shared - bread and skerpikjot, fermented legs of lamb, which the men carved with sharp hunting knives at their belts.\n\nOnce it was dark, the final climb to the cliff edge where the birds nest began.\n\nNesting gannets can be seen on the northerly cliffs of Mykinesholmur\n\nOne by one the men stepped into a simple harness cushioned with sheep's wool, and abseiled backwards down the rock face.\n\nThe drop is sheer and within seconds they were out of sight. Once on a suitable ledge below, each of them removed the safety harness and the rope was hauled back up for the next man.\n\nMen from the rope team are needed to pull the hunters back up the cliffs\n\n\"Hiva! Hiva!\" came the cry to pull together.\n\nOnce about a dozen men had been deposited on ledges out of sight, the rest of us could only wait, and in my case imagine the slaughter going on below.\n\nThe constant wind chilled me to the bone, and groups of men lay in the grass through the darkest hours talking about the hunt, wondering how many sula, as they are called locally, would be caught. They seemed impervious to the cold, bred in a country where even in summer it rarely gets above 16C (60F).\n\nThe hunters were sanguine about the process.\n\n\"We look forward to the gannet hunt,\" a young man named Johannus explained.\n\n\"The seabirds, the sheep and even the pilot whales which we catch occasionally are all part of the traditional Faroese diet. That's our culture,\" he insisted.\n\n\"We don't want to depend on imported food from plastic packets and eat animals kept in captivity all of their lives.\"\n\nThis young gannet still has down rather than feathers, so it will be spared\n\nAt around 04:30 in the morning a watery dawn light crept across the sea, and we returned to the rope.\n\nSlowly and with much effort, hundreds of dead birds tied by the neck in bunches were hauled up. These chicks, just a day or two away from flying for the first time, were large, over 4kg (8lb) in weight and perhaps 80cm (30in) tall.\n\nAnd then the men came. They were an extraordinary sight, faces and hands sometimes as black as if they had been down a coalmine. Reeking of the oily, fishy smell of gannet guano, many had scratched hands and ripped clothes, caused by the birds' spear-like beaks.\n\nA gannet's nostrils are inside, rather than outside, its beak\n\nThe last man up was Espern, the island's chief gannet catcher. Extraordinarily fit and strong he walked up the vertical cliff with the rope in one hand and two live gannets held by the neck in the other. A swift expert cut to the back of the neck and in a second the great grey creatures hung lifelessly from a beefy human hand.\n\nBut the night's work was not over.\n\nNow the birds had to be thrown from the cliffs into the sea to be picked up by a small fishing boat which would deliver them to the village jetty. Otherwise, in rougher weather, the men would have to carry the rope and climbing equipment as well as around 500 birds, all the way back to the village.\n\nA boat waits at the bottom of the cliffs to collect the birds\n\nLater, after a hearty serving of soup, we were allowed to choose two birds each, as a reward for helping raise and lower the rope during the long cold night.\n\nWe had all been up for the best part of two days and a night, but everyone was in a good mood.\n\n\"Now you know what to do, you must come again next year,\" said Johannus. \"And maybe try going down the cliff next time.\"\n\nIt was a generous offer. But I know I'm simply not brave enough.\n\nAthaya Slaetalid with husband Jan and their son Jacob\n\nThere's a shortage of women in the Faroe Islands, so local men are increasingly seeking wives from further afield - Thailand and the Philippines in particular. But what's it like for the brides who swap the tropics for this windswept archipelago?\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Spain's decision to take control of Catalonia - and remove its separatist leaders - features in many of the papers\n\nSpain's decision to take control of Catalonia - and remove its separatist leaders - makes the lead in the Observer.\n\nIt says Catalan separatists are preparing for a war of attrition against direct rule from Madrid, amid growing anger at the inability of either side to swallow their pride and take a step back.\n\nThe Sunday Times says the announcement prompted vows of resistance from independence supporters, who are planning a peaceful campaign of civil disobedience.\n\nOne activist is quoted as saying they would deploy \"walls of people\" against police to prevent them from occupying Catalonia's institutions.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Telegraph, Theresa May is on the brink of a major climbdown over Universal Credit payments.\n\nThe paper detects a significant change of tone. It says ministers are believed to be looking at ways of cutting the six-week waiting time faced by many claimants, with backbenchers pushing for a one-month limit.\n\nOne of the MPs who has raised concerns is said to believe a resolution is very close.\n\nThe Sunday Times gives front-page coverage to the warning from Labour's Brexit Secretary, Sir Keir Starmer, that his party will unite with Tory rebels to force a binding Commons vote on a final deal with the EU.\n\nThe paper says the threat is a blow to the government, which is trying to quell a potential backbench rebellion on the EU Withdrawal Bill.\n\nIn its main story, the Mail on Sunday claims that Army recruits caught taking drugs are - for the first time - being allowed to remain in the military.\n\nThe paper says drug abuse among would-be soldiers is rife.\n\nAnd throwing out recruits who failed a drugs test would mean cutting numbers when the Army was desperately short of troops.\n\nThe Army has responded by insisting there has been no relaxation of its zero-tolerance policy on drug misuse.\n\nIn its main story, the Sunday Times claims victory for the removal of online gambling games which attract children.\n\nThe paper says its investigation exposed the fact that the gambling industry was targeting children with cartoon characters and other images.\n\nThough most of the games are free, the paper says they provide an introduction to casino games for young people and a route into gambling.\n\nThe Gambling Commission, it says, has acted with a commendable alacrity.\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph says trainee surgeons have complained that an endemic culture of bullying among senior colleagues is putting patients' lives at risk.\n\nThe paper says some surgeons have reported being assaulted during operations for raising safety concerns, and an atmosphere of fear is said to be leading to failures in concentration that directly harm patients.\n\nThe online newspaper the Independent says the prime minister's plan to cap energy bills has been thrown into doubt.\n\nIt says there is evidence that Whitehall officials are laying the ground for the scheme to be scrapped next year.\n\nAccording to the paper, energy investors have already been told that PM Theresa May's draft proposal will be ditched, if the big power firms do enough to tackle high bills.\n\nPlans to make the buying and selling of homes faster and cheaper in England and Wales get a general welcome.\n\nThe Sunday Express says buying a house is the biggest financial commitment most of us will ever make - and it is important to get it right.\n\n\"Dump the Gazump\" is the headline in the Sunday Mirror.\n\nThe Sunday People says Britain is not building enough homes - but making the buying and selling process quicker and easier is a welcome start to tackling the housing crisis.\n\nThe Observer says Britain is enjoying a remarkable apple boom, as hundreds of new community orchards revive lost varieties and contribute to a thriving heritage market.\n\nOne expert believes there are possibly thousands of varieties that are not recorded but grown by farmers, smallholders and households.\n\nThe paper lists some of its favourites, including the Colwall Quoining, which has angular ridges, the Pig's Nose Pippin and the Ten Commandments, which has 10 red spots around its core.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Communities Secretary Sajid Javid: 'We are looking at new investments'\n\nThe government should borrow money to fund the building of hundreds of thousands of new homes, a cabinet minister says.\n\nCommunities Secretary Sajid Javid said taking advantage of record-low interest rates \"can be the right thing if done sensibly\".\n\nHousing charity Shelter said his comments suggested the government was \"going in the right direction\".\n\nLabour said spending on new affordable homes had been \"slashed\" since 2010.\n\nIt comes as Mr Javid launched an eight-week review of housing, in which he has called on the industry to offer solutions to the home-buying and selling process.\n\nThe government has admitted house-building in the UK is failing to keep up with demand, and has described the current market as \"broken\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr show, Mr Javid said successive governments had failed to build enough homes, and that the housing crisis Britain faced was \"the biggest barrier to social progress in our country today\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Want to buy a house? Under 25? Watch this\n\nHe said between 275,000 and 300,000 homes a year - a level of house-building not seen since the 1960s - were needed in England alone to help tackle the shortage in affordable housing.\n\n\"We are looking at new investments and there will be announcements,\" he said, saying these would come in next month's Budget.\n\nAsked about the change in tone from the Tories' previous approach to borrowing, Mr Javid said a distinction should be drawn between \"vitally important\" deficit reduction and \"investing for the future\" in housing and infrastructure.\n\n\"So for example... you borrow more to invest in the infrastructure that leads to more housing - take advantage of some of the record-low interest rates that we have. I think we should absolutely be considering that,\" he said.\n\nNot so long ago, ministers would repeat at every opportunity the need to \"balance the books\".\n\nAusterity was necessary to cut the deficit - to eliminate the gap between the amount the government spent and how much it received through taxes.\n\nNow though, a cabinet minister openly suggests borrowing more money to fund a major policy.\n\nThe economic impact of the Brexit vote means the chancellor's catchphrase is the politically more convenient but far less catchy \"commitment to fiscal discipline\".\n\nNot unlike Labour's \"fiscal credibility rule\", the Conservatives now seem comfortable with borrowing large amounts to fund long-term investment projects.\n\nThe government will be hoping that as well as new homes, it will get support from voters in return.\n\nRecent announcements by the government include a pledge by Theresa May at the Conservative Party conference this month of an extra £2bn to build an additional 25,000 social homes.\n\nEarlier this year, the government unveiled a new housing strategy for England, which included giving councils powers to pressurise developers to start to build on land they own, and building more affordable homes to buy and rent.\n\nAnd last month Mr Javid promised a \"top-to-bottom review\" of social housing in the UK.\n\nKate Webb, of Shelter, said: \"What the government are now talking about is exactly what they should have been talking about all along.\"\n\nAt a time of low interest rates, borrowing for housing was a \"good investment\" for the government, she said, but the key would be the types of houses that are actually built.\n\nThese have to be affordable to, for example, a teaching assistant or a shop worker, she added.\n\nCouncillor Martin Tett, of the Local Government Association, called for councils to be given the power and funding to build houses.\n\nLabour's housing spokesman John Healey said there had already been plenty of \"hot air\" from ministers on house-building.\n\n\"Any promise of new investment is welcome, but the reality is spending on new affordable homes has been slashed since 2010, so new affordable house-building is at a 24 year low.\"\n\nHe promised Labour would build 100,000 \"genuinely affordable\" homes per year.", "\"Yes\" posters in the Veneto region\n\nTwo of Italy's richest northern regions have voted for more autonomy, according to their leaders.\n\nMore than 90% of voters in Lombardy, home to Italy's financial capital Milan, and the Veneto region around Venice, voted yes in the non-binding referendum, their presidents claimed.\n\nBoth men are members of the Northern League, which has long argued that the north is subsidising the poorer south.\n\nThe regions together account for about 30% of Italy's national wealth.\n\nCritics of the polls call them a stunt to bolster the right-wing Northern League before a general election next year, while the central government in Rome says the polls are unnecessary although they are permitted under the Italian constitution.\n\nThey contrast sharply with the crisis in Spain where one of the richest regions, Catalonia, held an referendum on independence on 1 October, despite the country's constitutional court ruling it illegal. In response, Spain's government plans to impose direct rule.\n\nBut President Roberto Maroni, who leads Lombardy, where voter turnout was about 40%, has sought to distance the Italian vote from the situation in Spain.\n\n\"We are not Catalonia,\" he told Reuters news agency in Milan.\n\nRoberto Maroni is a leading member of the Northern League\n\n\"We remain inside the Italian nation with more autonomy while Catalonia wants to become the 29th state of the European Union. We, no. Not for now.\"\n\nOne of the regions' main complaints is that they send much more in taxes to Rome than they get back in public spending, and want to roughly halve their contribution.\n\nLombardy, Mr Maroni says, annually pays out €54bn (£48bn; $64bn) more than it receives while for Veneto, where voter turnout was higher, at between 57% and 61%, this figure is said to be about €15.5bn.\n\n\"Our taxes should be spent here, not in Sicily,\" Giuseppe Colonna, 84, told AFP news agency in Venice.\n\nBut critics object to millions of euros being spent on referendums when all regions already have the constitutional right to negotiate directly with Rome.\n\n\"Once you open up the issue of what the northern regions pay, then I expect a backlash in southern Italy,\" Giovanni Orsina, history professor at Rome's Luiss-Guido Carli University, told Reuters.", "Jamie Harron was convicted of public indecency over the incident in a Dubai bar\n\nA Scottish man has been sentenced to three months in jail for touching a man's hip in a Dubai bar.\n\nJamie Harron, from Stirling, was arrested in July and charged with public indecency.\n\nHe claimed he had simply been trying to avoid spilling his drink when he touched the man.\n\nThe 27-year-old electrician had already been sentenced to a month in jail for drinking beer and still faces further court proceedings.\n\nThe businessman who made the complaint against Mr Harron later withdrew it, but prosecutors in Dubai continued with the case.\n\nNews of the three-month sentence was released by campaign group Detained in Dubai, which has been supporting Mr Harron.\n\nMr Harron was on a stopover break in the United Arab Emirates when the incident happened\n\nThe group said lawyers acting for him would appeal and they would be pursuing a civil action against his accusers.\n\nA statement from the group said: \"Today Jamie Harron was sentenced to three months imprisonment for accidentally brushing the hip of an Arab customer at the Rock Bottom bar in Dubai.\n\n\"Key witnesses to the incident were not called upon to testify to discredit the allegations.\n\n\"Jamie will appeal the verdict, though this will prolong his increasingly difficult circumstances in Dubai, and compound the enormous financial losses he has suffered as a consequence of the ongoing case.\"\n\nDetained in Dubai's chief executive Radha Stirling said Mr Harron was \"understandably distraught\".\n\nShe added: \"Now Jamie has been sentenced to three months, there is no telling whether a judgment on appeal will be better or worse.\n\n\"He has already suffered tremendously as a result of these allegations, and now faces the likelihood of incarceration.\n\n\"His family was unable to visit him during this critical time because they faced a very real risk of imprisonment themselves under the UAE's cybercrime laws which forbid criticism of the government.\n\n\"At this point, Jamie will definitely be pursuing civil action against his accusers when he does eventually return home, as it appears that he will not be able to find justice in the UAE.\n\n\"He is angry, disappointed, and dreads what may happen next. He feels betrayed and exploited by the system, which did not investigate the reports of key witnesses in his defence and led him to believe that the case would be dropped.\"\n\nMr Harron, who worked as an electrician in Afghanistan, was on a two-day stopover in the United Arab Emirates at the time of the incident on 15 July.\n\nHe is still to face court on two other charges stemming from the case - one of consuming alcohol, and one for allegedly making a rude gesture.", "The incident happened near the town of Avignon\n\nA British woman has died after a boat accident in southern France on Saturday night.\n\nThe 27-year-old was thrown overboard when the boat she was on collided with a warning beacon on the river Rhone.\n\nHer body was found six metres underwater, firefighters near Avignon told the AFP news agency.\n\nFive other people, including one Briton, were injured and taken to hospital. Two of them are in serious but not life threatening condition.\n\n\"Everyone is in shock,\" local police said.\n\nAn investigation has been launched to determine the circumstances of the incident.\n\nEight friends, four French and four British, aged between 20 and 30, were on the boat, along with the captain.\n\nThey were on the river near the popular tourist town of Avignon.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Everything Everything perform Can't Do at BBC Music Introducing Live 2017\n\n\"There's a tide and it's coming in now,\" sings Jonathan Higgs on Night Of The Long Knives, the latest single from Everything Everything.\n\nThe title refers to Hitler's bloody purge of the Nazi party in 1934, drawing a parallel to the rise of the right-wing politics in the last two years.\n\nOnly Higgs isn't convinced that fascism will sweep everything in its path.\n\n\"They're saying it's a wave but it feels like a dribbling mouth,\" he sneers in the single, questioning whether the alt-right are a powerful force, or just a bunch of idiots.\n\n\"And the answer is both,\" says the singer, sitting down to discuss the album with BBC News at the Brixton Academy.\n\n\"It depends how we react to it. If everyone [panics and] says, 'Oh God!' the next thing you know, they're the prime minister.\n\n\"But if you go, 'Ha, ha, ha, you're idiots,' well... they'll probably still become prime minister. But you have to keep your head about it.\"\n\nIt's surprising to hear Higgs make a plea for perspective. After all, this is a man whose last album, Get To Heaven, was a \"wretched and anxious\" response to Islamic State militants, beheadings, mass shootings and political corruption.\n\n\"I was in a dark place,\" he told the BBC on its release. \"I was essentially trying to inhabit the minds of the [extremists] and that's a really horrible thing to face.\"\n\nEverything Everything's new album dials back on the paranoia and dread - partly because Higgs thinks the world has caught up with him.\n\n\"I'm not less in that headspace, but I think everyone else is in it more,\" he says.\n\n\"But the album's a bit more abstract, a bit more personal. Away from politics and all that stuff, it's about the human relationships we all have.\"\n\nThe album is called A Fever Dream, a reference to the \"surreal, nightmarish things happening, day after day\" - especially the absurdity of modern politics.\n\nIt's there in Big Game, a pomposity-pricking parable about Donald Trump (\"Even little children see through you\"), and it's there in Run the Numbers, a song that explores Michael Gove's comment that \"people in this country have had enough of experts\".\n\n\"Is it the first song to be inspired by Michael Gove? Yes, and it should be the only one. Let's leave it at that.\"\n\nA Fever Dream reached number five when it was released in August - the band's best chart position to date\n\nHiggs is smart enough to be aware that he comes from a position of privilege, and his liberal views are out of step with the prevailing political climate.\n\nThere's a song on the album called Ivory Tower, where people threaten to \"come and crush me in the Waitrose aisle\". On the title track, he sings: \"I hate the neighbours, they hate me too / The fear and the fury make me feel good.\"\n\n\"It's admitting that I sort of enjoy arguing,\" he explains. \"I think we all do on some level. It's certainly popular.\"\n\n\"With anonymity you can go much further than you ever could in real life,\" Higgs continues.\n\n\"People become very extreme very quickly. It feels good to give yourself over to that emotion.\"\n\nThis leads to a discussion of the fake news stories that spread in the wake of this month's mass shooting in Las Vegas.\n\nEverything Everything are named after the first two words on Radiohead's Kid A album\n\n\"I just can't begin to find a way into that mindset,\" says Higgs. \"But the whole idea about what's true has been thrown up in the air: Who do we trust? Why do we trust our journalists? Is it just because we're used to it?\"\n\n\"There are codes of practices in place, right?\" interjects his bandmate, Jeremy Pritchard. \"But does the Daily Mail care? Does Fox News care? I don't think so.\"\n\nHiggs says keeping up with the news \"feels like a bad dream - sometimes it's scary and frightening and sometimes it's electrifying and exciting\".\n\nHe adds: \"That's why there's a reference to being asleep or dreaming or waking up in every single song. There's a feeling of 'is it real, or is it not?'\"\n\nIf this all sounds pretty heavy, it's worth noting that Everything Everything have always dressed up their angst in a cathartic explosion of melodic pop.\n\nThat's how they sneak songs like Cough Cough (about greed for oil), My Kz Ur Bf (airstrikes) and Night Of The Long Knives onto daytime radio.\n\n\"Musically, A Fever Dream's a bit more electronic but also heavier with guitars and riffs,\" says Pritchard (second left)\n\nIn concert, this results in fans bellowing out the lyrics to No Reptiles - a song about feeling passive and useless and alienated from society.\n\nThere's something bizarre, I observe, about hearing 3,000 people chanting: \"It's alright to feel like a fat child in a pushchair.\"\n\n\"We're always surprised by what people's favourites are,\" adds Pritchard. \"And we're still towards the beginning of that process on this album.\n\n\"We've written them, we've recorded them and now we're seeing what works in the live arena - where the energy is, how to play it.\"\n\nBut the \"fat child in a pushchair\" remains the bassist's favourite part of the set, every night.\n\n\"I don't have to play anything at that point in the song,\" he says, \"So I always take my earphones out and listen to the crowd. It's incredible.\"\n\nA Fever Dream is out now.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSo the focus of the Brexit talks has shifted slightly as a result of the EU leaders' summit in Brussels.\n\nThere is still plenty of tough bargaining ahead in the next few weeks, especially on the question of money.\n\nBut there is also going to be more and more talk about preparing for a transition period - for what happens immediately after the UK leaves the EU in March 2019.\n\nPlenty of people see transition as a way to buy a little more time to sort things out - to finalise negotiations on a future trade deal. But the UK government prefers to calls the transition phase a \"period of implementation\".\n\nIt is not entirely clear what would be implemented.\n\nBut the Brexit Secretary David Davis warned this week that without a final deal on a future partnership with the EU - at least in principle - the government would not want to trigger any kind of transition at all.\n\nDoes it mean the two sides view the prospects for transition very differently?\n\nThe EU27 - the other member states without the UK - have now agreed to start working on new guidelines for their negotiators.\n\nAnd both the EU and Theresa May (in her Florence speech) have said that any transition/implementation period would take place under \"the existing structure of EU rules and regulations\".\n\nThere will be plenty of technical challenges: what happens, for example, to the UK's role in EU trade agreements with third countries? Those third countries might have their own opinions about that.\n\nBut there is also the question of what happens during a transition period itself?\n\nIt could mean roughly two more years to continue negotiations on the details of a future partnership with the EU on trade, security and a host of other issues.\n\nThe Confederation of British Industry, for example, argues that in order to avoid a \"cliff-edge\" Brexit, negotiations on a trading agreement should continue during a transition.\n\nBut UK government policy is rather different. It still argues that a deal on our \"final relationship\" with the rest of the EU can be completed before the UK leaves the EU at the end of March 2019.\n\nMost observers are convinced that, for practical reasons, that will not be possible - there is simply too much to do.\n\nBut Mr Davis insisted in the House of Commons this week that if the broad outlines of a permanent deal are not in place when the UK leaves, a transition period will not be triggered.\n\nAsked by Conservative MP Rishi Sunak for reassurance that \"what is meant to be a transitory state of affairs does not become a permanent bridge to nowhere\", Mr Davis said: \"We will try to get the nature of the implementation phase agreed as soon as possible, so that businesses can take that into account.\"\n\nHe added: \"But he's right that such a transition phase would only be triggered once we've completed the deal itself, we cannot carry on negotiating through that - our negotiating position during the transition phase would not be very strong.\"\n\nIn other words, Mr Davis is saying - in stronger language than the government appears to have used before - that if there is no final deal by March 2019, at least in principle, then the UK would not want to trigger a transition period.\n\nThe words \"at least in principle\" contain a fair amount of wiggle room. And the EU itself would be delighted if the outlines of a future agreement could be agreed so quickly.\n\nIt says only that a withdrawal agreement (as opposed to a future trade agreement) has to be finalised in order for there to be a transition. And Article 50 simply says the withdrawal agreement must \"take account of the framework for a future relationship\".\n\nBut Mr Davis appears to be upping the ante. \"No final deal\" equals \"no transition\" equals \"hard Brexit\".\n\nAs a negotiating tactic, it may be designed to keep the pressure on. But it may not be what many business leaders want to hear.", "Teresa Wishart was found with head injuries at her home\n\nA man has been charged with the murder of an 80-year-old woman at her home.\n\nThe body of Teresa Wishart was found in Changford Close in Kirkby, Merseyside, on Thursday. She had suffered head injuries.\n\nCharles Stapleton, 51, from Watts Close, Kirkby, is accused of murder and burglary.\n\nHe is due to appear at Liverpool, Knowsley and St Helens Magistrates' Court on Monday morning.\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. Emily Thornberry: \"I think we are heading for no-deal Brexit\"\n\nBrexit negotiations with the EU are heading for a \"no deal\" scenario, Labour's Emily Thornberry has warned.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Ms Thornberry said the PM's failure to control her party was causing \"intransigence\" on the UK side, which was a \"serious threat to Britain\" and its interests.\n\nBut International Trade Secretary Liam Fox said a failure to agree a deal was \"not exactly a nightmare scenario\".\n\nThe UK was preparing \"mitigation\" measures for such an outcome, he said.\n\nMeanwhile, the Spanish foreign minister said the lives of UK expats in Spain would not be \"disrupted\" - even if no Brexit deal is agreed.\n\nTheresa May will update MPs on Monday on the progress made at last week's Brussels summit, where EU leaders agreed to begin scoping work on future trade talks while asking for more concessions from the UK on the opening phase of negotiations.\n\nThese talks, covering the UK's \"divorce bill\", the rights of expats after Brexit and the border in Northern Ireland, have failed to reach agreement so far - leading to a focus on what happens if nothing is put in place by the time the UK leaves the European Union in March 2019.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Ms Thornberry said: \"I think what we may be seeing is the Europeans trying to make it clear that it is not their fault that there are these difficulties - the intransigence does not come from their side, it comes from Theresa May's side.\n\n\"And in the end I think the reality is the intransigence is on Theresa May's side, because she doesn't have the strength or the authority to be able to control her backbenchers, let alone her cabinet. And I think we are heading for no deal, and I think that that is a serious threat to Britain and it is not in Britain's interests for that to happen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three key points about how the Brexit talks are going\n\nLabour is seeking to work with Tory rebels to amend a key plank of Brexit legislation - the EU Withdrawal Bill - so that Parliament has the power to reject whatever the outcome of the negotiations turns out to be.\n\nFollowing last week's summit, European Council President Donald Tusk said that although not enough progress had been made to begin trade talks, reports of deadlock may have been exaggerated.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said there was still much work to be done on the financial commitment before trade talks can begin, adding: \"We are not halfway there.\"\n\nSpeaking on ITV's Peston on Sunday, Mr Fox said a final figure for the UK's financial settlement with the EU cannot come \"until we know what the final package looks like\", later in the negotiation process.\n\nHe also dismissed President Macron's suggestion that \"secondary players\" in the UK were \"bluffing\" about the possibility of a no deal outcome, saying this was \"completely wrong\".\n\nMr Fox, who is responsible for striking global trade deals after Brexit, said he would prefer a \"comprehensive\" arrangement to be agreed - but was \"not scared\" of what would happen if this was not possible.\n\nAnd he said trade talks would only be complicated if the \"European elite\" tried to \"punish Britain for having the audacity to use our legal rights to leave the European Union\".\n\nHe said he hoped \"economic sense\" would prevail, as opposed to the \"near-theological\" pursuit of closer EU integration.\n\nWhen she addresses MPs on Monday, Mrs May is expected to reaffirm her commitment to EU nationals living in the UK, saying she will \"put people first\" in the \"deeply technical\" talks.\n\nSpeaking on the Marr show, Spanish Foreign Minister Alfonso Dastis said expats would be allowed to continue living in Spain even if no Brexit deal was reached.\n\n\"I do hope that there will be a deal,\" he said.\n\n\"If there is no deal we will make sure that the lives of ordinary people who are in Spain, the UK people, is not disrupted.\n\n\"As you know, the relationship between the UK and Spain is a very close one in terms of economic relations and also social exchanges.\n\n\"Over 17 million Brits come to Spain every year and many of them live here or retire here, and we want to keep it that way as much as possible.\"", "Wim Wenders chose himself as a subject for some of his photos\n\nWim Wenders became a major film-maker when, in the 1970s, German cinema became cool around the world. His hits included The American Friend and Paris, Texas. But Wenders was privately experimenting with one of the most straightforward of visual technologies - the Polaroid stills camera. Thousands of those shots were thrown away - but now a selection of surviving images has gone on display in London.\n\nWenders says when he started taking Polaroid pictures in the mid-1960s it had nothing to do with art.\n\nWim Wenders says taking snaps was useful to his film-making and it was fun\n\n\"It was just part of my life. I would photograph things to do with movies I was making, or when I travelled. It was useful and fun - which I think is what Polaroids were for most people.\"\n\nInstant photography - doing away with a separate and lengthy process of developing film outside the camera - arrived commercially in 1948. It was the creation of Polaroid's founder Edwin Land. In the early years the images were black and white.\n\nThe big step forward was the arrival of the Polaroid sx-70 camera in the early 1970s.\n\n\"It was science fiction and nobody had seen anything like it. You pointed the camera and took the picture and then it came out - an empty, blank bit of white paper.\n\n\"And before your eyes it slowly turned into the image you had shot a few moments before. It was exhilarating in its colours and brightness.\n\nNew York is given the Wim Wenders treatment\n\n\"You have to remember that at this time people didn't have even VHS tape - we were in a simpler, analogue world. So to be able to create and record a visual image almost immediately seemed extraordinary.\"\n\nNow some 200 of the images are on display in London, under the title Instant Stories. Some of them show well-known people the director worked with such as the actor Dennis Hopper. Others are landscapes or pictures of odd corners in places Wenders visited such as New York or Sydney.\n\nThere are also close-up images of a TV set showing the 1956 film The Girl Can't Help It, with appearances from Eddie Cochrane and Gene Vincent.\n\n\"It's still my favourite rock and roll movie. And suddenly with a Polaroid you could photograph something you enjoyed and you had it in front of you to hold, almost at once. At the time it was extraordinary.\n\n\"The other great thing is that if friends were in the image you could give it to them - and that's what happened to many of the pictures I took.\n\n\"I'd had traditional cameras since I was six or so and I enjoyed using them. But there was a whole new spontaneity with the Polaroid which I think some people are now starting to rediscover the way they've rediscovered music on vinyl.\n\n\"Everyone says, 'oh the kids aren't interested in physical objects any more: they don't want a book or a newspaper or a CD.'\n\n\"But the kids will regret it when they're older: if you're 25 you have to realise that the phone which seems so great now will one day be yesterday's technology and lots of the digital images we all have will be hard or even impossible to look at.\"\n\nDennis Hopper invented the selfie in the Wenders movie The American Friend, says the director\n\nBut doesn't a modern smartphone produce images far more sophisticated than any Polaroid camera did 40 years ago? Wenders says the basic character of the technology was part of the appeal.\n\n\"I think people who look at the images will find a sort of beauty here. The colours the process produced are great, though the monochrome images are attractive too.\"\n\nThe director points out a particular black and white picture. \"It's the Hoboken Terminal in New York and I was shooting a film 30 years ago there called Lightning Over Water. These places are mainly gone.\"\n\nFor a long time the pictures just went up on Wenders' refrigerator and then were stored away in cigar boxes.\n\n\"But they remain unique: they only existed once and there's no negative and you can't duplicate it. Forty years later they seem quite precious.\"\n\nWenders remembers that at the time a new Polaroid model or a big technical development was the equivalent of an Apple launch today.\n\n\"So when the sx-70 came out we were delighted to get hold of it early to use in the film Alice in the Cities (1974).\"\n\nThe new show in London plays on a loop the scene from The American Friend in which, says Wenders, \"Dennis Hopper invents the selfie with a Polaroid camera.\"\n\nThere was something \"sacred\" about the instantaneity of the Polaroid, says Wenders\n\nThere was also a use behind the camera. \"So at this time there's no video playout and you only see your rushes three days later. The Polaroid camera can be a real help setting up a shot.\"\n\nBut in the 1980s Wenders abandoned Polaroids entirely. \"I was starting to take stills photography more seriously and I started to use large-size cameras\".\n\nBut he retained one of his old Polaroid cameras and only recently gave it to Patti Smith to replace one she was having problems with.\n\nWenders thinks digital photography is now so problem-free and so cheap that a lot of the creativity has gone.\n\n\"It's so easy for a professional photographer to take hundreds or even thousands of pictures of a particular face or of a scene and of course a few of them will be good and the rest are wiped. It can be an impersonal, industrial process.\n\n\"The Polaroid was instant but it was still connected to the original idea of photography. There was always something sacred about the act of stealing an image from the world.\"\n\nInstant Stories: Wim Wenders' Polaroids is at the Photographers' Gallery in London until 11 February 2018.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Feras Kilani was in Raqqa with anti-IS troops\n\nRussia has accused the US-led coalition of bombing the Syrian city of Raqqa \"off the face of the earth\" during the fight against so-called Islamic State.\n\nThe Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, took Raqqa last week.\n\nPictures suggest much of Raqqa is in ruins, and Moscow compared it to the Allied destruction of the German city of Dresden in World War Two.\n\nThe US-led coalition says it tried to minimise risks to civilians.\n\nRussia has itself been accused of committing war crimes for its bombardment of Aleppo last year.\n\nUN war crimes investigators in June that there had been a \"staggering loss of civilian life\" in Raqqa.\n\nSyrian activists say between 1,130 and 1,873 civilians were killed and that many of the civilian casualties were the result of the intense US-led air strikes that helped the SDF, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias, advance.\n\nA Russian defence ministry spokesman said the ruins evoked the destruction of Dresden.\n\n\"Raqqa has inherited the fate of Dresden in 1945, wiped off the face of the earth by Anglo-American bombardments,\" Maj Gen Igor Konashenkov said.\n\nHe said the West now appeared to be hurrying to send financial aid to Raqqa as a way of covering up evidence of its crimes.\n\nAllied bombing destroyed most of Dresden in 1945\n\nThe US-led coalition said it had adhered to strict targeting processes and procedures aimed to minimise risks to civilians.\n\nThe SDF declared victory in Raqqa last week after a four-month battle to retake the city from IS, which had ruled it for three years.\n\nThey say they have since taken the al-Omar oilfield, Syria's largest and a significant source of revenue for IS.\n\nThe SDF's fight against the militants is now focused on their last stronghold in Syria's eastern province of Deir al-Zour.\n\nThe Syrian army, supported by Russian airpower and Iranian-backed militias, is also attacking the extremist group.", "Connor Leslie was in Vietnam on holiday with a group of friends\n\nA 23-year-old British man feared kidnapped in Vietnam has been found safe and well, relatives have said.\n\nConnor Leslie, from Newtonhill in Aberdeenshire, was last seen at about 02:30 local time (21:30 BST on Friday) in Hanoi.\n\nHe was in the city with a group of friends who got out of a taxi which apparently sped off before Mr Leslie could step out of the car.\n\nThe Leslie family said he was fine and would continue his holiday.\n\nIt is understood he managed to make his own way back to his companions.\n\nFriends and family could not contact him on his mobile after he went missing and his cousin said on Saturday afternoon that his messaging app had been offline for about 17 hours.\n\nMembers of Mr Leslie's family had shared information about his disappearance on Facebook after he was last seen at Tay Ho 395 on Lac Long Quan.\n\nMr Leslie's brother Ross told BBC Scotland his brother was fine other than having blisters on his feet.\n\nConnor Leslie was last seen at Tay Ho 395 in northern Hanoi\n\nHis cousin Scott Leslie earlier said the whole family had been \"absolutely terrified\" waiting for news of Mr Leslie.\n\n\"He was in a taxi and his friends were getting out. Connor was the last to get out and the taxi driver just sped off before Connor could get out of the car,\" he told BBC Scotland.\n\nIt is understood that the group may have had an argument with the taxi driver about money.\n\nMr Leslie added: \"It's fantastic news that he's been found.\"\n\nConnor Leslie, who works in the oil and gas industry, was with a group of friends who were just starting their holiday in Vietnam.\n\nHis family said he would now continue with the holiday.\n\nThe group is expected to travel to Australia next.", "They seek it here, they seek it there - but the centrepiece of the government's Brexit legislation, the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, seems to have gone into hiding.\n\nMost Westminster observers expected the Commons to embark on eight days of detailed debate, in Committee of the Whole House, pretty much as soon as their conference recess was over.\n\nEyebrows were raised when it was not on this week's agenda - and they shot skywards when it was not put on the agenda for next week.\n\nIt is not a postponement, because the committee stage has never been scheduled, but something seems to be afoot.\n\nWhat might it be? Challenged in Commons business questions by the SNP's Pete Wishart, Leader of the House Andrea Leadsom noted that MPs had proposed more than 300 amendments and 54 new clauses to the Bill and these were being studied by ministers.\n\nAnd there is little doubt that some of these pose a real threat to the government's tenuous Commons majority.\n\nThe threat-in-chief is posed by amendments from the Conservative former attorney general, Dominic Grieve, to limit ministers' powers to re-write the law in the process of enacting Brexit.\n\nRemember, this Bill is designed to allow the government to reprocess four decades of accumulated EU law into British law, so that the UK has functional legislation on all kinds of crucial areas, come Brexit Day.\n\nThe powers are pretty sweeping, because the Bill provides a toolkit to build an edifice which has not yet been designed - and Mr Grieve's amendments express the qualms of some MPs (including those of many strong Brexiteers) about their extent. He is the man most likely to amend.\n\nI suspect the government is already whispering to him, behind the scenes, to produce an appropriate compromise, probably with the helpful endorsement of the Commons Procedure Select Committee behind it.\n\nWas that the PM's bag-carrier, Seema Kennedy, I spotted in the public galler, when Mr Grieve set out his stall in evidence to the Procedure Committee on Wednesday?\n\nIf ministers can craft a compromise amendment, via ProcCom, face can be saved and division averted.\n\nBut with plenty more amendments still raining down, Mr Grieve is not the only threat. A recent addition is an amendment co-signed by the Nottinghamshire axis of Conservative ex-chancellor Ken Clarke and Labour's arch-Europhile, Chris Leslie.\n\nThis is a cunning production which takes the PM's commitment to a transition from full EU membership to Brexit, made in her Florence speech, and seeks to put it on the face of the Bill.\n\nIt follows her words precisely. But the killer point is that, if there's no transition, then a fresh act would be required to trigger Brexit day. In other words, if no transition, then they must come back and ask Parliament \"what next?\"\n\nNow the government is not legislating against the clock as it was on the Article 50 Bill, when it was racing to get the measure through Commons and Lords before the end of the last Parliamentary year.\n\nBut its schedule is clearly slipping a little.\n\nNext week is to be devoted to a little humdrum legislation, an opposition day debate and backbench business - that leaves seven debating weeks before Parliament embarks on its Christmas recess.\n\nTake out one week to debate the Budget, and another for the November mini-half term (when a lot of select committee visits have been scheduled) and you have six weeks in which to cram the promised eight committee stage days devoted to the Bill, and the minimum of two days needed for report stage and third reading. Not impossible - but it does make for a packed Parliamentary programme, with little room for anything else.\n\nThere is rising speculation that the continuing delay in getting going reflects ministerial indecision about how to handle the amendments to the Bill - although another theory is that the government is waiting until next week's European summit is done, in the hope that it can firm up the terms of a possible transitional arrangement.", "Next weekend Britain's Lewis Hamilton could secure his fourth Formula One title at the United States Grand Prix.\n\nHis Mercedes team is a staggering 145 points ahead of arch-rivals Ferrari despite the sport introducing rules this year which aimed to put the brakes on the dominance of a single outfit. They came at a hefty cost.\n\nThe new regulations were designed to make for closer racing by increasing aerodynamic and mechanical grip through the introduction of wider tyres and wings.\n\nAccording to one of the teams it has \"rewritten\" the rulebook and the impact is just as noticeable off track as on it.\n\nBut if some had hoped the rules might stop Mercedes from running away with the F1 championship they will have been disappointed. Ironically, they have also forced up its rivals' costs.\n\nOnly the frontrunners have had the resources to foot the bill from their cashflow whilst one of the outfits lower down the grid even had to get a driver to cover the cost.\n\nResearch has revealed that new regulations fuelled a £167.6m increase in the F1 teams' costs in 2016. They rose 14.5% to hit a combined £1.3bn - the highest-ever total recorded in the sport.\n\nF1 cars are designed the year before they race so the bulk of the investment in them is paid for then, too. It means that the cost of this year's campaign is reflected in the teams' 2016 accounts and the final one of them was filed last week.\n\nEight of F1's ten teams have to file publicly-available accounts - the only exceptions are Ferrari as its outfit is run by the car manufacturer itself, and Swiss-based Sauber where firms don't have to release their finances.\n\nThe costs of the teams' operating companies came to an average of £165.9m in 2016, topped by Northamptonshire-based Mercedes which spent £274.9m excluding the investment in its engines.\n\nIt is the highest ever total recorded on the accounts of a British F1 team and even eclipses the turbocharged spending levels before the 2008 economic crash which drove Toyota and Honda out of the sport.\n\nAt the other end of the spectrum is last year's new entrant Haas F1 which spent a third as much as the championship leaders.\n\nHaas has managed to keep its costs down by taking advantage of a new rule allowing teams to buy in more parts than before. Haas uses a Ferrari engine with a chassis created by Italian manufacturer Dallara which also makes the cars for the F2 junior series.\n\nRelying on suppliers reduces research and development expenditure which, along with staffing and engine costs, is one of their biggest costs - it rose across the board in 2016 as teams had to design cars to meet the new regulations.\n\nThey were introduced by F1's governing body the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) to address criticism that the outcome of races was clear before they started due to the dominance of Mercedes.\n\nHaas has kept costs down by buying in more parts than before\n\nWith Hamilton at the wheel it has won both the constructors' and the drivers' championship for the past three years running. This year is set to be no different but there has been a far higher price to pay.\n\nWriting in the introduction to its accounts Mercedes' team boss Toto Wolff notes that there has been \"an increase of £27.9m in operating costs mainly due to the impact of technical regulation changes and movement in foreign exchange rates\".\n\nThe 2016 accounts for Force India, also based in Northamptonshire, give more insight into the effort required to meet the new rules.\n\nIt says that combined with the change in tyre-sizes \"our traditional method of retaining 50% of the previous season's car and updating the remaining 50% is not possible for 2017\". Over 90% of Force India's car this year is completely new.\n\nForce India has helped cover its increased costs with cash from driver Nikita Mazepin\n\nThe team planned to cover its increased costs with income from an unlikely source: a driver contract signed with Russian youngster, Nikita Mazepin, \"secured a cash injection ahead of significant regulation changes ahead of the 2017 season\", said Force India.\n\nMazepin was just 16 when he signed up last year and he has tested for the team twice since then, most recently in July after the Hungarian Grand Prix. He has ample resources to pay as his father Dmitry became a billionaire through owning the mineral fertiliser producer Uralchem.\n\nDespite this, Force India still chalked up a net loss of £11.6m - the largest of any team in 2016.\n\nThe regulation changes even dented the bottom line of British manufacturing giant McLaren. Its went from a net £3.4m profit in 2015 to an after-tax loss of £3.2m the following year.\n\nFor F1 teams, victory on the track is more important than making a profit\n\nOverall the teams made a combined net loss of £2m last year. Perhaps surprisingly this is nothing new as unlike most businesses, profit is not the barometer of success in F1.\n\nInstead teams judge their performance on racing results and tend to spend all of their income on this in a bid for victory.\n\nSome even pump in more than they make, with additional funds usually coming from owners' pockets or debt. The theory is that it is better to win and make no profit than make money and finish low in the standings.\n\nVictory on track increases a team's ability to bring in more sponsorship,, as brands are prepared to pay more to be associated with a winner.\n\nThe teams' revenue generally comes from three sources with two providing the lion's share. They are fuelled by F1's huge television audience (390m viewers last year). The first key revenue source is sponsorship which comprises around a third of the teams' revenue,\n\nAnother third comes from prize money. F1's parent company, which is owned by American investment firm Liberty Media, pays the teams around 66% of its annual profits as prize money and it came to $985.5m (£742m) in 2016.\n\nDespite numerous failed attempts there are new proposals to introduce a budget cap for F1 teams\n\nPayments from owners represent around half of the teams' remaining revenue and the marketing benefit from the exposure on TV compensates for this investment.\n\nIf costs increase these payments often rise to compensate and last year Red Bull poured in four times more money into its flagship team. Its investment into Red Bull Racing hit £40.6m as costs surged 9.2% to £197m.\n\nAs its owner has deep pockets Red Bull Racing doesn't need to rely on drivers who pay but income from them is the remaining source of revenue for F1 teams. They are a hallmark of teams at the bottom of the grid but their days could be numbered.\n\nDespite numerous failed attempts F1 hasn't given up on introducing a budget cap and recent reports suggest that Liberty Media will shortly present plans to the teams for introduction in 2021 when their current race contracts expire. But it will be the sport's governing body, the FIA, that will ultimately decide on any changes\n\nA limit of £114m has been suggested and this would level the playing field as the smallest teams are already below this whilst the frontrunners would have to scale back.\n\nAlthough it may seem like a logical direction for the sport to go in it would make the recent boost in spending seem all the more pointless.", "Buddy was found wandering alone on the island of Tortola\n\nA British policeman has rescued a dog he befriended in the Caribbean in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma.\n\nSuffolk PCs Peter French and Jonathan Harvey flew out to the British Virgin Islands to help maintain order in the wake of the devastating storm.\n\nWhile on patrol on the island of Tortola, the pair encountered Buddy, a stray Labrador cross.\n\nThe dog is in quarantine for 21 days before he can fly to the UK to start a new life in Ipswich.\n\nPC Harvey said: \"He was fairly slim and slender, his paws were quite raw, he was clearly quite shaken up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe officer said they spent about 30 or 40 minutes with Buddy, giving him food and water, and it was when they went to leave that PC Harvey realised he had to save him.\n\n\"He put his paws around my thigh and buried his head in my stomach and didn't want to let go, bless him,\" said PC Harvey.\n\nPC Jonathan Harvey, right, built a rapport with Buddy while out on patrol\n\nThe two officers spent three weeks on the Island of Tortola, helping to maintain order after the hurricane\n\nPC Harvey said they took the dog to the vet, who established he is about two years old and had not been micro-chipped.\n\nBuddy has had the necessary vaccinations and checks and is currently in quarantine in Washington DC.\n\nPC Harvey said he was looking forward to having Buddy home with him in Ipswich.\n\n\"I'm sure we'll have a lot of fun, walks and playing about with family,\" he said.\n\nBuddy is spending 21 days in quarantine before starting a new life with PC Harvey (left)\n\nHurricane Irma, described as the most powerful Atlantic storm in a decade, hit the British Virgin Islands on 6 September.\n\nLess than two weeks later, Hurricane Maria also hit the Caribbean.\n\nMore than 1,300 UK troops were sent to help the relief effort.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nobody knows exactly how many cargo bikes are out there but more than 500 of just one brand have been sold in Cambridge\n\nThere's a new kid on the school run block - the cargo bike. And in one particular university city, parents are eagerly embracing them.\n\n\"Initially the kids thought it was magic - now it's just part of the furniture.\"\n\nDr Sara Lear is the proud owner of a \"box bike\" which was designed in the Netherlands in the late 1990s for ferrying children around.\n\nWhile most are two-wheeled, hers is a three-wheeled model used to transport Dan, aged eight, Susie, six, and five-year-old Jim on their two-mile (3.2km) daily trip to school in Cambridge.\n\n\"They like taking friends for rides and they like that it saves them the legwork, the lazy worms,\" she joked.\n\nThe box bike has a large wooden container between the handlebars and the front wheel.\n\nIt is a descendant of the cargo bike, which has an illustrious history as the delivery vehicle of choice for butchers and bakers for more than a century.\n\nCollectively known as \"bakfietsen\" - Dutch for box bikes - there are now a variety of versions on the market costing £1,500 or more.\n\nThe twist with the modern-day box bike is that children have become the cargo.\n\nMaartin van Andel said he made the first wooden box bike for children in 1999\n\nNobody knows exactly how many cargo bikes are out there.\n\nThe reason for this is that most are built by boutique makers and largely sold by independent bike shops rather than large chains.\n\nIndependent market researchers Mintel said the cargo bike share of the £1bn annual UK bike industry was not yet large enough to claim a bar on a chart.\n\nSteve Garidis, operations director at the Bicycle Association, said although it is known that 95% of all bikes on sale are imported, the breakdown of what types of bikes are being brought in is hard to pinpoint.\n\nHe said getting better data was something the association was \"trying to tackle\".\n\nExact numbers aside, what is clear is that Cambridge is home to a cargo bike boom.\n\nThe ground level of the city's railway station cycle park is given over entirely to cargo bikes.\n\nAnd the original box bike company, Bakfiets, said it had sold more of its box bikes in the university city - more than 500 to date - than in any other place of its size outside its native Netherlands.\n\nThe idea of marrying a wooden box with a standard push bike for the school run came from an unlikely source - an expert in prosthetics.\n\nMaartin van Andel, who lives in Amsterdam, wanted a means of taking his children to school without having to drive his car. The answer was the box bike.\n\nHe said he made the first wooden one specifically for children in 1999.\n\nThe wooden box bike has become a familiar sight on the streets of Cambridge\n\n\"I just wanted to make my own life easier,\" he remembers. \"I had no intention to make something commercial. It was convenient - and it was easy and cheap to make it using wood.\"\n\nHe said he never imagined breaking into the lucrative £850m Dutch bicycle industry, in which one million bikes were sold in 2016.\n\n\"I took the design around but no-one was interested in it at first, so I was obliged to start my own business.\n\n\"When other parents said they wanted one too, I ended up making 10 myself. It took off from there.\"\n\nHugh Salt, a friend of the inventor, later brought the unusual cycle to Cambridge. Mr Van Andel describes him as \"my first British dealer\".\n\nHugh Salt says similarities with Holland make Cambridge ideal for a cycling revolution\n\nMr Salt now runs a business selling and servicing the bikes in the city's Hope Yard.\n\nHe says the rise in popularity of box bikes is down to the cosmopolitan population built around the university and a flat landscape.\n\n\"The science park, the university colleges, the hospital - they're all accessible by bike,\" he says.\n\n\"You can be very time efficient down to the last minute.\"\n\nThe ground level of Cambridge station's cycle park is given over to cargo bikes\n\nParents say the school run has a little more magic when it involves a cargo bike\n\nThe city currently has about 80 miles of cycle paths and wider cycle lanes are emerging in many of its commuter routes.\n\nRoxanne De Beaux, of Camcycle, said the city's infrastructure needed improvement to encourage more people to cycle.\n\n\"While cycling is very safe it's the perception of danger that people base their decisions on - and sharing space with fast-moving traffic is not pleasant even for experienced cyclists,\" she said.\n\n\"What we need are more protected cycle [routes] with adequate width for these kinds of bikes and for people to cycle alongside each other, especially parents and children.\"\n\nOne of the original sketches Maarten van Andel made in the design of his wooden cargo bike\n\nDr Emily Dourish uses a cargo bike to ferry Eleanor, aged six, almost two miles each day to school.\n\nHer other daughter Sarah, eight, now cycles separately.\n\n\"The best thing is being able to chuck all your stuff in, swimming bags, violins and so on and knowing that they'll stay dry if it rains.\n\n\"Now that we have it, I am a complete evangelist. And it keeps me fit.\n\n\"It can be a bit scary on windy days - with just two wheels it feels like we get buffeted around sometimes.\"\n\nEmily Dourish, left, and Sara Lear, right, have become evangelists for the box bike\n\nThe question of box bike safety has left some flummoxed.\n\nIn 2013, for example, a father on a cargo bike in London made national news after he was pulled over by a police officer wanting to know if it was legal.\n\nThe Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents said it did not yet have enough information about the safety of cargo bikes to offer a view on them but would keep a watchful eye on their growing use in case any issues emerge.\n\nAlthough a European safety standard exists for bicycles, there is not one yet written for cargo or box bikes.\n\nIn August, the European Standardization Committee began looking at whether a new standard for cargo bikes was needed.\n\nThe British Standards Institute said it would be involved in the process. If a new standard was needed, the institute said, it might not be completed until 2020.\n\nSam Jones, of Cycling UK, said the child-carrying bikes provided a viable and safe alternative to the car.\n\n\"The long wheel base and low centre of gravity of most cargo bikes also makes them more stable - and therefore easier to ride and safer.\"\n\nAlthough the city is awash with them, Cambridge is not the only place to witness the rise of the cargo bike.\n\nIn London, various cycle hire companies offer cargo bikes. In Manchester, university staff can get free use of a cargo bike as part of an EU-funded scheme.\n\nWaltham Forest Borough Council has also got in on the action, beginning a year-long trial this month offering various types of cargo bikes on free short-term loans.\n\nThe box bikes come in all shapes and sizes, with larger versions and brands holding four children at a time\n\nBut whether the cargo bike is a fad or here to stay remains to be seen.\n\n\"When the children were small they loved chatting and singing songs at each other and me, and waving at people like the Queen,\" Dr Dourish said.\n\n\"It's mainly tourists who point and take photos. The novelty has worn off for most Cambridge people.\"", "The couple have been engaged since 2013\n\nEngland cricketer Ben Stokes has married Clare Ratcliffe at a ceremony in East Brent, near Weston-super-Mare.\n\nInternational team-mates Joe Root, Stuart Broad and Alastair Cook were among the guests at the church service.\n\nStokes, 26, was arrested last month on suspicion of causing actual bodily harm following an incident outside a nightclub in Bristol.\n\nEarlier this week, his agent said the all-rounder would publicly explain what happened \"when the time is right\".\n\nStokes was arrested on 26 September, hours after England's win over the West Indies in their third one-day international, following claims of an early-hours brawl. He was released without charge but remains under investigation.\n\nThe Durham star's right hand was clearly bandaged as he arrived for the wedding ceremony, though the bandages appeared to have been removed for the official photographs afterwards.\n\nStokes's bandaged right hand was apparent in photos taken before the ceremony\n\nClare Ratcliffe is Stokes's long-term girlfriend and mother of their two children\n\nEngland cricketers Alastair Cook and Stuart Broad were among Stokes' team-mates at the ceremony\n\nThe newly-weds, who have two children, posed for photographs outside the church before going on to a reception at a nearby hotel.\n\nWicket-keeper Jos Buttler and Durham colleague Paul Collingwood joined the friends and family at the Somerset church, alongside England teammates Eoin Morgan, Graham Onions and Sam Billings.\n\nThe England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has said that Stokes will not travel to Australia on 28 October with the rest of the Ashes squad \"at this stage\", but has not ruled out his selection for the series.\n\nStokes's agent, Neil Fairbrother, said the cricketer would discuss his version of events in due course, but did not wish to prejudice the investigation.\n\nThe 40-minute service was held in the church of St Mary the Virgin in East Brent", "The couple boasted about their holiday on social media\n\nA \"greedy\" couple made \"fake\" holiday sickness compensation claims while boasting about holidays full of \"sun, laughter and fun\", a court heard.\n\nDeborah Briton, 53, and partner Paul Roberts, 43, were jailed at Liverpool Crown Court after admitting fraud.\n\nThey tried to claim nearly £20,000 saying their two children fell ill on holidays to Majorca in 2015 and 2016.\n\nJudge David Aubrey QC said there had been an \"explosion\" in gastric illness claims made by UK holidaymakers.\n\nBriton, who was jailed for nine months, and Roberts, who received a 15-month term, bragged about their holidays on social media, the court heard.\n\nThe pair, from Wallasey, Wirral, both admitted four counts of fraud in the private prosecution, brought by holiday company Thomas Cook.\n\nFamily members, including Briton's daughter Charlene, who had initially been charged with two counts of fraud that were later dropped, shouted out in court as the couple were jailed\n\nThe court heard that had they succeeded, the couple would have also cost the holiday firm a further £28,000 in legal expenses.\n\nJudge Aubrey said their claims had been a \"complete and utter sham\".\n\n\"They were bogus from start to finish, you were both asserting on your behalfs and on behalf of your two children that on two separate holidays you had suffered illness.\n\n\"They were totally and utterly fake.\"\n\nHe said the claims, made in August last year, must have required planning and premeditation.\n\nHe said: \"Why? Pure greed. Seeking to get something for nothing.\"\n\nThe judge said those tempted to make a dishonest claim must \"expect to receive an immediate custodial sentence\" if convicted.\n\nA Thomas Cook spokesman added \"We had to take a stand to protect our holidays and our customers from the minority who cheat the system.\"\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. Police released CCTV of men they want to trace\n\nA teenage girl was sexually assaulted by three different men within an hour as she walked home from a night out.\n\nPolice said the 17-year-old was attacked in Bethnal Green, east London, after becoming separated from friends.\n\nThey believe the girl, who was found \"distressed\" by a member of the public, may also have been drugged.\n\nImages have been released of two men police want to speak to in connection with the attacks, which happened on the night of 29 and 30 September.\n\nPolice want to speak to a bearded man who was on a racing bike\n\nThe victim was spotted on camera shortly before midnight being carried by a man, who was wearing dark clothing, in Cambridge Heath Road.\n\nThe pair appeared to go into a doorway on the same road, and some of the girl's clothing was later found nearby.\n\nShortly after midnight, the girl was seen on CCTV stumbling down Mint Street, followed by another man on a racing bike who is described as having a beard and wearing a baseball cap backwards and a hooded zipped jacket.\n\nShe was then attacked for a second time.\n\nMinutes later, detectives believe the girl suffered a third attack, possibly involving two or three men.\n\nThey say she was approached by a third man, who police describe as walking unevenly, \"perhaps being slightly bow-legged\".\n\nThe man with a beard was wearing a baseball cap backwards\n\nPolice say she was then found by a member of the public who saw her lying in Corfield Street in \"a state of distress\" and rang 999.\n\nDet Insp Suzanne Jordan said: \"This is a horrific multiple sexual assault on an young female who was simply making her way home after a night out.\n\n\"We would like to thank the members of the public who intervened to help her and possibly prevented her ordeal from continuing even further.\"\n\nShe urged anyone with information about the \"hideous crimes\" to contact them urgently.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Stillbirth is rarely spoken about. But insights from those who have navigated the heartbreaking experience can help parents come to terms with their grief.\n\nA new website, Stillbirth Stories, which collects detailed interviews with mothers, fathers and clinicians, has been launched to coincide with Baby Loss Awareness Week.\n\nIt aims to nurture a conversation about a once-taboo subject. Here are extracts of some of those stories.\n\n\"There was a cold cot that I could put Jannah in. She could stay overnight. And that was really lovely - it was special.\"\n\nAt 41 weeks, Rabia went into labour. But in hospital, she and David were told there was no heartbeat. Jannah was stillborn. The couple were able to stay with their baby for two days in the hospital's bereavement suite.\n\nDavid recalls the time they spent together as a family:\n\n\"I was with her for two days in the hospital - they were absolutely amazing, what they did. They had their own bereavement suite, so you [could have] your own time with the baby.\n\nI never let Jannah be on her own at any moment. I wanted someone always with her - even though I knew she had gone. But I always felt that she had the right to be loved for those days - to be hugged and kissed and whatever, and not left alone. Like a baby.\n\n\"The bereavement suite had a double bed, so I could stay as well. It was like us three sleeping together. It was quite nice to have her with us as part of our family. We spent a lot of quality time with her [there]. We talked to her, made lots of videos, lots of photography, and tried to keep as much memory of her as [we] could. I don't know if it's odd or not, but I looked at every little part of her, right down to between her toes.\n\n\"I've got somewhere I can go, and I know she's there. I can put flowers on her grave - but it's not the same.\"\n\nAlexis was stillborn at term. It was 1963 and neither Marjorie nor her husband, Alex, were allowed to see, or hold, their baby. It would be another 50 years before they found out where she had been buried.\n\n\"I knew Alex had to go and register the baby. I must have said to him: 'What are they going to do with her?' And he just said: 'Well, you know, they're going to have her buried.' We went to the hospital at one point and asked where she was, and they just said that she had been buried somewhere in Stockport, in one of the cemeteries.\n\n\"I'd started to have more children, and it was, you know, one day we will find her. Until the day came that we did go and look for her.\n\n\"We went to the big crematorium in Stockport, and they sent us to the central library. They said everything was on microfilm, and we looked through it and we found two burials around the time Alexis would have been taken there. She was born on the 15th [of April], there was just this one buried on the 17th - a girl of 31. And underneath it said: \"Stillborn\". So I knew they'd put a stillborn in the grave. And that's when we went back to the cemetery. I saw a different lady, and she said: 'Oh did they not get the little book out for you? We have a little book for all the stillborn babies.' She brought it, and it was there, and she gave us a grave number.\"\n\nStillbirth Stories is a collection of honest interviews from parents and and those who have worked with them. Besides offering emotional support, the site is a learning resource for clinicians. The project is supported by Wellcome.\n\n\"We went to look for it, and couldn't find it. There was no stone, it was just grass. Eventually, I did ask if I could put something on [the grave]. They said: 'No. The grave belongs to somebody, it's registered to somebody. You can put flowers on, but no, you can't put anything else on.' So, for a while, I just bought something that you could stick in the grass and put flowers on. Then I got a bit angry about it. I've had a proper stone flowerpot with her name put on it.\n\n\"Over the other side [of the cemetery] is where all the babies are buried. And that haunts me - to think that she was just put in a grave with somebody that I don't know. I just hope and pray it never happens to anybody else, because it's one of the cruellest things you can do to a couple. I know I can go there and put flowers on for her, but it's not the same.\"\n\n\"I bathed him for the funeral, which you do in Muslim culture.\"\n\nMohammed was stillborn at 27 weeks gestation. Parents Shazia and Omar decided to bury their baby according to the Muslim faith. Shazia says the hospital midwife appreciated the need to have the body released for the funeral as quickly as possible, and helped with the process.\n\nIt was Omar who performed the Ghusl - or ritual bath - for the funeral.\n\n\"So it was just me and him, and a priest. That was the time, I guess, it was just us two.\n\n\"That was the toughest part of all of this for me. That's where, you know, you're sort of past the birth and it's the day of the burial, and the funeral. It's a duty that you need to do. At that time, I guess, religion sort of took on a different aspect for me.\n\n\"And it was this grief that actually cemented my religion a little bit: maturing and going through that experience, learning what you do when, when it's your responsibility for the funeral. That point where I was bathing him, was the point where I was close to totally breaking down. But I soldiered through - for want of a better phrase.\n\n\"Something that I'm proud of, is that me and Shazia made it through it, having seen some really, really low, low times, to where we are now.\"\n\nAt the time of interview Shazia and Omar had recently had their fourth child.\n\n\"I just want people to understand it's much more common than they think. There's like over 300 babies a month stillborn.\"\n\nGuy was stillborn on 13 November 2015 at 25 weeks and five days, to parents Sam and Martin.\n\n\"We had a couple of close friends we'd told at the time [when Guy died]. I just physically couldn't even speak to get the words out to tell people.\n\n\"Once he was born, we just decided to use Facebook. We thought that is the quickest way to get the message out there and not have to speak to anybody really.\n\n\"I got such an overwhelming response from that. So many people messaged me privately to say that they'd had similar experiences; that they'd had losses, various stages, and that was - I want to say comforting, to know that there were other people out there. But I wondered why nobody had ever said anything. And even then, they were posting it privately to me and I thought, well, tell people.\n\n\"It was nice to know that they'd opened up and they'd gone on to have their own children, and were trying to put that little bit of hope out to us.\n\n\"People sharing their stories is the biggest help, the biggest comfort - because a lot of people will shy away from it.\n\n\"The thing about meeting people online, is that you don't know if they're who they say they are. But these were all genuine people sharing their stories. I ended up meeting a few [of them] at a memorial service. A couple of the girls that I was following were going, so we said we'd meet up there, just to put faces to the names, and the stories. Over the last few months, I've just found my own little group of friends\n\n\"I've put [Guy's] story out there quite a lot. I've done a lot of fundraising, mostly for Tommy's. Then we've done some for Aching Arms, because they're the charities we feel have helped us the most.\"\n\n\"We had like a little selection of little knitted dresses, little gowns that a woman had made via a charity\"\n\nPetal was born at 23 weeks and 6 days of pregnancy to Aimee and Marc. In the UK, the definition of 'stillborn' is a baby born with no signs of life at 24 or more weeks of gestation. Had Petal been born one day later she would have been legally 'stillborn'.\n\n\"Before I was induced, the bereavement midwife come round and she gave us a selection of clothes that Petal could have to wear. She was too small for babygros and things. We'd bought blankets and dolls and things for her [the day before], but none of the clothes would fit her. We had a selection of little knitted dresses, little gowns that a woman had made via a charity. It was really personal to be able to pick something for Petal to wear. So, when I delivered her, Marc bathed her and then dressed her in a little purple, pink gown, with a little hat and gloves.\n\n\"It was precious. It's all we have of her. That's the memory that I have of her that feels real - that she was really here.\n\n\"She was classed as a late miscarriage instead of a stillbirth. If she would have been born 22 hours later, I would have been able to register her and she would have had her own death certificate. We don't have any legal documentation for her.\n\n\"Sometimes I feel like that because she doesn't have a death certificate, she never existed.\n\n\"Since I lost Petal, I felt that people pitied me because of that experience, but I don't want to be defined as the mother who lost a child. I'm also a mother of three healthy children as well, who just wants to say that there is help out there for bereaved parents to carry on.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "A hallucinogen found in magic mushrooms can \"reset\" the brains of people with untreatable depression, raising hopes of a future treatment, scans suggest.\n\nThe small study gave 19 patients a single dose of the psychedelic ingredient psilocybin.\n\nHalf of patients ceased to be depressed and experienced changes in their brain activity that lasted about five weeks.\n\nHowever, the team at Imperial College London says people should not self-medicate.\n\nThere has been a series of small studies suggesting psilocybin could have a role in depression by acting as a \"lubricant for the mind\" that allows people to escape a cycle of depressive symptoms.\n\nBut the precise impact it might be having on brain activity was not known.\n\nThe team at Imperial performed fMRI brain scans before treatment with psilocybin and then the day after (when the patients were \"sober\" again).\n\nThe study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, showed psilocybin affected two key areas of the brain.\n\nDr Robin Carhart-Harris, head of psychedelic research at Imperial, said the depressed brain was being \"clammed up\" and the psychedelic experience \"reset\" it.\n\nHe told the BBC News website: \"Patients were very ready to use this analogy. Without any priming they would say, 'I've been reset, reborn, rebooted', and one patient said his brain had been defragged and cleaned up.\"\n\nHowever, this remains a small study and had no \"control\" group of healthy people with whom to compare the brain scans.\n\nFurther, larger studies are still needed before psilocybin could be accepted as a treatment for depression.\n\nHowever, there is no doubt new approaches to treatment are desperately needed.\n\nProf Mitul Mehta, from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London, said: \"What is impressive about these preliminary findings is that brain changes occurred in the networks we know are involved in depression, after just a single dose of psilocybin.\n\n\"This provides a clear rationale to now look at the longer-term mechanisms in controlled studies.\"", "Roger Stotesbury was on a \"middle-aged gap year\" with his wife Hilary and they were due to return home this month\n\nA British man has fallen to his death while taking photos at a temple in India during a year-long world trip.\n\nRoger Stotesbury, 56, was visiting Orchha, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, with his wife Hilary on Friday when he plummeted 30ft (9m) from the Laxmi Narayan temple.\n\nThe couple, from Oxford, were blogging about their \"middle-aged gap year\".\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was providing assistance to the family of a British man following his death.\n\nMr Stotesbury's family said the father of two had just finished taking shots of the scenery from the 17th Century temple, about 160 miles south of the Taj Mahal.\n\nThe couple had been due to return to the UK this month, after completing their India trip.\n\nMr Stotesbury was taking photos on first floor of the Laxmi Narayan temple when he fell 30ft\n\nA family spokesman said: \"They were the most happily married couple I have ever known. They were just so devoted to each other.\n\n\"Roger took lots and lots of photographs, and he had gone to take some views from the temple.\n\n\"He put his equipment down and then he fell.\"\n\nOn their blog, Mr Stotesbury wrote that his motto was to \"die young as late as possible\".\n\nThe couple also wrote: \"We took the view that on your deathbed you never wish you'd spent more time in the office.\n\n\"We've seen our two kids off into the wider world and we have no more caring responsibilities for our parents.\n\n\"So we thought now is the time to take a gap year and travel whilst we still have the health and energy. After all you only live once.\"\n\nIn a statement issued on their behalf by the Foreign Office, his family said: \"Roger Stotesbury was one of the most enthusiastic men who walked the planet, and was incredibly loved by his wife, children and the surrounding community.\n\n\"He brightened every room he entered. He and his wife, Hilary had planned their round-the-world gap year since the beginning of 2016 and set off on 1 November last year.\n\n\"They loved the last 11-and-a-half months of energetic travel, exploring from the bottom tip of Patagonia, right up through the Americas, to Canada, Australia, China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia and finally India.\"\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said: \"We are providing assistance to the family of a British man following his tragic death in India on 13 October.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family at this sad time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As allegations of sexual assault mount up against Harvey Weinstein, his wife of 10 years has left him.\n\nBritish fashion designer Georgina Chapman said her \"heart breaks\" for all the women who suffered pain because of him.\n\nThe Hollywood producer's been accused of inappropriate behaviour by a number of actresses, including Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow.\n\nAnd now the scandal is hitting his wife's fashion label Marchesa - a favourite with stars on the red carpet.\n\nCelebrity fashion stylist Alex Longmore told Newsbeat: \"If any celebrity is seen wearing Marchesa at the moment, it's almost like they're slightly supporting what's gone on before.\n\n\"Harvey got his leading ladies like Jennifer Lawrence and Nicole Kidman to wear Marchesa. It was a statement and Georgina's brand kind of went hand in hand with Harvey's.\"\n\nGeorgina Chapman is a co-founder of Marchesa, which launched in 2004 - the same year she started her relationship with Weinstein.\n\nThe label's dresses cost thousands of pounds and are very popular on red carpet premieres at events like the Oscars and the Golden Globes.\n\nHarvey Weinstein was often seen on the front row at Marchesa fashion shows.\n\nMandy Moore (second left), Harvey Weinstein, and Anna Wintour attend the Marchesa fashion show during New York Fashion Week 2017\n\nAlex Longmore, who's styled the likes of Little Mix and Emma Bunton, believes actresses in Hollywood may no longer want to wear Marchesa because \"they will not want anything to do with Harvey, his entourage or his family\".\n\nThe celebrity stylist met Georgina Chapman in London and told Newsbeat: \"She works very hard. Up until now, her and her business partner have been clever with how they've marketed their brand.\"\n\nRita Ora is often seen in Marchesa. She starred in Southpaw alongside Jake Gyllenhaal, which was produced by the Weinstein Company.\n\nOthers who have worn the label include Selena Gomez and the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has worn Marchesa in the past\n\nSo how will the allegations against Weinstein affect the Marchesa brand?\n\nAn American jewellery company was due to produce a range with Marchesa but in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, Helzberg Diamonds said: \"The company is not launching the Marchesa brand at this time.\"\n\nThe diamonds are still available on Helzberg's website but without the name Marchesa.\n\nMarchesa has also postponed its Spring Summer 2018 preview.\n\nBrand strategist Andi Davids told Newsbeat that Marchesa needs to do damage control and \"make clear that they don't condone his [Weinstein's] behaviour\".\n\n\"Her brand started to take off right around the same time as their relationship.\n\n\"But if it comes out that she didn't know about these types of allegations, people would actually support her as a potential victim as well.\"\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "The Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday both lead with the story that NHS doctors and nurses in England will be required to ask patients about their sexual orientation.\n\n\"Doctors to ask: are you gay?\" is the headline in the Mail, which says the \"astonishing diktat\" has been condemned as \"intrusive\" and \"insulting\".\n\nIt says: \"Never before has the state insisted citizens face a question about their sexual identity.\" Dr Peter Swinyard, of the Family Doctor Association, tells the Mail that it is \"a confounded cheek\".\n\nThe Sunday Express welcomes life sentences for causing death by dangerous driving.\n\n\"For too long\", it argues, \"the scales of justice have been tipped in favour of those who treat our roads like their own personal race track.\"\n\nThe Sunday Mirror agrees. In its opinion, drivers who kill through a \"cavalier\" disregard for the lives of others are no less guilty of manslaughter - \"because their weapon was a car\".\n\nAccording to the Sunday Telegraph, the Conservatives' allies, the Democratic Unionists, have told Theresa May to sack the chancellor, Philip Hammond, unless he changes his \"highly sceptical\" approach to Brexit.\n\nThe paper says senior DUP parliamentary sources are \"deeply concerned\" that Mr Hammond is \"divisive\" and appears to be \"trying to frustrate the negotiating process\".\n\nWriting in the Mail on Sunday, the former Conservative deputy prime minister, Lord Heseltine, complains that the chancellor is being made a scapegoat and subjected to a \"show trial\" by Brexiteers.\n\nThe Observer tells the prime minister she must silence what it calls the \"deluded no-Brexit-deal zealots\" in her party.\n\nThe Sun on Sunday reports that the chancellor is planning a \"daring\" November Budget to boost Brexit and save his job, predicting a cut in air passenger duty.\n\nThe Sunday Times says plans for a \"safety first\" Budget have been ditched - and Mr Hammond is planning something \"big and bold\".\n\nIdeas under consideration, it reports, are lower tax rates for young people and writing off student loans.\n\nFinally, The Washington Post carries a full-page advertisement offering a reward of $10m (£7.5m) for information leading to the impeachment of President Trump.\n\nThe ad has been placed by the pornographic magazine publisher, Larry Flynt, who tells the Post he cannot think of anything more patriotic to do than to try \"to get this moron out of office\".", "After years of being characterised as dull, it seems Philip Hammond is now in the firing line for being too outspoken.\n\nThe chancellor's use of the word \"enemy\" to describe EU negotiators on Friday is roundly condemned by The Sun. \"The Chancellor should be focused on his pivotal budget next month,\" it says. \"Instead he's lurching around, barking randomly. He must shut his gob.\"\n\nAccording to The Times, some Tories are pressing the prime minister to sack both the chancellor and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson - a move that they say would reassert her authority, with honour satisfied on both Leave and Remain wings of the party.\n\n\"Trump's stance on Iran finds few in accord,\" says a headline in the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe paper says he was reprimanded by world leaders for refusing to certify the Iran nuclear deal, and was warned he could trigger war.\n\nThat is echoed by the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, which says Donald Trump is prepared to risk mayhem to satisfy his ego and erase Obama's legacy.\n\nHis \"Iran deal bombshell\" undermines American credibility and gives North Korea the perfect excuse to avoid deal-making, it says.\n\nOne of Iran's biggest selling papers, Hamshahri, says Tehran has replied to Mr Trump's claim that the Revolutionary Guard is a terrorist group - by placing the US military on a list of groups that undermine international security and stability.\n\nThe Guardian is among the papers to quote claims that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has floated the idea of stopping people from attending A&E departments unless they have first consulted their GP or called NHS 111.\n\nAn NHS England adviser, Dr Helen Thomas, is quoted as telling a conference that Mr Hunt suggested it to her and that the idea could be piloted - although NHS England denies the suggestion.\n\nMeanwhile, the i carries claims that some family doctors have been threatening to remove patients who \"check Dr Google\" before appointments.\n\nGPs are apparently becoming exasperated by the number of \"cyberchondriacs\" - people who cannot stop self-diagnosing online.\n\nFor the Daily Mirror, the main news is the jailing of a couple from Merseyside who lied about being ill on holiday in an attempt to claim £20,000 in compensation.\n\nPaul Roberts was sentenced to 15 months and Deborah Briton nine months.\n\nIt should serve as a warning to other fraudsters, the Mirror says, which adds that it is not a victimless crime - since scammers put up the cost of insurance for everyone else, as well as ripping off hoteliers.\n\nAccording to the Daily Mail, more than eight in 10 people who drive to work do not know the names of the roads they use, because they rely on sat-navs.\n\nAnd a study found nine in 10 motorists cannot name the roads around their home for the same reason.\n\nThe Daily Star warns readers that after a 25C heatwave over the weekend, 100 mph Hurricane Ophelia will \"smash\" into our shores.\n\nThe Daily Express says Britain is hours away from the worst storm in a decade, calling it \"Hurricane Hell\".", "Oasis star Liam Gallagher has topped the charts with his first ever solo album, As You Were.\n\nThe record sold 103,000 copies in its opening week, more than the rest of the Top 10 combined.\n\nAccording to the Official Charts Company, it is the third fastest-selling album of 2017 behind Ed Sheeran's ÷ and Rag'n'Bone Man's Human.\n\n\"I want to thank everyone who bought it,\" said Gallagher. \"I want to thank everyone who helped make it.\"\n\nGallagher poses with his official number one award\n\nThe singer is no stranger to the top of the charts, having scored eight number one albums with Oasis.\n\nThe band's third album, Be Here Now, was a sales phenomenon, selling 696,000 copies in just three days - a record that still stands 20 years later.\n\nBut Gallagher's subsequent band, Beady Eye, never managed to top the charts. In fact their second album, 2015's BE, has sold fewer copies to date (77,575) than As You Were sold in its first week.\n\nThe solo album sees the singer working with a number of established writers, most notably Greg Kurstin, whose previous credits include Adele and Sia, and Iain Archer, who co-wrote James Bay's Hold Back The River.\n\nHe's promoted the record with appearances on the Graham Norton Show, Later... With Jools Holland and the Glastonbury festival. The 45-year-old is also due to perform on BBC One's new pop show, Sounds Like Friday Night, next month.\n\nOther new entries in this week's album chart include rapper Giggs, whose new mixtape Wamp 2 Dem is a response to Americans who criticise UK rap.\n\n\"People wasn't really respecting England,\" the South Londoner told Beats One. \"Wamp 2 Dem was more showing where we're coming, [explaining that] we're the same as you.\"\n\nGiggs wants to correct the misrepresentation of UK rap\n\nA-ha, Marilyn Manson, JP Cooper and comedian-turned-crooner Jason Manford also make debuts in this week's Top 10.\n\nThe slew of new entries means that last week's number one, Shania Twain's Now, is immediately evicted from the Top 10, landing at number 11.\n\nIn the singles chart, New York rapper Post Malone wins a second week at number one with his latest single Rockstar.\n\nThe track fends off a challenge from Camila Cabello, whose Latin-tinged single Havana climbs a place to number two; while Dua Lipa's New Rules racks up its tenth week in the top five.\n\nCamila Cabello is about to hit the UK on a promotional tour, which could push her single up to number one\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is set to experience the tail end of a category three hurricane with high temperatures and wind forecast.\n\nAs a result of Hurricane Ophelia, parts of England could see temperatures reach 25C on Sunday beating the 15C average for mid-October.\n\nOn Monday some areas of the UK will be hit with winds of up to 80mph (128km/h).\n\nThe hurricane will be a storm when it hits the UK, exactly 30 years after the Great Storm of 1987 killed 18 people.\n\nOn its way from the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean, Hurricane Ophelia is currently blowing winds of 115mph (185km/h) setting the record for the most eastern category three hurricane in the Atlantic.\n\nCategory three hurricanes are defined as having wind speeds of between 111mph (179km/h) and 129mph (208km/h) and can cause major damage to well-built homes.\n\nThough it is forecast to gradually weaken later on Sunday, the US National Hurricane Center said Ophelia would still be blowing hurricane-force winds as it approaches Ireland on Monday.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's Met Office has issued a red warning for counties in Munster and Connacht, predicting that coastal areas will be hit by winds in excess of 80mph (130km/h) from 09:00 BST on Monday until Tuesday.\n\nThe ferocity of the hurricane will dissipate before it reaches the UK, but Ophelia's remnants are forecast to bring high winds in coastal areas.\n\nWestern England, Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland will be most affected by the storm winds.\n\nWeather presenter Michael Fish is remembered for dismissing reports that a hurricane would hit the south of England in October 1987.\n\nThe storm is often remembered for BBC Weather presenter Michael Fish dismissing reports that \"there was a hurricane on the way\".\n\nAlthough he was right, storm winds of 100mph did batter the south of England, leaving a trail of destruction.\n\nEighteen people died and 15 million trees were destroyed as a result of the high winds.\n\nIt is thought that the storm caused £1bn in damage to property and infrastructure.\n\nThe Met Office has issued severe weather alerts ahead of Ophelia and has warned there could be potential power cuts, disruption to road and rail networks, and damage to buildings as a result of Monday's stormy weather.\n\nBut parts of England will benefit from the warm temperatures brought by the storm, with areas as far up as Nottingham expected to hit highs of 21C on Monday.\n\nClouds in central and southern England are expected to break up to provide sunny spells over the course of the weekend.\n\nSome parts of the country have been enjoying a \"mini heatwave\" already. Ian Senior tweeted a screenshot of the temperature in Cambourne, Cambridgeshire, which was 17C on Saturday morning.\n\nJennie, who lives in Leeds, also wrote on Twitter that she never thought she would be \"walk[ing] around bare legged wearing a skirt and short sleeved T-shirt\" in mid-October.\n\nBut some parts of the country were still waiting for the temperatures to improve. Martin Cluderay, from Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales, posted an overcast scene from the town titled: \"Welcome to the heatwave.\"\n\nWest Scotland and Northern Ireland are forecast to receive heavy rainfall on Sunday.\n\nBBC Weather has tweeted that Monday will bring \"contrasting fortunes\" - wild and windy in some western areas, warm and breezy in the east.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Weather This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Freshers' fair? Maureen, a 79-year-old law student, says she had a great time socialising\n\nWhat does a student look like?\n\nForget the stereotypes. Think of diversity in a different way. And meet some of the country's oldest undergraduates.\n\nMaureen Matthews is starting a three-year law degree at the tender age of 79.\n\nShe's not even the oldest student on her new course at the University of West London in Brentford.\n\nSitting next to her in lectures is 84-year-old Craigan Surujballi.\n\nThis isn't dabbling in learning with an evening course - it's an intensive, full-time degree, studying alongside people with ambitions to become lawyers.\n\n\"You may look at me and see an older face - as may many young people,\" says Maureen.\n\nCraigan and Maureen have begun a three year, full-time law degree\n\n\"But through my eyes I'm experiencing the same aspirations that I had before.\n\n\"It's always been to engage in involving myself in education,\" she says.\n\nMaureen says older people should not be intimidated by the prospect of learning in an environment traditionally associated with the young.\n\nThink of the law school film Legally Blonde, but in terms of overturning ageism rather than sexism.\n\n\"All older people are capable of being up for a challenge. They've been through life where they've had to meet many challenges,\" says Maureen.\n\nIf there are practical problems, such as mobility, she says they are never insurmountable and help is available.\n\nThe law class at the University of West London has a much wider variety of ages than usual\n\n\"I would say to older people, recognise the fact that your hearing may have decreased, your eyesight may not be as good as it was before, maybe you can't use the computer very well, but think about strategies that will enable you.\"\n\nThis extended to taking part in the freshers' week events for new students, which she says gave her a chance to socialise with other new students at the university.\n\nBut this is not a sugar-coated story.\n\nCraigan came to England from the Caribbean in the early 1960s, after a long journey by sea.\n\nForget your stereotypes about age, says Millie Mbabazi: \"It is literally just me, but older.\"\n\nHe says it was a time of much discrimination, in housing and work, but he had a deep hunger to keep studying and educating himself.\n\nHe was in his 30s before he studied for his A-levels - but his ambition to become a lawyer eluded him.\n\nAt least until now. Even if he doesn't get to practise as a lawyer, he says he might be able to help with legal problems at a Citizens Advice office.\n\nWhen about half of young people now go into higher education, it's easy to forget how much university was once out of reach for the vast majority of people.\n\nLaw lecturer Mike Derks says the different age groups fit together \"seamlessly\"\n\nIn the 1950s, when Craigan and Maureen were in their 20s, there were fewer than 20,000 student places each year.\n\nEven though the number of older students has increased, it's still only a relatively tiny number grabbing this second chance to learn.\n\nThe most recent figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show there were 25 students starting full-time undergraduate degrees after the age of 70, out of a cohort of almost half a million.\n\nHowever, the fees system is in many ways more generous to older students. There is no upper age limit on loans to cover tuition fees - and with repayments based on earnings, it's unlikely that many pensioners will ever pay back what they have borrowed.\n\n\"It's crazy how much they know,\" says Patrice Murdoch, impressed by her older classmates\n\nThe University of West London is unusual in the extent of the diversity of its intake. This is a long way from the Pimms and ivy-clad-buildings end of higher education.\n\nAlmost three-quarters of students here are over the age of 21 when they enter.\n\nIt has one of the highest proportions of state school pupils - 98% - and more than half of students are from ethnic minorities and from families where no-one has previously been to university.\n\nThe university has other students beginning degree courses at a time of life when some of their age group would be thinking about early retirement.\n\nRita is also studying law - and is a university student at the same time as two of her daughters.\n\nRita says she wants to study law to help women in her community\n\nShe wants to study law because of the injustices she says she has seen facing women in her community, particularly over issues such as domestic violence.\n\nClifford, sitting with her in the university cafe, worked when his son was going through university.\n\nNow it's his turn and he wants to be able to understand the law so that he can stand up for people more effectively as a union representative.\n\nLaw lecturer Mike Derks says the range of ages \"fit together quite seamlessly\".\n\nClifford is taking his chance at university, after seeing his son getting a degree\n\nTeaching older students is very rewarding. \"They seem to get more out of it. It's unusual, but they're still very engaged.\"\n\nBut what do the young students make of finding themselves alongside classmates old enough to be their grandparents?\n\n\"At first it was quite weird. But it was actually quite good, because you admire them,\" says Patrice Murdoch.\n\nOmar Idrees says the determination of older students to learn is an inspiration\n\n\"It shows you can start education at any age and you can always go back. It's crazy how much they know. It makes us look not so up with it,\" she says.\n\n\"If anything I feel it's inspirational that they can come back into education and they always seem to have more knowledge,\" said Millie Mbabazi.\n\n\"I don't have any negative stereotypes about older people. It is literally just me, but older.\"\n\nOmar Idrees says: \"Maureen and Craigan are an inspiration to all of us.\n\n\"They've proved to us that no matter how old you are, no matter what life has put you through, you can walk in and say, 'This is what I've always wanted to do. I'm still young, I can still do it.'\"", "The deadline for spending your old pound coins is looming large, but what happens if you find a stash of cash after they're no longer legal tender?\n\nSo you finally get around to lifting up the cushions on the sofa while vacuuming, and the good news is that you find some pound coins lurking in the nooks and crannies.\n\nThis scenario is perfectly possible, with the Royal Mint estimating there are £500m of old-style coins still in circulation.\n\nThe bad news is that after Sunday, the old pound coins can't be spent any more because they've been replaced with shinier, newer ones, which are harder to copy illegally.\n\nHowever, all is not lost - there are still a few ways you can use those tiny golden nuggets.\n\nPoundland will wait a bit longer for people to crack open their piggy banks in the hunt for old coins\n\nThe coin is king at the Poundland chain of shops, and 850 stores around the country will continue to accept the old pounds. Branded the \"Legal Tender Extender\", the initiative runs until 31 October.\n\nPoundland's managing director Barry Williams describes the chain as \"the official home of the pound\" (which may be news to the Treasury).\n\nHe added: \"It's a no brainer that we offer all Brits the opportunity to spend their hard-earned round pounds for longer.\"\n\nHands up if you've found a shopping trolley that accepts the old pound coin\n\nSupermarkets are counting down to the changeover.\n\nTesco says it will accept the old coins at the till and in its vending machines one week beyond the deadline, to \"do right\" by its customers.\n\nLidl's trolleys can accept both new and old coins, but the old ones will not be accepted at their tills.\n\nHowever, Sainsbury's have taken the national deadline to heart. Its trolleys already now only accept the new pound coins, and old pound coins will not be accepted at its tills.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses has advised its 170,000 member businesses to continue accepting the coinage \"at their discretion\".\n\nA spokesman added that many businesses \"could choose to continue accepting\", so long as they \"only bank them\" given the \"vast amount\" still in operation.\n\nIf you find old pounds after the deadline, don't worry - Pudsey will take them off your hands\n\nThe Royal British Legion is running the #poppypound campaign, making old pound coins available for donation until Remembrance Sunday on 12 November.\n\nThe old coins can be taken to Legion branches in Plymouth, Southampton, Brighton, Swindon, Bristol, London, Colchester, Cardiff, Aylesbury, Derby, Birmingham, Belfast, Merseyside, Manchester, Leeds and Newcastle.\n\nAnd they'll be accepted by poppy sellers, who will be taking donations on the streets.\n\nClaire Rowcliffe, director of fundraising at the Legion, says the charity will be \"delighted to turn your out-of-date pounds into poppies\".\n\nOther charities are also running similar initiatives - these include the Rainbow Trust Children's Charity, Stratford Town Trust, Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation, and Epilepsy Action.\n\nThe new pound coins are harder to counterfeit\n\nThe Money Saving Expert website reports that Barclays, Halifax, Lloyds, Nationwide Building Society, Natwest, RBS and Santander will continue to accept the old pounds.\n\nHowever, this will only be as deposits from their own customers.\n\nThe word from the Post Office is that some branches will accept the old-style coins as deposits, but best to check if your local is one of the obliging branches.\n\nBut before you go handing over those unloved coins, do take a closer look.\n\nSome specific types of the old pound coin are worth a lot more than just a quid. The Edinburgh City coin, for example, is worth up to £50 if it's in excellent condition.\n\nPerhaps you should check the kids' piggybank just one more time.", "Gordon Strachan said genetics were to blame for Scotland's failure to beat Slovenia\n\nThe claim: Gordon Strachan, the former manager of Scotland, said after the country's failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia that his team lacked the height and strength to compete, saying that Scotland were the second-shortest team \"in the last campaign\".\n\nReality Check verdict: In recent years, Scotland have been among the shortest teams in Europe, when measuring average height of the squad - but not the second-shortest. However, height in football doesn't necessarily lead to success.\n\nAfter failing to lead Scotland to victory in their must-win World Cup qualifier against Slovenia, where did ex-manager Gordon Strachan lay the blame?\n\nScotland's opponents might not have been technically superior, but they had \"height and strength\" the Scots had been unable to combat, Strachan said.\n\n\"Genetically, we are behind,\" he said. \"In the last campaign we were the second-smallest, apart from Spain.\"\n\nStrachan's comments sparked a debate in the football world about whether Scotland, or any football team, needed more height in their team to succeed.\n\nReality Check looked at whether Strachan has a point.\n\nLittle and large. Shaun Wright-Phillips and Peter Crouch training for England.\n\nSlovenia are one of the tallest teams in Europe. Scotland's starting XI in Ljubljana were, on average, more than 3cm (1in) smaller than their opponents.\n\nStrachan's team, featuring players with an average height of 180.1cm, are actually in the top 10 of the \"shortest\" teams in Europe this year, according to research by the International Centre for Sport Studies (CIES) football observatory.\n\nIn fact, by the average measure, they are surpassed - or maybe undercut - by only Cyprus, Israel and Armenia, level with Spain.\n\nBased on research by the CIES, which excludes seven countries (none of whom qualified), only two of the 10 shortest teams - Spain and France - will qualify for Russia 2018.\n\nThe height of footballers does not necessarily reflect the national trend. Dutch men are the tallest in world, but their football team is currently one of the shortest in Europe.\n\nLionel Messi, in action here for Argentina against Ecuador, is 170cm (5ft 6in) tall.\n\nSeven out of the 10 tallest teams in 2017, excluding the World Cup hosts Russia, either qualified automatically - Serbia, Iceland, Belgium and Germany - or made the play-offs - Sweden, Greece and Denmark.\n\nSo it's certainly true that in the run-up to the World Cup, some of the tallest teams in Europe were in form this year.\n\nBut it's difficult to say whether these teams were successful because of their stature.\n\nStrachan also claimed that Scotland had been the second-shortest team in their previous qualifying campaign (for Euro 2016). But they were in fact the sixth-shortest in 2015. The eventual winners of the tournament were Portugal, who were also one of the shortest teams, suggesting height was not necessarily a bar to success.\n\nGlobally, the top 10 shortest teams in 2015 contained some of the most successful football nations, and four World Cup winners: Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Spain.\n\nAmong the tallest countries, there was only one previous World Cup winner: Germany.\n\nAt the top of the list, with an average height of 1.86m, was Serbia.\n\nWho has the tallest team? Average heights of European national teams in 2017.\n\nThis article has been updated since its original date of publication to reflect new data.", "Pyongyangites go about their daily business with the Tower of Juche in the background\n\nNorth Korean media often dips into its own vocabulary to describe what's going on in the country, using words like \"Songun\" and \"Juche\" on a daily basis.\n\nThese expressions appear as part of the glorification of its leadership, while colourful language such as \"thrice-cursed\" is used against the US, Japan and South Korea.\n\nAs the communist country marks the founding anniversary of its ruling Workers' Party, here is a selection of some frequently-used ideological phrases and what they mean to the outside world...\n\nSongun is North Korea's military-first policy, started by then leader Kim Il-sung in 1960 as a way to rule the country.\n\nState media showered praise on his son and successor, the late Kim Jong-il, on 8 October this year to celebrate the 20th anniversary of him becoming the Workers' Party general secretary. \"His outstanding political calibre was fully displayed in strengthening the WPK into a guiding force of Songun (military-first) revolution\", a report in KCNA news agency said.\n\n\"The Day of Songun\" is a national holiday in North Korea, marked on 25 August.\n\nThe Songun policy is being taken forward by Kim Jong-il's son and current leader Kim Jong-un, who has expedited the pace of the country's nuclear and missile programmes despite international warnings and sanctions.\n\nThis refers to North Korea's ideology of self-reliance, named by founder Kim Il-sung.\n\nThe word was also used extensively in state media coverage of the Workers' Party plenum held on 7 October. References included remarks by Kim Jong-un urging \"unyielding efforts\" to develop the economy and make it \"Juche-based\".\n\nA monument called the \"Juche Tower\" is located in Pyongyang.\n\nNorth Korea also uses the Juche Calendar, which came into effect in 1997. It starts with the birth of founder Kim Il-sung in April 1912. For example, the year 2017 is written as Juche 106 in state media reports.\n\nKim Jong-un has expanded on Juche and Songun to justify the country's nuclear weapons programme\n\nThis is North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's signature policy, which seeks simultaneous development of nuclear weapons and the economy.\n\nAt a rare party congress in May 2016, Kim pledged to pursue the policy, which was first announced in 2013.\n\nAt the recent party plenum on 7 October, Kim Jong-un said the \"prevailing situation and the reality\" had shown that the party was \"absolutely right\" to do so, KCNA reported.\n\nChollima is an imaginary horse with wings which can run at least 400 km a day.\n\nNorth Korea launched the Chollima Movement in the late 1950s as an economic campaign to rebuild its economy after the 1950-53 Korean War.\n\nNorth Korea has a Chollima Steel Complex which is one of the biggest plants in the country.\n\nMallima also refers to an imaginary horse, but one that can run very long distances at extremely fast speeds - 10 times faster than Chollima.\n\nThe \"Speed of Mallima\" is often used in the media to coax North Koreans to work harder to achieve the country's economic goals.\n\nIn March, ruling party paper Rodong Sinmun wrote: \"To be riders and front-runners in the Mallima movement is the bounden duty and noble obligation of our generations who were born in the motherland of Juche and grew up learning the epic of the Chollima age.\"\n\nThe Chollima horse is fast, but it's not Mollima Speed\n\nThese words have been coined in praise of late leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, and refer to their philosophies of Songun and Juche.\n\nState media say these form the basis of the country's path and are responsible for its advances as a \"nuclear power\" despite threats by the US.\n\n\"Korean-style socialism has victoriously advanced along the orbit of Juche... which no formidable enemy dares to provoke. This is a clear proof of the validity and vitality of great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism\", an article in Rodong Sinmun said in late March.\n\nBoth leaders also have flowers named after them. A special orchid has been named Kimilsungia after the country's founder, while Kimjongilia is a red begonia.\n\nThese campaigns are a method employed by the North Korean regime to mobilise its people to maximise production in a fixed period of time.\n\nIn 2016, North Korea organised the so-called 70-day and 200-day campaigns of \"loyalty\", in an attempt to give out the impression that it was unaffected by international sanctions over its nuclear and missile tests.\n\nSimilar campaigns are mentioned in the media in the event of droughts or floods to project the country's strength in overcoming natural disasters.\n\nPortraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il hang from every public building and in every home\n\nThis refers to a period of severe famine in North Korea in the 1990s, which led to the death of around three million people in the country.\n\nThe phrase was used extensively in the state media in early 2017 to prepare the people for economic difficulties owing to international sanctions.\n\nThe ruling Kim family is described as the \"Mt Paektu bloodline\" in the country. Only members of the Kim family (Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il and now Kim Jong-un) have ruled the country since its establishment in 1948.\n\nThe phrase \"Mt Paektu bloodline\" is used to encourage ordinary North Koreans to pledge loyalty to their leadership. The \"Great persons of Mt Paektu\" are the three rulers of the Kim bloodline, plus Kim Jong-suk who was Kim Il-sung's first wife and Kim Jong-il's mother.\n\nMount Paektu, on the Sino-North Korean border, is the highest peak on the Korean Peninsula. It is considered to be the mythical birthplace of the Korean people, and is also showcased as the \"sacred origin\" of Kim Il-sung's Korean revolution.\n\nAccording to North Korean propaganda, Kim Jong-il was born in Samjiyon on the mountain, although he's widely considered to have been born in Russia.\n\nMount Paektu is a volcano which last erupted over 1,000 years ago\n\nThis refers to a phrase used in the North Korean media which means that if a serious - usually ideological - crime is committed by a person, the punishment will be meted out to three generations of the family.\n\nThe phrase has been used frequently to lash out at state enemies. Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye (already the daughter of thrice-cursed Park Chung-hee) has been attacked in North Korean media as \"paying dearly for her thrice-cursed crimes as she had turned south Korea into a graveyard of freedom\".\n\nUS President Donald Trump was also on the end of KCNA's sharp tongue. It called his speech at the UN \"thrice-cursed sophism made by the mentally deranged hooligan\".\n\nThis is a term used to describe the appearances by North Korean leaders. The activities are a useful way for North Korea watchers to track the leaders' whereabouts in the secretive society, and also get an insight into their health.\n\nState media regularly releases reports and photos on the activities of current leader Kim Jong-un.\n\nInterestingly, North Korean leaders are always quoted as giving guidance during their inspections of military or economic facilities, and are surrounded - without fail - by men in uniform taking notes.\n\nOn-the-spot guidance with a nuclear bomb and the ever-present notepads\n\nBBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mobile phone footage shows the wreckage of the cargo plane\n\nA cargo plane has crashed into the sea off Ivory Coast, close to Abidjan airport, killing four people and injuring six.\n\nThe wreckage of the turboprop plane, which was carrying 10people, was swept toward a beach where rescuers treated surviving crewmen on the sand.\n\nAll four of the dead are Moldovan while four French nationals and two Moldovans were injured.\n\nLocal police told AFP the aircraft had been trying to land when it crashed.\n\nRescuers used a cable to pull the wreck towards the shore\n\nAccording to local news site Ivoire Matin one person was taken into custody after the crash. It is unclear if they are a member of the crew.\n\nReuters news agency reports that the plane crashed during a storm with heavy rain and lightning.\n\nThe plane was a Ukrainian-made Antonov chartered by the French army as part of its anti-jihadist Operation Barkhane, a French military source told AFP.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joshua Boyle said he hoped his family could rebuild a normal life\n\nA Canadian held hostage by the Taliban has spoken of the group's \"stupidity and evil\", revealing they murdered his daughter and raped his wife.\n\nJoshua Boyle spoke to reporters after landing in Canada with his wife Caitlan Coleman and children following almost five years in captivity.\n\nThey were captured while reportedly backpacking in Afghanistan in 2012.\n\nMs Coleman's father has said the decision to visit the dangerous country was \"unconscionable\".\n\nBoth sets of parents have previously questioned why the couple were in Afghanistan in the first place.\n\n\"What I can say is taking your pregnant wife to a very dangerous place is to me and the kind of person I am, is unconscionable,\" Jim Coleman told ABC News following their rescue on Wednesday.\n\n\"I can't imagine doing that myself. But, I think that's all I want to say about that.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Boyle told reporters at Toronto's Pearson International Airport the couple had been trying to deliver aid to villagers in a part of the Taliban-controlled region \"where no NGO, no aid worker, and no government\" had been able to reach when they were kidnapped.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It was amazing\" - Boyle's parents relive the moment they heard of his release\n\nMs Coleman was heavily pregnant at the time with their first child. This week, they returned with three children, all born in captivity, the youngest of whom is understood to be in poor health.\n\nIn his statement, Mr Boyle appeared to suggest they had had a fourth child, a baby girl who had been killed by their captors, the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network, as he also revealed they had raped his wife.\n\nIt was, he said, \"retaliation for my repeated refusal\" to accept an offer made to him by the network.\n\n\"The stupidity and the evil of the Haqqani network in the kidnapping of a pilgrim... was eclipsed only by the stupidity and evil of authorising the murder of my infant daughter,\" he said.\n\n\"And the stupidity and evil of the subsequent rape of my wife, not as a lone action by one guard, but assisted by the captain of the guard and supervised by the commandant.\"\n\nThe family were finally rescued by the Pakistani army after a US tip-off during an operation near the Afghan border.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. File video of Joshua Boyle and his wife Caitlan Coleman while in captivity\n\nInitial reports suggested Mr Boyle had refused to board a US military flight out of Pakistan.\n\nMr Boyle was once married to a woman who espoused radical Islamist views and is the sister of a former Guantanamo Bay inmate, Omar Khadr. CNN suggested he might fear prosecution by the US authorities.\n\nBut Mr Boyle rubbished the reports after arriving in Canada.\n\nHe said the family were looking to put their terrible ordeal behind them and the couple were now hoping \"to build a secure sanctuary for our three surviving children to call a home\".", "The CoppaFeel! advert encourages people to check themselves for signs of breast cancer\n\nThe first advertisement to appear on UK daytime television with a female nipple fully visible has been broadcast, with the full advert being shown on Monday.\n\nCreated for the CoppaFeel! charity, it is being shown during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.\n\nIt was broadcast on Good Morning Britain on Friday, during a discussion about the disease with the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire.\n\nBreast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK, with one person diagnosed every 10 minutes, with almost all of them women.\n\nTV stars AJ Odudu and Olivia Buckland feature in the advert\n\nThe advert encourages people to examine their own breasts to check for signs of irregularities, which could be symptoms of cancer.\n\nIt shows inanimate objects being touched, as well as men and women touching their own chest and nipples.\n\nScheduled to run on TV and in cinemas, in 60 and 40-second versions respectively, it will not be shown in or around children's programmes.\n\nIt also shows inanimate objects, encouraging viewers to explore them by touch\n\nNatalie Kelly, CEO of CoppaFeel!, said: \"In demonstrating the power of our hands and celebrating our touch as the best tool for checking, we hope to encourage more young people across the UK to adopt a healthy boob-checking habit, which could one day save their life.\"\n\nOne in eight women in the UK will develop breast cancer in their lifetime.\n\nSome 5,000 people will be diagnosed during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.\n\nSurvival rates for the disease are improving, and have doubled in the last 40 years in the UK.\n\nAlmost nine in 10 women survive breast cancer for five years or more, while every year about 11,400 people die from breast cancer in the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A BBC News animation shows how you should check your breasts\n\nSee your GP if you notice:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "When you think of the giants of Silicon Valley, Pinterest may not immediately spring to mind.\n\nBut with 200 million active users and a recent valuation of $12.3bn (£9bn), the platform that started out in 2012 as a quirky online scrapbook has quietly become a hot commodity for advertisers and investors alike.\n\nPerhaps that's why Pinterest president Tim Kendall chooses to keep his cool with a daily ice bath.\n\nAnd the BBC's Zoe Kleinman found out that's not his only unusual routine...\n\nZoe Kleinman: Is it true that you have an ice bath every morning?\n\nTim Kendall: I now have a freezer on my back deck that I put water into, and now I get into that because the bath with ice wasn't quite cold enough. So, it continues to escalate.\n\nIt's like people having coffee in the morning. It's a slightly more extreme version of that.\n\nIt gives me a lot of energy, wakes me up, resets my mind and my body. Our days are long and intense and I find that if I do it I feel better throughout the day.\n\nMy children love it. They like to talk to me while I'm in it, they ask how much it hurts, they dip their fingers in and then shake and say \"Argh, it's so cold!\" They're pretty entertained by it but I don't know how long that's going to last.\n\nI do ask them every once in a while, \"Hey, do you want to get in?\" And they are very clear that they do not want to get in it.\n\nZK: You are renowned for always wearing a T-shirt with the word \"Focus\" on it. You're wearing one today - what's that about?\n\nTK: It's a shirt that I've been wearing for almost five years. It's not the same shirt but it says the same word on it.\n\nIt started as a bet with a colleague of mine, seeing who could wear the shirt for longer. He and I kept wearing it and eventually I kept wearing it longer.\n\nThe whole point is that we philosophically think that if you do fewer things, you can do those fewer things much better than if you are spread across too many things.\n\nIt's important that we remind ourselves of that. Sometimes I'm not great at focusing but if I put this shirt on every day, in a small part it reminds me that I need to stay focused and remember to say \"No\" a lot, which I think most people - including myself - are not great at.\n\nZK: You don't allow laptops or mobile phones in meetings. Isn't that unusual for a tech boss?\n\nTK: I don't stick to my own rules as much as I like to.\n\nI think that in my experience, if you're having a meeting there's probably important information - hopefully. If it was set up thoughtfully, the right people are in it and the agenda is right, it should be content you should be paying attention to and if you're on your phone or on your laptop you are definitely not paying attention to it.\n\nI've been in meetings where I've been on my laptop and I've missed critical information that I needed to hear, so we try to make it somewhat informal but a bit of a rule that we try to to follow, so we're all engaged with each other.\n\nWhen you leave the meeting, get back on your laptop, get back on your phone. But when you're in the meeting, be in the meeting.\n• None Are photos the future of search?", "The French-Belgian comic book series Asterix has been translated in to more than 100 languages\n\nA signed original illustration for an early Asterix comic book cover has sold for more than 1.4m euros (£1.25m; $1.7m), auctioneers in Paris say.\n\nThe record sum was more than seven times the expected price.\n\nThe drawing for the 1964 comic Asterix and the Banquet (Le Tour de Gaule in French) was signed by the creators of the series, Albert Uderzo and Rene Goscinny.\n\nHundreds of millions of Asterix books have sold since the series began.\n\nSet in 50BC, their stories centre around Asterix, a Gaul, and his sidekick Obelix, as they attempt to stave off Roman invasion with the aid of a potion that confers superhuman strength on the drinker.\n\nMr Goscinny died in 1977 and Mr Uderzo handed the reins to other artists six years ago.\n\nThe auction house Drouot said that both men signed the illustration, dedicating it to Pierre Tchernia, a French TV and cinema producer.\n\nAnother illustration dedicated to the same man sold for nearly 1.2m euros.", "Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have been ordered to defend Kirkuk \"at any cost\"\n\nA deadline allegedly set by Iraq's central government for Kurdish fighters to withdraw from key sites in the disputed city of Kirkuk has passed.\n\nKurdish security officials said the deadline had been set for early on Sunday but Iraqi authorities denied it.\n\nSome reports now suggest the deadline has been extended by 24 hours.\n\nBoth sides have sent troops to Kirkuk and brief clashes have already erupted between Kurds and Shia militia backing the government.\n\nPeshmerga fighters say they are preparing to defend positions in the city against possible attack by Iraqi forces.\n\nTensions have been on the rise since Kurds held a referendum on independence last month, which Iraq called illegal.\n\nThe Iraqi parliament asked Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to send troops to Kirkuk and other disputed areas after the official referendum results - which overwhelmingly backed independence - were proclaimed.\n\nThe referendum was held in three autonomous provinces of Iraqi Kurdistan, but also in nearby Kurdish-held areas including Kirkuk.\n\nThe province, which bears the same name as the city, is thought to have a Kurdish majority, but Kirkuk has large Arab and Turkmen populations.\n\nOn Saturday, there was a brief outbreak of fighting near Kirkuk, with each side blaming the other, reports the BBC's Orla Guerin in Iraq.\n\nMr Abadi said last week he would accept disputed areas being governed by a \"joint administration\" and that he did not want an armed confrontation.\n\nOn Thursday, the prime minister and the Iraqi military reiterated that they had no plans for a military operation in Kirkuk and were focused on recapturing the last IS foothold in Iraq near the border with Syria.\n\nBut since then there has been a major build up of Iraqi forces around the city and Kurdish officials say the Peshmerga have been ordered to defend their positions \"at any cost\".\n\nThe oil-rich Kirkuk province is claimed by both the Kurds and Baghdad, though the two sides were recently united in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group.\n\nKurdish Peshmerga forces took control of much of the province in 2014, when IS militants swept across northern Iraq and the army collapsed.", "Riders were trapped 70ft up in the air after the Power Tower ride malfunctioned\n\nMore than 30 people were trapped in mid-air for five hours when a fairground ride broke down.\n\nA fault with the Power Tower ride at Hull Fair on Friday left the riders, aged between nine and 60, stranded about 70ft (21m) in the air.\n\nFirefighters used an aerial platform to rescue those stuck on the ride.\n\nThe organisers of Hull Fair have apologised, saying a computer malfunction had caused the automatic brakes to activate.\n\nHull City Council said the ride would remain closed on Saturday to allow the owners to conduct \"thorough and rigorous tests to find the cause of the computer system failure\".\n\nFirefighters used an aerial platform to rescue those stuck on the ride\n\nIncident commander for Humberside Fire and Rescue Service, Phil Leake, said the ride became stuck at about 19:00 BST and the last riders were taken off at about 01:00.\n\n\"We used our aerial platform - it's like a very large cherry picker,\" he said.\n\n\"We had to position that at certain points around the ride and then start to gradually take people off.\"\n\nRiders were given drinks and blankets as the fire service worked to remove them from the ride.\n\nMr Leake paid tribute to those trapped, saying: \"I would like to pass on my thanks to the members of the public that were on that ride.\n\n\"They were extremely patient and calm through the whole very long timescale of the incident.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Hull Fair said: \"We can only apologise for inconvenience caused.\n\n\"Unfortunately rides, whether they are located in a theme park or fairground, can break down.\"\n\nHull City Council said: \"We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this closure, however the safety of visitors to Hull Fair is a top priority for both the council and fairground operators.\"\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. Adele Bellis says the consequences of the attack are \"always going to be with me.\"\n\nPeople caught twice carrying acid in public should receive a mandatory six-month prison sentence, the Home Office has proposed.\n\nIt is aimed at curbing the number of acid attacks committed, which has more than doubled in five years.\n\nHome Secretary Amber Rudd said she intended to ban the sales of corrosive substances to under-18s.\n\nSurvivor Adele Bellis told BBC Radio 5 live that those who carry out acid attacks should face a life sentence.\n\nBetween November 2016 and April 2017 there were 408 attacks, of which about 21% were committed by under-18s.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC News Channel, actor and youth campaigner Theo Johnson said there needed to be more education about the consequences of carrying out acid attacks.\n\n\"People don't look for the future, so they'll do something today and not think about the lifetime effects of it happening.\"\n\nMs Rudd said the government was sending a message that \"the cowards who use these [acids] as weapons will not escape the full force of the law\".\n\nThe new legislation would make it an offence to possess a corrosive substance in public.\n\nAn individual caught with the substance would have to prove they had good reason for possessing it.\n\nIf a person is caught twice with acid, they would serve a minimum six-month sentence if over the age of 18.\n\nAt this year's Conservative Party conference, the home secretary announced plans to ban sales of the substance to under-18s, saying that acid attacks were \"absolutely revolting\".\n\nRecent years have seen a number of high-profile acid attacks across the UK.\n\nAdele Bellis was waiting for a bus to work on 14 August 2014 when her life was changed forever.\n\nA man paid £500 by the then 22-year-old beautician's abusive ex-boyfriend, Anthony Riley, hurled sulphuric acid at her from a sports drink bottle as she stood at the bus stop.\n\nThe corrosive substance destroyed her right ear and scarred the right side of her head and neck, her arm and chest.\n\nThe government's plan would see those caught simply carrying a corrosive substances face a mandatory six-month term for a second offence.\n\nBut acid attacks are usually charged as grievous bodily harm (GBH), which can carry a life sentence.\n\nRiley was later jailed for life, with a minimum term of 13 years, after being convicted of conspiracy to commit GBH.\n\nJason Harrison, then 28, who admitted carrying out the attack in Lowestoft, Suffolk, was sentenced to four years for the same crime.\n\nMs Bellis told BBC Radio 5 live the government's plan was \"a start\" but there was currently \"no consistency\" in sentences for those carrying out attacks.\n\nShe said: \"It's going to get worse if nothing gets done. How many acid attacks does it need for something to be done about it?\n\n\"There is no consistency in the acid attack sentences. I think that acid attacks should have a separate law. At the minute you just get done for GBH.\n\n\"There should be a separate acid attack charge and I believe there should be a life sentence in there, whether you chuck it or you conspired in it.\n\n\"We are scarred for life.\"\n\nHome Office minister Sarah Newton told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We treat it as seriously as we treat knives.\n\n\"So we are introducing this possession offence with a similar regime to that of knives so that if you are caught a second time in possession you have a mandatory sentence.\"\n\nDetective Superintendent Matt West, the Metropolitan Police's lead on corrosive-based crime, told the programme that 20% of crimes involving acids were robberies.\n\nJohn Biggs, elected Labour mayor of the London borough of Tower Hamlets, said there was a \"massive fear\" of acid attacks.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 live he wanted more to be done, including looking at reintroducing a registration system for sellers of harmful substances.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What should you do in case of a chemical burn?\n\nSales could also be restricted to people using credit or debit cards, so their identity is known, Mr Biggs added.\n\nAsked whether the proposals risked increasing controversial \"stop and search\" tactics by police, he said: \"Stop and search is a complicated issue and of course there has been a backlash of people feeling it's a way of labelling and targeting particular communities.\n\n\"But when I talk to the parents of people who have been injured, from whatever cause, they want bad people to be stopped.\n\n\"So it is an area where we know there is a gang problem, I think there is a wider social acceptance that we should be scrutinising people's behaviour.\"\n\nIn 2014 Andreas Christopheros, from Truro in Cornwall, was attacked at his front door with sulphuric acid in a case of mistaken identity.\n\nHe was left with permanent facial scarring and he remains blind in one eye.\n\nMr Christopheros said: \"[The acid attack] impacted every aspect of my life.\n\n\"From the moment I've woken up, every morning it takes me about half an hour to regain my sight.\n\n\"I've lost my eyelids three times now from the contractions of the scars.\"\n\nThe proposed legislation on acid would mirror the 'two strikes' rule which makes knife possession an offence.\n\nThe Home Office is also considering criminal proceedings against online retailers who deliver knives to a buyer's home.\n\nIt is hoped the measure would curb the sale of blades to children or teenagers.", "It is the second catastrophic season for the southern penguins in five years\n\nAll but two Adelie penguin chicks have starved to death in their east Antarctic colony, in a breeding season described as \"catastrophic\" by experts.\n\nIt was caused by unusually high amounts of ice late in the season, meaning adults had to travel further for food.\n\nIt is the second bad season in five years after no chicks survived in 2015.\n\nConservation groups are calling for urgent action on a new marine protection area in the east Antarctic to protect the colony of about 36,000.\n\nWWF says a ban on krill fishing in the area would eliminate their competition and help to secure the survival of Antarctic species, including the Adelie penguins.\n\nAdelie penguins pictured at the French monitoring station in Dumont d'Urville in east Antarctica\n\nWWF have been supporting research with French scientists in the region monitoring penguin numbers since 2010.\n\nThe protection proposal will be discussed at a meeting on Monday of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR).\n\nThe Commission is made up of the 25 members and the European Union.\n\n\"This devastating event contrasts with the image that many people might have of penguins,\" Rod Downie, Head of Polar Programmes at WWF, said.\n\n\"The risk of opening up this area to exploratory krill fisheries, which would compete with the Adelie penguins for food as they recover from two catastrophic breeding failures in four years, is unthinkable.\n\n\"So CCAMLR needs to act now by adopting a new Marine Protected Area for the waters off east Antarctica, to protect the home of the penguins.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On some red carpets, Harvey Weinstein is not a welcome subject\n\nHarvey Weinstein's brother, Bob, has denied media reports that the film production company they co-founded could be closed or sold.\n\n\"Our banks, partners and shareholders are fully supportive of our company,\" he said in a statement. \"Business is continuing as usual.\"\n\nThe company fired Harvey Weinstein on Sunday amid a slew of sexual harassment allegations.\n\nThe claims have prompted police investigations in both the US and UK.\n\nOn Friday, the scandal surrounding Weinstein - who produced films including Pulp Fiction, Shakespeare in Love and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - deepened when he was accused of rape by US actress Rose McGowan.\n\nBob Weinstein co-founded the studio with his brother in 2005\n\nHe was already facing claims of rape, sexual assault, groping and harassment.\n\nWeinstein, who is believed to be in Europe seeking therapy, has insisted through a spokeswoman that any sexual contacts he had were consensual.\n\nSince the avalanche of claims began, the company has been trying to disassociate itself from its co-founder and save the business, reports say, with efforts made to buy Harvey Weinstein out, rebrand and keep creative partners on board.\n\nBut reports in the Los Angeles Times said that financers had begun to pressure the company to sell and potential buyers were circling.\n\nThe Wall Street Journal also reported the company was \"exploring a sale or shutdown\" and was \"unlikely to continue as an independent entity\".\n\nThe Weinstein Company fired Harvey Weinstein last weekend, but there remains intense speculation about its future\n\nThe company is thought to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars but before the recent allegations had already faced questions about its future prospects amid increasing competition from media streaming services.\n\nInvestment bank Goldman Sachs said on Friday it was investigating options to sell the small stake it holds, citing the reported \"inexcusable behaviour\".\n\nOn Saturday, the organisers of the Oscars film awards will hold emergency talks amid speculation it could suspending Harvey Weinstein's membership. Bafta, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, has already done so.\n\nThe New York Times broke the story on 5 October when it detailed decades of allegations of sexual harassment against Weinstein.\n\nSince then police forces in the US and UK have launched investigations into sexual assault allegations against Weinstein:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Two schoolgirls who had been reported missing have been found \"safe and well\".\n\nLeah Dixon, 14, and Jasmine Agnew, 12, were reported missing on Friday night after failing to return to their homes in Renfrewshire.\n\nPolice said they believed they may have travelled to the Falkirk area. Officers said they had been found there.\n\nLeah's mother Pauline Dixon appealed on Facebook for help in tracing her daughter.\n\nPolice Scotland thanked the media for their help in tracing the girls.", "Robots in the workplace should be owned and controlled by workers rather than bosses, Jeremy Corbyn will suggest.\n\nThe Labour leader, who has previously warned of the risk to jobs of automation, will say new technology has led to \"a more rapacious and exploitative form of capitalism\".\n\nHe will also suggest \"gig economy\" firms like Uber could be replaced by co-operatives.\n\nDrivers would collectively agree their own pay and conditions, he will say.\n\nEarlier this year, a study by accountancy firm PwC said robotics and artificial intelligence could affect almost a third of UK jobs by the 2030s, with \"more manual, routine jobs\" which \"can effectively be programmed\" the most at risk.\n\nThe report also said automation could create more wealth and additional jobs elsewhere in the economy.\n\nSpeaking to the Co-operative Party Conference in London on Saturday, Mr Corbyn will return to his warning made in Labour's conference about the possible impact on workers.\n\nLabour does not \"have all the answers\" but is \"thinking radically\" he will say, pointing to the party's Alternative Models of Ownership report, launched last month.\n\nTo prevent \"the rise of the robots\" only benefitting \"a powerful and wealthy few\", the report suggests \"putting the ownership and control of the robots in the hands of those who work with them,\" he will say.\n\n\"The technology of the digital age should empower us both as workers and consumers, allowing us to co-operate on a scale in a way that wasn't possible in the past,\" he will add.\n\n\"And yet too often it has given rein to a more rapacious and exploitative form of capitalism.\"\n\nMr Corbyn will criticise the wages and conditions offered by the likes of cab-hailing app Uber and food delivery service Deliveroo.\n\nSuch companies say their drivers and riders are self-employed and therefore can work when they want - and in return for that flexibility they do not get the same benefits as full-time staff.\n\nMr Corbyn will say: \"Imagine an Uber run co-operatively by their drivers, collectively controlling their futures, agreeing their own pay and conditions, with profits shared or re-invested.\n\n\"The biggest obstacle to this is not technological, but a rigged economic system that favours wealth extractors not wealth creators.\"", "The chancellor has labelled the European Union's Brexit negotiators as \"the enemy\" - a remark he subsequently described as a \"poor choice of words\".\n\nDuring a television interview, Philip Hammond also called the negotiators \"the opponents\" and said they should \"behave like grown-ups\".\n\nBut he tweeted later: \"I was making the point that we are united at home. I regret I used a poor choice of words.\"\n\nMr Hammond is in Washington for an International Monetary Fund meeting.\n\nHe has been criticised for saying that the Brexit process has created uncertainty, and this week a former chancellor claimed he was trying to sabotage the talks.\n\nDuring a series of media interviews in Washington, Mr Hammond told Sky News that \"passions are high\" in the party \"but we are all going to the same place\".\n\nBut he added: \"The enemy, the opponents, are out there on the other side of the table. Those are the people that we have to negotiate with to get the very best deal for Britain.\"\n\nDespite his regrets, Mr Hammond's comments drew fire from political opponents. Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said it was an \"inept approach from a failing government. Insulting the EU is not the way to protect our economic interests\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDuring his interviews, the chancellor also has described as \"bizarre\" and \"absurd\" accusations he is talking down the economy.\n\nMr Hammond said he was a realist and that he wanted to \"protect and prepare\" the economy for the challenges ahead.\n\nThe chancellor said: \"It is absurd to pretend that the process we are engaged in hasn't created some uncertainty. But the underlying economy remains robust.\n\n\"I am committed to delivering a Brexit deal that works for Britain,\" he added.\n\nHe refused to answer how he would vote if another referendum was held now. \"We've had the referendum,\" he said. \"You know how I voted in it.\"\n\nThis week, former Conservative Chancellor Nigel Lawson called for Mr Hammond to be sacked, saying he was unhelpful to the Brexit process.\n\nLord Lawson said: \"What he [Mr Hammond] is doing is very close to sabotage\".\n\nResponding to these comments, Mr Hammond said: \"Lord Lawson is entitled to his view on this and many other subjects and isn't afraid to express it, but I think he's wrong.\"\n\nThe chancellor, who has been accused of being too pessimistic about Brexit, told the Treasury Committee of MPs this week that a \"cloud of uncertainty\" over the outcome of negotiations was \"acting as a dampener\" on the economy.\n\nBut speaking on Friday, Mr Hammond said he was optimistic about the UK's economic future and was in Washington to promote it.\n\n\"What I'm doing here in Washington is talking Britain up, talking about Britain's future as a champion of free trade in the global economy, seeking further moves on liberalisation on trade in services which will hugely benefit our economy.\"\n\nHe added that Britain had \"a very bright future ahead\", but added that it was \"undoubtedly true\" that the process of negotiations had created uncertainty for business.\n\n\"If you talk to businesses, they would like us to get it done quickly so that they know clearly what our future relationship with the European Union is going to look like.\"\n\nMr Hammond said the Cabinet was united behind Prime Minister Theresa May's recent speech in Florence setting out her Brexit plans.\n\n\"We know what our proposal is, we put it on the table effectively. Now we want the European Union to engage with it… challenge us… but let's behave like grown-ups.\" he said.\n\nMr Hammond said the government would not spend taxpayers' money preparing for a \"no-deal\" Brexit until the \"very last moment\".\n\nHe said he would not take money from budgets for other areas such as health or education just to \"send a message\" to the EU.\n\nOne former minister, David Jones, has said billions of pounds should be set aside in November's Budget for a \"no deal\" scenario.\n\nHe argued that if this did not happen it would be seen as a \"a sign of weakness\" by EU leaders, who would think the UK was not serious about leaving the EU without a deal.\n• None Hammond's 'last moment' plan for 'no deal'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. First commercial flight touches down at \"the world's most useless airport\"\n\nThe first scheduled commercial airline service to the remote British island of St Helena in the south Atlantic has touched down safely.\n\nThe virgin flight, an SA Airlink service from South Africa, ends the island's long-standing reliance on a ship which sailed every three weeks.\n\nIt is hoped that the service, funded by the UK, will boost tourism and help make St Helena more self-sufficient.\n\nBut British media have dubbed it \"the most useless airport in the world\".\n\nThe opening of the airport was delayed by problems with wind\n\nBuilt with £285m ($380m) of funding from the UK Department for International Development (Dfid), the airport should have opened in 2016, but dangerous wind conditions delayed the launch.\n\nAfter further trials this summer, the weekly service between Johannesburg and St Helena was passed as safe.\n\nAs seen from inside the cabin, the first ever commercial flight lands at St Helena Airport\n\nSt Helena had for decades been one of the world's most inaccessible locations, served only by a rare ship service from South Africa.\n\nIt is chiefly known as the island to which French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled after his defeat in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, and where he died.\n\nThe Embraer E190-100IGW aircraft took off from Johannesburg on Saturday morning, carrying 78 passengers. It reached St Helena in the afternoon after stopping in the Namibian capital, Windhoek.\n\n\"I for one am getting really excited about the new chapter in St Helena's history,\" said St Helena governor Lisa Phillips.\n\nPreviously travel to and from the tiny island, with its population of just 4,255, was only possible on the RMS St Helena, which took around six days to complete the journey from South Africa.\n\nThe ship's final voyage is scheduled for February.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSt Helena relies on British aid of £52m a year and officials hope increased tourism will make it more self-sufficient.\n\n\"This is an important moment in St Helena's route to self-sufficiency,\" a Dfid spokeswoman said.\n\n\"It will boost its tourism industry, creating the opportunity to increase its revenues, and will bring other benefits such as quicker access to healthcare for those living on the island.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 a report in The Guardian newspaper, the island's diverse geology and wildlife, such as the whales that gather off its coast, may appeal to visitors.\n\nBut \"more flights will have to be added if the airport is to be deemed a success - and not an expensive white elephant\", the report said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ed Cropley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hull is the UK's only city to have banned sex workers from its red light district, effectively making prostitution illegal. The council says the policy is working, but Millie, who once worked on the streets herself, says it increases the danger for the women involved.\n\nSex work \"slithered\" into Millie's life when she was in her twenties. \"It happens quite slowly at first and then all of a sudden you're in this mad cyclone and you can't find your feet, you get lost,\" she says.\n\nThe cocky bravado of the women in Hull's red light district made it seem like an easy way of funding her drug addiction. But now, with more than five years on the streets behind her, she knows all that banter is just body armour against the violence and vileness that comes with the job.\n\n\"Oh, you must love sex,\" punters would say with a smirk. \"No. I love heroin,\" was Millie's sharp retort. \"There is no love of sex, working on the streets - it's always a last resort.\"\n\nMillie's drug addiction began as a teenager, when she would steal her mum's sleeping pills and Valium. When her mum's mental illness was at its height, she would whisper menacing things through Millie's bedroom door at night: \"There's evil inside you, I can see it. You are a demon, spawned from demon seed.\" The pills helped to block it all out. From there she graduated to ecstasy, opioids - and eventually, heroin.\n\n\"Then you get trapped in addiction because you end up needing the drugs to get through it, to block out the things you've had to do,\" says Millie.\n\nShe remembers how women would steel themselves for a night on Hessle Road - Hull's red light district - telling themselves that they wouldn't do anything for less than £60. But their resolve would weaken as soon as withdrawal symptoms set in. \"When you're rattling you'll get in that car for less than £20 - you'd do it for a fiver, simple as that,\" says Millie.\n\nWhen we meet, Millie has just finished reading a book about the Victorian serial killer, Jack the Ripper, and can relate to his victims. \"Back then we were referred to as 'unfortunates',\" she says. \"We have different names now but still the same social problems: the poverty, the addiction, the violence.\"\n\nIn Hull, the fishing industry and the sex trade have always been intertwined, she says, the poorest women in the fishing community at risk of sliding into prostitution. Millie knows lots of sex workers today whose fathers were trawlermen in the 1970s, when the industry went into steep decline.\n\n\"Generation after generation of women from these fishing families are working the streets - it is a terrifying prospect.\"\n\nBut while Hull has celebrated its fishing heritage with statues and murals as UK City of Culture this year, it takes a hard line on the sex trade. Three years ago - not long after its status as 2017's city of culture had been confirmed - it became the only local authority in the UK to effectively make prostitution illegal.\n\nAn end-of-terrace mural on Hessle Road, created for Hull's year as UK City of Culture\n\nIt did this by obtaining powers from the county court to issue injunctions under Section 222 of the Local Government Act 1972, to people found loitering, soliciting or having sex in the Hessle Road area. If they continue their anti-social behaviour they have broken the injunction, and can be arrested, prosecuted, and even jailed.\n\nThe policy currently affects more than 100 women. Last year the Lighthouse Project, a charity, had contact with 113 women working on the streets of Hull, and another 15 who had stopped - either temporarily or permanently. Women who break free may be back in a few years, charity workers say.\n\nMillie, who has been out of the sex trade and clean from drugs for about 10 years, says Section 222 has forced the sex workers out of sight, making their lives more dangerous. To dodge police, they work increasingly in back streets or on isolated industrial estates - areas that are poorly lit and away from surveillance cameras.\n\n\"Even without Section 222 to contend with, it's lonely, it's frightening, it's degrading - and it's a secretive life,\" Millie says.\n\n\"I can understand that Hull City Council wants to clean up the streets, but I think the best way to do that is not an Asbo, or to victimise victims, I think it is to provide support and proper treatment and look at the social issues - the homelessness, the domestic violence, the exploitation, the drug addiction, the mental health problems.\"\n\nMillie is one of 11 women who worked with the Lighthouse Project to produce An Untold Story, a book documenting the reality of being a sex worker in Hull. In the three-and-a-half years it took to prepare, five women working on the streets were murdered. Another 11, including two of the book's contributors, died from other causes - pneumonia, drug overdoses or other conditions resulting from years of sex work, and drug or alcohol abuse.\n\nSorry. It's only one word containing five letters. It's not enough, it will never be enough.\n\nI miss being a mum. It's down to me that I'm not any more. I hold my hands up to all the mistakes and bad decisions I've made, but it's not enough. It will never be enough.\n\nIt's not just birthdays, but the silly little things, like making up daft songs about what we were having for tea and singing them all the way home from the shops. Or writing teeny tiny letters from the tooth fairy in minuscule writing, thanking them for an incredible tooth and to keep up the good work. That their tooth would be used to help build the fairy kingdom.\n\nI miss being a Mum. My memories of my three children are tainted by guilt, filled with shame, saddened by regret.\n\nSince the policy came into force, 29 women have been arrested and served with court orders and four have been prosecuted. Two women have been sentenced to jail; one to 14 days, the other to one month, though her sentence was suspended for a year. Five women are currently waiting for a court date. \"Sending them to prison for two weeks won't do anything and it isn't even enough time to provide rehabilitation,\" argues Millie, who served short sentences in prison herself, and would go back on the streets the day she was released.\n\nA couple of times a month, Millie goes out at night on a Lighthouse Project bus. Women who board it are given condoms, hot drinks and information on dangerous individuals - passed on by Ugly Mugs, a charity that collects reports of incidents from sex workers and fields them out to warn others.\n\n\"They come to unburden their day - they're telling me their problems and they're the same ones I faced,\" says Millie. She commiserates with them on painful anniversaries - the day their children were taken away by social services, or the last time they spoke to their parents.\n\nBut since Section 222 came into force, women have been more afraid to use outreach services, says Emma Crick, who led the Untold Stories Project.\n\nDuring the day, Hessle Road is a busy shopping street\n\n\"Many times when I have been working in evening outreach, police are around and appear to be waiting for the women to get on or off the vehicle so they can target them,\" she says.\n\nAs a result of the strong police presence, Hull's sex workers have also become more dispersed, making it harder to offer them support services, Crick says.\n\nThe director of Ugly Mugs, Georgina Perry, says the charity has received just two incident reports for Hull in 2016/17 - well below average for a city of its size. In Nottingham, a similarly-sized city, 35 incidents were reported during the same period, she says.\n\n\"What we see in every authority where there is a heavy-handed enforcement approach is that the number of reports [to Ugly Mugs] goes down and the number of women then willing to take it to the police goes down too, because they are frightened about criminalisation,\" she says.\n\nPerry brands Hull council's approach to sex workers a \"quick and dirty way of superficially dealing with a problem that is about poverty and deprivation\".\n\nYou're usually \"sorting somebody out\" [buying their drugs]. I was sorting out my boyfriend, and a couple of his mates. There's always spongers who just soak up everything that they can get hold of, drug-wise.\n\nA lot of fellas, they say, \"I'm looking after our lass,\" and, \"I'm looking after my girl.\" No they're not! They don't want to miss out, so they need to be there when the punter drops her off. If not, they might not get anything.\n\nBy contrast, Graham Paddock, anti-social behaviour team leader at Hull City Council, says the ban has \"been a success so far\" and was renewed in December 2016 for another three years.\n\n\"We had reports of sexual intercourse in gardens and against fences, so we had to do something to protect the community,\" he says.\n\n\"We are never going to stamp out prostitution in Hull entirely, but at the end of the day we have to send a message out that that kind of behaviour will not be tolerated.\"\n\nDoing sex work is known in Hull as \"going down the lane\", after the former red light district, Waterhouse Lane\n\nResidents reported an improvement after the policy based on Section 222 was introduced, he says.\n\nBut is this a case of \"victimising victims\", as Millie puts it?\n\n\"I can see that argument, but I guess our number one responsibility is the local community being affected,\" Paddock replies.\n\nHe adds that police tactics have changed over time, so that it isn't just the women who are targeted.\n\n\"When it first came into place in 2014 we were concentrating a lot on the girls themselves, but it was always intended for anyone - whether it be pimps, partners, boyfriends - so I've noticed there's been a change recently where more punters are actually being served with the orders now.\"\n\nNo men have yet been prosecuted, however.\n\nSlum housing on the edge of the red light district has been demolished in recent years, to make way for modern homes\n\nA multi-agency group made up of representatives from the police, the council and charities - including the Lighthouse Project - is now meeting to discuss the best way of using Section 222, while also supporting the women involved in sex work. But Millie is frustrated that no-one with experience of sex work has been invited to take part. She thinks she could have made a useful contribution.\n\nShe would have argued that if the goal is to protect the local community, then the women and most of their clients are also members of the local community. And she would have underlined that they can be helped to find a way out of prostitution.\n\n\"The saying 'once a junkie always a junkie' isn't true - you can break free from addiction,\" she says. It wasn't easy - she relapsed many times - but after moving into a hostel and getting the right counselling, she started to claw back control of her life.\n\nShe remembers the first time she decided not to use her money to buy heroin - she bought a necklace instead. It was a silver cross with her mum's birthstone in it - amethyst.\n\n\"I remember the pride I felt - I wasn't used to feeling pride, it was an emotion I'd lost long ago.\"\n\nKate's been my ever-patient mentor for all the years I've volunteered for Lighthouse...\n\nWe continue our walk up the main road of the red light district in Hull, towards the next working girl, stood on the next street corner. The Lighthouse car pulls up in front of us again, playing a crazy game of leap frog with us, keeping Kate and I within sight.\n\nAnother working girl opens the side door as we arrive at the car. She's in a hurry so she just needs a hot drink and a goody bag, then she's on her way.\n\nFor the next two hours we stop and talk to every working girl we see. Most we know. Some are new.\n\nWhen the night shift is over and I'm snuggled up under the duvet with my dog curled up behind my knees, my husband breathing rhythmically sleeping beside me, a man who's never once thrown my past in my face, I once again realise how fortunate I am.\n\nMillie's name has been changed\n\nSee also: My work as a prostitute led me to oppose decriminalisation\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Harry Potter train made an unscheduled stop close to the bothy\n\nA family stranded in the Scottish Highlands have been rescued by the \"Hogwarts Express\" steam train.\n\nJon and Helen Cluett and their four young children were staying at a remote bothy in Lochaber when their canoe was swept away by a swollen river.\n\nFacing a long walk back to their car across boggy land, they phoned the police for advice.\n\nTo their delight, they arranged for the steam train used in the Harry Potter films to pick them up.\n\nThe train, called The Jacobite, is used for excursions on the West Highland Railway Line, crossing the iconic Glenfinnan Viaduct that also features in the movies.\n\nThe Jacobite crosses the Glenfinnan Viaduct, made famous by the Harry Potter films\n\nThe Cluetts and their children - aged six, eight, 10 and 12 - were enjoying a half-term break at the Essan bothy, on the south shore of Loch Eilt.\n\n\"You can get to it by quite an arduous walk in - or you can paddle for 10 minutes in a canoe across the loch from the road. We had a canoe so we paddled across the loch to the bothy,\" explained Mr Cluett.\n\n\"We were all in the bothy, warm and fed - all was good - but we'd moored the boat in a little burn behind the bothy, tied it to a wall, pulled high out of the water. My daughter woke up yesterday and says 'Daddy, Daddy - the stream is massive'.\n\n\"The burn was overflowing. The entire area was underwater. The rocks I'd tied the boat to were pulled apart and the boat was gone.\"\n\nThe bothy, in the distance, is easily accessible by canoe but less so on foot\n\nThe family weighed up their options for getting back to their car. A three-mile walk with small children across difficult boggy ground or along the nearby railway line were discounted as impractical or too dangerous.\n\n\"In the end I decided the only option was to phone the police and mountain rescue, ask if they have any local knowledge that could help us out,\" said Mr Cluett.\n\nThe police came back with a magical solution. They arranged for the next train on the railway line that runs close to the bothy to make an unscheduled stop.\n\n\"The amazing thing was it wasn't just any train. The next train that was passing was the Jacobite steam train - the Harry Potter, Hogwarts Express steam train that goes up and down that line.\"\n\nThe family hurriedly packed up their belongings and made their way to the line, about 400 metres way.\n\n\"We threw all our stuff into some bags and boxes and ran out of the door of the bothy at the same time as the train is coming around the tracks,' said Mr Cluett.\n\n\"The train is getting closer, we're running down, stuff bouncing everywhere, big smiles on the kids faces. It all started to be fun at that point.\n\n\"I'm slightly sad because I'd lost my boat - but the kids, when they saw the steam train coming, all sadness left their little faces and was replaced by excitement and fun - just the real joy of having an adventure and having the train stop right next to them.\"\n\nThe adventure turned out more magical than anyone expected\n\nThe family were dropped off at the next stop, at Lochailort, from where Mr Cluett was able to hitch a lift to retrieve his car.\n\nHe reflected: \"The kids have certainly had an adventure. We've all had an adventure - a big thanks to everyone who helped us.\"\n\nHis only regret is that his canoe has still not turned up - although he remains hopeful someone will find it.\n\n\"I think it will still be bobbing around in the loch somewhere. A big red canoe - so if you see it, that would be helpful. That would make the last part of the story even better.\"", "It must have seemed like a good idea. As a taster for a big announcement about Oculus VR on Wednesday, send Mark Zuckerberg on a little virtual reality trip, including a stop in Puerto Rico.\n\nBut the reviews are in - and they are not good.\n\nThe sight of Mr Zuckerberg using VR to survey the devastation of an island still struggling to recover from Hurricane Maria may have been meant to convey Facebook's empathy with the victims.\n\nThe fact that he was there in the form of a cartoon seemed to many the perfect visual metaphor for the gulf in understanding between Silicon Valley and the real world.\n\nSure, he was talking about all the activities which his company had initiated to help the island, from helping people tell their families they were ok using Safety Check to sending Facebook employees to help restore connectivity.\n\nBut cartoon Zuck showing us a 360 degree view of a flooded street before zipping back to a virtual California just seemed a little, well, crass. Is Facebook really concerned about the plight of Puerto Rico, or is it merely a handy backdrop to promote Oculus, whose sales have so far proved disappointing?\n\nIt is not the first time the young tycoon has misread the public mood. Back in November following the US elections, he said it was \"crazy\" to suggest that fake news on Facebook had played any part in deciding the results.\n\nSince then, as ever more detail has emerged about Russian use of his platform to try to influence voters, Zuckerberg has been on a journey towards understanding and acknowledging the power he has.\n\nHe's also been on a literal journey, with a mission to visit every US state this year. As he's been pictured at the dinner table with farmers in the mid-west or mused about religion, revealing he is no longer an atheist, some have seen another motive behind this odyssey. Could this be preparation for Zuckerberg 2020, a run at the White House?\n\nMeanwhile, back at Mountain View headquarters problems are piling up in the CEO's in-tray, with politicians from left and right asking tricky questions.\n\nIs he doing enough to stop terrorists using WhatsApp? Did Facebook promote fake news around the Las Vegas shootings? Is billionaire Peter Thiel, with his connections to the alt-right, a fit and proper person to serve on Facebook's board?\n\nLike many a tech leader, Mark Zuckerberg has assumed that what is good for his company is good for the world, but now the world is not so sure.\n\nAs I was writing this, a reminder popped up on Facebook of a day in 2008 when I interviewed its founder during a trip to London.\n\nBack then he seemed impossibly young, not very articulate - but very focused on building his business and ignoring the sceptics who kept telling him to sell up before the bubble burst.\n\nSince then his vision of a company connecting the world has come true, and his business brain has out-thought all of his rivals and detractors. It's his political brain which still needs a bit of work.\n\nMaybe it is time to retire the cartoon Zuckerberg and for the real one to spend a little more time out of the spotlight, reflecting on the impact his immensely powerful empire has on our lives.\n\nMark Zuckerberg has obviously been taken aback by the reaction to his virtual reality visit to Puerto Rico. He has posted this on Facebook in response to negative comments below his original post and video.\n\n\"One of the most powerful features of VR is empathy. My goal here was to show how VR can raise awareness and help us see what's happening in different parts of the world. I also wanted to share the news of our partnership with the Red Cross to help with the recovery. Reading some of the comments, I realize this wasn't clear, and I'm sorry to anyone this offended.\"", "The abuse inquiry is hearing allegations about abuse by Rochdale's former Liberal MP Cyril Smith\n\nAn alleged abuse victim of Cyril Smith told an inquiry how he came face-to-face with the politician at his own wedding.\n\nThe man said Smith touched his genitals during what he thought was \"a medical\" at Cambridge House hostel in Rochdale.\n\nOne of the wardens led the teenager to a \"quiet room\" to meet an \"important gentleman\", the inquiry heard.\n\nThe hearings are examining Smith's alleged abuse of young boys in Rochdale care institutions.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse was told by a witness that Smith was a guest at his wedding years after he was indecently assaulted by him at the children's hostel.\n\nThe politician later helped the couple secure a council house in Rochdale, the inquiry was told.\n\nGiving evidence anonymously about alleged abuse at the hostel, the man said: \"All I knew was I was going to meet a gentleman and I thought I was having a medical.\"\n\nThe witness said Smith told him he wanted to check for nits and if he had been washing himself properly.\n\n\"So he said, 'Take your pants off', so I took my pants off, my underpants, and my T-shirt and stood there with my clothes off,\" he said.\n\n\"He asked me to face the wall. I outstretched my arms and then he started running his hands through my hair.\n\n\"He then started stroking me down the back of my head and along my arms and then he started coming down my body.\"\n\nThen Smith allegedly touched the man's genitals, the hearing was told.\n\nThe alleged victim had only arrived in the care of the hostel two days before, having fallen out with his foster family during the early 1960s, the hearing heard.\n\nYears passed and the man did not discuss it with his bride-to-be.\n\nBut on their wedding day, he recognised one of the guests as the man who had abused him, the hearing was told.\n\nUnbeknown to him, Smith was a family friend of his fiancée.\n\nThe inquiry is examining how Smith was allegedly able to target boys at Cambridge House hostel and Knowl View school\n\nBrian Altman QC asked: \"Did that make you angry?\"\n\n\"Yes, but I couldn't say anything,\" the witness replied.\n\nBetween 1969 and 1970 police launched an investigation into Smith over sexual abuse claims and the man agreed to give a statement about his experience.\n\nReferring to the reaction of his in-laws, he said: \"It didn't go down too well, they couldn't believe it because they were obviously supporters of Cyril Smith.\"\n\nSmith allegedly then paid the man a visit with an accomplice and asked him to retract his statement.\n\nThe witness said: \"He says it is going to cause him a lot of problems and I said, 'No, what has happened to me is the truth'.\"\n\nHis allegations against Smith were never aired in court after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) decided not to press charges.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harvey Weinstein, the Oscar-winning film producer accused of sexually harassing female employees, has been fired by the board of his company.\n\nHarvey Weinstein has denied many of the allegations against him, but in such a convoluted and incoherent manner that it is not too soon to conclude his behaviour over the course of a storied career has, at times, been disgusting.\n\nNow that he has been sacked by the company named after him and his brother, a cascade of allegations is swirling and many people who have been loyal to him over the years are suddenly questioning why they bothered.\n\nIt is hard not to see the allegations against Weinstein in the light of similarly tawdry claims made against the late Fox News boss Roger Ailes, Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly, comedian Bill Cosby, and even the President, Donald Trump, who - we should remind ourselves - stands accused of sexually exploitative behaviour by many women. Those allegations are unproven and Trump denies them.\n\nChanging attitudes to the behaviour of powerful men are driving a cultural shift, which most people will consider long overdue if it means that bullying and intimidation in exchange for sexual favours is no longer so widespread.\n\nI wonder too if the advent of social media is making more women feel able to speak out: perhaps the capacity for an accusation to go viral, and so garner both attention and support from a vast global audience in a matter of seconds, incentivises honesty where women might previously have feared the consequences of speaking out.\n\nBut it would be a dereliction of duty to ignore that these allegations are pouring forth from the American media and creative industries.\n\nThe painful fact is, many, many people were aware of Weinstein's behaviour for years. He was, as the saying goes, hiding in plain sight, no doubt protected to some extent by his friendships with famous people and his ability to hand out internships to the likes of Malia Obama (who as far as we know was treated with the utmost civility). That he was a major supporter of Hillary Clinton will have done him little harm, too.\n\nWeinstein was also protected by sheer force of character. The few times I've met him in New York he was declaiming at a party, raconteuring his way through Manhattan's most starry joints, a sun around which other stars would orbit. It's pathetic, of course, but one reason those who knew about his sordid malefactions didn't speak out is because he was their host, and they enjoyed his parties.\n\nThere is outrage in American media circles now - though many would say it pales in comparison to the outrage that attended the claims of rampant sexual harassment at Fox News. To that extent, this scandal - revealed by that other icon of liberal America, The New York Times - is in fact a test of liberal America. If late night TV hosts and their boosters in the media don't pour the same opprobrium on Weinstein as they have on, for instance, O'Reilly, they could stand accused of double standards.\n\nWhy are all these scandals erupting in the media? There's no firm evidence that sexual intimidation is more prevalent in, say, Hollywood than Wall Street. But if - and it is a big if - it is, I wonder if that's because the likes of Weinstein are part of an economy within an economy in the creative industries: they buy and sell fame.\n\nWeinstein was the kind of man who used his power to be a gateway to both financial riches and fame: he controlled access to huge audiences, with all the money that can bring. If some of the claims made by actresses are true, it may be that Weinstein was - unforgivably - allowed to get away with it because of his power. Not just his power to make people very rich; also, his power to make them very famous.\n\nThat's the same power Roger Ailes had. Do this sexual favour for me, his sick argument allegedly went, and you'll have a better chance of ending up on screen.\n\nIf more women feel prepared to speak out, and fewer lecherous men are allowed to get away with exchanging sexual favours for fame and riches, some good may yet come from the turpitudinous exploits of Harvey Weinstein and his ilk.", "A father murdered his baby daughter just two weeks after formally adopting her with his husband, a court heard.\n\nMatthew Scully-Hicks, 31, is accused of \"violently shaking\" 18-month-old Elsie, causing her \"catastrophic head injuries\" following months of abuse.\n\nCardiff Crown Court heard she died at University Hospital of Wales on May 29, four days after the defendant called 999 saying she was \"floppy and limp\".\n\nBaby Elsie was placed in the care of Vale of Glamorgan Council just days after being born, the jury was told.\n\nAt the age of 10 months she was taken in by fitness instructor Matthew Scully-Hicks and his husband Craig in September 2015.\n\nThe couple relocated from Swindon, Wiltshire, to Cardiff six years ago and had been married for three years.\n\nMatthew Scully-Hicks had given up full-time work to care for any children.\n\nEight months after they took Elsie in, the couple completed the adoption process. A fortnight later she was dead.\n\n\"Within two weeks of Elsie's formal adoption by the couple, we allege that the defendant had inflicted fatal injuries upon her,\" prosecutor Paul Lewis QC said.\n\nHe told the jury that on 25 May 2016, the ambulance service received a 999 call from Matthew Scully-Hicks reporting that Elsie was unresponsive.\n\nMr Lewis told the court that paramedics attended the house and found Elsie was not breathing, with no signs of cardiac output.\n\n\"The injuries that caused her death were inflicted upon her by the defendant shortly before he called emergency services that day,\" said Mr Lewis.\n\n\"His attack upon her that day was not the first time he had employed violence towards Elsie, nor was it the first time he had caused her serious injury.\n\n\"His actions on the late afternoon of 25 May were the tragic culmination of a course of violent conduct on his part towards a defenceless child - an infant that he should have loved and protected, but whom he instead assaulted, abused, and ultimately murdered.\"\n\nThe trial is being held at Cardiff Crown Court\n\nThe court heard Elsie had suffered haemorrhages to her brain and behind her eyes, and doctors decided to switch her ventilator off.\n\nTests showed there were older bleeds to her brain and behind her eyes and a post-mortem examination revealed she had also suffered broken ribs, a fractured left femur and a fractured skull.\n\nThe court was told Matthew Scully-Hicks carried out the alleged attacks on Elsie while his husband worked full time as a company director.\n\nMr Lewis told the jury about a catalogue of injuries Elsie had suffered during her short life.\n\nIn November 2015, two months after she had been taken in by the couple, she had fractured her ankle while in the sole care of the defendant, who had given differing accounts of how she had suffered the injury.\n\nA month later she sustained a bruise to her forehead which a health visitor advised needed treating. Matthew Scully-Hicks allegedly lied he had done so, the jury heard.\n\nIn January, Elsie suffered another bruise on her head and in March she was taken to hospital by ambulance after Matthew Scully-Hicks said she had fallen down the stairs.\n\nShe was discharged from hospital after four hours after her injuries were considered \"consistent with a fall downstairs\".\n\nThe jury were read a series of text messages the defendant allegedly sent to friends. One described the baby as a \"psycho\".\n\nOne read: \"I'm going through hell with Elsie. Mealtimes and bedtimes are like my worst nightmare at the minute.\"\n\nAnother said: \"She has just screamed non stop for 10 minutes. She had a full bottle and clean nappy. Literally not even half an hour and she is a psycho.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "American car registration plates have become aluminium works of art and collecting them has never been more popular.\n\nOn a quiet street in Arlington, Virginia, one man has squeezed the whole world into his garage.\n\nOn one wall, all 50 states of America. Next to it, all 13 of Canada's provinces and territories.\n\nMost of Mexico is above the garage door, while another wall zips from continent to continent: Montenegro one minute, Micronesia the next.\n\nAndrew Pang has spent 40 years collecting plates, and every sheet of metal tells a story.\n\nAndrew has \"between 7,000 and 8,000 plates\". He received his first aged seven while growing up in Virginia.\n\n\"My friend and neighbour across the street was from Louisiana, and he would go back every summer,\" says Andrew.\n\n\"One summer I said 'bring me something back from Louisiana'. He chose to bring me a licence plate from his grandfather's car dealership.\"\n\nAndrew had \"dabbled\" in stamp collecting and \"had developed an interest in other countries, geography, maps\".\n\nWhen Louisiana landed in his lap, he decided to start collecting. \"I thought 'everyone collects stamps',\" he says. \"This was a little different.\"\n\nBy the time Andrew was 12, he had a plate from all 50 states. His next challenge was collecting a Virginia plate from every year they were issued.\n\n\"It took me 25 years to complete,\" says Andrew.\n\nHe found the missing piece of the jigsaw when a woman in Fredericksburg, Virginia, sold her deceased husband's collection. He bought a dozen plates - including the 1906 - for \"around $4,000\".\n\nAfter completing the Virginia set - or \"run\", to use the terminology - Andrew looked for new worlds to conquer. Or new states, at least.\n\nHe spent four years in Texas, and completed its run. He now wants the set from all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia, but admits it will take time.\n\n\"I'm very close on DC, Maryland, North Dakota,\" he says. \"But I particularly focus on quality (the plate's condition). I could have finished many (runs) if I took anything.\"\n\nMany states and territories use their plates to advertise their attractions\n\nWhen Andrew started collecting plates, the hobby was an \"oddity\", he says. But two things have changed that: the internet, and the trend for colourful, well-designed plates.\n\n\"Many of the plates in the old days were very, very boring,\" he says. \"At the time their only reason was for identification: two colours, no pictures, no designs.\n\n\"With a few notable exceptions, the first real foray into more interesting graphics was 1976 for the US bicentennial (the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence).\n\n\"At that time, quite a few states offered very specific bicentennial plates to everyone.\"\n\nThe next marker, says Andrew, was in 1986. After the Challenger space shuttle disaster, Florida issued a plate with a rocket design to raise funds for the Astronauts Memorial Foundation.\n\nStates began to realise the potential of plates, and the era of brighter, distinctive designs began. Oregon's plates have a fir tree, for example. North Dakota's have a bison. Florida's have two oranges.\n\nThe effect, when driving on American roads, is twofold. On one hand, the country seems vast: it's not uncommon in DC to see plates from California, 3,000 miles away, for example.\n\nOn the other, it makes the country seem smaller, more interesting, and more united: oh look, there goes someone from Maine, or Michigan, or Montana. We're all Americans here.\n\nPlates design began to change in the 1970s - as seen in these examples from 1970 and 1996\n\nThere is, of course, another reason for the rise in well-designed plates.\n\n\"The American population is very mobile,\" says Andrew, a 47-year-old accountant. \"This summer we drove 6,000 miles across the country, and that's not unusual.\n\n\"The states realised, 'here's my person from Virginia, people are going to see his licence plate, let's do something'.\n\n\"If you're in Florida, you're nowhere near a mountain, but you see a car from Colorado and they have the snow-covered peaks on the plate.\n\n\"South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and many others put their tourism website on their licence plate. In many ways they have replaced the bumper sticker. It's free advertising.\"\n\nThe Automobile License Plate Collectors Association began in 1954. It has almost 3,000 members from all 50 states and 19 countries.\n\nAround 500 people attend its annual conventions, and there are smaller, regional meetings too. Jeff Minard became a member in the 1960s, aged 15.\n\n\"Your member number is related to when you joined,\" says Jeff. \"My number is 495. There are very few three-digit members alive.\"\n\nJeff says licence plate collecting has become \"enormous\", although he distinguishes between \"serious\" collectors, such as the association's members, and those who may have a dozen or so in their garage.\n\n\"I'm not dismissing them at all (the less serious collectors),\" he says. \"But we're a little more academic, if I can put it like that.\"\n\nOne collector in Florida has 50,000 license plates. \"Unbelievable,\" says Jeff.\n\nJeff himself has 500, after downsizing his collection from 5,000. \"I sold a lot,\" he says. \"I'm finding homes for them. I don't want someone (else) to have to do that.\n\n\"We just hope they don't get recycled for aluminium.\"\n\nBack in Arlington, Andrew Pang looks at the international plates on his garage wall. In between Albania and the Bahamas is a 1998 plate from Monaco, still in a plastic wrapper.\n\n\"I wrote to the prince, asking for a plate,\" he says. \"I didn't expect anything to happen, but it arrived in the post a few weeks later.\"\n\nMost of Andrew's plates, however, are bought online, rather than from royalty.\n\nHe has plates from former countries, such as East Germany, disputed territories, such as South Ossetia in eastern Europe, and moments in history, such as when Iraq occupied Kuwait.\n\nHe even has a plate from the pacific island of Vanuatu. It is made from wood.\n\nAndrew is missing plates from around 40 countries and territories. The Pitcairn Islands - a tiny British territory in the south Pacific - are proving tricky, while the Vatican City is \"tightly controlled\".\n\nCould you buy one, if money wasn't an issue?\n\n\"Probably, but you're talking high hundreds (of dollars), maybe low thousands,\" he says.\n\nAndrew has plates from most countries\n\nDespite having walls covered in plates, does Andrew still glance at every back bumper he passes?\n\n\"I am afflicted with that,\" he admits.\n\n\"Just yesterday I saw a vehicle in a parking lot from Puerto Rico, and that's quite unusual. In this area [near DC] I look for diplomatic plates.\n\n\"What really excites me is if I see a US diplomat that's coming back from another country, but they're back such a short period of time, the plates from the other country are still on the vehicle.\"\n\nAnd what does his wife make of it all?\n\n\"My wife is less of a hobbyist than I am,\" says Andrew, smiling.\n\n\"While she has grown to understand it and live with it... she doesn't necessarily embrace it.\"\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. Mobile zoo owner Scott Gavin uses snakes and a raccoon dog at parties\n\nMobile zoos that provide exotic animals for children's parties will require licences to operate in England, the government has said.\n\nIt comes as the RSPCA told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme animals such as meerkats and raccoons were being handled and kept inappropriately.\n\nAnimals used currently range from snakes and tarantulas to - more controversially - skunks and monkeys.\n\nAnimal welfare group the Scottish SPCA said it was opposed to mobile zoos.\n\nThere are about 200 mobile zoos in the UK, estimates suggest\n\nEstimates suggest there are about 200 mobile zoos in the UK. Some do hundreds of events a month.\n\nUnder the changes to the Animal Welfare Act 2006 - to be introduced \"as soon as parliamentary time allows\" in England - \"anyone in the business of providing an animal for exhibit\" would need a licence from their local authority, the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) said.\n\nThey must also adhere to welfare standards developed with those working in the sector and animal welfare charities.\n\nDefra said it would \"liaise closely\" with the Welsh government over the matter - which has just concluded a consultation on bringing in new laws.\n\nThe Scottish government has previously announced it plans to develop a new licence to protect the welfare of animals used in such shows.\n\nRos Clubb, from the RSPCA, said the charity was particularly worried about the use of meerkats, raccoons and raccoon dogs - also known as tanukis - at children's parties.\n\n\"They have specific needs, for example being kept in a group. They're wild animals, they're not used to being handled,\" she said.\n\nShe was also concerned about \"animals being stacked up in inappropriate boxes and enclosures, and taken to places for display and for handing round again and again potentially in the same day\".\n\nThe charity warned that some animals may also pose a risk to children from bites and scratches, or even the spread of disease. Reptiles and amphibians can spread salmonella to humans.\n\nDr Clubb says it is \"extremely easy\" for someone to start a mobile zoo business\n\nUnder the current system, local councils in England, Scotland and Wales do run a registration scheme for performing animals.\n\nBut the RSPCA said many did not require mobile zoos to sign up, because they did not consider animals in mobile petting zoos as \"performing\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A good mobile zoo has a trusting relationship between an animal and its handler, one operator told the BBC\n\nMost of the mobile zoo owners the Victoria Derbyshire programme has spoken to supported the notion of stronger regulation.\n\nJoshua Jameson, from Wild Science - whose animals include hedgehogs, snakes and scorpions - said his company had never been inspected.\n\n\"I definitely think there should be more regulation in this industry,\" he said.\n\n\"People are using the wrong animals - meerkats, skunks, even small monkeys. It's tantamount to animal cruelty.\"\n\nScott Gavin, who runs Party Central Entertainments, has more than 120 animals - including a raccoon dog.\n\nHe defends his use of large exotic animals, seeing little difference to the keeping of domestic pets.\n\n\"It's OK to keep a rabbit in a hutch, but it's not OK to have a raccoon. You can have a hamster, but not a hedgehog,\" he said, questioning the logic. \"It's just people being very picky.\"\n\nMr Gavin has more than 120 animals\n\nMr Gavin - who also does school visits - believes his events help to educate children about the creatures.\n\nHe insisted that animal welfare was his number one priority.\n\n\"The environment has got to be set properly, no crowding, no noise,\" he said.\n\n\"If [the children] are causing stress for the animals, the animals go home.\"\n\nIn 2013, the RSPCA rescued 70 exotic animals from a company running a mobile zoo\n\nThe RSPCA is urging parents to think carefully before booking any mobile zoo for their children's party.\n\nIn 2013, it rescued 70 exotic animals from a company that was keeping them in cramped, dirty conditions.\n\nThe owner of the company, Stephen Rowlands, pleaded guilty to 34 animal welfare offences.\n\nHe was given a suspended jail sentence, but was able to continue running his mobile zoo business.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "The Care Quality Commission (CQC) says the health system is \"straining at the seams\" and faces a \"precarious\" future.\n\nThe England's regulator's annual report raised concerns about staff shortages, rising demand and the number of patients with preventable illnesses.\n\nIt said so far the quality of NHS and council care has been maintained but warned standards were likely to drop.\n\nHealth Minister Philip Dunne suggested that extra money for social care, mental health and A&E was enough.\n\n\"With record funding and more doctors and nurses, the NHS was recently judged the best healthcare system in the world, despite the pressures from increasing demand,\" he said.\n\nIn its report, the CQC highlighted:\n\nThe CQC's report - its yearly round-up on the state of the sector - comes after it completed its new inspection regime of hospitals, mental health units and care services.\n\nCQC chief executive Sir David Behan said that while the quality of care was being maintained currently thanks to the efforts of staff, that resilience was not inexhaustible given the rising pressures.\n\n\"We are going to see a fall in the quality of services that are offered to people and that may mean that the safety of some people is compromised,\" he added.\n\nHe said the NHS is \"struggling to cope with 21st century problems\" including increasing numbers of people with illnesses linked to unhealthy lifestyle choices like obesity, diabetes, dementia and heart disease.\n\n\"We are living longer but are not living healthier so I think what we are signalling is that the system now and into the future has got to deal with those increased numbers of older people who are going to have more than one condition.\"\n\nHe said one of the immediate priorities was finding a solution to funding social care - ministers have promised a Green Paper by the end of the year after providing an extra £2bn of funding over the next three years to keep services going.\n\nCaroline Abrahams, of Age UK, said the findings made worrying reading.\n\n\"Really this tells you everything you need to know about the state of care today - it's like a rubber band that's been stretched as far as it will go and can't stretch any further.\"\n\nLabour Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the report was \"damning\".\n\n\"Next month the Chancellor in his budget must finally put the NHS on a secure financial footing for the long term.\"\n\nAre you waiting for NHS treatment? Have you recently faced a long wait in A&E? Share your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk with your stories.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: \"The ball is in their court\"\n\nThe UK has set out how it could operate as an \"independent trading nation\" after Brexit, even if no trade deal is reached with Brussels.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May told MPs \"real and tangible progress\" had been made in Brexit talks.\n\nBut the country must be prepared for \"every eventuality\", as the government published papers on future trade and customs arrangements.\n\nLabour said \"no real progress has been made\" since last June's referendum.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said a \"no deal\" scenario was starting to appear \"more likely\" even if it was not something either side in the talks wanted.\n\nMrs May's statement comes as the fifth round of negotiations began in Brussels. Focusing on technical issues, it is the final set of talks before EU leaders meet on 19 October to decide if enough progress has been made to talk about post-Brexit relations with the UK, including trade.\n\nEuropean Commission spokeswoman Margaritis Schinas said \"the ball is entirely in the UK court\" to reach agreement on Britain's \"divorce deal\", without which the EU has said it will not move on to the second phase of talks.\n\nMrs May appeared to reject that in her statement to MPs, saying: \"As we look forward to the next stage, the ball is in their court.\n\n\"But I am optimistic we will receive a positive response.\"\n\nMrs May also confirmed that the UK would remain subject to the rulings of the European Court of Justice during a planned two-year transition period after Britain leaves the EU in March 2019.\n\nResponding to a challenge from Eurosceptic Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, she told MPs the need to ensure the minimum of disruption \"may mean that we will start off with the ECJ still governing the rules we're part of for that period\".\n\nShe said it was \"highly unlikely\" any new EU laws would come into force during the transition, but did not rule out the possibility that any which did so would have effect in Britain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"What on earth the government has been doing?\"\n\nThe prime minister rejected existing models for economic co-operation, such as membership of the European Economic Area or the Canadian model, calling instead for a \"creative\" solution that would be \"unique\" to the UK.\n\nBut she also stressed - as she has done before - that the government was preparing for \"every eventuality,\" reinforcing her long-held position that walking away without a deal is a possibility.\n\nShe rejected a call from a Tory MP to name a date when the UK would walk away from talks without an agreement, saying \"flexibility\" was needed.\n\nOn Northern Ireland, she said the government had begun \"drafting joint principles on preserving the Common Travel Area, and associated rights and we have both stated explicitly we will not accept any physical infrastructure at the border\".\n\nThe two White Papers give the most detail yet of contingency planning that is under way.\n\nThe White Papers set out three strategic objectives: ensuring UK-EU trade is as frictionless as possible, avoiding a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, and establishing the UK's own independent international trade policy.\n\nBut there is also contingency planning, in case the UK leaves the EU without a negotiated settlement.\n\nA customs bill will make provision for the UK to establish a stand-alone customs regime from day one, applying the same duties to every country with which it has no special deal.\n\nThe level of this duty would be set out in secondary legislation before the UK leaves the EU.\n\nFor high-volume roll-on roll-off ports, the legislation would require that consignments are pre-notified to customs authorities, to try to ensure that trade continues to flow as seamlessly as possible.\n\n\"No deal\" is not the government's preferred option; and the detail in the customs paper in particular hints at how disruptive it could be. But the UK wants the EU to know that it is planning for all eventualities.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the government had spent the 15 months since the EU referendum \"squabbling amongst themselves\" and were making a \"mess\" of Brexit.\n\nHe urged Mrs May to unilaterally guarantee the rights of EU citizens in the UK, as well as criticising the lack of progress on Northern Ireland.\n\nThe SNP's leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford, said there had not been a single mention of the devolved administrations in Mrs May's speech, as he called for urgent action on EU citizens' rights.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats, who want a referendum on any final Brexit deal, urged the prime minister to \"show real leadership\" by ring-fencing the issue of EU citizens' rights, confirming the UK will remain in the single market and customs union and firing Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg told the BBC he was \"troubled\" by the PM's statement: \"If we're remaining under the jurisdiction of the ECJ then we haven't left the European Union or the date of departure is being delayed.\"\n\nBut Boris Johnson said the UK would \"still be able to negotiate proper free trade deals\" during the transition period.\n\n\"She (Theresa May) has reaffirmed the destination of a self-governing, free-trading, buccaneering and Global Britain taking back control over our laws, money, and borders,\" he said in Facebook post.\n\n\"The future is bright. Let's keep calm and carry on leaving the EU.\"", "Ivana Trump (L) said she was the first lady\n\nA spokeswoman for US First Lady Melania Trump has described comments by her husband's ex-wife Ivana as \"attention seeking and self-serving noise\".\n\nIvana Trump told ABC's Good Morning America she was \"basically first Trump wife, I'm first lady\".\n\nShe said she had a direct line to the White House but did not want to \"cause any kind of jealousy\".\n\nThe first Mrs Trump is promoting her book Raising Trump, to be released on Tuesday.\n\nShe was married to Donald Trump in 1977 but they divorced in the 1990s over his affair with Marla Maples, who became his second wife.\n\nIvana and Donald had three children - Donald Jr, Ivanka and Eric Trump.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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\nIvana Trump told GMA she spoke to her former husband about once a fortnight.\n\n\"I have the direct number to White House, but I no [sic] really want to call him there because Melania is there,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't want to cause any kind of jealousy or something like that because I'm basically first Trump wife. I'm first lady, OK?\"\n\nMelania Trump responded with a barbed statement through her spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham.\n\n\"Mrs Trump has made the White House a home for [their son] Barron and The President,\" it read.\n\n\"She loves living in Washington, DC and is honoured by her role as First Lady of the United States. She plans to use her title and role to help children, not sell books.\n\n\"There is clearly no substance to this statement from an ex. Unfortunately only attention seeking and self-serving noise.\"\n\nThe exchange is thought to be the only public row between a US first lady and a president's former wife.\n\nBefore Mr Trump, Ronald Reagan was the only divorcee president.", "Harvey Weinstein has said he is the victim of \"false and defamatory statements\"\n\nFilm producer Harvey Weinstein emailed Hollywood associates asking for help to avoid being fired by his own company, US media report\n\nIn the email, he said he was \"desperate\" for help and called for the film industry to support him, the New York Times reported.\n\nHollywood stars have spoken of their shock at the allegations.\n\nMeryl Streep told the Huffington Post she was appalled by the \"disgraceful\" news and praised the women who reported the alleged abuse as \"heroes\".\n\nDame Judi Dench, who won an Oscar for her role in the Weinstein movie Shakespeare in Love, called the claims \"horrifying\".\n\nThe email was sent on Sunday to studio executives and agents, the New York Times reported, hours before Weinstein was fired by the board of his company.\n\nAccording to those who said they had seen it, the email read: \"My board is thinking of firing me. All I'm asking is let me take a leave of absence and get into heavy therapy and counselling.\n\n\"Whether it be in a facility or somewhere else, allow me to resurrect myself with a second chance. A lot of the allegations are false as you know but given therapy and counselling as other people have done, I think I'd be able to get there.\n\n\"I could really use your support or just your honesty if you can't support me.\"\n\nThe email adds: \"We believe what the board is trying to do is not only wrong but might be illegal and would destroy the company. If you could write this letter backing me, getting me the help and time away I need, and also stating your opposition to the board firing me, it would help me a lot. I am desperate for your help. Just give me the time to have therapy. Do not let me be fired. If the industry supports me, that is all I need.\"\n\nStreep and Weinstein worked together on films such as The Iron Lady\n\nWeinstein is one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, having co-founded the Miramax and Weinstein Company production firms. His films include Shakespeare in Love, The King's Speech and Pulp Fiction.\n\nWhen the claims were first reported in the New York Times last week, Weinstein issued a statement in which he apologised for causing \"a lot of pain\".\n\nHowever he later disputed the article, with one of his legal team claiming the newspaper's report was \"saturated with false and defamatory statements\".\n\nWeinstein's lawyer, Lisa Bloom, said in another statement that the allegations against him were \"patently false\".\n\nBloom later announced she had resigned as Weinstein's adviser.\n\nThe allegations against him, according to the New York Times report, emerged mainly from young women hoping to break into the film industry and included celebrities Ashley Judd and Rose McGowan.\n\nAmong the accusations levelled against the film producer are that he forced women to massage him and watch him naked. In return for sexual favours, he promised to help advance their careers, they said.", "The website of payment firm ParentPay has gone down, leaving some parents unable to transfer funds for school meals and trips.\n\nThe company normally serves more than 5,500 schools in 200 local authorities, helping about 1.5 million families.\n\nThe company said it was affected \"by a national internet connectivity issue - impacting some users. This is out of our control and we'll update you.\"\n\nSome parents said their children were unable to buy food due to the glitch.\n\nParentPay said payments had been suspended until the issue was resolved.\n\nSome parents reported being able to make transactions on Tuesday evening, but the company told the BBC the issue was not yet fixed and there was no timescale for when it would be.\n\nOne parent, Victoria Lew, said on Twitter she had been trying to access her account for two hours.\n\n\"What do [the] kids do for lunch?\" she asked, adding that she had been unable to get through to the company on the phone.\n\nCharlotte Banks said on Facebook that neither of her sons had been able to buy food.\n\n\"This is getting ridiculous now. Seems to be every few days there are issues with this site,\" she said.\n\nPeople also expressed scepticism about the company's explanation for the outage.\n\nHeidi Burrows said: \"The only company who appears to have national internet connectivity are ParentPay, so I think you may want to adjust your wording as many of us work in big firms relying on internet and no one else is having this issue!\"", "Richard Thaler has won a Nobel prize for his research into 'nudge' theory\n\nThink the Nobel prize for economics has nothing to do with you? In some years that may well be true.\n\nBut this year's award has gone to Richard Thaler who, in his book Nudge, was one of the first to outline how tiny prompts can alter our behaviour.\n\nThe Nobel judges are clearly keen on the discipline, since they awarded fellow behavioural economist Daniel Kahneman the Economics prize in 2002.\n\nSince when \"nudge theory\" has been applied to a wide range of problems.\n\nHere are a few ways you may have been nudged yourself.\n\nIn probably the most well-known example, spillage around the toilet, an age old problem for at least half of the human race, was cut by 80% using an ingeniously simple intervention.\n\nFirst introduced at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam back in 1999, the idea was simple: etch the image of a fly in the urinal and men cannot help but take aim, saving on clean-up costs as well as alleviating unpleasantness.\n\nThe painted porcelain was one of Prof Thaler's early favourite examples of tweaking the environment in a way that makes us change how we behave.\n\nWhen David Cameron became prime minister in 2010, one of his pet projects was the \"Nudge Unit\" or to give it its official title: the Behaviourial Insights Team.\n\nIt set about encouraging better behaviour amongst UK citizens in a range of ways from letting you know that other people had filled in their tax returns (so you should do yours now) to offering a more personal approach at the job centre.\n\nBut the most eye-catching, for those on the receiving end, was what you were sent if you failed to pay your car tax.\n\nA big heading shouted: \"Pay your tax or lose your Ford Fiesta\" (or whatever car you owned) accompanied by a photograph of the untaxed car. The focused approach paid off.\n\nA more positive tone was taken with the wealthy failing to pay their taxes. They received letters explaining how their taxes would help improve local services, and pointing out what would disappear without funding. These tweaks saw £210m in overdue tax paid into the Treasury.\n\nWoolwich in south-east London had a problem with anti-social behaviour. During the riots in 2011 several shop fronts were smashed in.\n\nThe following year advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather, embracing the new science of behavioural economics, offered an innovative strategy.\n\nKnowing that even the toughest heart is melted by the sight of a infant, they spent a night with graffiti artists painting pictures of local babies' faces onto the shutters protecting the shop windows.\n\nThe move was credited with helping to reduce anti-social behaviour by 18% in Woolwich.\n\nIf you've ever been on the phone to a salesperson, you may well have heard one of the following:\n\n\"Most people in your position buy this\" or \"This deal is only available today\".\n\nThe first plays on our susceptibility to \"social norming\" - we think if others are doing it they must have a good reason.\n\nThe second is based on loss aversion: we hate the idea of missing out.\n\nThirdly, there can often be a tone of inexplicable cheeriness. Relentless positivity is catching apparently, and makes us feel good about signing up.\n\nBig brands have embraced the idea. For example, a team from Ogilvy and Mather has coached staff selling subscriptions to the Times and the Sunday Times to use these persuasive techniques. Did they work on you?\n\nIn the past, people who want to donate their vital organs in the event of their death have usually been asked to \"opt in\" by putting their name on a register. Thanks in part to behavioural economics, there's a growing trend to adopt policies that presume consent and ask objectors to \"opt out\".\n\nThough the results are inconclusive it's clear we've embraced the concept - that we need to design the system in a way that helps us to \"do the right thing\" rather than rely on individuals' consciences.\n\nLikewise, we all know we need to save for our retirement, but it can be hard to summon the will-power.\n\nThe \"save more tomorrow\" approach pioneered in the United States saw employees automatically signed up to pay into a pension, but starting with very small contributions to avoid loss-aversion that could make them baulk. Only later do payments rise.\n\nAll if all this makes you feel as though the policymakers and marketers are only out to manipulate us, well at least thanks to Prof Thaler we now understand what they're up to a little better.", "The abuse inquiry is hearing allegations about abuse by Rochdale's former Liberal MP Cyril Smith\n\nCyril Smith treated a children's home as his \"personal fiefdom\" and abused residents for \"perverted amusement\", an inquiry heard.\n\nLaura Hoyano, representing eight alleged victims, said Smith was a \"puppet master\" who escaped justice.\n\nProsecutors have also said \"it is difficult to see why\" it was decided as far back as 1970 not to charge Smith.\n\nThe independent inquiry is examining the late MP's alleged abuse of young boys in Rochdale care institutions.\n\nA dossier of information on the Liberal MP was held by the security services and has been disclosed to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).\n\nThe MI5 intelligence on the allegations \"raises a spectre of collusion\" over his activities, Ms Hoyano said.\n\nIt is examining how Smith was able to carry out his alleged offences at a number of institutions, including the Cambridge House children's hostel and Knowl View residential school, where he was a governor.\n\nOn Monday, counsel to the inquiry Brian Altman QC, said Sir Norman Skelhorn - then Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) - claimed in 1970 a police investigation of Smith was unlikely to lead to a prosecution.\n\nThis was followed nine years later, Mr Altman said, when MI5 was informed the Rochdale Alternative Press (RAP) was told by Sir Norman's successor, Thomas Hetherington, there was no record of the 1970 case.\n\nReferring to the claims, Ms Hoyano asked: \"Was political pressure brought to bear upon the DPP from politicians and members of the Liberal Party from 1969 to 1970?\n\n\"Why would Sir Thomas Hetherington decide he should lie to journalists, stating that he had not submitted a prosecution file?\n\n\"Why would the DPP contact MI5 about this at all? We say this dossier from MI5 raises a spectre of collusion.\"\n\nIn an opening statement for the CPS - which replaced the DPP - Edward Brown QC said changes in the law relating to evidence in child sexual abuse cases in the intervening years could explain the decision not to prosecute Smith.\n\nSince 1995, juries have been able to convict offenders based solely on the accounts of victims when there are similarities in the evidence, Mr Brown said.\n\nBut in 1970, he said a jury would have been specifically warned of the dangers of convictions based on uncorroborated evidence, which might have led to the accused being acquitted.\n\nHowever, he did accept that even then courts were starting to see so called \"similar fact evidence\" where accounts are similar, could prove the guilt of an abuser.\n\nReferring to the evidence in Smith's case, he said: \"It is perhaps difficult to see how [the DPP] would have come to any other conclusion that there was, indeed, corroboration of the complainant's accounts; that is, one supporting the other.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Unlike oil, which is finite, data is a super-abundant resource in a post-industrial economy\n\nHow do you know when a pithy phrase or seductive idea has become fashionable in policy circles? When The Economist devotes a briefing to it.\n\nIn a briefing and accompanying editorial earlier this summer, that distinguished newspaper (it's a magazine, but still calls itself a newspaper, and I'm happy to indulge such eccentricity) argued that data is today what oil was a century ago.\n\nAs The Economist put it, \"A new commodity spawns a lucrative, fast-growing industry, prompting anti-trust regulators to step in to restrain those who control its flow.\" Never mind that data isn't particularly new (though the volume may be) - this argument does, at first glance, have much to recommend it.\n\nJust as a century ago those who got to the oil in the ground were able to amass vast wealth, establish near monopolies, and build the future economy on their own precious resource, so data companies like Facebook and Google are able to do similar now. With oil in the 20th century, a consensus eventually grew that it would be up to regulators to intervene and break up the oligopolies - or oiliogopolies - that threatened an excessive concentration of power.\n\nMany impressive thinkers have detected similarities between data today and oil in yesteryear. John Thornhill, the Financial Times's Innovation Editor, has used the example of Alaska to argue that data companies should pay a universal basic income, another idea that has become highly fashionable in policy circles.\n\nA drilling crew poses for a photograph at Spindletop Hill in Beaumont, Texas where the first Texas oil gusher was discovered in 1901.\n\nAt first I was taken by the parallels between data and oil. But now I'm not so sure. As I argued in a series of tweets last week, there are such important differences between data today and oil a century ago that the comparison, while catchy, risks spreading a misunderstanding of how these new technology super-firms operate - and what to do about their power.\n\nThe first big difference is one of supply. There is a finite amount of oil in the ground, albeit that is still plenty, and we probably haven't found all of it. But data is virtually infinite. Its supply is super-abundant. In terms of basic supply, data is more like sunlight than oil: there is so much of it that our principal concern should be more what to do with it than where to find more, or how to share that which we've already found.\n\nData can also be re-used, and the same data can be used by different people for different reasons. Say I invented a new email address. I might use that to register for a music service, where I left a footprint of my taste in music; a social media platform on which I upload photos of my baby son; and a search engine, where I indulge my fascination with reggae.\n\nIf, through that email address, a data company were able to access information about me or my friends, the music service, the social network and the search engine might all benefit from that one email address and all that is connected to it. This is different from oil. If a major oil company get to an oil field in, say, Texas, they alone will have control of the oil there - and once they've used it up, it's gone.\n\nThis points to another key difference: who controls the commodity. There are very legitimate fears about the use and abuse of personal data online - for instance, by foreign powers trying to influence elections. And very few people have a really clear idea about the digital footprint they have left online. If they did know, they might become obsessed with security. I know a few data fanatics who own several phones and indulge data-savvy habits, such as avoiding all text messages in favour of WhatsApp, which is encrypted.\n\nBut data is something which - in theory if not in practice - the user can control, and which ideally - though again the practice falls well short - spreads by consent. Going back to that oil company, it's largely up to them how they deploy the oil in the ground beneath Texas: how many barrels they take out every day, what price they sell it for, who they sell it to.\n\nWith my email address, it's up to me whether to give it to that music service, social network, or search engine. If I don't want people to know that I have an unhealthy obsession with bands such as The Wailers, The Pioneers and The Ethiopians, I can keep digitally schtum.\n\nNow, I realise that in practice, very few people feel they have control over their personal data online; and retrieving your data isn't exactly easy. If I tried to reclaim, or wipe from the face of the earth, all the personal data that I've handed over to data companies, it'd be a full time job for the rest of my life and I'd never actually achieve it. That said, it is largely as a result of my choices that these firms have so much of my personal data.\n\nServers for data storage in Hafnarfjordur, Iceland, which is trying to make a name for itself in the business of data centres - warehouses that consume enormous amounts of energy to store the information of 3.2 billion internet users.\n\nThe final key difference is that the data industry is much faster to evolve than the oil industry was. Innovation is in the very DNA of big data companies, some of whose lifespans are pitifully short. As a result, regulation is much harder. That briefing in The Economist actually makes the point well that a previous model of regulation may not necessarily work for these new companies, who are forever adapting. That is not to say they should not be regulated; rather, that regulating them is something we haven't yet worked out how to do.\n\nIt is because the debate over regulation of these companies is so live that I think we need to interrogate superficially attractive ideas such as 'data is the new oil'. In fact, whereas finite but plentiful oil supplied a raw material for the industrial economy, data is a super-abundant resource in a post-industrial economy. Data companies increasingly control, and redefine, the nature of our public domain, rather than power our transport, or heat our homes.\n\nData today has something important in common with oil a century ago. But the tech titans are more media moguls than oil barons.", "Fourteen volunteers took part in the clean-up of Ben Nevis at the weekend\n\nA bag of chewing gum and an empty 1980s packet of peanuts were among 121kg (267lbs) of rubbish found on Ben Nevis.\n\nFourteen volunteers filled 21 bags during a litter pick on Scotland's highest mountain on Saturday.\n\nThe debris found on the hillside included a peanut packet with a best before date of January 1987 and a ball of chewing gum weighing 4kg (9lbs).\n\nIt was one of a series of events across the UK organised by the Real 3 Peaks Challenge.\n\nA total of 570kg (1,256lbs) of waste was taken off seven peaks in Scotland, England and Wales. They were:\n\nOrganiser Rich Pyne said it was \"not a bad day out\" for the 109 volunteers who took part in the nationwide clean-up.\n\nRich Payne organised the litter pick where 4kg of discarded chewing gum was collected\n\nThe peanut packet had a best before date of 24 January 1987\n\nAmong the debris were lots of tissues, cigarette ends, banana peel, orange peel, bottle tops, tampons, sweet wrappers, foil, crisp and sandwich wrappers.\n\nSome of the 150,000 people who climb Ben Nevis every year even abandoned walking poles, tents and flags on the mountain.\n\nOne volunteer also came across a horseshoe they believe belonged to one of the ponies which worked Ben Nevis in the early 1900s.\n\nA horseshoe believed to date back to the early 1900s was among items picked up on Ben Nevis\n\nMy Pyne told the BBC Scotland website that they generally receive a good reaction from other hillwalkers during their annual litter picks.\n\n\"They always say thank you, they're always grateful,\" he said. \"Quite often they ask if there's anything they can do and then they might pick up a few bottles on the way down.\"\n\nThe mountain guide, from Kinlochleven, set up the Real 3 Peaks challenge in 2013, in a bid to clean up the mountains before the winter snowfall.", "The famous tunnel of beech trees was used by the Game of Thrones crew to represent 'the Kingsroad'\n\nTraffic is to be banned from part of a County Antrim road - made famous by the TV fantasy drama Game of Thrones - to protect trees known as the Dark Hedges.\n\nThe tunnel of beech trees on the Bregagh Road, near Armoy, has become a major international tourist attraction.\n\nThe scene was used by the Game of Thrones crew to represent \"the Kingsroad\" in the HBO drama series.\n\nStormont's Department for Infrastructure is introducing a ban on cars using the road from 30 October.\n\nThe order will also prohibit buses and coaches from using the designated stretch of the Bregagh Road.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tourists at the beech-lined avenue have welcomed the move\n\nAny motorist who flouts the ban could face a fine of up to £1,000.\n\nSome vehicles - including agricultural and emergency vehicles - will be exempt from the ban \"in certain circumstances\".\n\nThe Dark Hedges were planted more than 200 years ago by the Stuart family, who created a tree-lined avenue along the entrance to their Gracehill House mansion.\n\nAbout 150 were planted by James Stuart, but time has taken its toll over the centuries and now fewer than two thirds remain standing.\n\nA large branch of one of the trees fell onto the Bregagh Road in July 2016\n\nIn January 2016, during Storm Gertrude, high winds ripped up two trees, causing them to collapse.\n\nLater that year, a large, rotten branch broke off one of the trees and fell across the road.\n\nThe Dark Hedges became a huge draw for tourists and TV fans after they appeared, albeit very briefly, in the closing scene of one episode of Game of Thrones.\n\nA sign at the Dark Hedges marks the site's contribution to the TV show\n\nArya Stark, one of the show's main characters, was filmed travelling on a cart along the road, disguised as a boy.\n\nConservationists have expressed alarm about the increasing traffic levels in the area and the possible damage to the trees' roots.\n\nDuring the Easter holidays this year, pictures of traffic jams were shared on social media, some criticising the number of vehicles lining the road..\n\nThe cycling blog NI Greenways described the Dark Hedges as a \"national treasure\" and claimed it was being slowly killed.\n\nThe Department for Infrastructure published the banning order on 5 October.\n\nIt had proposed the ban last year, after \"discussions with Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council and other interested parties\".\n\nIt launched a consultation and said \"four written objections were received and duly considered and no other representations were received\".\n\nThe ban is will be enforced along Bregagh Road, from its junction with Ballinlea Road to its junction with Ballykenver Road.\n\nThe department said new traffic signs, advising the public of the ban, would be erected in the area \"in due course\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One of the most dramatic stories from the night of the Grenfell Tower blaze - that a baby was thrown from a window and caught - probably never happened, a BBC investigation has concluded.\n\nThe news was reported in the media right across the UK and the world.\n\nBut neither the police nor ambulance service have a record of the event, and experts have questioned whether it is scientifically possible.\n\nNo witnesses quoted at the time were willing to be interviewed on camera.\n\nThe report, by BBC Newsnight, found the first reference to the story can be traced back to 10:08 on 14 June while firefighters were still battling the blaze.\n\nIt was one of the few good news stories out of Grenfell Tower that awful night in June\n\nThe Press Association tweeted an interview with a woman named Samira Lamrani.\n\nShe told them that she had witnessed a woman on the \"ninth or 10th floor\" throwing a baby from a window and that the child was caught by a man below.\n\nThe quotes were picked up by news organisations across the UK, including by the BBC.\n\nNewsnight contacted Ms Lamrani but she declined to be interviewed. \"My memory of that night is fading… I don't want to talk about it,\" she said.\n\nAnother witness quoted at the time was the broadcaster and architect George Clarke who told Newsnight on the day of the fire that he saw a man catch \"a kid\" thrown out of the window from the eighth floor.\n\nWhen we contacted him for this report, he told us he did not wish to make any comment on the matter at all. \"It's such a contentious issue and I think it's so hurtful to so many people,\" he said.\n\nThe news was first reported in this tweet from a journalist with a video of a witness at the scene\n\nOn the 16 June, two days after the fire, a dramatic account of a similar sounding incident appeared in The Sun newspaper. It was subsequently picked up by many other news organisations.\n\nThe story features photographs of a man holding a young girl. The Sun names him as \"Pat\" and says the picture was taken just after he had caught the girl, aged 4, who the newspaper said had been dropped from the fourth floor.\n\nHowever, we tracked down the man in the picture. His name is Oluwaseun Talabi, and the girl he is holding in the picture is actually his own daughter. The pair had escaped the fire by walking down from the 14th floor.\n\nBelief in this miracle doesn't seem to have diminished in the streets around the burned-out tower. If you ask local residents some will tell you that they are certain the story is true, although they didn't see it themselves.\n\nNewsnight has attempted to contact every person quoted as saying they did see the baby thrown and caught. Some told us that they had been misquoted. For some supposed witnesses, we found no evidence that they actually exist at all. None of those we could track down were willing to go on the record and give us an on-camera interview.\n\nOne local resident, Jody Martin, has a theory about where the baby story originated. He arrived at the scene of the fire at about the same time as the first fire crews, just after 01:00.\n\nJody Martin saw a woman holding a child outside a window to give it air\n\nHe says his attention was drawn to activity on the third or fourth floor.\n\n\"There was an African-Caribbean lady with her baby and she was leaning out the window,\" he says. \"It was more like a toddler. And there was smoke just billowing out behind us, so obviously she was just trying to get oxygen. So she was at the lowest point of the ledge, you know right down low, top half of her torso hanging out, but her infant at arm's length.\"\n\nJody is clear that the woman was only minutes away from being rescued by fire crews and wasn't throwing the baby, just trying to make sure it had enough air.\n\nAccording to psychologists it is common in fast moving situations for witnesses to see part of an event and then assume what happened next. There is nothing dishonest about this. It is just how we formulate memories.\n\nAs experts told us, human memory isn't a video tape - it is a best guess assembly of often incomplete or even contradictory information.\n\nThere is another reason we should perhaps be sceptical of this story. The physics of such a fall would make serious injury to any child and anyone who tried to catch it a probability according to medical experts.\n\nEven dropped from five storeys or 15m, an object would be travelling at 17.15m per second or 61.73km per hour (38mph).\n\nDouble the height to the 10th floor, or 30m, and an object is travelling at 24.25m per second or 87.3kmh (54.2mph).\n\nAny fall from above one storey would likely result in serious injury, irrespective of whether someone tries to catch the child or not, according to Dr Dan Magnus, Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.\n\n\"I would be sceptical of a baby falling from a very high height and someone catching that baby would somehow make the fall benign. I think that is difficult to understand,\" he said.\n\nIf this event had happened you would think that there would be some official record of it, but Newsnight has established that neither the police, nor the ambulance service know anything about it, and no children from Grenfell were treated at hospital for the serious physical injuries likely to have resulted from such a fall.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police could not have been clearer in their statement: \"We have no record of this incident.\"\n\nIt is often not possible to definitively say something didn't happen. All we can do is search for the witnesses and scrutinise the evidence.\n\nWe have done that and haven't turned up anything that suggests this amazing event actually happened. Indeed all the available evidence points to the opposite conclusion.\n\nDavid Grossman was reporting for BBC Newsnight. Watch his full report here.", "Google has found evidence that Russian agents spent tens of thousands of dollars on adverts in a bid to sway the 2016 US election, media reports say.\n\nSources quoted by the Washington Post say the adverts aimed to spread disinformation across Google's products including YouTube and Gmail.\n\nThey say the adverts do not appear to be from the same Kremlin-linked source that bought ads on Facebook.\n\nGoogle said it was investigating attempts to \"abuse\" its systems.\n\nUS intelligence agencies concluded earlier this year that Russia had tried to sway the election in favour of Donald Trump.\n\nThe Russian government strongly denies the claims and President Trump has denied any collusion with the Kremlin.\n\nThe issue is under investigation by US congressional committees and the Department of Justice.\n\nSources said to be close to the Google investigation said the company was looking into a group of adverts that cost less than $100,000 (£76,000).\n\nGoogle said in a statement: \"We have a set of strict ads policies including limits on political ad targeting and prohibitions on targeting based on race and religion. We are taking a deeper look to investigate attempts to abuse our systems, working with researchers and other companies, and will provide assistance to ongoing inquiries.\"\n\nMicrosoft said on Monday it was also investigating whether any US election adverts had been bought by Russians for its Bing search engine or other products.\n\nA spokesman told Reuters it had no further information at the moment.\n\nFacebook said in September that it had uncovered a Russian-funded campaign to promote divisive social and political messages on its network.\n\nIt said that $100,000 was spent on about 3,000 ads over a two-year period, ending in May 2017.\n\nFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg later said his company would pass the information to US investigators.", "Police told the driver the cheese had to be \"removed or eaten\" before he could leave\n\nA van driver was pulled over by police as he had too much cheese on board.\n\nOfficers found the vehicle was 41% over its weight limit, in Sawtry, Cambridgeshire on Monday.\n\nThe driver was left in a pickle as the van had 2,822lb (1,280kg) more cheese than it was allowed to carry. Officers said it had to be \"removed or eaten\".\n\nDuring a grilling, the driver was allowed to take some of the dairy produce away but made to call in another van to take the excess.\n\nBedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire road policing unit officers discovered the problematic produce, at a weighbridge off the A1.\n\nIt is not yet known exactly which varieties of cheese had grated with police.\n• None Would Wallace be a master of cheese\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gordon Strachan said genetics were to blame for Scotland's failure to beat Slovenia\n\nThe claim: Gordon Strachan, the former manager of Scotland, said after the country's failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia that his team lacked the height and strength to compete, saying that Scotland were the second-shortest team \"in the last campaign\".\n\nReality Check verdict: In recent years, Scotland have been among the shortest teams in Europe, when measuring average height of the squad - but not the second-shortest. However, height in football doesn't necessarily lead to success.\n\nAfter failing to lead Scotland to victory in their must-win World Cup qualifier against Slovenia, where did ex-manager Gordon Strachan lay the blame?\n\nScotland's opponents might not have been technically superior, but they had \"height and strength\" the Scots had been unable to combat, Strachan said.\n\n\"Genetically, we are behind,\" he said. \"In the last campaign we were the second-smallest, apart from Spain.\"\n\nStrachan's comments sparked a debate in the football world about whether Scotland, or any football team, needed more height in their team to succeed.\n\nReality Check looked at whether Strachan has a point.\n\nLittle and large. Shaun Wright-Phillips and Peter Crouch training for England.\n\nSlovenia are one of the tallest teams in Europe. Scotland's starting XI in Ljubljana were, on average, more than 3cm (1in) smaller than their opponents.\n\nStrachan's team, featuring players with an average height of 180.1cm, are actually in the top 10 of the \"shortest\" teams in Europe this year, according to research by the International Centre for Sport Studies (CIES) football observatory.\n\nIn fact, by the average measure, they are surpassed - or maybe undercut - by only Cyprus, Israel and Armenia, level with Spain.\n\nBased on research by the CIES, which excludes seven countries (none of whom qualified), only two of the 10 shortest teams - Spain and France - will qualify for Russia 2018.\n\nThe height of footballers does not necessarily reflect the national trend. Dutch men are the tallest in world, but their football team is currently one of the shortest in Europe.\n\nLionel Messi, in action here for Argentina against Ecuador, is 170cm (5ft 6in) tall.\n\nSeven out of the 10 tallest teams in 2017, excluding the World Cup hosts Russia, either qualified automatically - Serbia, Iceland, Belgium and Germany - or made the play-offs - Sweden, Greece and Denmark.\n\nSo it's certainly true that in the run-up to the World Cup, some of the tallest teams in Europe were in form this year.\n\nBut it's difficult to say whether these teams were successful because of their stature.\n\nStrachan also claimed that Scotland had been the second-shortest team in their previous qualifying campaign (for Euro 2016). But they were in fact the sixth-shortest in 2015. The eventual winners of the tournament were Portugal, who were also one of the shortest teams, suggesting height was not necessarily a bar to success.\n\nGlobally, the top 10 shortest teams in 2015 contained some of the most successful football nations, and four World Cup winners: Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Spain.\n\nAmong the tallest countries, there was only one previous World Cup winner: Germany.\n\nAt the top of the list, with an average height of 1.86m, was Serbia.\n\nWho has the tallest team? Average heights of European national teams in 2017.\n\nThis article has been updated since its original date of publication to reflect new data.", "Tuesday's papers have plenty of advice for the prime minister ahead of the next round of Brexit talks.\n\nThe Guardian says Theresa May must not subordinate her judgement to the whim of \"no deal Brexit hardliners\".\n\nThe paper says \"the reckless dogma that would drive us to a Brexit without a deal enjoys no majority in Parliament or the country\".\n\nFormer Prime Minister David Cameron's old spin doctor, Andy Coulson, writes in the Daily Telegraph that Mrs May should announce that she will stand down as leader before the next general election.\n\nHe says such a dramatic announcement could convince voters that \"it's not all about her but about the country\".\n\nThe Daily Mail columnist, Richard Littlejohn, is also frustrated with what he sees at the Tory Party's introspection.\n\nFifteen months on from the EU referendum, he complains, \"it's still all about them\". The only thing that matters, he says, is getting Britain out of the EU as quickly as possible.\n\nSeveral papers are alarmed by the warnings from the Care Quality Commission about the pressures facing the NHS and the care system.\n\nIt's the front page story in the Daily Mirror, which says \"savage Tory austerity\" is killing \"our most precious public service\" - although the government says the vast majority of patients are getting good care.\n\nThe Daily Mail says unhealthy lifestyles are to blame for increasing rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and dementia.\n\nThe Times says it's learnt that the term \"junior doctor\" could be banished from the NHS because it's viewed as demeaning.\n\nThe chief medical officer for England, Dame Sally Davies, has apparently said that doctors need job titles that give them \"the respect they deserve\".\n\nShe's backing a call to rename qualified doctors with medical degrees - many of whom are in their late 30s and have been working for 10 years. At a time of low morale, it is hoped changing job titles would be a cost-free way of making the doctors feel valued and improving patient care.\n\nThe Spectator reports that Culture Secretary Karen Bradley, who is responsible for government policy on broadcasting, has complained of being hounded by TV Licensing for not having a licence for her constituency office.\n\nA Culture department spokesman says the minister has now explained that she doesn't have a television in her office. The Spectator's gossip columnist, Steerpike, hopes that none of the minster's staff have been watching the BBC iPlayer on their office computers - an offence that risks a £1,000 fine.\n\nJon Lansman is reported to be running for a seat on Labour's ruling body\n\nThe Huffington Post reports that the founder of the the grassroots Labour movement, Momentum, is being lined up for a seat on Labour's ruling body.\n\nIt quotes \"multiple sources\" as saying that Jon Lansman, who's a close ally of Jeremy Corbyn, will run for one of three new places on the National Executive Committee.\n\nThe Times and the Daily Telegraph cast new light on a painting which the National Gallery describes as a Gainsborough masterpiece - but which it's now being suggested contains rude symbols and sexual innuendo intended as an insult to its subjects.\n\n\"Mr and Mrs Andrews\" portrays a fashionable young couple in a landscape soon after their marriage.\n\nThe artist's biographer, James Hamilton, has told the Cheltenham Literature Festival that the inclusion of two donkeys trapped in a pen in the background; a gun he believes is a phallic symbol; and what he believes to be a phallic drawing on the wife's skirt suggest Gainsborough had fallen out with the couple and was exacting revenge.", "Tourism is booming in the UK with nearly 40 million overseas people expected to have visited the country during 2017 - a record figure.\n\nTourist promotion agency VisitBritain forecasts overseas trips to the UK will increase 6% to 39.7 million with spending up 14% to £25.7bn this year.\n\nBritons are also holidaying at home in record numbers.\n\nBritish Tourist Authority chairman Steve Ridgway said tourism was worth £127bn annually to the economy.\n\nHe called the sector an \"economic powerhouse\" and a \"job creator right across Britain\".\n\n\"Two-and-a-half times bigger than the automotive industry, employing three million, tourism is one of our most successful exports and needs no trade deals to compete globally.\"\n\nThe UK has become a cheaper place to visit for tourists from overseas following the fall in the value of the pound since the Brexit vote last year.\n\nBut Mr Ridgway said: \"Tourism is a fiercely competitive global industry and you cannot just build a strong, resilient industry on a weaker currency.\n\n\"We must continue to invest in developing world-class tourism products, getting Britain on the wish-list of international and domestic travellers and we must make it easy for visitors to make that trip.\"\n\nThe London Eye has proved popular since it opened in 2000\n\nTourism Minister John Glen said: \"Tourism contributes billions to the UK economy and supports millions of jobs.\"\n\nHe added that the record figures for overseas and domestic holidaymakers were \"testament to our world-class attractions and the innovation of our tourism industry\".\n\nDuring the first six months of the year there were a record 23.1 million overseas visits to the UK - up 8% on the same period in 2016 - and the figures for July topped four million for the first time, with only a slightly smaller number of visits made during August.\n\nBritain's beaches and attractions have also attracted more domestic users with \"staycations\" on the rise.\n\nFrom January to June this year, domestic overnight holidays in England rose 7% to a record 20.4 million with visitors spending £4.6bn - a rise of 17% and another record.\n\nOn Monday, figures from trade body UK Finance showed UK tourists' debit card spending when abroad was down sharply compared with last summer, providing more evidence of the trend towards holidaying at home.\n\nSpending on UK debit cards overseas was down nearly 13% in August compared with the same month in 2016.", "Dairy farmers might, in some circumstances, receive higher prices after Brexit says the report\n\nThe profitability of the average UK farm could fall by as much as half after Brexit, new research suggests.\n\nThe report, by the Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), says the \"worst-case scenario\" would cut average farm profits from £38,000 a year to just £15,000.\n\nThe analysis tries to model the effects of cheaper imported food, reduced subsidies and more expensive labour.\n\nA government spokesman said the report was based on highly unlikely scenarios.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the European Union (EU) in March 2019.\n\nSome formal negotiations with the EU started in June, but so far, it is unclear how trade between the UK and the EU will change if the Brexit timetable is met.\n\nIn fact, the specific negotiations over a future trade deal have not even started.\n\nBut they will be particularly vital to the agricultural and horticultural industries because of the subsidies which are received under the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: \"This report is based on hypothetical and highly unlikely scenarios that do not reflect the government's negotiating position.\n\n\"Outside the EU and free from the bureaucracy of the Common Agricultural Policy, our farmers will be able to focus on growing, selling and exporting more fantastic produce.\"\n\nThe AHDB research looked at three possible outcomes of Brexit:\n\n\"Under the three scenarios outlined in the report, changes in the UK's trade relationships will impact farmers' bottom line when the UK leaves the single market, whether or not a free trade agreement is negotiated with the EU,\" said the Board.\n\nThe CAP gives UK farmers £3.1bn a year which, on the face of it, will disappear after Brexit, though the UK government has guaranteed to maintain \"overall\" farm subsidies or payments at the same level until 2022.\n\nAHDB, a statutory body funded by a levy on the agricultural industry, said Brexit would inevitably have a \"dramatic immediate impact\" on farm sectors that rely most on subsidies.\n\nThe effects of Brexit will not be uniform, though, and the position will be complex, depending on the sector and scenario being modelled.\n\nDairy and pig farmers may benefit from rising prices, the report says.\n\nOn the other hand, significant exporters such as cereal producers and sheep farmers would suffer due to the increased cost of exporting products to the EU.\n\nAnd where businesses rely on migrant workers, higher employment costs due to more stringent immigration restrictions will also push up farmers' costs dramatically, especially in horticulture.\n\nAn AHDB spokeswoman said there were thought to be between 50,000 and 80,000 EU nationals working in UK agriculture and horticulture, in both permanent and seasonal jobs.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mrs May said she would not answer \"hypothetical questions\"\n\nTheresa May has refused to say how she would vote if there was another EU referendum.\n\nThe prime minister, who backed Remain in last year's vote, was repeatedly asked if she would now vote for Brexit.\n\nThe PM, who said during the general election campaign that the UK had a \"brighter future\" after Brexit, added: \"I voted Remain for good reasons at the time but circumstances move on.\"\n\nDowning Street sources suggested it would be ridiculous to say the prime minister's comments raise doubts about whether she will deliver Brexit, as some such as ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage have said.\n\nConservative MP Bernard Jenkin, who was a leading campaigner for Brexit, said: \"She is entirely right to avoid being divisive.\n\n\"She is seeking to unite the country, not to perpetuate referendum divisions.\"\n\nFairly or not, Theresa May's hesitation in giving her answer on this hypothetical question will give pause for thought to those who harbour suspicions of her real commitment to Brexit.\n\nAnd her \"open and honest\" answer, which refused to come down on either side creates the strange situation where the prime minister appears unwilling to give full-throated support to her government's main policy.\n\nPresenter Iain Dale told Mrs May that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt had switched from Remain to Leave because former Chancellor George Osborne's gloomy economic predictions about the latter had failed to come true.\n\nHe asked Mrs May why she could not say she had changed her mind, given that she was leading the country into Brexit.\n\n\"Yes and I'm prime minister ensuring I'm going to deliver Brexit for the British people,\" she replied.\n\nPressed again, Mrs May said: \"I could say I would still vote Remain or I would vote Leave just to give you an answer to that question.\n\n\"I am being open and honest with you. What I did last time round was I looked at everything and I came to a judgement and I would do exactly the same this time round.\n\n\"But we are not having another referendum and that's absolutely crucial.\"\n\nMrs May's second in command, First Secretary of State Damian Green, also refused to say whether he would back Brexit if there was a referendum now.\n\nJeremy Corbyn called on Mrs May to guarantee migrants' rights\n\nMr Green, who was a board member of the campaign to keep Britain in the EU, told Channel 4 News: \"I don't resile from anything I said during the election campaign.\"\n\nBut he added that it was a \"meaningless\" question and \"purely hypothetical\".\n\nLiberal Democrat deputy leader Jo Swinson said: \"It is staggering that even the prime minister isn't convinced by the government's approach to Brexit.\n\n\"If Theresa May doesn't have any faith in her own government's policies, why is she still driving this country towards the cliff edge?\n\n\"Theresa May says she would weigh up the evidence again, she shouldn't deny that right to the British people.\n\n\"The public must have the chance to change their mind if they want to, once the government comes back with a deal.\"\n\nFormer UKIP leader Nigel Farage tweeted: \"How can Theresa May negotiate Brexit without believing in it?\"\n\nIn the same LBC interview, Mrs May said she could not guarantee the status of the estimated 1.2 million UK nationals living in other EU countries if Britain leaves the bloc without a deal.\n\nAnd she warned that rights held by more than three million EU nationals in the UK could \"fall away\" in a \"no deal\" scenario, something the government is actively preparing for if talks in Brussels fail.\n\n\"By definition, if there isn't a deal we won't have been able to agree with the EU what happens to UK citizens currently living in countries like Spain and Italy and other members of the EU,\" said the prime minister.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted: \"Unacceptable. The Tories' chaotic handling of Brexit means no deal is a real risk. Theresa May must guarantee EU migrants' rights now.\"", "Harvey Weinstein, the Oscar-winning film producer, has been accused of sexually assaulting three women\n\nAngelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow are the latest actresses to allege they were victims of sexual harassment by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.\n\nBoth said the incidents happened early in their careers.\n\nThey join a string of actresses accusing Weinstein of harassment. On Tuesday he also denied allegations of rape made in The New Yorker magazine.\n\nWeinstein's wife, designer Georgina Chapman, said on Tuesday that she was leaving him.\n\n\"My heart breaks for all the women who have suffered tremendous pain because of these unforgivable actions,\" the 41-year-old told People magazine. London-born Chapman, co-founder of fashion label Marchesa, and Weinstein, 65, have two children together.\n\nThe mogul has also been fired over the allegations by his Hollywood studio The Weinstein Company.\n\nFormer US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have added their voice to growing demonstrations of public outrage. Their eldest daughter Malia worked as an intern at The Weinstein Company in New York earlier this year.\n\nA statement released by the Obamas says they \"have been disgusted by the recent reports about Harvey Weinstein\".\n\nIt adds they \"celebrate the courage of women who have come forward\".\n\nAlso on Tuesday, Paltrow and Jolie both sent statements to the New York Times, which first reported allegations against him last week.\n\nJolie said in an email: \"I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did.\n\n\"This behaviour towards women in any field, any country is unacceptable.\"\n\nIn a statement, Paltrow alleged that, after Weinstein cast her in the leading role in Emma, he summoned her to his hotel suite, where he placed his hands on her and suggested massages in his bedroom.\n\nGwyneth Paltrow has joined the list of people accusing Harvey Weinstein\n\n\"I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified,\" she told the newspaper.\n\nShe said she told her then-boyfriend Brad Pitt about the incident, and said he confronted Weinstein.\n\n\"I thought he was going to fire me,\" she said.\n\nThe separate New Yorker report says that 16 former and current employees at Weinstein's companies told the magazine \"they witnessed or had knowledge of unwanted sexual advances and touching at events associated with Weinstein's films and in the workplace\".\n\nThe magazine quotes Italian actress and director Asia Argento and Lucia Stoller, now Lucia Evans - who says she was an aspiring actress when Weinstein allegedly approached her in 2004. Both say they were forced into sexual acts by the producer.\n\nA third woman, who did not want to be named, said Weinstein had \"forced himself on me sexually\".\n\nArgento said she has not spoken until now because she feared it would ruin her career to do so.\n\n\"That's why this story - in my case, it's 20 years old, some of them are old - has never come out,\" she told the New Yorker.\n\nAsia Argento, pictured in 2009, has spoken to the New Yorker magazine\n\nOther allegations in the piece came from Mira Sorvino, who won an Oscar in 1996 for her role in Mighty Aphrodite for Miramax, a studio headed by Weinstein at the time. She told the magazine that Weinstein had tried to pressure her into a relationship.\n\nRoseanna Arquette also said that she rejected Weinstein's advances and that she believes her acting career suffered as a result.\n\nWeinstein's spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister issued a statement in response to the article.\n\n\"Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr Weinstein,\" she said. \"Mr Weinstein has further confirmed that there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances.\n\n\"Mr Weinstein obviously can't speak to anonymous allegations, but with respect to any women who have made allegations on the record, Mr Weinstein believes that all of these relationships were consensual. Mr Weinstein has begun counselling, has listened to the community and is pursuing a better path.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Merrill This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHillary Clinton shared a statement saying that she was \"shocked and appalled\" by the revelations about Weinstein, who donated to her 2016 presidential campaign and has been a major donor to Mrs Clinton and Mr Obama's Democratic party.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None What next for Weinstein and Hollywood?", "Producer Harvey Weinstein and his wife, fashion designer Georgina Chapman, who has since said she is leaving him\n\nWith allegations of rape and sexual harassment swirling around Harvey Weinstein, it is - the Daily Mail says - Hollywood's darkest day. How did the Monster of Tinseltown get away with it for so long, it asks.\n\nAccounts by Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie in the New York Times that they were sexually harassed by the film producer are reported on most of the front pages.\n\nThe Guardian says the stories appear to illustrate a pattern of behaviour by Mr Weinstein that carried on for decades.\n\nThe New York Times - which has been chronicling the claims against Mr Weinstein - says his alleged behaviour was something of an open secret in Hollywood.\n\nMore established actresses were fearful of speaking out because they had work; less established ones were scared because they did not.\n\nA statement by Mr Weinstein's spokeswoman says he unequivocally denies any allegations of non-consensual sex.\n\nThe Times leads on Chancellor Philip Hammond's article for the paper, in which he says it would be irresponsible to spend taxpayers' money now in preparation for a \"no-deal\" Brexit.\n\nThe paper says Mr Hammond supports contingency planning in case the \"divorce\" talks collapse, but with money tight and the government trying to secure a deal, he's reluctant to approve spending unless the danger is imminent.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May's refusal to say whether she would vote for Brexit if another EU referendum were held now, is widely reported - and is the Guardian's main story.\n\nIt says her refusal was seized upon by opposition parties as a sign that she's not fully committed to a Brexit she's promising to deliver.\n\nThe Sun describes it as alarming and says it sparked questions about whether she believed leaving the EU was the right course for the UK.\n\nFor the Daily Telegraph's sketch-writer, Michael Deacon, the person in charge of Brexit apparently still can't say she would actually vote for it. It was - he says - no less than a vote of no confidence in herself.\n\nIn the Spectator's judgement, refusing to give your wholehearted support to leaving doesn't exactly help the UK's position in the negotiations.\n\nA survey has found that a third of children under five now own a tablet device. The Daily Mail reports that parents upgrading their own devices have been handing down their old ones to keep their children quiet.\n\nResearchers who carried out the survey tell the paper: \"Constant access to technology is here to stay - and pre-school children are keeping up with the pace.\"\n\nAnd the UK's hottest-ever ready meal has gone on sale - an Indian curry made with a chilli that is 200 times hotter than Tabasco sauce.\n\nAccording to the Mirror, the Morrison's Volcanic Vindaloo comes with a rating of six chillies on its packaging - and will only be sold to over-16s.", "Theresa May has pledged to tackle social and racial injustice in the UK\n\nIt is fitting, perhaps, that the launch of the government's so-called \"race disparities audit\" comes the day after American economist Richard Thaler was awarded a Nobel prize for his work on behavioural economics and nudging, because that is what this project is about.\n\nIt is a giant nudge to change behaviour on issues of race inequality. The odd thing is that the project is not a government trying to nudge the people. It is a government trying to nudge itself.\n\nThe prime minister has dedicated her premiership to fighting burning injustices and says she is determined to shine a light on disparities between different racial groups in the UK on a range of areas - health, education, job prospects, housing and so on.\n\nA focus on the many and often troubling differences is - of course - no bad thing, but people might well wonder why we need a public website to get Whitehall departments to take an interest.\n\nThe race audit commissioned no new research.\n\nAll the information on the website comes from Whitehall departments, the vast majority of which is already in the public domain.\n\nIndeed, most of the shocking headlines of disparity from the audit have been reported upon, discussed and debated many times.\n\nGraduates from ethnic minorities in Britain are less likely to be in work than their white peers, research has found\n\nThis shouldn't come as a revelation.\n\nAnother prime minister, James Callaghan, established the Commission for Racial Equality back in 1976 to deal with racial disparity and discrimination. It is still going, now part of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, a government quango whose job is to promote racial equality.\n\nThe Social Mobility Commission, another quango set up in 2010, has written many reports on racial disparities, and sent them to ministers.\n\nIt is perhaps a recognition of the inability of these bodies to get their messages across over decades that we apparently need a race audit website - a pull together of 60 of all the 300 data sets that relate to the experience of different racial groups.\n\nThe people being nudged are the people who sit around the cabinet table with the prime minister - her own government. \"Explain or change,\" the PM will tell them. Where disparities exist, ministers will be encouraged to explain why they exist.\n\nThere may be understandable reasons why all races do not experience the same outcomes.\n\nIt might be a factor of demographics or income, cultural differences or even the chances of developing certain medical conditions. But if the explanations don't stack up, then departments will be expected to introduce measures to change them.\n\nToday's launch is accompanied by some new initiatives. The Department of Work and Pensions has used its own data to identify 20 hot spots where people from racial minorities struggle to access the jobs market, and will now reintroduce a mentoring scheme that was abandoned 10 years ago.\n\nThe question remains, though. Given that ministers have known about these \"troubling\" and \"shocking\" disparities for years or even decades, why does it take a prime ministerial nudge to get them to take action?", "Changing the positioning of healthier foods can change shopping habits\n\nHow do you get people to eat more healthily?\n\nYou could construct some powerful arguments about how an obesity epidemic is leading to more diseases such as Type II diabetes and coronary heart conditions.\n\nYou could put large red traffic light signs on unhealthy foods and engage in expensive public information campaigns warning that overeating products high in salt, sugar and fat can reduce life expectancy.\n\nOr you could just change where you put the salad boxes on the supermarket shelves.\n\nThe last option is an example of nudge theory at work, a theory popularised and developed by Richard Thaler, the University of Chicago economist who was today announced as this year's recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics.\n\nProf Thaler's central insight is that we are not the rational beings beloved of more traditional economic theory.\n\nGiven two options, we are likely to pick the wrong one even if that means making ourselves less well off.\n\nLack of thinking time, habit and poor decision making mean that even when presented with a factual analysis (for example on healthy eating) we are still likely to pick burger and chips.\n\nWe're hungry, we're in a hurry and burger and chips is what we always buy.\n\nNudge theory takes account of this, based as it is on the simple premise that people will often choose what is easiest over what is wisest.\n\nTests have shown that putting healthier foods on a higher shelf increases sales. The food is more likely to be in someone's eye line and therefore \"nudge\" that person towards the purchase - whether they had any idea about the obesity argument or not.\n\nSuch theories, which sit in a big bucket of academic study called \"behavioural economics\", are what Prof Thaler is famous for.\n\nSo famous that the government now has its own Behavioural Insights Team, otherwise known as the \"nudge unit\".\n\nIt helps formulate policies, for example on pensions, to try and make us behave \"more rationally\" and push us towards better outcomes.\n\nShoppers will spend more on a credit or debit card in a food shop compared with cash\n\nOne of its projects revealed that charitable giving via your pay packet - called payroll giving - increased dramatically if people were told who else in their peer group (maybe Facebook friends) were also giving via that method.\n\nAttaching a picture of \"mates giving money\" also improved the level of charitable donations. We tend to like doing what our friends like doing - called the peer group norm.\n\nProf Thaler also gave us the concept of \"mental accounting\" - that we will tend to divide our expenditure into separate blocks even though they come from the same source.\n\nFor example, we will spend more on a credit or debit card in a food shop compared with cash even though all the money ultimately comes from our earnings.\n\nThen there is his work on the \"planner-doer\" syndrome - that we lack self-control, will act in our own short-term self-interest and need extra incentives to plan long term than simply being told that, rationally, it is good idea.\n\nHow many times do we let that gym membership lapse, despite our best intentions?\n\nHaving just received news of the award, Prof Thaler told me that his job was to \"add human beings\" to economic theory.\n\nAnd today he has been rewarded, both via the recognition of the Nobel Prize and by the not inconsiderable sum of £845,000 in prize money.\n\nAsked how he would spend the money Prof Thaler gave a succinct answer. \"Irrationally.\"", "Police said the bike's rider failed to stop and left the scene \"at speed\"\n\nA boy has died after he was shot in the head while riding pillion on a motorbike, police have said.\n\nJames Meadows, 17, came off the motorcycle after being shot at Lyme Cross Road, Huyton, at about 21:40 BST on Sunday.\n\nMerseyside Police said the bike's rider had failed to stop and had left the scene \"at speed\".\n\nHe died in hospital on Monday evening. A murder investigation has been launched by Merseyside Police.\n\nA police spokesman said the victim's family had been informed and a post-mortem examination will be carried out.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "BAE Systems is planning to cut almost 2,000 jobs in military, maritime and intelligence services, the firm says.\n\nA total of 750 posts will go at the Warton and Samlesbury plants in Lancashire where parts for the Eurofighter Typhoon are manufactured.\n\nBAE is facing an order gap for the Typhoon so wants to slow production before an expected order from Qatar.\n\nIn all, a total of 1,400 roles will go across England in the firm's air and information business,\n\nOutside Lancashire, 400 posts will close in Brough, East Yorkshire, 230 will go at RAF Marham and 15 are being lost at RAF Leeming.\n\nMeanwhile 340 maritime jobs will be lost in Portsmouth and Solent region and a further 180 posts will go in London, Guildford and other locations.\n\nMost of the pain for BAE Systems will be felt in its air business.\n\nOrders for the Typhoon jet have slowed down amid stiff competition from the new F-35, part of which is made by BAE Systems, and from France's Rafale and the US F-16.\n\nOverall, the multinational Typhoon/Eurofighter programme, which includes Germany, Italy and Spain, has received 599 orders from eight customers.\n\nBAE has already sold more than 70 Typhoons to Saudi Arabia and had been hoping to sell more. The political controversy surrounding arms sales to the Middle East Kingdom probably hasn't helped.\n\nSupport jobs will be lost too as the RAF Tornado comes to the end of its life, with the RAF planning to retire its squadrons by 2019. Orders have also slowed down for the venerable Hawk Trainer jet.\n\nBoth Typhoon and Hawk production lines will stay open for now, but for how much longer?\n\nBAE needs a clear signal from its main customer, the Ministry of Defence, as to what comes next after the F-35.\n\nUnions have already criticised the government for buying more military equipment from the US.\n\nWhile the UK now has an industrial strategy to sustain the production of warships in the UK, it does not appear to have a similar strategy for the air defence sector.\n\nIn a statement, the defence contractor said it was making organisational changes to \"boost competitiveness, accelerate technology innovation and improve operational excellence\".\n\nIt added that the restructuring of its cyber-security wing would \"drive continued growth\".\n\nThe company's chief executive, Charles Woodburn, said the changes \"unfortunately include proposed redundancies at a number of operations\".\n\nHe added: \"I recognise this will be difficult news for some of our employees and we are committed to do everything we can to support those affected.\"\n\nBAE said that most of the military air job cuts would take place in the next two years and that it wanted to achieve as many voluntary redundancies as possible. The changes are due to begin on 1 January.\n\nThe BAE plant in Samlesbury is one of those affected by the cuts\n\nThe Unite union reacted with anger and assistant general secretary Steve Turner said: \"These planned job cuts will not only undermine Britain's sovereign defence capability, but devastate communities across the UK who rely on these skilled jobs and the hope of a decent future they give to future generations.\n\n\"These are world-class workers with years of training and expertise on which an additional four jobs rely upon in the supply chain.\n\n\"The UK government must take back control of our nation's defence and with it, play its part in supporting UK defence manufacturing jobs.\"\n\nBusiness Minister Claire Perry insisted that the job cuts at BAE Systems were due to restructuring and \"not related to UK defence spending decisions\".\n\nResponding to an urgent question in the House of Commons, Ms Perry said the government wished to continue to procure from BAE, but said \"it would be wrong for the government to interfere in the company's restructuring\".\n\nShadow defence secretary Nia Griffith said: \"It is time for the government to address the clear uncertainty that is felt by the industry and come forward with an urgent plan to save these jobs.\n\n\"This must include the possibility of bringing forward orders to provide additional work for BAE's employees, such as replacing the Red Arrows' fleet of Hawk aircraft that are approaching the end of their service life.\"", "The singer scored 18 hit singles in the UK\n\nIt all began with the bongos.\n\nAs a seven year-old in 1950s Michigan, Susan Kay Quatro would sit with her father's jazz band, the Art Quatro Trio, playing percussion and getting an early education in stagecraft.\n\nBut her life changed when she saw Elvis and the Beatles on television.\n\nGrabbing the Fender Precision Bass her father had loaned her, she started a band with her sisters Patti and Arlene.\n\nThe Pleasure Seekers' early singles, especially Never Thought You'd Leave Me and What A Way To Die, are still sought after by garage rock collectors - and the band soon found themselves sharing the bill with fellow Detroit rock stars Iggy Pop and Alice Cooper.\n\nWhen the band broke up in 1971, Quatro was headhunted by British pop impresario Mickie Most, and launched a hugely successful solo career, marrying the double-tracked drums of glam rock to the strolling bass lines of Motown.\n\nOne of the first female rock stars, she sold 55 million records, with number one singles including Can The Can and Devil Gate Drive; while setting hearts aflutter on TV sitcom Happy Days as Leather Tuscadero, the rebellious younger sister of The Fonz's girlfriend, Pinky.\n\nOne of rock's true trailblazers, she's about to set off on a UK tour. She told the BBC about shooting Alice Cooper, becoming a museum exhibit and what's inside her \"Ego Room\".\n\nThe singer was a regular presence on Top of the Pops in the 1970s\n\nYou were part of a Detroit scene that also included Iggy Pop, MC5 and Alice Cooper. What was that like?\n\nIt was an extremely exciting time. I'm very proud of the Detroit pedigree. Musicians from Detroit have an energy level, an edge that's second to none. I don't know why it is. It just is.\n\nWho were your inspirations?\n\nI'm a Motown fanatic. I cut my teeth on James Jamerson, who played bass in Motown's house band, The Funk Brothers. He's my absolute hero.\n\nOnce. I ran down into the pit [in front of the stage] and started playing bass next to him. He gave me the biggest compliment. He said: 'Not bad for a white chick.'\n\nI read that you once shot Alice Cooper with a rubber dart. Is that true?\n\nIt was on the Welcome To My Nightmare tour, which was 80 shows. We got bored, so we decided to have a dart gun fight. Alice decided to hide behind a television and, you know, he's got a little bit of a large nose. And I saw his nose sticking out, so I whacked him. I gave him a black eye!\n\nHe said his first thought was, 'Ouch' and his second thought was, 'Good shot!'\n\nYour first number one was Can The Can. How did you celebrate?\n\nI was at a gig up North and we were staying at some lady's bedsit. We were in the bedroom, all celebrating with a bottle of champagne when the lady knocked on the door and said, 'Lights off! It's 10 o'clock.' So that was our celebration!\n\nThe singer recently recorded an album with Glam rock cohorts Andy Scott (from Sweet) and Don Powell (from Slade)\n\nWhy do you think you had more chart success over here than at home in the 70s?\n\nI had more singles released over here, that's all. I toured America successfully all the time and Happy Days made me into a household name over there.\n\nThere's a famous scene where you kiss The Fonz [Henry Winkler]. Did you get any hate mail?\n\nNot at all! In fact, I heard from the main secretary on Happy Days that, after Henry, I got the most fan mail, as Leather Tuscadero. So that's a big compliment!\n\nHappy Days isn't your only acting role - what's been your favourite?\n\nHappy Days is hard to beat but recently I loved Midsomer Murders, where I got electrocuted.\n\nQuatro got her role on Happy Days without auditioning, after the show's producer saw her poster on his daughter's bedroom wall\n\nIs it true that your leather catsuit is now in the Victoria & Albert museum?\n\nI gave them one of my jumpsuits - a gold one. I have to keep reminding them it's only on loan! But I have loads here in my house, in my Ego Room, and I still wear jumpsuits now.\n\nSorry, did you say Ego Room?\n\nYes! I have an Ego Room on the third floor. My entire life's in there - videos, DVDs, suits, guitars, pictures all over the wall, scrapbooks, awards, everything. Even the red book from This Is Your Life on the table.\n\nThe sign on the door says, \"Ego Room - Mind Your Head\".\n\nOn your last album, you covered Goldfrapp's Strict Machine - which itself references Can The Can. What's it like to know you're still influencing new bands?\n\nIt's fantastic. It's a little bit of humbly-accepted applause.\n\nI recently found out KT Tunstall is a fan. In fact, she stayed here last night and we did three songs together!\n\nSuzi Quatro in her trademark catsuit, with an actual cat\n\nYou were one of the first female rock stars - did people come to you for advice?\n\nOh God, yes. I was a bit of a benchmark for a lot of girls. I was able to be the leader of the gang, with the guys, and still keep my femininity - which is the difficult part.\n\nAnd now you've got an honorary doctorate in music!\n\nI have! I received it in Cambridge [from Anglia Ruskin University] dressed in a cap and a gown. It was such an honour.\n\nDo you have to give lectures now?\n\nYes - I talk about how to survive in this industry, mainly.\n\nLearn one instrument properly. Learn to read and write [music]. And gig. Because you don't know your craft until you can entertain the drunk at the bar who doesn't want to see you.\n\nIt feels like a lot of artists don't get that schooling these days.\n\nThey're just famous for being famous. It's just so stupid. I hate it.\n\nI've been on the road for 53 years and I'm still learning. Don't tell me these guys who've been working at McDonald's and go on X Factor have any tools to deal with fame. That's not how stars are discovered.\n\nYou're about to hit the road with The Osmonds and Hot Chocolate. Do you like doing nostalgia tours?\n\nI like it as long as I'm headlining!\n\nAfter everything you've achieved, what's left on your bucket list?\n\nI just had my first novel released, called The Hurricane. I'd like a movie of that made, and I'd like a proper movie of my life.\n\nThe Legends Live Tour - featuring Suzi Quatro, David Essex, The Osmonds and Hot Chocolate - starts on Friday, 13 October in Glasgow.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "George Clooney has called the alleged actions of Weinstein 'indefensible'.\n\nGeorge Clooney and Jennifer Lawrence have joined the list of Hollywood stars condemning Harvey Weinstein.\n\nThe co-founder of The Weinstein Company faces sexual harassment claims dating back nearly three decades, which came to light in the New York Times.\n\nClooney, whose big-screen big break was a Weinstein film, said the producer's alleged actions were \"indefensible\".\n\nWeinstein, who has been fired by the board of his company, disputes the New York Times report.\n\nHe has vowed to take legal action against the newspaper, which said in the report that he had reached at least eight settlements with women.\n\nJennifer Lawrence, who won an Oscar for his film Silver Linings Playbook, has also now spoken about the allegations, saying she was \"deeply disturbed\".\n\nJennifer Lawrence with Harvey Weinstein at the GLAAD Media Awards in 2013\n\nClooney, who was given his first big movie role as an actor by Weinstein in 1996's From Dusk Till Dawn and as a director in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, said he was previously unaware of the allegations.\n\n\"The part we're hearing now about eight women being paid off, I didn't hear anything about that and I don't know anyone that did,\" he said in an interview with The Daily Beast.\n\n\"That's a whole other level and there's no way you can reconcile that. There's nothing to say except that it's indefensible.\"\n\nClooney said he had known Weinstein for 20 years. \"We've had dinners, we've been on location together, we've had arguments. But I can tell you that I've never seen any of this behaviour - ever,\" he said.\n\n\"Maybe that's what good will come out of this - that not just in Hollywood, although Hollywood is now the focus, but in all of these cases the victims will feel that they will be listened to, and that they don't need to be afraid.\"\n\nLawrence also released a statement, five years on from working with Weinstein on Silver Linings Playbook, for which she won the best actress Oscar.\n\n\"I was deeply disturbed to hear the news about Harvey Weinstein's behaviour,\" she told Variety.\n\n\"I worked with Harvey five years ago and I did not experience any form of harassment personally, nor did I know about any of these allegations. This kind of abuse is inexcusable and absolutely upsetting.\"\n\nJessica Chastain said she had been \"warned\" about working with Weinstein\n\nActress Jessica Chastain, who has appeared in The Martian and Zero Dark Thirty, also spoke out on Tuesday, saying she had been \"warned\" about working with Weinstein.\n\nUnlike others in the industry, who have said they were not aware of his alleged actions, the Oscar winner tweeted her reaction.\n\n\"I was warned from the beginning. The stories were everywhere. To deny that is to create an environment for it to happen again.\"\n\nShe also responded on social media to a statement from Kate Winslet, who said the allegations made her \"angry\", and also noted that more men should be speaking 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActress Emma Watson also tweeted on Tuesday afternoon about women being sexually harassed, but did not elaborate on what she was referring 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 3 by Emma Watson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCillian Murphy, whose TV drama Peaky Blinders is distributed by The Weinstein Company in the US, said the alleged behaviour was \"appalling\".\n\n\"It's great that it's been exposed and I admire all of these women that have come forward,\" he told BBC 5 live's Afternoon Edition. \"We can't allow behaviour like that to be in our industry or in any industry really.\n\n\"When people are honest and speak up, that's all that people need to do. It shouldn't be tolerated in any walk of life so why should it be tolerated in the entertainment industry?\"\n\nOver the weekend, Weinstein stepped down from the board of directors at the US charity Robin Hood, which describes itself as \"New York City's largest poverty-fighting organisation\", the charity told BBC News.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Fabio Rochemback played for Middlesbrough from 2005 to 2008\n\nBrazilian footballer Fabio Rochemback - formerly of Barcelona and Middlesbrough - has been arrested after an alleged cockfighting ring was busted in the country's south.\n\nA police operation was conducted at a farm in Rio Grande do Sul state, reported news site Globo.\n\nIt said 89 roosters were seized and more than $100,000 (£75,000) in cash.\n\nHowever, his father said his son was not present at the scene. Cockfighting is banned in Brazil.\n\nUOL Sport reported that police arrested 57 people, out of 147 present during the early-morning raid close to Palmeira das Missoe.\n\nBut Rochemback's father Juarez said they had been together at the family farm elsewhere in the state.\n\nFabio Rochemback, now retired from football, was part of Brazil's national team.\n\nHe also played for Sport Club Internacional, Barcelona and Sporting Lisbon, before joining Middlesbrough in August 2005.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCatalan President Carles Puigdemont and other regional leaders have signed a declaration of independence from Spain, following the disputed referendum.\n\nHowever, they say the move will not be implemented for several weeks to allow talks with the government in Madrid.\n\nThe document calls for Catalonia to be recognised as an \"independent and sovereign state\".\n\nThe move was immediately dismissed by the Spanish central government in Madrid.\n\nA 1 October referendum in the north-eastern province - which Catalan leaders say resulted in a Yes vote for independence - was declared invalid by Spain's Constitutional Court.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Mr Puigdemont told the Catalan parliament in Barcelona that the region had won the right to be independent as a result of the vote.\n\nThe referendum resulted in almost 90% of voters backing independence, Catalan officials say. But anti-independence voters largely boycotted the ballot - which had a reported turnout of 43% - and there were several reports of irregularities.\n\nNational police were involved in violent scenes as they manhandled voters while implementing the legal ruling banning the referendum.\n\nA pro-independence rally was held near the Catalan regional parliament in Barcelona\n\nThe declaration reads: \"We call on all states and international organisations to recognise the Catalan republic as an independent and sovereign state.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pablo Insa Iglesias and Elisabeth Besó sit on opposite sides of the argument\n\nMr Puigdemont told the regional parliament that the \"people's will\" was to break away from Madrid, but he also said he wanted to \"de-escalate\" the tension around the issue.\n\n\"We are all part of the same community and we need to go forward together. The only way forward is democracy and peace,\" he told deputies.\n\nBut he also said Catalonia was being denied the right to self-determination, and paying too much in taxes to the central government in Madrid.\n\nSpain's Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria responded to Tuesday's developments by saying: \"Neither Mr Puigdemont nor anybody else can claim... to impose mediation.\n\n\"Any dialogue between democrats has to take place within the law.\"\n\nShe added: \"After having come so far, and taken Catalonia to the greatest level of tension in its history, President Puigdemont has now subjected his autonomous region to its greatest level of uncertainty.\n\n\"The speech the president... gave today is that of a person who does not know where he is, where he's going, nor who he wants to go there with.\"\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has called an extraordinary cabinet meeting for Wednesday morning to address the latest moves in the crisis.\n\nBy the BBC's Tom Burridge, in Barcelona\n\nAs Catalonia's leader announced he would declare independence, thousands of his supporters, watching his speech nearby, on a big screen, were euphoric.\n\nBut seconds later - when Carles Puigdemont qualified his announcement - and said the declaration would be suspended for several weeks, the disappointment was visible in the crowd.\n\nMr Puigdemont's language was stark, claiming that he had to follow the will of the Catalan people.\n\nBut he is playing for time - offering a window for the possibility of dialogue with Madrid.\n\nHis ultimate aim, to pressure the Spanish government to allow a legitimate referendum, remains.\n\nBut it's highly unlikely that the Spanish government will accept that and there are signals now that its patience is wearing thin.\n\nCatalonia's centre-right, centre-left coalition government only had a majority of MPs in the regional parliament with the support of another small pro-independence party, on the far left. That party is unhappy that there has been no clear declaration of independence. And so Catalonia's awkward coalition of pro-independence parties feels more fragile.\n\nIndependence supporters had been sharing the Catalan hashtag #10ODeclaració (10 October Declaration) on Twitter, amid expectations that Mr Puigdemont would ask parliament to declare independence on the basis of the referendum law it passed last month.\n\nBut influential figures including Barcelona's mayor Ada Colau and European Council President Donald Tusk had urged Mr Puigdemont to step back from declaring independence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do Scottish nationalists think about Catalonia?\n\nCatalonia, a part of the Spanish state for centuries but with its own distinct language and culture, enjoys broad autonomy under the Spanish constitution.\n\nHowever, a 2005 amendment redefining the region as a \"nation\", boosting the status of the Catalan language and increasing local control over taxes and the judiciary, was reversed by the Constitutional Court in 2010.\n\nThe economic crisis further fuelled discontent and pro-independence parties took power in the region in the 2015 elections.\n\nCatalonia is is one of Spain's wealthiest regions, accounting for a quarter of the country's exports. But a stream of companies have announced plans to move their head offices out of Catalonia in response to the crisis.\n\nThe European Union has made clear that should Catalonia split from Spain, the region would cease to be part of the EU.\n\nAre you in the region? E-mail us at haveyoursay@bbc.co.ukwith your stories.\n\nYou can also contact us in the following ways:", "Your fluffy pillows and memory foam mattress could be helping to reduce CO2\n\nCarbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are contributing to global warming, so could technologies removing some of the gas from the atmosphere help slow the process?\n\nWhen you tuck yourself into bed tonight - curling up on your memory foam mattress and fluffy pillows - consider this: you could be helping to reduce climate change.\n\nThis is because CO2 can now be captured from the air and stored in a range of everyday items in your home and on the street.\n\nIt can be used to make plastics for a whole host of things: the insulation in your fridge-freezer; the paint on your car; the soles of your shoes; and the binding of that new book you haven't read yet.\n\nEven the concrete your street is made of could contain captured CO2.\n\nUK-based Econic Technologies has invented a way of encouraging CO2 - a typically unreactive gas - to react with the petrochemical raw materials used in the making of many plastics.\n\nIn this catalysed form, the CO2 can make up to 50% of the ingredients needed for making plastic. And recycling existing CO2 in this way reduces the amount of new CO2 emissions usually resulting from the process.\n\n\"Our aim is that by 2026, the technology will be used to make at least 30% of the polyols [the units making up plastic] made globally, and that would reduce CO2 emission by 3.5 million tonnes each year,\" explains Rowena Sellens, chief executive of Econic Technologies.\n\n\"This is equivalent to taking more than two million cars off the road.\"\n\nCarbonCure's Robert Niven thinks his firm's concrete is far more environmentally friendly\n\nThe company is currently working with partners in industry to introduce its technology to market.\n\nCanadian company CarbonCure Technologies is recycling CO2 and putting it into concrete.\n\nCarbonCure takes waste CO2 from industrial emitters - such as fertiliser producers - and injects controlled doses of the liquid gas directly into the concrete truck or mixer.\n\nThe reaction that takes place creates calcium carbonate particles that become permanently bound within the concrete - and make the concrete up to 20% stronger.\n\nToday, CarbonCure's technology is installed in more than 60 concrete plants across Canada and the US, supplying hundreds of construction projects.\n\nAnother company, Carbon Engineering, captures CO2 and uses it to make diesel and jet fuel. While Carbon Clean Solutions, in the Indian port of Tuticorin, captures CO2 from a coal-fired power plant and turns it into soda ash (sodium carbonate), an ingredient in fertilisers, synthetic detergents and dyes.\n\nBut will such carbon capture efforts really make much difference?\n\nSimply put, levels of \"greenhouse gases\" - CO2, methane and nitrous oxide are the main ones - have been rising rapidly because we've been burning fossil fuels - coal, oil and gas - to make electricity and power our transportation, amongst other human activities.\n\nShould we be reducing the amount of CO2 used in making plastics, or simply using less plastic?\n\nAt the 2015 Paris climate conference, 195 countries agreed to try to keep global temperatures to within 2C of pre-industrial times by reducing emissions.\n\nBut to achieve this target by 2030, the world needs to cut emissions - CO2 accounts for about 70% - by 12 to 14 gigatonnes per year, says John Christensen, director of a partnership between the UN Environment Programme and the Technical University of Denmark.\n\nEconic, by contrast, hopes that by 2026, its technology will be responsible for reducing CO2 emissions by 3.5 million tonnes each year.\n\nAnd CarbonCure has demonstrated that its technology can help a typical medium-sized concrete producer reduce CO2 emissions by 900 tonnes a year. Globally, the concrete industry could reduce CO2 emissions by more than 700 million tonnes a year, the company believes.\n\n\"It's great to have these options coming up,\" says Mr Christensen, \"but there's no silver bullet, no single solution.\"\n\nGreenpeace's Doug Parr thinks renewable energy is a better way to reduce CO2 emissions\n\nEnvironmentalists are also concerned that such carbon capture technologies merely delay the fundamental shift society needs to make to become a low-carbon economy. A plastics factory producing less CO2 is still environmentally unfriendly, the argument goes.\n\n\"Research into new technologies and approaches that can help reduce carbon emissions is vital, but it must not become an excuse to delay action on tackling the root of the problem - our dependence on fossil fuels,\" says Doug Parr, chief scientist at Greenpeace UK.\n\n\"A process that appears to reduce emissions or increase efficiency can lock us into maintaining industries that could be replaced with much greener options.\"\n\nIn addition, Mr Christensen points out that these carbon capture technologies tend to be very costly because they are so small-scale.\n\n\"The advances are positive but it's far from what is needed,\" he argues.\n\nAnother challenge is what to do with the recycled carbon. Some have suggested burying it in the ground or deep under the ocean, but the consequences of this are not fully understood.\n\nSo it's better to reduce the amount of emissions we produce in the first place through increased use of renewable energies, such as wind, hydro and solar power, environmentalists argue. This could reduce emissions by up to 50% of the amount needed.\n\n\"Use all the technologies available to bend the [emissions] curve down. Then carbon capture can come in,\" says Mr Christensen.\n\n\"It could have an important role to play.\"", "Students at Dunraven School in south London listened as Theresa May explained the audit\n\nTheresa May has warned public services there will be \"nowhere to hide\" if they treat people differently on the basis of their race.\n\nA new government website shows disparities in educational attainment, health, employment and treatment by police and courts between ethnicities.\n\nThe PM said institutions must \"explain or change\" any variations - but critics are demanding action from ministers.\n\nLabour says government must accept its role in exacerbating injustice.\n\n\"People who have lived with discrimination don't need a government audit to make them aware of the scale of the challenge,\" Mrs May said.\n\n\"This audit means that for society as a whole - for government, for our public services - there is nowhere to hide.\"\n\nAmong those contacting the BBC, Shaneil, from Moss Side, Manchester, said: \"It shouldn't matter where you come from or your race. You should be equal, you should be able to do anything you want to do.\n\n\"We need more different ethnicities to be in power as well.\"\n\nJoseph G Jones, of the Gypsy Council, said the government was failing its Romani and Traveller communities with \"multi-discrimination\" across people's lifetimes.\n\n\"The younger generations shouldn't have to put up with endemic ongoing discrimination - for the time being there is little light at the end of the tunnel,\" he said.\n\nAnd Victoria Stevens, a Ukrainian who has lived in the UK for 18 years told the BBC she had no problem in applying for jobs, as she had a mechanical engineering degree, plenty of work experience, and her late husband's English surname.\n\nBut she added: \"However, when it came to career progression, I found that a British candidate would get a promotion above me, every time.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Awal Hassan tells Radio 4's Today he was unable to take out a loan for a council flat\n\nAlmost all the data released on 'Ethnicity Facts and Figures' is already publicly available and no new data was commissioned for the audit.\n\nThis audit is a giant nudge to change behaviour on issues of race inequality. The odd thing is that the project is not a government trying to nudge the people. It is a government trying to nudge itself.\n\nThe prime minister has dedicated her premiership to fighting burning injustices and says she is determined to shine a light on disparities between different racial groups in the UK on a range of areas - health, education, job prospects, housing and so on.\n\nA focus on the many and often troubling differences is - of course - no bad thing, but people might well wonder why we need a public website to get Whitehall departments to take an interest.\n\nAnd given that ministers have known about these \"troubling\" and \"shocking\" disparities for years or even decades, why does it take a prime ministerial nudge to get them to take action?\n\nCritics from ethnic minority backgrounds, including former deputy London mayor Munira Mirza, in a letter to The Times, said the \"crude and tendentious\" approach of comparing the data in the website risked \"promoting a grievance culture and policies that harm the communities they aspire to help\".\n\nThey said prejudice had declined \"markedly\" and while injustice must be challenged, there were often many underlying factors to explain differences.\n\nCommunities Secretary Sajid Javid denied it would drive a grievance culture but would help identify disparities.\n\n\"There are hundreds of thousands of British Pakistani women and Bangladeshi women who don't speak proper English, who don't speak English at all,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"That might be through choice in some cases, it might be a cultural issue. But that is a big issue because that does then hold those women back from the employment market and other opportunities.\"\n\nLabour's Dawn Butler said government cuts to services had disproportionately affected women, ethnic minorities, disabled and older people.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, she said the PM had \"done nothing but exacerbate the problems\".\n\n\"Far from tackling the burning injustices she's added fuel to the fire. We need solutions and a sustained effort to really tackle burning injustices, talking shop's just not going to cut it.\"\n\nAlthough the audit does not focus on government policies, Mrs May is launching a number of measures to combat the differences discovered.\n\nThey include Department for Work and Pensions \"hotspots\" to help people from ethnic minorities get jobs, and traineeships for 16-24 year-olds.\n\nUnder the plans, the Ministry of Justice will also adopt recommendations from the Lammy Review, including demanding that prisons have performance indicators to assess how inmates are treated and how representative their workforce is.\n\nDavid Lammy MP told BBC News the data was \"not all doom and gloom\" and \"some progress\" had been made.\n\n\"The truth is you can't rest back on your laurels, you can't leave race and issues of class and poverty off the agenda. Some of this has been left off the agenda over the last seven years so we've fallen backwards.\"", "Jayne Nisbet said getting to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow was emotional\n\nJayne Nisbet's eating disorder almost robbed her of her sporting dream - but the Edinburgh athlete fought back to compete in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.\n\nThe 29-year-old, who has now retired from competing in the high jump, spoke to the BBC about her battle with bulimia in order to highlight the issue and inspire others to fight it.\n\nJayne said she had been a top junior athlete who was tipped for the Olympics, but that she \"spiralled downhill\" because her illness.\n\n\"I felt like I was useless,\" she says.\n\nJayne Nisbet has written a book about her battles with an eating disorder\n\n\"I had bulimia, which was combined with depression, and I suffered from anxiety for lots of years afterwards.\"\n\nJayne says she now recognises features of her condition, such as extreme behaviour and perfectionist tendencies, going back to childhood.\n\nBut it all came to a head in the year before the Commonwealth Games in Delhi in 2010.\n\nShe had moved to Loughborough in Leicestershire to train at the High Performance Training Centre, but was not eating properly and went down to a weight which was very low for an athlete of 5ft 8in (1.72m).\n\n\"People would say to me: 'You are so skinny', and I would genuinely think they were just jealous.\n\nJayne said a medal at Glasgow would have been the icing on the cake\n\n\"I genuinely believed what I was doing was going to help my sport.\n\n\"But my performances got worse and worse and I became more and more isolated, to the point where I identified: 'This is not ok, I'm not myself any more'. I completely lost myself.\"\n\nHowever, Jayne says that admitting she had an issue did not solve the problem.\n\n\"In fact, I probably got worse,\" she says.\n\nOver the next three months she put on a lot of weight.\n\n\"Nobody saw that because I hid myself away,\" she says.\n\n\"I used to hide away in my bedroom because I thought everyone was ashamed of me.\"\n\nEven in the depths of her struggles, Jayne set herself the goal of qualifying for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.\n\nShe says: \"I spent the first couple of years trying to work it out for myself because I was too afraid to speak anyone.\n\n\"By March 2012 I was fluctuating again and I thought: 'Why am I not happy?'\n\n\"I got a therapist at that point and he started working through some of my older issues that I didn't even realise existed.\n\n\"He unravelled things that I never even knew existed in my head.\"\n\nIn 2013, Jayne had a fantastic season but it was cut short in July by an accident in the gym.\n\nShe fell from the top of a step-up box and sustained a compression fracture of the spine, exactly a year before the Glasgow games.\n\nJayne missed out on the high jump in Delhi but fought back to compete in Glasgow\n\n\"In the past that would have triggered a complete downward spiral, and for a small amount of time it did,\" she says.\n\n\"But then I thought: 'What are you doing?' My coach said: 'Do not let this get back inside you, you have come so far'.\"\n\nShe had already pre-qualified for the Commonwealth Games, so needed to get fit and return to her best.\n\nJayne finished 10th in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow\n\nJayne says that making it to Hampden Stadium for the Commonwealth Games was an \"amazing and emotional\" achievement.\n\n\"It was like making it to the finish line for me in terms of mental health issues,\" she says.\n\nWhile a 10th place finish was not as good as she would have wanted, for Jayne making it to the Games was a major success.\n\n\"For me getting a medal would have been the icing on the cake,\" she says.\n\n\"But it was to actually prove that you can overcome something when you are at such a low point.\n\n\"You can get through it all and not let it beat you and become what you were meant to be.\"\n\nJayne has since retired from high jump and runs a successful business as a personal trainer.\n\nShe has also written a book called Free-ed.\n\n\"ED is a shorter version of eating disorder, and I want people to find freedom,\" she says.\n\nIn recent years she has also made a transition from high jump to running marathons.\n\nTwo years after her Commonwealth Games appearance, she ran a marathon in less than three hours and 15 minutes.\n\nShe now wants to reduce her marathon time by competing in the London marathon and the New York marathon next year, to celebrate her 30th birthday.\n\nShe says the Jayne of seven years ago would not recognise the woman she has become.\n\n\"The transformation in my confidence since competing at the Commonwealth Games has been huge,\" Jayne says.\n\n\"I love an opportunity now to get up and try to inspire people and that's the key thing.\n\n\"I want to help people overcome issues to try to get the best out of themselves.\"\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. How could war with North Korea unfold?\n\nHackers from North Korea are reported to have stolen a large cache of military documents from South Korea, including a plan to assassinate North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un.\n\nRhee Cheol-hee, a South Korean lawmaker, said the information was from his country's defence ministry.\n\nThe compromised documents include wartime contingency plans drawn up by the US and South Korea.\n\nThey also include reports to the allies' senior commanders.\n\nThe South Korean defence ministry has so far refused to comment about the allegation.\n\nPlans for the South's special forces were reportedly accessed, along with information on significant power plants and military facilities in the South.\n\nMr Rhee belongs to South Korea's ruling party, and sits on its parliament's defence committee. He said some 235 gigabytes of military documents had been stolen from the Defence Integrated Data Centre, and that 80% of them have yet to be identified.\n\nThe hack took place in September last year. In May, South Korea said a large amount of data had been stolen and that North Korea may have instigated the cyber attack - but gave no details of what was taken.\n\nSouth Korea's Yonhap news agency reports that Seoul has been subject to a barrage of cyber attacks by its communist neighbour in recent years, with many targeting government websites and facilities.\n\nThe isolated state is believed to have specially-trained hackers based overseas, including in China.\n\nNorth Korea has accused South Korea of \"fabricating\" the claims.\n\nNews that Pyongyang is likely to have accessed the Seoul-Washington plans for all-out war in the Koreas will do nothing to soothe tensions between the US and North Korea.\n\nThe two nations have been at verbal loggerheads over the North's nuclear activities, with the US pressing for a halt to missile tests and Pyongyang vowing to continue them.\n\nThe US president and his North Korean counterpart are at loggerheads over Pyongyang's nuclear programme\n\nThe North recently claimed to have successfully tested a miniaturised hydrogen bomb, which could be loaded onto a long-range missile.\n\nIn a speech at the UN in September, US President Donald Trump threatened to destroy North Korea if it menaced the US or its allies, and said its leader \"is on a suicide mission\".\n\nMr Kim responded with a rare statement, vowing to \"tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire\".\n\nMr Trump's latest comment took the form of a cryptic tweet at the weekend, where he warned that \"only one thing will work\" in dealing with North Korea, after years of talks had proved fruitless. He did not elaborate further.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Barnaby Joyce inherited New Zealand citizenship from his father\n\nAn Australian court has begun a long-awaited hearing into whether seven MPs caught up in a dual citizenship saga should remain eligible for office.\n\nUnder constitutional rules, Australian politicians cannot be dual citizens.\n\nThe High Court of Australia will clarify whether there are any exceptions, such as for those who did not know they were dual nationals.\n\nIf Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is disqualified, the government could lose its one-seat majority.\n\nThe government will argue that only two politicians who \"voluntarily obtained, or retained\" dual status should be disqualified.\n\nThe other five politicians, including Mr Joyce, were unknowing recipients and should remain eligible, according to the government's defence.\n\nThe hearing will last three days. A ruling could be made as early as Thursday, but the court may decide that longer deliberations are necessary.\n\nThe cases involve Mr Joyce and his government colleagues Fiona Nash and Matt Canavan, as well as four politicians from minor parties - Malcolm Roberts, Nick Xenophon, Larissa Waters and Scott Ludlam.\n\nMr Joyce will attract the most interest because he sits in the lower House of Representatives, where the party with the most MPs forms the government. The others were elected to the Senate.\n\nIf Mr Joyce loses his seat, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull could oversee a minority government, but the potential outcomes are complex.\n\nThe citizenship revelations began in July when New Zealand-born Mr Ludlam, from the Greens, announced he was a dual national.\n\nIt prompted dozens of politicians to make public statements about their status.\n\nThe court will hear submissions from the seven politicians, the government, and an independent challenger, former MP Tony Windsor.", "The gang attacked Mappin & Webb in Regent Street armed with a machete and a hammer\n\nSix robbers fled on a single moped after a smash-and-grab raid at a high-end jewellers in central London.\n\nThe gang raided Mappin & Webb in Regent Street at about 19.20 BST, armed with a machete and a hammer, police said.\n\nThey arrived on three scooters but abandoned one at the scene and crashed another in nearby Oxford Street.\n\n\"All six\" fled on the remaining moped, police said. An eyewitness told the BBC he saw three men on a single moped with a fourth \"running alongside\".\n\nTwo of the robbers crashed their moped on Oxford Street during their escape\n\n\"Four men, one with a sledgehammer sticking out of his bag, were swerving around traffic heading towards Soho on two mopeds,\" the eyewitness said.\n\nHe added: \"One of the mopeds must have clipped another vehicle as it crashed and came sliding towards the pavement.\n\n\"The two robbers then scrambled to get on the remaining moped, but one man ended up running along side with the public giving chase.\"\n\nThe gang made off with a \"high-value\" haul, police said\n\nThe robbers made off with a \"high-value\" haul after smashing cabinets at the store. No arrests have been made, police said.\n\nA Met Police spokesman said following the Oxford Street crash \"the suspects who were on that moped were then picked up before all six fled on a single remaining moped\".\n\nMappin & Webb was founded in 1775 and customers have included Queen of France Marie Antoinette, Grace Kelly and Winston Churchill.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mobile phone provider EE confirmed that some customers were experiencing problems making voice calls.\n\nThe firm has now tweeted that the issue is resolved. Data and messaging services were not affected.\n\nThe fault appeared to largely affect calls to non-EE phone numbers.\n\nNearly 3,000 people left comments on the website Down Detector from around the UK, saying they were unable to make or receive calls, on some occasions for several hours.\n\n\"Some of our customers are reporting problems when trying to make calls to some numbers this morning,\" the firm said in a statement.\n\n\"All data and messaging services are working as normal. We're working to fix this as quickly as possible and apologise for any inconvenience caused.\"\n\nEE also said on Twitter that emergency services numbers were still accessible.\n\nCustomers took to social networks and forums to complain.\n\n\"Can only call other mobiles in Nottingham, even local numbers aren't working, sort this out EE, ironically I received a text from EE promoting BT Sports app during this downtime!\" wrote Pat on Down Detector.\n\nAt the end of September the firm apologised again after a fault affected customers using its UK home broadband service.", "Arthur Collins is accused of throwing acid at clubbers in Mangle\n\nA man threw acid inside a packed London nightclub injuring 16 people after \"trouble\" broke out, a court has heard.\n\nArthur Collins, ex-boyfriend of reality TV star Ferne McCann, is accused of throwing the substance in the Mangle nightclub in Dalston, on 17 April.\n\nProsecutors told Wood Green Crown Court it happened after a group of men started pushing and shoving.\n\nMr Collins, 25, and co-defendant Andre Phoenix, 21, both deny the charges against them.\n\nThey are accused of five counts of grievous bodily harm with intent, and 11 counts of actual bodily harm.\n\nJurors heard 16 people who were on the crowded dancefloor were injured when Mr Collins, of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, threw the substance at another man.\n\nSixteen people were injured in April's attack at an east London nightclub\n\nProsecutor Luke Ponte said it was not clear what started the confrontation.\n\nBut he said Mr Collins \"does not dispute that he threw the acid\" and \"he was assisted\" by Mr Phoenix, of Tottenham.\n\nCCTV footage played in court showed Mr Collins throwing the substance \"into the face of another young man\".\n\n\"As that man went down in pain, the aggressor threw acid a second time directed towards another man, and then threw acid a third time,\" Mr Ponte said.\n\nHe added it was \"not surprising\" Mr Collins did not dispute his involvement as it was filmed \"clearly on the club's CCTV\".\n\nMr Collins is the father of The Only Way is Essex star Ferne McCann's unborn child\n\nAmong those injured was Mr Phoenix who was splashed with the unidentified substance that was later found to have a pH level of 1, the court heard.\n\nThe pair were later identified from the CCTV footage and Mr Phoenix was arrested on 21 April, the jury was told.\n\nHowever, Mr Collins initially \"could not be found\", Mr Ponte said.\n\nHe was located a few days later at a property in Northamptonshire, the court heard, where he jumped out of the first floor window in his T-shirt and underwear to escape arrest and was Tasered by police.\n\nIt is understood about 600 people were attending an event at the Mangle nightclub in London Fields\n\nThe court was told Mr Collins allegedly heard Makai Brown - one of the people injured in the attack - talking about spiking a girl's drink in the club.\n\nWhen asked by George Carter-Stephenson QC, defending Mr Collins, if such a conversation about spiking a drink occurred, Mr Brown said no.\n\nMr Carter-Stephenson told the jury it was Mr Collins' case he then insulted Mr Brown and told him \"you are not spiking anyone\".\n\nHe then asked Mr Brown if his client had taken a bottle from him \"which he thought contained something to spike drinks.\"\n\nBut Mr Brown denied having a bottle, explaining he does not drink alcohol and had been searched on entry to the venue.\n\nHe also denied that any altercation or aggression had taken place with Mr Collins and Mr Phoenix.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rachel's daughter was raped by a boy at her school. He was arrested, bailed, and put back in his normal lessons, alongside his victim, the following day.\n\n\"Somebody who's been raped is already in a terrible place, but to be expected to be back in the same space as the rapist is just terrible,\" she told the Victoria Derbyshire programme. \"It's re-traumatising - it's just a terrible thing to do to a rape victim.\"\n\nThe government says it is writing interim guidelines for schools to prevent schoolchildren being forced to share classes with pupils who have raped or sexually assaulted them, but campaigners say it is taking too long.\n\nRachel - not her real name - said her daughter's anonymity was compromised at an early stage - which made life especially difficult.\n\n\"Being in the same classroom as the person that's raped you is difficult enough, but when people in that room know what's happened and they're watching how you cope being in the same room as the rapist - that's just awful,\" she explained.\n\n\"It's a whole extra layer of stress, knowing that these people are watching you - it's just vile. It's voyeurism gone mad.\"\n\nRachel said the school seemed to have no policy in place for the situation and dealt with it \"extremely badly\". She had to instigate a meeting and, despite her efforts, she says, they did not prioritise her daughter's needs.\n\n\"They were very keen to protect his right to an education, but seemed to give no consideration at all to her rights as a rape victim and somehow or other they just didn't understand what it would do to a rape victim to be expected to be in the same space as the rapist,\" she said.\n\nHer daughter started to absent herself from lessons where she might see him, before gradually withdrawing herself from school entirely.\n\nThe issue was highlighted in a report by the Commons Women and Equalities Committee in 2016, which exposed the widespread incidence of sexual violence and harassment in England's schools.\n\nAccording to BBC research, 5,500 sexual offences were reported to the police as having taken place in UK schools over a three-year period to July 2015, including 600 rapes.\n\nLast month, lawyers who had been contacted by victims, wrote to Education Secretary Justine Greening, accusing her of being in breach of her statutory duty under section 149 of the Equality Act 2010 which requires her to have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination against girls in school and advance equality of opportunity.\n\nHer department has replied saying it is drafting interim guidance.\n\nRachel says the current guidance on the Department for Education website includes 11 pages of notes of what to do if the perpetrator is an adult, but the paragraph on peer abuse has no detail.\n\n\"Which is why you get a patchwork approach, and it leads time and time and time again, to the victims being treated really, really badly by schools,\" she said.\n\n\"I believe strongly that it's time the government stepped up and provided as much guidance as they provide when the perpetrator is an adult, because it's just as complicated.\"\n\nRachel Krys, co-director of End Violence Against Women, agreed that it was all taking \"far too long\".\n\nShe said the extent of the problem highlighted by last year's select committee report was shocking and the government was failing to act on its obligations under human rights legislation to protect students.\n\n\"Girls continue to be failed by schools and the system,\" she said. \"The government has to tell schools what to do, you can't expect each individual head teacher and board of governors to decide, it's not easy and the government has to take responsibility.\"\n\nRachel says her daughter is recovering well but feels \"hugely\" let down.\n\n\"A terrible situation was made much worse and there are long-term consequences for her of that, both in terms of her ability to access criminal justice is in some ways compromised and in terms of her psychological wellbeing,\" she said.\n\nThe Department for Education said it was working with specialists to determine how the issues raised in the committee inquiry should be best reflected in guidance and it was important to get it right.\n\nMinister for Children and Families Robert Goodwill, said: \"Statutory safeguarding guidance is clear that schools should have an effective child protection policy that addresses peer-on-peer abuse. This should include procedures to minimise it along with advice on how allegations will be dealt with and how victims will be supported.\n\n\"We are considering what more can be done to assist schools and we listen to the views of stakeholders and experts when updating our safeguarding guidance.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "Virtual shop assistants and mobile shops that could drive to meet you are just some of the ways real world stores are fighting back against the internet.\n\nSo could a wave of disruptive ideas change all our shopping habits?\n\nTAP HERE to find out more.\n\nRead more from the BBC's series The Disruptors here.", "Munaf Kapadia runs a successful \"pop up\" restaurant at his family's home in Mumbai. His mother also works as head chef.\n\nWhile watching TV one Sunday afternoon back in 2014, Munaf Kapadia had an argument with his mother that would change his life.\n\nThe then 25-year-old Google employee wanted to watch US cartoon the Simpsons, but as usual, his mother Nafisa preferred to see her favourite Indian soap opera and switched channels.\n\nHis mum had lots of skills, but in his view she spent too much time watching bad TV.\n\nDiners usually eat Bohri food from the same large platter, or \"thaal\"\n\nDetermined to get her doing something more meaningful, he struck upon an idea.\n\nNafisa had always been good at cooking \"Bohri\" food, an Indian cuisine that is much feted, but hardly served anywhere in their home city of Mumbai.\n\nAnd so he decided to email 50 friends, inviting them for lunch at the family home.\n\n\"We settled on a group of eight friends of friends, and served them my mom's food,\" recalls Mr Kapadia, now 28.\n\n\"Then we started doing it every Saturday and Sunday, opening it up to the public and charging like a restaurant. That's how The Bohri Kitchen was born.\"\n\nMembers of the public dine at the Kapadias' home every weekend\n\nTraditionally, Bohri cuisine has only been available within the Dawoodi Bohra community, a small Muslim sect that lives in parts of India and Pakistan.\n\nAs Mr Kapadia says, \"you literally had to beg Bohri friends or gatecrash Bohri weddings\" to get a spoonful of it.\n\nIt blends Gujarati, Parsi, Mughlai and Maharastrian influences, and is often enjoyed by groups of friends or families, who eat from the same large steel platter, or \"thaal\".\n\nFor his first \"pop-up\" lunch, Mr Kapadia charged guests 700 rupees (£8, $11) per head for a traditional seven-course banquet. By the time they had finished eating he knew the idea had potential.\n\nMutton Khichda - goat meat cooked with dal and rice along with various Indian spices\n\n\"I was really shocked, but they actually hugged my mom. They said, 'aunty, you have magic in your hands, this food is outstanding!'.\"\n\nHe adds: \"I saw the glint in my mom's eyes when she got that acknowledgement, which she is not used to, because we in the family take her cooking for granted.\n\n\"That's when I decided to just keep on doing this, I thought let's try to keep getting new people exposed to my mother's cooking skills.\"\n\nSo Mr Kapadia quit his marketing job at Google, and in January 2015 launched the \"The Bohri Kitchen\" as a brand.\n\nThanks to word-of-mouth publicity and some good reviews, it quickly gained a reputation among adventurous young food-lovers.\n\nMr Kapadia now charges 1,500 rupees per meal, typically offering lunches and occasional dinners at his parents' home.\n\nHe has also launched a separate takeaway and catering business, which operates through the week, and employs three members of staff from outside the family.\n\nThe firm recently broke into profit and is now looking to open outlets across India.\n\nMore The Boss features, which every week profile a different business leader from around the world:\n\nBut it hasn't all been plain sailing. For one thing, it took Mr Kapadia a while to get used to hosting strangers in his home.\n\n\"We started a 'no serial killer policy', so customers can't just book a seat, they have to ask for it,\" he says. We then do a background check by calling them up and asking a few questions to make sure they're legitimate.\"\n\nThere have been other challenges too, including convincing his parents that he wasn't crazy for leaving his job at Google, and learning how to hire good staff.\n\n\"My biggest challenge now is ensuring that our takeaway produces the same quality of food that my mother makes at home.\"\n\nBohri Kitchen samosas are stuffed with smoked lamb mince, coriander, onion and lemon\n\nRavinder Yadav, of management consultancy Technopak Advisors, says that many Indian food businesses struggle to build a loyal customer base.\n\n\"These days, consumers in India have plenty of options when it comes to eating out. So making sure you know who your consumer is, and creating something that they will keep coming back to, is vital, even for the biggest brands.\"\n\nStill, he says in some respects things are getting easier.\n\n\"Finding investment is less of a challenge in India nowadays. And the government is making it easier to do business, so it's simpler to get the licenses you need and to meet other regulations.''\n\nThe dessert Doodhi Halwa is made by slow-cooking calabashes in milk, with dry fruits and sugar\n\nIndia's food services industry is also expanding fast. In the past decade, consumer spending power has grown, along with people's appetite for eating out and ordering takeaways.\n\nMr Kapadia's mother, the hidden culinary talent behind The Bohri Kitchen, says that the business has brought out a different side of her personality.\n\n\"I have never looked at this from a business angle, it's just something that I love doing,\" she says.\n\n\"And when guests say my food reminds them of home, it's amazing. I get a lot of satisfaction and happiness.\"\n\nBut has her son managed to wean her off her TV habit? Not likely, she says with a giggle.\n\n\"I still watch all my favourite soaps while cooking for our guests.\"\n\nYou can hear an interview with Munaf Kapadia on The Big Debate on BBC Asian Network, Monday 9 October.", "James Harding is going to set up his own company\n\nBBC director of news James Harding is to stand down at the beginning of 2018.\n\nIn a statement, he said: \"I am proud to have worked for BBC News as we renewed our reputation for responsible journalism.\"\n\nBBC director general Tony Hall praised Harding, saying: \"James has done an incredible job during a hugely complex and momentous period.\"\n\nAfter four years in the role, Harding is leaving the BBC to set up his own news media venture.\n\nAnnouncing the move, Harding said \"even when we're pedalling into the wind\" that working at the BBC was \"rewarding and worthwhile\".\n\nTalking about his new company, he explained: \"There is some journalism that the BBC, for all its brilliance, can't, and probably shouldn't, do.\n\n\"And that's what I want to explore: I am going to start a new media company with a distinct approach to the news and a clear point of view.\n\n\"I know I will enjoy the chance to do some more journalism of my own and, at such a critical time, I'm seriously excited about the prospect of building a new venture in news.\"\n\nHe said he'd reveal more in the new year.\n\nJames Harding was previously editor of The Times\n\nLord Hall thanked Harding for his service to the BBC.\n\n\"James has done an incredible job during a hugely complex and momentous period of British and world history,\" he said.\n\n\"He has led the BBC's coverage through two referendums, two general elections, an astonishing US presidential election, not to mention a series of extraordinary events at home and abroad.\n\n\"In the years James has been with us he's played an important part in modernising and changing the BBC, but beyond that, he has been a first-class colleague and a pleasure to work with.\"\n\nA successor will be appointed by the end of the year, Lord Hall said.\n\nHarding joined the Financial Times in 1994 and served as Shanghai correspondent, media editor and Washington bureau chief.\n\nHe joined The Times in 2006 as business and city editor and was editor from 2007 to 2012.\n\nHarding was appointed in April 2013 to oversee all of the BBC's news and current affairs programming.\n\nThe division's workforce produces output across network news, English regions and the World Service group.\n\nIn an email to staff announcing his departure, James Harding covered what all departure messages must cover: his legacy.\n\nHarding, who is - full disclosure - my ultimate boss, mentioned the emphasis on slow news, the hiring of new talent, new language services and the launch of the Reality Check brand to address the challenge of fake news.\n\nTogether these add up to a substantial legacy. But Harding, like any journalist, will want to be remembered above all for the stories that were covered during his tenure.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Need for news 'greater than ever'", "US President Donald Trump has challenged his Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, to an IQ test, in the latest sign of discord between the two.\n\nHe made the remark in a magazine interview when asked about reports that Mr Tillerson had called him a moron.\n\n\"I think it's fake news,\" Mr Trump told Forbes, \"but if he did that, I guess we'll have to compare IQ tests. And I can tell you who is going to win.\"\n\nMr Trump had lunch on Tuesday with Mr Tillerson.\n\nShortly beforehand, the president maintained he still had confidence in the secretary of state.\n\n\"I did not undercut anybody,\" he also told reporters. \"I don't believe in undercutting people.\"\n\nAsked about Mr Trump's IQ test challenge, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told the daily news briefing: \"It was a joke. You should get a sense of humour.\"\n\nReports have swirled of a schism in the Trump administration between the commander-in-chief and his top diplomat, as the US faces a host of vexatious foreign policy conundrums, from North Korea to Iran.\n\nLast week Mr Tillerson called a news conference to dismiss reports that he was considering quitting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In October, Rex Tillerson responded to a report he called Mr Trump 'a moron'\n\nBut the former ExxonMobil chief executive did not deny an NBC News report that he had called his boss a moron after a July meeting at the Pentagon.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Trump publicly undercut the former Texas oilman by tweeting that he was \"wasting his time\" trying to negotiate with nuclear-armed North Korea.\n\nLast week the New York Times reported that Mr Tillerson was astonished at how little Mr Trump grasps the basics of foreign policy.\n\nAccording to the newspaper, quoting sources close to the secretary of state, Mr Trump has been irritated by Mr Tillerson's body language during meetings.\n\nMr Tillerson is said to roll his eyes or slouch when he disagrees with the decisions of his boss.\n\nDonald Trump insists that the stories about Rex Tillerson insulting his intelligence - despite being heavily sourced - are \"fake news\". Now, however, he's lobbing one of his trademark counter-punches, just in case.\n\nMr Tillerson thinks he's a moron? Well, he's smarter than Rex, that's for certain.\n\nIt's classic Trump - a slightly less juvenile version of the \"I guarantee you there's no problem\" retort Mr Trump snapped off during a Republican debate, when Senator Marco Rubio questioned the size of his, er, manhood.\n\nMr Trump tends to get touchy when people doubt his intellect. That's probably why the \"moron\" line has prompted such a furious response from the White House and State Department. During the campaign he said he doesn't have to consult generals because he has \"a very good brain\" and told a rally in South Carolina that he was highly educated and has \"the best words\".\n\nIn August, he boasted that he was a \"better student\" and went to better schools than all his elite critics.\n\nMr Tillerson may have opened a difficult-to-repair rift with the president. While Mr Trump is quite comfortable with insult-trading, there's one topic that's clearly off-limits.", "The incredible game of cat and mouse between the Madrid government and the Catalan devolved government continues.\n\nThat's been the tactic all along from the Catalan government. It's been putting threats on the table, it's been speaking to the media and saying: \"I will go ahead and declare independence from Spain come what may\"; \"I will hold that referendum of more than a week ago even though it has been declared illegal by the Spanish state, even though they try to arrest officials and try to break it up\".\n\nAnd now Carles Puigdemont is saying: \"I am still going to declare independence from Spain, but I am giving them some time, a window.\"\n\nThat is a window where there can in theory be mediation - and we are hearing that there are mediation efforts tonight by an international organisation - according to our sources involving very very senior international political figures.\n\nIn a sense his stark warnings haven't changed. But he will still be under pressure, not only from his own party but other pro-independence Catalan parties which he depends on for a majority in parliament to actually keep this whole project going.\n\nHe's given them maybe enough, but is their patience going to run out? And then there's the other dimension in this - the Spanish government in Madrid.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mrs May said she would not answer \"hypothetical questions\"\n\nUnscripted but uncontroversial - the prime minister had been safely navigating a radio phone-in.\n\nThen a quiet, excellent booby trap question was laid by the interviewer, Iain Dale, for the prime minister.\n\nShe had, as she has said many times, balanced all the evidence and looked at all the facts to come to her original conclusion about backing Remain in the referendum.\n\nShe had been lobbied by both sides to pick them, but in the end went for the doomed side of the status quo.\n\nWould she, more than a year on, stick to that view? Or is she now a convert, a true believer to the Brexit cause?\n\nIf there were to be another referendum, what would she do?\n\nNow, to the mind of someone like Theresa May who is known to take time to make decisions, to call for evidence, answering a hypothetical question about something that isn't going to happen is perhaps the daft kind of game that journalists like to play from time to time.\n\nThe point of those kinds of questions however is to probe a politician's instincts.\n\nIn sticking only ever to purely factual answers it tells us little of their character, little of their thinking, little of their instincts.\n\nFairly or not, Theresa May's hesitation in giving her answer on this hypothetical question will give pause for thought to those who harbour suspicions of her real commitment to Brexit.\n\nAnd her \"open and honest\" answer, which refused to come down on either side creates the strange situation where the prime minister appears unwilling to give full-throated support to her government's main policy.\n\nOf course, as she has said countless times, we are leaving the European Union, \"Brexit means Brexit\" - soundbites repeated ad nauseam.\n\nThere is no question that she is fundamentally committed to the objective she has set for the government, determined to carry out the policy and Downing Street sources have suggested it would be ridiculous to say her comments raise doubts about whether she will deliver Brexit.\n\nBut the refusal to be categoric on whether she would choose this set of circumstances was telling.\n\nIt's easy to see why she wasn't willing to answer.\n\nShe likes to talk about things that are real, rather than imagined.\n\nI remember, in the referendum campaign itself it took months - yes, months - to persuade her to give us an interview about why she had come to her conclusion to support Remain.\n\nAnd most importantly perhaps, she is the kind of politician who believes in doing what people have asked her to do, rather than blindly pursuing what she believes herself.\n\nIn that sense, in many areas she is not a \"vision\" person, not a policy-pusher either.\n\nAnd for some, that's an advantage, one Brexiteer told me today: \"She is the best person to be the Boss because she is an administrator.\"\n\nIt's not about imposing her views on her party, or the country (of course, she doesn't have the majority to do that in any case).\n\nBut her hesitation tonight may haunt her - and it's a judder that Number 10 could well have done without at a time when they are trying to rediscover the ground beneath their feet.\n\nAt the very least, it's a question that she will be asked, again and again.", "The National Television Awards have renamed their entertainment prize in honour of the late Sir Bruce Forsyth.\n\nSir Bruce, who died in August aged 89, was a frequent NTA nominee and received its special recognition award for services to entertainment in 2011.\n\nShows like Saturday Night Takeaway and The Graham Norton Show are among those in contention for the inaugural Bruce Forsyth entertainment award.\n\nSir Bruce's widow said the NTAs \"always had a special place in his heart\".\n\nSir Bruce presented Strictly Come Dancing with Tess Daly from 2004 to 2014\n\nLady Forsyth wrote: \"My darling Bruce would have been both humbled and delighted to have a National Television Entertainment Award named in his honour.\n\n\"Entertainment was his life. The National Television Awards always had a special place in his heart because they're the people's awards, voted by viewers.\n\n\"The children and I are thrilled his flame will still burn brightly with this new award celebrating the stars of today and tomorrow.\"\n\nSir Bruce's 75-year-career saw him present shows like The Generation Game, The Price is Right, Play Your Cards Right and Strictly come Dancing.\n\nThe BBC is considering dedicating a permanent memorial to the star.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Streep and Weinstein have worked together on such films as The Iron Lady\n\nMeryl Streep and other Hollywood stars have spoken out against producer Harvey Weinstein in the wake of the sexual harassment claims that saw him being fired by his own company.\n\nStreep told the Huffington Post she was \"appalled\" by the \"disgraceful\" news.\n\nShe went on to praise \"the intrepid women who raised their voices to expose this abuse\", calling them \"heroes\".\n\nDame Judi Dench also issued a statement saying she was \"completely unaware\" of the \"horrifying\" claims.\n\nThe British actress also praised those who had spoken up.\n\n\"I offer my sympathy to those who have suffered, and wholehearted support to those who have spoken out,\" she said.\n\nMeanwhile, another British actress - Romola Garai - says she felt \"violated\" after being asked to visit Weinstein in his hotel room when she was 18 so he could \"approve\" her for a role.\n\nGarai told The Guardian he opened the door in his dressing gown. \"It was humiliating for me,\" she said, adding: \"It was an abuse of power.\"\n\nOscar-winner Kate Winslet has also praised those, like Garai, who spoke out, telling Variety they are \"incredibly brave\", adding it had been \"deeply shocking to hear\".\n\nEmma Thompson, Mark Ruffalo and Seth Rogen are among other leading actors to express similar sentiments.\n\nThe Weinstein allegations have instigated a fierce debate about abuse of power in Hollywood and beyond.\n\nStreep's statement followed criticism that leading Hollywood figures had maintained a \"deafening silence\" in the wake of the allegations against Weinstein that surfaced in the New York Times on Friday.\n\nStreep said she wanted to make it clear that \"not everybody\" had known about the allegations, including herself.\n\nThe three-time Oscar-winner said the news had \"appalled those of us whose work [Weinstein] championed, and those whose good and worthy causes he supported.\"\n\nStreep worked with Weinstein on such films as The Iron Lady and August: Osage County and jokingly referred to him as \"God\" in a 2012 acceptance speech.\n\nRose McGowan has been highly vocal without mentioning Weinstein by name\n\n\"Harvey supported the work fiercely, was exasperating but respectful with me in our working relationship, and with many others with whom he worked professionally,\" Streep wrote about the allegations.\n\n\"I did not know about his financial settlements with actresses and colleagues; I did not know about his having meetings in his hotel room, his bathroom, or other inappropriate, coercive acts.\n\n\"And if everybody knew, I don't believe that all the investigative reporters in the entertainment and the hard news media would have neglected for decades to write about it.\"\n\nShe added: \"The behaviour is inexcusable, but the abuse of power familiar. Each brave voice that is raised, heard and credited by our watchdog media will ultimately change the game.\"\n\nThompson said Weinstein was known to be \"a predatory man\"\n\nWeinstein was made an honorary CBE by the Queen in 2004 for his contribution to the British film industry.\n\nA spokesman for Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May said she had expressed \"concern\" about the allegations, but said his CBE was not a matter for her office but for the Honours Forfeiture Committee, where each case is \"considered on its merits\".\n\nSpeaking earlier on Monday, Britain's Emma Thompson said she was pleased the story had come out and described Weinstein as \"a predatory man\".\n\n\"Male predatory behaviour is everywhere, not just in the film industry,\" the actress and screenwriter told the BBC.\n\n\"Let's support those women who don't have the confidence to speak out.\"\n\nSome male stars have also spoken out to denounce Weinstein and express support for the women he is alleged to have abused.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Ruffalo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"What Harvey Weinstein did was a disgusting abuse of power,\" tweeted Avengers actor Mark Ruffalo about the claims.\n\n\"I believe all the women coming forward about Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment,\" wrote Seth Rogen.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActress Rose McGowan, who the New York Times claimed had reached a legal settlement with Weinstein in 1997, has also been highly vocal.\n\n\"Ladies of Hollywood, your silence is deafening,\" she tweeted on Saturday, going on to tell the Hollywood Reporter that \"men in Hollywood need to change ASAP\".\n\nWhen the claims were first reported in the New York Times, Weinstein issued a statement in which he apologised.\n\n\"I appreciate the way I've behaved with colleagues in the past has caused a lot of pain, and I sincerely apologise for it,\" he wrote.\n\nBut he later disputed the article, with one of his legal team claiming the newspaper's report was \"saturated with false and defamatory statements\".\n\nMr Weinstein's lawyer, Lisa Bloom, said in another statement that he denied many of the allegations against him as \"patently false\".\n\nBloom later announced she had resigned as Mr Weinstein's adviser.\n\nThe painful fact is, many, many people were aware of allegations about Weinstein's behaviour for years. He was, as the saying goes, hiding in plain sight, no doubt protected to some extent by his friendships with famous people and his ability to hand out internships to the likes of Malia Obama (who as far as we know was treated with the utmost civility).\n\nThat he was a major supporter of Hillary Clinton will have done him little harm, too.\n\nWeinstein was the kind of man who used his power to be a gateway to both financial riches and fame: he controlled access to huge audiences, with all the money that can bring.\n\nIf some of the claims made by actresses are true, it may be that Weinstein was - unforgivably - allowed to get away with it because of his power. Not just his power to make people very rich; also, his power to make them very famous.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Runny eggs can now be enjoyed by everyone\n\n\"Lion mark\" eggs have been declared safe for pregnant women and young children, nearly 30 years after a salmonella scare.\n\nVulnerable groups had been advised not to eat raw, soft boiled or runny eggs.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency says \"Lion Mark\" eggs, which include almost all of the eggs produced in the UK, are virtually free of salmonella.\n\nThe new advice comes after a vaccination programme, and improvements to animal welfare.\n\nIn 1988, a scare over the presence of salmonella in eggs caused a dramatic collapse in sales of eggs and a series of warnings for vulnerable groups to avoid eating them if they were raw or runny.\n\nThe then junior Conservative health minister, Edwina Currie, declared: \"Most of the egg production in this country, sadly, is now affected with salmonella.\"\n\nMrs Currie's statement wildly overstated the danger and eventually led to her resignation.\n\nBut there was a problem with salmonella in eggs and by the 1990s producers started a vaccination programme.\n\nThe \"British Lion Mark\", printed on eggs in red ink, was introduced so that eggs could be traced back to the farm of origin and to show best-before dates.\n\nAlmost 30 years on from the initial scare, the Food Standards Agency's Heather Hancock, says runny eggs can now be eaten by everyone.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Science now shows the risk from salmonella in eggs is extremely low.\n\n\"We are now saying if there is a British Lion egg, you're safe to do that.\n\n\"The risk of salmonella is now so low you needn't worry.\n\n\"And that's true whether you're a fit healthy adult, or whether you're pregnant or elderly or young.\n\n\"It's only people on strictly medically supervised diets who need to avoid those eggs.\"\n\nThe British appetite for eggs has been growing in recent years.\n\nLast year British hens laid 10,372 million eggs, while on average we consume more than 34.5 million eggs every day.\n\nAnd eggs are very good for you, packed full of vitamin D, protein and valuable omega-3 fatty acids.\n\nMother of two Catherine Millington is a big fan, with eggs providing quick, cheap and nutritious meals for her two daughters, who are aged nearly 4 years old and 7 months.\n\n\"Eggs are brilliant because you can boil them, break them into bits, and the baby can handle them so we can do baby-led weaning with it.\n\n\"And when you're in a rush, they're dead easy.\"\n\nJust outside Penrith on the edge of the Lake District is The Lakes Free Range Egg Company.\n\nEgg farmer David Brass says the introduction of the British Lion standard has made all the difference.\n\n\"We know from back in the '80s when all the scare started, there was an issue with eggs.\n\n\"But what the Lion standard does, it is a fully independent, audited code of practice to make sure we have standards on the farm that make sure we can't have any of those disease problems again.\n\n\"And it has shown time after time, in those intervening years, that it is just a brilliant food safety code.\"\n\nOver the summer, millions of eggs were pulled from supermarket shelves in more than a dozen European countries - including the UK - after it was discovered some had been contaminated with a potentially harmful insecticide at Dutch farms.\n• None 700,000 eggs came to UK from tainted farms\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mohammed spends his days playing computer games and looking after his granddad. He's only 14, but he hasn't been to school since December. The idea was to home school him - but things didn't quite work out like that, reports the BBC's Sue Mitchell.\n\nHe lives in a spotlessly clean Bradford semi-detached house, with pale wood flooring and deep, comfortable sofas. His mother works part time as a nursery nurse and his father is a taxi driver.\n\nHis mum admits she is totally out of her depth.\n\nShe says she agreed to try to educate Mohammed herself at the suggestion of his school, after he was excluded for bad behaviour. She wanted to keep him out of the only alternative, a pupil referral unit.\n\nMohammed wasn't opposed to the idea at first. \"I thought it would be good because I wouldn't mix in with bad children,\" he says.\n\nBut it was harder than he expected. \"My mum isn't a proper teacher, she just helps nursery kids. She's not a teacher for maths, science and English. I couldn't learn from her.\"\n\nHis dad, who works long hours, tells him that he is squandering his life opportunities. \"He says: 'You've just ruined your chances' - that I could have had a good education and done my GCSEs and had a good life, but now I've wasted that,\" Mohammed says.\n\nMany families say home schooling works well for them. But Mohammed is one of a growing number of children who find themselves falling out of the state education system, according to Richard Watts, the chair of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People's Board.\n\nHe says it's increasingly common to hear of schools \"effectively putting a lot of pressure on parents to home educate their kids to get them off their rolls, particularly when exam time comes around\".\n\nMohammed was only 13 when he was excluded from school for setting off fireworks in the corridor with other boys. \"We went to a meeting, but they said there's no way of him coming back to the school,\" says his mum.\n\nMohammed had already been in trouble with the school authorities for fighting. \"At school he thought they ganged up on him and called him names, trying to provoke him. Mohammed is really quiet, but if he hasn't done nothing he'll be upset by it,\" his mother says.\n\n\"When Mohammed first settled into secondary education he was good. I think it's that he finds it hard to settle down and so much depends on his friendship group.\"\n\nBy year nine it became clear that he would no longer have a place in mainstream education. It was either home education or a place at the same pupil referral unit that his older brother had attended. His family didn't want him getting into the same bad crowds as his brother.\n\nSo when the school suggested home education as the only alternative, Mohammed's mother readily agreed. \"I never knew about the home schooling. I'm not that very educated myself and I'm not good with computers,\" she says.\n\nThe council had suggested a home education website. \"We had a few links but because of my home life situation and working I hadn't enough hours. He'd be depressed every morning and I'd put him on the home education website but it wasn't working for him,\" says Mohammed's mum.\n\nWhen she tried to get Mohammed out of bed to work, he refused.\n\nNow she doesn't bother trying and he passes his time helping his granddad, who has a serious lung condition and needs round-the-clock care.\n\nFor a brief period he attended Raising Explorers, an after-school facility in Bradford that tutored Mohammed for a couple of hours a week.\n\n\"It was hard to start over and not mess about and think about what I'm doing and to concentrate,\" he says.\n\n\"When I first went to the after-school club I was new, my background was different and I made mistakes. I got put on report and was doing good, but when people disturb me I just get annoyed and retaliate back,\" he says. He was excluded for brawling with another boy.\n\nMohammed says he regrets the bad behaviour that lost him his place in a mainstream school.\n\n\"I used to go to school and do stupid things I didn't think it would come to this, I thought I'd just do it a bit and I'd have a chance. I was falling behind at school anyway, but now that I don't have school I won't have any education for my GCSEs. I do think about my future - it's not going to be good.\"\n\nOut of School, Out of Sight is broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday 4 October on BBC Radio 4, or listen again on iPlayer\n\nAbdur Rahman, who runs a project working with excluded youngsters, says that like Richard Watts he is coming across an increasing number of cases where parents are persuaded to home educate, yet don't have the capacity to do so.\n\n\"These schools don't ask about the ability of parents to teach - that isn't part of the discussion. Schools work like businesses and it isn't about looking out for the child, it's about saying to Mum and Dad that: 'This is what you have to do because your child isn't engaging and it will keep you out of trouble.' It's a strategy that the schools are increasingly using.\"\n\nThe inspection of home education is carried out by local government officials, but it is a voluntary register and although numbers are thought to be growing, there is no real idea of how many families are doing this. It's because so little is known about the extent and quality of home education, that Lord Soley recently introduced a private members bill aimed at bringing in a mandatory registration system.\n\nHe says that there are concerns about the quality of education some youngsters are receiving. There is also a cost for schools who take back pupils like Mohammed when home education hasn't worked.\n\n\"These pupils who fall behind have disruption to their own education outcomes, but then if they go back into schools they cause problems across the board as they try to catch up. It isn't helping them and it isn't good for the schools when it doesn't work,\" he says.\n\nBradford Council is currently discussing school options with Mohammed and his family. A spokesman says the details of individual cases cannot be discussed, but any parent has the right to choose to home educate their child at any stage of their formal education.\n\n\"Local authorities can give advice but have no role in deciding whether this should happen,\" the spokesman continues.\n\n\"When the local authority becomes aware of an electively home-educated child, we offer a home visit or to meet at another venue. The local authority has no statutory duty to monitor the quality of home education on a routine basis. However, we always work to keep contact with parents to ensure our information about the child is kept up to date.\n\n\"All parents of electively home-educated children can contact our home education team at any time and parents can apply to the local authority for a school place at any point. The local authority will always look to work with the district's schools to find a solution which works for the child and their parents.\"\n\nMohammed's mum is currently trying to get her son back into school.\n\n\"I want him to do his GCSEs and go further, to study and move on to what he wants to do - instead of just finishing with no qualifications in a cruel world. I want him to try hard and I've told him, but there's nothing else I can do. Mohammed says he'll do anything to go back to school and to study,\" she says.\n\nMohammed agrees. He says he desperately wants to be back in the classroom.\n\n\"When I used to go to school I used to be around other children and I was happy. Now I'm by myself and it's just boring alone, I don't like it.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Pro-independence parties have won a slim majority in the Catalan parliament. The regional election backfired on the Spanish government, but for now Madrid remains firmly in control, under emergency powers invoked in October.\n\nWhat if Catalonia were to secede eventually - would it be able to stand on its own two feet?\n\nTo the casual observer, Catalonia looks like it has already got many of the trappings of a state. Flags. A parliament. But its leader, Carles Puigdemont, is in self-imposed exile in Belgium.\n\nThe region has its own police force, the Mossos d'Esquadra. It has its own broadcast regulator, and even boasts a series of foreign \"missions\" - mini embassies that promote trade and investment in Catalonia around the world. Catalonia delivers some public services already - schools and healthcare, for example.\n\nThere'd be much more to set up in the event of independence, though. Border control. Customs. Proper international relations. Defence. A central bank. Inland revenue. Air traffic control.\n\nAll of these are currently run by Madrid.\n\nBut assuming it did create these new institutions - would it be able to pay for them?\n\nCatalonia already has its own police force\n\n\"Madrid nos roba\" is a popular secessionist slogan - \"Madrid is robbing us\". The received wisdom is that comparatively wealthy Catalonia pays in more than it gets out of the Spanish state.\n\nCatalonia is certainly rich compared with other parts of Spain. It is home to just 16% of the Spanish population, but 19% of its GDP and more than a quarter of Spain's foreign exports.\n\nIt punches above its weight in terms of tourism too - 18 million of Spain's 75 million tourists chose Catalonia as their primary destination last year, easily the most visited region.\n\nTarragona has one of Europe's largest chemical hubs.\n\nBarcelona is one of the EU's top 20 ports by weight of goods handled.\n\nAbout a third of the working population has some form of tertiary education.\n\nIt's also true that Catalans pay more in taxes than is spent on their region.\n\nIn 2014, the last year the Spanish government has figures for, Catalans paid nearly €10bn (£8.9bn) more in taxes than reached their region in public spending. Would an independent Catalonia get the difference back?\n\nSome have argued that even if Catalonia gained a tax boost from independence, that might get swallowed up by having to create new public institutions and run them without the same economies of scale.\n\nAnd some argue that it makes sense for the state to redistribute money from richer to poorer regions in this way.\n\nPerhaps of greater concern is Catalonia's public debt.\n\nThe Catalan government owes €77bn (£68bn) at the last count, or 35.4% of Catalonia's GDP. Of that, €52bn is owed to the Spanish government.\n\nIn 2012, the Spanish government set up a special fund to provide cash to the regions, who were unable to borrow money on the international markets after the financial crisis. Catalonia has been by far the biggest beneficiary of this scheme, taking €67bn since it began.\n\nNot only would Catalonia lose access to that scheme, but it would raise the question of how much debt Catalonia would be willing to repay after independence.\n\nThat question would surely cast a shadow over any negotiations. And on top of the sum owed by the regional government - would Madrid expect Barcelona to shoulder a share of the Spanish national debt?\n\nMany Catalans are proud to be EU citizens - that might be tricky to maintain after independence\n\nThe uncertainty created by the struggle for independence has already hit the Catalan economy.\n\nMore than 3,100 companies have moved their legal headquarters out of the region, including major banks Caixabank and Banco de Sabadell.\n\nAt least part of the uncertainty is over Catalonia's relationship with Europe.\n\nTwo-thirds of Catalonia's foreign exports go to the EU. It would need to reapply to become a member if it seceded from Spain - it wouldn't get in automatically or immediately.\n\nAnd it would require all EU members to agree - including Spain.\n\nSome in the pro-independence camp feel that Catalonia could settle for single-market membership without joining the EU. Catalans may well be happy to pay for access, and continue to accept free movement of EU citizens across the region's borders.\n\nBut if Spain chose to, it could make life difficult for an independent Catalonia.\n\nThere is also the question of currency.\n\nIn 2015, the governor of the Bank of Spain warned Catalans independence would cause the region to drop out of the euro automatically, losing access to the European Central Bank.\n\nNormally, new EU member states must apply to join the euro.\n\nThey have to meet certain criteria, such as their debt not being too large a percentage of their gross domestic product (GDP).\n\nEven if they meet those criteria, a qualified majority of eurozone countries has to approve their entry.\n\nIn theory, that means even if Catalonia became a new EU member state, it may well take time to rejoin the eurozone - and Spain and its allies could block that.\n\nIn practice, we just don't know what would happen.\n\nNobody has ever declared independence from a member of the eurozone then asked to rejoin as a new country.\n\nCould Catalonia use the euro without joining the eurozone? It does happen.\n\nSome countries such as San Marino and Vatican City do so with the eurozone's blessing, since they're too small to ever become EU member states.\n\nOthers, such as Kosovo and Montenegro, use the euro without the EU's blessing, and so don't have access to the European Central Bank.\n\nAgain, whether either solution would be practical in Catalonia remains to be seen.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Nothing quite like it' - Laura Kuenssberg on PM's speech\n\nThe conference has packed up. The prime minister is home. No one will forget her speech. And there are MPs who believe that today's surreal events ought to mark the beginning of the end.\n\nThere is a group of them ramping up their discussions about persuading her to go. One minister said the situation is \"brutal\" but the events will hasten her departure because it is \"like the moment when the vet tells you it is more cruel to keep the labrador alive\".\n\nPolitics is certainly cruel, and clearly the prime minister was the victim of some appallingly bad luck.\n\nAnother former minister told me that after the election and Grenfell it would only have taken one more event to trigger her exit and this \"was the event\".\n\nIn normal political times, it is probably the case that what one minister described as a \"tragedy\" today would have led to a prime minister being forced out or quitting.\n\nBut these aren't normal times. Allies of Theresa May say today she has shown her resilience and determination in spades, demonstrating exactly why she deserves to stay in the job.\n\nA senior colleague of hers told me she importantly did manage to put forward a coherent vision and talked about her personal beliefs. More than that, for those who want her gone there are three obstacles.\n\nFirst, with Brexit negotiations under way, any change of leader could be destabilising at a time when the UK needs to look strong. Second, Tory MPs don't agree on who a natural successor is, and a leadership election could open a Pandora's Box with untold consequences.\n\nAnd third, many Tory MPs are terrified of a general election. Doing anything that could precipitate a national contest means their jobs are at risk.\n\nBut in the next few days the balance between the desire to end the torment on display today and preserve stability will be endlessly discussed by Tory MPs.\n\nAnd in these volatile times few would predict what they will conclude.", "The protesters say the violent reaction of the Spanish authorities to their independence demands has strengthened their cause\n\nShe cried when she saw the news, he could hardly believe what he was watching.\n\nHere in 21st Century Spain, police were beating people for trying to hold a vote.\n\nNever mind that Ana didn't turn out herself for a ballot she believes was illegal in her beloved Spain.\n\nNever mind that Xavier had already made up his mind to break away from the very same Spain.\n\nLike many others, both are deeply upset about the violence at the polling stations.\n\nAt least, though, they have the comfort of being head over heels in love with each other.\n\nOn Laietana Street, there's no love lost for the police among the protesters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Spanish murderers!\" they chant at the building marked with a furled Spanish flag that looks lonely against the Catalan flags on nearby walls.\n\nThe building is protected by a line of Catalan riot police and vans.\n\nOne man all but shoves an \"anti-fascist\" flag into the face of a policeman, like a red rag to a bull.\n\nThe bull doesn't react, though the two sides are so close, you can imagine they smell each other's breath, as well as the heady fumes of whatever it is people are smoking in the crowd.\n\nMany in Catalonia are especially angry with Spanish police officers\n\nThere is shock that police were used against people for trying to hold a vote\n\nIt's 24 hours after the referendum and hundreds of hyper-young protesters are jubilantly occupying the street outside the Barcelona headquarters of Spain's National Police.\n\nThey're on a roll wrapped in their lone-star Catalan rebel flags, yelling up at the windows, demanding Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy takes his 10,000-odd extra police officers out of Catalonia.\n\n\"When they're gone, we'll turn the building into a library!\" one young man tells me with a grin.\n\nEvents on Sunday have left many people traumatised\n\nThrough the balaclavas, it's hard to tell how the Catalan riot police are taking all this, protecting their Spanish comrades from a hostile crowd, but their helmets hang unused from their belts along with the truncheons and pistols.\n\nThe only things being thrown this evening are paper planes which come down like volleys of toy darts on the police and their vans, to gales of triumphant laughter from the crowd.\n\nOn Sunday, in one Catalan town (Carles de la Rapita), there was a particularly bloody clash outside a polling station, and stones were hurled at Spanish police cars.\n\n\"If you'd asked me three or four years ago, I would probably have said independence was not the right way - it doesn't matter to me what's on the flag,\" says one of those at the Barcelona protest, 23-year-old Yes voter Jo, who doesn't want to give his full name.\n\n\"But every day now, basic rights are being violated. When we ask for more self-government, they only send police to beat old people and kids.\n\n\"In the past two weeks, Spain did more for Catalan independence than the Catalans in the past 10 years because if you point a gun at people they feel under attack, and if they feel under attack, it's logical that they won't want to stay with you.\n\n\"If we become independent tomorrow, I will congratulate Mariano Rajoy because he has done more than most to bring it about.\"\n\nIn a cafe across town, Xavier Querol, 25, wants to make something very clear.\n\nXavier and Ana speak both Catalan and Spanish\n\n\"It's not a fight,\" he says. \"We don't have a good side and a bad side - both sides are right. People are angry and disgusted but we are not fighting each other - that is all politics.\n\n\"Sunday was a disgrace and a shock. I know Spanish people who say they feel ashamed to be Spanish, but we still talk. It's the politicians who won't talk.\"\n\nBut his girlfriend Ana Jorques, 20, has noticed how the mood among some groups of Spanish and Catalan friends in Barcelona has soured.\n\n\"I am Spanish and there are Catalans who think that I am bad person after what happened on Sunday,\" she says.\n\nThere does tend to be more arguing, Xavier agrees. \"When they see the pictures of police fighting old people and children, people get stressed and blame those who feel Spanish.\"\n\n\"I like and respect the police,\" says Ana. \"They were doing their job. They have a boss and they have to do what the boss says, but they didn't behave correctly.\"\n\nWhen Xavier saw the pictures on TV he says it felt like he was looking at a report from another country, not Spain.\n\n\"I would rather stay in Spain than see this happen again,\" he says.\n\nHe didn't vote because he couldn't download the referendum app (banned by a court order) and by the time he found his polling station, the huge queue meant he had missed his chance.\n\nFire fighters in Barcelona took part in Monday's protests\n\n\"I don't trust politicians but I am Spanish and want to stay in Spain,\" says Ana.\n\nSo what does she think of Catalans?\n\n\"Well, this is a good Catalan,\" she says with a smile, gesturing towards Xavier, who is tickled pink.\n\nBut it's not easy for her, she adds, to hear Catalans call Spain a \"country full of corruption\".\n\nSo Spaniards never say mean things about Catalans? They sure do. A common view is that they are moaners who don't know how well off they are, she says.\n\n\"And there's corruption in Catalonia too,\" Ana points out.\n\nBut independence would mean a fresh start, Xavier believes. \"I'm not angry with the Spanish people, but I want to choose my own future.\"\n\nIn his view, Spain is ruled by the same small group of people who were in power under the Franco dictatorship.\n\nIt's true Mr Rajoy's Popular Party has its roots in the Franco establishment but, 40 years on, can a democratically elected Spanish government really behave like Franco?\n\nHuge numbers of people took part in protests against police violence on Monday\n\nBallot boxes used in Sunday's vote were put on display in various parts of Barcelona\n\n\"Totally!\" says Josep, 86, a Catalan who grew up under the old regime before migrating to Germany for work.\n\nBack living in Barcelona again, he has found his evening stroll with his daughter Maria (they also don't want to give their full names) interrupted by the demo at the police headquarters.\n\n\"Both sides are crazy,\" he says.\n\nThe father and daughter may be proud Catalans, but they see their future inside Spain - \"only not with Rajoy\", Josep adds. Perhaps Spain could adopt a federal structure like in Germany? he suggests.\n\nMaria says she feels both Catalan and Spanish and \"it's always better together\", and she is worried about Catalan radicalism.\n\nShe tried to vote No on Sunday but her designated polling station had been shut down.\n\nThe police's use of force will have swayed more people towards independence, she thinks, leaving the future even more uncertain.\n\n\"Following orders is one thing, but using violence where there is no violence is excessive,\" Maria says. \"People were only demonstrating that they wanted to vote.\"", "Guess what. It's not about Boris Johnson. He sucks the oxygen, grabs the attention, \"the blond one\" excites the Tory crowds, as well as driving his colleagues up the wall with his behaviour.\n\nToday in a speech about \"the lion that will roar\", (wonder what he's trying to say there?) activists may cheer him and colleagues will gnash their teeth as, in a way only he can, he tickles the party's tummy.\n\nThe fuss around Boris Johnson is the symptom not the cause. The problem that is increasingly on people's minds at this grisly conference is that the Tories might be only at the start of a decline, which becomes impossible to escape.\n\nOne former minister says, \"there is a smell of decay\", another, that it is \"hopeless, but we are resigned to the nightmare\". Cabinet ministers fret that Theresa May simply doesn't have the ideas or imagination to reboot either her leadership or their party.\n\nOne of her colleagues says \"how did she blow the party up in 12 months?\", lamenting how her premiership has paralleled Gordon Brown, who after years of hoping to get to Downing Street arrived there with little to say, bewildered by the sudden challenge of the top job. Another says she looks \"bent and broken\".\n\nBut there is little evidence yet that there is anyone willing or brave enough to confront this publicly, the younger generations of Tory MPs are furious with the top brass, but none of them yet ready to step up to the plate.\n\nFor now, Mrs May's glum cabinet colleagues mostly believe the best option is to get behind her, to show loyalty with the hope of regaining authority to govern, the slow grind of government competence could restore credibility over time.\n\nThese are unpredictable times. One minister even told me they feel optimistic about the next election, believing the Corbyn phenomenon can't sustain for five years.\n\nBut in government and on the backbenches and in Manchester, optimism is a minority view. Stopping the slide the priority.\n\nThe fear here is not really that Boris Johnson is grabbing all the attention, it's that this party could be dying inside, and it finds itself with a leader who might struggle to stop the downward spiral.\n• None May: Johnson's not undermining me", "The prime minister has promised to invest an additional £2bn in affordable housing.\n\nThe Conservative Party says that will fund the building of an additional 25,000 new homes for social rent, expected to be mainly council housing, over two years from 2019. Let's put that into perspective.\n\nIn 2010-11, 39,570 additional homes were made available for social rent in England, either through being built or bought. In 2015-16 there were only 6,800 extra homes.\n\nThat's been concerning campaigners, because those on the lowest incomes are affected by the availability of houses for social rent.\n\nThis graph shows how the government's priorities have been shifting away from building homes for the cheapest social rents towards building those available for the more expensive \"affordable\" rents.\n\nWednesday's announcement signals a change in the policy of recent years and is expected to be targeted at areas such as London and the South East, where market rates are significantly higher.\n\nWhat does the government mean when it talks about \"affordable\" housing? It includes social rent, affordable rent, affordable homes to buy and shared ownership.\n\nThe rapid fall in houses being built or acquired for social rent has meant the total number of extra homes categorised as \"affordable\" has been on a downward trend, from 61,090 in 2010-11 to 32,630 in 2015-16.\n\nThe spike in 2014-15 was the culmination of a four-year programme of house-building that saw a big rise in homes being completed. The rise was driven by a surge in homes for affordable rent being built.\n\nIn response to the prime minister's announcement, the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) said: \"As we have been saying for some time, social rents, which are significantly cheaper than market rents, are the only truly affordable option for many people on lower incomes, so the recognition that we need more of these homes is a vital step forward.\"\n\nAccording to the CIH, only 20% of the government's current housing budget goes on affordable homes.\n\nThe main focus of government policy has been on private housing schemes with the remaining budget being spent on projects such as the Help to Buy scheme.\n\nUnlike in the private sector, both social and affordable rented properties are allocated on the basis of need.\n\nSome affordable housing is built through government funding and some is built by private house builders as part of a planning agreement with councils.\n\nIn 2015, the Conservatives promised to build a million more homes of all types by 2020 - the equivalent of 200,000 per year - but they have fallen behind on this. There were 168,350 homes built in the year to March 2016.\n\nIn May this year, the Conservatives promised a \"new generation\" of council houses, a proportion of which would have to be sold privately after 10-15 years.\n\nThe tenants would be given the first opportunity to purchase their homes, under the Right to Buy scheme, and the proceeds would go towards building more social housing.", "The European Union has launched a fresh crackdown over taxes paid by tech giants Amazon and Apple.\n\nAmazon has been ordered to repay €250m (£221m; $293m) in back taxes after the European Commission said it had been given an unfair tax deal in Luxembourg.\n\nThe Commission also plans to take Ireland to court over its failure to collect €13bn of back taxes from Apple.\n\nAmazon denied it owed any back tax, saying it did \"not receive any special treatment from Luxembourg\".\n\n\"We will study the Commission's ruling and consider our legal options, including an appeal,\" an Amazon spokesperson said.\n\nBut European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said the Luxembourg arrangement meant that Amazon had been allowed to pay \"substantially less tax than other businesses\", which it said was \"illegal under EU state aid rules\".\n\n\"Luxembourg gave illegal tax benefits to Amazon. As a result, almost three-quarters of Amazon's profits were not taxed,\" Ms Vestager added.\n\nShe said Amazon paid four times less tax than other local companies.\n\n\"Member states cannot give selective tax benefits to multinational groups that are not available to others,\" she added.\n\nThe Commission said until the taxes were recovered Apple was still \"continuing to benefit from an illegal advantage\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Commission said it planned to refer Ireland to the European Court of Justice for failing to recover €13bn in back taxes from tech giant Apple.\n\nIt concluded last year that the US firm's Irish tax benefits were illegal, enabling the firm to pay a corporate tax rate of no more than 1%.\n\nThe Commission said that more than a year on from that decision, Ireland had still not recovered the money.\n\nAs a result, it was referring Ireland to the European Court of Justice, it said.\n\nIreland, which has contested the decision, claiming that EU regulators were interfering with national sovereignty, said the decision was \"extremely disappointing\".\n\n\"Today's decisions are to order Luxembourg to recover unpaid tax from Amazon and refer Ireland to the European Court for failing to recover unpaid tax from Apple. I hope that both decisions are seen as a message that companies must pay their fair share of taxes, as the huge majority of companies do,\" said Ms Vestager.\n\nThe decision on Amazon follows a three-year long investigation by the European Commission, which said in 2014 that it had suspicions the arrangement had broken EU rules.\n\nThe tax deal between Luxembourg and Amazon was struck in 2003.\n\nThe Commission said it had enabled Amazon to shift the \"vast majority\" of its profits from Amazon EU to Amazon Europe Holding Technologies, which was not subject to tax.\n\nIt said this arrangement had \"significantly reduced\" Amazon's taxable profits.\n\nAt the time the deal was struck, Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission's president, was the prime minister of Luxembourg.", "Tracey Wilkinson died at the family home in Stourbridge and her teenage son Pierce died in hospital\n\nA \"manipulative\" homeless man who turned on a family who befriended him has admitted the \"frenzied\" murder of the mother and her 13-year-old son.\n\nTracey and Pierce Wilkinson were stabbed to death at their home in Stourbridge, West Midlands in March.\n\nThe boy's father, Peter, was seriously injured in the attack but survived.\n\nAaron Barley, 24, of no fixed address, admitted the killings at Birmingham Crown Court on what would have been the first day of his trial.\n\nHe previously admitted the attempted murder of Mr Wilkinson.\n\nThe family first met Barley after Mrs Wilkinson decided \"off-the-cuff\" to help him when she saw him trying to keep warm in a cardboard box while she was out shopping.\n\nShe helped him find accommodation and arranged daily meals for him, while her husband went on to employ him as a labourer in April last year.\n\nHe left the company on \"amicable terms\" last September after he began to take drugs.\n\nAaron Barley admitted the two murders on what would have been the first day of his trial\n\nProsecutor Karim Khalil QC told the court Mr Wilkinson was \"naturally intent\" on trying to continue to support Barley and his work colleagues \"spent a huge amount of time and effort trying to find ways to support the defendant\".\n\nBut despite this he went on to attack the family just months later.\n\nMr Khalil said Barley killed Mrs Wilkinson in her bed and attacked Pierce in his room while Mr Wilkinson was out walking the dog on the morning of 30 March.\n\nHe had hidden in the garden shed overnight after failing to gain entry to the home he once shared with the family.\n\nCCTV played to the court showed him emerging from the shed with a hammer as Mr Wilkinson returned home.\n\nBrandishing a knife over his head, he shouted \"Die you bastard\" as he stabbed Mr Wilkinson a total of six times - twice in the face, twice in the abdomen and twice in the back, the court heard.\n\nBarley, described as a \"compulsive liar and manipulator\" with 21 previous convictions, wore a balaclava and was clad entirely in black, even covering his yellow trainers in black socks.\n\nMr Khalil said Mr Wilkinson described the defendant as \"acting like a ninja\".\n\n\"He realised immediately who his attacker was\", he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"The defendant was wielding a knife, stabbing and slashing at Peter in a frenzied attack with such aggression that this alone demonstrated an obvious intention to kill him.\"\n\nThe company director managed to contact emergency services, and was found in the garden of the family home with facial lacerations and deep stab wounds.\n\nBarley fled the scene in the family's Land Rover and was pursued by police before he crashed in a nearby road and was arrested.\n\nMrs Wilkinson, 50, was pronounced dead at the scene, while Pierce died after being taken to hospital.\n\nMr Wilkinson, 47, spent 11 days in hospital recovering from his wounds.\n\nBefore the killings, Barley was reported to police after his former foster carer became concerned about messages posted on Facebook, the court was told.\n\nAmong the posts was a threat from him towards his family and the possibility of a \"killing spree\".\n\nLess than a week before the stabbings, the court heard, the Wilkinsons cancelled a mobile phone contract they had paid for Barley.\n\nPierce Wilkinson (left) was killed in the attack while his father Peter was seriously injured. Pierce's sister Lydia was at university at the time\n\nThe couple's daughter Lydia, 19, was away at Bristol University at the time.\n\nShe said she was warned to expect the worst and when she saw her father hooked up to \"countless machines\" she doubted he would survive.\n\nWhen he did eventually regain consciousness, Mr Wilkinson did not know his wife was dead and was unaware his daughter had been to the mortuary to identify her mother and brother.\n\nBoth the family and police said they did not know what Barley's motive was.\n\nMr Wilkinson said he had shared a \"curry and a couple of bottles of beer\" with Barley about a month before the attack.\n\n\"The next time I saw him he was sticking a knife into my shoulder,\" he said.\n\nHe said Barley had joined the family on Christmas Day last year and he wrote a card to his wife that said 'To the mother that I never had'.\n\n\"My wife was very caring and he treated her a bit like a second mother,\" he added.\n\nHe suggested that Barley, whose parents died when he was young, knew his life was \"going bad ways\" and wanted to take it out on the people that had \"cared and looked after him\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lydia Wilkinson thought all her family was dead\n\nDet Supt Tom Chisholm said Barley has remained uncooperative while in custody and given officers no reason for the \"horrific attack\".\n\nDescribing the \"random\" murders as the most shocking he had dealt with, the veteran detective added: \"There is usually a build-up or a motive or a grudge of something, but this one is just very random.\"\n\nThe court also heard that psychiatric reports found no evidence of diminished responsibility.\n\nBarley fled from the scene in the family's 4x4\n\nEmergency services were called to Greyhound Lane, Norton on 30 March\n\nMr Wilkinson and Lydia have now moved back into the family home and said they have been \"astounded\" by the support they have received.\n\nMs Wilkinson described her mother as a \"stunning\" woman with a \"beautiful personality\".\n\n\"To have my best friend taken from me in life at such a young age is a hardship I would never wish on anyone,\" she said.\n\n\"Because it has to be the most awful experience. Especially when something happens… I can't ring her up any more.\"\n\nShe said her brother was \"handsome, funny, clever\" and made friends with everybody around him.\n\n\"My mum and brother were just the iconic mother/son relationship,\" she said.\n\nBarley will be sentenced on Wednesday.", "Amazon is facing a bill for hundreds of millions of euros in back taxes linked to an alleged \"sweetheart\" tax deal with Luxembourg.\n\nThe European Union's (EU) competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager is expected to announce a recovery order later, reports the Financial Times.\n\nIt follows a three-year investigation into tax arrangements between the US online retailer and Luxembourg.\n\nIn a preliminary ruling the commission said the deal \"constituted state aid\".\n\nSuch a move by the European Commission (EC) would be similar to a 13bn euros (£11.5bn) bill it levied against US technology giant Apple last year for Irish back taxes, the Financial Times said.\n\nEurope claimed that Ireland had given Apple, which employs around 4,000 people in the Republic, illegal state aid through special tax arrangements. Apple is appealing against the ruling.\n\nThe tax deal between Luxembourg and Amazon was struck in 2003.\n\nAt the time, Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission's president, was the prime minister of Luxembourg.\n\nThe European Commission declined to comment. Amazon was unavailable for comment.\n\nPreviously the EC has said that its \"preliminary view is that the tax ruling... by Luxembourg in favour of Amazon constitutes state aid.\"\n\nHowever, Amazon said it \"has received no special tax treatment from Luxembourg\".\n\n\"We are subject to the same tax laws as other companies operating here [in Luxembourg],\" it said.\n\nSeparately, the European Commission is set to announce plans to crack down on VAT fraud which cost the 28-nation bloc 150bn euros in lost tax each year.\n\nIt is expected to set out a major reform of EU tax rules, including changes to cross-border VAT, on Wednesday.", "When we think about ourselves positively, we stimulate parts of our brains involved in reward, motivation, and pleasure, says Dr Stacie Grossman Bloom\n\nDr Stacie Grossman Bloom is a neuroscientist who has three daughters. She also has a successful career at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York. She has examined the role that neuroscience can play in boosting confidence. This is particularly useful to many women who need exactly that, she writes as part of this year's 100 Women Challenge.\n\nConfidence is something that many women want, but don't know how to get. Yet, we need to embrace our abilities and our value and have self-esteem to be successful. Without it, we are less likely to seek promotion, speak up in meetings, and rise into leadership positions.\n\nThis ultimately has an enormous impact, as study after study shows that having women at work in positions of power correlates with profitability, more collaborative environments, and improved problem solving.\n\nWith some practice, we can use neuroscience to be more confident.\n\nBBC 100 Women names 100 influential and inspirational women around the world every year. In 2017, we're challenging them to tackle four of the biggest problems facing women today - the glass ceiling, female illiteracy, harassment in public spaces and sexism in sport.\n\nWith your help, they'll be coming up with real-life solutions and we want you to get involved with your ideas. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and use #100Women\n\nWe know that self-confidence, like all of our personality traits, resides within our brains. And while a large part of the architecture of our brains is predetermined, our experiences and the choices we make continue to shape us.\n\nOver the course of our lives, we acquire new knowledge and abilities by modulating the intricate and malleable connections between the cells and circuits in our brains. We can utilise neuroscience to silence our negative inner voices and boost our confidence.\n\nThese strategies work by engaging the \"value areas\" of the brain.\n\nWhen we think about ourselves positively, we are able to stimulate the parts of our brains that are involved in reward, motivation, and pleasure. One output of this pattern of neurological activation is that we literally feel good when we are confident, we hold our heads high.\n\nDr. Bloom with her three daughters\n\nThat feeling is contagious in that it also promotes those around us to be more engaged with us, whether that is our colleagues, our friends, or our troops. The reinforcing reactions we see and feel in response to our confidence also feed back to our brains to encourage more activity.\n\nThe first step is to push back against the obstacles we know stand in our way by being mindful of the situation, and deciding to be confident. Making that complex decision is a multi-step process that taps into our emotions and engages many other parts of the brain.\n\nOnce we have made the decision to be confident, we have to start training our brains.\n\nThe orange structure here is one of billions of neurons. It is stretching out to make all the connections (synapses) you see in yellow (more than 75,000). Those connections are what we are tweaking when we learn to choose confidence\n\nJust like mastering any other talent, gaining self-assurance requires repetition and time. Every time we do or learn something new, our brains adjust to store our new skill or bit of knowledge.\n\nThis happens because parts of our brains are plastic, and the synapses that connect our brain cells, called neurons, to each other can be modified, strengthened, and even newly created to store what we have acquired - in this case our confidence boost.\n\nFrom a scientific perspective, women can blame both nature and nurture for stacking the odds against us when it comes to how we value ourselves compared to men. It is a biological reality that women secrete different levels of hormones than men, causing us to react differently to the same world around us.\n\nThe areas of the brain in these images that are coloured to show they are activated are so-called “value areas” of the brain\n\nWomen tend to have a desire to please others, to seek acceptance and inclusion, and to avoid conflict. The way we respond to stressful situations is also different.\n\nWhile men tend to take more risk under pressure, women look for surer successes and reach out to connect with others to manage stress.\n\nOur genetic differences are compounded by the fact that we are socialised differently from the moment we are born and a pink hat is placed upon our heads.\n\nAs we grow up, young women are not necessarily taught to exhibit self-confidence, and if we do, we are often criticized for being \"snobby\" or \"stuck-up\" or \"bitchy\" - words seldom associated with men.\n\nWe hear damaging terms like \"women's intuition\" suggesting that we aren't making strategic analyses, but basing our decisions on some ethereal gut feeling when study after study shows that women and men are equally data-driven.\n\nAnd the relentless emphasis placed on how we look erodes our self-image and for most of us, gets worse over time.\n\nAs a mother of three young girls, this resonates with me every time my daughters receive yet another impossibly-proportioned doll designed for dress up, caregiving, or primping.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Are women hitting a glass ceiling, or are they also climbing a broken ladder?\n\nIt is well-documented that we way we raise our girls and women has a lasting impact on the way they view themselves and their abilities. Negative messages will engender self-doubt and lead us to underestimate ourselves.\n\nThe result is not only a nearly universal feeling of imposter syndrome, but a fear of making mistakes, a suspicion that we are underperforming, and an unattainable quest for perfection.\n\nThis is what we are shutting down when we make the decision to be confident.\n\nIt doesn't matter what level of self-assurance you start at, the more time and effort you dedicate to practicing being more confident, the faster your brain will change and the faster you'll master it.\n\nTo start, it's important to remove ourselves from situations and people that make us feel bad because confidence largely comes from being in a supportive environment.\n\nThat environment comprises the people and environment around us and what we choose to focus our attention on.\n\nIt is beneficial to concentrate on things that are empowering and to steer clear of exposure to images and content that make us feel bad about ourselves.\n\nThe way we choose to hold and conduct ourselves is another factor.\n\nMental simulations also help - envisioning ourselves finishing a race, speaking in public to a standing ovation, mastering a job, getting a degree - can all help build ourselves up. Just as a coach gives an encouraging pep talk to the team before taking the field, we can give ourselves a confidence lift.\n\nNotably, these practices have an impact on our overall health and wellbeing, serving as a buffer to stress and depression, and fostering good mental and physical health.\n\nWhen we choose confidence, we are rewiring our brains and we are able to change ourselves, and maybe even the world, for the better.\n\nDr Stacie Grossman Bloom is Assistant Vice-President for Policy & Administration, and Associate Professor at the Department of Neuroscience & Physiology, NYU Langone Health.", "Six days after the Christchurch mosque attack, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a ban on \"military-style\" semi-automatic rifles, prompting questions in the US.\n\nFollowing a series of mass shootings in the US in recent years, there has been little in the way of sweeping gun-control reforms.\n\nOn the federal level, at least, the interest and attention in new legislation has led to almost no action in decades, despite numerous polls showing widespread public support for measures like strengthened background checks and banning certain types of high-capacity gun magazines and military-style assault rifles.\n\nThe Trump administration has issued a regulatory ban on bump-stock modifications that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like machine guns, and there have been some tweaks to the background check database for gun-store purchases.\n\nLast March, Donald Trump entertained the notion of more ambitious, \"comprehensive\" legislation, telling senators pro-gun lobbyists had little power over him. But there's been no such talk from the president since.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPart of the reason New Zealand is ability to move quickly, of course, is that it's a parliamentary democracy, ensuring that the government is controlled entirely by one party or a politically compatible coalition. That's not the only explanation for why the US has charted a different course, however.\n\nHere are five big obstacles that stand in the way of the kind of the US taking the kind of quick, major changes to firearm policy being advanced in New Zealand.\n\nA woman shows off a model gun and holster at an NRA fashion show\n\nThe National Rifle Association is one of the most influential interest groups in US politics - not just because of the money it spends on lobbying politicians, but also because of the engagement of its five million members.\n\nIt opposes most proposals to strengthen firearm regulations and is behind efforts at both the federal and state levels to roll back many existing restrictions on gun ownership.\n\nIn 2016 the NRA spent $4m on lobbying and direct contributions to politicians as well as more than $50m on political advocacy, including an estimated $30m to help elect Donald Trump president.\n\nIts overall annual budget is roughly $250m, allocated to educational programmes, gun facilities, membership events, sponsorships, legal advocacy and related efforts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A guide to the weapons available in the US and the rate at which they fire\n\nMore than just the numbers, however, the NRA has developed a reputation in Washington as a political force that can make or break even the strongest politicians.\n\nIt grades politicians on their votes and directs its resources and those of its membership - both financial and organisational - to supporting its fiercest advocates and defeating staunch opponents.\n\nAs one former Republican congressman told the New York Times in 2013: \"That was the one group where I said, 'As long as I'm in office, I'm not bucking the NRA.'\" Last March the president said he wasn't \"afraid\" of the NRA - but that was a rhetorical flourish that has not resurfaced.\n\nCould it change? Gun-control groups, backed by wealthy benefactors like former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, have become more organised in recent years, attempting to match the NRA's political might. They actually outspent the NRA in the 2018 mid-terms, during which some prominent pro-gun-control Democrats won close elections. The NRA's revenues dropped $56m in 2017, driven largely by a decline in membership dues. It still brought in $378.1m that year, however, ensuring that it will be the biggest single player in the firearm debate.\n\nFor the first time in eight years, Democrats have control of the House of Representatives - and their success in the 2018 mid-term congressional elections was fuelled largely by victories in suburban swing districts. In Atlanta, for instance, a gun-control activist won one of the closest races of the election, unseating an incumbent Republican.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's Donald Trump said about guns and gun control?\n\nDespite these advances for the party, the House electoral playing field is still tilted toward Republicans, who tend to be for gun rights. Due to the way the lines of House congressional districts are drawn, many by Republican-controlled state legislatures, there are more seats that tilt to the right than the left. While 2018 was a Democratic wave election, political gravity may eventually reassert itself, giving control of the chamber back to conservatives.\n\nDemographics also play a part in the pro-gun sentiment in the House, as there are more rural districts with higher levels of gun ownership than there are urban ones. Racking up big pro-gun-control majorities in urban areas does little to change the political realities in the House.\n\nHouse members sit on the floor \"to demand action on common sense gun legislation\"\n\nFor the moment, however, the initiative is with Democrats, and 2019 marked a significant step forward for gun-control proponents in Congress. One of their first actions was to pass a bill in the House requiring comprehensive background checks of private gun sales, including those that take place at gun shows. Previously the requirement to run the name of gun purchasers in a federal database was limited only to registered gun dealers.\n\nPrior to 2019, attempts to pass new federal laws regulating firearms had been over before they ever really begin, stymied by House Republicans. In June 2016 a group of Democratic politicians staged a sit-in on the floor of the House to protest over the Republican House leadership's decision not to hold a vote on two gun-control bills.\n\nCould it change? The House of Representatives was once one of the biggest obstacles to federal gun-control legislation. It no longer is - for now. With every House seat up for election every two years, and an American electorate that has proven fickle, the door could slam shut again with little advanced notice.\n\nNow that gun-control bills have hopes in the House of Representatives, the Senate - where the rural-urban divide plays itself out on the state level - becomes the biggest obstacle to legislative success. States dominated by big-city voters, such as New York, Massachusetts or California, are outnumbered by rural and Southern states with pro-gun sentiments.\n\nThe rules of the Senate can also thwart efforts to enact more stringent firearm regulation, thanks to the \"filibuster\" - a procedural hurdle that means most major pieces of legislation need the backing of 60 out of 100 senators to pass, rather than a simple 51-vote majority.\n\nIn 2013, following the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting, it appeared that efforts to strengthen gun-purchase background checks had significant bipartisan support in the Senate. After a concerted lobbying effort by the NRA, however, the bill received only 56 votes in favour, four short of the mark necessary to break the filibuster.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNo gun-control measure has come close to passage since then. At least for the moment, there appears little chance the Senate will take up the House-passed universal background check bill, despite indications that a majority of senators would vote in favour of it.\n\nCould it change? Mr Trump has been a vocal proponent of doing away with the Senate filibuster, as he views it as an obstacle to enacting his legislative agenda. Several Democratic presidential hopefuls have made similar calls. A majority of senators are on the record against changing the rules, however.\n\nProtesters in front of the Supreme Court in 2008\n\nWith Congress deadlocked on new gun legislation, left-leaning US states have taken a greater role in implementing gun-control measures.\n\nAfter the 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, 21 states passed new gun laws, including imposing assault weapons bans in Connecticut, Maryland and New York.\n\nSome of the laws have run up against another barrier, however - the US judicial system. In recent years the Supreme Court has twice ruled that the right to own personal weapons such as handguns is enshrined in the constitution.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How countries around the world introduced restrictions following mass shootings\n\nThe Second Amendment says that \"a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed\".\n\nGun-control activists point to the introductory clause as evidence that the amendment was meant primarily to create a \"well regulated\" militia. In 2008, however, a sharply divided court held that the Second Amendment provides a broad right to firearm ownership that prohibits stringent registration requirement for personal weapons.\n\nSince then, lower courts have considered challenges to state-imposed assault weapon bans, registration requirements and open-carry prohibitions.\n\nCould it change? Trump-appointed Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh have a record of viewing Second Amendment rights broadly. The president is filling out the ranks of the lower courts with pro-gun-rights judges. If anything, the judiciary is moving to the right on this issue. In the autumn, the Supreme Court will consider a challenge to a New York City law restricting how handgun owners can transport their firearms. Gun-control advocates fear the high court is poised to strike another blow against state and local regulations.\n\nPerhaps the single biggest obstacle to new gun-control laws at the national level is that opponents tend to hold fiercely to their beliefs, while support for new regulation tends to ebb and flow around each new instance of violence.\n\nThe NRA's strategy, and that of pro-gun politicians, is to wait out the storm - to delay legislative efforts until attention turns elsewhere and the outcry fades.\n\nPro-gun politicians offer their thoughts and prayers, observe moments of silence and order flags flown half-staff. Then, in the quiet, legislative efforts are deferred and ultimately derailed.\n\nThe mass student-led protests following the Parkland school shooting focused white-hot attention on the issue for a time, but the marches have died down and the changes to gun laws, at least on the federal level, have been minimal.\n\nShortly after the Las Vegas shooting in October 2017, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters \"there's a time and place for a political debate, but now is the time to unite as a country\".\n\nMr Trump said \"we will be talking about gun laws as time goes by\".\n\nAs time goes by. As that song from the film Casablanca says, it's still the same old story.\n\nCould it change? According to one poll during the 2016 presidential campaign, guns were an important issue for both Democrats and Republicans. That could be a reflection of that year's mass shooting in an Orlando nightclub or the first indication of a new trend.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lydia Wilkinson thought all her family was dead\n\nLydia Wilkinson was in another county when she found out her whole family had been stabbed in a \"frenzied\" knife attack.\n\nThe 19-year-old Bristol university student was in halls when her boyfriend called her about a stabbing in her hometown of Stourbridge, West Midlands.\n\nUnknown to Lydia, Aaron Barley, a 24-year-old homeless man who had been taken in by the Wilkinsons, had armed himself with a knife and entered her family's home.\n\n\"I remember typing into Google 'Stourbridge, stabbings,\" she said.\n\n\"And the first link showed a photo of my house with police tape around it. I remember ringing him [my boyfriend] back and saying 'It's me, it's us, they've been stabbed'.\"\n\nLydia did not yet know Barley had killed her 13-year-old brother Pierce, and her mother, Tracey. Her father, Peter, was gravely wounded in the attack.\n\nShaken by what she had seen online, Lydia went into a friend's room, where she called the police. Her friend took her phone while they waited for officers to arrive.\n\n\"West Midlands [Police] got to me and asked what I knew - I said just that they have all been stabbed,\" she said.\n\n\"They said 'we are very sorry to tell you that your mum and brother have passed away and your dad is in theatre and we don't know whether he will survive or not, we have had no news'.\"\n\nLydia, a first-year biology undergraduate, was set to return to the family home a day after the attack on 30 March.\n\nShe had promised to meet Pierce at his school gates, and was looking forward to going dress shopping with her mum, she said.\n\nInstead, she found herself rushing to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, unaware if her father had survived.\n\n\"I remember coming back in the car from Bristol,\" she said. \"I was planning a triple funeral and how I was going to go about that on my own.\"\n\nLydia Wilkinson laid flowers at her family home after the murders\n\nAbout three hours after learning her mum and brother had died, Lydia arrived at her father's bedside.\n\n\"They took me to critical care and that was the first time I saw my dad - with countless machines hooked up to him, a lot of doctors around his bed,\" she said.\n\n\"I remember thinking at that point in time that I was going to lose him as well because nobody could survive that state.\"\n\n\"I thought he was going to pass away that night.\"\n\n\"I knew there was nothing I could do to help my mum and Pierce as they had tragically passed away, so my sole focus at that moment in time was my dad, because he was the only thing I had left in life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Peter Wilkinson woke up in intensive care to learn his son was dead\n\nLydia sat beside her father, who was under heavy sedation, holding his hand.\n\n\"I said that I was there and he opened his eyes and looked at me and then went back unconscious,\" she said.\n\n\"He woke up later on that evening.\"\n\n\"I started to hope that he was going to [pull through] because before that there was just no hope. I genuinely thought it was going to be just me,\" she said.\n\n\"And from that moment he started to come round.\"\n\nPierce Wilkinson (left) died in hospital after paramedics battled to save him\n\nLydia, who has since continued her studies at Bristol, said she did not really talk to her father \"about the outside world\" until he came out of critical care.\n\n\"He didn't know I had been to the house [to lay flowers] and he didn't know that I identified the bodies of my mum and brother,\" she said.\n\nTracey Wilkinson had a \"beautiful personality\", her daughter said.\n\nLydia paid tribute to her mother, who had first met Barley when he was living on the streets. She found him meals and accommodation and let him temporarily stay in their home.\n\n\"To have my best friend taken from me in life at such a young age is a hardship I would never wish on anyone,\" she said.\n\n\"Because it has to be the most awful experience. Especially when something happens… I can't ring her up any more.\"\n\nAfter Barley admitted killing Pierce and Mrs Wilkinson, Lydia faced him in court.\n\nAddressing the killer as he stood in the dock, she said: \"My parents helped you - you repaid them with destruction and heartache.\n\n\"You have obliterated my life, murdered half my family, very nearly all of it, and for this I will never forgive you.\"", "It is thought that between 1-3% of the population is asexual, meaning they do not feel any sexual attraction to other people. For years Stacey was puzzled about why she never wanted to sleep with anyone, even her husband. As she explains here, it was her doctor that told her the truth.\n\nFor a really long time I thought I was broken mentally or physically in some way, I thought it wasn't normal to not want to have sex with people.\n\nFriends of mine would be talking about boyfriends they'd had or celebrities they'd like to bed, and I just didn't think about anybody in that very specific, sexual sense.\n\nWhen I was in my early twenties I really started noticing it, but I didn't talk to anybody about it because I just thought, \"They're going to think I'm well strange,\" so I just kept quiet.\n\nAsexuality has quite a spectrum so although I might not be sexually attracted to people I do get very romantically attracted to people.\n\nI'd met my boyfriend - who is now my husband - when I was 19, and I didn't know what asexuality was then, so I just thought I was bonkers or really behind the curve or something.\n\nI was thinking, \"I absolutely love this man, and if he proposes to me I will 100% say yes because I know I want to spend the rest of my life with him, so why don't I want to sleep with him? That's crazy.\"\n\nStacey spoke to BBC Radio 4's iPM, the programme which starts with its listeners. If you want to contact the programme, please send an email.\n\nWe sort of went on a bit of journey of discovery together, me and the hubby. He was very much, \"I am in love with you. I will wait as long as it takes, if it ever happens.\"\n\nHe was really supportive and never tried to make me do anything I wasn't comfortable with.\n\nSocietal norms suggest that sex and children are the way forward in a relationship and all my friends were going off and getting married and having babies. I thought, \"Oh God, there's this expectation that I should be sleeping with my husband and having children.\"\n\nI started having a recurring nightmare that my husband was going to leave me for somebody who looked exactly like me but who would actually sleep with him, and I got to a point where my own anxieties were making me almost unbearable.\n\nI thought, \"Do you know what? I've got to sort this out, I've got to find out what's going on.\"\n\nBy this point I was probably 27 or 28.\n\nI made the massive mistake of searching the internet for medical reasons that might cause low sex drive. That was a mistake, an absolute mistake. There were lots of little things that were easily fixable like dodgy hormone levels, but the one that caught my eye was brain tumours.\n\nI was like, \"Oh no, I'm dying of a brain tumour.\"\n\nI went to my doctor and I said, \"Look, is it serious? Am I going to die?\"\n\nShe was like, \"Calm down, you're probably just asexual.\"\n\nI was like, \"What's that? What?\"\n\nSo she pointed me towards some websites - and it was like I'd found my people, it was so exciting.\n\nI'd never heard the term \"asexual\" before.\n\nI did some more research and I started feeling a lot more comfortable in myself, so I spoke to my husband about it and I said, \"This label does kind of take things off the table permanently.\"\n\nAnd he pretty much just said, \"Well, I'd kind of assumed that anyway, so it's fine.\"\n\nHe's been absolutely great, he's been so understanding. I like to think it's because of my shining personality that he thinks, \"I've got to hold on to that one.\"\n\nI've never felt what most people would describe as horny and if I ever do feel any slight inkling of that it's very, very small, like an itch that I need to scratch.\n\nIt's a very biological process for me rather than an arousal kind of thing, if that makes sense, and I don't want to involve other people, not even my husband.\n\nIt's like, \"Yeuch, here's this feeling, I'll go deal with that.\"\n\nI almost disassociate from it.\n\n\"I'm 60 years old and have never knowingly met another person who is asexual. I had never even heard it publicly acknowledged.\" - Lucy\n\n\"When I first discovered that I was asexual, I tried to come out to a few people, and while some were very open to it, I've had some very negative reactions. A group of team mates from my university sports team decided to arrange a night out for me to 'help' me get laid, when they discovered that I hadn't had sex, not caring that it was due to my asexuality.\" - Scott\n\n\"I have been met with scorn, disbelief and disgusted looks when I have shared my asexuality with other people. People have told me that 'it's not a real thing' and that 'I'm making it up for attention.' I have only now begun to think of myself as a whole human being, with no 'missing pieces'.\" - Anonymous, 14 years old\n\n\"I don't have a problem with physical contact. It's just I don't see any others as sexual prey… Even though I have never discussed this with my wonderful mum, she is not blind to the fact that I live happily alone, child-free and have no interest in dating. She has even been on the brink of tears, concerned that - and I quote - 'It might be something I did that made you... not normal.'\" - Dani\n\nAsexuality is a spectrum and there are a lot of asexual people who, once they've built up a relationship with a person, feel comfortable having sex with them. But for me, any time I've ever got close, my whole body's been like, \"No, no thank you, stop that now, not having it.\"\n\nIt's just the kids thing - people that I tell almost always immediately say, \"Oh my god, but how are you going to have kids, though?\"\n\nWell, there are a lot of ways that I could have kids if I wanted them, it's not completely out of the realms of possibility.\n\nI've only been aware about asexuality for about three or four years. I like the label ACE [short for \"asexual\"]. I find it almost comforting, and it has really helped me understand who I am, how I behave and how my mind works.\n\nI do celebrate being ACE, I'm quite proud of it, and I do like to talk about it because I would like more people to understand it and not judge people for not wanting to have sex. I think if I'd known what asexuality was back when I was 18 or 19 my mental health could have been a whole lot better for most of my twenties.\n\nFunnily enough, before I discovered asexuality my husband used to call me Stace Ace.\n\nFor more information on sex and relationships you can visit BBC Advice.\n\nYou can listen to iPM on Radio 4 at 05:45 on Saturday 7 October, or catch up later on the BBC iPlayer\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Aaron Barley admitted the two murders on what would have been the first day of his trial\n\nA homeless man who \"destroyed a family\" by stabbing to death a mother and son who had helped him has been jailed for life with a minimum of 30 years.\n\nAaron Barley admitted murdering Tracey Wilkinson and 13-year-old son Pierce on the first day of his trial on Tuesday.\n\nMrs Wilkinson's husband Peter was also stabbed six times in the attack at their home in Stourbridge in March.\n\nMrs Justice Carr told Barley, 24, he had \"betrayed their trust in every way\" and warned he might never be released.\n\nBarley murdered the pair after a year in which he was given food, friendship and shelter by Mrs Wilkinson, Birmingham Crown Court heard on Tuesday.\n\nTracey Wilkinson died at the family home in Stourbridge and her 13-year-old son Pierce died in hospital\n\nDetails of Barley's 21 previous convictions were read out in court, including an assault on his former partner.\n\nThe judge told Barley she had decided not to impose a whole-life tariff \"principally because of your youth\".\n\n\"You clearly represent a very significant risk of serious harm to members of the public,\" she said.\n\nProsecutor Karim Khalil QC said Barley killed Mrs Wilkinson, 50, in her bed and her son in his room before then attacking her 47-year-old husband as he returned home from walking their dog.\n\nMrs Justice Carr told the court of the \"terror\" Tracey and Pierce must have felt when Barley attacked them.\n\n\"One of them, at least, must have been aware of the stabbing of the other,\" she added.\n\nThe couple's daughter Lydia, 19, was away at Bristol University at the time of the attack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPassing sentence, High Court judge Mrs Justice Carr said Barley had carried out \"a vicious and unprovoked attack\" in the home where he had once been welcomed.\n\nThe judge told Barley: \"You abused your knowledge of the family home, which you had only gained through the Wilkinsons' extraordinary kindness and generosity to you.\"\n\nMrs Justice Carr described the \"chilling\" security camera footage, showing Barley \"crawling\" on all fours around the back garden moments before attacking.\n\nHe had hidden in the garden shed overnight after failing to get into the home he once shared with the family.\n\nLess than a week before the stabbings, the Wilkinsons cancelled a mobile phone contract they had paid for Barley.\n\nBarley, whose parents died when he was a child, was brought up by a foster carer, who had reported concerns about his behaviour to the police before the killings.\n\nThe judge told him: \"You have shown no remorse - indeed only regret that Mr Wilkinson survived his injuries and at times satisfaction in what you did achieve.\"\n\nLydia Wilkinson and her father Peter outside court\n\nMr Khalil told the court Barley was a \"compulsive liar and manipulator\" who was also given a job, accommodation and a mobile phone after Mrs Wilkinson met him outside a supermarket and took him home.\n\nThe court heard how hours after his arrest for the killings, Barley told a police officer: \"I've stabbed three people up - I ain't bothered about taking one of you with me.\"\n\nThe judge said biology undergraduate Lydia had been left with \"understandable anger\" and distress over \"remorseless\" Barley's actions.\n\nAfter Barley admitted the murders on Tuesday, Miss Wilkinson told him in court: \"I will never forgive you.\"\n\nAt Wednesday's sentencing hearing the judge praised Miss Wilkinson for reading out her victim impact statement with \"maturity and courage well beyond her years\".\n\nThe judge said the 19-year-old was a \"shell of her former self\", adding Miss Wilkinson suffers anxiety attacks and cannot be left alone.", "A former GCHQ boss has admitted assaulting a female dinner guest during a \"sexualised\" Truth or Dare-style party game.\n\nBrian Lord OBE, the ex-deputy director for intelligence and cyber operations at the Cheltenham spy base, denied sexually assaulting the woman by putting his hand on her knee.\n\nProsecutors instead proceeded with a charge of assault, which Lord admitted.\n\nHe was ordered to pay the woman £100 compensation and £200 costs.\n\nThe judge in the case also gave him a conditional discharge.\n\nThe court heard Lord, 56, who now works in the private sector, and his partner, Natasha Marshall, attended a colleague's dinner party in Churchdown, near Gloucester, on 26 November 2016.\n\nProsecutor Robert Duvall said: \"During some party games the defendant placed his hand on the lady's knee.\n\n\"It was there for a significant time and caused her embarrassment and awkwardness.\"\n\nMr Duvall said the woman had not felt able to express her concern but when Lord's partner left the table, she followed her to the kitchen.\n\nHe said Lord was \"apologetic and left without question\" when the issue was raised.\n\n\"He was emphatic that his actions, however unwise, were not sexual in nature.\"\n\nRosemary Collins, defending, said everybody at the party had been drinking and Lord accepted he had put his hand on the woman's knee for \"two to three minutes\".\n\nShe said: \"This was during the course of party games.\n\n\"They were sexualised party games such as 'Did you ever...?', 'Have you ever...?' that sort of thing.\n\n\"He intended no disrespect to her at all and accepts it was something that was stupid, done in drink.\n\n\"He thought he was getting on rather well with the complainant.\"\n\nShe added: \"He has never been in trouble before.\n\n\"He is a family man, it is such a shame that it has come to this.\"\n\nJudge Michael Cullum told Lord: \"Your behaviour crossed the line to criminal behaviour, as a result of which you have lost your good name and your good character which, I know, you will have held dear.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The salt content in some pesto sauces has increased despite a push to reduce levels, a campaign group has found.\n\nConsensus Action on Salt and Health said Sacla's Italia Organic Vegetarian Pesto No 5 Basil and Italia Pesto No 1 Classic Basil now contain more salt per serving than a McDonald's hamburger.\n\nIt said none of the sauces it checked, including some made by Sainsbury's and Tesco, could be described as healthy.\n\nSacla said its products should be enjoyed as part of a balanced diet.\n\nConsensus Action on Salt and Health (Cash) said salt levels in both Sacla sauces had increased in both products since they were last surveyed in 2009 - they now contained more than 1.5g of salt per 47.5g serving.\n\nCash found that Napolina Green Pesto with Basil, Gino D'Acampo Pesto alla Genovese Basil Pesto and Truly Italian Genovese Basil Pesto contained between 2g and 2.5g of salt per 100g.\n\nTesco Reduced Fat Red Pesto, Aldi's Specially Selected Italian Pesto Genovese and Italian Pesto Rosso, Jamie Oliver Green Pesto and Sainsbury's Taste The Difference Pesto alla Genovese contained less than 1g of salt per 100g.\n\nCash assistant nutritionist Sarah Alderton said: \"Pesto is an everyday product eaten by adults and children alike, but people might not realise just how salty it can be.\n\n\"None of the products we surveyed could be described as 'healthy', so consider having pesto in smaller portions, less frequently or try other pasta sauces lower in salt and fat instead.\"\n\nCash called on Public Health England (PHE) to \"act tough\" on the food industry.\n\nA Sacla spokeswoman said: \"We work hard to make authentic Italian products which are good quality, safe to eat and should be enjoyed as part of a balanced diet.\"\n\nPHE said it had been very clear with the industry on the importance of reducing salt and meeting targets.\n\nChief nutritionist Dr Alison Tedstone said: \"Many popular foods can contain a surprising amount of salt.\n\n\"Although consumption has reduced by 11%, industry cannot be complacent and PHE will report on their progress next year.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mark Salling (pictured in 2016) starred in the musical series Glee for six years\n\nFormer Glee actor Mark Salling has pleaded guilty to possession of images of child sex abuse.\n\nSalling, 35, now faces between four and seven years in prison and has been ordered to pay about $50,000 (£38,000) to each victim.\n\nThe actor was arrested in 2015 after a tip off he was in possession of images of children being sexually abused.\n\nInvestigators eventually found thousands of images on his laptop and hard drive.\n\nSalling was charged with two counts of receiving and possessing images of child sexual abuse in May 2016, and faced a possible 20 years behind bars.\n\nBut documents obtained by several outlets show he has entered into a plea deal with California's district attorney.\n\nAs part of the agreement, Salling will be subject to 20 years supervised release and will have strict restrictions placed on his contact with under-18s, according to celebrity website TMZ.\n\nSalling played bad-boy football player Noah \"Puck\" Puckerman on the hit US show Glee from 2009 to 2015.", "Summers in Sydney and Melbourne will get hotter, researchers say\n\nAustralia's two biggest cities could swelter through 50C (122F) days within a few decades, a study has found.\n\nSydney and Melbourne are likely to endure such summers even if global warming is contained to the Paris accord limit of a 2C rise above pre-industrial levels, scientists said.\n\nLimiting warming to below that would make 50C days less likely, they said.\n\nSydney reached a record 45.8C in 2013 while Melbourne hit 46.4C in 2009, the nation's Bureau of Meteorology said.\n\nThe study examined only forecasts for Victoria and New South Wales, but researchers said the rest of Australia could also expect rises.\n\n\"One of the hottest years on record globally - in 2015 - could be an average year by 2025,\" said lead researcher Dr Sophie Lewis from the Australian National University.\n\nThe research, also involving the University of Melbourne and published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, drew on observational data and climate modelling to predict future temperatures.\n\nDr Lewis said the cities could experience 50C days between 2040 and 2050, a forecast based on global temperatures being at 2C above pre-industrial times.\n\nAccording to the World Meteorological Organization, the average global temperature in 2016, the warmest year on record, was about 1.1C higher than the pre-industrial period.\n\nAustralia's most recent summer broke 205 weather records while its winter was the warmest on record, according to the nation's independent Climate Council.\n\nLast month, Australians were warned to prepare for a dangerous bushfire season in 2017-18.", "Prime Minister Trudeau attends the opening of the National Holocaust Monument\n\nA plaque has been removed from Canada's Holocaust memorial because it neglected to mention Jewish people.\n\nPM Justin Trudeau opened the National Holocaust Monument last week in the capital Ottawa.\n\nThe plaque commemorated the \"millions of men, women and children murdered\" but did not specifically mention Jewish people or anti-Semitism.\n\nAbout six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, the largest group to be persecuted by the Nazis.\n\nThe omission was seized upon by MPs and senators of the opposition Conservative Party on Tuesday.\n\n\"If we are going to stamp out hatred toward Jews, it is important to get history right,\" said MP David Sweet.\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\nHeritage Minister Melanie Joly assured parliament that the plaque had been removed, and would be replaced with one that reflects \"the horrors experienced by the Jewish people\".\n\nThe omission on the plaque appears to have been an oversight - during the opening on 27 September both anti-Semitism and the effects of the Holocaust on the Jewish people were mentioned.\n\n\"Today we reaffirm our unshakeable commitment to fight anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia and discrimination in all its forms, and we pay tribute to those who experienced the worst of humanity. We can honour them by fighting hatred with love, and seeking always to see ourselves in each other,\" Mr Trudeau said at the unveiling.\n\nUntil then, Canada had been the only Allied power to not have a national Holocaust memorial.\n\nEarlier this year, US President Donald Trump was admonished for failing to use the word Jew on Holocaust Remembrance Day.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In October, Rex Tillerson responded to a report he called Mr Trump 'a moron'\n\nUS Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has denied rumours of a rift with Donald Trump, amid media reports he had called the president a \"moron\".\n\n\"I'm not going to deal with petty stuff like that,\" he said, without denying the alleged remark.\n\nMr Tillerson called a news conference after an NBC report said he had considered resigning earlier this year.\n\nHe said his commitment to Mr Trump's White House was as strong as ever, and he would stay on as long as needed.\n\nNBC had alleged, citing White House sources, that Mr Tillerson had to be talked out of resigning in July.\n\nIt said he had been advised by Vice-President Mike Pence \"on ways to ease tensions\" with the president, the report added - something which Mr Tillerson denies.\n\n\"The vice president has never had to persuade me to stay as secretary of state, because I have never considered leaving this post,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm new to Washington, I have learned there are some who try to sow dissension to advance their own agenda by tearing others apart in an effort to undermine President Trump's own agenda. I do not and I will not operate that way.\"\n\nJust before Mr Tillerson spoke, Donald Trump took aim at their report, tweeting: \"NBC news is #FakeNews and more dishonest than even CNN. They are a disgrace to good reporting. No wonder their news ratings are way down!\"\n\nSpeaking in Las Vegas later, where he was visiting victims of the mass shooting, Mr Trump said he it was a \"totally phony story... made up by NBC\" and he had \"total confidence in Rex.\"\n\nState department spokeswoman Heather Nauert also later refuted the \"moron\" remarks, even though the secretary himself had not.\n\n\"The secretary did not use that type of language to speak about the president of the United States,\" she said. \"He does not use that language to speak about anyone.\"\n\nShe added that Mr Tillerson was a \"tough old bird\" and daring those who want him to resign: \"go ahead and keep pushing - because that will only strengthen his resolve.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhen asked if the president had instructed him to make a statement, Mr Tillerson said he had not spoken to Mr Trump since the allegations surfaced.\n\nThe vice president also issued a statement denying any discussion took place concerning the secretary of state's departure.\n\nCNN, however, said it had confirmed the \"moron\" remark with its own source. A CNN White house reporter tweeted that Mr Trump \"was aware that Tillerson had referred to him as 'a moron' this summer.\"\n\nBut the president followed up with his own tweet, saying NBC's story had been \"totally refuted\" and that \"they should issue an apology to America\".\n\nIt's a bit unusual for cabinet secretary to hold an impromptu press conference to effectively renew his vows of loyalty to the president, but this is no ordinary presidency.\n\nThe well-sourced NBC story about a Tillerson-Trump rift clearly touched a nerve and prompted a multi-pronged administration response.\n\nThe secretary of state said most of the right things, praising the president as smart and strong and denying he had to be talked out of resigning. He didn't, however, directly deny that he had referred to the president as a \"moron\".\n\nInstead he professed an aw-shucks naivety about how Washington works - one belied by his decades of experience at the top of a multibillion-dollar corporation in the cut-throat global energy business.\n\nMr Trump insists the NBC story had been \"fully refuted\", but even if the details are adamantly denied by the White House, the reality is Mr Tillerson and the president frequently move in different directions on foreign policy.\n\nMr Tillerson may be fine with this. He says he's \"just getting started\". As long as it continues, however, questions will swirl about whether he can effectively serve as the top US diplomat - and when he might head for the exit.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Trump tweeted that he had told his secretary of state that he was wasting his time attempting to negotiate with North Korea, just hours after Mr Tillerson had said the US was in contact with Pyongyang.\n\n\"Save your energy Rex, we'll do what has to be done!\" Mr Trump publicly declared, in a move some pundits felt undermined the secretary's work.\n\nAs secretary of state, Rex Tillerson is one of the most senior US officials. He is fourth in line for the presidency, after the vice president and leaders of the House and Senate.", "\"The roaring lion\" is the headline in the Daily Telegraph - referring to Boris Johnson's address to the Conservative conference which, it concludes, provided a \"dose of much needed optimism\".\n\nPeter Oborne in the Daily Mail agrees, calling it one of the best speeches of Mr Johnson's career and praising him for talking about Brexit \"with vim and gusto\".\n\nHe also thinks he was \"loyal\" to Theresa May, adding this is not a quality with which the foreign secretary is usually associated.\n\nThe Sun criticises Mr Johnson for being short on solutions for improving the lot of the young or the fed-up.\n\n\"What practical help will this roaring be to those paid less than they were in 2007,\" it asks.\n\nAccording to the lead in the i, one way the government may try to win over younger voters is through the re-introduction of maintenance grants to help the poorest students in England.\n\nIt reports that Education Secretary Justine Greening is battling with the Treasury to push through the plans.\n\n\"Inside the killer's lair\" is the Daily Mirror's front-page headline as it pictures the Las Vegas attacker lying dead in his hotel room beside two assault rifles.\n\nCrime scene tape frames a photo on the front of the Sun showing another of Stephen Paddock's weapons, primed and ready to fire.\n\nGuardian columnist Richard Wolffe accuses the gun lobby of trying to stifle debate about new controls.\n\n\"We don't stop talking about air safety after a passenger jet goes down,\" he writes. \"If we can't demand gun control after Las Vegas, then when?\"\n\nAccording to the paper, the Scottish government is facing claims it prioritised populism over the evidence of its scientific advisers.\n\nTrade body UK Onshore Oil and Gas tells the Scotsman that the SNP is cherry picking evidence to match dogma and argues that relying instead on low-carbon sources of energy will condemn more people to fuel poverty.\n\nBut the paper also hears from Friends of the Earth which says the decision will be celebrated around the world, with the potential health risks of fracking enough to merit a ban.\n\nThe looming postal strike makes the lead for the Daily Express and the Daily Mail, which both warn industrial action may target Christmas deliveries.\n\nThe Mail says workers could walk out on November 24th and 25th, coinciding with the so-called Black Friday sales when many families buy discounted items online.\n\nThe Mirror says there was a \"thumping majority\" in favour of the strike and Royal Mail needs to negotiate fast to head off problems.\n\nMerlot is making a comeback, according to the Times, but it has taken 13 years for it to recover after sales were destroyed by a cult comedy.\n\nThe paper reports that the variety suffered a big decline after the release of the film Sideways in which one of the characters, played by Paul Giamatti, declares he will leave if anyone orders Merlot.\n\nYet, the paper reports, although the movie was calamitous for one wine sales soared for the character's preferred tipple, Pinot Noir.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A prankster interrupted the prime minister during her speech\n\nSecurity at future Conservative Party conferences will be reviewed after a prankster got close enough to the prime minister to hand her a P45.\n\nComedian Simon Brodkin - also known as his TV persona Lee Nelson - handed the sheet of paper to Theresa May in the middle of her speech.\n\nHe was arrested by Greater Manchester Police to prevent a breach of the peace, but later released.\n\nThe force said he had \"legitimate accreditation\" to attend the event.\n\nBrodkin approached the podium as the PM was giving her address to close the conference.\n\nHe held piece of paper up to Mrs May, which she took amid a sea of photographers.\n\nHe allegedly told her that the P45 was from Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, before giving her cabinet colleague a thumbs up.\n\nBrodkin was then led out of the conference hall to angry shouts from party members.\n\nThe paper, a faked P45, was later discovered on the floor of the hall.\n\nAfter being released by police, the comedian tweeted Mr Johnson.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Simon Brodkin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBrodkin has a reputation for carrying out pranks at big public events.\n\nPolitical moves by the comedian include throwing US dollar bills over former Fifa president Sepp Blatter during the football organisation's bidding scandal.\n\nHe was also found handing out Nazi golf balls at a Donald Trump speech.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK prankster Simon Brodkin was behind the protest at the news conference\n\nDuring Glastonbury Festival in 2015, he ran on to the stage as Kanye West was performing.\n\nHe pulled a similar stunt on The X Factor in 2014 as boy band Stereo Kicks were playing.\n\nThe incident split opinion online. Some praised the prank, including fellow comedian Russell Kane who tweeted that he was an \"absolute ledge\".\n\nBut Conservative MP George Freeman, head of the prime minister's policy board, said: \"There should be some very serious questions - that could have been a terrorist.\"\n\nHe added that \"questions will be asked about how he was allowed to get that close\".\n\nEven opposition MPs stepped in, with Labour's Angela Eagle tweeting that whilst the incident was \"harmless\", there were \"worrying questions about her security\".\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\nShaun Hinds, chief executive of Manchester Central - where the conference was being held - said: \"At the time of the disturbance, conference security protocols were immediately enacted resulting in the individual being quickly ejected from the venue and handed over to [police].\"\n\nA Conservative spokesman added: \"In light of the arrest during the prime minister's speech we are working with the police to review the accreditation process and security arrangements for party conference.\"", "It's fair to say there was plenty going on in the conference hall during Theresa May's speech earlier.\n\nOne thing that did not go unnoticed on social media, although it was not widely commented upon at the time amid the wider fallout from the speech, was the PM's unusual choice of accessory.\n\nShe was wearing a bracelet featuring a huge picture of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo as well as other images associated with the celebrated artist.\n\nKahlo, whose extraordinary life was the subject of a 2002 Hollywood biopic starring Salma Hayek, was a member of the Mexican Communist Party, and had an affair with Leon Trotsky.\n\nKahlo recovered from a near fatal accident aged 18 to become one of the most influential female painters of the 20th Century and a feminist icon.\n\nA footnote, perhaps, on a remarkable day but a statement all the same?", "RAF Typhoon jets intercepted a passenger flight and diverted it to Stansted Airport following a suspected \"hoax\" security alert.\n\nThe RAF said its quick reaction alert Typhoon aircraft were deployed on Wednesday morning and safely escorted the plane to the airport, near London.\n\nFlights were temporarily grounded at Stansted but have since resumed.\n\nRyanair said the flight from Kaunas in Lithuania to Luton was diverted \"in line with procedures\".\n\nOne passenger, Jonathan Zulberg, said when passengers boarded the flight they saw fire engines and a police car but were not told about a threat being made.\n\nThe flight was delayed for up to 40 minutes, he said, and he was told by a stewardess that a bomb threat had been made in Lithuania.\n\nMr Zulberg said the captain announced that a bomb threat had been made after the plane landed in the UK.\n\nHe said: \"When I heard I was pretty surprised the plane was allowed to take off.\"\n\nA sonic boom could be heard in Suffolk after the Typhoon aircraft were authorised to travel at supersonic speed for the operation, the RAF said.\n\nThe aircraft are kept on high alert and can take off \"within minutes\" from RAF Coningsby and RAF Lossiemouth to defend UK airspace.\n\nStansted is a designated airport for dealing with hijacks and major security alerts.\n\nFlights were briefly held earlier, the airport said, but it is now open and operating normally.\n\nEssex Police said it had completed investigating the incident and confirmed it had not found anything suspicious.\n\nA Ryanair spokesman said the plane landed normally and passengers are being transferred to Luton by coach.", "Around one in nine of the more than 3,000 mothers questioned had lost their jobs\n\nThe scale of maternity discrimination is being hidden because of the use of gagging orders when women who have lost their jobs settle out of court, experts have told the Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"My boss said if I'm not going back to work, then I'd have to pay back all the maternity payment.\"\n\n\"Emma\" - not her real name - was working as a beautician when she became pregnant.\n\nShe did not realise at the time that her boss's request was against the law.\n\nShe was called into the salon and told by the owner she would no longer be needed at the company.\n\n\"I didn't know what to do. I'm a single mum, no family. No-one can help me,\" she tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"How can I pay my rent? How can I pay my bills? I was floored.\"\n\nEmma went on to settle out of court. She signed a confidentiality agreement preventing her from speaking out about the case - which is why she is anonymous.\n\nAround one in nine of more than 3,000 mothers questioned said they had been dismissed, made compulsorily redundant, or treated so badly they felt they had to leave their job, according to the Equality and Human Rights Commission in 2015.\n\nThis is despite the Employment Rights Act and Equality Act protecting women from unfair dismissal because they are pregnant or on maternity leave.\n\nLast year, the government described the findings as \"shocking\" and \"wholly unacceptable\", but no new protections have been brought in since.\n\nKaren Jackson believes confidentiality agreements should not be allowed\n\nKaren Jackson, director of law firm Didlaw and a specialist in discrimination cases, says the true scale of the problem is masked by the fact that many women sign settlement agreements containing a confidentiality clause - which stops them from speaking out.\n\n\"I've never seen a settlement agreement that didn't have a very strict confidentiality term in it,\" she says.\n\n\"I wish I could talk about some of the companies that I've dealt with and their attitudes to pregnancy and maternity.\n\n\"Household names, brands that we know, banks, insurers, utility companies, big conglomerates, retail - you name it, these companies have all at some point had some issues.\n\n\"If I look at the FTSE 100 there's a good chunk of companies on that list that I've acted against around pregnancy and maternity.\"\n\nConservative MP Maria Miller, chair of the Women and Equalities Committee, says women must be allowed to speak out.\n\n\"The government needs to take this situation very seriously indeed.\n\n\"We shouldn't have the problem hidden by confidentiality clauses,\" she explains.\n\nKiran Daurka, an employment solicitor at Leigh Day, says in 14 years she cannot recall one of her clients who was pregnant or had recently given birth taking her employer to a full tribunal.\n\nShe says such women are likely to settle and \"accept a lower offer, as they don't really want to be in litigation during that time for emotional and financial reasons, which employers often exploit\".\n\nCatherine McClennan won a maternity discrimination employment tribunal in 2015 against her employer, the TUC - which represents trade unions.\n\nShe received damages and costs of £21,000.\n\n\"My job and job title was omitted from the [company's] directory, which was really hard to see in print to be honest with you.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"At one point, when I said... 'Look, I've come back. I'm a competent, able, professional woman. I've always done a really good job. I just want to continue with my career', he asked a female colleague if I had post-natal depression,\" she continues.\n\nCatherine says she did not expect such treatment from the TUC.\n\n\"I was very sad actually because I felt, as an organisation who stand for fairness, equality and justice, a number of individuals were obviously bringing the reputation of that into disrepute.\"\n\nThe TUC says there was \"no malicious or conscious attempt to discriminate\", and that it challenged the tribunal case \"vigorously\".\n\nThe government says it is \"determined to tackle pregnancy and maternity discrimination\" and there should be \"zero tolerance\" of it.\n\nIt adds that it is still reviewing whether stronger protections are needed. No date has been given for when a decision will be made.\n\nThe Women and Equalities Committee has previously recommended to the government that it brings in a \"dismissal ban\", similar to the one in place in Germany.\n\nThis means that only in very rare circumstances can a woman be dismissed while pregnant, or for four months after they give birth.\n\nOne German discrimination solicitor, Anna Lindenberg, said in 10 years she had only had to represent one woman who was dismissed during this period of time - such was the effect of the ban.\n\nCatherine says she hopes change will come to the UK soon.\n\n\"It's a travesty really that women in 2017 are still faced with this level of discrimination,\" she says.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May struggles with her cough\n\nTheresa May might be stocking up on cough remedies after battling through a croaky voice during her Conservative Party conference speech - but could the prime minister have done anything to fix her faltering voice?\n\nMrs May had to stop several times to drink water during her party's annual conference address - at one point being handed a lozenge by Chancellor Philip Hammond.\n\nTo make matters worse, a heckler handed the PM a joke P45 before being bundled out of the hall, after which the slogan written behind the lectern fell apart.\n\nFellow politicians praised Mrs May for carrying on - with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson insisting she did a \"fantastic job\" while Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable said: \"This was the speech of a brave prime minister struggling on.\"\n\nBut Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former aide and a public speaker, insisted that her pre-speech prep was \"shocking\" - claiming that doctors could \"sort\" a croaky voice for an hour.\n\nBBC Radio 4 announcer Neil Nunes also offered his voice tips - tweeting that the PM should have spoken more softly, suggesting: \"Take a moment, pause, drink and it'll come back.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Theresa May\n\nProf Neil Tolley, a head and neck surgeon at the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in London, insists \"no quick fix\" could have covered up Mrs May's tired voice.\n\n\"She's had a very heavy workload,\" he says. \"Life's tough for her at the moment.\"\n\nArguing the case for Brexit, shouting in the House of Commons and chairing cabinet meetings have all taken their toll, Prof Tolley explains.\n\nHe says many politicians suffer from voice problems, but they can combat overuse by practicing breathing techniques to help them vocalise more effectively.\n\n\"I would change my delivery technique by speaking more slowly to take tension out of my larynx [voice box], rather than trying to shout my way through a presentation,\" Prof Tolley says.\n\nBut he adds: \"In the House of Commons she's got to overcome a wall of noise, and that can be particularly challenging.\"\n\nConfidence coach Anne Walsh says Mrs May's body language also impaired her voice - saying she was in \"fight or flight\" mode.\n\n\"The cough will have thrown her off, but she wasn't breathing regularly,\" she says. \"She doesn't fully extend her height and is exerting a lot of muscle tension.\"\n\nMs Walsh says the PM could have benefitted from simple voice exercises, like humming, to warm up her vocal chords.\n\n\"The best thing to do is to release your shoulders, ground your feet, and slightly bend your knees.\"\n\nBut what if you have to deliver a speech with a spluttering cough you really cannot suppress?\n\nSome have expressed their sympathy for Mrs May's inability to stifle her coughs - including BBC Scotland's political correspondent Nick Eardley, who had a coughing fit at the SNP conference last year.\n\n\"We've all been there,\" he 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\n\"The show must go on, so there's no choice but to acknowledge it with the crowd,\" suggests dialect coach Elspeth Morrison.\n\nIf a speaker really cannot hold their cough in, it is better to make a joke about it rather than to overlook it completely, she says.\n\n\"The same goes for a heckler - the worst thing is to ignore it because everybody knows it's happened and it's a chance to win over the audience.\"\n\nAfter being interrupted with a fake P45, Mrs May got cheers from the audience for joking that the only redundancy notice she wanted to give out was to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nIf you have a cold, Ms Morrison says drinking a hot beverage or inhaling steam can help, adding: \"It might sound unsavoury but if you're feeling a bit phlegmy then swallow rather than cough to prevent further irritation.\"\n\nShe advises avoiding highly caffeinated drinks like coffee, as well as sugary foods, which can dry out the mouth.\n\nAnd one final tip? \"If your mouth suddenly goes dry, take a bite of a green apple - it will make your salivary glands go!\" Ms Morrison says.\n\n\"If you act confident in the body often your voice will follow.\"\n\nHave you ever been struck with a cough or lost your voice at a key moment? What happened? E-mail us at haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nYou can also contact us in the following ways:", "Danielle McLaughlin went to university in Liverpool\n\nThe family of an Irish woman who was raped and murdered while on holiday in India have confirmed that her case is being \"fast-tracked\".\n\nDanielle McLaughlin from County Donegal was found dead in a field in the western state of Goa in March.\n\nA second post-mortem examination, this time in Ireland, reaffirmed brain damage and strangulation as the cause of her death.\n\nVikat Bhagat remains the only person charged in connection with the case.\n\nThe 24-year-old is to go on trial for her murder, he will also face rape charges.\n\nIn a statement, Ms McLaughlin's family revealed they have received the \"charge\" documentation in the case from the prosecution authorities in India.\n\nThey expressed their \"sincere gratitude\" to the coroner's office in Dublin and the Chief State Pathologist, Dr Marie Cassidy.\n\nHer report \"among other things\" confirmed the cause of Ms McLaughlin's death as being in line with the first Indian post-mortem examination.\n\nThey also thanked the British Consulate in Mumbai for their \"invaluable assistance\".\n\nMs McLaughlin grew up in Buncrana, County Donegal, in the Republic of Ireland. She had travelled to India in February.\n\nThe family's solicitor, Desmond Doherty, said they had dealt with a lot of documents and information over the last number of months.\n\n\"They are still trying to cope with and come to terms with the tragedy that has occurred,\" he said.\n\n\"Danielle's family remain hopeful that the truth in relation to Danielle's untimely death will be made known and that justice in her memory will be done.\"", "An Army sergeant tried to kill his wife by removing parts of her parachute, causing her to spin thousands of feet to the ground, a court has heard.\n\nEmile Cilliers, 37, is accused of two counts of attempted murder of Victoria Cilliers who survived the jump on 5 April 2015.\n\nMr Cilliers, who denies all charges, wanted to leave his wife for a lover he had met on Tinder, prosecutors said.\n\nIt is also claimed that just days before the jump, on 29 March 2015, the defendant tried to kill Ms Cilliers, 40, by deliberately causing a gas leak in the family home while he stayed away.\n\nPolice evidence showed the kitchen cupboard where the gas leak occurred (large arrow)\n\nProsecutor Michael Bowes QC said that on the night of the gas leak Mr Cilliers had left his wife at their home in Amesbury, Wiltshire, to stay at his Army barracks in Aldershot, Hampshire.\n\nHe said the following morning Ms Cilliers contacted her husband complaining of a gas smell coming from a kitchen cupboard next to the oven.\n\nShe noticed dried blood on the fitting which was later found to be a full DNA match to her husband, the court was told.\n\nThe jury was told the Royal Army Physical Training Corps sergeant lied to his lover, Stefanie Glover, that he was leaving his wife because she was having an affair and he was not the father of one of their children.\n\nMr Bowes QC said Mr Cilliers was also having an affair with his ex-wife Carly Cilliers.\n\nHe told the court the defendant had debts of £22,000 and believed he would receive a £120,000 life insurance payout on his wife's death.\n\nEmile Cilliers made up lies about his wife having an affair, the court heard\n\nMr Bowes QC said Ms Cilliers was a highly experienced parachutist and instructor but when she jumped out of the plane 4,000ft (1,200m) above Netheravon Airfield in Wiltshire \"both her main parachute and her reserve parachute failed\".\n\n\"Those attending at the scene expected to find her dead, although she was badly injured, almost miraculously she survived the fall.\n\n\"Those at the scene immediately realised that something was seriously wrong with her reserve parachute, two vital pieces of equipment which fasten the parachute harness were missing,\" he said.\n\nPolice picture of the gas pipe which Sgt Cilliers allegedly tampered with\n\nThe day before the failed jump the couple had visited Netheravon together, the court heard.\n\nWhile there Mr Cilliers collected a hire parachute for his wife and took it into the men's toilets at the base, where he is alleged to have tampered with it.\n\nMr Bowes QC said: \"It's heavy, it's bulky, there is absolutely no reason to take it in there at all.\n\n\"The weather was so poor that afternoon that Victoria couldn't jump, the cloud base was too low.\"\n\nThe court heard that Mr Cilliers then arranged to keep the equipment overnight in his wife's locker, a move that was against normal procedure.\n\nHe added that at the time of the murder attempts, Mr Cilliers was leaving his wife and treated her with \"callousness and contempt\".\n\nThe third allegation, which Mr Cilliers also denies, is damaging a gas fitting, reckless to endangerment of life.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Huffpost UK website chooses an image of the prime minister swigging water to control her cough, alongside the headline \"The Cough Drop\".\n\nIts executive editor of politics, Paul Waugh, describes how \"the PM's dogged persistence won her sympathy from her own tribe\" but warns that she \"is now in danger of being neither liked, feared nor respected, merely pitied\".\n\nJason Beattie, in the Daily Mirror, warns that a position that \"now relies on sympathy, not respect\" is no way to win votes, adding that \"the Tories are lumbered with supporting an ill-fated leader whose speech will become a metaphor for a party in poor health and struggling to find its voice\".\n\nThe Sun pokes fun at the party slogan sliding off the backdrop behind her, employing the headline \"things can only get letter\".\n\nIts editorial takes the view that, like the crumbling catchphrase, \"the entire party has come unstuck\".\n\nThe Times says Tory sources blamed the repeated standing ovations - led by ministers in an attempt to let her recover her voice - for loosening the magnets that were securing the motto on the wall.\n\nPolitics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt likens the \"crescendo\" of applause to \"a parent clapping their child when he falls over during the school play\".\n\nThe Daily Telegraph quotes former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell and a professional vocal coach as criticising Theresa May for failing to seek help to preserve her voice ahead of the speech.\n\nHer former chief of staff, Nick Timothy, tells the paper the blame for a disastrous week lies with the whole government.\n\nWhile Conservative former cabinet minister Lord Tebbit says she has been let down by advisers \"lacking in experience and ability\".\n\n\"Carry On Conference\" is the headline for the Independent, which believes her performance \"was so bad, the next P45 may not be a comic's prank\".\n\nIt points out the \"inevitable parallels\" with the Tory conference address given in 2003 by Iain Duncan Smith who was forced to stand down as leader three weeks later.\n\nThe Daily Star claims Boris Johnson was \"smirking\" as the prime minister stumbled along.\n\nJenni Russell, in the Times, agrees that Mr Johnson \"was the only cabinet minister looking alert and cheerful\".\n\nBut she reports that support for him among his colleagues is evaporating amid an \"icy realism that, severe as the party's problems are, Boris's fantasies are not the answer\".\n\nOne Conservative MP tells the Financial Times that Mrs May's critics have already begun plotting her demise.\n\nBut the paper adds that most MPs fear a chaotic leadership contest if she is ousted before Brexit.\n\nPolitico reflects on reporting of the speech across Europe with Italy's La Repubblica describing it as an \"odyssey\", Spain's El Pais regarding her as \"tiptoeing around Brexit\" in an \"anguished\" address and Le Figaro of France referring to her \"arriving weakened and ending up on her knees\".", "The glass ceiling of the Javits Center ended up being horribly symbolic for Hillary Clinton\n\n\"I can't believe we just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet... if there are any girls out there that stayed up late to watch - I may become the next woman president, but one of you is next.\" The words of Hillary Clinton on becoming the Democrat nominee in July 2016.\n\nIn the end she failed to smash the ceiling, but Hillary Clinton's choice of election night venue was anything but coincidental.\n\nThe Javits Center is thought to have the biggest glass ceiling in New York City, and would have been the perfect setting for her to become the first woman president in US history.\n\nBut Mrs Clinton's defeat bucked the trend - the number of elected women in power globally has doubled over the past decade.\n\nThere are 15 women currently in power, eight of whom are their country's first female leader, according to analysis by Pew Research Centre.\n\nBut that still means that women leaders represent fewer than 10% of the 193 United Nations member states.\n\nA study found girls with women leaders had higher aspirations for themselves\n\nThese leaders are clearly breaking down barriers - but are they taking other women in their country along with them? The political quota system in Indian local government may yield a clue.\n\nSince 1993, one in three randomly selected Indian villages has been required to reserve the role of chief councillor for a woman, creating a naturalised social experiment.\n\nA 2012 study of thousands of Indian adolescents and their parents discovered that having a female leader correlated with higher aspirations for young women in the village.\n\nWhen asked what they wanted for their children in terms of education, age when they had their first child and job prospects, parents generally had higher aspirations for their sons.\n\nBut once a village had a female leader for two election cycles, the parents' \"aspiration gap\" for boys and girls closed by 25% compared with those who had never had a woman leader.\n\nFor the adolescents themselves, it narrowed by 32%. Expectations for boys didn't fall when there was a woman in charge, so the smaller gap was entirely down to higher aspirations for girls.\n\nThe authors noted the female leaders had limited scope to change the situation of women and girls through the policy. But their presence as positive role models was enough to improve the aspirations and education of the young women around them.\n\nImages of Hillary Clinton and Angela Merkel both inspired women to make longer speeches\n\nA 2012 Swiss study also suggests role models inspire women's behaviour in leadership situations, even from a distance.\n\nThe authors invited male and female students to make a speech in a virtual reality environment in four groups: one saw a picture of German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the wall, one saw Hillary Clinton (then US secretary of state), one saw Bill Clinton and a control group saw no picture at all.\n\nWomen spoke significantly longer when primed with a successful female politician than when primed with a male politician or no role model. And the longer they spoke, the more positively they rated their own performance.\n\n\"Not only is an increase in female politicians the goal of equality, it can also be (as our results show) the engine that drives it,\" the authors say in their report.\n\nThere is data to back up the idea that the mere existence of women in political roles can be linked with greater equality in everyday life.\n\nThe World Economic Forum (WEF) ranks countries in its Global Gender Gap Report based on four key factors - health and survival, educational attainment, participation in the economy and political participation.\n\nIn 2016, the countries that had the smallest overall gender gap - Iceland, Finland and Norway - were also the most likely to have women in politics. It suggests that women do better overall in countries where they are represented politically.\n\nThere are difficulties in making a concrete link between women leaders and an improvement in quality of life for their female counterparts. This is partly because equality has improved greatly over the past century in almost every country, regardless of whether or not it has had a female leader.\n\nAlso, because many women were either elected recently or were in positions of leadership for a short period of time, it's difficult to measure the direct impact of their policies.\n\nHowever, the evidence we do have makes a case that women who are able to crack the glass ceiling raise the aspirations of their female citizens, and that their countries are also more likely to offer a better quality of life for women.", "The launch of Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, 60 years ago kicked off the space race between the Soviet Union and America.\n\nThe satellite was a success not just in terms of scientific advancement but in terms of providing a propaganda opportunity for the socialist state.\n\nEarly reports detailed a wealth of technical information about the launch of the \"Earth satellite\", such was the general interest in it.\n\nOne news correspondent described seeing the satellite appear \"like a flashing spark over the horizon\" and the Communist Party's main newspaper, Pravda, wrote that \"all the world heard the announcement of the launching of the artificial moon\".\n\nBut reports by the state news agency Tass also mentioned its orbital velocity of about 8km a second, the fact that it was travelling at up to 900km above the surface of the earth, and that Sputnik was making one complete revolution in an hour and 35 minutes.\n\nSputnik was just 58cm in diameter and weighed 84kg\n\nRussian media also detailed the frequencies and wavelengths on which Sputnik was emitting regular beeps, saying its transmitters were powerful enough for amateur radio operators to be able to receive them.\n\nLater, radio broadcasts to America touted the fact that the Soviet magazine Radio was offering \"special prizes\" for radio hams who submitted reports of the signals.\n\nSpecial broadcasts listed the places and times the satellite was expected to pass over.\n\nBBC Monitoring, a unit of the World Service, recorded Soviet broadcasts about Sputnik's movements\n\nThe day after its launch, Tass and Russian radio reported world reaction to it, noting how major media outlets like AFP, the Daily Mail and the BBC had reported it and how \"some US radio stations interrupted their programmes in order to broadcast the satellite's signals\".\n\nOn Soviet radio, various scientists, such as jet propulsion expert Professor Kirill Stanyukovich, called it \"a great victory not only for Soviet science but also for the Soviet order\".\n\n\"I think that the very fact that this has been achieved in our socialist country must not be regarded as mere chance,\" another academic told listeners. \"That we are not as rich as America is no secret to us. Why then has it happened that we have been capable of solving these most advanced and difficult scientific and technical problems ahead of Americans?\"\n\nSeveral digs at America made their way into reports.\n\n\"For 40 years they closed their eyes to the enormous successes of Soviet industry and agriculture,\" one radio broadcast said. \"Now the most reactionary personalities in the USA are trying to raise some doubts about the tremendous value and great significance of this new success of Soviet science.\"\n\nBBC Monitoring, a unit of the World Service which monitored Soviet broadcasts at the time, notes that \"Leading officials were quoted by Tass as showing reluctance to accept the news; and Moscow radio told the home audience on the 7th that the United States Information Agency had adopted a policy of minimising the military and scientific significance of the achievement. US scientists, on the other hand, were given as expressing pleased congratulations.\"\n\nKomsomolskaya Pravda described Sputnik as \"the victory of Soviet power\"\n\nToday, the name Sputnik is also associated with an international news agency, which has a presence on the web and radio, and is one of the main media outlets through which Russia influences global opinion.\n\nSputnik tends to seek audiences on the political margins - whether it's supporters of the Front National in France, or the Democrat Bernie Sanders in the US.\n\nIts political stances include the idea that NATO is a menace to world peace, criticism of what it sees as US hegemony, and the general decadence of Western democracies and their institutions, especially in the face of the challenges posed by Islamist terrorism and migration into Europe.\n\nSputnik is still potent force for Russian influence, just in a different sort of space now.\n\nSee also: The team that tracked Sputnik - and the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile\n\nBBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.", "Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said Libyan city Sirte could be the new Dubai, adding, \"all they have to do is clear the dead bodies away\".\n\nHis comments at a Conservative fringe meeting sparked anger, with a number of Tory MPs calling for his sacking and Labour labelling him \"crass and cruel\".\n\nMr Johnson claimed his critics had \"no knowledge nor understanding of Libya\".\n\nA Downing Street source said it was not an \"appropriate choice of words\" but the PM regarded the matter as closed.\n\n\"I look at Libya, it's an incredible country,\" Mr Johnson told the meeting.\n\n\"Bone-white sands, beautiful sea, Caesar's Palace, obviously, you know, the real one.\n\n\"Incredible place. It's got a real potential and brilliant young people who want to do all sorts of tech.\n\n\"There's a group of UK business people, actually, some wonderful guys who want to invest in Sirte on the coast, near where Gaddafi was captured and executed as some of you may have seen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Libyan politician Guma El-Gamaty: \"Some 750 young Libyan men died while liberating Sirte from IS\"\n\n\"They have got a brilliant vision to turn Sirte into the next Dubai.\n\n\"The only thing they have got to do is clear the dead bodies away,\" he said, before laughing.\n\nThe host of the conference fringe event, Legatum Institute chief executive Baroness Stroud, stepped in to say \"next question\", as the foreign secretary continued to speak.\n\nThe coastal city of Sirte is the former stronghold of so-called Islamic State, or Daesh, and recently the scene of fierce fighting.\n\nForces loyal to Libya's UN-backed government managed to oust IS fighters from Sirte, the birthplace of former leader Muammar Gaddafi\n\nReacting on Twitter, Ms Allen said: \"100% unacceptable from anyone, let alone foreign sec. Boris must be sacked for this. He does not represent my party.\"\n\nConservative MP Sarah Wollaston called on Mr Johnson to apologise and urged him to \"consider his position\", adding that the comments were \"crass, poorly judged and grossly insensitive - and this from the person who is representing us on the world stage. I think they were really disappointing.\"\n\nAnd Justice Minister Philip Lee tweeted that \"anyone decent\" would condemn the comments.\n\nBut fellow Tory MP Nadine Dorries tweeted that \"the campaign by Remain MPs on here calling for Boris to resign\" was \"co-ordinated and mendacious\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Johnson defended his remarks, adding on Twitter that he had been making a point about the need for optimism in Libya, after a recent visit to the country.\n\n\"The reality there is that the clearing of corpses of Daesh fighters has been made much more difficult by IEDs and booby traps,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"That's why Britain is playing a key role in reconstruction and why I have visited Libya twice this year in support.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tory MP Sarah Wollaston calls on Boris Johnson to \"consider his position\" after Libya 'dead bodies' comment\n\nBut Damian Green, the first secretary of state, told BBC 5 live he believed Mr Johnson's remarks were unacceptable, adding: \"It was not a sensitive use of language. As I say, we all need to be sensitive in our use of language, particularly in situations like that.\"\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, said: \"It is less than a year since Sirte was finally captured from Daesh by the Libyan Government of National Accord, a battle in which hundreds of government soldiers were killed and thousands of civilians were caught in the crossfire, the second time in five years that the city had seen massive loss of life as a result of the Libyan civil war.\n\n\"For Boris Johnson to treat those deaths as a joke - a mere inconvenience before UK business people can turn the city into a beach resort - is unbelievably crass, callous and cruel.\n\n\"If these words came from the business people themselves, it would be considered offensive enough, but for them to come from the foreign secretary is simply a disgrace.\n\n\"There comes a time when the buffoonery needs to stop, because if Boris Johnson thinks the bodies of those brave government soldiers and innocent civilians killed in Sirte are a suitable subject for throwaway humour, he does not belong in the office of foreign secretary.\"\n\nLib Dem deputy leader Jo Swinson said the \"unbelievably crass and insensitive comment\" was further proof Mr Johnson was \"not up\" to a job for which diplomacy was \"a basic requirement\".\n• None May: Johnson's not undermining me", "Kati Ringer (face obscured) leaves Norwich Magistrates' Court where she appeared for sentencing\n\nA woman who stole photos of babies from Instagram and claimed they were sick or dead in a bid to get money has been banned from social media.\n\nKati Ringer, 21, claimed the pictures, copied from accounts belonging to two unsuspecting mums, were her own.\n\nWhen challenged by her victims, Ringer became abusive and threatening, Norwich Magistrates' Court heard.\n\nRinger was caught after police traced her IP address to a computer at her mother's house.\n\nShe was sentenced to a two-year criminal behaviour order which bans her from using any social media accounts, passing any other person's photo off as her own or asking any third party for a donation unless as a legitimate volunteer for a registered charity.\n\nRinger was also handed a jail term of 30 weeks, suspended for two years, and ordered to pay £225 costs.\n\nKati Ringer was sentenced to a two-year criminal behaviour order which bans her from using any social media accounts\n\nJane Walker, prosecuting, said Ringer had targeted two women, copying photos of their babies from their Instagram accounts and reposting them on her own \"saying they were her child, the child had died and trying to get money\".\n\nShe said when challenged by the first victim, Ringer \"became threatening towards her and made threats to rape and harm the child\".\n\nThe court heard Ringer sent the mother a \"laughing face\" emoji on Instagram, then a further message saying \"I've already posted pictures saying she's dead, I've got £600 so far\".\n\nWhen the victim accused Ringer of being jealous, Ms Walker said, the defendant replied: \"Jealous of a disgusting little runt that should have been drowned at birth.\"\n\nRinger targeted the second victim by using images of her prematurely born daughter.\n\n\"The victim challenged the suspect and asked she stop using the images,\" said Ms Walker.\n\n\"It was then that she said she would find out where the victim lived and kidnap and rape her daughter.\n\n\"She was using the picture of the victim's baby reporting to people that the baby was premature, that she was seriously ill, struggling to pay for her treatment and funeral.\"\n\nIan Fisher, mitigating, said Ringer pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity and a number of events in her life had contributed to her \"lacking any ability to empathise\".\n\nHe said of the offences: \"They are made possible by the advent of quite complex social media forms on the internet, and the defendant set about something that no normal, decent human being would do.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fans have criticised three Kansas City Chiefs players who protested during the US national anthem amid a day of national mourning for a mass shooting.\n\nThe demonstration at Monday's game against the Washington Redskins came a day after a gunman killed 59 people and wounded hundreds in Las Vegas.\n\nFans held up signs such as one urging players, \"protest on your own time\".\n\nSome NFL players have been kneeling or sitting during the anthem to protest against racial inequality.\n\nCornerback Marcus Peters was the only player shown on TV seated as the anthem was played on Monday.\n\nBut his teammate Ukeme Eligwe sat, too, and Justin Houston knelt apparently in prayer.\n\nKansas City Star newspaper sports editor Jeff Rosen tweeted: \"Man, can't get behind Marcus Peters and Ukeme Eligwe sitting tonight.\n\nFlags flew at half mast at Arrowhead Field in Kansas City on Monday night, and a moment of silence was observed before the Star-Spangled Banner was sung.\n\nSports television network ESPN had already made a decision not to show the anthem due to ongoing protests, but reportedly reversed course after the Las Vegas shooting attack.\n\nThe Redskins team all stood for the anthem\n\nAt the stadium in Kansas City - Richard Conway, BBC Sport\n\nThe atmosphere outside the Arrowhead stadium was rowdy and loud as fans \"tailgated\" before going to see their team play.\n\nBut speaking to some, it was clear that many were not happy with players protesting during the national anthem.\n\nOne Chiefs fan even told me he wouldn't celebrate a touchdown if a protesting player scored.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFans held up counter-protest signs including one that said: \"Praying 4 Vegas - take a knee 4 the right reason\".\n\nThe national anthem protests began last year against police treatment of African-Americans, but took on a new lease of life after US President Donald Trump said such players should be fired.\n\nTheir defenders say they have the right to free speech under the constitution.\n\nThe Chiefs won 29-20 against the Redskins.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May struggles with her cough\n\nThere has never been a speech quite like it. Even before she took to the platform Theresa May was fragile - politically, and in terms of her health, she has been struggling with a cold all week.\n\nBut the awkwardness of watching her cough her way through what was meant to be a fightback was intense.\n\nOvations were engineered by the cabinet to give her time to try to clear her throat.\n\nThe stage manager at the conference venue was continually handing her cough sweets to try to get through.\n\nA prankster handing her a P45, interrupting her speech, ministers looking on in horror, trying to get him to leave before he was eventually bundled away in a huge media scrum, then handcuffed and surrounded by police.\n\nAt moments it felt like it would be impossible for the prime minister to carry on with the speech, but she made it, just.\n\nBut for how long can she continue in her job?\n\nHer allies are proclaiming the ordeal as a demonstration of her best values - her resilience and determination to keep going.\n\nNo leader, though, wants the sympathy vote, they want to be respected, loved, and perhaps feared.\n\nAnd remember most MPs already think it is impossible for her to lead the party into the next election.\n\nDiscussions have already been had about how and when she should go. There was a delicate consensus after the summer that she probably could stay in post until the Brexit negotiations were complete.\n\nBut that was based on the assumption that nothing major then went wrong.\n\nWell, today might have been it. One senior MP tells me today's events may \"accelerate those conversations\", about her departure.\n\nThe conference was meant to be about restoring Theresa May's authority. It may prove instead to have been further undermined.", "Clean Bandit have squeezed the intros in their hits\n\nGreat song intros, where a tune builds up before the vocal kicks in, are becoming an endangered species as fickle music fans skip tracks if they don't get immediate gratification.\n\nThat's the view of the man who co-produced two Clean Bandit number ones this year, and it's backed up by stats.\n\nThe average intro time has dropped from more than 20 seconds to five seconds since the mid-1980s, research has found.\n\nProducer Mark Ralph said it is because the rise of streaming services means it's now much easier to move on to the next song if you're not instantly hooked.\n\n\"Attention spans have now decreased and that is potentially down to the ease with which you can chop and change between pieces of music if you're bored,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"If you imagine trying to do that with one piece of vinyl, if you get bored in the first 10 seconds, to take it off the turntable, find another record, put it on and start again is quite a long-winded process.\n\n\"Nowadays, if you're sitting on Spotify and get bored within 10 seconds, you just flick a button and you're on to the next thing. I think you have to grab peoples' attention much more quickly.\"\n\nSam Smith's voice arrives almost immediately in Too Good At Goodbyes\n\nRalph worked on Clean Bandit's smash Rockabye, in which Sean Paul's vocal began after just a second; and Symphony, a number one in April, in which the vocal appeared after a whole seven seconds.\n\nThree of this year's other UK number ones have had intros that lasted just a second or two before the vocals kicked in - DJ Khaled and Rihanna's Wild Thoughts; Artists for Grenfell's charity version of Bridge Over Troubled Water; and the current chart-topper, Sam Smith's Too Good At Goodbyes.\n\nFeels, the mega-hit created by Calvin Harris, Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry and Big Sean, goes for 30 seconds before the main vocal arrives - but even that intro is punctuated by cries of \"hey!\", \"oh yeah!\" and \"ha!\".\n\nIn research published earlier this year, Ohio State University doctoral student Hubert Leveille Gauvin found that intro lengths had dropped by 78% between 1986 and 2015.\n\nKaty Perry can't keep quiet during the Feels intro\n\n\"That's insane, but it makes sense,\" Gauvin said. \"The voice is one of the most attention-grabbing things there is in music.\n\n\"It's survival of the fittest - songs that manage to grab and sustain listeners' attention get played and others get skipped. There's always another song.\n\n\"If people can skip so easily and at no cost, you have to do something to grab their attention.\"\n\nThere's another reason musicians want to grab fans' attention. If a tune is played for less than 30 seconds on Spotify, it doesn't count as a play and they don't get paid.\n\nThose are factors that songwriters and producers are aware of when crafting their future hits, Mark Ralph says.\n\n\"I think they're talking about it a lot because obviously it's in their interests to be as successful as they possibly can, and they want to have their tracks streamed as many times and played on the radio as many times as they can.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Stephen Paddock has been identified by police as the man behind the deadliest shooting in modern US history\n\nAs details emerge about the Las Vegas gunman who killed at least 58 people and injured more than 500 others, an online debate has begun about why Stephen Paddock has not been labelled a terrorist.\n\nInstead the 64-year-old who opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel towards an open-air music festival on Sunday evening has been described by news outlets as a \"lone wolf\", a \"granddad\", a \"gambler\", and a \"former accountant\", but not a terrorist.\n\nWe do not know yet what motivated Paddock to carry out the deadly attack. There has been no link found to international terrorism and no confirmation of mental illness.\n\nYet on social media, many have been pointing out that if Paddock had been a Muslim, the term \"terrorist\" would have been used almost immediately to describe him, as a link to Islamist terrorism would be assumed even without evidence.\n\nCelebrities, TV personalities and academics have all been discussing why this hasn't happened in this case.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Russ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Nevada state law, an \"act of terrorism\" is described as follows: \"Any act that involves the use of violence intended to cause great bodily harm or death to the general population.\"\n\nAt federal level, the US defines \"domestic terrorism\" as activities that meet three criteria - \"dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law\", those that are intended to intimidate or coerce civilians or governments, and which occur primarily within the US.\n\nThe FBI, too, suggests there must be an intent to \"intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives\".\n\nThis element seems to be key - is the perpetrator of violence not only attempting to cause mass harm but trying to influence government or further a particular ideology?\n\nMany on social media shared an image of a definition of Nevada state law and questioned why, despite the clear outline, the sheriff of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Joseph Lombardo said during a press conference about Paddock: \"We do not know what his belief system was at this time. Right now, we believe it is a sole actor, a lone-wolf-type actor.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 venomous claire This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Twitter the phrase \"lone wolf\" has been used more than 200,000 times since Monday's attack. The words \"terrorist attack\" have been used more than 170,000 times as people argued about why there seemed to be a clear disparity between how white suspects and those of colour are described.\n\nOn Facebook the discussion has also been escalating. Mursal in Indonesia said: \"He's not considered an international terrorist? Maybe because his face is not Arabic!\"\n\nMuslim American Facebook user Mahmoud ElAwadi expressed his sadness at hearing the news, but described how the attack would not affect white people in the way his family was affected by Islamist attacks.\n\n\"Every mass shooting means my wife's life is in danger because she chose to cover her hair, that my son will be attacked at school because his name is Mohamed, that my 4 year old daughter will be treated unfairly because she speaks Arabic, unless the terrorist is a white and Christian then suddenly he is a mentally sick person and everything is normal.\"\n\nAt the BBC there is clear guidance on the use of the words terrorist, or terrorism. BBC editorial guidance says:\n\n\"There is no agreed consensus on what constitutes a terrorist or terrorist act. The use of the word will frequently involve a value judgement.\n\n\"As such, we should not change the word 'terrorist' when quoting someone else, but we should avoid using it ourselves.\n\n\"This should not mean that we avoid conveying the reality and horror of a particular act; rather we should consider how our use of language will affect our reputation for objective journalism.\"\n\nDespite an overwhelming majority of comments criticising officials and the media for not labelling Paddock a terrorist, there were some counter arguments and suggestions as to why.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Don Inverso This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 M. G. Mitchell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Preston This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBy UGC and Social News Team, additional reporting by BBC Reality Check", "For more than 2,000 years, the Baiga tribeswomen have been getting tattoos\n\nIn India, and across the world, getting a tattoo is nowadays seen as a sign of independence and rebellion. Many young people get inked to showcase their identity, what makes them distinctive and who they are.\n\nBut for me, a decision to not get a tattoo was my version of rebellion, an assertion of my hard-fought independence.\n\nIt was my way of saying: \"I will not toe the line.\"\n\nI grew up thinking of tattoos, along with nose and ear piercings, as symbols of the subjugation of women.\n\nThat's because my mother has a couple of tattoos. And my grandmother had more than a couple. And they told me they had no choice in the matter.\n\nIn many rural communities in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, where my family comes from, it's mandatory for married women to have tattoos, locally known as Godna.\n\n\"My family told me that if I didn't have a tattoo, no-one in my matrimonial home would drink water or take food offered by me. I'd be considered impure, an untouchable,\" my mother told me recently. My father, of course, didn't need to get one because, as mum says, \"he was a boy\".\n\nShe was a child bride, not even 11 at the time of her wedding in the 1940s. A few weeks after the ceremony, an elderly woman who lived in the neighbourhood was called to the house to brand her.\n\nHer tools were rudimentary: a needle that she would heat with fire. The process involved burning the upper layer of skin and filling the tattoo with black colour pigment.\n\nIn those days, there was no anaesthetic to numb the pain and no ointments to quicken the healing process, and a tattoo would take a month to heal.\n\nMore than seven decades later, my mother's tattoos have somewhat faded, but the memory of the pain inflicted in childhood remains vivid.\n\n\"I cried through it. I kept kicking the tattoo maker. At the end, she went and complained to my grandfather. She told him I was trouble,\" she says.\n\nShe has no idea what the small patterns on her arms mean and I can't figure them out either. \"Maybe it's phool-patti,\" she says, meaning flowers and leaves.\n\nKeya Pandey, a social anthropologist at Lucknow University who has researched tattoos extensively in rural and tribal India, says flora and fauna are among the preferred designs.\n\nAlso high on the list are the names of husbands or fathers, or even the village, totems or other symbols of cultural or clan identity, and images of a god or local deity.\n\nMs Pandey says she's seen tattoos in every rural culture in India and estimates that millions of women in villages have them.\n\nMy mother was told that if she didn't get a tattoo, she would be regarded as impure\n\nShe has no idea what her tattoos mean\n\nIn some communities, especially in tribal areas, both men and women have tattoos.\n\n\"It's a symbol of identity, in life and even after death. The idea is that when you die and your soul travels up to heaven or hell and you'll be asked where you come from, you'll be able to trace your ancestry through your tattoos,\" she says.\n\nThere are also communities where women get tattoos for the purpose of beautification - though there are instances where low-caste women got tattooed to make themselves ugly and less desirable to avoid being sexually assaulted by influential men.\n\nBut in many communities, as in my ancestral village, tattoos are meant only for a woman, a sign of her marital status.\n\nFor my mother and grandmother, they were a symbol of purity, the idea that unless a woman was put through a painful purification ritual, she was not fit to serve the patriarchy.\n\nThe practice, however, is declining - and many young women, even girls, are saying no to being branded.\n\nWith modernity and development creeping in and growing contact with the outside world, things are changing in rural and tribal India.\n\nTraditions and folklore are being modified and girls in villages are no longer interested in getting a tattoo, Ms Pandey says.\n\nNowhere is that more evident than among the girls of the Baiga tribe in central India.\n\nMother Badri Bai (left) has tattoos all over her body, daughter Anita has one and she has refused to get any more\n\nFor more than 2,000 years, the women here have been getting branded.\n\n\"The tattooing starts as they hit puberty when they get the first one on their forehead and over the next few years, most parts of their bodies are covered bit by bit with the exception of some part of the torso,\" says Pragya Gupta of WaterAid India.\n\nMs Gupta, who recently travelled to meet the Baigas to understand the access they have to safe drinking water, told the BBC that all the women she met had tattoos, but more and more girls today were refusing to get inked.\n\nAs road connectivity has improved, television and cellphones have arrived and children have begun going to school, many have started rejecting what's been passed on to them for generations in the name of tradition.\n\n\"I met this 15-year-old called Anita. She has a tattoo on her forehead and she told me that it was very painful and she would never get another one. Her mother, 40-year-old Badri, has tattoos covering most of her body,\" Ms Gupta says.\n\nAnita's rebellion has won grudging support from her mother.\n\n\"I was illiterate and I accepted unquestioningly what my parents told me. But she goes to school and if she doesn't want a tattoo, it's fine by me,\" she says.\n\nIn recent years, educated affluent Indians in cities have begun to get tattoos, inspired by images of Hollywood actors and rock musicians. Many of my friends have got inked too.\n\nBut for me, because of my cultural heritage, tattoos remain taboo - a symbol of subjugation.", "Yahoo has said that all of its three billion user accounts were affected in a hacking attack dating back to 2013.\n\nThe company, which was taken over by Verizon earlier this year, said an investigation had shown the breach went much further than originally thought.\n\nThe stolen data did not include passwords in clear text, payment card or bank account data, it added.\n\nPreviously the internet giant had said \"more than one billion\" of its accounts had been hit.\n\nYahoo said that while its latest announcement did not represent a new \"security issue\" it was sending emails to all the \"additional affected user accounts\".\n\nThe company added that it was \"continuing to work closely with law enforcement\".\n\nYahoo's takeover by the huge US telecoms firm Verizon was completed on 13 June.\n\nThe deal was first announced last year when the struggling company agreed to sell its main internet business to Verizon for $4.8bn.\n\nThat figure was later cut to $4.5bn after Yahoo disclosed that it had been the victim, in 2013 and 2014, of two huge security breaches.\n\nVerizon has combined its AOL subsidiary and Yahoo into a new business called Oath.\n\nIn Tuesday's statement Verizon's chief information security officer Chandra McMahon said: \"Verizon is committed to the highest standards of accountability and transparency, and we proactively work to ensure the safety and security of our users and networks in an evolving landscape of online threats.\"\n\n\"Our investment in Yahoo is allowing that team to continue to take significant steps to enhance their security, as well as benefit from Verizon's experience and resources.\"", "The claim: Prime Minister Theresa May said that following a speech at the Conservative Party conference in 2014, government action had meant \"the number of black people being stopped and searched has fallen by over two-thirds\".\n\nReality Check verdict: The number of black people being stopped and searched by police has fallen by two-thirds since 2010-11 but not since the 2014 conference.\n\nAlso, black people still form a disproportionately large percentage of those being stopped and searched and the percentage has actually risen since 2013-14.\n\nAs she delivered her keynote speech to the Conservative Party conference, the prime minister reminded Tories of what she sees as a key achievement - a reduction in the number of black people being stopped and searched, but all is not what it seems.\n\nTheresa May spoke about a young black man called Alexander Paul who spoke at the conference in 2014 about his experience of police stop-and-search tactics.\n\nShe said: \"Inspired by his example, we took action. We shook up the system, and the number of black people being stopped and searched has fallen by over two-thirds.\"\n\nThe overall number of stop-and-searches fell dramatically between 2010-11 and 2015-16, which is the most recent year for which data is available. So, the number of black people being stopped also fell.\n\nThis graph shows that the number of black people being stopped fell by two-thirds over the total period, but not since Mr Paul spoke at the conference in 2014.\n\nBut even though far fewer black people are being stopped and searched, they are still more likely to be stopped than any other ethnic group.\n\nWhen you look at the percentage of those stopped and searched who define themselves as black, little has changed. It was 15.2% in 2010-11, and fell to about 11% in 2013-14. Then it rose, and in 2015-16 was back up to 15.1%.\n\nThe 2011 census found that 3.3% of people in England and Wales defined themselves as black - meaning black people are being stopped and searched nearly five times as often as you would expect them to be.\n\nSo, while the number of black people being stopped and searched fell, their proportion of the total rose since Mr Paul spoke at the 2014 Conservative party conference.\n\nJust to be clear - these figures don't include stop-and-searches related to terrorism or that are carried out because police are trying to manage an incident that affects public safety - those fall under different legislation and are recorded separately. They would not have significantly changed the data.", "Pheasants are far more likely than other species to be the victims of road kill\n\nPheasants are the bird species most likely to be run over on UK roads, research suggests.\n\nThere has been a big rise in the number of pheasants being bred for shooting across the UK over the past 50 years.\n\nThe study in Royal Society Open Science journal says these captive bred pheasants are 12 times more likely than other species to end up as road kill.\n\nUniversity of Exeter researchers found pheasants were most likely to be killed on the roads in autumn and spring.\n\nTo gain a better understanding of what's causing the scale of road kill among pheasants, researchers looked at data from the early 1960s and the modern era. Fifty years ago there were far fewer of the species in the UK and most were wild bred.\n\nNow, experts estimate that about 35 million pheasants are captive bred by the shooting industry across the UK every year.\n\nBetween 2013 and 2016 38.1% of reported road kill birds were pheasants.\n\nThe rise of captive breeding has played a role in making the birds more vulnerable to cars\n\nFifty years ago the worst time for road collisions with pheasants was in the breeding season in early summer. That has changed significantly, say the authors, and is the result in some measure of captive breeding.\n\n\"We see this spike in road kill in October. That's the time when the captive bred birds start to disperse from their release pens,\" said Dr Joah Madden from the University of Exeter, who led the study.\n\n\"Because they have been reared in the absence of any adults they have no one to show them how to live and so they walk around and get killed, they have no prior experience.\"\n\nDr Madden says that there is also a second peak in March or April. He believes that this is because commercial shoots put out food for the birds during the season. When that ends, so does the food supply. The birds have to forage more widely and end up being hit by traffic.\n\nWhile the researchers had expected to see an increase in the proportion of pheasants being killed they were surprised to find it was consistent with the rate of attrition found in the 1960s.\n\nThe experts suspect that changes in behaviour among the gamekeepers in terms of feeding and keeping birds away from the roads may be limiting the level of road kill.\n\nDuring the shooting season, gamekeepers give food supplements to pheasants\n\nNatural behaviours and other factors are also likely playing a role in the continuing slaughter, with the chances of pheasants being killed on the roads almost 12 times higher than their share of the bird population would warrant.\n\n\"It may be to do with their small brains, but it's mainly to do with the fact that they are mainly terrestrial,\" said Dr Madden.\n\n\"They are not the world's best fliers and I think the numbers reported killed are high because they are easily spotted in their glorious plumage.\"\n\nDespite the heavy toll on their numbers, Dr Madden says pheasants would persist in the UK even if they were not being bred for shooting.\n\nThe research team used road kill data provided by the citizen science group, Project Splatter.\n\n\"Our work demonstrates how changes in animal behaviour can be revealed by road kill data reported by members of the public, and the value of citizen science,\" said Dr Sarah from Cardiff University who co-ordinates the project.\n\nFollow Matt on Twitter and on Facebook", "MI5 chief Andrew Parker features on several of Tuesday's front pages\n\nThe Guardian leads with a warning from the head of MI5 that Britain is facing its most severe terror threat ever.\n\nThe paper says that Andrew Parker believes more attacks are inevitable.\n\nThe Daily Mail, which also has the story on its front page, says Mr Parker wants internet companies to do more to stop extremists using the \"safe spaces\" on the web to learn bomb-making techniques.\n\nThe BBC's decision to axe the evening edition of Crimewatch after more than three decades has been criticised in the Daily Telegraph as \"utter madness\" by the family of James Bulger.\n\nJames' stepfather Stuart Fergus, who also manages the James Bulger Memorial Trust, describes the programme as an institution and says it helped to bring justice for his stepson.\n\nIn the Times, the father of the murdered schoolboy Damilola Taylor has also called for the BBC to reconsider its decision.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph says that one of the City's most senior figures is warning that France and Germany risk starting a new global financial crisis - if they try to use Brexit as an excuse to dismantle London as one of the world's main financial centres.\n\nXavier Rolet, who is chief executive of the London Stock Exchange Group, warns Paris and Berlin against making \"a political point\".\n\nThe paper's business editor, Ben Wright, says that destabilisation of the City would undermine the whole global financial framework.\n\nAccording to the Daily Mail, sunflower oil is being tested to see if it could be used to fill cracks in the road to prevent potholes.\n\nThe paper says Highways England is carrying out the unusual trial after sunflower oil capsules were found to make roads \"self heal\" when added to asphalt.\n\nThe Mail says it costs more than £88 million each year to fill in the potholes in England's roads and - at about £1.15 a litre - the cooking oil is a cheaper alternative.\n\nThe Daily Mirror leads with research from the Financial Conduct Authority which suggests that a third of workers - 15 million people - are not paying into a pension.\n\nThe paper warns of what it calls a \"pension timebomb\" and says that many people will have to keep working into their 70s and 80s to make ends meet.\n\nAccording to the Daily Express, British researchers believe that a new once-a-day tablet could \"significantly\" improve the health of people with type 2 diabetes.\n\nThe paper says that semaglutide has the power to lower blood sugar and promote weight loss in just three months.\n\nOne of the lead researchers describes the findings as \"hugely promising\".\n\nAnd the Times reports that the Conservative MP, Tim Loughton, recommends an hour in the bath each morning to cleanse the body and clear the mind.\n\nMr Loughton, who is co-chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on mindfulness, was speaking at a conference exploring how meditation and greater self-awareness can improve the conduct of politics.\n\nHe admitted that an hour of topping up the hot water was not cheap - but added that \"one of the greatest causes of stress in the world was the invention of the shower\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do you avoid holiday traffic jams?\n\nThe worst traffic jams in the UK left drivers facing up to 15 hours of disruption and tailbacks.\n\nA fuel spill, broken down vehicles and an emergency viaduct repair were behind the most severe delays.\n\nTraffic analysts Inrix said drivers and businesses lost millions of pounds in wasted fuel and time.\n\nThey looked at disruption on motorways and A roads between September 2016 and August 2017 and found there were about 3,700 jams a day.\n\nThe M5 in Somerset saw the longest disruption and biggest tailbacks while three of the top five were on the M6.\n\nOn 4 August 2017, drivers faced up to 15 hours of traffic jams after two lorries collided and there was a fuel spill, which resulted in the carriageway of the M5 needing to be resurfaced.\n\nInrix said it caused problems for drivers up to 36 miles away.\n\nIt estimated the cost to the economy of this Somerset disruption as nearly £2.4m based on average fuel consumption, the number of people typically in cars and \"assumptions\" about the purpose of people's trips.\n\nAt the time travel company First Bus said it faced \"unprecedented delays\" to services in North Somerset.\n\nWhile the worst traffic jams were caused by accidents and other unexpected problems, some roads often get snarled up.\n\nAccording to another Inrix study, drivers lost 73 hours in 2016 to delays along the A406 Northbound from Chiswick Roundabout to Hanger Lane in Ealing, London.\n\nThe UK's top 10 most congested roads, and the number of hours lost to them, were:\n\nWhile the M5 saw the worst individual incident, it was the M6 motorway in Cheshire and Lancashire that featured most in the top five.\n\nThe second worst traffic jam of the year was on the M6 near Warrington on 7 April 2017.\n\nEmergency work to repair Thelwall Viadict caused disruption and delays from junction 21 back to junction 16 of the M6.\n\nLater in the year, the August bank holiday getaway saw drivers caught in long delays, again on the M6.\n\nHowever, this time it was between Sandbach in Cheshire and Haydock after a \"number of vehicles\" including a lorry broke down.\n\nIn November 2016, lane closures on the A406W North Circular Road near Wembley in London, led to more than 14 miles of disruption; while a lorry fire near Preston in December that same year closed three lanes of the M6 overnight 12/13 December.\n\nEven when the fire was out there were still delays because the road needed to be re-surfaced.\n\nNo-one was injured but there was 10 hours of disruption following a lorry fire on the M6\n\nGraham Cookson, chief economist at Inrix, said: \"While queuing is considered a national pastime for many Brits, nothing is more frustrating than sitting in traffic and it's a costly activity.\n\n\"Jams can be caused by all kinds of incidents but fuel spillages, emergency repairs and broken down lorries contributed to the biggest pile-ups this year.\"\n\nHighways England, which is responsible for motorways and major trunk roads, said 85% of incidents were cleared within an hour.\n\n\"We will continue to ensure roads are reopened safely, but as quickly as possible,\" customer service director Mel Clarke said.\n\nThe list was compiled by taking the duration of the jam and multiplying it by the length of the queue. Delays caused by scheduled roadworks were excluded.", "Blac Chyna says the Kardashians sabotaged her television series\n\nBlac Chyna is suing the Kardashian family, alleging they are to blame for the axing of her reality TV show.\n\nShe claims the \"vindictive\" family wants to destroy her.\n\nBlac Chyna's attorney confirmed to the BBC that Kris Jenner is named as a defendant in the lawsuit, along with Kourtney, Kim and Khloe Kardashian and Kendall and Kylie Jenner.\n\nA representative acting on behalf of the Kardashians has not yet responded to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nThe lawsuit follows the break-up of Blac Chyna's relationship with Rob Kardashian, during which time they had a daughter.\n\nThe 29-year-old is alleging she suffered assault, battery, domestic violence and harassment at the hands of her ex-fiance.\n\nThe court documents filed against the Kardashians and published in full by Buzzfeed, allege Rob Kardashian is an \"abuser intent on destroying Angela White [Blac Chyna's real name].\"\n\nThe papers also accuse the Kardashians of using their fame, wealth and power to exact revenge on her, \"slut-shaming\" her and sabotaging the recommissioning of her own reality TV show Rob & Chyna for a second series.\n\nSisters Kim and Kourtney Kardashian are accused of \"slut-shaming\" Blac Chyna\n\nThe move comes two weeks after Rob Kardashian filed his own lawsuit saying it was she who attacked him - a claim Blac Chyna denies.\n\nLisa Bloom, who is Blac Chyna's attorney, told the BBC that the idea Rob Kardashian - who is over a foot taller than his former fiancee - \"would be in fear of her, is silly\".\n\nRob also accuses Blac Chyna of using him as well as his family for financial gain and said it was a mutual decision by the E! Network and the Kardashian family to cancel the show.\n\nAccording to TMZ, E! sources say they have emails to prove that the production team were questioning the future of the show due to the fact Blac Chyna and Rob Kardashian could not be in the same room together.\n\nBlac Chyna says they had already started shooting the second series of Rob & Chyna and claims the Kardashians wanted to \"kill\" the series.\n\nShe cites one episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians in which the family discuss whether the show should be axed, saying the series had \"bad, unhealthy energy\".\n\nBloom said Blac Chyna would be seeking damages for not only the loss of her reality TV series, but the accompanying endorsements that would have gone with it.\n\nShe says her client has lost out on \"many many millions\" of dollars.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking in September 2017, claimants told the BBC about the problems they faced\n\nPeople will be able to call the government's universal credit helpline without being charged, within weeks.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said she had listened to criticism of the charges, which can be up to 55p a minute, and decided it was \"right\" to drop them.\n\nBut she again rejected calls by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to \"pause\" the roll-out of the controversial benefit amid fears it is causing hardship.\n\nIn a symbolic vote, MPs backed a pause after Tory MPs were told to abstain.\n\nThe opposition won by 299 votes to 0 with one Conservative - Totnes MP Sarah Wollaston - defying her party by siding with Labour.\n\nThe outcome is not binding on the government although Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said ministers must \"act on the clearly expressed will of Parliament\" and halt its roll out.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow advised ministers to take account of the vote and \"show respect for the institution\" by indicating what they intended to do.\n\nUniversal credit, which rolls six working-age benefits into a single payment, is designed to make the system simpler and ensure no-one faces a situation where they would be better off claiming benefits than working.\n\nBut it has faced a backlash from Tory MPs, who fear payment delays risk pushing families into destitution.\n\nExplaining her decision to rebel, Dr Wollaston said the length of time people were waiting to be paid - in many cases more than six weeks - was a \"fundamental flaw\" that must be addressed.\n\nShe told the BBC she wanted to \"see a much stronger commitment\" from government \"that they'll do that immediately\".\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions earlier, Mr Corbyn said he was glad the PM had \"bowed to Labour pressure\" by scrapping the hotline charges.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut he added: \"The fundamental problems of universal credit remain - the six week wait, rising indebtedness, rent arrears and evictions.\n\n\"Will the prime minister now pause universal credit and fix the problems before pressing ahead with the roll-out?\"\n\nMrs May prompted cheers from Labour MPs as she began her reply with \"yes\", before urging them to \"listen to the whole sentence I was going to make\".\n\nShe said universal credit was \"a simpler system\", that \"encourages people to get into the workplace - it is a system that is working because more people are getting into work\".\n\nThe universal credit hotline will become free to use \"over the next month\", the government has said, and that would be followed by all DWP helplines by the end of the year.\n\nThe government says it makes no money from the 0345 number. It is charged at local rate and is included as a free call in many landline and mobile phone packages but can cost some mobile phone users as much as 55p a minute.\n\nUniversal Credit has been introduced in stages to different groups of claimants over the past four years, with about 610,000 people now receiving it.\n\nAlmost a quarter of all claimants have had to wait more than six weeks to receive their first payment in full because of errors and problems evidencing claims.\n\nBut the government recently approved a major extension of the programme to a further 45 job centres across the country, with another 50 to be added each month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM appears to give a surprising initial answer when asked to pause the national rollout of universal credit.\n\nLabour's Frank Field told MPs a food bank in his Birkenhead constituency needed to order five tonnes of extra food to deal with hardship caused by the roll-out of universal credit over Christmas.\n\nHe asked Work and Pensions Secretary David Gauke if his constituents should ignore the food bank's warnings, or give it extra donations as a result of the minister's \"inability to deliver a scheme that works\".\n\nMr Gauke had earlier accused Labour of attempting to wreck the new benefit rather than taking a constructive approach to reforming it.\n\nThe SNP's Mhairi Black said the offer of advance payments made matters worse for some claimants because they had to be paid back.\n\nShe accused the government of acting like a \"pious loan shark - except that instead of coming through your front door they are coming after your mental health, your physical well-being, your stability, your sense of security.\"\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions says its latest data, from last month, indicates 81% of new claimants were paid in full and on time at the end of their first assessment while 89% received some payment.\n\nBBC Newsnight's political editor Nick Watt said he understood ministers were giving \"serious thought\" to cutting the initial waiting period for payments from six to four weeks around the time of next month's Budget.", "Game of Thrones actress Lena Headey, who plays Cersei Lannister on the popular HBO show, has accused producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment.\n\nThe Hollywood mogul was \"furious\" after she resisted his sexual advances, she details in a series of Twitter posts.\n\nThe British actress joins a list of over 40 women who have accused the producer of misconduct.\n\nAlso on Tuesday, Weinstein resigned from the board of directors of his eponymous film production company.\n\nHe has been accused of rape, sexual assault and harassment, but has \"unequivocally denied\" any allegations of non-consensual relationships.\n\nDespite being fired as chairman of The Weinstein Company studio on 8 October he had continued until Tuesday to hold a position on the company's board.\n\nWeinstein, who has been expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that present the Oscar awards, still owns 22% of his company's stock, according to Variety magazine.\n\nAmid the fallout over the Weinstein accusations, Roy Price, the head of Amazon Studios, also resigned on Tuesday over allegations of sexual harassment, according to US media.\n\nMr Price took a \"leave of absence\" last Thursday after Isa Hackett, a producer on the Amazon series The Man in the High Castle, told the Hollywood Reporter he allegedly sexually harassed her in 2015.\n\nHarvey Weinstein was one of the most powerful men in Hollywood\n\nIn her Twitter posts, Headey described sharing a lift with Weinstein after he had invited her to his room to show her a script.\n\n\"The lift was going up and I said to Harvey, 'I'm not interested in anything other than work, please don't think I got in here with you for any other reason, nothing is going to happen,'\" she recalled.\n\n\"I don't know what possessed me to speak out at that moment, only that I had such a strong sense of don't come near me.\n\n\"He was silent after I spoke, furious.\n\n\"He walked me back to the lift by grabbing and holding tightly to the back of my arm,\" she said, adding that she felt \"completely powerless\".\n\nAfter he allegedly \"whispered\" that she should not tell anyone about the encounter, she writes: \"I got into my car and cried.\"\n\nHeadey's story comes as other Hollywood actresses shared their stories of sexual harassment and impropriety in show business.\n\nOn Monday, Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon said she had been harassed by an unnamed film director when she was 16 years old, during a speech to the Elle Women in Hollywood event.\n\nJennifer Lawrence, who has won a Best Actress Oscar, spoke at the same event and described a casting call where she was made to stand nude in front of producers who criticised her weight.\n\n\"After that degrading and humiliating line-up, the female producer told me I should use the naked photos of myself as inspiration for my diet,\" the star of Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle told the Los Angeles audience.\n\nDreamWorks film studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg meanwhile told a Wall Street Journal conference of Weinstein: \"Make no mistake about it: he is a monster.\"\n\nHe added Weinstein had been protected by other men around him, who he described as \"a pack of wolves\".\n\nJeffrey Katzenberg pictured with Harvey Weinstein at a charity event in 2005\n\nScreenwriter Scott Rosenberg also got involved by writing a Facebook post about his early days at Miramax Films.\n\nHe wrote the movies Beautiful Girls and Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead at the time Weinstein's profile was rising in the film industry.\n\nIn his post, he said that while he never heard any rape allegations, he was aware of Weinstein's \"dreadful\" behaviour - and said \"everybody\" else knew, too.\n\n\"I was there. And I saw you. And I talked about it with you,\" he wrote. \"You, the big producers; you, the big directors; you, the big agents; you, the big financiers.\n\n\"And you, the big rival studio chiefs; you, the big actors; you, the big actresses; you, the big models.\n\n\"You, the big journalists; you, the big screenwriters; you, the big rock stars; you, the big restaurateurs; you, the big politicians.\"\n\nHe said others chose to ignore what was going on because they were enjoying themselves and because women were told it would ruin their careers if they said anything.\n\nAt the end of the piece, Rosenberg apologised for not doing anything.\n\n\"I reaped the rewards and I kept my mouth shut,\" he said. \"And for that, once again, I am sorry.\"\n\nBeautiful Girls actress Lauren Holly has also come forward, sharing her story of harassment, describing an encounter she had with Weinstein.\n\nThe pair arranged a meeting in a hotel, which she didn't find \"abnormal at all\" because she had routinely met producers, writers and directors in their suites.\n\nShe described the early stages of the meeting as normal, but said things turned sour when Weinstein walked into the hotel suite \"wearing a hotel bathrobe\".\n\n\"He said, 'OK, let's get to it, this is what we've got going on at my company, these are the scripts we have in the pipeline, this is what I think might be right for you,' and he gestured for me to follow him.\"\n\nHolly recounted that she followed him into the bedroom part of the suite as he continued talking.\n\nWeinstein then showered and, when he emerged, was naked and started to approach her.\n\nHolly said she started to run away, but that Weinstein began to threaten her, saying she needed to \"keep him as [her] ally\" and that it would be a \"bad decision\" if she left the room.\n\nAt that point, Holly said, she \"pushed him and ran\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "In November, the man who holds the UK's purse-strings will announce how the nation's money will be spent in the year ahead. And rumours have begun flying about potential cuts and giveaways in the pipeline.\n\nAmong these, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond is rumoured to be planning a reduced rate of National Insurance for young people, while cutting older people's pension relief.\n\nThe plans to redistribute wealth across the generations were mooted by Whitehall sources, according to The Telegraph.\n\nPension relief is a system in which the more you pay into a pension, the more money you can get back as a tax relief from government.\n\nWe don't know exactly how this policy - were it to be announced - would work, or which ages would benefit.\n\nBut at BBC Reality Check, we wanted to know - can you make someone pay more tax just because they're older?\n\nThe short answer is yes - there are lots of instances of people paying more or less tax, based on their age.\n\nIt may be discrimination, but it's not illegal.\n\nUntil last year, people over the age of 65 were allowed to keep more money tax-free, and it's still the case that UK workers reaching state pension age no longer have to make National Insurance contributions.\n\nYou can also be paid a lower minimum wage if you are younger. There are four different minimum wages depending on your age, from £4.05 an hour for under-18s, increasing to £7.50 for over-25s.\n\nThese variations don't count as age discrimination in law, and are allowed in the UK system of tax and earnings.\n\nIt wouldn't be too difficult to implement either.\n\nBut does it make sense to do so?\n\nThere is very little economic justification for allowing young people to pay a reduced National Insurance rate according to a spokesman for independent think tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).\n\nThe IFS says government usually has one of two main aims when reducing taxes for a particular group:\n\nIf the aim is to change behaviour - in the case of National Insurance contributions, probably to encourage people to enter or stay in the workplace - certain groups are more \"responsive\" to tax cuts than others.\n\nTax cuts for people nearing retirement age, or mothers with school-age children, are more likely to get them to stay in work, according to the IFS.\n\nBut young people without dependants are less likely to work more because they are being taxed less.\n\nIf changing how the wealth of the country is distributed is the aim, this is a very blunt tool, the IFS says.\n\nIt would be better to address the root problems facing young people like the housing market or student debts, according to Julian Jessop at the Institute for Economic Affairs.\n\nHe says this system could mean young City workers on six-figure salaries could pay less tax than NHS workers in their 50s.\n\nIt could also create an unfair system whereby women who take career breaks when they are younger in order to have children don't benefit from tax breaks in their 20s, but end up paying more tax later in life.\n\nInstead of putting more money in young people's pockets via tax cuts, government could introduce a new form of pension tax relief favouring the young, according to Tom McPhail, head of policy at financial services company Hargreaves Lansdowne.\n\nThis could mean the government \"tops up\" young people's pensions by a larger amount than older people's pensions.\n\nBut this may not have the same political capital as a giveaway for young people that they can feel immediately in their pay packets.", "Actress Marie Trintignant pictured on the set of French TV series Colette, less than a month before she was killed\n\nA leading French music magazine has responded to criticism for making a rock star who killed his girlfriend its cover star.\n\nLes Inrockuptibles placed Bertrand Cantat, who beat actress Marie Trintignant to death in 2003, on its front page last week.\n\nIn a statement, it said its choice was \"debatable\", and expressed \"sincere regrets\" to \"those who felt hurt\".\n\nFrance's Elle magazine responded with an editorial tribute to Ms Trintignant.\n\nUnder the headline \"In the name of Marie\", it said its words were for \"all women victims of violence\" carried out by men.\n\nCantat, who was released from prison in 2007, is trying to relaunch his music career with a new solo album.\n\nLes Inrockuptibles said it had been covering Cantat since the 1980s and its history was built on his old band, Noir Desir. It justified its coverage by saying the article tackled controversial issues, such as \"Did Cantat have the right to a public life after having killed Marie Trintignant with his fists?\"\n\nThe magazine said it had received many complaints.\n\nOne Twitter user said Les Inrockuptibles \"should apologise to the Trintignant family\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 👠🍫Lily-Rose 🐸 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 controversy coincided with the Harvey Weinstein scandal, which has seen the US producer accused of multiple assaults against women and which has also provoked a big reaction in France.\n\nOn Monday, Gender Equality Minister Marlène Schiappa set out plans for new laws to crack down on sexual violence.\n\nShe said a taskforce of politicians would work with police and magistrates to establish what sort of behaviour constituted sexual harassment.\n\nCantat, who was convicted of beating Marie Trintignant to death in 2003, returned to music in 2013\n\n\"The idea is that society as a whole redefines what it is acceptable or not,\" she told La Croix newspaper.\n\nFrench Twitter users have also been using #balancetonporc, meaning \"rat on your dirty old man\", to encourage women to name and shame their attackers.\n\nFirst Lady Brigitte Macron has praised women for \"breaking the silence\".\n\nOn Sunday, President Emmanuel Macron said that he would be stripping Harvey Weinstein of the prestigious Legion d'honneur award.\n\nElle magazine's editorial retort also applauds the \"courage\" of the Hollywood figures who have spoken out against Harvey Weinstein in light of the recent allegations.\n\nLes Inrockuptibles also noted the Weinstein allegations in its letter to readers, published on Tuesday, adding that it has always strived \"to relay feminist ideas\".\n\n\"It was important for us to tell you that,\" it said, signing off.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 100 Women: What exactly do we mean when we talk about street harassment?", "A year on from the Brexit referendum, says the Financial Times, the government has still not spelled out what that will mean for the economy.\n\nThe paper sees division in the two main parties, the House of Lords, and across the UK.\n\nIf things turn nasty, it thinks the government should resist the \"petulant and reckless\" option of walking out.\n\nBut the Sun tells Theresa May \"the time for niceties is over.\"\n\nIt says the PM has now assured every EU ­citizen here that they can stay, come what may - and it's time for other EU leaders to be \"equally forthcoming\".\n\nAnd four former Conservative cabinet ministers tell the Daily Telegraph that she should walk away if the EU won't move on to discussions about trade and the future.\n\nThe Daily Mail and the Daily Express both see signs that Germany, at least, might want a comprehensive free trade accord.\n\nSeveral of the papers are struck by - and concerned about - the figures showing how many people are financially exposed.\n\nMillions of people, says the Financial Times, have to borrow from friends and family \"to make ends meet.\"\n\n\"More than four million people are living on the brink of financial meltdown,\" says the Daily Mail, \"figures that add up to a crisis.\"\n\nThe i believes half the adult population are at risk, with 15 million of them failing to pay anything into any kind of pension.\n\nA headline in the Times calls that a \"retirement timebomb ticking for millions\".\n\nThe switch to universal credit, says the Guardian, was a sensible idea \"on paper\".\n\nBut in practice, the paper argues, it has been anything but.\n\nThe old system, it believes, \"was baggier and more accommodating\" - for all its flaws - and the new one just doesn't take account of the actual circumstances of many claimants.\n\nThe paper fears that pressing on with the change \"will leave families to celebrate Christmas on the contents of a food parcel\".\n\nThe Mirror says Mrs May is \"still pig-headedly making life worse for struggling individuals\".\n\nThe Times is concerned by the limitations which have been imposed on free speech at several universities since the start of the academic year.\n\nAnd it therefore commends the Universities minister, Jo Johnson, for telling higher education institutions that they will face penalties if they deny a platform to people whose views might upset some.\n\nThe paper says free speech is central to what universities do.\n\nThe Daily Mail wonders whether Prince Harry's girlfriend, Meghan Markle, has already had a meeting with the Queen.\n\nIt says the actress appears to have been whisked into Buckingham Palace a week ago - in a Ford Galaxy with blacked out windows.\n\nThe paper says she spent almost an hour with the Queen having tea and cake. The Palace declined to comment.\n\nThe Times reports that \"the tree that first brought Bramley apples to the world is dying.\"\n\nThe 200-year-old tree, at Southwell in Nottinghamshire, has an incurable honey fungus infection.\n\nScientists, says the Daily Express, believe they can save it.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph hopes they succeed - saying \"if Eden's apple gave the world sorrow, Southwell's brought it only wholesome delight\".\n\nThe Express thinks their mission is a \"project with core a-peel.\"", "China is pouring billions of pounds' worth of investment into Greece and other Balkan countries to create a \"New Silk Road\" from the Mediterranean into the heart of the European Union.\n\nThe initiative, called One Belt One Road (OBOR) involves the transformation and upgrading of harbours, airports, roads and rail across the Balkans. The Chinese have also bought industries, including a steel factory near the Serbian capital, Belgrade.\n\nBut there are concerns that the European Union (EU) might eventually object to the level of investment if it poses a significant Chinese threat to European industries.\n\nLast year, the Chinese state-owned company Cosco purchased a controlling stake in the port of Piraeus, near Athens. The company is investing 385 million euros (£343m) in Piraeus to maximise both capacity and trade with the EU.\n\nNektarios Demenopoulos of the Piraeus Port Authority says Chinese investment has boomed\n\nPiraeus has always been of immense interest to the Chinese. Its geographical position means it is the first major port for shipments emerging from the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean, and its depth allows it to take the biggest container ships.\n\nNektarios Demenopoulos, a deputy manager of the Port of Piraeus Authority, told the BBC that Chinese investment in Piraeus had expanded significantly since the Chinese took control of the container port in 2009.\n\n\"In 2016 we handled 3.7 million twenty-foot (6 metre) containers,\" he explained. \"That's double what we handled back in 2009. And we will be expanding the container pier to create a capacity allowing us to handle 7.2 million containers. So we will double through-put again.\"\n\nThose Greeks who are working with the Chinese emphasised the important cultural relationship between the two countries.\n\nFotis Provatas, of the Athens-based Greek Chinese Economic Council, said. \"I was surprised to see how many people in China know about ancient Greek culture and they respect it very much. And they respect the Western culture because they think - and this is true - that it is a continuation of the ancient Greek culture.\"\n\nHe added that the Chinese have huge investment plans for Greece, including plans to buy and then vastly expand Athens airport. He also said China would upgrade the rail network in other Balkan countries, particularly the neighbouring Republic of Macedonia, and Serbia.\n\nMr Provatas welcomed the investment but said there was also a danger of a backlash from the EU. He added: \"Europe wants economic cooperation with China but in a different way to us.\n\n\"We do not have industries so we do not compete with the Chinese in that way. They are welcome to come here and make cars and other industrial products. This is not the same elsewhere in Europe. They are competitors.\"\n\nGreece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (l) met with China's President Xi Jinping (r) in Beijing in May 2017\n\nThe Greek government believes Chinese investment will be an important factor in the country's recovery from deep financial crisis.\n\nBut ministers insist China does not get preferential treatment and that Greece takes its obligations seriously as a member of the EU.\n\nStergios Pitsiarlos, Greece's deputy economics minister, told the BBC, \"We think Greece should take advantage of these new opportunities that the Chinese strategy opens up. Our strategy is to take advantage of our geographical position and to attract foreign investment.\n\n\"It is very clear that the Chinese would like to have a corridor towards Europe and the European market. At this point, the starting point for Greece is that we are a country that is a member of both the European Union and of the eurozone, and we will always respect European regulations.\"\n\nAna Brnabić, Prime Minister of Serbia, denies that China has any political influence in the region\n\nThe Chinese are also investing across the eastern Balkans, including in Serbia.\n\nLast year, Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in the city of Smederevo in eastern Serbia to inaugurate the local steel mill, which had been bought by the Chinese steel giant, Hesteel.\n\nIn an interview for the BBC, Ana Brnabić, the Prime Minister of Serbia, welcomed the Chinese investment, saying Serbia is already home to very many Chinese investments, including road and rail.\n\nShe denied that this investment would give China undue political influence in the Balkans, adding \"Without a doubt when you have a huge inflow of investment from one particular country, it always gives a bigger influence to that country. But I did not notice that it had any political influence.\"\n\nSerbia has applied to join the EU. Ms Brnabić added: \"China wants to get closer to the EU and EU markets and Serbia is happy to be one of the central countries in the One Road One Belt Initiative because it's important for our GDP growth and that is our number one priority today. Politically it doesn't interfere in any way with our EU integration.\"\n\nAndrew Hosken's report on Chinese investment in south-eastern Europe will be on The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4 at 22:00 on Tuesday 17 October and will be available later via BBC iPlayer.", "Carrie Fisher hand delivered the \"gift\" to the producer\n\nCarrie Fisher once gave a Hollywood producer a cow's tongue after learning he had assaulted her friend.\n\nHeather Ross, who works in the film industry, told Fisher about how the unnamed producer sexually assaulted her in his car.\n\nFisher reacted by personally delivering the cow tongue in a Tiffany box wrapped in a bow to his office in Los Angeles.\n\nRoss revealed the story on US radio station, 94.9 MixFM in light of the recent Harvey Weinstein allegations.\n\nRoss spoke about how she contacted the producer - who is not Weinstein - to try and be a part of his new project.\n\nAfter meeting up, she says the producer forced himself on her in his car after making an excuse to pull over, then reached over and climbed on top of her.\n\nRoss told the radio show she managed to push the producer off her, but as she fled, he said: \"You'll never make a movie in my town and get the F out of my car.\"\n\nWhen she told Fisher about what had happened, the late Star Wars actress took matters into her own hands.\n\n\"About two weeks later, she sent me a message online and said, 'I just saw [blank] at Sony Studios. I knew he would probably be there, so I went to his office and personally delivered a Tiffany box wrapped with a white bow.'\"\n\nRoss continued: \"I asked her what was inside and she said, 'It was a cow tongue from Jerry's Famous Deli in Westwood with a note that said, if you ever touch my darling Heather or any other woman again, the next delivery will be something of yours in a much smaller box!'\"\n\nRoss added that knowing the Star Wars actress had her back had left a lasting impression on her.\n\n\"It felt validating to know, OK, first of all, this woman who I love as a friend was not just a fake Hollywood friend. That's who Carrie Fisher was. She spoke out and she put things out there in your face,\" she said.\n\nFisher, best known for playing Princess Leia in the Star Wars films, died at the age of 60 in December.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Charlotte Waite says it is distressing when so many wrong fines are being issued\n\nGoing to the dentist is something that many would want to avoid - but how about if you also faced a penalty fine?\n\nMore than 40,000 people a year in England are getting fines of £100 - from an automated system that dentists say is hitting the most vulnerable.\n\nThey warn that people such as dementia sufferers are unfairly getting caught up in a system meant to stop fraudsters from getting free treatment.\n\nThe NHS accepts there is a problem with errors and is promising changes.\n\nThe fines, about £4m per year, are being applied by a random screening process that checks on whether people going to the dentist are really eligible for free treatment.\n\nBut dentists say rising numbers of people with dementia, or those with learning difficulties, are being unfairly fined for something as simple as ticking a wrong box in confusing paperwork.\n\nWhen these have been challenged, about 90% have been overturned as having been incorrectly applied.\n\nThe British Dental Association says the problem seems to be increasing and with an ageing population is only likely to get worse.\n\nCharlotte Waite, a senior dentist working in Loughborough, Leicestershire, says this is a problem appearing on a \"daily basis\".\n\n\"This has become a significant barrier to care. It can cause a lot of distress if people feel they are seen as fraudulent,\" she says.\n\nMrs Waite, vice-chair of the British Dental Association's England community dental services committee, is leading a campaign to stop a wave of fines for elderly and frail people, those with dementia or learning difficulties, who have made honest mistakes when filling in forms about free care.\n\nShe says even when patients are eligible for free treatment, an incorrect description of specific benefits or failure to renew documents can trigger a penalty fine, which rises to £150 if there is a delay in payment.\n\nAnd she says because it typically affects vulnerable and often low-income families, there has been a lack of a \"powerful advocate\" to raise the issue.\n\nMany such patients will be brought to the dentist by a carer, and Mrs Waite says they might not have the detailed information about types of benefit and exemption certificates.\n\nShe says this becomes a dilemma for dentists, whether to turn away patients or to treat them and then risk that patients could face a fine.\n\nPatients might turn up for the dentist and go away again without treatment because of confusion over benefits and entitlements and worries about being fined.\n\n\"I feel very strongly that clinical time should be spent on clinical work,\" she says, rather then trying to navigate the benefits system.\n\n\"It's an extreme waste of clinical time.\n\n\"We really need to sort this out now.\"\n\nWhat dentists say they've seen\n\n\"They were fined twice over an 18-month period, due to the change in exemption and Mum accidently putting the wrong thing on the form.\n\n\"Mum was having a bad year and the patient had suffered a few health problems, and these fines were very upsetting and caused lots of anxiety.\n\nThe NHS says it is going to launch an awareness-raising campaign and make information simpler\n\n\"We did manage to get the fines turned around, but this took long periods of time and many phone calls and a letter. We were constantly up against a brick wall.\"\n\n\"He contacted me in quite a panic and I had to reassure him and request that he brought in the paperwork to me to see, I completed the appeal form for him as he was entitled to claim free dental care.\n\n\"The appeal form that needed sending back was quite a complex letter, and I think our patient would have struggled to respond to it without help.\n\n\"I felt it was most unfair for him to have to go through that.\"\n\n\"I phoned on her behalf, but they would not accept my word regarding the patient's special needs and wanted a letter from the patient's doctor.\n\n\"It took three weeks for the patient to get in to see the doctor as it wasn't urgent. All I could get was a deferral in increasing the fine [for non-payment] while the patient waited for a letter from her doctor.\"\n\nWhat the NHS wants to do in response\n\nThe NHS Business Services Authority, which oversees the fining system, accepts there is a problem and is looking for a way to make improvements.\n\nA spokeswoman says no-one wants vulnerable people to be unfairly fined or for dentists to waste valuable clinical time.\n\nDentists say the fining errors need to be \"sorted out\" as soon as possible\n\nThe checks have an important role in making sure free treatment isn't being unfairly accessed by those who should pay.\n\nThe screening system compares what people have put on forms at the dentist against two databases of information about benefits and entitlements - and if these do not match, the fining system generates a penalty notice.\n\nThe most recent figures suggest almost 120,000 fines have been issued over the past three years.\n\nBut the British Dental Association says when 30,000 of these fines were checked, almost 90% were overturned, suggesting the scale of the error in the system.\n\n\"We want to make sure that patients, particularly those who struggle with literacy, understand if they are entitled to receive free dental treatment or if they should pay,\" says a NHS Business Services Authority spokeswoman.\n\n\"We recognise the importance of information and access to it for everyone.\"", "Terry Butcher, left, said the life of his son Christopher, right, was \"tragically cut short\"\n\nFormer England football captain Terry Butcher has said he is \"devastated\" by the death of his son, Christopher.\n\nThe ex-army captain, who had served in the Royal Artillery and in Afghanistan, died on Monday morning, aged 35.\n\nSuffolk Police said his death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nThe former Ipswich Town and Rangers defender said his son's life had been \"tragically cut short\" while a family statement described him as a \"formidable leader and soldier\".\n\n\"Chris was a larger than life character whose personality, laughter and compassion touched the hearts of all who were fortunate to know him,\" it said.\n\n\"He always put others before himself and was a true and trusted brother-in-arms.\n\n\"His life has been so tragically cut short, but we will cherish and treasure the memories we all shared, forever.\"\n\nThe family thanked people for the \"overwhelming number of messages\" which they said were \"a testament to how much love and respect surrounded Chris\".\n\nTheir statement added: \"We are all devastated by his loss and thank you now for allowing us some time to ourselves, to grieve and come to terms with his passing.\"\n\nButcher, now 58, won 77 caps for England and appeared at three World Cups during his career.\n\nHe also played for Ipswich Town where he made more than 250 appearances in the 1970s and 1980s, and has managed several clubs including Sunderland, Motherwell and Inverness Caledonian Thistle.", "An estimated 4.1 million people are in financial difficulty owing to missed domestic or credit bills, a major study has found.\n\nThese consumers - most likely to be aged between 25 and 34 - have failed to pay bills in three or more of the last six months.\n\nThe findings come as part of a survey of 13,000 people by the regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).\n\nIt suggests 25.6 million consumers could be vulnerable to financial harm.\n\nThis means that they display at least one of a series of issues, such as lack of internet access or an overdraft, so their finances would be at an increased risk if something went wrong.\n\nThe Financial Lives research, the first of its kind by the regulator, revealed a range of concerns among consumers at a time of weak wage growth, but also low-cost credit.\n\nIt concluded that 15 million people had low levels of resilience to a bill shock, that eight million were struggling with debt, and 100,000 had used an illegal money lender in the last 12 months.\n\nOne in six (17%) of those with a mortgage or who are paying rent, an estimated five million people, said that they would struggle if monthly payments rose by less than £50.\n\nA rise in interest rates, heavily hinted by policymakers at the Bank of England, could affect many of these people - especially if the Bank rate rose rapidly.\n\nRent, car loans, mortgages, credit cards, pay day loans, unsecured credit, overdrafts - with real wages falling, the amount of debt we are taking on is rising and the pressure we are under is increasing.\n\nFor many, a savings cash buffer to deal with shocks and rising prices is non-existent.\n\nWhen it comes to the build up of debt, this is a classic story of supply and demand.\n\nThe digitisation of financial products - making many loans little more than a mobile phone swipe away - has meant that supply has become broader and easier.\n\nHistorically low interest rates have also made products cheaper, meaning that taking on debt appears to be low cost, in the short term at least.\n\nIn the same week as the BBC News Money Matters series revealed worrying levels of debt among young adults, the FCA report highlights the issue again for 25 to 34-year-olds.\n\nIts findings show that 23% of consumers of this age were \"over-indebted\", the highest proportion of any age group.\n\nThe report also found that this group were most likely to be in difficulty (13%) or just surviving with their finances.\n\n\"This [research] exposes the story around the scale of those who are potentially in difficulty in the younger generation,\" said Christopher Woolard, executive director of strategy and competition at the FCA.\n\nHe added that there were \"challenges\" faced by every age group and that flexibility was required to ensure that these various issues were tackled.\n\nGareth Shaw, from consumer group Which?, said: \"That such a high number of people in middle-age have not properly considered how they will manage in retirement should be cause for concern.\n\n\"The current complex pensions system is leading to disengagement, leaving consumers vulnerable through the real lack of information, support and tools needed to empower consumers to make informed decisions about their financial futures.\n\n\"Today's figures should spur on the FCA to take action to deliver a consumer-friendly pensions system that everyone can engage with.\"\n\nThe FCA said that the survey would provide a \"wealth of information\" that would be used when deciding how to protect vulnerable consumers in the future.\n\nA Treasury spokesman said the government had tightened rules \"to ensure that money can only be lent to people who can afford to repay\".\n\n\"We have also cracked down on pay day loans, saving borrowers over £150m a year, and are introducing an energy cap to help people with household bills,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: I want 'urgency' on citizens' deal\n\nEU leaders have urged Theresa May to do more to break the deadlock in the Brexit negotiations as they gather at a crunch Brussels summit.\n\nDutch PM Mark Rutte said \"a lot more clarity\" on the UK's financial offer was needed before talks could progress.\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel said there were \"encouraging\" signs but that progress so far was \"not sufficient\" to open trade talks.\n\nHowever, Mrs Merkel suggested this could happen in December.\n\nMrs May, who has called for \"urgency\" in reaching agreement on the issue of citizens' rights, will address EU leaders at the summit later.\n\nAt a meeting on Friday, at which the UK will not be present, the 27 leaders are expected to conclude officially that \"insufficient progress\" has been made on the first topics for discussion to move onto the second phase of trade discussions.\n\nThese topics are citizens' rights, the UK's financial obligation and the border in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe UK prime minister spoke of her desire for a future partnership with the EU as she arrived in Brussels, but added: \"We'll also be looking at the concrete progress that has been made in our exit negotiations and setting out ambitious plans for the weeks ahead.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I particularly, for example, want to see an urgency in reaching an agreement on citizens' rights.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Rutte said he welcomed the PM's recent speech in Florence, where she set out what she has described as a \"bold and ambitious agenda\".\n\nBut he said she needed to make \"absolutely clear\" what she was offering to do in relationship to the UK's financial obligations towards the EU.\n\n\"Maybe it's not possible now to name a number but at least to come up with a methodology, a system, a complete proposal to solve this issue,\" he said.\n\n\"As long as that is not happening I don't see how we can move forward.\"\n\nTheresa May chatted to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron at the EU summit\n\nThe October summit was always the first date in the EU calendar on which a gathering of the 27 heads of government could declare themselves satisfied with the Brexit divorce negotiations and agree to start talking about trade.\n\nIt's been clear for weeks that they won't do that - but they will offer the UK some encouragement by starting internal discussions about future trade with the UK - ready for any breakthrough at the next summit in December.\n\nTheresa May isn't expected to make any big new proposal in her after-dinner remarks but to underline the quality of the financial offer made in her speech in Florence - worth around £20bn.\n\nThe EU side wants more though - more money as well as further movement on citizens rights and the Irish border.\n\nThere are almost as many predictions about what happens next as there are diplomats in Brussels; one has suggested that the prospects of a December breakthrough are no better than fifty-fifty but an official close to the talks said the signal on Brexit from this summit would be fundamentally positive.\n\nBefore leaving for Brussels, Mrs May used a Facebook post to offer further assurances to the three million or so nationals of other EU countries living in the UK and uncertain about their future after Brexit.\n\nIn the open letter, which was also mailed to 100,000 EU nationals, she said those who already had permanent residence would be able to \"swap this\" for settled status in as hassle-free a way as possible.\n\nThe process of applying for permanent residency, for which EU nationals are eligible after five years, has long been criticised as cumbersome and overly bureaucratic. At one point, it involved filling out an 85-page form.\n\nTheresa May says the future of British and EU nationals has always been her \"first priority\"\n\nIn simplifying it, Mrs May said she was committed to putting \"people first\" in the negotiations and expected British nationals living on the continent to be treated in the same way.\n\n\"I know both sides will consider each other's proposals with an open mind and with flexibility and creativity on both sides, I am confident we can conclude discussions on citizens' rights in the coming weeks,\" she said.\n\nNicolas Hatton, of the 3million pressure group formed to fight for the rights of EU nationals in the UK, described the PM's statement as \"very positive\", but said its timing was \"a bit more dubious\".\n\n\"We should have received that letter maybe 12 months ago so we would not have felt so anxious about our future\" he said, adding: \"I think the letter was actually addressed to EU leaders.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMeanwhile a group of pro-Brexit Tory and Labour politicians - including former Chancellor Lord Lawson, former Conservative minister Owen Paterson and Labour MP Kate Hoey - is urging Mrs May to walk away from negotiations this week if the EU does not accommodate the UK's wishes.\n\nIn the event of no progress at Thursday's meeting, the letter, organised by the Leave Means Leave campaign, says Mrs May should formally declare the UK is working on the assumption it will be reverting to World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules on 30 March 2019.\n\nMr Paterson told the Today programme the UK should not be \"terrified\" of leaving the EU without a deal in place, saying this appeared \"inevitable at the moment\" due to the EU's \"complete obsession with money\" - the so-called Brexit divorce bill.\n\nBut Labour's Brexit spokesman, Sir Keir Starmer, said it would be \"irresponsible\" to threaten to walk away with the talks only at \"phase one\".\n\nHe added that Labour was not \"duty bound\" to support any deal the PM secures with Brussels.\n\nSir Keir and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn are also in Brussels for their own talks with EU officials.", "Charlotte Brown, known as Charli, was a business development consultant from London\n\nA man whose date died after falling from a speedboat into the River Thames has appeared in court.\n\nCharlotte Brown, 24, died in hospital after both she and Jack Shepherd ended up in the river on 8 December 2015.\n\nPolice were called to reports of someone in distress near Wandsworth Bridge, London, at about 23:45 BST.\n\nMr Shepherd, 30, of Bristol, did not enter a plea when he appeared at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court charged with manslaughter by gross negligence.\n\nHe was ordered to appear at the Old Bailey on 15 November.\n\nMs Brown, a business development consultant from London, was described as \"caring and fun-loving\" by her family.\n\nA number of her relatives, including her mother, father and sister, sat in the back of the court during the hearing.\n\nJack Shepherd has been charged with manslaughter by gross negligence\n\nThe boat got into difficulty at Plantation Wharf near Wandsworth Bridge\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The other day I went up to Birmingham to gauge how teenagers are getting their news and, more importantly, whether they can distinguish fact from fiction.\n\nIt is always dangerous to extrapolate from the specific experience or anecdote to a general view, and smart policy should be based on solid data. Nevertheless, I was alarmed by what we found out, and persuaded that whatever form it might take, news literacy is an area educators will need to think hard about.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How hard is it to spot fake news? Amol Rajan meets pupils in Birmingham to find out\n\nFake news is a deceptive problem. For one thing, it spikes around high-profile news events like the election of Donald Trump, and the evidence of its infiltration into British culture is contested. For another, there is a sense in which inflating the threat of fake news is convenient for those who have a stake in its defeat.\n\nAmbitious politicians can use the issue of fake news to raise their profile, and show themselves attuned to digital technology. Technology firms can point to their (sometimes unimpressive) response to fake news to display a social conscience. And journalists in established and traditional media can make their own trade, which is under tremendous financial pressure, look noble when juxtaposed with the threat from misinformation online.\n\nBut there is such a thing as fake news nevertheless, and young people are beginning to wise up to it.\n\nThe teenagers at Cardinal Wiseman school in Kingstanding, Birmingham, were hugely bright. It is an impressive school, with inspirational teachers and some wonderful pupils. They knew the phrase fake news well, though they didn't associate it particularly with Donald Trump. And they were profoundly sceptical about the news they get from what they didn't quite refer to as the mainstream media.\n\nPupils and staff at Cardinal Wiseman School in Birmingham reveal their concerns to Amol Rajan and cameraman Rob Pettit about fake news and the internet\n\nBut the most searing takeaway, which all parents of teenagers will relate to, is the sheer volume of information they are deluged with every day. These kids spend hours and hours, and hours and hours, online from morning to night. Leave aside what this does to the wiring of their brains, which is beyond my expertise; it creates such an avalanche of facts, opinions, images and conflicting messages that it is a challenge even for a discerning reporter or a judicious philosopher to know what can and can't be trusted online.\n\nWe set them a small test, in which they would look at three stories of varying veracity, say whether they were true, false or in between - and why. Watching their brains whirr was thrilling. And in each case they mostly gave wrong answers, ultimately, but for interesting reasons.\n\nAll the questions that an adult might reasonably have on seeing a news article went through these young minds. Does the headline seem plausible? Do I know the publisher? Is there anything about the presentation of this article that looks suspicious? And so on.\n\nThe pupils asked all the right questions, but came to all the wrong conclusions, seeing lies where truth resided, and truth where lies ran rampant.\n\nI don't for a minute say that young people today are less bright than in yesteryear. But the amount of news and information they are downloading every day is immeasurably higher than a generation ago; and the fact that the internet does contain lots of fake news and other deceptive information - for instance, mash-ups in which voiceover is laid on top of video footage to give a false impression of what someone has said - makes me wonder if teaching news literacy may be worthwhile.\n\nOf course, pupils who are good at logic and reasoning, perhaps because they have studied philosophy, will naturally be better at deciphering credible information. But it may be that the viral spread of unreliable sources online, combined with the ultra-addictive nature of smartphones and the amount of time young people are spending online, bolsters the case for a more concerted, nationwide effort to tackle fake news in education.\n\nEven if, as I said above, we should be sceptical about fake news itself.", "A drug to dramatically cut the risk of HIV infection during sex would save the UK around £1bn over the next 80 years, say scientists.\n\nThe team at University College London says Prep, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, is a \"no-brainer\" for the NHS.\n\nThe study predicts that giving Prep to men who have sex with men would prevent one in four HIV cases.\n\nNHS England is currently funding a trial of Prep in 10,000 patients, but does not offer the treatment routinely.\n\nPrep is already available in Scotland. The health service in England fought against paying for Prep in the courts, but agreed to trialling it in selected clinics.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How taking pre-exposure drugs revolutionised one gay man's relationship with sex\n\nPrep disables HIV before it gets a stranglehold in the body and trials show it can cut the risk of being infected by up to 86%.\n\nThe financial analysis, published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases, looked at the cost-effectiveness of a national roll-out of Prep, focusing on the highest risk group - men who have sex with men.\n\nIt showed offering Prep would cost the NHS money initially as it paid for both Prep and lifelong care for people already infected with HIV.\n\nIt could take up to 40 years to become cost-effective, when savings from the falling number of new HIV cases equal the cost of Prep.\n\nEventually, after 80 years, the pills would deliver a saving of £1bn, say the researchers.\n\nDr Alison Rodger, part of the UCL team, told the BBC: \"Not only is it a highly effective treatment, it will save money. It's a no-brainer so it's a good thing to do.\"\n\nIt is still cost-effective with a daily Prep pill, but it takes longer to become cost-effective. Both options are being investigated as part of the NHS England trial.\n\nThe other major unknown is the long-term cost of the drugs, which may fall as cheaper alternatives become available.\n\nDr Michael Brady, medical director at the Terrence Higgins Trust, said: \"It is important that all who need Prep can access it, and evidence like this reinforces the need for Prep to be fully commissioned and given a long-term, sustainable home on the NHS in England.\"\n\nDr Paul Revill, from the centre of health economics at the University of York, said the NHS needed to be \"far sighted [and] invest now and reap long-term gains\".\n\nHe added: \"With a combination of frequent HIV testing, immediate treatment, and Prep availability, there is now the prospect of bending the curve of new HIV infections downwards in a way that did not seem feasible just a few years ago.\"\n\nA spokesperson for NHS England said: \"The Lancet study makes an important contribution to the growing evidence for cost effectiveness of Prep, highlighting the factors which will determine this, such as price and duration on Prep.\"", "Christian Cole was depicted in cartoons during his time at Oxford\n\nIn a salute to a \"remarkable\" man, the University of Oxford has paid tribute to its first black student. But who was Christian Cole and what was life like for him at a time when being black at the university wasn't merely unusual, but remarkable?\n\nCole was always likely to turn heads when he arrived in Oxford to read classics.\n\nIt was 1873 and he was a 21-year-old black man from Waterloo, Sierra Leone, studying alongside young men from the elite families of Victorian England (His arrival pre-dated the institution of the university's first women's college by six years.).\n\nThe city must have appeared a daunting place for Cole, said Dr Robin Darwall-Smith, an archivist at University College Oxford.\n\n\"For a lot of people he would have been the first black African they had ever encountered,\" he said.\n\nA new plaque honouring Christian Cole can be seen in Logic Lane at University College\n\nEven understanding his colleagues might have initially been a challenge for a man used to hearing English in a Sierra Leonean dialect, according to cultural historian Pamela Roberts.\n\nThe author of Black Oxford: The Untold Stories of Oxford University's Black Scholars, she said he could have expected no special treatment.\n\n\"This was not a time of affirmative action or quotas,\" she said.\n\nLittle is known about Cole's early life in Africa, but Ms Roberts suggests a good education and his impressive intellect would have stood him in good stead.\n\nCole was the grandson of a slave and the adopted son of a Church of England minister in Sierra Leone.\n\nHe had studied at Fourah Bay College in the country's capital, Freetown. It was established by Christian missionaries in 1827 and was known as the \"Athens of West Africa\" because of its academic reputation.\n\nOxford University is working with Target Oxbridge to increase the number of black students\n\nCole was a non-collegiate student at Oxford - to help poorer students who might not be able to afford college fees, it was possible to study without being part of a college at the time.\n\nHe received an allowance from his uncle to support him, which he supplemented by tutoring and giving music lessons.\n\nThese extra commitments did not prevent Cole from making an impression on Oxford life, said Dr Darwall-Smith.\n\nHe spoke at the university's debating society, the Oxford Union, and seems to have been a well-known figure.\n\nWhen he attended Encaenia, Oxford's honorary degree-giving ceremony and a great social occasion, his presence did not go unnoticed. The Oxford Chronicle recorded there were \"three cheers for Christian Cole\" before the event.\n\n\"There would have been these visitors saying, 'gosh, who is that?' 'That is Christian Cole, he's from Sierra Leone.' 'Wow, gosh, how exotic',\" Dr Darwall-Smith said.\n\n\"Cole would have known this... but he went along. I admire him for that,\" he added.\n\nHis presence in Oxford was also documented in cartoons and he is mentioned in the diary of Anna Florence Ward, who describes spotting him on a visit to her brother, who was at Magdalen College, in June 1876.\n\nShe wrote: \"Saw Christian Cole (Coal?) also\" and then used the N-word in brackets.\n\nAfter leaving Oxford, Cole wrote a pamphlet on the Zulu War\n\nAlthough to modern eyes the diary entry is clearly racist, Dr Darwall-Smith said he felt Cole's contemporaries were \"looking out for him\".\n\nHe cites as an example an appeal started by students to help Cole financially after his uncle died.\n\nIt was supported by the master of University College George Bradley and fellow student Herbert Gladstone, the son of four-time prime minister William Ewart Gladstone.\n\nBradley went on to award Cole membership of University College after he left with his Oxford degree in 1876, and paid his college membership fee for two years.\n\nCole graduated with a fourth-class honours degree in classics, although Dr Darwall-Smith stressed that this was no failure.\n\nTeaching for non-collegiate students was not as comprehensive and very few students who did not belong to a college achieved honours degrees in this period.\n\nThe plaque was commissioned after historian Pamela Roberts suggested the idea as part of a project called Black Oxford\n\nClassics was also considered to be the toughest subject at the time.\n\nAfter leaving Oxford, Cole returned to Sierra Leone before coming back to England to join the Inner Temple in London, prior to becoming the first black African to practise law in an English court, in 1883.\n\nHe also published a poem attacking British policy in the Zulu War under the name of a \"A Negro, B.A., of University College\", in 1879.\n\nThe text was addressed to WE Gladstone MP, who he describes as his \"Master and Father in politics\".\n\nDespite his achievements and his status as the university's first black student, Cole's name is not widely known - although that could be something that will one day change.\n\nThe university has said it is a \"priority\" to broaden the range of people represented by pictures, paintings and plaques around its buildings.\n\nOxford's African Caribbean Society runs an annual conference to encourage state school pupils considering Oxford, which has been supported by grime artist Stormzy\n\nIt is part of a wider recognition the public perception of Oxford University is that it is a place for wealthy, mostly white, students, something that can deter black and ethnic minority candidates from applying.\n\nIt is a problem Tobi Thomas recognises. She was the only black undergraduate in her year at Trinity College when she arrived last September.\n\n\"There are films like The Riot Club [a depiction of a hedonistic, all-male Oxford University dining society]... I remember talking to friends who said why are you applying?\" she said.\n\nNaomi Kellman runs Target Oxbridge, a programme set up to support black students applying to Oxford and Cambridge. She said these narratives can have a \"really big impact\", which is why they introduce potential applicants to black students at Oxford in order to have those \"myths busted\".\n\nBut how did the story end for the pioneering Christian Cole?\n\nSadly, it appears he struggled to find enough work after becoming a barrister and he moved on to East Africa.\n\nInformation about his life there is \"very, very patchy\", said Ms Roberts.\n\nCole died in 1885 in Zanzibar of smallpox aged 33.\n\nAt a plaque unveiling held on Saturday, and timed to coincide with Black History Month, the master of University College Sir Ivor Crewe paid tribute to Cole's \"remarkable achievements\", and said he hoped the plaque would be \"a symbol of our continued commitment to recognising and supporting the brightest students whatever their backgrounds\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Moderate drinking by parents can have a negative impact on children, causing anxiety and disrupting bedtime routines, a study says.\n\nThe Institute of Alcohol Studies said parents do not have to regularly drink large amounts around children for them to notice changes in adults' behaviour.\n\nThree in 10 parents said they have been drunk in front of their children and five in 10 \"tipsy\", its survey found.\n\nThe institute said it was hoped the study will help inform parents.\n\n\"All parents strive to do what's best for their children, so it's important to share this research about the effects drinking can have on parenting, and what steps parents can take to protect their children,\" the institute's chief executive Katherine Brown said.\n\nThe report, \"Like sugar for adults\", uses a survey of almost 1,000 parents and their children, focus groups and experts.\n\nIn the survey, as a result of their parents drinking, 18% of children said they had felt embarrassed, 11% had felt worried and 15% said their bedtime routine had been disrupted.\n\nAlso, 7% said their parents had argued with them more than usual after drinking and 15% had asked their parents to drink less.\n\nThe children surveyed who had seen their parent tipsy or drunk were also less likely to consider the way their parent drinks alcohol as providing a positive role model for them.\n\nThe report was launched by MP Caroline Flint, who said: \"We too quickly dismiss parental drinking as harmless fun and relaxation, but this report shows that parents do not need to be regularly drinking large amounts for their children to see a change in their behaviour and experience problems.\n\n\"I'd like to see a more open conversation about this, among parents and professionals.\"\n\nViv Evans, of the Alcohol and Families Alliance, said: \"We recognise that parenting is difficult and we live in a culture which is remarkably accepting of alcohol.\n\n\"We hope that this study goes some way to supporting parents in a difficult job, and alerting us all to the importance of preventing problems with alcohol before they arise.\"\n\nAlison Douglas, chief executive of Alcohol Focus Scotland, called for \"effective action to protect children and families from alcohol that is too cheap, readily available and constantly promoted.\"", "Let me be the first to make the bad joke, to use the predictable metaphor.\n\nThere will be a sour mood over the EU summit in the next couple of days, and that's not just because of the problem with the drains that sent toxic fumes into the atmosphere at the summit building forcing the talks back to the old premises next door. (Sorry)\n\nIt will also be the sense of frustration in the air, maybe even of exasperation, and likely too a whiff of foreboding about the whole situation.\n\nOn both sides there will be spin. On both sides there is already expectation management.\n\nHere are a few things, however, that are currently true and will probably still be true by Friday lunchtime, with the slim but real chance of course that it could all get turned upside down.\n\nFirst, the UK-EU talks are significantly behind. The UK hoped that by autumn we'd be able to move onto trade talks properly. That's not going to happen, underlining the change since those heady days when Brexiteers promised it could be straightforward.\n\nSecond, there is not likely to be any answer to the main bind on Friday. The UK does not want to put any more cash on the table, beyond the 20bn euros implied by Mrs May's Florence speech.\n\nThe strongest voices in the EU, although not every country agrees, think the UK ought to have to wait for the next phase of talks unless it is willing to offer hypothetical extra cash.\n\nWhatever else is said or briefed privately, this is the fundamental issue. And until the PM feels she is in a political situation where it's possible and desirable to budge it's hard to see how they will move on as certainly, there is no appetite on the EU side for a shift.\n\nThird, something will have gone very badly wrong, however, if there is not a nudge towards moving on.\n\nSources say foreign ministers agreed the draft version of the conclusions of the summit yesterday that are not likely to change much.\n\nThey don't exactly give a green light to the next phase, but they do at least give a bit of a push in that direction - although not quite as clearly as the UK had hoped.\n\nFourth, the EU is still concerned that the UK government is yet to present a clear picture of what it really wants the long-term relationship to be. And it's still the case, sources tell me, that the full cabinet is yet to have a proper discussion that tries to find that answer.\n\nSounds extraordinary but given how divided the party is, arguably the lack of discussion is what keeps things even vaguely calm. With guns drawn in the Tory party there is no temptation for Theresa May to fire a shot.\n\nAnd there's nothing in the next couple of days, or even the next couple of months, that's likely to change that or to answer that much more fundamental question.", "Kate Cotton (right) and Louise Ferguson (left) pitching to the Dragons in 2013\n\nA self-tanning product launched with the help of investment from the Dragons' Den panel has been found to mislead customers.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) found claims by Skinny Tan that its product could \"tone\" or give \"less visible cellulite\" could not be proven.\n\nClaims that the product was 100% natural were also found to be misleading.\n\nThe ASA says the company's adverts must not appear again in their current form.\n\nSkinny Tan launched in the UK in 2013, after company founders Louise Ferguson and Kate Cotton appeared on Dragons' Den, winning £60,000 of financial backing from panellists Piers Linney and Kelly Hoppen.\n\nDragons Kelly Hoppen (second left) and Piers Linney (second right) invested in the brand\n\nThe Essex-born entrepreneurs had all five Dragons vying to invest in their business, which claimed it was the first self-tanner made of natural ingredients and could reduce the appearance of cellulite.\n\nHowever beauty rivals PZ Cussons complained to the ASA about adverts appearing on Skinny Tan's website and their Facebook page.\n\nThe Dragons' Den-backed company had made a number of claims, including that it was the number one self-tanning product in the UK and could \"tone\" women.\n\nDespite saying the natural guarana in the product would \"help make cellulite look visibly smoother and less obvious\". the product was not found to have any physiological effects which would achieve this.\n\nSkinny Tan, which was bought by beauty giant InnovaDerma in 2015, defended its cellulite-reduction claims, saying it was \"commonly believed that tanning could make you look thinner\".\n\nThe company said its claims were only in regard to the \"cosmetic effect of the tan\" and not any physiological effects of the product.\n\nIn addition, Skinny Tan was found to give the misleading impression that it did not contain any of the agent DHA - the main colouring agent in tanning lotions which has a distinctive smell.\n\nSkinny Tan claimed without the chemical DHA, their product smelt better than other self-tanning products.\n\nBut it was found that Skinny Tan contains the same DHA as other brands and smells no different.\n\nThe claims to be all-natural and the UK's number one self-tanning brand were also found to be misleading by the ASA.\n\nInnovaDerma acknowledged the ASA's ruling, adding: \"This relates to online advertising in 2016 that was subsequently removed and the company is working with the ASA to ensure all online presence is ASA compliant.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The killing of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in a car bomb has left Malta in shock.\n\nOn one hand, it caused alarm that organised crime and political vendettas may have spiralled out of control. Caruana Galizia, 53, had relentlessly accused various Maltese politicians and other officials of corruption in her popular Running Commentary blog, and had been sued several times.\n\nBut her death near her home in Bidnija, a village in northern Malta, on Monday also represented the loss of \"one of Malta's most important, visible, fearless journalists\", in the words of former Home Affairs Minister Louis Galea.\n\nIn a career spanning more than 30 years Caruana Galizia was a pioneer of investigative journalism in Malta, said the Malta Independent newspaper.\n\n\"She was very reserved, almost shy, but had the strongest of standards on personal integrity, and held herself to those standards,\" a close friend of hers, lawyer Andrew Borg Cardona, told the BBC.\n\nBorn in Sliema on the northeast coast of Malta in 1964, Caruana Galizia grew up in \"normal, middle-class\" family, says Mr Cardona.\n\nHer father had a lift services business and briefly entered politics as a liberal.\n\nShe was a voracious reader and got an archaeology degree from the University of Malta.\n\nBefore launching her blog Caruana Galizia was a regular columnist for The Sunday Times of Malta, then for The Malta Independent.\n\nShe also wrote and edited lifestyle magazine articles, such as \"fluffy food and drink features\", Mr Cardona said.\n\n\"She made a living out of that\", he said, adding: \"the blog didn't pay the rent\".\n\nBut she became known as one of Malta's most influential writers, says Herman Grech, Times of Malta online editor. \"An impeccable writer and investigative journalist\" is how he describes her.\n\nThousands mourned the journalist in a silent, candle-lit vigil near Valletta\n\nCaruana Galizia's blog mainly attacked ruling Labour Party politicians and their supporters, but sometimes also officials of the centre-right Nationalist Party.\n\nShe alleged that the wife of Maltese PM Joseph Muscat was the beneficial owner of a secret Panama company used to channel funds from Azerbaijan's ruling Aliyev family.\n\nMr Muscat and his wife vehemently denied any wrongdoing. But after the scandal erupted he called a snap election, which he won in June.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Debris was strewn over the road and a nearby field\n\nAccording to the Panama Papers revelations, two of Mr Muscat's close associates - Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri - were also involved in secret offshore business.\n\nCondemning her death, Mr Muscat said: \"Everyone knows Caruana Galizia was a harsh critic of mine, both politically and personally... but nobody can justify this barbaric act in any way\".\n\n\"I will not rest until justice is done,\" he said.\n\nCaruana Galizia also criticised John Dalli, Malta's former European Commissioner, who was embroiled in a scandal over tobacco industry lobbying and lost his job as EU health policy chief.\n\nThe influential Politico website called her a crusading, \"one-woman Wikileaks\" in her role as a whistle-blower.\n\nIn December, Politico wrote that \"on a good day, Galizia gets 400,000 readers, more than the combined circulation of the country's newspapers (Malta's population is 420,000)\".\n\nThe controversy did not end with her death.\n\nInvestigators will be looking into reports in Maltese media that she told police two weeks ago that she had received threats.\n\nOpposition leader Adrian Delia - whom Caruana Galizia had also criticised - said her murder represented \"the collapse of democracy and freedom of expression\".\n\n\"We shall not be silenced,\" he added, in a tweet.\n\nMeanwhile one of her three adult sons, Matthew - also an investigative journalist - castigated the police on Facebook, accusing the authorities of negligence for failing to prevent the \"assassination\".\n\nHe called Malta \"a mafia state\" where \"a culture of impunity has been allowed to flourish by the government\".\n\nHe heard the explosion that killed her and has described running to the scene to find \"my mother's body parts all around me\".\n\nAs well as her sons, Caruana Galizia is survived by her husband, a lawyer.", "A Facebook page has been set up to help identify the victims of Somalia's deadliest terror attack in a decade as well as those still missing.\n\nA lorry full of explosives destroyed hotels, government offices and restaurants at a busy junction in the capital, Mogadishu, killing at least 281 people and injuring another 300.\n\nSomali authorities are struggling to identify the dead - leaving relatives helplessly searching for news.\n\nA group of young people have been raising money for relatives and posting pictures of the missing under the Facebook banner, Gurmad252. Gurmad means \"Come and help each other\" while 252 refers to Somalia's telephone code,\n\nThe Gurmad252 team has set up operation near the scene of the bombing\n\nPhotos are accompanied by brief information about where the person was last seen with a number to call should anyone have information.\n\nThe team, which has the backing of the government, is also posting the names of those who are being treated in hospital.\n\nIt is unlikely we will ever know the identities of everyone who died in the 14 October Mogadishu attack. But this is what we know so far.\n\nA medical student at Benadir University in Mogadishu, Maryam Abduallahi, 25, was preparing to graduate on Sunday.\n\nHer father, who lives in the UK, had travelled especially to Somalia for her graduation, but ended up attending her funeral.\n\nMaryam's sister Anfa'a Abdullahi Mohamed told the BBC Somali Service that she had tried to reach her sister after the explosion.\n\n\"I called her number after the explosion, no-one answered.\n\n\"I called back and a young man answered and said, 'Your sister is dead and her body is at Safari Hotel. May Allah have mercy on you.'\n\n\"Our family is saddened. My parents are most distressed. May God make their hearts strong,\" she said.\n\nHer older sister had been a role model who liked helping people at the hospital where she worked and at the university, she added.\n\n\"She was planning to start training at a mother and baby clinic after her university graduation. She had ambition.\"\n\nFa'iso Hassan Ali, 24, had a shop next to Safari Hotel, which was destroyed in the explosion.\n\nHer family have been looking for her since Saturday.\n\nOmar Haji Mohamed has appealed for information about two of his children, a son and daughter, who are thought to have died in the explosion.\n\nOmar Haji Mohamed has been unable to find son and daughter\n\nThey were at the family's shop in Soobe, the area where the attack happened, and have not been seen since.\n\nMr Mohamed has been moving between hospitals and help centres, but has not found them amongst the injured.\n\nA public transport conductor, Suleiman Nuur Ali, 29, had been at work on Saturday in Soobe.\n\nHe has not been seen since the attack.\n\n\"Please if you get him dead or injured, contact us,\" a message from his family says.\n\nBureeqo Abdullahi Adan, 17, was known to be travelling on a bus when the blast happened.\n\nHer relatives are asking for any information.\n\nAbdi Abiid was also last seen in Soobe. The area is near Somalia's CID headquarters and foreign ministry.\n\nHis family have not heard from him since Saturday.\n\nAccording to the director of a Mogadishu ambulance service, 15 primary school children were among those who died.\n\nAbdulkadir Adam told the Associated Press news agency that they had been on a school bus when the lorry exploded.\n\nFreelance cameraman Ali Nur Siad was killed while working for Voice of America, the news agency has said.\n\n\"On behalf of the entire agency, my deepest condolences go out to Mr Siad's family,\" said VOA Director Amanda Bennett.\n\nVOA reporter Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdulle was among those wounded in the attack. He suffered a broken hand, widespread burns and shrapnel wounds to his head and neck. He is receiving medical care in Turkey, the agency said.\n\nAmid all the sorrow and despair, Gurmad252 has found some good news to share. A young woman who had been reported missing has been found alive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Gurmad252 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John was devastated when his son Archie was taken into care\n\nWhen John's son was placed into care at birth he was distraught - his drug abuse had been the cause. But with the help of a family court focused on reuniting children with their parents, his life began to change.\n\n\"Not only was I using heroin, I was using crack, I was using prescription drugs, I was using alcohol - and I was homeless.\"\n\nJohn, who is 49, is candid when it comes to talking about his past addictions.\n\nHe started experimenting around the age of 14, and continued the habit during the birth of his two children - both with women who were also addicts.\n\nIt meant he didn't see his first child Daniella for long periods of time - at one stage as much as two years.\n\nHe says he and the mother \"really tried to do normal life, but it didn't really work.\n\n\"It was a combination of the drugs and the lifestyle that went with that. Trying to be a parent, hold down a job - it wasn't doable,\" he explains.\n\nArchie was taken into foster care from birth\n\nWhen Daniella was 10, John found himself preparing for the birth of another child - his son, Archie, with another addict who had already had several children put into care.\n\nHe began looking for a place to live - having been homeless at the time - but failed to tackle the underlying drug problem.\n\nAfter Archie was born, he was monitored in hospital to see if he had grown dependent on the heroin substitute his mother had taken during pregnancy. Then, he was immediately placed into foster care.\n\nAs John recalls this devastating period, he asks for a moment to compose himself, leaving his chair as he wipes away the tears.\n\nOnce he's ready to continue, he says it was seeing his son enter the care system that made him realise how out of hand his own life had become.\n\n\"That's when I knew this is serious, really serious.\"\n\nJohn was assigned to a type of family court specifically designed to help parents keep their children, known as the Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC).\n\nIts aim is to place parents at the centre of the process - speaking to them directly rather than through lawyers, and having regular two-week sessions with the same judge.\n\nSocial workers and psychiatrists, as well as experts in substance misuse, domestic violence, finance and housing, are also available.\n\nWatch Catrin Nye's full film about the Family Drug and Alcohol Court on the Victoria Derbyshire website.\n\nIt was founded in 2008 by Judge Nicholas Crichton after years of seeing families being broken up by court rulings.\n\n\"I often think it must be terrifying for a parent to have to come to [a traditional] court knowing at the end of the proceedings they may well lose their children,\" he says.\n\nFDAC's task can, however, be substantial.\n\n\"I have seen mothers who have been heroin addicted from the age of 10, children who sleep on urine-sodden beds, where no-one has bothered to bath them or feed them properly,\" Judge Crichton explains, running through some of the cases he has seen.\n\nDr Mike Shaw says the effect FDAC can have by reuniting families justifies the cost of the service\n\nFor John, this approach made \"total sense\" - helping him to tackle \"the problem that was right at the front\".\n\nFDAC helped him to arrange detox classes to combat his addiction, followed by a day programme.\n\nThe court is now receiving a further £6.2m of government money over seven years, through a complex financing structure - something called a \"social impact bond\" or \"pay-for-success financing\".\n\nPrivate investors will pay the upfront costs and if the process works they make a profit - being paid back by the local authority and the government.\n\nIf it fails, they will not receive that money.\n\nDr Mike Shaw, a child psychiatrist and co-director of FDAC National Unit, concedes that it makes the process more complex, but says it will ensure the service strives for the best outcome.\n\nBut its work does come at an inflated price.\n\nEach intervention costs around £13,000 a year, he suggests, compared to £5,000 for standard care proceedings.\n\nHe says, however, that the overall cost of care proceedings might in some cases be as much as £100,000.\n\nMinister for Sport and Civil Society, Tracey Crouch, says the additional FDAC funding will \"benefit some of the most vulnerable people in society\" and \"achieve real results in communities across the country\".\n\nAt one stage, John went as long as two years without seeing his daughter Daniella\n\nJohn's intervention lasted around 16 months - at which point he estimates he had been clean for a year.\n\nHis son Archie, now aged eight, lives with him permanently, and he says he's rebuilding his relationship with Daniella - who's now 18.\n\nA 2016 study by the University of Lancaster, commissioned by the Department for Education, suggested that others have successful outcomes from FDAC too.\n\nIt found 37% of families were reunited or continued to live together at the end of proceedings - compared to 25% of those who go through ordinary family courts.\n\nHowever, the sample group was relatively small - 240 families in all.\n\nJohn says he is now \"trying to make up for lost time\" with Daniella, who smiles as he says it.\n\nHe is grateful for the opportunity.\n\n\"I've got two children, I work, I pay my bills, I do lots of fun stuff,\" he says.\n\n\"The way I live my life today is totally different from who I was nearly eight years ago.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.", "Bodyform has become the first brand in the UK to feature sanitary pads stained with red liquid, rather than blue, in its adverts.\n\nParent company Essity said it wanted to confront taboos surrounding periods.\n\nThe firm says research found 74% of people wanted to see more honest representation in adverts.\n\nBodyform's video campaign, #bloodnormal, shows a woman in the shower with blood running down her thigh and a man buying sanitary towels.\n\nIt follows a 2016 advert where sportswomen were shown muddy and bloodied while doing activities like bike riding, boxing and running.\n\nWith the slogan \"no blood should hold us back\", it featured a sanitary towel on a TV advert for the first time.\n\nThe new advert features a woman in the shower\n\nSanitary brands and adverts have traditionally opted to use blue liquid in order to represent how much moisture their pads can hold.\n\nThe new campaign has been mostly well received.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Nyla This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Sophie Weaver This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEssity, the company which makes Bodyform, said it wanted to \"challenge the stigma around periods\".\n\nTanja Grubna said: \"We believe that like any other taboo, the more people see it, the more normal the subject becomes.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the wines of Canadian winemaker Norman Hardie are winning fans around the world.\n\nWith winter temperatures regularly dipping below -25C at his vineyard, winemaker Norman Hardie definitely didn't choose an easy place to grow his grapes.\n\n\"Minus 25 is the absolute death knell for vitis vinifera [the common grape vine], we actually have to bury our vines in the winter [to protect them]. It's a huge job,\" says the 51-year-old.\n\n\"And then we can get snap spring frosts that can quickly ruin a crop. We lost more than 80% in 2015.\"\n\nWhile most of us associate winemaking with warm countries, Mr Hardie has since 2004 been making wine in… Canada.\n\nNorman Hardie Winery is currently continuing with its 2017 harvest\n\nBased in picturesque Prince Edward County, Ontario, a two-hour drive east of Toronto alongside Lake Ontario, the summers are more often glorious.\n\nThe winters, on the other hand, are harsh, which means that the team at Norman Hardie Winery face a race against the cold weather every November.\n\n\"I have 80,000 plants today, so that is almost a quarter of a million canes [the vine's branches] that we have to tie down by hand, and then cover with a mound of earth,\" says Norman.\n\n\"Before we then carefully open up and untie in the spring.\"\n\nIf that wasn't labour intensive enough, come April and May Norman and his team have to light fires and position wind turbines to try to drive away late frosts. But sometimes, such as in 2015, they just aren't that successful.\n\nNorman Hardie says that Canada's cool weather helps him to make excellent wine\n\nUp against such challenges, you might question why Norman ever chose to plant vineyards and build a winery in Ontario. He says that despite the challenges, the combination of cool weather and the clay and limestone soil of Prince Edward County allow him to make world class wines.\n\n\"The great wines are always made on the edge, and we're certainly on the edge,\" says South African-born Norman, who prior to going into winemaking had been a sommelier (wine waiter) in Toronto.\n\n\"I'd rather be here than anywhere else in the world because the flavours we get out of these soils are unique.\"\n\nWhile many wine regions around the world have cold winters, they aren't as cold as Canada's\n\nPrimarily making white wines from chardonnay and red wines from pinot noir, Norman Hardie's wines now have a cult following in Canada, and are even said to be the favourite tipples of Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau.\n\nBut from day one, Norman - who studied winemaking in Burgundy, Oregon, California, South Africa, and New Zealand prior to establishing his own winery - wanted his wines to be sold internationally.\n\nThis brought his next big challenge - how to persuade a sceptical world to take Canadian wine seriously, when even Norman admits that 30 years ago the country made \"terrible wine\".\n\nNorman's solution was to turn himself into a travelling salesman, and build up his wine's global reputation \"one top sommelier one top buyer, and one top wine journalist, at a time… flying around the world, pounding the pavement, speaking to people, changing people's ideas about Canada\".\n\nSo attending wine fairs, visiting wine importers, and knocking on the doors of Michelin-star restaurants, he started to slowly build up export orders.\n\nThis is the first feature of a new 20-week series called Connected Commerce, which highlights companies around the world that are successfully exporting, and trading beyond their home market.\n\nFocusing particularly on the UK and New York, Norman says his personal, face-to-face approach enabled him to let some of the most influential people in the global wine world \"understand what we're doing, why we're doing it, and how we are doing it\".\n\nHe adds: \"You can only do that with face time, and once you have them they are your evangelists.\"\n\nFrom selling 6,000 bottles in 2004, Norman Hardy Winery produced 240,000 in 2016. From that 6,804 bottles were exported across eight countries - China, Denmark, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, Taiwan, the UK, and the US.\n\nAnd he still is regularly overseas promoting his wines, including spending five to six days every year in the UK.\n\nBack at the winery, there are now six year-round employees, rising to 50 in the busy summer months and at harvest time in late September and October. The business now has annual revenues of 4.1m Canadian dollars ($3.3m; £2.5m).\n\nJohn Downes, a London-based wine expert, who has the top master of wine qualification, says that Norman was right to recognise the fact that as Canada is such a little known wine region he had to do a lot of marketing work to \"stand out\" on the global stage.\n\nPrince Edward County is now home to 40 wineries\n\nMr Downes adds: \"A lot of people in wine don't tell stories, they say 'here's my wine what do you think about it?'.\n\n\"But they don't tell the story behind the wine, and that gives the picture of the wine to the consumer. Norman does that very well.\"\n\nWhile exporting wine is not without its challenges, such as the need to produce different labels for each country, Norman says that building up a vibrant export business has also boosted his sales in Canada.\n\nNow preparing to bury the vines for another winter, Norman says: \"That credibility, that international credibility, says you're doing something right.\"", "A poem about death written by comedian Sean Hughes 23 years ago has resurfaced on social media as a poignant tribute.\n\nThe poem, published in Sean's Book in 1994, is titled Death and lays out a list of things he wanted to happen after he passed away.\n\nHe said he wanted people at his funeral to \"have a laugh, a dance, meet a loved one\". He also said he wanted people to say: \"I didn't know him but cheers\".\n\nThe former Never Mind the Buzzcocks captain died on Monday aged 51.\n\nOne fan dug out the poem from his book and posted it on Twitter after Hughes's death.\n\nI know how boring funerals can be\n\nI want people to have free drink all night.\n\nI want people to patch together, half truths.\n\nI want people to contradict each other\n\nI want them to say 'I didn't know him but cheers'\n\nadding more pain to their life.\n\nI want the Guardian to mis-sprint three lines about me\n\nor to be mentioned on the news\n\nJust before the 'parrot who loves Brookside' story.\n\nI want to have my ashes scattered in a bar,\n\non the floor, mingle with sawdust,\n\nWill trample over me… again\n\nTaken from Sean's Book by Sean Hughes, published by Pavilion Books\n\nSean appeared on Pointless Celebrities last year with Rhona Cameron\n\nThe London-born Irish comedian died in hospital in London. He was a team captain on BBC Two's Never Mind The Buzzcocks between 1996 and 2002.\n\nHe became the youngest winner of the Edinburgh Festival's Perrier Award (now known as the Edinburgh Comedy Award) in 1990 at the age of 24.\n\nComedians including Jack Dee, Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves), Sarah Millican, Katy Brand and Richard Herring were among those to pay tribute to him on Monday.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTesco has announced it will start selling green satsumas and clementines, as part of plans to cut food waste.\n\nThe supermarket chain says the green oranges are \"perfectly ripe\" and will be as sweet as orange-coloured ones.\n\nHigher early season temperatures in Spain have slowed down the natural process by which the skin of the fruit turns orange.\n\nOther UK supermarkets have also branched out to sell less-than-perfect produce.\n\nIn the past, retailers have been criticised for being too fussy. This has led to farmers throwing away large amounts of perfectly edible fruit and vegetables.\n\nSatsumas and clementines actually grow as green fruit to begin with, and the skin only turns to orange as summer wanes and the nights cool.\n\nHowever, in recent years, warmer temperatures during the early growing season for satsumas in September and October have continued to remain high into the autumn, thus delaying the natural process by which the fruit turns orange.\n\nTesco launched the Perfectly Imperfect range in March 2016, which features apples, pears, potatoes, parsnips, cucumbers, courgettes, strawberries and frozen mixed berries.\n\nDon't be put off by the colour - Tesco says these satsumas are just as ripe as orange-coloured ones\n\nTesco's aim is that no food safe for human consumption will go to waste from its UK outlets by the end of 2017.\n\n\"Key to encouraging consumers to buy these is communicating - for example, prominently at the point of sale - that the satsumas are ripe and shoppers can expect the same taste they are used to, perhaps even by offering tasters,\" Kiti Soininen, Mintel's head of UK food and drink research, told the BBC.\n\n\"From international examples, the success stories for initiatives to cut food waste by embracing 'ugly' fruit and vegetables have been the ones helping shoppers understand what to expect from the taste and quality of the food, and reassuring them that 'ugly' doesn't mean that the fruit and vegetables wouldn't still taste great.\"", "A woman (middle) travelling from Jordan on a Yemeni passport arrives in Los Angeles, California\n\nUS President Donald Trump's latest bid to impose travel restrictions on citizens from eight countries entering the US has suffered a court defeat.\n\nA federal judge slapped a temporary restraining order on the open-ended ban before it could take effect this week.\n\nThe policy targets Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Chad and North Korea, as well as some Venezuelan officials.\n\nPrevious iterations of the ban targeted six Muslim-majority countries, and were widely referred to as a \"Muslim ban\".\n\nThe state of Hawaii sued in Honolulu to block Mr Trump's third version, which was set to go into effect early on Wednesday.\n\nHawaii argued in court documents that the revised policy was fulfilling Mr Trump's campaign promise for \"a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States\", despite the addition of North Korea and Venezuela.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt also argued the president did not have the powers under federal immigration law to impose such restrictions.\n\nUS District Judge Derrick Watson, who blocked Mr Trump's last travel ban in March, issued the new restraining order.\n\nThe president's controversial travel bans have each been frustrated by the courts to some degree:\n\nIn Hawaii, Judge Watson decided that the new policy \"suffers from precisely the same maladies as its predecessor\".\n\nHe said \"it lacks sufficient findings that the entry of more than 150 million nationals from six [of the] specified countries would be 'detrimental to the interests of the United States'\".\n\nHis decision temporarily blocks the ban on all targeted countries except North Korea and Venezuela.\n\nThe ban is also facing court challenges from Maryland, Washington state, Massachusetts, California, Oregon and New York.\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement the latest court order was \"dangerously flawed\" and \"undercuts\" efforts to keep Americans safe.\n\n\"These restrictions are vital to ensuring that foreign nations comply with the minimum security standards required for the integrity of our immigration system and the security of our nation,\" she said.\n\nShe said the White House was confident the president's \"lawful and necessary action\" would eventually be upheld by the courts.\n\nAs it stands, the Supreme Court has delayed its consideration of the case from October, asking all parties to resubmit briefs to the court accounting for the changes made between the second and third versions of the order.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video shown in court to display how accused man could have tampered with wife's parachute\n\nJurors in the trial of a man accused of tampering with his wife's parachute have been shown videos of how the alleged sabotage could have taken place in a toilet in just over five minutes.\n\nVictoria Cilliers, 40, suffered multiple injuries in a 4,000ft fall at Netheravon Airfield, Wiltshire in 2015.\n\nEmile Cilliers, 37, denies attempting to murder his former Army officer wife.\n\nTwo videos of a parachute expert showing how the sabotage could be done were played at Winchester Crown Court.\n\nProsecutors allege Mr Cilliers, of the Royal Army Physical Training Corps in Aldershot, twisted the lines of his wife's main parachute and removed two slinks - which attach lines to the harness from a reserve chute - on the day before her jump.\n\nThe army fitness instructor is also accused of a third charge of damaging a gas valve at their home a few days earlier, in the second allegation that he attempted to kill his wife. He denies all three charges.\n\nThe army fitness instructor denies attempting to murder Victoria Cilliers in April 2015\n\nThe court has heard that Mr Cilliers allegedly took his wife's packed parachute into the hangar's toilets where he is accused of tampering with it.\n\nThe jury asked if they could be shown a demonstration of how this might have been done in the tight space of the toilet cubicle.\n\nMark Bayada, the chief instructor at Netheravon and expert witness for the prosecution, carried out the filmed demonstration using two different parachutes.\n\nMr Cilliers allegedly took his wife's packed parachute into the hangar's toilets where he is accused of tampering with it\n\nHe used one which was the same size as that used by Mrs Cilliers on the day of her near-fatal jump and another slightly larger parachute.\n\nThe court heard both sabotage demonstrations were completed in just over five minutes.\n\nMr Bayada said the tampering carried out would not be noticed in a pre-jump flight line visual check.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Neistat suggests YouTube's community of creators acts as a defence against online competitors\n\nOne of YouTube's most influential vloggers has chastised the service's leaders, claiming they are failing many of their most popular video creators.\n\nSpecifically, Casey Neistat criticised the way the platform had made it impossible for some videos to generate advertising revenue, without clearly explaining the rules to its community.\n\nOne of his own videos - an interview with Indonesia's president - was temporarily \"demonetised\" last week.\n\nYouTube has said it is listening.\n\n\"We watched Casey's video and appreciate him and the wider community voicing their concerns,\" a spokeswoman told the BBC.\n\n\"We know this has been a difficult few months, and we're working hard to improve our systems. We're making progress, but we know there is a lot more to do.\"\n\nMr Neistat has more than eight million subscribers on YouTube, who have signed up to be alerted when he posts. He has also struck a multi-million-dollar deal to create content for CNN on the platform.\n\nHe is normally viewed as being one of the leading champions of the site.\n\nBut in a video posted on Tuesday, he said he felt compelled to speak out because the level of upset among creators posed an \"existential threat to YouTube's entire business\".\n\nMr Neistat's vlog from Indonesia was demonetised until he appealed against the decision\n\nThe Google division began stripping some videos of adverts earlier in the year after several major brands suspended YouTube campaigns because their marketing clips had been attached to extremist content.\n\nTo address the problem, YouTube introduced an algorithm that determines which clips are \"family friendly\" and thus allowed to continue making money for their creators.\n\nBut Mr Neistat said the decision-making process had been badly communicated.\n\n\"There are no answers anywhere, and there's no-one telling you what's going on,\" he said.\n\n\"The thing that was most troubling for me... was the lack of communication, the lack of transparency on the part of YouTube.\"\n\n\"People are... putting the same amount of work, the same amount of energy and the same amount of expense into the content they're creating, but now they're getting paid only a fraction of what they did.\"\n\nA recent decision to demonetise creators' videos about the Las Vegas shootings had caused particular ire, Mr Neistat said, since a video featuring the chat-show host Jimmy Kimmel discussing the same incident had been allowed to continue featuring ads.\n\n\"It sort of reeks of hypocrisy, and again the community felt like a second-class citizen,\" he said.\n\nAs a rule, YouTube prevents adverts from running on videos about tragedies.\n\nBut this does not apply to clips posted by select partners - including Mr Kimmel's employer, ABC - who are allowed to sell ads themselves rather than relying on Google to do so.\n\nA recent clip of Jimmy Kimmel discussing a mass shooting in Las Vegas was allowed to show adverts\n\n\"In the specific case of tragedies, like the one in Las Vegas, we are working to not allow such partners to sell against such content,\" a YouTube spokeswoman said last week.\n\n\"We have not completed this work yet, but will soon.\"\n\nMr Neistat suggested a better alternative would be to give creators more control over whose adverts appeared alongside their clips.\n\nThe video-maker is far from being the first YouTuber to complain about the issue. But one industry-watcher said his intervention carried weight.\n\n\"People look to Casey to be not just an inspiration but also a voice for the community - he's very well respected and people do listen to what he says and follow his lead,\" said Alex Brinnand, editor of TenEighty magazine.\n\n\"The fact that he has put out this video... will help ensure his audience is aware of the issue and becomes as equally unhappy as he is.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Other YouTubers told the BBC about their frustrations last month\n\nMr Neistat highlighted that Twitter's rival video-based social network, Vine, had collapsed after its managers had disappointed several of its leading clip creators and suggested YouTube could face a similar exodus.\n\n\"When you think about Netflix or Amazon or Hulu or any of these other digital distribution platforms right now, they've all got money, they're all willing to spend money, and they're trying to figure out how to diversify their audience,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Amazon's Twitch service - which currently focuses on video-games-related live feeds - had already tempted some.\n\nTwitch began allowing users to upload pre-recorded videos a year ago and may unveil new features at its annual TwitchCon event, which begins on Friday.\n\nHowever, Mr Brinnand questioned whether the service had done enough to lure away YouTube's biggest names yet.\n\n\"For creators like Casey, I don't think at the moment that Twitch is a viable option,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a lot more geared to live or as-live content, so doesn't cater to the same audience the vloggers have with their more packaged, produced videos.\n\n\"But Twitch has laid the foundations for the future - it already offers very appealing revenue streams - and could be a contender if it develops a stronger platform for standard video.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jennifer Lawrence speaking at Elle's Women in Hollywood event in Los Angeles\n\nJennifer Lawrence has said she was made to stand in a nude line-up and told to lose weight by film producers at the start of her career.\n\nSpeaking at Elle's Women in Hollywood event, the 27-year-old said she felt she didn't have any power in the situation as an unknown actress.\n\nShe said she found that fame protected her from assault as her career went on.\n\n\"I will lend my voice to any boy, girl, man or woman who doesn't feel like they can protect themselves\", she added.\n\nThe actress, who won an Oscar in 2013 for her role in Silver Linings Playbook, told the audience about auditioning for a film and being asked by a female producer to stand in a nude line-up.\n\nShe described the experience as \"degrading and humiliating\", as she was put next to girls she says were thinner than her.\n\nJennifer Lawrence speaking to Laura Dem at the Elle celebration\n\n\"When I was much younger and starting out, I was told by producers of a film to lose 15 pounds in two weeks.\n\n\"One girl before me had already been fired for not losing the weight fast enough,\" she told an audience including Kristen Stewart, Margot Robbie and Ashley Greene.\n\n\"During this time a female producer had me do a nude line-up with about five women who were much, much, thinner than me. We all stood side by side with only tape on covering our privates.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Carly Mallenbaum This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLawrence said the producer then told her she should \"use the naked photos\" of herself as \"inspiration\" for her diet.\n\nShe then went to complain to another producer about being called out over her weight.\n\n\"He said he didn't know why everyone thought I was so fat,\" Lawrence told the crowd, adding that he had commented that he thought she was attractive enough to sleep with.\n\nThe actress said she felt \"trapped\" by the experience and allowed the harassment to happen because she \"didn't want to be a whistleblower\" and thought it was what she had to do to further her career in Hollywood.\n\nShe told the audience: \"In a dream world, everyone is treated with the exact same level of respect.\n\n\"But, until we reach that goal, I will lend my ear. I will lend my voice to any boy, girl, man, or woman who does not feel like they can protect themselves.\"\n\nJennifer Lawrence with Harvey Weinstein at the GLAAD Media Awards in 2013\n\nLawrence's speech comes after the sexual harassment and assault accusations against film producer Harvey Weinstein, which has lead to a growing narrative on the mistreatment of women in the film industry and Hollywood in particular.\n\nLawrence worked with Weinstein on Silver Linings Playbook. She released a statement last week in response, which said: \"This kind of abuse is inexcusable and absolutely upsetting.\n\n\"I worked with Harvey five years ago and I did not experience any form of harassment personally, nor did I know about any of these allegations.\"\n\nLawrence said in her speech it was time for people in Hollywood to \"stop normalising these horrific situations.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Weinstein resigned from the board of directors of his eponymous film production company.\n\nHe has been accused of rape, sexual assault and harassment, but has \"unequivocally denied\" any allegations of non-consensual sex.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC China editor Carrie Gracie has a look at the Communist Party messages all over Beijing\n\nChina has entered a \"new era\" where it should \"take centre stage in the world\", President Xi Jinping says.\n\nThe country's rapid progress under \"socialism with Chinese characteristics\" shows there is \"a new choice for other countries\", he told the Communist Party congress.\n\nThe closed-door summit determines who rules China and the country's direction for the next term.\n\nMr Xi has been consolidating power and is expected to remain as party chief.\n\nThe congress, which takes place once every five years, will finish on Tuesday. More than 2,000 delegates are attending the event, which is taking place under tight security.\n\nShortly after the congress ends, the party is expected to unveil the new members of China's top decision-making body, the Politburo Standing Committee, who will steer the country.\n\nMr Xi addressed the delegates at the start of the week-long meeting\n\nListing China's recent achievements in his three-hour speech, Mr Xi said that \"socialism with Chinese characteristics in this new era\" meant China had now \"become a great power in the world\", and had played \"an important role in the history of humankind\".\n\nThe Chinese model of growth under Communist rule was \"flourishing\", he said, and had given \"a new choice\" to other developing countries.\n\n\"It is time for us to take centre stage in the world and to make a greater contribution to humankind,\" he added.\n\nSince Mr Xi took power in 2012, China's economy has continued to grow rapidly. But correspondents say the country has also become more authoritarian, with increasing censorship and arrests of lawyers and activists.\n\nXi Jinping is a much more assertive leader than his recent predecessors. In a long and confident speech, he looked back on his first five years in office, saying the party had achieved miracles and China's international standing had grown.\n\nBut the most striking thing in his mission statement was ideological confidence. Recently Party media have talked of crisis and chaos in western democracies compared to strength and unity in China.\n\nToday Xi Jinping said he would not copy foreign political systems and that the Communist Party must oppose anything that would undermine its leadership of China.\n\nIn his speech, Mr Xi also:\n\nHe also introduced measures to increase party discipline, and touched on his wide-reaching corruption crackdown that has punished more than a million officials, report BBC correspondents in Beijing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Carrie Gracie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by John Sudworth This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBeijing is decked out in welcome banners and festive displays for the congress.\n\nHowever, the capital is also on high alert. Long queues were seen earlier this week at railway stations due to additional checks at transport hubs.\n\nThe congress has also affected businesses, with some restaurants, gyms, nightclubs and karaoke bars reportedly shutting down due to tightened security rules.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn austerity drive, instituted by Mr Xi, has meant a more pared down congress, with reports this week of delegates' hotels cutting back on frills such as decorations, free fruit in rooms and lavish meals.\n\nMeanwhile, state media have said the Party is expected to rewrite its constitution to include Mr Xi's \"work report\" or political thoughts, which would elevate him to the status of previous Party giants Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.\n\nSome see Mr Xi as accruing more power than any leader since Mao, and the congress will be watched closely for clues on how much control now rests in the hands of just one man, says the BBC's John Sudworth.\n\nMr Xi has tightened control within the Party and also in Chinese society, but continues to enjoy widespread support among ordinary citizens.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. MI5 chief Andrew Parker: 'Over 3,000 extremists in the UK'\n\nThe UK's intelligence services are facing an \"intense\" challenge from terrorism, the head of MI5 has warned.\n\nAndrew Parker said there was currently \"more terrorist activity coming at us, more quickly\" and that it can also be \"harder to detect\".\n\nThe UK has suffered five terror attacks this year, and he said MI5 staff had been \"deeply affected\" by them.\n\nHe added that more than 130 Britons who travelled to Iraq and Syria to fight with so-called Islamic State had died.\n\nMI5 was running 500 live operations involving 3,000 individuals involved in extremist activity in some way, he said.\n\nSpeaking in London, Mr Parker said the tempo of counter-terrorism operations was the highest he had seen in his 34-year career at MI5.\n\nTwenty attacks had been foiled in the last four years, including seven in the last seven months, he said - all related to what he called Islamist extremism.\n\nThe five attacks that got through this year included a suicide bomb attack after an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena in May, killing 22.\n\nFive people were also killed in April during an attack near the Houses of Parliament, while eight people were killed when three attackers drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and launched a knife attack in Borough Market.\n\nA man then drove a van into a crowd of worshippers near a mosque in north London in June, while a homemade bomb partially exploded in tube train at Parsons Green station last month, injuring 30 people.\n\nIn some cases, individuals like Khuram Butt - who was behind the London Bridge attack - were well known to MI5 and had been under investigation by the security services.\n\nPeople left flowers in Manchester city centre after the Manchester Arena attack\n\nMr Parker was asked what was the point of MI5 surveillance when someone who had made \"no secret of his affiliations with jihadist extremism\" had then been allowed to go on to launch a deadly attack.\n\nHe said the risk from each individual was assessed on a \"daily and weekly basis\" and then prioritised \"accordingly\".\n\n\"One of the main challenges we've got is that we only ever have fragments of information, and we have to try to assemble a picture of what might happen, based on those fragments.\"\n\nHe said the likelihood was that when an attacked happened, it would be carried out by someone \"that we know or have known\" - otherwise it would mean they had been looking \"in completely the wrong place\".\n\nAnd he said staff at MI5 were deeply affected on a \"personal and professional\" level when they did happen.\n\n\"They are constantly making tough professional judgements based on fragments of intelligence; pinpricks of light against a dark and shifting canvas.\"\n\nMr Parker said they were trying to \"squeeze every drop of learning\" from recent incidents.\n\nIn the wake of attacks in the UK, there had been some, including some in the Home Office, who questioned whether the counter-terrorist machine - featuring all three intelligence agencies and the police, and with MI5 at its heart - was functioning as effectively as previously thought.\n\nHowever, there was no indication of a fundamental change in direction in his remarks, with a focus on the scale of the threat making stopping all plots impossible.\n\n\"We have to be careful that we do not find ourselves held to some kind of perfect standard of 100%, because that is not achievable,\" he said.\n\n\"Attacks can sometimes accelerate from inception through planning to action in just a handful of days.\n\n\"This pace, together with the way extremists can exploit safe spaces online, can make threats harder to detect and give us a smaller window to intervene.\"\n\nMany Britons still fighting in Syria and Iraq may not now return, Andrew Parker said\n\nHe renewed the call for more co-operation from technology companies.\n\nTechnology was \"not the enemy,\" he added, but said companies had a responsibility to deal with the side effects and \"dark edges\" created by the products they produced.\n\nIn particular, he pointed to online purchasing of goods - such as chemicals - as well as the presence of extremist content on social media and encrypted communications.\n\nHe said more than 800 individuals had left the UK for Syria and Iraq.\n\nSome had then returned, often many years ago, and had been subject to risk assessment. Mr Parker revealed at least 130 had been killed in conflict.\n\nFewer than expected had returned recently, he said, adding that those who were still in Syria and Iraq may not now attempt to come back because they knew they might be arrested.\n\nMr Parker stressed that international co-operation remained vital and revealed there was a joint operational centre for counter-terrorism based in the Netherlands, where security service officers from a range of countries worked together and shared data.\n\nThis had led to 12 arrests in Europe, he added.\n\nIn terms of state threats, Mr Parker said the range of clandestine activity conducted by foreign states - including Russia - went from aggressive cyber-attack, through to traditional espionage and the risk of assassination of individuals.\n\nHowever, he said the UK had strong defences against such activity.", "The team on Crimewatch have been working with the public to solve cases for 33 years\n\nAfter 33 years of appeals and reconstructions, Crimewatch will be hanging up its phone lines for the last time as the BBC axes the ground-breaking programme.\n\nThe BBC One institution called on the public to help solve some of the UK's biggest crimes and people would call in their droves with anything they thought could help.\n\nAnd help they did, with some very high profile cases being solved thanks to the prime time programme.\n\nWe take a look at some of the most prominent stories featured on Crimewatch and how its viewers helped secure convictions.\n\nJames Bulger was two-years-old when he was murdered by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson in 1993\n\nTwo-year-old James Bulger was snatched from a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside, on 12 February 1993 whilst out with his mother.\n\nHe was taken by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who were just 10 years old themselves.\n\nCCTV showed the pair leading James away by his hand. Soon after, they beat him with bricks and iron bars, before leaving his body on a railway line.\n\nIt took two days before police discovered the toddler's body.\n\nAfter the footage was shown on Crimewatch, the two boys were identified by viewers, and convicted of James' murder in November 1993.\n\nSarah Payne disappeared when walking back from her grandparents' house in 2000\n\nThe disappearance of eight-year-old Sarah Payne on 1 July 2000 led to 16 days of frantic searching before her body was discovered.\n\nSarah had been walking home from her grandparents' house through a field in Kingston Gorse, West Sussex, when she went missing, and was never seen alive again.\n\nCrimewatch carried out two appeals and in both rounds, Roy Whiting was named as a prime suspect.\n\nFibres from a patterned curtain were found on Sarah's shoe and a viewer recognised the fabric, as she had left it in a van her boyfriend sold to Whiting.\n\nIn 2001, Whiting was convicted of the murder and sentenced to life in prison.\n\nThe motorway surrounding the capital became the focus of a manhunt in 2001 and 2002 when a number of attacks were carried out on women.\n\nThe incidents took place in Kent, Surrey, London and the Thames Valley, and included a victim as young as 10.\n\nAn e-fit picture was shown on Crimewatch in October 2002 to try to track down the serial sexual attacker.\n\nA viewer recognised the face and directed police to Antoni Imiela.\n\nHe was originally called the Trophy Rapist, as he took items of clothing from the victims as souvenirs.\n\nThe 50-year-old was sent to prison for a minimum of 99 years for his crimes, which included seven rapes, kidnap, indecent assault and attempted rape.\n\nLin Russell (left) and her daughter Megan were killed when Michael Stone attacked them with a hammer in 1996\n\nLin Russell was on a walk in Nonington, Kent, with her two daughters - nine-year-old Josie and six-year-old Megan - when they were attacked by a man with a hammer on 9 July 1996.\n\nJosie was left for dead, but managed to survive. However, her mother and sister were both killed.\n\nCrimewatch showed a reconstruction of the attack in September and presented the public with an e-fit of the perpetrator.\n\nA year on from the crime, the programme made a further appeal for people who worked in mental health who might have been able to help.\n\nAmong 600 calls from the public, one proved to be the key to solving the case and Michael Stone was arrested before being convicted of both murders.\n\nJulie Dart was just 18 when she was murdered in Leeds by Michael Sams\n\nEstate agent Stephanie Slater suffered an horrific ordeal in January 1992 when showing someone around a house.\n\nThe 25-year-old was attacked before being blindfolded and hidden in a coffin for eight days in Newark, Nottinghamshire.\n\nA ransom was paid for her release.\n\nAfter hearing her describe her attacker, the police believed he may have had links to the murder of teenager Julie Dart the year before in Leeds.\n\nCrimewatch broadcast a recording of the kidnapper's voice, which was heard by his ex-wife. She came forward.\n\nAs a result, Michael Sams was arrested and convicted for both the kidnapping and murder.\n\nThe murder of TV presenter Jill Dando in 1999 remains unsolved\n\nFor all of Crimewatch's success stories, there are still cases that remain unsolved, and perhaps none as closely linked to the show as that of Jill Dando.\n\nThe TV presenter had been working on the programme since 1995 and gained high praise, including being awarded the BBC Personality of the Year award in 1997.\n\nBut in 1999, the 37-year-old was shot in the head on her doorstep in Fulham, west London.\n\nHer case was then featured on the show she had presented for four years.\n\nLocal man Barry George was convicted of her murder in 2001 and sentenced to life imprisonment. However, his conviction was quashed after he appealed against it for the third time, and a second trial ended in his acquittal.\n\nThe question of who murdered Ms Dando has remained unanswered.", "The pendant was lost after its owner went shopping at Morrisons and visited a nearby town\n\nA \"family heirloom\" has been lost after its aristocrat owner wore the emerald and diamond pendant on a shopping trip to a Morrisons supermarket.\n\nLady Somerleyton returned from buying groceries at the store in Pakefield near her Somerleyton Estate home in Suffolk on 9 October when she noticed the Art Deco style jewellery was gone.\n\nShe had also visited the village of Henstead on the same day.\n\nThe pendant was attached to a 46cm (18in) chain, the family said.\n\nLara and Hugh, Lady and Lord Somerleyton, said they were \"devastated\" by the loss of the pendant\n\n\"My wife and I are devastated to have lost the pendant which is a family heirloom, and therefore I have decided to offer a cash reward for its safe return, should someone find it,\" Lord Somerleyton said in a statement.\n\nLady Somerleyton had visited the supermarket on the day she lost the pendant\n\nA Morrisons spokesman said the lost pendant had been reported to staff who were \"keeping their eyes peeled\".\n\n\"We have our fingers crossed that it turns up,\" he added.\n\nSuffolk Police also confirmed it had been informed of the lost item.\n\nLord and Lady Somerleyton's family home Somerleyton Hall, near Lowestoft lies within a 5,000-acre (2,023 hectare) estate.\n\nThe value of the pendant and the value of the reward have not been disclosed by the Somerleyton family.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Paul Stephenson working on his recreation of Warhol's Chairman Mao portrait\n\nIs it possible to create new paintings by Andy Warhol, 30 years after his death? Warhol got other people to do most of the work first time around - and now a British artist has recreated some of his most famous works using exactly the same methods and materials.\n\nThere was a reason Andy Warhol called his legendary 1960s New York studio The Factory.\n\nIt housed something resembling an assembly line of assistants working on his famous screenprint paintings of icons like Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy.\n\nOn occasion, his assistant and his mother even signed the paintings on his behalf.\n\n\"I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me,\" Warhol told interviewer Gene Swenson in 1963.\n\n\"I think it would be so great if more people took up silk screens so that no-one would know whether my picture was mine or somebody else's.\"\n\nWarhol wanted to remove any trace of the artist's hand in his art\n\nMore than 50 years on, Paul Stephenson has done that - and ignited a debate about what can be done after an artist's death.\n\nStephenson has made new versions of Warhol works by posthumously tracking down the pop artist's original acetates, paints and printer, and recreating the entire process as precisely as possible.\n\nStephenson's project began when he bought 10 original Warhol acetates - the enlarged photographic negatives of those icons that Warhol used to create his screenprints.\n\nWhile Warhol's assistants did many parts of the physical work, the artist, who died in 1987, was the only one who worked directly on these acetates, touching up parts of the portraits to prepare them for printing.\n\nStephenson took the acetates to one of Warhol's original screenprinters in New York, Alexander Heinrici, who offered to help use them to make new paintings.\n\nThe real deal - this 1973 Warhol of Mao sold for $11m in April\n\nThose paintings - of Chairman Mao, Jackie Kennedy, an electric chair and a self-portrait of Warhol himself - are going on show at the Buy Art Fair in Manchester at the end of October. He's titled the series After Warhol.\n\n\"I'm not saying they're Warhols,\" Stephenson says. \"It's a forced collaboration because the original author doesn't know anything about it.\"\n\nHe may not claim the new paintings should be considered posthumous Warhols, but Rainer Crone, one of the leading Warhol authorities and the first to catalogue the artist's work, said they could be.\n\nCrone died in 2016 but he saw Stephenson's recreations and sent him an email saying \"paintings made with these film positives under described circumstances and executed posthumously by professionals (scholars as well as printers) are authentic Andy Warhol paintings\".\n\nStephenson's paintings are not identical to Warhol's originals, but are near enough.\n\nStephenson has recreated portraits of Jackie Kennedy, Mao and Warhol himself\n\nStephenson says he's simply asking a question: \"If the world-leading Warhol scholar says it's a Warhol, and you do everything in the mechanical process that the original artist did, and the original artist said 'I want other people to make my paintings', which he did - what is it?\n\n\"I don't know the answer to that question.\"\n\nThere are other examples of works being made in an artist's name after their death.\n\nThe estates of Degas and Rodin have made bronze sculptures using their original designs. They are sold as posthumous works, with lower prices to match.\n\nThe fact the price tags for Paul Stephenson's recreations are missing a few zeroes - they will be on sale for £4,000 and £10,000 - is proof that he's not expecting anyone to regard them as authentic Warhols.\n\nWarhol expert Richard Polsky, who offers a service authenticating Warhol works, says Stephenson's paintings shouldn't be regarded as posthumous Warhols.\n\n\"I like the fact that he's honest - he's not claiming Andy made these, he's claiming he made them,\" Polsky says. \"I also notice he's priced them very modestly. All that's good.\n\n\"It sounds like he's trying to extend Warhol's career, so to speak, even though he's dead. There's a charm to that, but it just seems so shallow.\"\n\nThere's a key difference between someone else making a Warhol painting in his Factory during his lifetime and someone else making one now, according to Jessica Beck, curator at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.\n\n\"He was always involved in that final product in some way,\" she says, explaining that the artist oversaw everything at the Factory and did get involved in other ways after the inception.\n\n\"This idea of taking his screens and recreating new Warhols without being in dialogue with him - obviously, because he's now dead - that's problematic.\"\n\nBut Stephenson's works may still appeal to people who want to impress their friends by appearing to have a Warhol on their wall, but without spending millions.\n\nBuy Art Fair runs from 27-29 October in Manchester. A documentary titled Business of Making Art, featuring Paul Stephenson, will be screened at the fair on 28 October.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Mr Kelly's son was a Marine who died in Afghanistan in 2010\n\nUS President Donald Trump has suggested that President Barack Obama did not call his chief of staff's family when their son was killed in Afghanistan.\n\nMr Trump alluded to General John Kelly's son while defending his claim that his predecessor neglected to call the loved ones of fallen soldiers.\n\nGen Kelly's son, Robert, 29, was a first lieutenant in the Marines when he stepped on a landmine and died in 2010.\n\nThe president's claim has sparked outrage among Mr Obama's former aides.\n\n\"You could ask Gen Kelly, did he get a call from Obama?\" Mr Trump said in an interview with Fox News Radio's Brian Kilmeade on Tuesday.\n\n\"I don't know what Obama's policy was. I write letters and I also call,\" he contended, adding that he has called \"virtually everybody\" during his time in office.\n\nGen Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general, has avoided speaking publicly about his son's death, according to US media reports.\n\nHowever, White House visitor logs show Gen Kelly attended a breakfast Mr Obama had hosted for families of those killed in action six months after his son died, the Associated Press news agency reported.\n\nThe president's remarks came a day after he falsely said that Mr Obama and other presidents did not call the families of soldiers who were killed in action.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Trump made the claim as he was asked by a reporter at the White House on Monday why he had not yet contacted the families of four US soldiers who were killed in Niger on 4 October.\n\nThe president slightly backtracked on his assertion later in the same press conference.\n\n\"I don't know if he did,\" he said of Mr Obama. \"I was told that he didn't often, and a lot of presidents don't. They write letters. I do, I do a combination of both.\"\n\nHe said he had written letters to the families and planned to call them soon.\n\nLater on Tuesday, the White House said he had spoken to the families, but did not say when.\n\nPresident Trump \"offered condolences on behalf of a grateful nation and assured them their families' extraordinary sacrifice to the country will never be forgotten,\" said White House press secretary Sarah Sanders.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ben Rhodes This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 comments prompted backlash from some Obama administration aides.\n\nAlyssa Mastromonaco, the former deputy chief of staff for operations under Mr Obama, fired back in a tweet, calling Mr Trump a \"deranged animal\" for making the claim.\n\nA spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, Brian Gabriel, said Mr Trump had told \"a totally irresponsible and disgusting lie\".\n\nGen Kelly has yet to comment on the president's latest remarks.\n\nBut Ned Price, a former spokesman for Mr Obama, called on Mr Kelly to stop \"this inane cruelty\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Ned Price This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Justin Trudeau: \"We lost one of the very best of us\"\n\nCanadian rock band Tragically Hip's frontman Gord Downie has died following a battle with brain cancer. He was 53.\n\nThe gifted lyricist - who was dubbed the country's unofficial poet laureate - had been diagnosed with an incurable glioblastoma in May 2016.\n\nHis family said in a statement he passed away quietly surrounded by friends and relatives.\n\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau led the national mourning for the star with a tearful public statement.\n\n\"He loved every hidden corner, every story, every aspect of this country that he celebrated his whole life,\" Mr Trudeau said, his voice breaking, on Wednesday.\n\n\"We are less as a country without Gord Downie in it. We all knew it was coming, but we hoped it was not.\"\n\nGord Downie revealed his cancer diagnoses in May 2016\n\nDespite his diagnosis, Downie continued to tour with Tragically Hip and produce music in the last years of his life. He recorded a solo double-album called Introduce Yerself in January 2017, which will be released on 27 October.\n\nThe band said in a written statement: \"Gord knew this day was coming - his response was to spend this time as he always had - making music, making memories and expressing deep gratitude to his family and friends for a life well lived, often sealing it with a kiss... on the lips.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Tragically Hip This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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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End of twitter post by The Tragically Hip\n\nDownie's lyrics often referenced Canadian culture and mythology, which endeared the band to fans who were used to seeing Canadian musicians \"Americanise\" their music to appeal to an international audience.\n\nThe Tragically Hip's first full-length album, Up to Here, was full of the kinds of blues-tinged party songs like New Orleans is Sinking that helped make the band one of Canada's most in-demand live acts across the country.\n\nBut it was the band's subsequent albums, infused with obscure references to Canadian history and hockey and experimental song structures like Fireworks and Bobcaygeon that truly defined the sound of the Tragically Hip.\n\nThe band never made it big in the US - a fact that didn't seemed to bother Downie or his band too much.\n\nAt home, they regularly sold out stadiums, but south of the border, they could often be found playing small-town bars, mostly filled with Canadian fans who had made the trek just to see them.\n\nFar from a sign of failure, their lack of international fame only helped seal their reputation at home as a national treasure. Nine out of the band's 13 studio albums went to number one on Canada's music charts, and all of them cracked the top 10.\n\nWhen news of Downie's death broke, Canadians went online to share their own personal stories about times they had met the singer, or how his music had touched their 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 2 by Jeff McFayden This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShortly after Downie announced his cancer diagnosis last year, the band went on a sold-out nationwide summer tour, which helped raise C$1m ($800,000; £600,000) for brain cancer research.\n\nThe tour culminated in a final show in Kingston, Ontario, the band's hometown, that was broadcast live across the country.\n\nHundreds of public screenings of the broadcast were held, serving as a kind of living memorial for Downie.\n\nIn addition to music, Downie was a renowned activist for environmental and indigenous causes.\n\nIn the final year of his life, he released a solo album and graphic novel titled The Secret Path, inspired by the true story of an indigenous boy who died while trying to escape a residential school.\n\nFor his work on reconciliation, Downie was awarded an Order of Canada by Mr Trudeau.\n\nHe was also bestowed an eagle feather by the Assembly of First Nations and an aboriginal name, Wicapi Omani.\n\nIn Lakota it means \"man who walks among the stars\".", "The number of divorces last year in England and Wales was the highest since 2009, official figures show.\n\nThere were 106,959 divorces of opposite-sex couples in 2016 - an increase of 5.8% from 2015. It was the biggest year-on-year rise since 1985, when there was a jump of 10.9%.\n\nOf 112 divorces of same-sex couples in 2016, 78% involved female couples.\n\nCharity Relate said rising levels of household debt and stagnating wages could be putting a strain on marriages.\n\nFor those in opposite-sex marriages, the divorce rate was highest for women in their 30s and men aged between 45 and 49.\n\nOverall, there were 8.9 divorces per 1,000 married men and women.\n\nONS spokeswoman Nicola Haines said: \"Although the number of divorces of opposite-sex couples in England and Wales increased by 5.8% in 2016 compared with 2015, the number remains 30% lower than the most recent peak in 2003; divorce rates for men and women have seen similar changes.\"\n\n2016 was only the second year that same-sex divorces have been possible.\n\nThe most common reason for divorce was \"unreasonable behaviour\", with 51% of women and 36% of men citing it in their divorce petitions. Unreasonable behaviour can include having a sexual relationship with someone else.\n\nOverall, women initiated proceedings in 61% of opposite-sex divorces.\n\nCommenting on the figures, Chris Sherwood, chief executive of the relationship support charity Relate, said: \"It is unclear as to why there was a slight increase in divorces in 2016 and as to whether this rise will continue or not.\n\n\"We know that money worries are one of the top strains on relationships and it may be that rising levels of household debt and stagnating pay growth could be contributing factors.\"\n\nHowever, he stressed that the overall trend over the past few years had been downward.\n\nHe added: \"Divorce is not something that people tend to take lightly but our research suggests that many people could have saved their marriage and avoided divorce with the right support.\n\n\"That is why we would encourage anybody experiencing relationship issues to access support such as counselling at the earliest possible stage.\"", "The Parental Bereavement Bill is given its second reading - MPs do not divide but show their approval by voicing \"aye\".\n\nThe House moves onto the Health and Social Care (National Data Guardian) Bill which is proposed by Conservative MP Peter Bone.\n\nThere is little time to discuss the bill, however, and at 2.30pm, MPs move on to the adjournment debate, which is on memorial plaques to World War I servicemen, from Conservative MP David Morris .\n\nThat's where we'll leave our coverage of the week's business in Parliament.\n\nWe'll be back on Monday afternoon, when the Commons and Lords meet at 2.30pm.", "Sheeran headlined Glastonbury earlier this year, and is due to play four dates at Wembley Stadium next summer\n\nEd Sheeran says he is \"unable to perform live concerts for the immediate future\" after breaking his arm in a cycling accident.\n\nThe star came off his bike, reportedly after being struck by a car, at the weekend.\n\n\"A visit to my doctors confirmed fractures in my right wrist and left elbow,\" he said on Instagram, alongside a picture of his arm in a cast.\n\nSo far, dates in Taipei, Osaka, Seoul, Tokyo and Hong Kong have been affected.\n\n\"I'm waiting to see how the healing progresses before we have to decide on shows beyond that,\" the star said.\n\n\"Please stay tuned for more details.\"\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\nThe 26-year-old has a further eight dates scheduled this year, including sold-out concerts in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.\n\nHe then has a three-month hiatus - coinciding with the Grammys and Brit Awards - before resuming his tour in Australia next March.\n\nThe concerts are in support of his multi million-selling third album Divide, which was released earlier this year.\n\nSheeran famously plays his concerts solo - using just a guitar and a loop pedal to layer up songs like Thinking Out Loud, Sing and Shape of You.\n\nLosing the use of his right arm would make such a set-up impractical - but, speaking to BBC News earlier this year, Sheeran said he would never consider playing with a backing band.\n\n\"I don't feel like there's anything interesting or new about seeing a singer-songwriter with a band behind them,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't feel like if I suddenly got a band, everyone would go, 'Wow!' - I actually feel it'd take away from me.\"\n\nThe singer headlined Glastonbury earlier this year, and is due to play stadium dates in the UK and Ireland - including four nights at Wembley Stadium - next summer.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "People with dyslexia have difficulty learning to read, write or spell\n\nFrench scientists say they may have found a potential cause of dyslexia which could be treatable, hidden in tiny cells in the human eye.\n\nIn a small study they found that most dyslexics had dominant round spots in both eyes - rather than in just one - leading to blurring and confusion.\n\nUK experts said the research was \"very exciting\" and highlighted the link between vision and dyslexia.\n\nBut they said not all dyslexics were likely to have the same problem.\n\nPeople with dyslexia have difficulties learning to read, spell or write despite normal intelligence.\n\nOften letters appear to move around and get in the wrong order and dyslexic people can have problems distinguishing left from right.\n\nHuman beings have a dominant eye in the same way that people have a dominant left or right hand.\n\nIn the University of Rennes study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, scientists looked into the eyes of 30 non-dyslexics and 30 dyslexics.\n\nThey discovered differences in the shape of spots deep in the eye where red, green and blue cones - responsible for colour - are located.\n\nIn non-dyslexics, they found that the blue cone-free spot in one eye was round and in the other eye it was oblong or unevenly shaped, making the round one more dominant.\n\nBut in dyslexic people, both eyes had the same round-shaped spot, which meant neither eye was dominant.\n\nThis would result in the brain being confused by two slightly different images from the eyes.\n\nResearchers Guy Ropars and Albert le Floch said this lack of asymmetry \"might be the biological and anatomical basis of reading and spelling disabilities\".\n\nThey added: \"For dyslexic students, their two eyes are equivalent and their brain has to successively rely on the two slightly different versions of a given visual scene.\"\n\nProf John Stein, dyslexia expert and emeritus professor in neuroscience at the University of Oxford, said having a dominant spot in one eye meant there were better connections between the two sides of the brain and therefore clearer vision.\n\nHe said the study was \"really interesting\" because it stressed the importance of eye dominance in reading.\n\nBut he said the research gave no indication of why these differences occurred in some people's eyes.\n\nHe said the French test appeared to be more objective than current tests, but was unlikely to explain everyone's dyslexia.\n\nDyslexia is usually an inherited condition which affects 10% of the population, but environmental factors are also thought to play a role.\n\n\"No one problem is necessary to get dyslexia and no one problem is behind it,\" Prof Stein said.", "Omid Saidy was stabbed to death outside Parsons Green Tube\n\nA man killed outside Parsons Green Tube station was stabbed after confronting a drug dealer, Scotland Yard has said.\n\nOmid Saidy was fatally wounded and two others were injured in the attack on Monday night.\n\nThe 20-year-old from Fulham died after confronting a drug dealer and another man who was with him, the Met confirmed.\n\nThe injured 16-year-old was discharged from hospital and arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.\n\nA 20-year-old man suffered serious but non life-threatening injuries.\n\nTwo men were taken to hospital after the incident, one of whom has been arrested\n\nAfter confronting the drug dealer, the victim chased the two suspects in the direction of Beaconsfield Walk, police said.\n\nWhen he caught up with the pair, he was fatally stabbed.\n\nA 20-year-old man who was a friend of the deceased came to his aid and was also stabbed.\n\nOne of the suspects, described as a black male dressed in dark clothing, fled down Harbledown Road in the direction of Fulham Court.\n\nThe second suspect, a young white male, ran into Beaconsfield Walk.\n\nPolice believe he called for an ambulance a short time later for his own injuries.\n\nDet Ch Insp Noel McHugh said: \"A young man has tragically lost his life for simply asking a drug dealer to move on.\n\n\"I urge anyone who can assist our investigation to come forward without delay.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "White tigers are believed derive their colour from a recessive gene\n\nAn animal keeper at a national park in southern India has been attacked and killed by two rare young white tigers, officials say.\n\nThe keeper, 40, was mauled to death as he attempted to direct the tigers into their enclosure on Saturday night at the Bannerghatta Biological Park.\n\nAn official said the tigers pounced on him because one of the four enclosure gates was not properly latched.\n\nThe keeper had only been employed by the national park for a little over a week.\n\nHis angry relatives protested outside the park on Sunday - they want financial compensation from park management, accusing them of negligence.\n\nA keeper at the park near Bangalore was reported to have been injured two years ago by lions.", "Ryan Gosling, Denis Villeneuve, Ana de Armas and Harrison Ford at the Paris premiere of Blade Runner 2049\n\nBlade Runner 2049 has made far less than expected on its opening weekend at the US box office.\n\nThe $31.5m (£24.1m) total will be a major disappointment for distributor Warner Bros, which had projected ticket sales of between $45m and $50m.\n\nIts 163-minute running time, limiting the number of screenings, was said to be one factor in the under-performance.\n\nBut it was still the weekend's most popular movie in the US. It topped the UK box office, with sales above £6m.\n\nThe sequel to the 1982 cult classic, which also stars Harrison Ford as well as Ryan Gosling, cost Sony and Alcon Entertainment $150m to make.\n\nDespite strong advance ticket sales and glowing reviews from many critics, the movie made $12.7m on Thursday night and Friday, $11.4m on Saturday and a projected $7.4m on Sunday from just over 4,000 cinemas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford star in the sequel of Blade Runner\n\nPaul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst with comScore, said: \"The core of enthusiastic and loyal 'Blade Runner' fans were over 25 and predominantly male, and propelled the film as expected to the top spot, but a lengthy running time and lesser interest among females made it tougher for the film to reach the original weekend box office projections.\"\n\nMen over 25 accounted for half the audience, according to PostTrack, with women over 25 making up 27%.\n\nJeff Goldstein, of Warner Bros, said Blade Runner 2049 had disappointed in smaller cities and in the South and Midwest, where the running time and baseball playoffs appeared to have deterred moviegoers.\n\n\"We did well in the major and high-profile markets,\" he said. \"Alcon and Denis [Villeneuve, the director] made an amazing movie. The audience for it was narrower than we anticipated.\"\n\nGlobally, the film took $50.2m and claimed the number one spot in 45 of its 63 markets, Screen Daily reported.\n\nThat tally was higher than the $44.6m for The Martian, starring Matt Damon, on its opening weekend in 2015. The movie was directed by Ridley Scott, who also made the original Blade Runner and was an executive producer on 2049.\n\nThe Chinese comedy Never Say Die took $66m globally to top the international box office, pushing Kingsman: The Golden Circle into second place.\n\nThe remake of the Stephen King killer clown thriller It has now taken $305m in the US, and almost as much internationally, to top the $600m mark globally, making it the most successful horror film.\n\nUK moviegoers have been its biggest fans, spending $40.7m (£31.1m) on tickets since its release on 8 September.", "President Temer has had a lot in his in-tray recently\n\nVoters in the south of Brazil have been asked in an informal vote whether they want to be part of a new country.\n\nThe referendum was organised a week after a similar vote in Catalonia by a secessionist movement called \"The South Is My Country\".\n\nThe movement said it set up polls in more than 1,000 municipalities across the states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Paraná.\n\nThe group's leader, Celso Deucher, says he hopes to gather three million votes.\n\nAt polling stations in the Paraná state city, Londrina, voters told local media they were disillusioned with the federal government and a giant corruption scandal that has seen dozens of politicians and members of the business elite jailed or indicted.\n\nAcacio Fernandes Tozzini told online newspaper, Redacaõ Bonde: \"Our nation has reached a dramatic level of political disorder that is impossible to mend. We want to get rid of Brasilia, Brazil has reached the apex of corruption.\"\n\nOthers complained that the south of Brazil saw little return from taxation which mostly benefitted the poorer northern regions of the country who have bigger voting rights than the south.\n\nPaulo Mauricio Acquarole said: \"If you look at the six or seven states above us (in the northeast), altogether they don't give what the three states of the south give in taxation. Proportionally they have the same number of votes as Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Paraná.\n\n\"If you hear the accent of the political legislature of Brazil it is a north-eastern one.\"\n\nThe south of Brazil has expressed secessionist tendencies before, ever since Italy's Giuseppe Garibaldi helped it achieve a short-lived semi-independence in 1836.\n\nLast year a similar vote in October 2016 organised by \"The South Is My Country\" gathered 617,500 votes. Over 95% of the voters in the three states said they were in favour of separation.\n\nFew Brazilians believe the separatist movement will succeed, not least because it is forbidden by the constitution which proclaims that the country is \"formed by the indissoluble union of states\".\n\nBut the poll is another indicator among Brazilian voters of anger towards the federal government which they say has failed to tackle a spike in violence across the country and has been unable to overturn the worse recession in more than a century.\n\nAnalysts say the corruption scandal has also destroyed support for the political ruling class leaving next year's elections wide open.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage from the explosion in Ghana\n\nHuge explosions have rocked a fuel depot in Ghana's capital Accra, leaving at least seven people dead.\n\nThe blasts sent a giant fireball into the sky and forced residents to flee the Atomic Junction area, in the north-east of the city, officials say.\n\nThe incident happened at about 19:30 GMT on Saturday, reportedly as a tanker delivering natural gas caught fire.\n\nSeven people were confirmed killed in the incident in the suburb of Legon, and more than 100 others were injured.\n\nThe first blast reportedly triggered a second explosion and a fire at a petrol station nearby.\n\nMany of those evacuated were students at the University of Ghana, which is sited in the area.\n\nPresident Nana Akufo-Addo tweeted that he was devastated by the news.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Government is resolved, now more than ever, to ensure such an incident does not occur again,\" he added in a later tweet.\n\nIn June 2015, about 150 died in a fire at a petrol station in the city.\n\nIt took hours to put the fire out", "Airbnb, the accommodation website, paid less than £200,000 in UK corporation tax last year despite collecting £657m of rental payments for property owners.\n\nThe commissions the company earns in the UK are booked by its Irish subsidiary, but it also has two UK subsidiaries.\n\nOne unit made a pre-tax profit, but the other did not incur UK corporation tax because deductions resulted in a loss.\n\nAirbnb said in a statement: \"We follow the rules and pay all the tax we owe.\"\n\nOne of the British subsidiaries, Airbnb Payments UK, handles payments between landlords and travellers for countries other than the United States, China and India.\n\nThat unit made a pre-tax profit of £960,000 and paid £188,000 in UK corporation tax - £8,000 less than in 2015.\n\nThe other British subsidiary, Airbnb UK, markets the website and app to British consumers. It reported a £463,000 pre-tax profit last year but because it gave shares to staff, which are tax-deductable, there was no corporation tax bill.\n\nAirbnb said: \"Our UK office provides marketing services and pays all applicable taxes, including VAT. The Airbnb model is unique and boosted the UK economy by £3.46bn last year alone.\"\n\nThe tax arrangements of other technology giants have come under under closer scrutiny in recent years.\n\nOne of the most vocal critics has been EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager. She has taken aim at the likes of Apple, Amazon and others for where they book the revenues and profits of their European activities.\n\nBruno Le Maire, the French finance minister, has also asked why Airbnb paid tens of thousand of euros in French corporation tax despite a turnover in the millions.\n\nThe company, founded in San Francisco in 2008, has disrupted the hotel industry by linking travellers with landlords who generally want to rent out a spare room or an entire property for short-term stays.\n\nIt has become one of the most successful examples of the digital economy, with an estimated value of about $24bn.\n\nHowever, Airbnb has faced a growing backlash in cities including Barcelona, Berlin and Paris, where politicians have taken steps to stop landlords renting properties to tourists rather than local residents.\n\nWhile Airbnb has long been linked with a stock market listing, it remains privately owned.\n\nIt takes a 3% commission from landlords for each booking, and also charges fees to travellers.\n\nIn the UK last year Airbnb catered for 5.9m travellers and had 168,000 listings.", "I have done something so stupid I still can't believe it.\n\nMaybe I had fallen under the influence of the 10-headed demon Ravana.\n\nThe vanquishing of Ravana by Lord Rama is the excuse for Dussehra, one of the wildest of all Hindu festivals.\n\nTowering wicker effigies of Ravana and his henchmen - complete with curling moustaches and wicked smiles - are filled with fireworks, ready to be burned in the climax of a re-enactment of Lord Rama's great victory.\n\nLast year my wife and I took our four children to the biggest Dussehra celebration in Delhi, at the Ramlila Maidan, a vast field outside the gates of the old city.\n\nAs the sunlight turned a delicious gold, we joined the jostling queues.\n\nBut Ravana's malign influence isn't enough to explain what follows. I blame the fairground, too.\n\nThere's an Indian concept called jugaad. It means a simple, cheap solution to a complex problem. Basically - it means bodging it. The rides applied jugaad with breathtaking abandon.\n\nIt was as my 14 and 15-year-old daughters and I tottered, giggling nervously, from a terrifying, harness-free spin on a juddering big wheel that I noticed the sheet laid out on the dry mud.\n\nCrouched on it was a man offering temporary tattoos.\n\nNow, I have always hated tattoos. I live in fear of my children getting some ugly doodle etched into their perfect skin. That's why I thought it would be so funny to surprise my wife, Bee, with a fake one.\n\n\"How about a heart with her name in it for her birthday?\" I said.\n\nI promise I hadn't had anything to drink.\n\n\"They wash off, yes?\" I asked the tattoo man.\n\n\"Yes, yes, yes,\" he said.\n\nI felt the chrome nozzle of his little machine. I couldn't feel a needle.\n\nHe showed me a pot of ink. Well, you'd need ink for a temporary tattoo, wouldn't you?\n\nI pointed to a heart on one of the laminated sheets with pictures of his craft, and then at the letters B, E, E.\n\n\"Yes, yes, yes,\" he said and took my arm firmly.\n\nBefore I knew it, he was already at work, and here's the thing: it didn't hurt.\n\nEveryone I know who has ever had a tattoo says it hurt.\n\nAll I felt was a prickle. That said, it did worry me, but by then the tattoo man had already inked out a rough heart - and I do mean rough - in the middle of my upper arm.\n\nIt must have taken all of 30 seconds.\n\nHe started on the letters.\n\nFirst an L. Hold on a second…\n\nNow I was really worried. I tried to pull my arm away.\n\n\"No, no, no,\" said the tattoo man, pulling back.\n\nWith a sharp tug I got my arm free and wiped in desperation at the ink. But beneath my fingers I could feel my skin was slightly raised. The blue-black ink didn't even smudge.\n\n\"What have you done?\" my wife wanted to know when we found her in the crowd and showed her my arm.\n\nMy daughters were doubled up with glee. Who wouldn't laugh when your dad has just got himself a tattoo by mistake?\n\nThe first fireworks exploded in the sky. Ravana was about to be put to the torch. I was already rushing for the exit.\n\n\"There must be a way to get rid of this thing,\" I told myself.\n\nThere wasn't. And here's some advice you probably don't need - never follow home tattoo removal instructions from the internet.\n\nFlushing it with gin - the only alcohol to hand - didn't make any difference.\n\nSalification - literally rubbing salt in the wound - didn't work either.\n\nI now have a white scar as well as a cheap tattoo.\n\nMy wife was more worried about the risk of blood-borne infection, which is how I came to be sitting in front of a doctor in one of Delhi's hospitals.\n\nSo how risky is a street tattoo like this, I wanted to know?\n\n\"Oh, infection is very, very, very common,\" he told me with a huge smile.\n\nHe said as well as hepatitis B and C, there was also the risk of HIV.\n\n\"Oh, this is a very, very, very common way to get HIV. I see it all the time. All the time,\" he said, apparently delighted.\n\nTwo weeks later, the results of the blood test came through. It was clear. I have booked another test to make sure that is still the case.\n\nThe tattoo, however, isn't going anywhere. Ugly as it is, I'm keeping it - a permanent reminder to be less impetuous.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "McDonalds sent the out-of production sauce to the show's creators before announcing its return\n\nA McDonald's PR stunt to bring back a rare dipping sauce left thousands of fans disappointed, with police called to some US restaurants on Saturday.\n\nThe Szechuan sauce, which was only made in 1998 to promote the film Mulan, has become well known after featuring in the popular cartoon Rick and Morty.\n\nIn July the chain sent a large bottle of the sauce to the show's creators.\n\nThey then announced it would come back for one day on 7 October, but fans were left disappointed after stores ran out.\n\nIn one video, police can be seen holding back people chanting \"we want sauce\".\n\nOfficers also attended other stores because hundreds of people turned up.\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 sauce became a meme among fans of the adult animated science-fiction series after it was featured in the third series.\n\nMcDonald's announced the Szechuan's return last week, describing it as a \"really, really limited release\" to special locations in the US.\n\nBut fans online said some restaurants claimed they were only given 20 pots of the sauce per venue, while others received none.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Frederick This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 took to social media to vent their frustrations after being unable to get their hands on the out-of-production dip.\n\nOne couple posted that they had driven for four hours to a restaurant stocking the sauce, but were left disappointed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jillian Campagnola This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 global fast food chain apologised to fans on social media but repeated their warning that the release was going to be \"super limited\".\n\nPots of the sauce are now listed for sale on online auction websites for hundreds of dollars.\n\nAngry customers posted pictures of breaded chicken and dipping sauces from other fast-food chains in protest at the stunt.\n\nOthers posted pictures of large bowls of the sauce they had made for themselves at home.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tens of thousands prayed in numerous locations around Poland's borders\n\nTens of thousands have taken part in a controversial prayer day in Poland.\n\nCatholics were encouraged to go to designated points along the country's borders for a mass rosary prayer for the salvation of Poland and the world.\n\nChurch leaders say the event is purely religious, but there are concerns it could be seen as endorsing the state's refusal to let in Muslim migrants.\n\nThe feast day marks the anniversary of a Christian victory over Ottoman Turks at the sea battle of Lepanto in 1571.\n\nPeople were bussed in from more than 300 churches to points all along the border.\n\nThey stood in lines, some on beaches on the Baltic Sea, some in fields and some in towns.\n\n\"We come to the border of Poland to pray for the Poles and for the whole world,\" said one woman.\n\nMany people said they were praying for their Catholic faith\n\nSeveral hundred took part in the port of Gdynia\n\n\"We want our Catholic faith to continue, to keep our children safe, that our brothers from other countries can understand that our faith is unwavering and that we feel safer, not only in Poland but also in the world.\"\n\nMateusz Maranowski, a Polish radio journalist, said he had come out to thank the Virgin Mary for his child, who was born prematurely.\n\nHe said about 300 people took part in the event in the sea port of Gdynia.\n\n\"At first I wanted to pray alone on the beach but it turned out that many people from nearby parishes came out to the beach to take part in the... event,\" he said.\n\nHalina Kotarska, 65, said she was expressing thanks for the survival of her son in a car crash, but also praying for the survival of Christianity in Europe.\n\n\"Islam wants to destroy Europe,\" she said, quoted by the Associated Press. \"They want to turn us away from Christianity.\"\n\nSome priests and Church commentators said the event could be seen as support for the government's refusal to accept Muslim migrants, a policy backed by a majority of Poles.\n\nOrganisers said the prayer was not directed against anyone or anything.\n\nThe border was chosen, they said, because it symbolised their desire to encompass the world with prayer.\n\nPoland, along with Hungary and the Czech Republic, refused to take part in an EU deal in 2015 to relocate refugees from frontline states Italy and Greece.\n\nThe Polish position has put it at odds with the Vatican, with Pope Francis urging greater acceptance of migrants on a visit to Poland last year.\n\nBishops have urged the government to assist selected Syrian refugees but the plan has failed to secure politicians' backing.", "New Orleans residents fill sandbags as forecasters warn that Nate will make US landfall as a category two hurricane\n\nA state of emergency has been declared in four southern US states with Hurricane Nate gathering strength as it heads towards the Gulf Coast.\n\nLouisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and parts of Florida have issued hurricane warnings and evacuation orders.\n\nThe measures apply to parts of the city of New Orleans, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina 12 years ago.\n\nNate killed at least 25 people as it swept through Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Honduras as a tropical storm.\n\nThe storm, which brushed past Mexican beach resorts, is still strengthening, and is now expected to make landfall as a category two hurricane overnight.\n\nAlthough not as strong as last month's Maria and Irma, Nate will still bring strong winds and storm surges. Its latest recorded wind speeds reached 90mph (150km/h).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video shows passengers climbing out of the windows of a bus, after it was stranded in flood water\n\nUS President Donald Trump has issued an emergency declaration for Louisiana, allowing the state to seek federal help with preparation and possible relief efforts.\n\nIn Alabama, Republican Governor Kay Ivey has urged residents in areas facing heavy winds and storm surges to take precautions.\n\nFive ports along the Gulf Coast have also been closed to shipping as a precaution.\n\nMost oil and gas platforms in the US Gulf of Mexico have evacuated their staff and stopped production ahead of the storm.\n\nThe hurricane warning issued to parts of the Gulf Coast includes the threat of life-threatening storm surge flooding. Evacuation orders have been put in place for some low-lying areas.\n\nLouisiana Governor John Bel Edwards has declared a state of emergency ahead of the hurricane, which is due to make landfall on Saturday night local time.\n\nHe said more than 1,000 National Guard troops had been mobilised with a number sent to New Orleans to monitor the drainage pumps there. \"Anyone in low-lying areas... we are urging them to prepare now,\" he said.\n\nStar Wars fans dressed as storm troopers walk the streets of New Orleans ahead of Nate's arrival\n\nA mandatory curfew from 18:00 (23:00 GMT) is in place in New Orleans, where residents from areas outside the city's levee system have been evacuated.\n\n\"Nate is at our doorstep, or will be soon,\" the city's Mayor Mitch Landrieu said, adding that the winds could cause significant power outages.\n\n\"We have been through this many, many times, there is no need to panic,\" he added.\n\nNate went past Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula - home to the popular beach resorts of Cancun and Playa del Carmen - on Friday night as it headed north, the US National Hurricane Center in Miami said.\n\nThe governor of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, Carlos Joaquin, earlier said that although the worst of the storm had been expected to pass just east of the peninsula, it could still bring torrential rains and flooding.\n\nCosta Rica is among central American countries hit by storm Nate\n\nNate caused heavy rains, landslides and floods which blocked roads, destroyed bridges and damaged houses as it tore through central America.\n\nAt least 13 people died in Nicaragua, eight in Costa Rica, three in Honduras and one in El Salvador.\n\nThe tail of the storm is still causing problems in the region, where thousands have been forced to sleep in shelters and some 400,000 people in Costa Rica were reported to be without running water.\n\nAre you in the affected area? Email us with your experiences at haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The victim said some women told her they had had a similar experience\n\nA woman who was indecently assaulted while running says she has been overwhelmed by people saying they have had similar experiences.\n\nThe 48-year-old victim was grabbed by a man while jogging in Sherwood Rise, Nottingham.\n\nNottinghamshire Police are treating the incident as a misogynistic hate crime.\n\nThe suspect is Asian, about 30, 6ft (1.8m) tall, with a bald patch. He was carrying a large backpack containing tennis racquets.\n\nThe woman was running along Claremont Road, Sherwood, at about 18:30 BST on Tuesday when the man grabbed her.\n\nShe said: \"I started to make quite a lot of noise and really yelled at him and then carried on running.\n\n\"One of the most shocking things was how unfazed he was.\"\n\nShe posted what had happened on Facebook and received many messages of support from women of all ages.\n\n\"I think it is really important women speak out when this happens,\" she said.\n\nThe victim said being shouted and leered at was common, but this was the first time she had been physically assaulted.\n\nSharon Cairney, from Notts Women's Runners, said such incidents were becoming more common.\n\n\"We certainly have had half a dozen we know as a club this calendar year,\" she said. \"It is absolutely outrageous.\"\n\nIn January, an England Athletics survey found that one in three women had been harassed while running.\n• None One in three women runners 'harassed'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The US president and his North Korean counterpart are at loggerheads over Pyongyang's nuclear programme\n\n\"Only one thing will work\" in dealing with North Korea after years of talks with Pyongyang brought no results, US President Donald Trump has warned.\n\n\"Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years,\" he tweeted, adding that this \"hasn't worked\".\n\nMr Trump did not elaborate further.\n\nThe two nations have been engaged in heated rhetoric over North Korea's nuclear activities, with the US pressing for a halt of missile tests.\n\nPyongyang says it has recently successfully tested a miniaturised hydrogen bomb which could be loaded on to a long-range missile.\n\nThe US has been conducting military exercises with South Korea as part of what it describes as show of force missions\n\nThere are fears that North Korea will soon have the capacity to hit the US mainland with a nuclear-tipped missile\n\nPresident Trump has previously warned that the US could destroy North Korea if necessary to protect America's national interests and defend its allies in the region.\n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Saturday praised nuclear weapons as a \"powerful deterrent\" which guaranteed his country's security, state media reported.\n\nIn a speech addressing \"the complicated international situation\", he said such weapons had safeguarded \"the peace and security in the Korean peninsula and north-east Asia\" against the \"protracted nuclear threats of the US imperialists\".\n\nHe said his country's policy of simultaneously pursuing the development of nuclear weapons in parallel with moves to strengthen the economy was \"absolutely right\".\n\nNorth Korea recently launched two missiles over Japan and defied international condemnation to carry out its sixth nuclear test in September. It has promised to carry out another test in the Pacific Ocean.\n\nThere are fears in the West that is rapidly reaching the point where it is capable of developing a nuclear-tipped missile that could reach the US mainland.\n\nSaturday's tweets by President Trump are another cryptic announcement by America's leader, the BBC's Laura Bicker in Washington says.\n\nUS Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (above) has denied reports of a rift with President Trump\n\nLast week, it was suggested that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had direct lines of communication with Pyongyang to try to resolve the escalating tensions.\n\nMr Trump then tweeted: \"Save your energy Rex, we'll do what has to be done!\"\n\nOn Saturday, the US president insisted he had a good relationship with his secretary of state, but added that Mr Tillerson could be tougher.\n\nEarlier in the week, Mr Tillerson had denied rumours of a rift between the two men, amid media reports he had called the president a \"moron\".\n\nMr Trump's latest comment on North Korea could just be bluster - but the fear is that Pyongyang will interpret it as a threat, our correspondent says.\n\nAt a speech to the UN later that month, Mr Trump threatened to annihilate North Korea, saying the country's leader, Kim Jong-un,\" is on a suicide mission\".\n\nIn exchange, Mr Kim in a rare statement, vowed to \"tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire\".\n\nA group of \"young pioneers\" on the way home on the Pyongyang metro", "A child gets sucked down a drain by a scary clown\n\nEarlier this month, horror movie It (based on the Stephen King novel) was released in cinemas. You may well have seen It.\n\nBut surely only the bravest among you would've gone to the \"immersive\" screenings of the movie.\n\nSuch fans would've had the pleasure of a real-life Pennywise the Clown creeping round the auditorium during the film, jumping out at them from behind and basically scaring the living daylights out of everyone there.\n\nWhile many of us may think this sounds like the most utterly hideous experience in the world, not everyone feels that way - immersive horror is becoming quite a thing.\n\n\"There's huge growth in this area,\" says Simon Oakes, CEO of British horror brand Hammer, who have just premiered their first immersive show, The Soulless Ones.\n\nHammer's immersive show's contemporary look is a far cry from that of its gothic horrors of the 1950s-70s\n\n\"It's a generational thing, newer audiences want something that's more tangible, emotional, more physical an experience, which is different from the promenade shows that you would've seen before, or even traditional theatre.\"\n\nAs anybody who has been to the cinema in the last decade knows, many people struggle to go for more than about four-and-a-half minutes without checking their WhatsApp, so the appeal of immersive theatre may be down to being totally engrossed in something and disconnected from the outside world.\n\nOf course, we've seen hugely popular immersive shows before with the likes of Punchdrunk and You Me Bum Bum Train.\n\n\"There's a whole generation of younger audiences who are excited about the idea of being involved in a story rather than told it,\" says Oscar Blustin, the co-writer and co-director of The Soulless Ones.\n\n\"I think gaming has a lot to do with it, and how young audiences expect things to be interactive.\n\nNow who wouldn't want this friendly chap jumping out at them in a dark cinema\n\n\"When you watch TV, we've all shouted at the screen, 'Don't go in there!' or 'Don't go upstairs', I think artists are recognising that this can engage audiences more with the narrative.\"\n\nIn the case of The Soulless Ones, Simon says: \"We wanted to come up with something completely original.\"\n\n\"With something like The Great Gatsby or Alice in Wonderland, the audience knows what they're going to get. If you know the show, you've already bought into what the creative expectation might be.\n\n\"So we chose to start with a completely new show, this isn't a Frankenstein or Dracula, so as a story it's original.\"\n\nHorror is arguably the genre which provides the most potential to create an immersive experience for theatregoers.\n\n\"I think that's because it's able to shed a light on your deepest fears,\" says Simon.\n\nStephen King wrote It - immersive screenings of which have been terrifying audiences\n\n\"We don't want to frighten people and scare people as much as unsettle them. But it's not a jump-scare performance, which a lot of the modern horror films are.\n\n\"The general philosophy behind horror is that if you don't care about the people, you don't care about what happens to them, and with the great genre directors like Kubrick and Hitchcock, you were invested in the characters.\"\n\nWhile the immersive screenings of Stephen King's It were just a few special ones organised to promote the film, The Soulless Ones has a residency at Hoxton Hall in London from this week until 31 October.\n\nOscar explains the show is about \"a hive of vampires who are trying to perform a ritual which will let them walk in the daylight - it's our take on the vampire legend\".\n\n\"That is the over-arching story, but there are 14 characters, and 18-20 different rooms around the building, they all interweave and interlink, it's a patchwork of narrative threads.\"\n\nThat may sound a little overwhelming, but Simon argues one key aspect of the show's appeal is the potential for repeat visits.\n\nThe Soulless Ones has a residency in Hoxton Hall for the month of October\n\n\"Because of the number of rooms, we've got 14 hours in total of prepared material,\" he says.\n\n\"And I hope that's one of the reasons people might want to see it again. You'd comfortably be able to see the show four times, and never see the same show twice, if you were clever about the route you take.\n\n\"Whichever room you walk into, you'll get a different side of the same story.\"\n\nOscar points out that audiences would struggle to play with their phones during performances even if they wanted to, \"mostly because the Victorian music hall we're performing in has absolutely no signal\".\n\nAnd if fans enjoy the experience, it could well lead to other similar projects.\n\n\"We're not like Marvel or DC comics,\" says Simon, \"at Hammer we feel immersive theatre is an intriguing part of what we do in terms of creating intellectual property.\n\n\"But what we do have is a place in this area, if it's successful, to be a building block to others.\"\n\nOscar adds: \"People are so on the hunt for unique and one-off experiences in particular.\n\n\"There's so much to talk about with immersive theatre, audiences who can compare notes on what they've seen and the different experience they've had at the same show.\n\n\"In the bar afterwards I'm anticipating a lot of 'What did you see?' conversations.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A woman has been arrested for trying to climb the front gates of Buckingham Palace, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nShe was detained by police officers at 17:40 BST and did not gain access to the palace grounds.\n\nThe woman, believed to be in her 30s, was arrested on suspicion of trespass and is currently in custody at a central London police station.\n\nThe incident is not being treated as terrorism-related, a police statement added.\n\nVideos on social media showed a woman who appeared to be shouting as she was led to a waiting police car.\n\nA crowd of tourists had gathered, with many of them filming the incident on their phones.", "Theresa May has said she is \"pretty resilient\" and it is not her style to \"hide from a challenge\" despite a mishap-strewn party conference speech.\n\nThe prime minister told the Sunday Times: \"I am a very determined person. I am not someone who gives up.\"\n\nBut Downing St says the newspaper's report that she is planning a cabinet reshuffle is \"speculation\".\n\nOn Friday, former party chairman Grant Shapps claimed 30 Tory MPs backed his calls for a leadership contest.\n\nIt followed a conference speech in which Mrs May apologised for calling a snap general election and losing the Tory majority, only to then be plagued by a persistent cough.\n\nShe was also interrupted by a prankster giving her a fake P45 and letters falling off the Conservative message in the background.\n\nAfter Mr Shapps was publicly named as the Tory gathering support for a leadership contest, Mrs May insisted she was providing \"calm leadership\" with the \"full support\" of the cabinet.\n\nShe then told the Sunday Times the problems during her speech had been \"really frustrating\", but added: \"Let's keep this in proportion. I had to give a long speech with a bad cough, a somewhat shaky set and a so-called comedian intent on getting his 15 minutes of fame.\n\n\"Was it uncomfortable? Certainly. But let's not get carried away!\"\n\nShe added: \"The truth is, my feelings can be hurt, like everyone else, but I am pretty resilient.\"\n\nAsked what she would do about Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson - who has been seen by some as disloyal after writing two articles setting out his own vision for Brexit - she said she would not \"hide from a challenge\", and would \"make sure I always have the best people in my cabinet, to make the most of the wealth of talent available in the party\".\n\nBut she added: \"I have a terrific cabinet.\"\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Johnson himself suggested only \"nutters\" in the party would want to oust Mrs May, while in the Mail on Sunday, former Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major accused \"self absorbed\" critics of undermining her.\n\nSir John said the country \"has had enough\" of the \"disloyal behaviour we have witnessed over recent weeks\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said any politician watching Mrs May's speech would have sympathised with her, but if she wasn't a \"weak prime minister presiding over a deeply divided party\" it would not have been an issue.\n\nBut the Conservative leader in Scotland, Ruth Davidson, told the BBC that while there had been some \"unfortunate shenanigans\" in the party, \"the pushback has been pretty strong\" against those trying to force a leadership contest.\n\nShe criticised \"tittle-tattle\" by colleagues, adding that being a politician is \"about delivering for the country, it's not and should never be about private ambition\".\n\nOf Mr Johnson, whom some Conservative figures have suggested should be sacked, she said: \"He is a big intellect, a big figure in the party and if the prime minister believes he is the right person to be foreign secretary then she has my full support.\"\n\nMr Johnson had said he was \"fully behind\" the PM's Florence speech last month - designed to break the deadlock in Brexit negotiations - and she should \"hold him to that\", Ms Davidson added.\n\nOf her own leadership ambitions, Ms Davidson said she was focussed on her job as Scottish Tory leader: \"I'm looking to 2021 [Holyrood elections] and I'm not looking past it because there is quite a lot in my in-tray right now.\"\n\nThe Conservative former deputy PM Lord Heseltine said he believed a reshuffle was now inevitable given the prime minister's \"unenviable\" position - but it would be dangerous to return Mr Johnson to the backbenches.\n\n\"Brexit is the over-arching issue of our day and it is hugely damaging to the unity of the Conservative Party,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"They can't make up their minds, either about the issues or the personality they would like to put in her [Theresa May's] place and that's the argument for the reshuffle because it could broaden the choice.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lord Heseltine: May could 'open debate' on her successor\n\nTo trigger a vote of confidence in the party leader, 48 of the 316 Conservative MPs would need to write to the chairman of the backbench 1922 committee.\n\nA leadership contest would then only be triggered if Mrs May lost that vote, or chose to quit.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video shows the spot where the cocaine was hidden on board the boat\n\nNearly four tonnes of cocaine worth an estimated $260m (£200m) have been seized by international law enforcement officers in the Atlantic.\n\nThe drugs were found on a boat between Portugal's Madeira and Azores islands.\n\nOfficials found 165 individual packages of cocaine weighing 23kg - a total of 3.7 tonnes - concealed beneath the vessel's cooking area.\n\nIt is not clear where the drugs were being taken to.\n\nThe Comoros-flagged vessel was towed into the Spanish port of Cádiz on Friday after Spanish officials received intelligence from the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA).\n\nThe crew, from Turkey and Azerbaijan, were arrested.\n\nThe cocaine was hidden beneath the vessel's galley\n\nSpanish officers made the seizure after a tip-off from the UK\n\nThe operation was jointly conducted by Spanish customs and police and the NCA under the overall co-ordination of the Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre-Narcotics (MAOC-N) in Lisbon.\n\n\"Seizing this quantity of cocaine represents a major disruption to international crime groups, depriving them of revenue potentially running into the hundreds of millions of pounds,\" NCA spokesman Mark Blackwell said.\n\nThere have been two other big Atlantic drug busts in recent months.\n\nThirteen Spanish citizens of Moroccan origin were arrested on Monday over what is believed to be a record seizure of cocaine in the North African country, officials there said.\n\nOfficials say the bust will cause traffickers major disruption\n\nPolice were reported to have seized more than 2.5 tonnes of the drug, with a street value of hundreds of millions of dollars.\n\nThe cocaine was thought to have come from Venezuela on its way to Europe or the United Arab Emirates.\n\nMorocco's investigations chief Abdelhak Khiam said South American drug cartels were using smuggling routes through sub-Saharan countries where he said there was \"little control\".\n\nThe Portuguese navy and air force is also reported to have carried out a drugs seizure on Thursday after intercepting a yacht suspected of transporting cocaine to the country from the Caribbean.\n\nThe vessel was stopped about 965km (600 miles) south of the Azores, Portugal News Online reported, and was carrying a large amount of \"highly pure\" cocaine believed to be worth about $23.5m (£18m).", "There is continuing speculation that Theresa May is coming under pressure to carry out a cabinet reshuffle - and move Boris Johnson to another job.\n\nBut the Daily Telegraph says allies of the foreign secretary have warned that he will \"just say no\" if the prime minister tries to sack him.\n\nAccording to the paper, sources say that firing him would undermine Brexit and destabilise the government.\n\nInstead, the paper says the prime minister is being urged by members of her cabinet to remove Chancellor Philip Hammond for \"making Brexit hard\" and being \"miserable\".\n\nThe Times reports one ex-senior minister saying Mr Johnson is not the problem and it is Mr Hammond who has been stirring Tory divisions on Brexit.\n\nThe former minister claims the chancellor is trying to force Mrs May into an \"endless no-change transition deal\".\n\nThe Guardian says Brexit-supporting politicians have told the paper that concerns about the chancellor are being widely discussed on the Tory backbenches.\n\nBut, it says, a cabinet ally of Mr Hammond has warned that \"realism is no sin when it comes to Brexit\".\n\nThe Daily Mail and the Sun are aghast at news that the Office for National Statistics is considering making it optional for people to declare their sex in the next census.\n\nThe move is aimed at recognising transgender people.\n\nThe Sun rejects the idea as crazy - pointing out that the information is needed to determine how many men and women make up the population.\n\nIn the Mail's view, if we don't even know such a fundamental fact, the whole purpose of the census is undermined.\n\nThe old pound coin ceases to be legal tender next Sunday - but the Daily Telegraph reports that thousands of shops and businesses will ignore the deadline.\n\nIt says a trade association representing 170,000 small shops has advised its members to continue taking the round coins if customers don't have any other change.\n\nThe Mail reports that the old coins are already being rejected by some supermarket self-service checkouts.\n\nFor its lead, the Daily Mirror says the vast majority of households in England no longer have weekly bin collections.\n\nThe paper reports that 76% of council areas have a 14-day wait - and six local authorities have even reduced collections to one in every three weeks.\n\nAccording to the paper, young families are having to resort to paying for private collections.\n\nFinally, the dining room is doomed - according to Mary Berry.\n\nThe Times reports that she told the Cheltenham Literature Festival she had stopped using her dining room - and kitchens were much more homely places in which to eat.\n\n\"We have given up our dining room finally,\" she said.\n\nThe Daily Mail says the former Great British Bake Off star told her audience that her family use the dining room at Christmas and occasionally if people come round, but it's much easier eating in the kitchen - with the sink and dishwasher nearby.", "The overwhelming message on Sunday's front pages is summed up in a Sunday Telegraph headline, which says the Tories are \"at war\".\n\nRebel MPs are said to have given Theresa May until Christmas to make real progress on Brexit to avoid another attempt to oust her.\n\nThe paper says Mrs May has decided to commit billions of pounds on preparing Britain to leave the EU without a deal - to send a signal to pro-Brexit MPs that she's serious about regaining the upper hand in negotiations.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Times, the prime minister will reassert her authority with a cabinet reshuffle in which she is prepared to demote Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.\n\nTory sources have told the paper she will shake up her top team later this month.\n\nIn an interview with the paper, Mrs May says: \"It's never been my style to hide from a challenge and I'm not going to start now.\"\n\nIn his article in the Mail on Sunday, Sir John Major tells the plotters it is time to focus on the needs of the British people rather than their own ambitions if they want to avoid two 'neo-Marxists' being in government - a reference to Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell.\n\nIn an editorial, the Mail urges Mrs May to seize the moment and attack.\n\n\"While willing to wound,\" it says, \"her foes fear to strike\".\n\nIt advises her to \"get rid of unreliable and worn-out ministers\".\n\nAccording to the Sunday Express, \"Brexit's big three\" - Boris Johnson, Liam Fox and David Davis - \"have thrown their weight behind Theresa May\" and urged Tories to rally round her as leader.\n\nIn an article for the paper, Dr Fox praises the prime minister's \"great inner strength\".\n\nBut Nigel Nelson in the People says Mrs May is no longer \"she who must be obeyed\" and instead labels her: \"She who's being abandoned.\"\n\nThe Sunday Mirror has a front page picture which it says shows prisoners cooking steaks smuggled into their jail.\n\nPictures inside the paper are said to expose the lifestyle of convicts - with no fear of authority - partying on drugs, vodka and take-away pizzas and fried chicken.\n\nThe paper says the pictures \"shame our failing prison system\".\n\nA spokesman for the Prison Service is quoted saying: \"This behaviour is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nThe Sun on Sunday also features a prison story.\n\nIt says \"prison chiefs have been blasted\" after reports that a mother was groomed from behind bars by the jailed paedophile, Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins.\n\nIt says it led to the woman's two-year-old daughter being taken into care, after police and social services were alerted.\n\nThe paper says it's only the latest in a series of scandals and the prison bosses who allowed it should be ashamed of themselves.\n\nMany of the Spanish papers carry pictures of the demonstrations for national unity that took place on Saturday, calling on Catalans to reject independence.\n\nThe country's biggest selling newspaper, El Pais, criticises the authorities in Catalonia, saying they should never have encouraged a large part of their population to go outside the legal framework and vote in a referendum already banned by the constitutional court.\n\nThe Observer says huge numbers are expected at a demonstration by Catalans opposed to independence in Barcelona today.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Times, \"Spain is a powder keg\" as Catalans edge closer to breaking away.", "Mike Pence said he abandoned the game because kneeling during the anthem \"disrespects our soldiers\"\n\nUS Vice-President Mike Pence has walked out of a National Football League (NFL) game after several players refused to stand for the US national anthem.\n\nMr Pence said he could not be present at an event that \"disrespects our soldiers, our flag\" after abandoning the game in his home state of Indiana.\n\nPresident Donald Trump tweeted that he had asked Mr Pence to leave if players kneeled and said he was \"proud of him\".\n\nKneeling at NFL games has become a form of protest against racial injustice.\n\nMr Trump has criticised players sharply for the protests and pressed the NFL to ban them.\n\n\"I left today's Colts game because @POTUS [President Trump] and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our flag, or our National Anthem,\" Mr Pence tweeted on Sunday.\n\nMike Pence travelled quite a ways - from Nevada to Indianapolis then back west to California - to make a statement.\n\nThere's little doubt the vice-president, despite his earlier tweet about looking forward to attending an NFL game in his home state, planned to walk out early.\n\nThe matchup involved the San Francisco 49ers, whose then-quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, started the kneeling protests. Mr Pence's media pool was told the vice-president might be making a quick exit. And Mr Pence's press statement, followed by a presidential tweet of approval, appeared shortly after Mr Pence left.\n\nNext come the questions. Was that statement worth the vice-president's time? And how much did that trip cost US taxpayers?\n\nTrump's supporters are already celebrating the move, helping the vice-president burnish his standing with his boss's loyal base.\n\nSome of the NFL players were clearly irritated by what they saw as a political publicity stunt.\n\nAmericans, according to polls, are split. They're not happy about the NFL protests, but they don't like Mr Trump's eagerness to stoke the flames of controversy. Now - as tensions rise in North Korea and yet another hurricane slams into the US - Mr Pence is joining the anthem fray.\n\nMr Pence's departure came after players from the visiting San Francisco 49ers did not stand during the anthem before the game against the Indianapolis Colts.\n\n\"While everyone is entitled to their own opinions, I don't think it's too much to ask NFL players to respect the flag,\" Mr Pence 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 Vice President Pence This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 had earlier tweeted that he and his wife Karen were looking forward to the game in a tweet in which he used of photo of then both wearing Colts shirts.\n\nThat the photo appeared also to have been used in 2014 has in part helped fuel critics' claims his walk out was a publicity stunt.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Vice President Pence This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Trump has previously said that his comments condemning the NFL protests have \"nothing to do with race\".\n\nBut his criticism of the protests has appeared to galvanise players,\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRecent protests have involved players kneeling, linking arms or staying in the locker room during the Star-Spangled Banner.\n\nSan Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick stirred controversy last year when he first knelt for the anthem to highlight the treatment of black Americans after a series of police shootings.\n\nSince then, more and more public figures in the US have been \"taking a knee\" at big events and using the hashtag #TakeAKnee on social media.", "Cabin crew reduced to tears, pilots refused days off even for their weddings, and workers \"left in exile\" thousands of miles from their homes and families.\n\nAfter budget airline Ryanair was forced to cancel thousands of flights - repeatedly blaming a rostering error rather than an alleged pilot shortage - chief executive Michael O'Leary has written to pilots offering them better pay and conditions.\n\nHere, a long-serving pilot explains why the offer is \"too little, too late\", and explains why his colleagues are leaving the airline.\n\nRyanair said it had \"messed up the allocation of annual leave\", but pilots claim their colleagues are leaving to fly for other airlines\n\nMr O'Leary is partly right to say the cancellations have been caused by problems accommodating pilots' leave, says the pilot.\n\nBut this has been exacerbated by unhappy staff seeking new jobs with rival airlines, he believes.\n\n\"The Irish Aviation Authority has changed the rules where pilots cannot fly more than 1,000 hours in a rolling year, and the flight hours have to be taken from January to December, whereas Ryanair were using April to April.\n\n\"Ryanair have been given two years' notice but the company have left it to the last minute,\" the pilot says.\n\n\"It's been the perfect storm because, at the same time, other airlines are hiring crews, so they are leaving for pastures new.\n\n\"If it wasn't for the crews' goodwill I think this crisis would have come sooner, because for a long time now they've been asking people to work days off.\n\n\"Pilots are being used as the scapegoat to cover for incompetency in the upper management, and it's just totally disgusting.\n\n\"Instead of O'Leary standing up and taking the blame he's directing the problems and the blame at pilots and saying it's because we're taking leave and holidays.\n\n\"That's simply not true. It may be true in a very few cases, but people are working harder now than ever to try to make up this shortfall in crewing levels that we have.\"\n\nRyanair staff have been sharing memes among each other that compare the management of Ryanair to the North Korean regime\n\nThe pilot said he and many other newly-qualified pilots joined Ryanair following the recession of 2008 when it was one of the few airlines still recruiting.\n\n\"A lot have remained here ticking along, but now that the market has become a lot more buoyant and there are other competitors offering much better terms and conditions, they've had enough and they are leaving,\" he said.\n\n\"On a local level the company is fantastic and I'm very fortunate to work with some very highly-skilled individuals.\n\n\"Then you have the management at the upper level and it's run like a communist regime in some respects. It's dictated from the top and you are just expected to get on with it.\n\n\"I know of colleagues that have had leave denied to get married and then these pilots rely on the goodwill and conscience of other pilots to cover their rostered flights so they can get married.\n\n\"This company will happily fire pilots to quell any uprising, even to the point where they would close a base or multiple bases to send a message to the rest: 'You just get on and do your job and keep doing what we tell you to do'.\n\n\"We have some memes that have been doing the rounds which we feel accurately portray the situation and feelings of the crew - comparing the company to the North Korean communist regime.\n\n\"The way they treat the staff is not much better, if not worse, than the way they treat their customers.\n\n\"People have just had enough of the toxic atmosphere that's been created here.\"\n\nThe BBC contacted Ryanair with these claims and a spokesman said it was \"untrue\" there was a toxic atmosphere among staff.\n\nRyanair chief executive Michael O'Leary has said he would \"challenge any pilot to explain how this is a difficult job or how it is they are overworked\"\n\nMr O'Leary has said pilots fly for no more than 18 hours a week. However, the British Airline Pilots' Association (Balpa) has said this \"does not seem to have any basis in reality\".\n\n\"In reality our hours are much longer than that,\" he said.\n\n\"[Mr O'Leary] has divided the maximum amount of hours a crew can fly in a year, which is 900 hours, by 52 weeks.\n\n\"I typically fly between 30 to 40 hours a week. This is what is called 'flight duty' and starts from reporting to work to when we set the parking brake at the end of the day.\n\n\"This does not include turnarounds and post-duty paperwork, which we are not paid for.\n\n\"If Ryanair advertise to their customers that the flight leaves at five o'clock and arrives at seven o'clock then we only get paid for those two hours.\n\n\"We are not paid for the time spent getting back to base either. Sometimes it's a case that you can't get back on the same day and you are having to pay for a hotel out of your own money, then catch a flight the following day to get home or catch multiple flight connections if the base isn't particularly well connected.\"\n\nRyanair declined to comment on whether pilots are paid only for the advertised length of the flight. It has said previously that pilots receive \"great pay and industry-leading terms and conditions\".\n\nThere is a lack of basic benefits such as crew meals and drinks, the pilot said\n\n\"Cabin crew are employed under similar conditions, on agency contracts, and the things I've seen are pretty disgusting,\" said the pilot.\n\n\"They are given unachievable sales targets, and if they've not reached sales targets they will be berated in a debriefing afterwards by a base supervisor, who is acting as a minion for Dublin.\n\n\"It's known for cabin crew to cry after their debriefings. I've seen them lined up almost like a military parade before being inspected, having their bags searched and all kinds of things.\n\n\"These people are not earning very much money - around £1,000 a month.\n\n\"In some bases the cabin crew even have to rent one room together, and sleep in the same bed - maybe one person who works early shifts and one person who works late shifts - because they are not paid enough to even afford their own accommodation in those particular areas.\n\n\"It's quite common for them to be threatened to be moved to a less desirable base, further away from home, unless their sales improve.\n\n\"There is also a lack of basic benefits - no free bottles of water, coffee or tea and no crew meals. All of this needs to be brought to work by the pilot and it's the same for cabin crew.\n\n\"They provide a water dispenser at every crew room, where you need to take an empty bottle to fill up. You also pay for your own uniform through a Ryanair-approved supplier.\"\n\nThe BBC asked Ryanair to comment on cabin crew being threatened and berated for not meeting sales targets, not being able to afford accommodation and sharing beds with colleagues. Ryanair responded: \"These claims are untrue.\"\n\nThe British Airline Pilots' Association (Balpa) has \"urged Ryanair to do more to encourage pilots to stay with the airline\"\n\n\"Some competitors do have similar work arrangements, but nothing to the extent that Ryanair do,\" the pilot said.\n\n\"They've copied the low cost business model from Southwest Airlines [in the United States] but gone to the extreme.\n\n\"Southwest make good profits and it's been ranked as one of the best airlines in America to fly for, as they take good care of crews and pay them well.\n\n\"However, Michael O'Leary seems to have taken enjoyment from taking the low road and taunting his customers and crews because he knows he can get away with it.\n\n\"Passengers want a British Airways service, but ultimately when it comes to booking they will book with Ryanair because he's offering a 10-euro seat.\n\n\"However, the tactics of ruling by fear and divide and conquer are outdated in the pilot market we're in now.\n\n\"Now, with the invention of WhatsApp people are openly discussing what's going on, and people are starting to see that there is more unity coming together.\n\n\"If there's no improvement here, and the management continue to bury their head in the sand, many people will continue to leave and the mass exodus will just continue.\"\n\nThe pilot said Mr O'Leary's offer of better pay and conditions \"does not come across as sincere and genuine\".\n\n\"People want to stay, they want to work and do a good job, but management are treating us like the enemy when we are the assets of the company,\" he said.\n\n\"We are an airline and without pilots and cabin crew the aircraft go nowhere.\"\n\nIn his latest letter to pilots, Mr O'Leary said he had interacted with many pilots over 30 years. \"Over this period I have always tried to be courteous, respectful and grateful for the outstanding job that you do, and this will remain my approach.\"\n\nMichael O'Leary, pictured outside a British Airways travel shop in 1998, has taken cost-cutting culture to the extreme, said the pilot\n\nThe BBC agreed not to identify the pilot.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video shows a man being pinned to the ground near the Natural History Museum\n\nA crash outside a London museum that injured 11 people was not terror-related, police have said.\n\nA black Toyota Prius hit the people outside the Natural History Museum in Exhibition Road, South Kensington.\n\nVideo footage that emerged on Twitter showed a man, believed to be the driver, being restrained on the ground.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police later said the incident was thought to be a \"road traffic collision\" and a man in his 40s had been arrested at the scene.\n\nHe was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and received hospital treatment before being taken to a north London police station for questioning.\n\nLondon Ambulance said the people it treated - including the detained man - had mostly sustained head and leg injuries. Nine were taken to hospital.\n\nThe Met said none of the injuries were believed to be life-threatening or life changing.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May tweeted her thanks to first responders and members of the public, adding: \"My thoughts are with the injured.\"\n\nA picture of the car at the scene on Exhibition Road\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan also tweeted his thanks and hopes for a \"swift recovery\" for those injured.\n\n\"For Londoners and visitors planning to visit our excellent museums and attractions in the area, please be assured they will be open as usual tomorrow.\"\n\nThe current terror threat in the UK is at \"severe\" - the second highest level - meaning an attack is highly likely.\n\nExhibition Road is an area popular with tourists as it is home to the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.\n\nOliver Cheshire, a model and popstar Pixie Lott's fiance, was involved in helping hold the man down after the incident.\n\nHe tweeted: \"I'm OK. Thank you to the men who helped me pin him down and the police for coming so quickly.\"\n\nBBC reporter Chloe Hayward, who was leaving the Natural History Museum as the crash happened at 14:20 BST, said she saw a car \"diagonally across the road\", looking like it had hit a bollard, before armed officers arrived.\n\nWe have been to the south end of Exhibition Road nearest the Tube and the area, normally a busy destination for Saturday afternoon dining by locals and tourists, is deserted.\n\nEyewitnesses told us that police came rushing into each bar and restaurant and told people to get out.\n\nWe can see coats on chairs - some knocked over - half-eaten meals and half-drunk glasses of wine.\n\nPolice helped one restaurant owner to recover staff belongings, like house keys, because it was unclear when the area would reopen.\n\nAn eyewitness who was walking to the Science Museum said: \"When waiting for the light, we heard what I thought was gunshots and saw a car drive over the pavement. We just ran. My friend dived on the floor and cut her hands.\"\n\nThe woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said: \"When it calmed down we walked back to where we'd been and saw a gentleman on the floor being restrained by police.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ellie Mackay, who lives opposite South Kensington tube station, said she heard \"a couple of loud bangs\"\n\nConnor Honeyman, from Essex, who was in the queue for the museum, said: \"We heard a horrible thudding noise and a car engine. Everyone started running and screaming inside.\n\n\"We ran in, everyone was following us, and then all the security guards ran out and they closed the main entrance. There was much confusion before the police got there.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Chloe Hayward said she saw a car diagonally across the road", "US President Donald Trump has had an ill-tempered exchange with a leading Republican senator, aggravating already poor relations between the two men.\n\nForeign Relations Committee head Bob Corker was a \"negative voice\" and \"largely responsible for the horrendous Iran Deal\", Mr Trump tweeted.\n\nMr Corker hit back that the White House had become an \"adult day care centre\".\n\nHe was considered for the job of secretary of state by Mr Trump last year but they have since clashed.\n\nAnalysts suggest Mr Trump's tirade on Sunday morning may have been prompted by Mr Corker's message of support last week for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, which was also seen as a jab at the president.\n\nHe was quoted by media as saying that Mr Tillerson was \"in an incredibly frustrating place\" where he \"ends up not being supported in the way that I hope a secretary of state would be supported\".\n\nOn Wednesday Mr Tillerson denied rumours that he was about to resign.\n\nLast month Mr Corker announced that he would not seek re-election at next year's mid-term elections. He has been an ardent supporter of the 2015 agreement to curb Iran's development of nuclear weapons.\n\nMr Trump has sharply criticised the deal on many occasions and is expected to de-certify it next week.\n\nMr Trump said he refused to endorse Mr Corker for re-election\n\nIn a series of tweets, Mr Trump said: \"Senator Bob Corker 'begged' me to endorse him for re-election in Tennessee. I said 'NO' and he dropped out (said he could not win without my endorsement).\n\n\"He also wanted to be Secretary of State, I said 'NO THANKS.' He is also largely responsible for the horrendous Iran Deal!\n\n\"Hence, I would fully expect Corker to be a negative voice and stand in the way of our great agenda. Didn't have the guts to run!\"\n\nMr Corker responded: \"It's a shame the White House has become an adult day care center.\n\n\"Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.\"\n\nThe two men previously clashed in August when the senator criticised Mr Trump's response to the clashes between white supremacists and anti-fascist demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia.\n\nMr Trump responded by tweeting about Mr Corker's apparent hesitation about running for re-election.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The chief executive of failed airline Monarch tells Today projected losses were too great to stay operating\n\nMore than 60% of holidaymakers left overseas when Monarch Airlines collapsed have now flown back to the UK, the Civil Aviation Authority says.\n\nThe CAA stepped in after all of Monarch's flights and holidays were cancelled, leasing and chartering planes from 16 different countries.\n\nOn Saturday, 51 flights carried more than 11,000 people back to UK airports, bringing the total to 67,522.\n\nThe collapse of the 50-year old company is the largest ever for a UK airline.\n\nBy Sunday morning, more than 350 flights chartered or leased by the CAA had brought Monarch customers back from their destination.\n\nIt said the vast majority of the 110,000 passengers who were on holiday and booked to fly home with the airline when it went into administration will be back in the UK by next weekend.\n\nThe CAA called the flight operation \"the biggest peacetime repatriation effort\", and still expects it to cost close to £60m.\n\nThe bill will be met by the government and a trust run by the UK's holiday industry licensing body Atol, which collects a levy on all holiday packages sold in the UK.\n\nThe CAA also suggested Monarch passengers with Air Travel Organiser's Licence (Atol) protection should have their refunds within 28 days of submitting a claim.\n\nThe organisation is expecting £21m worth of payouts to rectify around 32,000 claims.\n\nKPMG. the administrators for the now-defunct airline, has estimated that just 10-15% of Monarch customers have bookings protected by Atol.\n\nThe scheme only covers package holidays or Monarch flight-only bookings made before 15 December 2016.\n\nThose without Atol protection will be forced to seek refunds from their credit or debit card supplier or through travel insurance.\n\nCAA chair Dame Deirdre Hutton earlier told the BBC it could not act before Monarch's announcement, even though it was known the firm was in difficulty.\n\n\"The regulator really can't step in until a company goes into administration, that is completely a matter for the company directors,\" she said. \"It would be neither possible nor legal for us to give out confidential financial information while a company is still operating legally.\n\n\"Monarch didn't own the planes, the planes were leased, so as soon as the company went into administration, the owners of the planes took them back and that's why we've had to acquire planes from 16 different countries.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab: Planning for Brexit no deal 'goes on'\n\nContingency plans in case the UK has to leave the EU with no deal in place are \"well under way\", a minister has said.\n\nDominic Raab said while the UK had to \"strive for the very best outcome\" from Brexit negotiations, it had to \"prepare for all eventualities\".\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph claimed there were plans to \"unlock\" billions of pounds in the new year to prepare for a \"no deal\" Brexit, if talks make no progress.\n\nSix months of Brexit negotiations have not led to a significant breakthrough.\n\nLast month Prime Minister Theresa May used a speech in Florence to set out proposals for a two-year transition period after the UK leaves the EU in March 2019, in a bid to ease the deadlock.\n\nTalks had stalled over key issues including EU citizens' rights, a financial settlement and on the Northern Ireland border.\n\nUK Brexit Secretary David Davis has since said \"decisive steps forward\" have been made - although EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has said there are still \"big gaps\" between the two sides on some issues.\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph reported that, if no further progress is made, Mrs May has decided to commit billions in the new year to spend on things like new technology to speed up customs checks, in case there is no trade deal and the UK has to revert to World Trade Organisation tariffs with the EU.\n\nAppearing on the BBC's Sunday Politics, Justice Minister Mr Raab was asked why there was no visible sign of preparations for no deal - such as the recruitment of more customs officers and more infrastructure at ports.\n\nHe said: \"This planning goes on, it's right that it does because of the prime minister's clear point of view that we need to search and hope for the best, strive for the very best outcome from these negotiations, but prepare for all eventualities.\n\n\"What we don't do is run around advertising it demonstrably. Why? Because we want to send the right, positive tone to our EU partners.\n\n\"So we don't go talking about what happens if we end up with no deal, but quietly, assiduously, those preparations will be in place.\"\n\nHe added that the government wanted to see \"the best deal I think in terms of trade, security, co-operation\" but added: \"Those contingency plans are well under way.\"\n\nLabour's Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry told the programme that after Brexit, Britain \"should stay as close as we can\" to the EU because it is \"good for our economy\".\n\n\"We need to leave the European Union but it is good for our economy - they're our biggest market - that we stay as close as we can.\n\n\"And the problem that the British country has is that a good half of the Tory party wants to go sailing off into the mid-Atlantic with no deal at all and that would be disastrous for our country.\"\n\nEU leaders are due to decide at October's meeting of the European Council whether enough progress has been made on key issues to move on to the UK's post-Brexit relationship with the EU.\n\nMeanwhile two Conservative MEPs who voted to block moves towards trade talks between the UK and European Union have had the party whip removed.\n\nSouth West MEP Julie Girling and South East MEP Richard Ashworth were suspended from the Conservative Party after supporting a resolution in Strasbourg declaring that \"sufficient progress\" had not been made in talks to move on to discussions about the future relationship.\n\nThe non-binding vote was passed by 557 votes to 92, with 29 abstentions\n\nIn a letter, European Parliament Chief Whip Dan Dalton said: \"Given the seriousness of this issue, and your failure to discuss your intention to vote against the agreed position of the Conservative delegation in advance, I am therefore writing to inform you that I am suspending the Conservative whip from you until further notice.\"\n\nJulie Girling told her local newspaper she had not voted to block trade talks but to \"focus the minds of negotiators\" and \"drive more effective negotiations\".\n\nMr Ashworth reportedly said he was confused by the suspension: \"The vote was not about disrupting Brexit and the negotiations. We were asked a technical question about how much progress had been made and the answer for me was not enough.\"\n\nThe fourth round of Brexit negotiations began on 25 September, with the UK due to leave the EU in March 2019.", "A woman has been charged with being drunk and disorderly following an incident at Buckingham Palace.\n\nJessica Davey, 35, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nShe was detained by officers at the palace on Saturday afternoon and taken to a central London police station.\n\nDavey, from Queen's Park in west London, remains in custody ahead of her court appearance.", "In the flesh, Wayne May (not his real name) is an affable gentleman in his late 40s, softly spoken with a lilting Welsh accent.\n\nWhen we meet he's casually dressed in jeans and a Batman T-shirt. He works full-time as a carer.\n\nOn the net, he's a tireless defender of scam victims and a fearless scam baiter - a person who deliberately contacts scammers, engages with them and then publishes as much information about them as possible in order to warn others.\n\nHe regularly receives death threats, and his website, Scam Survivors, is often subjected to attempted DDoS attacks - where a site is maliciously hit with lots of web traffic to try to knock it offline.\n\nBut Mr May is determined to continue helping scamming victims in his spare time, and has a team of volunteers in the US, Canada and Europe doing the same.\n\n\"Wayne May\" says victims need to accept that they are unlikely to get their money back\n\nScam Survivors is not an official platform - in the UK victims are encouraged to contact Action Fraud - but the team has dealt with 20,000 cases in the past 12 years, he claims.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics there were 1.9 million reports of \"cyber-related\" fraud in the year ending March 2017 in England and Wales. But the report also says that many incidents go unreported.\n\nThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission website says nearly AUS$13m (£8m, $10m) has been lost this year to romance fraud alone.\n\nScamming may be an old trick but it's still an effective one.\n\nMr May, who does not charge but invites donations on his website, says his website gets up to 10,000 hits a day and the group also receives up to two dozen messages a day from people who are victims of sextortion - when a person is blackmailed after being persuaded to carry out a sex act on webcam, which is then recorded.\n\n\"A lot of people, when they come to us are already so far deep into it, they have nowhere to turn,\" he says.\n\n\"They're not stupid, they're just unaware of the scam.\"\n\n\"It's not obvious [that it's a scam] if they've never experienced it before.\"\n\nHe discovered he was \"rather good\" at baiting romance scammers and found relatives of victims were approaching him to help loved-ones.\n\n\"I started dealing more with the victims of the scams rather than the scammers themselves, so my priorities changed then from just having fun to actually helping people.\"\n\nMany scams are not a particularly sophisticated form of fraud.\n\n\"There are constantly new scams coming out, and we need to be aware of those,\" says Mr May.\n\n\"But a lot of the scams aren't high-tech, they simply write messages to people and that's it.\n\n\"You might think, 'I'm not going to fall for this scam' but then you'll fall for another one. The scammers will find a chink in your armour.\"\n\nDaniel Perry, 17, died in a fall from the Forth Road Bridge in July 2013 - he was a victim of sextortion\n\nThe first thing Mr May has to explain to those who get in touch is that Scam Survivors cannot recover any money the victim has been persuaded to hand it over.\n\nIn his experience, the average victim will end up around £1,000 out of pocket, but some will go a lot further - one man who recently made contact with the support group had given more than £500,000 to a male Russian scammer he thought he was in a relationship with.\n\n\"We say upfront, we can't get your money back. We can't offer you emotional support. We're not psychiatrists. We're just people who know how scams work and how to deal with them,\" he says.\n\nTo prevent being a victim, his advice is simple: \"Google everything.\"\n\nSearch the images you are sent, the messages you receive - often scammers use the same material and the more widely shared it is, the more likely it is to end up on a website dedicated to exposing scams.\n\nIf you fear blackmail, Mr May suggests setting up an alert so that you are notified if your name is mentioned online. If, in the case of sextortion, a video is published on the net, you will then know straight away and can report it, as you are likely to be tagged in it.\n\n\"Be aware and learn how to search everything,\" he says.\n\n\"If someone sends you a picture or text, search it, try to find out as much as you can. If you're unsure don't send them money.\"\n\nAction Fraud, the UK's national fraud and cyber-crime reporting service, said all scams reported to it are passed on to the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau, which is part of City of London Police.\n\nHowever, a spokeswoman told the BBC that only around 30% of all fraud cases had \"viable lines of inquiry\".\n\n\"We know that at these levels it is difficult for law enforcement agencies to investigate all these crimes,\" said a spokeswoman.\n\n\"We have to maximise our resources where there is the best chance of a successful investigative outcome.\"\n\nProfessor Alan Woodward, cyber-security expert from Surrey University, said it was still important to keep reporting scams to the national body even if individual justice was not always possible.\n\n\"For those contacting Action Fraud UK to report a crime it may appear that little happens, but your information is vital in constructing an accurate picture of where, when and how online scams are occurring,\" he said.\n\n\"It may be that the police are unable to solve your individual crime but by studying the big picture they are able to zero in on the scammers.\n\n\"Your report could be vital in completing the overall picture and enable law enforcement to prevent others suffering as you have.\"\n\nSome people argue that the scammers themselves are also in desperate situations - many of them operate in some of the poorest parts of the world, such as West Africa and the Philippines.\n\nWayne May has no sympathy.\n\n\"These people aren't Robin Hood types,\" he says.\n\n\"If you go online and scam people you have the money to go online, if you can't afford food you can't spend hours in an internet cafe.\"\n\nHe is, however, haunted by one occasion when a woman from the Philippines he was scam-baiting offered to perform on webcam for him. When he declined she then asked if she should involve her sister.\n\n\"She called this girl over and she couldn't have been more than nine or 10,\" he recalls.\n\n\"That horrified me. I said, 'Don't do this, not for me, not for anybody. You shouldn't do this'. I couldn't talk to her again after that. I had to completely walk away.\"\n\nHe says he has no idea what happened to her.\n\n\"I can't let it affect me too much, otherwise I wouldn't be able to do what I do,\" he said.\n\n\"I've been doing it for almost 12 years now, and if I let every case affect me I'd be a gibbering wreck in the corner.\"\n\nRomance - when a scammer builds an intense online relationship with someone, then asks for money\n\nSextortion - when a victim is persuaded to carry out a sex act on webcam which is then videoed and the scammer demands a ransom in return for not publishing the content on the net\n\nPets - a pet is advertised for sale, and then fees are demanded in order to get the pet to its new owner. The pet does not exist.\n\nHitman - Someone claims to be a hitman and says that they have been paid to kill you. They then say that if you are prepared to pay more, they will not carry out the threat.\n\n419 - named after section 419 of the Nigerian criminal code - claiming money from another person under false pretence: such as needing assistance to release a large sum of fictional inheritance.", "The crash happened on Exhibition Road, in London's South Kensington\n\nA man arrested following a crash outside London's Natural History Museum has been released under investigation, police said.\n\nThe 47-year-old had been questioned on suspicion of dangerous driving.\n\nEleven people suffered non-life threatening injuries in the incident, involving a Black Toyota Prius, in South Kensington on Saturday.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was not \"terrorist-related\" and is appealing for witnesses.\n\nLondon Ambulance Service said the people it treated - including the suspected driver - had mostly sustained head and leg injuries. Nine were taken to hospital.\n\nThe Met said none of the injuries was believed to be life changing and the majority of those hurt had been discharged by Saturday night.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video shows a man being pinned to the ground near the Natural History Museum\n\nSaturday's incident at about 14:20 BST on Exhibition Road initially sparked panic in an area popular with families and tourists.\n\nArmed police were deployed and video footage quickly emerged showing a man, believed to be the driver, being restrained on the ground.\n\nHowever, the Met later said its inquiry was \"entirely a road traffic investigation\".\n\nDet Con Darren Case, from the force's roads and transport team, said he appreciated \"the concern and alarm this incident caused\".\n\n\"Enquiries have established that this incident is not terrorist related and I'd like to thank those who came to assist the injured,\" he said.\n\nAs well as the Natural History Museum, the area is also home to the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.\n\nRoad closures at the scene have now been lifted\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May tweeted her thanks to first responders and members of the public, adding: \"My thoughts are with the injured.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan also tweeted his thanks and hopes for a \"swift recovery\" for those injured.\n\n\"For Londoners and visitors planning to visit our excellent museums and attractions in the area, please be assured they will be open as usual tomorrow.\"\n\nThe fiance of singer Pixie Lott, Oliver Cheshire, was one of those who held down the driver of the car involved in the incident.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Oliver Cheshire This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 current terror threat in the UK is at \"severe\" - the second highest level - meaning an attack is highly likely.\n\nPolice say anyone with any information about the incident is asked to contact the Serious Collision Investigation Unit on 020 8543 5157.", "A lawyer for the 42-year-old artist denied the allegations\n\nRapper Nelly has been arrested after a woman accused him of raping her on his tour bus following a concert near Seattle.\n\nPolice in Auburn said they arrested the artist after a woman called emergency services at 03:48 (10:48 GMT) to report a sex assault.\n\nThe singer strongly denies the allegations and has now been released.\n\n\"I have not been charged... therefore no bail was required,\" he tweeted.\n\nNelly, 42, is currently on tour with the Backstreet Boys and Florida Georgia Line\n\nThe singer tweeted that he was \"beyond shocked that I have been targeted with this false allegation\".\n\n\"I am completely innocent,\" he said. \"I am confident that once the facts are looked at, it will be very clear that I am the victim of a false allegation.\"\n\nNelly, whose real name is Cornell Iral Haynes Jr, was taken into custody on a second degree rape charge, TMZ said.\n\nIn a statement his lawyer also described the allegation as \"completely fabricated\".\n\n\"Our initial investigation clearly establishes this allegation is devoid of credibility and is motivated by greed and vindictiveness,\" Scott Rosenblum said in a statement.\n\nNelly is best known for his US number one hits \"Hot in herre\" and \"Dilemma\". He last released a studio album in 2013.\n\nIn 2015 he was arrested on felony charges after police found drugs and guns on board his tour bus.\n\nThe 42-year-old is currently on tour with the Backstreet Boys and Florida Georgia Line, and performed in Auburn on Friday night.\n\nThe bus was parked near a local Walmart at the time of the alleged incident. A police statement said they were continuing to investigate.\n\nNelly was due to perform on the Smooth Stadium Tour in Ridgefield near Portland on Saturday evening.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Catfish in the streets as Nate floods US cities\n\nStorm Nate has weakened to a tropical depression after bringing strong winds, heavy rain and some flooding to the south-eastern United States.\n\nIt made landfall as a hurricane twice, in Louisiana and Mississippi, and is currently over Alabama.\n\nStorm surge warnings have been lifted across the region.\n\nNate killed at least 25 people in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Honduras. No deaths or injuries have yet been reported in the US.\n\nAlthough it was not as strong as last month's Maria and Irma, the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and parts of Florida had issued warnings and evacuation orders ahead of its arrival.\n\nFilm footage from Biloxi, Mississippi, where the storm made landfall, showed flooded streets and highways.\n\nStorm surges displaced boats, vehicles and even this gazebo\n\nBut the waters quickly receded, leaving boats and vehicles marooned.\n\nMayor of nearby Gulfport, Billy Hewes, told the BBC the storm surge did not appear to be as high as feared and he thought the damage there would \"be minimal\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres: \"The origin is clear - we are facing the consequences of climate change\"\n\nMississippi emergency official Greg Flynn told AP that more than 1,000 people in the state spent the night in shelters but no major damage had been reported.\n\nIn southern Alabama, the local power company said some 5,000 people were without power. Residents there had been urged to take precautions ahead of Nate's arrival.\n\nA mandatory curfew was lifted in New Orleans, Louisiana, as the threat to the city - devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 - was downgraded.\n\nNate was downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm by the National Hurricane Center at 09:00 GMT on Sunday, and later to a tropical depression.\n\nWarnings of storm surge flooding were lifted on Sunday afternoon.\n\nSome 300 guests were in the Golden Nugget Hotel in Biloxi when the storm came\n\nFive ports along the Gulf Coast were also closed to shipping as a precaution ahead of Nate's arrival. Most oil and gas platforms in the US Gulf of Mexico also evacuated their staff, but are now planning to reopen.\n\nUS President Donald Trump on Saturday issued an emergency declaration for Louisiana and Mississippi, allowing the state to seek federal help with preparation and possible relief efforts.\n\nNate caused heavy rains, landslides and floods which blocked roads, destroyed bridges and damaged houses as it tore through central America.\n\nAt least 13 people died in Nicaragua, eight in Costa Rica, three in Honduras and one in El Salvador.\n\nThe tail of the storm is still causing problems in the region, where thousands have been forced to sleep in shelters and some 400,000 people in Costa Rica were reported to be without running water.\n\nUN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, visiting Antigua and Barbuda which were badly damaged by Hurricane Irma in September, said the international community needed to do more to help Caribbean countries hit by a series of powerful hurricanes.\n\n\"There is an increasing intensity of hurricanes, an increasing frequency, and increasing devastation,\" he told the BBC. \"The origin is clear - we are facing the consequences of climate change.\"", "Kim Yo-jong (circled) has often appeared alongside her brother\n\nNorth Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un has given his sister more power by promoting her to the nation's top decision-making body.\n\nKim Yo-jong, the youngest daughter of late leader Kim Jong-il, will be replacing her aunt as a member of the Workers Party's Politburo.\n\nMs Kim, 30, was referred to as a senior party official three years ago.\n\nThe Kim family has ruled North Korea since the country was established following the Second World War in 1948.\n\nMs Kim, who has frequently appeared alongside her brother in public and is thought to have been responsible for his public image, was already influential as vice-director of the propaganda and agitation department.\n\nShe is blacklisted by the US over alleged links to human rights abuses in North Korea.\n\nHer promotion was announced by Mr Kim at a party meeting on Saturday as part of a reshuffle involving dozens of other top officials.\n\nWhen Ms Kim was given a key post at the country's rare ruling party congress last year, it was widely expected that she would take up an important role in the country's core leadership.\n\nAmong other announcements made on Saturday was the decision to promote Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho - who last month referred to US President Donald Trump as \"President Evil\" at a UN meeting - to a full vote-carrying member of the Politburo.\n\nMr Ri has recently accused Mr Trump of declaring war on North Korea and said that if the president continues with his \"dangerous\" rhetoric the US will become an \"inevitable\" target for missile strikes.\n\nThe promotions come as a defiant Mr Kim once again made it clear that North Korea's nuclear weapons programme would continue despite sanctions and threats.\n\nHis comments were made hours before Mr Trump tweeted that \"only one thing will work\" in dealing with Pyongyang following years of dialogue that the US president said had failed to deliver results.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scotland First Minister on Catalonia: \"How can Catalans legally express their view?\n\nNicola Sturgeon says her government will pay a so-called \"settled status\" fee of any EU citizen working in the public sector in Scotland.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has offered settled status to EU migrants who have lived in the UK for five years.\n\nHowever, the UK government has hinted that those applying for the status will have to pay a fee.\n\nScotland's first minister made the announcement ahead of her party's annual conference in Glasgow.\n\nThe three-day conference is the party's 83rd and the first since June's general election, when the SNP lost 21 of the 56 seats it won in 2015.\n\nThey included those of former leader Alex Salmond and its deputy leader Angus Robertson.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Ms Sturgeon said EU migrants had made a big contribution and their right to remain in Scotland should be guaranteed.\n\nShe said: \"It appears that the UK government is going to make EU citizens apply for what they're calling settled status and possibly charge a fee for that.\n\n\"They haven't said what that fee would be, but if it's the same as it is for residents, it will be around £65.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said it was time for dialogue to replace confrontation in Catalonia\n\n\"We will pay that for workers in the public sector. Why? Because it helps individuals, it helps us keep vital workers in the NHS and public services and it sends a message to EU nationals that we want them to stay here because we welcome them.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon also discussed the disputed referendum in Catalonia, but refused to say whether or not she would recognise an independent Catalonia, should its government declare independence.\n\nShe told the programme: \"What I think has to be recognised is the strength of feeling in Catalonia.\n\n\"I think it's now time for dialogue to replace confrontation.\"\n\nShe added: \"You cannot simply say the right of a people to choose their future is illegal in all circumstances.\"\n\nWhen pressed on whether she would back the Catalan leaders, she responded: \"We'd recognise the decisions and the statements that were made, but I'm not going to speculate here on what will happen in Catalonia before it happens.\n\n\"I'm not in control of that. It's not for me to decide what is the right future for Catalonia.\"\n\nShe added: \"My view is that is shouldn't be resolved by both sides going further to extreme positions.\n\n\"It should be resolved by both sides coming together to try to find a way forward in this that respects all of these principles - the rule of law, democracy and the right to choose.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon will address her party's conference on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nHer deputy and Education Secretary John Swinney opened the three-day event at the SECC by announcing a new system of bursaries to tempt professionals from science, technology and maths subjects into teaching.\n\nHe told delegates that with \"chaos on the left and chaos on the right, through it all the SNP government stands firm\" as \"a beacon of progressive, effective government, delivering for all of the people of Scotland\".\n\nThere has long been a dilemma confronting the SNP when preparing for a party conference. Do they yell Freedom and energise the faithful? Or do they ca' canny with the aim of attracting the unpersuaded?\n\nIn practice, of course, they customarily offer a bit of both. The issue, then, is emphasis, prioritisation. Thus far, the Glasgow conference defaults rather towards caution.\n\nI think we may reasonably pay little heed to those who point out that there is no formal debate at the conference on independence.\n\nIt is not the case - not remotely the case - that the issue of Scotland's constitutional future is being ignored. Indeed, in his opening keynote speech, John Swinney drew huge applause and cheers when he urged delegates to \"rededicate ourselves to independence.\"\n\nIt is rather a question of tactics. There is more of an emphasis upon what we might call, for short, the day job.\n\nRead more from Brian here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jamie Harron has been prevented from leaving the country and has had his passport confiscated\n\nA Scot, who is facing a three-year jail term in Dubai for putting his hand on a man in a bar, has appeared in court.\n\nJamie Harron, from Stirling, was summoned to a hearing on Sunday after he reportedly failed to attend a previous court date in the city.\n\nThe 27-year-old was arrested for public indecency following an incident at the Rock Bottom Bar in Dubai on 15 July.\n\nDespite fears he would be rearrested, Mr Harron was freed but told to remain in the city for future court dates.\n\nThe electrician, who had been working in Afghanistan, was on a two-day stopover in the United Arab Emirates when the incident happened.\n\nHe claims he was trying to avoid spilling his drink in the crowded club and was holding his hand out in front of him when he inadvertently \"touched a man on his hip to avoid impact\".\n\nHe was reportedly locked up for five days in Al Barsha prison, before being released on bail and having his passport confiscated.\n\nJamie Harron was at the Rock Bottom Bar when the incident reportedly happened\n\nA spokeswoman for the charity, Detained in Dubai, which is representing Mr Harron, told the BBC she had expected him to be rearrested at court on Sunday for his previous non-appearance.\n\nShe expressed relief that he had been freed. However, said he still faced future court appearances for the original charges relating to public indecency and consumption of alcohol.\n\nRadha Stirling, chief executive of Detained in Dubai, said: \"Jamie is relieved he wasn't arrested at the latest hearing. It was expected that he would have to spend some time in prison.\"\n\nMs Stirling said a further court date was expected in about two weeks, although no firm date had yet been set.\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it was providing consular assistance on the matter.\n\nThe arrest follows the case of an Edinburgh man who was also detained in Dubai after attempting to exchange a fake £20.\n\nWilliam Barclay, from Edinburgh, returned home on Friday after being held in a Dubai jail for three days during a family holiday.", "The Royal Navy could lose its ability to assault enemy held beaches, under plans being considered in the Ministry of Defence, BBC Newsnight understands.\n\nTwo specialist landing ships - HMS Albion and Bulwark - would be taken out of service under the proposals.\n\nThe plan - part of a package of cost-cutting measures - has caused alarm among senior Royal Marine officers.\n\nThe MoD told the BBC that no decisions have been made yet and that discussion of options was \"pure speculation\".\n\nIt is understood the head of the Royal Navy, Admiral Sir Philip Jones, formulated the move as part of a package designed to balance the books and free up sailors for the service's two new aircraft carriers.\n\nCritics say the proposal would deprive the Royal Marines of its core mission.\n\nAmong other cuts envisaged are a reduction of 1,000 to the strength of the Royal Marines and the early retirement of two mine-hunting vessels and one survey vessel.\n\nA senior Royal Marine officer blamed the introduction of the new carriers for exacerbating the senior service's financial and manning problems.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"This is the worst procurement decision of the past half century - that's what the Royal Marines are being sacrificed for.\"\n\nThe proposed cuts are part of a raft of \"adjustments\" being considered by all three services - the Royal Navy, the Army and the Royal Air Force - as the Ministry of Defence struggles to balance its books.\n\nThe Royal Air Force could slow down orders of its new F35 fighter, and the Army could lose dozens of helicopters as part of their efforts towards the same goal.\n\nIn 2015 there was a Strategic Defence and Security Review, a paper intended to act as a blueprint for the coming five years.\n\nHowever the depreciation of sterling has made big buys of foreign equipment more expensive and the armed forces have crammed the programme with too many projects, creating a hole in the budget.\n\nThe government announced \"additional work to review national security capabilities\" in July - a review by stealth - under the leadership of its national security adviser Mark Sedwill.\n\nThe proposed cuts to the Royal Navy have been put forward as part of this exercise.\n\nUnder the 1997 defence review, a group of ships was created to improve the UK's ability to land its commando brigade, even in the face of opposition.\n\nThe helicopter carrier Ocean, two specialist landing ships - Albion and Bulwark - and four logistic support ships were to be acquired to allow the 5,000 strong force to continue performing operations such as the 1982 Falklands landing, or the one on the Faw peninsula during the 2003 Iraq conflict.\n\nWith the retirement of HMS Ocean already announced, and the new plans to lose the two landing ships, the Royal Marines' ability to use landing or hovercraft to get ashore would be drastically curtailed.\n\nIn recent years, as an economy measure, the Royal Navy has only been crewing Albion or Bulwark alternately - they are big ships, each requiring a complement of 325.\n\nWhile the government has dubbed 2017 \"the Year of the Royal Navy\" and emphasised its commitment to a new national shipbuilding strategy, observers at the MoD noticed that this blueprint contained no commitment to renew the amphibious warfare fleet.\n\nThe service is already committed to putting its two new carriers into service, replacing Trident, buying a new class of hunter-killer submarines, and two new types of frigate.\n\n\"The Royal Navy has got us into this mess\", said a senior MoD figure, referring to the department's budgetary black hole, \"so it's up to them to take the pain necessary to get us out of it\".\n\nWith budgetary responsibility devolved to service chiefs, it fell to the head of the Navy Admiral Sir Philip Jones, to come up with proposals for how he could run the fleet within the financial and personnel limits he has been set.", "The industrial action is over plans to make train doors driver-only operated\n\nTrain services have ended for the day in two companies affected by a second 24-hour strike by RMT members this week across England.\n\nAll services have finished on Arriva Rail North and all but one have ended on Merseyrail.\n\nBoth Southern and Greater Anglia said a lot of their services ran normally despite the 24-hour walkout.\n\nUnions say the industrial action is over plans to make train doors driver-only operated.\n\nRail companies have said this means the guard's role will change but some workers believe safety procedures would be compromised.\n\nRail companies warned commuters trains that are running would be very busy and some beleaguered commuters chose to stay at home\n\nUnion members at South Western have also voted to strike, but any action first needs to be agreed with the executive body. The operator said it planned to increase numbers of drivers and guards and urged its staff to \"avoid premature strike action\".\n\nThe strikes have coincided with a planned closure of Liverpool Lime Street for refurbishment, something the boss of Merseyrail, Jan Chaudhry-van der Velde, said \"doubled up the inconvenience\".\n\nRail companies warned commuters that trains are running would be very busy and some beleaguered commuters chose to stay at home.\n\nThe strikes have coincided with a planned closure of Liverpool Lime Street for refurbishment\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling said: \"There is no safety issue, on Northern they haven't even set out in detail plans for how the new trains are going to work.\n\n\"Merseyrail have bought new trains in the wake of a safety investigation that recommended they take this approach.\n\n\"I'm afraid leading figures of the RMT have made it clear they are in a political battle with the government and the passengers are pawns, and I feel desperately sorry for the passengers.\"\n\nA Southern spokesman said: \"Today will be the 36th day of RMT strikes and we, like our passengers and the vast majority of our colleagues, simply want an end to this unnecessary dispute.\"\n\nPassenger services director Angie Doll added: \"The RMT is striking about changes we made almost a year ago as part of our modernisation programme.\n\n\"Nobody has lost their job over this, in fact we employ more on-board staff to help passengers than we did before, and we are providing a better service with fewer cancelled trains.\"\n\nIndustrial action by London Underground drivers that would have coincided with the rail strike was called off\n\nSharon Keith, regional director for Northern Rail, the operating name of Arriva Rail North, said she wanted to work with the unions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a large modernisation agenda so we're investing in new trains [and] refurbished trains and what we want to do with our people is to modernise that role.\"\n\nJamie Burles, managing director of Greater Anglia, said all of the company's trains were operating \"as promised\".\n\nHe added: \"Everywhere I've been all of our employees are working really well.\n\n\"The trains haven't all been on time because there's a couple of trees on the overhead lines but it's been been a good day with lots and lots of passengers.\"\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Cash said union members \"stand solid, united and determined this morning in the latest phase of strike action\".\n\n\"Political and public support is flooding in as our communities choose to stand by their guards against the financially and politically motivated drive to throw safety-critical staff off our trains,\" he added.\n\n\"Again this morning I am calling on Theresa May and Chris Grayling to call off the centrally imposed blockade on serious talks in these disputes and allow us to get on with genuine negotiations with their contractors.\"\n\nThe union claimed members of the public were put at risk after the doors on one of Greater Anglia's trains was opened on the wrong side by stand-in conductors during Tuesday's strike action.\n\nIt is understood the doors were incorrectly operated when the service arrived at Ipswich train station, but no passengers were hurt.\n\nThe RMT claimed the rail company was \"using staff who have had a few days training rather than the four months required by the company's own standards\".\n\nBut Greater Anglia said the stand-in staff had \"safely operated over 500 services\" and they had been \"fully trained and had to pass safety, competency and medical tests\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Skelding This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGreater Anglia said a \"full, normal service with no service alterations\" was operating despite the industrial action.\n\nSome routes operated by Southern will not run, and others will be a \"limited service\", running only at peak times.\n\nArriva Rail North says it will run a reduced service, and warned passengers the trains that do run are likely to be very busy.\n\nMerseyrail is running reduced services and some stations will be closed.\n\nIndustrial action by London Underground drivers that would have coincided with the rail strike was called off following talks between management and the ASLEF union.", "Mohammed spends his days playing computer games and looking after his granddad. He's only 14, but he hasn't been to school since December. The idea was to home school him - but things didn't quite work out like that, reports the BBC's Sue Mitchell.\n\nHe lives in a spotlessly clean Bradford semi-detached house, with pale wood flooring and deep, comfortable sofas. His mother works part time as a nursery nurse and his father is a taxi driver.\n\nHis mum admits she is totally out of her depth.\n\nShe says she agreed to try to educate Mohammed herself at the suggestion of his school, after he was excluded for bad behaviour. She wanted to keep him out of the only alternative, a pupil referral unit.\n\nMohammed wasn't opposed to the idea at first. \"I thought it would be good because I wouldn't mix in with bad children,\" he says.\n\nBut it was harder than he expected. \"My mum isn't a proper teacher, she just helps nursery kids. She's not a teacher for maths, science and English. I couldn't learn from her.\"\n\nHis dad, who works long hours, tells him that he is squandering his life opportunities. \"He says: 'You've just ruined your chances' - that I could have had a good education and done my GCSEs and had a good life, but now I've wasted that,\" Mohammed says.\n\nMany families say home schooling works well for them. But Mohammed is one of a growing number of children who find themselves falling out of the state education system, according to Richard Watts, the chair of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People's Board.\n\nHe says it's increasingly common to hear of schools \"effectively putting a lot of pressure on parents to home educate their kids to get them off their rolls, particularly when exam time comes around\".\n\nMohammed was only 13 when he was excluded from school for setting off fireworks in the corridor with other boys. \"We went to a meeting, but they said there's no way of him coming back to the school,\" says his mum.\n\nMohammed had already been in trouble with the school authorities for fighting. \"At school he thought they ganged up on him and called him names, trying to provoke him. Mohammed is really quiet, but if he hasn't done nothing he'll be upset by it,\" his mother says.\n\n\"When Mohammed first settled into secondary education he was good. I think it's that he finds it hard to settle down and so much depends on his friendship group.\"\n\nBy year nine it became clear that he would no longer have a place in mainstream education. It was either home education or a place at the same pupil referral unit that his older brother had attended. His family didn't want him getting into the same bad crowds as his brother.\n\nSo when the school suggested home education as the only alternative, Mohammed's mother readily agreed. \"I never knew about the home schooling. I'm not that very educated myself and I'm not good with computers,\" she says.\n\nThe council had suggested a home education website. \"We had a few links but because of my home life situation and working I hadn't enough hours. He'd be depressed every morning and I'd put him on the home education website but it wasn't working for him,\" says Mohammed's mum.\n\nWhen she tried to get Mohammed out of bed to work, he refused.\n\nNow she doesn't bother trying and he passes his time helping his granddad, who has a serious lung condition and needs round-the-clock care.\n\nFor a brief period he attended Raising Explorers, an after-school facility in Bradford that tutored Mohammed for a couple of hours a week.\n\n\"It was hard to start over and not mess about and think about what I'm doing and to concentrate,\" he says.\n\n\"When I first went to the after-school club I was new, my background was different and I made mistakes. I got put on report and was doing good, but when people disturb me I just get annoyed and retaliate back,\" he says. He was excluded for brawling with another boy.\n\nMohammed says he regrets the bad behaviour that lost him his place in a mainstream school.\n\n\"I used to go to school and do stupid things I didn't think it would come to this, I thought I'd just do it a bit and I'd have a chance. I was falling behind at school anyway, but now that I don't have school I won't have any education for my GCSEs. I do think about my future - it's not going to be good.\"\n\nOut of School, Out of Sight is broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday 4 October on BBC Radio 4, or listen again on iPlayer\n\nAbdur Rahman, who runs a project working with excluded youngsters, says that like Richard Watts he is coming across an increasing number of cases where parents are persuaded to home educate, yet don't have the capacity to do so.\n\n\"These schools don't ask about the ability of parents to teach - that isn't part of the discussion. Schools work like businesses and it isn't about looking out for the child, it's about saying to Mum and Dad that: 'This is what you have to do because your child isn't engaging and it will keep you out of trouble.' It's a strategy that the schools are increasingly using.\"\n\nThe inspection of home education is carried out by local government officials, but it is a voluntary register and although numbers are thought to be growing, there is no real idea of how many families are doing this. It's because so little is known about the extent and quality of home education, that Lord Soley recently introduced a private members bill aimed at bringing in a mandatory registration system.\n\nHe says that there are concerns about the quality of education some youngsters are receiving. There is also a cost for schools who take back pupils like Mohammed when home education hasn't worked.\n\n\"These pupils who fall behind have disruption to their own education outcomes, but then if they go back into schools they cause problems across the board as they try to catch up. It isn't helping them and it isn't good for the schools when it doesn't work,\" he says.\n\nBradford Council is currently discussing school options with Mohammed and his family. A spokesman says the details of individual cases cannot be discussed, but any parent has the right to choose to home educate their child at any stage of their formal education.\n\n\"Local authorities can give advice but have no role in deciding whether this should happen,\" the spokesman continues.\n\n\"When the local authority becomes aware of an electively home-educated child, we offer a home visit or to meet at another venue. The local authority has no statutory duty to monitor the quality of home education on a routine basis. However, we always work to keep contact with parents to ensure our information about the child is kept up to date.\n\n\"All parents of electively home-educated children can contact our home education team at any time and parents can apply to the local authority for a school place at any point. The local authority will always look to work with the district's schools to find a solution which works for the child and their parents.\"\n\nMohammed's mum is currently trying to get her son back into school.\n\n\"I want him to do his GCSEs and go further, to study and move on to what he wants to do - instead of just finishing with no qualifications in a cruel world. I want him to try hard and I've told him, but there's nothing else I can do. Mohammed says he'll do anything to go back to school and to study,\" she says.\n\nMohammed agrees. He says he desperately wants to be back in the classroom.\n\n\"When I used to go to school I used to be around other children and I was happy. Now I'm by myself and it's just boring alone, I don't like it.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Nothing quite like it' - Laura Kuenssberg on PM's speech\n\nThe conference has packed up. The prime minister is home. No one will forget her speech. And there are MPs who believe that today's surreal events ought to mark the beginning of the end.\n\nThere is a group of them ramping up their discussions about persuading her to go. One minister said the situation is \"brutal\" but the events will hasten her departure because it is \"like the moment when the vet tells you it is more cruel to keep the labrador alive\".\n\nPolitics is certainly cruel, and clearly the prime minister was the victim of some appallingly bad luck.\n\nAnother former minister told me that after the election and Grenfell it would only have taken one more event to trigger her exit and this \"was the event\".\n\nIn normal political times, it is probably the case that what one minister described as a \"tragedy\" today would have led to a prime minister being forced out or quitting.\n\nBut these aren't normal times. Allies of Theresa May say today she has shown her resilience and determination in spades, demonstrating exactly why she deserves to stay in the job.\n\nA senior colleague of hers told me she importantly did manage to put forward a coherent vision and talked about her personal beliefs. More than that, for those who want her gone there are three obstacles.\n\nFirst, with Brexit negotiations under way, any change of leader could be destabilising at a time when the UK needs to look strong. Second, Tory MPs don't agree on who a natural successor is, and a leadership election could open a Pandora's Box with untold consequences.\n\nAnd third, many Tory MPs are terrified of a general election. Doing anything that could precipitate a national contest means their jobs are at risk.\n\nBut in the next few days the balance between the desire to end the torment on display today and preserve stability will be endlessly discussed by Tory MPs.\n\nAnd in these volatile times few would predict what they will conclude.", "Patients are suffering due to long waits at Royal Cornwall Hospital\n\nPatients waiting for heart treatment have died and those waiting for ophthalmology care have lost their sight at Cornwall's main hospital, according to a report.\n\nNHS Improvement has placed Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust in special measures after an inspection from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).\n\nIt said patients suffered harm as a result of waiting too long for care.\n\nInspectors visited Royal Cornwall Hospital in July, after an earlier unannounced inspection found services had failed to improve since 2016.\n\nThe trust was told to make a number of immediate improvements after concerns were raised about safety in the maternity and paediatric emergency departments and long waiting lists in cardiology and ophthalmology.\n\nIn cardiology, 554 patients suffered delays waiting for appointments between December 2016 and June 2017. Two patients died of cardiac-related causes while on the waiting list.\n\nInspectors said: \"While it is not possible to say the deaths were directly linked to the delay, the trust reported it was highly likely.\"\n\nIn ophthalmology, inspectors said long waits for treatment had caused harm to at least four patients \"who had suffered partial loss of vision or complete blindness as a result\".\n\nInspectors also identified serious problems in maternity, with unsafe staffing levels and inadequate neonatal life-support training.\n\nThere's been a long period of instability at board level at RCHT, and various critical inspections and warnings over at least three years.\n\nNow, the Care Quality Commission is basically saying enough is enough - and that the people of Cornwall deserve better.\n\nIt says during the latest inspection in July, and in previous visits, it has found persistent evidence of care that falls below standard - and that it's clear these are not isolated lapses.\n\nWorryingly, it also highlights some patients have been put at risk.\n\nThe chief inspector of hospitals, Prof Ted Baker, said people in Cornwall were entitled to safe, effective, compassionate and high-quality care.\n\nHe said inspectors repeatedly found \"persistent evidence of care that falls below those standards\". As a result, patients had been \"let down\" with some \"placed at risk\".\n\nBut he paid tribute to staff at the trust, whom inspectors found to be caring and compassionate.\n\nRCHT chief executive Kathy Byrne said she took the CQC report \"very seriously\" and the trust was \"responding swiftly and effectively to every one of the CQC recommendations\".\n\nShe said: \"I want to apologise to any patient who has waited too long for treatment or nor received the very best care.\"\n\nMembers of the public have reacted strongly to the news on BBC Radio Cornwall's Facbook page, sharing their experiences of the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, its services and its staff.\n\nHannah Richards Dash said \"They need to stop closing cottage hospitals which also provide outpatient services\", adding this would free up beds at Royal Cornwall Hospital in Treliske and reduce waiting times.\n\nShe described emergency staff at the Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust as \"high trained and professional\", and said they had saved the lives her husband, son and father-in-law.\n\nBut added the 40 minute travel time to A&E at Treliske from Penzance and some areas in the west of the county was \"not acceptable\".\n\nDiane Lowman Cahill said the staff at the hospital who helped her 11-year-old son were \"amazing\", and \"could not have done more to help\", but the level of care experienced by her grandmother was \"appalling\".\n\nMs Cahill added new housing developments \"with no extra schools, doctors surgeries or hospitals\" as well as \"constant cutbacks\" had to have a negative effect on the trust.\n\nDeborah Nardone said her mother was almost blind in one eye after two years of waiting for appointments and \"mess up procedures\", which ended in her being told nothing could be done.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Clean Bandit have squeezed the intros in their hits\n\nGreat song intros, where a tune builds up before the vocal kicks in, are becoming an endangered species as fickle music fans skip tracks if they don't get immediate gratification.\n\nThat's the view of the man who co-produced two Clean Bandit number ones this year, and it's backed up by stats.\n\nThe average intro time has dropped from more than 20 seconds to five seconds since the mid-1980s, research has found.\n\nProducer Mark Ralph said it is because the rise of streaming services means it's now much easier to move on to the next song if you're not instantly hooked.\n\n\"Attention spans have now decreased and that is potentially down to the ease with which you can chop and change between pieces of music if you're bored,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"If you imagine trying to do that with one piece of vinyl, if you get bored in the first 10 seconds, to take it off the turntable, find another record, put it on and start again is quite a long-winded process.\n\n\"Nowadays, if you're sitting on Spotify and get bored within 10 seconds, you just flick a button and you're on to the next thing. I think you have to grab peoples' attention much more quickly.\"\n\nSam Smith's voice arrives almost immediately in Too Good At Goodbyes\n\nRalph worked on Clean Bandit's smash Rockabye, in which Sean Paul's vocal began after just a second; and Symphony, a number one in April, in which the vocal appeared after a whole seven seconds.\n\nThree of this year's other UK number ones have had intros that lasted just a second or two before the vocals kicked in - DJ Khaled and Rihanna's Wild Thoughts; Artists for Grenfell's charity version of Bridge Over Troubled Water; and the current chart-topper, Sam Smith's Too Good At Goodbyes.\n\nFeels, the mega-hit created by Calvin Harris, Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry and Big Sean, goes for 30 seconds before the main vocal arrives - but even that intro is punctuated by cries of \"hey!\", \"oh yeah!\" and \"ha!\".\n\nIn research published earlier this year, Ohio State University doctoral student Hubert Leveille Gauvin found that intro lengths had dropped by 78% between 1986 and 2015.\n\nKaty Perry can't keep quiet during the Feels intro\n\n\"That's insane, but it makes sense,\" Gauvin said. \"The voice is one of the most attention-grabbing things there is in music.\n\n\"It's survival of the fittest - songs that manage to grab and sustain listeners' attention get played and others get skipped. There's always another song.\n\n\"If people can skip so easily and at no cost, you have to do something to grab their attention.\"\n\nThere's another reason musicians want to grab fans' attention. If a tune is played for less than 30 seconds on Spotify, it doesn't count as a play and they don't get paid.\n\nThose are factors that songwriters and producers are aware of when crafting their future hits, Mark Ralph says.\n\n\"I think they're talking about it a lot because obviously it's in their interests to be as successful as they possibly can, and they want to have their tracks streamed as many times and played on the radio as many times as they can.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBritish writer Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature.\n\nThe novelist was praised by the Swedish Academy as a writer \"who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world\".\n\nHis most famous novels The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go were adapted into highly acclaimed films. He was made an OBE in 1995.\n\nThe 62-year-old writer said the award was \"flabbergastingly flattering\".\n\nHe has written eight books, which have been translated into over 40 languages.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Nobel Prize This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Nobel Prize\n\nWhen contacted by the BBC, he admitted he hadn't been contacted by the Nobel committee and wasn't sure whether it was a hoax.\n\nHe said: \"It's a magnificent honour, mainly because it means that I'm in the footsteps of the greatest authors that have lived, so that's a terrific commendation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC producer Elizabeth Needham-Bennett is the first to tell Kazuo Ishiguro he's won\n\nHe said he hoped the Nobel Prize would be a force for good. \"The world is in a very uncertain moment and I would hope all the Nobel Prizes would be a force for something positive in the world as it is at the moment,\" he said.\n\n\"I'll be deeply moved if I could in some way be part of some sort of climate this year in contributing to some sort of positive atmosphere at a very uncertain time.\"\n\nCarey Mulligan starred in the film version of Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go\n\nThe Remains of the Day was turned into an Oscar-nominated film with Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson\n\nHis work, which includes scripts for film and television, looks at themes of memory, time and self-delusion.\n\nThe Nobel committee praised his latest book The Buried Giant, which was released in 2015, for exploring \"how memory relates to oblivion, history to the present, and fantasy to reality\".\n\nFans gathered in Tokyo in the hope of celebrating Haruki Murakami, who had been the bookies' favourite - but ended up celebrating Ishiguro's win\n\nKazuo Ishiguro was inundated with members of the press at his north London home after his award was announced\n\nSara Danius, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, described his style as \"a little bit like a mix of Jane Austen, comedy of manners and Franz Kafka\".\n\nShe said Ishiguro was a writer of \"great integrity\", adding: \"He doesn't look to the side. He's developed an aesthetic universe all of his own.\"\n\nThe Nobel comes with a prize of nine million kronor (£844,000, $1.1m).\n\nFor me, he is one of the great living writers working in any language. All writers can tell stories. Ishiguro tells stories on another level.\n\nHe places the reader in some sort of alternative reality - which might be the future, it might be the present, it might be the past. They feel like places that are whole and real, but you don't know them.\n\nThey're weird and not necessarily happy places. But they're places that you can inhabit and relate to, and you become deeply involved with the characters. That's the writer's job - he just does it better than most.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Girls at Benenden School took part in a voluntary three-day \"phone-fast\"\n\nAlmost two-thirds of schoolchildren would not mind if social media had never been invented, research suggests.\n\nA survey of almost 5,000 students, mainly aged between 14 and 16, found a growing backlash against social media - with even more pupils (71%) admitting to taking digital detoxes to escape it.\n\nBenenden, an independent girls boarding school in Kent, told BBC News that its pupils set up a three-day \"phone-fast\".\n\nSome girls found fears of being offline were replaced by feelings of relief.\n\nSixth former Isobel Webster, 17, said: \"There's a feeling that you have to go on Instagram, or whatever [site], to see what everyone's doing - sometimes everyone's talking about something and you feel like you have to look at it too\".\n\nPrefects at Benenden set up a temporary ban on mobile phones and social media in March, after concerns that younger pupils were spending too much time on their phones in their rooms.\n\nHeadmistress Samantha Price said: \"In the run-up I was worried about how the girls would cope, but afterwards they were wondering what all the fuss had been about and said we should do it again - but for even longer next time, which I found incredibly reassuring\".\n\nIsobel said that the ban stopped her from sitting in her room scrolling through social media\n\nThe survey of state and independent schools in England, by the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) and Digital Awareness UK, found that 57% of young people had received online abuse and 52% said it makes them feel less confident about themselves.\n\nSome 60% thought that their friends show a fake version of themselves on social media.\n\nChris King, chair of the HMC and Headmaster of Leicester Grammar School, said the findings were among \"the first indications of a rebellion against social media\".\n\nHe said they remind us that teenagers \"may need help to take breaks from [social media's] constant demands\".\n\nSome 56% of those surveyed said they were on the edge of addiction.\n\nPandora Mann said people realised they \"don't enjoy their phones\" as much as they thought\n\nAt Benenden, the girls' phones are taken away from them during lesson time but given back during lunch breaks and in the evenings.\n\nOne Year 10 pupil, Pandora Mann, 14, said she was a bit annoyed at the phone-fast initially, but soon realised \"we don't enjoy our phones as much as we think we do\".\n\n\"In terms of the way we view ourselves and our lives negatively,\" she explained, \"I think people put what they see as their best image forward - it's not always the real image.\"\n\nIsobel said that the ban stopped her from sitting in her room scrolling through social media and encouraged her to spend her work breaks chatting to friends.\n\nShe said it reminded her \"what it was like before\" - when as a Year 7 (aged 12) she would spend more time socialising in person.\n\nThe feedback in the HMC survey was not wholly negative, with students identifying memes, filters/lenses and storytelling features, such as Snapchat Stories, among the things they like.\n\nSixth former Flora Macpherson, 17, was surprised at just how many teenagers surveyed said they would rather social media did not exist.\n\nFor her, the most annoying thing about not having access to it was being unable to message groups of people.\n\nFlora said: \"I use it for the logistics - for extra sport practice, if we've got a big match on - we've got message groups for the firsts and seconds netball and lacrosse teams\".\n\nThe school still has notice boards, but its pupils rely heavily on messenger groups. Isobel said she has a Facebook messenger group for every subject.\n\n\"If you have a question, normally at least one person will see it within 10 minutes,\" she said.", "The Joker's suit, as worn by Jack Nicholson, was up for sale\n\nSome film memorabilia fetches millions of pounds at auction, but it can cost nothing to start a collection.\n\nA life-size replica of the Joker, as played by Jack Nicholson in the 1989 film Batman, leers down from a podium. His plum-coloured suit is unmistakable in its sinister glory.\n\nA few metres away, a mannequin sports a coral and maroon-hued cowboy outfit that looks like it's seen better days.\n\nIt once belonged to fictional character Marty McFly and was worn by Michael J Fox in the 1990 film Back to the Future Part III.\n\nIt's the day of the Prop Store's memorabilia auction and at the BFI Imax cinema in London, some of the film world's most recognisable props and costumes are on display ahead of a sale that afternoon.\n\nA helmet worn by Chris Pratt in Guardians of the Galaxy\n\nAlso up for grabs are model miniatures of the Los Angeles skyline used in the making of Blade Runner, the 1982 sci-fi classic.\n\nAnd there's a pair of Garth's \"tighty whities\" underpants from the 1993 comedy Wayne's World 2.\n\nWhile some items will go on to fetch relatively modest sums, others, such as a helmet worn by Chris Pratt in recent superhero film Guardians of the Galaxy, will sell for more than £100,000.\n\nSo what is it that compels punters to spend a fortune on film props and costumes?\n\nAs chair of the David C. Copley Center for Costume Design at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Deborah Nadoolman-Landis is well placed to offer an opinion.\n\nShe's been a costume designer for more than 40 years and her work on Coming to America, the 1988 comedy starring Eddie Murphy, secured her an Oscar nomination.\n\nDeborah Nadoolman-Landis designed the outfits for Raiders of the Lost Ark\n\nIn the industry, she's affectionately known as the \"Mother of Indiana Jones\" for designing the outfits worn in Raiders of the Lost Ark.\n\n\"People are supposed to fall in love with the people on screen and when you fall in love with Indiana Jones you want something from the character. Memorabilia is an extension of falling in love with the film.\"\n\nIt doesn't stop at cinema, she adds. Ms Nadoolman-Landis also designed the costumes for Michael Jackson's 1983 Thriller music video, which \"everyone was obsessed with\" at the time.\n\n\"Michael's red jacket ended up being sold for $1.2m (£900,000),\" she says.\n\nBut not everything in the world of memorabilia costs the earth, says Jon Baddeley, head of Bonhams auction house in the UK.\n\nGranted, Bonhams New York sold the piano from the film Casablanca for $3.4m, and Mr Baddeley hopes to sell a Robby the Robot prop, used in the 1956 classic Forbidden Planet, for seven figures at an upcoming auction.\n\nBonhams New York sold the piano from Casablanca for $3.4m\n\nBut he says it is quite possible to start a memorabilia collection for free.\n\n\"The film posters and lobby cards made to advertise films in cinemas often get thrown away. So why not make friends with your cinema manager and ask for posters or cut-outs when you see a film you like?\"\n\nSo could today's rubbish be a future collector's item?\n\nAn original poster for the 1933 monster adventure film King Kong can fetch around £70,000.\n\n\"Who knows?\" says Mr Baddeley. \"But remember, whatever you buy you've got to live with it. Have it framed and enjoy it. If it goes up in value you've got a double whammy, if not, you've still got something you enjoy.\"\n\nAt the auction, Stephen Lane, the head of Prop Store, gives me a whistle-stop tour of the day's top lots.\n\nHe won't be giving anything away for free but says that, in amongst the stratospherically expensive nuggets of movie gold, there are some very affordable items.\n\nA creature costume from Aliens was sold for £50,000\n\n\"The lots start at £40 to £60. For that you'd be buying crew items or gifts, things like call sheets which were used in the production. It might not be quite as personal but it's still something from your favourite film.\"\n\nThat's good news for first-time auction visitor and Blade Runner fan, Chris Dagger.\n\n\"I don't have a big budget, the most I can spend is around £500,\" concedes Mr Dagger. \"I've got my eye on the Blade Runner crew jacket. I've always been a fan of the film and with the new one coming out, I'd love to buy it.\"\n\nThe jacket in question is dark maroon satin with the name \"Tim\" stitched onto the front.\n\nMore stories from the BBC's Business Brain series looking at interesting business topics from around the world:\n\n\"I don't have much chance of getting it,\" says Mr Dagger. \"There are people here with a lot of money to spend, a lot more than I've got, but we'll see.\"\n\nIn the imposing auditorium of the BFI Imax the auction gets underway. Things don't look good for Chris.\n\nA single grey T-shirt, embossed with \"Peace through superior firepower\", which was worn in the film Aliens, is sold for £3,000. And a full alien creature costume from the same film fetches £50,000.\n\nChris holds his number \"26\" bidding card nervously, waiting for his lot to be called.\n\nThe auctioneer announces a starting bid of £250, and within seconds Mr Dagger is pushed to his maximum bid of £500 for the Blade Runner jacket.\n\nThere are no further bids in the auditorium, but there's an agonising wait as the auctioneer checks whether other offers have come in by phone or email.\n\nNone have, and to his delight and astonishment, Mr Dagger gets what he came for.\n\nOut in the refreshment area, he takes a couple of deep breaths and poses for photos next to a poster for Blade Runner 2049, the film's soon-to-be released sequel.\n\n\"It's such an iconic film and if you're a fan you know all the trials and tribulations they went through to make it.\n\n\"And here we are, surrounded by posters for the current film. I'm just really happy, there's not much more I can say.\"\n\nWith the 22% buyer's premium, VAT and shipping charges, the final bill is £700, which doesn't make the jacket a cheap purchase.\n\nBut Chris says it was definitely worth it.", "Jason Manford says his grandmother is his biggest fan\n\nWhen TV funnyman Jason Manford announced he was releasing an album of serious show tunes, it may have come as a surprise to fans of his comedy.\n\nBut his biggest fan has known there was an album brewing in this old school entertainer for some time.\n\nHer name, I hear you ask? Leah Manford - aka Jason's nan.\n\nThe Mancunian's debut record A Different Stage is being released this week - and if it does well then his beloved 93-year-old grandmother will be able to claim some of the credit.\n\n\"I never thought about it to be honest\" said Jason. \"Then about two years ago my nana said: 'You should do an album'. She's more of a fan of the singing than the comedy.\"\n\nHe added: \"Then I went on tour with Alfie Boe and did a few tunes with him, including Stars from Les Miserables with his orchestra and it hit YouTube and went a bit viral.\n\n\"Loads of people on my Facebook were like 'do an album'.\n\n\"So when I looked at the two things, I thought this is something my nana would really love and if 'normal' people are into it - you know, people who are not my nana - then maybe there's something in this.\"\n\nThe 36-year-old, whose album goes up against fellow Manchester City fan and solo debutant Liam Gallagher on Friday, acknowledges that he isn't the first comedian to try his hand at singing - think Billy Connolly, Tim Minchin and Donald Glover.\n\nWhen the crowd say Boe, select him\n\nBut he also has the added pressure of knowing that fellow comic Bradley Walsh achieved the biggest-selling British debut album of last year.\n\nThe host of game show The Chase sold 115,650 copies of his LP Chasing Dreams in the UK last year - putting him ahead of Mercury Prize-nominated Blossoms and former One Direction star Zayn.\n\nSo who's laughing now then?\n\n\"I'm pals with Bradley so I wouldn't mind being an album behind him,\" said Jason. \"In my head, the main aim is to not become a quiz question in a few years time: 'Who sold seven albums on release of their debut?'.\"\n\nQuick-witted Northerner Jason comes from a family of club singers (including his uncle Dennis, a bald Michael Buble impersonator) and may have more of a claim to this year's singing throne than he makes out.\n\nHe recorded his debut album after spending five years singing in musicals like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Producers and Sweeney Todd.\n\nAnd while comedy remains the main focus for father-of-five Jason, there's no reason why he can't follow in his funny friend's footsteps.\n\n\"I guess I've just always done them both really, so it felt like the natural thing to do. At school I was in all the musicals so I've been an orphan many a time: Annie, Oliver, you name it.\n\n\"I did three musicals over the last five years and this felt like the next step.\n\n\"There's something about doing eight shows a week, singing every night, that suddenly your voice comes on - it's like training a muscle.\n\n\"Suddenly a few years on your voice is a million times better than when you first started, through sheer practice.\"\n\nHe added: \"What's nice about the album is the reassurance that I'm not mad - this actually sounds alright. With the amount of messages I've had off people saying they really like it, I've been like: 'OK we're good. I'm not embarrassing myself!'.\"\n\nAs well as the aforementioned Stars, Jason points to track Hushabye Mountain - a duet with Rosanna Bates which he \"sang 500 times in Chitty\" - as one of his favourite moments on the new record.\n\n\"My kids love that one,\" he added.\n\nWhatever form it takes, Manford - who also presents the Sunday morning breakfast show on Absolute Radio, always seems to find himself entertaining others.\n\nHe has previously crossed the sacred streams of comedy and song during his stand-up career - but says he won't be making a habit of it during next year's Muddle Class tour. Nor is there A Different Stage Tour lined up, bar a few gigs perhaps.\n\n\"Once or twice at the end of the show a few people have requested a song but generally it is two hours of straight stand-up,\" he said.\n\n\"Separately we've done a few shows with a band called 'Jason Manford and his band: A Different Stage' - so there's plenty of clues in the title!\n\n\"But entertaining is entertaining and as long as the audience know what they're coming for I think it's alright.\"\n\nSo if he had the hypothetical chance to sing his new songs on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury - but could never tell a joke again - would he take it?\n\n\"I'd have to say no\" he replies, with little hesitation.\n\n\"There's something about stand-up - it's the rawest form of entertaining. It doesn't get any harder and it doesn't get any better. The highs are so high because the lows are so low.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jason Manford: Who are the funniest singers?\n\n\"So for me stand up is always going to be my bread and butter - but at the same time I just love singing. When you're singing in the shower you can trick yourself into thinking you are at Pyramid Stage anyway because music has that thing that's tuned into your emotions.\n\n\"I've spent a lot of time singing in the shower, thinking: 'I sound alright here'.\n\n\"I have to say the album is great - but I sound well better in the shower.\"\n\nJason Manford Sings the Show Tunes in the Shower has yet to be commissioned - but it's an early contender for a follow-up album.\n\nIf it is then Nana Manford has surely earned her free copy already.\n\nA Different Stage by Jason Manford is out on Friday.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The wife of an Army sergeant who survived a 4,000ft fall after her husband allegedly tampered with her parachute was among the UK's top parachutists, a court has heard.\n\nVictoria Cilliers, 40, suffered multiple serious injuries at Netheravon Airfield, Wiltshire, on April 5, 2015.\n\nWinchester Crown Court heard Mrs Cilliers has completed more than 2,600 jumps.\n\nProsecutors allege her ex-husband sabotaged both her main and reserve parachute by removing components.\n\nMark Bayada, chief instructor of the Army Parachute Association at Netheravon, told the court Mrs Cilliers was \"in the top per cent of competency in the country\".\n\nHe told jurors two vital components, known as slinks, were missing from Mrs Cillier's reserve chute.\n\nIt is \"almost impossible\", he said, for the \"extremely strong\" components to come off by mistake.\n\nMr Bayada said Mrs Cillier's main parachute was \"distorted, rotated and bunched up\".\n\nHe said the parachute's lines were \"massively entangled\".\n\nIt was \"highly unlikely\", he said, that user error \"would result in a malfunction with that much entanglement\".\n\nThe only \"innocent explanation\" for the missing slinks, he said, was that medics had cut them away.\n\nThe court was shown the various parachute parts\n\nBut upon checking, he said, the only thing at the scene which first aiders had cut was Mrs Cilliers' goggles strap.\n\nMr Bayada attributed Mrs Cilliers' survival to the relatively low height of her jump.\n\nIts \"sub terminal\" nature meant she had not reached full speed, he said.\n\nHe also said her small size and \"exceptionally soft\" field had probably contributed to her survival too.\n\nProsecutors alleged Mr Cilliers wanted to leave his wife for a lover he had met on Tinder.\n\nAlongside the allegation he tampered with his wife's parachutes, Mr Cilliers is also accused of deliberately causing a gas leak in the family home while he stayed away.\n\nHe denies two counts of attempted murder.\n\nMr Cilliers, who is based at the Royal Army Physical Training Corps in Aldershot, Hampshire, is also accused of a third charge of damaging a gas valve at their home in Amesbury, Wiltshire.\n\nThe trial will resume on Friday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The prime minister has promised to invest an additional £2bn in affordable housing.\n\nThe Conservative Party says that will fund the building of an additional 25,000 new homes for social rent, expected to be mainly council housing, over two years from 2019. Let's put that into perspective.\n\nIn 2010-11, 39,570 additional homes were made available for social rent in England, either through being built or bought. In 2015-16 there were only 6,800 extra homes.\n\nThat's been concerning campaigners, because those on the lowest incomes are affected by the availability of houses for social rent.\n\nThis graph shows how the government's priorities have been shifting away from building homes for the cheapest social rents towards building those available for the more expensive \"affordable\" rents.\n\nWednesday's announcement signals a change in the policy of recent years and is expected to be targeted at areas such as London and the South East, where market rates are significantly higher.\n\nWhat does the government mean when it talks about \"affordable\" housing? It includes social rent, affordable rent, affordable homes to buy and shared ownership.\n\nThe rapid fall in houses being built or acquired for social rent has meant the total number of extra homes categorised as \"affordable\" has been on a downward trend, from 61,090 in 2010-11 to 32,630 in 2015-16.\n\nThe spike in 2014-15 was the culmination of a four-year programme of house-building that saw a big rise in homes being completed. The rise was driven by a surge in homes for affordable rent being built.\n\nIn response to the prime minister's announcement, the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) said: \"As we have been saying for some time, social rents, which are significantly cheaper than market rents, are the only truly affordable option for many people on lower incomes, so the recognition that we need more of these homes is a vital step forward.\"\n\nAccording to the CIH, only 20% of the government's current housing budget goes on affordable homes.\n\nThe main focus of government policy has been on private housing schemes with the remaining budget being spent on projects such as the Help to Buy scheme.\n\nUnlike in the private sector, both social and affordable rented properties are allocated on the basis of need.\n\nSome affordable housing is built through government funding and some is built by private house builders as part of a planning agreement with councils.\n\nIn 2015, the Conservatives promised to build a million more homes of all types by 2020 - the equivalent of 200,000 per year - but they have fallen behind on this. There were 168,350 homes built in the year to March 2016.\n\nIn May this year, the Conservatives promised a \"new generation\" of council houses, a proportion of which would have to be sold privately after 10-15 years.\n\nThe tenants would be given the first opportunity to purchase their homes, under the Right to Buy scheme, and the proceeds would go towards building more social housing.", "Film producer Harvey Weinstein has issued an apology as a newspaper reported a number of sexual harassment allegations against him.\n\n\"I appreciate the way I've behaved with colleagues in the past has caused a lot of pain, and I sincerely apologise for it,\" said the movie mogul's statement.\n\nBut he later disputed a New York Times report that claimed he harassed female employees over nearly three decades.\n\nThe newspaper reported he had reached at least eight settlements with women.\n\nMr Weinstein, a married father-of-five, said he planned to take a leave of absence from his company and had hired therapists to deal with his issue.\n\n\"My journey now will be to learn about myself and conquer my demons,\" the 65-year-old's statement on Thursday said.\n\n\"I so respect all women and regret what happened,\" he added in the statement initially given to the New York Times, and later sent to the BBC.\n\nIt continued: \"I cannot be more remorseful about the people I hurt and I plan to do right by all of them.\"\n\nThe Miramax and Weinstein Company co-founder has produced a number of Oscar-winning blockbusters, including Shakespeare in Love, The King's Speech and The Artist.\n\nMr Weinstein's lawyer, Lisa Bloom, said in another statement that he denies many of the allegations against him as \"patently false\".\n\nShe also said that as a women's rights advocate she had been blunt with him that some of his conduct \"can be perceived as inappropriate, even intimidating\".\n\n\"He has acknowledged mistakes he has made,\" said Ms Bloom. \"He is reading books and going to therapy. He is an old dinosaur learning new ways.\"\n\nBut another Weinstein lawyer, Charles Harder, said in a separate statement to the Hollywood Reporter that his client was preparing to sue the New York Times.\n\nThe attorney said the newspaper's report was \"saturated with false and defamatory statements\".\n\nThe statement also said the report \"relies on mostly hearsay accounts and a faulty report, apparently stolen from an employee personnel file, which has been debunked by 9 different eyewitnesses\". It did not specify which particular parts of the Times article were disputed.\n\nMr Harder's statement said the New York Times had ignored the \"facts and evidence\" and any proceeds from the lawsuit would be donated to women's organisations.\n\nMr Weinstein has been married since 2007 to London-born fashion designer Georgina Rose Chapman, and they have two children.", "Congress' most powerful Republican says lawmakers should examine \"bump-stocks\", a rapid-fire accessory used by the gunman in Sunday's Las Vegas massacre.\n\nHouse of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan told a radio talk show: \"Clearly that's something we need to look into.\"\n\nTexas Senator John Cornyn - the number two Republican in the Senate - has called for hearings into the devices.\n\nA bump-stock attaches to the butt of a rifle, allowing the weapon to fire close to the rate of a machine gun.\n\nStephen Paddock, the gunman in Las Vegas, had fixed the accessories to 12 rifles.\n\nIt appears a move to ban bump-stock devices is picking up steam in Congress. Some normally staunch gun-control opponents seem willing to consider new legislation. The NRA, which opposes just about any new regulations, has gone silent.\n\nThat's going to change soon.\n\nThe challenge for gun rights supporters is a bump-stock ban opens the door for a new debate about where to draw the line over limiting a firearm's lethality. For decades it's been at how many bullets can be fired with one trigger pull.\n\nBump-stocks blur that line. Can you outlaw a device that helps squeeze off rounds more quickly but not think about prohibiting quick-change magazines or limiting their sizes? Or banning pistol grips, which make firing easier?\n\nIt won't take many Republicans, with the NRA looking over their shoulder, to grind the process to a halt.\n\n\"I didn't even know what they were until this week,\" Mr Ryan, a Wisconsin congressman, said on Thursday of bump-stocks.\n\nHe told talk show host Hugh Hewitt: \"I think we're quickly coming up to speed with what this is.\"\n\nFor years Republicans in Congress, as well as conservative Democrats, have blocked gun control efforts in the wake of violent tragedies.\n\nBut now a liberal Democratic gun control measure appears to have found a receptive audience across the aisle.\n\nSenator Cornyn said on Wednesday: \"It strikes me as odd that it's illegal to convert a semi-automatic weapon to an automatic weapon, but apparently these bump-stocks are not illegal under the current law.\n\n\"I own a lot of guns. As a hunter and sportsman, I think that's our right as Americans.\n\n\"But I don't understand the use of this bump-stock.\"\n\nHe said his colleagues should hold hearings to discuss the legality of the devices.\n\nCongressman Mark Meadows, who leads the hardline conservative Freedom Caucus, also said that he would be open to a hearing.\n\nSince Congress passed the Firearm Owners' Protection Act in 1986, it has been relatively difficult for civilians to buy new, fully automatic weapons, which reload automatically and fire continuously as long as the trigger is pulled.\n\nBump-fire stocks, also called bump-stocks and slide-fire adapters, allow semi-automatic rifles to fire at a high rate, similar to a machine gun.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After the Las Vegas attack in October 2017 the BBC looked at how US mass shootings are getting worse\n\nBut the accessories can be obtained without the extensive background checks required of automatic weapons.\n\nThey typically cost less than $200 (£150) and allow nearly 100 high-velocity bullets to be fired in just seven seconds, according to one company advert.\n\nOne of the most popular manufacturers of bump-stocks, Slide Fire, said they had sold out \"due to extreme high demands\" since the Las Vegas shooting.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Sen Dianne Feinstein This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 think they should be banned,\" Republican Texas congressman Bill Flores told The Hill newspaper, adding that he had never heard of bump-stocks before.\n\n\"There's no reason for a typical gun owner to own anything that converts a semi-automatic to something that behaves like an automatic,\" he said.\n\nDemocratic California congressman Mike Thompson, who chairs the congressional Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, said Congress must address the \"loophole\".\n\n\"We don't know how many lives could have been spared in Las Vegas had the shooter not had bump-stocks,\" he said.", "When we think about ourselves positively, we stimulate parts of our brains involved in reward, motivation, and pleasure, says Dr Stacie Grossman Bloom\n\nDr Stacie Grossman Bloom is a neuroscientist who has three daughters. She also has a successful career at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York. She has examined the role that neuroscience can play in boosting confidence. This is particularly useful to many women who need exactly that, she writes as part of this year's 100 Women Challenge.\n\nConfidence is something that many women want, but don't know how to get. Yet, we need to embrace our abilities and our value and have self-esteem to be successful. Without it, we are less likely to seek promotion, speak up in meetings, and rise into leadership positions.\n\nThis ultimately has an enormous impact, as study after study shows that having women at work in positions of power correlates with profitability, more collaborative environments, and improved problem solving.\n\nWith some practice, we can use neuroscience to be more confident.\n\nBBC 100 Women names 100 influential and inspirational women around the world every year. In 2017, we're challenging them to tackle four of the biggest problems facing women today - the glass ceiling, female illiteracy, harassment in public spaces and sexism in sport.\n\nWith your help, they'll be coming up with real-life solutions and we want you to get involved with your ideas. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and use #100Women\n\nWe know that self-confidence, like all of our personality traits, resides within our brains. And while a large part of the architecture of our brains is predetermined, our experiences and the choices we make continue to shape us.\n\nOver the course of our lives, we acquire new knowledge and abilities by modulating the intricate and malleable connections between the cells and circuits in our brains. We can utilise neuroscience to silence our negative inner voices and boost our confidence.\n\nThese strategies work by engaging the \"value areas\" of the brain.\n\nWhen we think about ourselves positively, we are able to stimulate the parts of our brains that are involved in reward, motivation, and pleasure. One output of this pattern of neurological activation is that we literally feel good when we are confident, we hold our heads high.\n\nDr. Bloom with her three daughters\n\nThat feeling is contagious in that it also promotes those around us to be more engaged with us, whether that is our colleagues, our friends, or our troops. The reinforcing reactions we see and feel in response to our confidence also feed back to our brains to encourage more activity.\n\nThe first step is to push back against the obstacles we know stand in our way by being mindful of the situation, and deciding to be confident. Making that complex decision is a multi-step process that taps into our emotions and engages many other parts of the brain.\n\nOnce we have made the decision to be confident, we have to start training our brains.\n\nThe orange structure here is one of billions of neurons. It is stretching out to make all the connections (synapses) you see in yellow (more than 75,000). Those connections are what we are tweaking when we learn to choose confidence\n\nJust like mastering any other talent, gaining self-assurance requires repetition and time. Every time we do or learn something new, our brains adjust to store our new skill or bit of knowledge.\n\nThis happens because parts of our brains are plastic, and the synapses that connect our brain cells, called neurons, to each other can be modified, strengthened, and even newly created to store what we have acquired - in this case our confidence boost.\n\nFrom a scientific perspective, women can blame both nature and nurture for stacking the odds against us when it comes to how we value ourselves compared to men. It is a biological reality that women secrete different levels of hormones than men, causing us to react differently to the same world around us.\n\nThe areas of the brain in these images that are coloured to show they are activated are so-called “value areas” of the brain\n\nWomen tend to have a desire to please others, to seek acceptance and inclusion, and to avoid conflict. The way we respond to stressful situations is also different.\n\nWhile men tend to take more risk under pressure, women look for surer successes and reach out to connect with others to manage stress.\n\nOur genetic differences are compounded by the fact that we are socialised differently from the moment we are born and a pink hat is placed upon our heads.\n\nAs we grow up, young women are not necessarily taught to exhibit self-confidence, and if we do, we are often criticized for being \"snobby\" or \"stuck-up\" or \"bitchy\" - words seldom associated with men.\n\nWe hear damaging terms like \"women's intuition\" suggesting that we aren't making strategic analyses, but basing our decisions on some ethereal gut feeling when study after study shows that women and men are equally data-driven.\n\nAnd the relentless emphasis placed on how we look erodes our self-image and for most of us, gets worse over time.\n\nAs a mother of three young girls, this resonates with me every time my daughters receive yet another impossibly-proportioned doll designed for dress up, caregiving, or primping.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Are women hitting a glass ceiling, or are they also climbing a broken ladder?\n\nIt is well-documented that we way we raise our girls and women has a lasting impact on the way they view themselves and their abilities. Negative messages will engender self-doubt and lead us to underestimate ourselves.\n\nThe result is not only a nearly universal feeling of imposter syndrome, but a fear of making mistakes, a suspicion that we are underperforming, and an unattainable quest for perfection.\n\nThis is what we are shutting down when we make the decision to be confident.\n\nIt doesn't matter what level of self-assurance you start at, the more time and effort you dedicate to practicing being more confident, the faster your brain will change and the faster you'll master it.\n\nTo start, it's important to remove ourselves from situations and people that make us feel bad because confidence largely comes from being in a supportive environment.\n\nThat environment comprises the people and environment around us and what we choose to focus our attention on.\n\nIt is beneficial to concentrate on things that are empowering and to steer clear of exposure to images and content that make us feel bad about ourselves.\n\nThe way we choose to hold and conduct ourselves is another factor.\n\nMental simulations also help - envisioning ourselves finishing a race, speaking in public to a standing ovation, mastering a job, getting a degree - can all help build ourselves up. Just as a coach gives an encouraging pep talk to the team before taking the field, we can give ourselves a confidence lift.\n\nNotably, these practices have an impact on our overall health and wellbeing, serving as a buffer to stress and depression, and fostering good mental and physical health.\n\nWhen we choose confidence, we are rewiring our brains and we are able to change ourselves, and maybe even the world, for the better.\n\nDr Stacie Grossman Bloom is Assistant Vice-President for Policy & Administration, and Associate Professor at the Department of Neuroscience & Physiology, NYU Langone Health.", "Noel Conway was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2014\n\nA terminally ill man has lost his High Court challenge against the law on assisted dying.\n\nNoel Conway, 67, from Shrewsbury, who has motor neurone disease, wanted a doctor to be allowed to prescribe a lethal dose when his health deteriorates.\n\nCurrently any doctor helping him to die would face up to 14 years in prison.\n\nHis lawyers had argued he faced a stark choice, which was unfair and the law needed to change.\n\nThey said he could either bring about his own death while still physically able to do so, or await death with no control over how and when it came.\n\nHe had previously said he wanted to say goodbye to loved ones \"at the right time, not to be in a zombie-like condition suffering both physically and psychologically\".\n\nHe argued that when he had less than six months to live and retained the mental capacity to make the decision, he wished to be able to enlist assistance from the medical profession to bring about a \"peaceful and dignified\" death.\n\nMr Conway, who was not at London's High Court on Thursday, wanted a declaration that the Suicide Act 1961, which lays out the law on assisted dying, is incompatible with Article eight of the European Convention on Human Rights.\n\nThis relates to respect for private and family life, and Article 14, which protects from discrimination.\n\nBut Lord Justice Sales, Mrs Justice Whipple and Mr Justice Garnham rejected his case.\n\nBefore his illness Noel Conway was a keen skier, climber and cyclist\n\nMr Conway, who has been supported by campaign group Dignity in Dying, said he was \"deeply disappointed\" by the judgement and intends to appeal it.\n\n\"The experiences of those who are terminally ill need to be heard.\n\n\"As I approach the end of my life, I face unbearable suffering and the possibility of a traumatic, drawn-out death.\"\n\nBut Peter Saunders, from the Care Not Killing Alliance, said the decision was right \"because of the concern that vulnerable people might be exploited or abused by those who have a financial or emotional interest\".\n\nIt is not the first time the law has been challenged.\n\nA case brought by Tony Nicklinson - who was paralysed after a stroke - was dismissed in 2014 by the Supreme Court, which stated it was important that Parliament debated the issues before any decision was made by the courts.\n\nIn 2015 MPs rejected proposals to allow assisted dying in England and Wales, in their first vote on the issue in almost 20 years.\n\nSupporters of the current legislation say it exists to protect the weak and vulnerable from being exploited or coerced.\n\nMr Conway's case is different from Mr Nicklinson's in that he has a terminal illness and his legal team set out strict criteria and clear potential safeguards to protect vulnerable people from any abuse of the system.", "Zameer Ghumra denied disseminating \"terrorist propaganda\" in the form of a graphic Twitter video\n\nA man who showed a beheading video to a child has been convicted of disseminating \"terrorist propaganda\".\n\nPharmacist Zameer Ghumra, of Leicester, showed the boy a graphic Twitter video on his mobile phone.\n\nNottingham Crown Court heard the 38-year-old also told two primary school-age youngsters \"you had to kill\" anyone who insulted Islam.\n\nGhumra, who will be sentenced on Friday, had claimed the two boys were making \"a false allegation\".\n\nHe was convicted of disseminating \"terrorist propaganda\" in the form of a graphic Twitter video on his mobile phone, between January 2013 and September 2014.\n\nDuring the trial, prosecutor Simon Davis said Ghumra believed in a \"very, very, very extreme\" form of Islam.\n\nGhumra, of Haringworth Road, stood emotionless as the verdict was read out after two hours of jury deliberation.\n\nThe court heard he had been working as a pharmacist in Oundle, Northamptonshire and told a customer members of the so-called Islamic State were \"not bad people, they're only defending themselves\".\n\nHe \"brainwashed\" the two children, instructing them to not have non-Muslim friends and asking if they wanted to join the terrorist group or help recruit others to its ranks, the jury was told.\n\nThe older boy described being shown \"horrible and disgusting\" beheading videos, and asked Ghumra \"how can you behead people?\".\n\nHe said Ghumra replied: \"If you truly believe in Allah, you can do it.\"\n\nGhumra was arrested in September 2015 but the beheading video was not found\n\nIn a police interview played to the court, the younger child said: \"He put us on Twitter. He told us to follow whoever he followed. He was following ISIS and really bad people.\"\n\nHe also said Ghumra gave them business cards - which were shown to the jury - with the boy's names and email addresses alongside a picture of a rifle.\n\nThe jury heard he used a rented house to teach children about jihad and the boys were not allowed non-Muslim friends.\n\nThe boy said Mr Ghumra asked him to choose between going to Iraq or Syria, or staying in the UK and \"manipulating\" other people into supporting IS.\n\nAfter Ghumra's arrest at Birmingham Airport in September 2015, a computer was seized showing 1,600 search results for terms including \"survival knives\" and \"bushcraft\".\n\nBut when police searched his home, neither the phone containing the beheading video or the video itself were recovered.\n\nSue Hemming, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \"Zameer Ghumra tried to brainwash impressionable children with this violent ideology by making one watch beheading videos and urging them both to adopt a hard-line religious outlook.\n\n\"The children were brave to give evidence and we would like to thank them for helping to secure this conviction of a dangerous man.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 24-year-old secondary school teacher told the BBC she was shocked by the stories she heard from teenage pupils about their sexual activity.\n\nHer frank account prompted many readers to share their concerns.\n\nCatherine: I'm shocked by what I read. The exact thing happened to my 15-year-old daughter two years ago. The teacher could be talking about her experience. It was devastating.\n\nAt the time she didn't realise what was happening to her. Two years on she does understand and she's very angry, but the damage is done.\n\nI'd like you to thank the teacher for speaking so boldly about a serious problem that needs addressing.\n\nJayne: Wow. I'm in my 40s but so much of what you wrote hit home with me. No one taught me any of the things your teacher spoke about.\n\nMy mum worked late nights in a factory. I didn't know I could and should say no. I did think it made me feel special. But it was crumby and lousy and I'm left years later thinking an otherwise idyllic childhood was shadowed and scarred somehow by crappy encounters with crappy boys.\n\nI feel shame for it - until I read your item - maybe I can be/should be kinder to my younger self. If only girls were taught their self worth. It's ok to say no.\n\nShaun: Interesting article. I've just found out that my 14-year-old daughter has gone on the pill and is having sex with a boy one year older than her. I've tried talking to her and asking whether she has been pressurised into having sex but she says she's not.\n\nKids (certainly my one) just want to be an adult but she's not, she's 14 and the media/friends/social network is dictating that she has to be sexually active. This is a con and she's now on the pill pumping hormones into her body unnecessarily.\n\nAs a father all I can do (and have done) is ask her whether she is being pressured, is this what she wants to do and is she happy. Explaining that I cannot condone it, but I accept it, and that I am present and here if/when she wants to talk to me.\n\nToo many parents lose it with their daughters and push them away. Better to accept and be ready for the inevitable \"cry on my shoulders\" that I'll get when she realises she has made a mistake.\n\nJade: I was in the same position and I understand where she is coming from but I still went with it. I regretted it once I got home and told my parents so I could get it off my shoulders.\n\nMy parents helped me a lot. It is always good to tell someone if you regret something after. If it's going to be a weight on your shoulders, tell someone.\n\nI didn't say no, but I regret that because I haven't seen or heard from him since it happened and I know why. He didn't love me, he was only using me.\n\nRachel: This teacher is three years younger than me and believes that 14-year-olds did not exhibit the behaviours she discusses in the article, when she was in school. This seems absolutely ridiculous to me.\n\nWhen I was 14, there were boys saying these things, and worse, every day. There was a ridiculous amount of pressure to be clean-shaven in school - and I didn't even have any sexual partners.\n\nBoys were always commenting on how girls looked; to the point where I was often ridiculed for having hair on my arms.\n\nPorn definitely shaped boys' opinions then, and it shapes boys' opinions now. But the blame can't all go to porn. Girls \"beauty\" magazines are to blame as well for these absurd expectations.\n\nRachel, mother to two teenage boys: The article gives the impression that boys are predatory and incapable of understanding and regulating their own urges. I have found the opposite to be the case.\n\nI talk to my boys about respect, the pressure young women are under and that their desires are normal and healthy, but they should not expect these young women to meet those desires.\n\nThey suffer the occasional feminist rant with good grace. I also leave a few art photography books, maybe a not too sexy underwear catalogue lying around. Images of happy healthy smiling girls, with pubic hair (of course).\n\nIt might appear a little creepy, but in my opinion, as parents it would be foolish to bury our heads in the sand. Things are definitely not like when we were growing up and porn has a lot to do with that.\n\nCaitlin: This is so true and I cannot express how grateful I am to the teacher who wrote this article for starting this conversation.\n\nI'm 25 now. However, this article reflects exactly how the situation was when I was 14, 15, 16 and clearly nothing has changed. The sad thing is that these feelings and attitudes stay with you well past your early teen years.\n\nThe quote \"almost like a validation of their appearance and attractiveness - or they think it is\" really rings true for me - not just at school but throughout my university life, and even in my early 20s I feel this has always been a huge reason I have felt the desire to sleep with men.\n\nNever for my own pleasure, but to boost my self-esteem and to validate that I was attractive to the opposite sex. An incredibly sad truth and one that I was only able to admit to myself very recently and, after speaking with friends about it, one which seems to be true among many bright and attractive young women.\n\nThere really needs to be some radical reform in the way young people are taught about sex and what sex education is focused on. Otherwise I fear that this is something that we will see more and more within society.\n\nHolly: I was particularly struck by the topic of coercion among teenagers.\n\nI am very interested in this topic as I believe it is a monumental issue that exploded with the introduction of the internet, and actually massively affected me - among thousands of other girls - through my teenage years and even to this day.\n\nI currently work in a school and I am thinking about how we can help the current generation of young girls so they are as protected as possible from negative situations as outlined in your article.\n\nI believe so much more needs to be done in schools to educate girls about self-respect and empowerment and would like to develop a course that could be implemented in PSHE [personal, social, health and economic].\n• None Girls go along with sex acts, says teacher", "Police said the security guard appears to have locked the door of the room before starting the fire\n\nFour children and a teacher have been killed in Brazil after a security guard threw flammable liquid on them and set them on fire, officials say.\n\nThe man also set himself alight at the childcare centre in the remote town of Janauba in Minas Gerais state.\n\nVideo footage showed chaotic scenes outside, as parents cried and panicked as the news broke.\n\nTwenty-five people, mostly children aged four and five, are being treated for burns in local hospitals.\n\nSome of the patients may still need to be airlifted to a specialised burns unit in the state capital, Belo Horizonte.\n\nRelatives and residents have gathered outside the local hospital in Janauba\n\nThe mother of one of the victims, four-year-old Juan Miguel Soares Silva, told O Globo newspaper that she had been considering enrolling him in another nursery prior to the attack.\n\n\"We are about to move to a different neighbourhood,\" Jane Kelly da Silva Soares said.\n\n\"I woke up early to drop him at the nursery. When I saw him again he was already dead in hospital.\"\n\nThe security guard has been identified by police as Damiao Soares dos Santos, 50. He died in hospital of his wounds.\n\nThe reasons for the attack are still being investigated.\n\nLocal media has reported that he was dismissed after returning from annual leave last month with an alleged health condition.\n\nHe went to the Gente Inocente childcare centre to hand in his medical certificate and then started the fire, O Globo newspaper reported.\n\nPresident Michel Temer tweeted: \"I'm very sorry about this tragedy involving children in Janauba. I want to express my sympathy to the families.\"\n\n\"This must be a very, very painful loss,\" he added.\n\nThe mayor of Janauba has declared seven days of mourning.", "The National Rifle Association has called for \"additional regulations\" on bump-stocks, a rapid fire device used by the Las Vegas massacre gunman.\n\nThe group said: \"Devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations.\"\n\nRepublicans have said they would consider banning the tool, despite years of resisting any gun control.\n\nLawmakers plan to hold hearings and consider a bill to outlaw the device.\n\nThe NRA called on Thursday for regulators to \"immediately review whether these devices comply with federal law\".\n\nPresident Donald Trump later told reporters his administration would be looking into whether to ban them \"in the next short period of time\".\n\n\"In the aftermath of the evil and senseless attack in Las Vegas, the American people are looking for answers as to how future tragedies can be prevented,\" NRA chiefs Wayne LaPierre and Chris Cox wrote in the statement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It was the scariest moment in my life'\n\nThey criticised politicians who are calling for gun control, writing that \"banning guns from law-abiding Americans based on the criminal act of a madman will do nothing to prevent future attacks\".\n\nThe statement, the organisation's first since Sunday's attack in Las Vegas that left 58 people dead and nearly 500 injured, noted that bump-stocks were approved by the Obama administration's Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms.\n\nThe NRA's strategy for responding to the Las Vegas mass-shooting is now coming into focus.\n\nBy recommending that an executive branch agency conduct a review of the legality of bump stock devices, the extremely influential gun rights lobby is seeking to direct efforts towards administrative, not legislative, solutions.\n\nIf Congress were to start drafting new laws, the process may be more difficult for the NRA to control. Democrats, who have been clamouring for the opportunity to debate new gun-control laws, could have their chance. Republican congressional leadership may try to clamp down on the proceedings, but there's a chance other proposals -like limits on magazine capacity, military-style rifle features and new background check requirements - could come up for consideration.\n\nThese types of provisions are popular with the public at large but vigorously opposed by the NRA and their supporters in Congress. It could make for difficult votes for some conservative legislators.\n\nThe White House and many congressional Republicans are pledging to have a \"conversation\" about the issue and \"look into\" the details. That, for the moment, is a far cry from action.\n\nThe NRA is now suggesting an alternative route.\n\nWhite House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders, who spoke to reporters moments after the NRA statement was issued, said: \"Members of both parties and multiple organisations are planning to take a look at bump-stocks. We welcome that and would like to be part of that conversation.\"\n\nIn the same statement the NRA urged Congress to pass their longstanding pet proposal to expand gun rights nationwide, so-called right-to-carry reciprocity.\n\nThe lobby group wants gun-owners with concealed-carry permits from one state to be allowed to take their weapons into any other US state, even if it has stricter firearms limits.\n\nAnother NRA policy priority, the deregulation of silencer attachments, appears to have stalled in Congress in the wake of the Las Vegas attack, after Republican sponsors withdrew their bill.\n\nA bill to ban bump-stocks was submitted to the US Senate on Wednesday by California Democrat Dianne Feinstein.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After the Las Vegas attack in October 2017 the BBC looked at how US mass shootings are getting worse\n\nA Republican-led version of the bill may be submitted for debate as early as Thursday, Florida Republican Carlos Curbelo told reporters.\n\nHe said there was growing bipartisan consensus and that his office had been \"flooded\" with calls from other lawmakers interested in the bill.\n\n\"I think we are on the verge of a breakthrough when it comes to sensible gun policy,\" he told reporters.\n\nBump-fire stocks, also called bump-stocks and slide-fire adapters, allow semi-automatic rifles to fire at a high rate, similar to a machine gun.\n\nBut they can be obtained without the extensive background checks required of automatic weapons.\n\nAsk survivors of the Las Vegas massacre about gun control and you may well hear the sound of silence.\n\nThe cultures of country music and shooting overlap and many concert-goers remain strong supporters of the right to bear arms.\n\n\"It's obviously kind of a touchy subject,\" singer and performer Krystal Goddard, 35, told me after recounting the horror of her escape from the gig.\n\n\"I think that guns are just a symptom of other things going on,\" she said, although she added that she did not understand why anyone needed to own an assault rifle.\n\nThere is some support among survivors for banning bump-stocks but there is also a realisation that doing so does not amount to serious gun control.\n\nAnd all the while the killing continues. Fifty-nine people died here on Sunday.\n\nBy Thursday afternoon at least 87 more people had been shot and killed across the US, according to the Gun Violence Archive. That's a Las Vegas massacre every three days.\n\nStephen Paddock, the gunman in Las Vegas, had fixed the accessories to 12 rifles used in his attack.\n\nBump-stocks typically cost less than $200 (£150) and allow nearly 100 high-velocity bullets to be fired in just seven seconds, according to one company advert.\n\nOne of the most popular manufacturers of bump-stocks, Slide Fire, said they had sold out \"due to extreme high demands\" since the Las Vegas shooting.", "Iraqi pro-government forces have made swift progress against IS in recent months\n\nIraq's prime minister says its military has retaken Hawija, the main town in one of the last two enclaves of so-called Islamic State in the country.\n\nHaider al-Abadi told reporters that Hawija had been \"liberated\" as part of an operation launched two weeks ago.\n\nA few villages east of the town are believed to still be under IS control.\n\nOnce they fall, IS will be left with only a stretch of the Euphrates river valley around al-Qaim, in the western desert near the border with Syria.\n\nThe jihadist group still controls large parts of the valley in the neighbouring Syrian province of Deir al-Zour, but it is under pressure there from Syrian pro-government forces and a US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters.\n\nHawija, which lies 215km (135 miles) north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, has been a bastion of Sunni Arab insurgents since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.\n\nThe town fell to IS in June 2014, when the jihadist group seized control of much of northern and western Iraq and proclaimed the creation of a \"caliphate\".\n\nBut it was surrounded and cut off from other IS-held territory more than a year ago, when government forces advanced north towards the second city of Mosul.\n\nThe offensive on Hawija began on 21 September and has involved army, police and special forces units, as well as the Shia-led paramilitary Popular Mobilisation.\n\nWith the help of US-led coalition air strikes and military advisers, they recaptured the town of Shirqat on the second day and then moved steadily south-eastwards.\n\nOn Wednesday, the operation's commander announced that troops had begun a major operation to \"liberate\" Hawija itself. They quickly breached jihadist defences in the north-western outskirts and stormed the town centre as night fell.\n\nTroops used a bulldozer to push over an IS sign outside Hawija\n\nSpeaking at a press conference in Paris on Thursday morning after holding talks with French President Emmanuel Macron, Mr Abadi called the recapture of Hawija a \"victory not just of Iraq, but of the whole world\".\n\nBut he said the victory had been achieved \"despite the crises that some people have tried to drag us into\" - an apparent reference to the referendum on independence held by the autonomous Kurdistan Region last week despite opposition from the government in Baghdad and the international community.\n\nMr Abadi wants the Kurdistan Regional Government to annul the result - more than 90% voted in favour of secession - or face punitive sanctions, international isolation and possible military intervention.\n\nIraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said he did not want an armed confrontation with Kurds\n\nHe banned direct international flights to the region last week and on Tuesday called for a \"joint administration\" in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and other disputed areas that have been controlled by the Kurds since 2014 but claimed by both Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government.\n\n\"We do not want an armed confrontation, we don't want clashes, but the federal authority must prevail and nobody can infringe on the federal authority,\" Mr Abadi said on Thursday.\n\n\"I call on the Peshmerga to remain an integral part of the Iraqi forces under the authority of the federal authorities, to guarantee the security of citizens so that we can rebuild these zones.\"\n\nMr Macron said France wanted \"stability in Iraq\" and called for Kurdish rights to be recognised \"in the framework of the constitution\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ashraf Ghani: \"Now in terms of management and leadership things are really falling into place\"\n\nPresident Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan makes no bones about the challenges facing his country when we sit down for an exclusive BBC interview in his palace in Kabul.\n\n\"This is the worst job on Earth,\" he tells me.\n\nAnd it is true there are no shortage of tough issues facing Afghanistan. The most obvious is security. His country has been at war for almost 16 years now. Yet the Afghan president is surprisingly bullish about how long the country will continue to require the support of Nato.\n\nNato troops, he says, will be able to pull out \"within four years\".\n\nMany military analysts will consider that optimistic given that it is only three years since the Nato combat mission ended and the Afghan military took responsibility for the battle against the Taliban and other insurgent groups.\n\nAbout 14,000 Nato troops remain in the country to \"train, advise and assist\" Afghan forces. The aim is to strengthen them so they can take the battle to the Taliban.\n\nThe president says the Afghan National Army is prevailing against the Taliban\n\nMr Ghani doesn't deny it has been a difficult three years. \"We were like 12-year-olds taking on the responsibility of a 30-year-old; but we really grew in the process. Now in terms of management and leadership things are really falling into place.\"\n\nHe continues: \"Within four years, we think our security forces would be able to do the constitutional thing, which is the claim of legitimate monopoly of power.\"\n\nHe expects that some foreign troops will remain in Afghanistan after that period as part of the global fight against terrorism but, when I ask whether he is saying Afghan forces have turned the corner in the fight against the Taliban, there is no hesitation: \"Yes,\" he says.\n\nThe Taliban, he says, had two strategic aims: to overthrow the government or to create two \"political geographies\", by which he means whole areas of the country where it holds sway.\n\n\"It has failed miserably in both of these aims,\" Mr Ghani believes.\n\nWhether that is true is debatable. The latest figures from the US military show that the Afghan government controls less than two-thirds of the country. The rest is either controlled or contested by the Taliban and other militant groups.\n\nWhat is more, last year Afghanistan lost some 10% of its entire fighting force: about 7,000 Afghan National Army soldiers were killed, another 12,000 were injured, and many thousands more deserted.\n\nOne reason the Afghan president is so confident is that he believes that the West does not really understand the real nature of the conflict. His government is not fighting a civil war, he argues, but a drug war.\n\nThe US has announced that some of its forces will stay in Afghanistan indefinitely\n\n\"Taliban is the largest exporters of heroin to the world. Why is the world not focusing on heroin? Is this an ideological war or is this a drug war?\" asks Mr Ghani. \"This criminalisation of the economy needs to be addressed.\"\n\nSo what is the ultimate aim, I ask.\n\n\"A peace agreement with the Taliban,\" he answers without a breath.\n\n\"The whole aim of the strategy is to provide the ground for political solution and a political solution is a negotiated solution. It's imperative that the people are given a chance to live their lives. We have been denied breathing space for 40 years, and in an immense tribute to our people for their resilience, any other state would've been completely broken.\"\n\nMr Ghani is full of praise for US President Donald Trump, who finally announced last month that his government was ready to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. Withdrawal, said Mr Trump, would be determined by \"conditions on the ground and not arbitrary timetables\".\n\nThe US president also said he would send a few thousand more troops to support the current Nato mission. In return, Mr Ghani says he plans a complete overhaul of the Afghan government, including redoubled efforts to crack down on corruption.\n\n\"The first principle of tackling corruption,\" he tells me, \"is that you do not engage in it and you have the will to confront it. Whoever engages in corruption, regardless of affiliation, relationship etc, must be subject to the same law.\"\n\n\"A three-star general that I have promoted is now in prison because it was demonstrated that fuel was being stolen,\" he boasts. \"One of the richest men in the country that people thought was untouchable is now in prison. You can ask anyone in the judiciary, I provide full political support.\"\n\nThe Afghan president's message is clear: \"Self-reliance is not just words, but deeds.\"\n\nAnd, with two years to go before a general election, he says he doesn't care if the price of his reform efforts is his presidency.\n\n\"If election is your goal, you're never going to engage in reform. Reform has to be your goal. Election is the means. You run for office in order to do something, not in order to perpetuate yourself. Politicians have become extraordinarily conservative, but our times require imagination and bold action.\"\n• None Afghan president: 'Corner has been turned' Video, 00:01:40Afghan president: 'Corner has been turned'", "Mark Salling (pictured in 2016) starred in the musical series Glee for six years\n\nFormer Glee actor Mark Salling has pleaded guilty to possession of images of child sex abuse.\n\nSalling, 35, now faces between four and seven years in prison and has been ordered to pay about $50,000 (£38,000) to each victim.\n\nThe actor was arrested in 2015 after a tip off he was in possession of images of children being sexually abused.\n\nInvestigators eventually found thousands of images on his laptop and hard drive.\n\nSalling was charged with two counts of receiving and possessing images of child sexual abuse in May 2016, and faced a possible 20 years behind bars.\n\nBut documents obtained by several outlets show he has entered into a plea deal with California's district attorney.\n\nAs part of the agreement, Salling will be subject to 20 years supervised release and will have strict restrictions placed on his contact with under-18s, according to celebrity website TMZ.\n\nSalling played bad-boy football player Noah \"Puck\" Puckerman on the hit US show Glee from 2009 to 2015.", "The FDA's video about sleep positioners warns that \"all can be dangerous\"\n\nSome UK retailers have stopped selling baby sleep positioners amid concerns over their safety.\n\nA US health regulator said they \"can cause suffocation that can lead to death\" and have been linked to 12 infant deaths in the US.\n\nThe positioners, aimed at infants under six months, are intended to keep a baby in a specific position while sleeping.\n\nMothercare, John Lewis, eBay, Boots and Tesco have stopped sales, but they are still available from other retailers.\n\nThe Lullaby Trust, a cot death charity which advises the NHS, told BBC News that there are hundreds of baby sleep products on the market - and \"parents assume that if something is for sale, it is safe to use\".\n\nLullaby's Jenny Ward added: \"The age-old question that hasn't really changed is: how do I get my baby to sleep?\n\n\"And if there's a product that says: 'This will help your baby to sleep', it's obviously something that some parents will want to find out more about.\"\n\nBut she said the Trust recommends a firm, flat, waterproof mattress, in a clear cot free of pillows, toys, bumpers and sleep positioners, because the evidence shows that this reduces the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).\n\nThe Trust does not recommend wedges or sleep positioners - regardless of other potential benefits.\n\nIf, for example, parents are worried about \"flat head syndrome\" from babies sleeping on their backs, there are techniques that can be used - such as supervised tummy time while they are awake - that will not increase the risk of SIDS.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Here's how to put your baby to sleep safely\n\nThe Food and Drug Administration in the US released a statement on Wednesday explaining that the items - often called \"nests\" or \"anti-roll\" products - have caused some babies to suffocate after rolling from their sides to their stomachs.\n\nIt said the two most common types of sleep positioners feature raised supports or pillows (called \"bolsters\") that are attached to each side of a mat, or a wedge to raise a baby's head.\n\nThe FDA first issued a safety warning seven years ago, saying \"in light of the suffocation risk and the lack of evidence of any benefits, we are warning consumers to stop using these products\".\n\nThere is no FDA equivalent in the UK, though the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is responsible for product safety policy, which is enforced by Trading Standards.\n\nA BEIS spokesman told the BBC: \"Manufacturers, distributors and retailers must ensure products meet the relevant safety requirements and be able to prove this is the case if asked, before the product is placed on the market.\"\n\nMothercare had been selling a sleep positioner for £39.99 but has told the BBC it is no longer for sale.\n\nIt came with a warning that it should not be used once a baby was able to turn around on their own.\n\nTesco, which sold sleep positioners on its website through a third party, said: \"We have removed these products from our website as a precautionary measure.\"\n\nJohn Lewis, which had one sleep positioner for sale, the Cocoonababy Sleep Positioner, also said it was removing it as a \"precautionary measure\".\n\nThe retailer said it was also removing the Cocoonababy Nest, a sleep pod, while it awaits \"further advice and reassurance from the supplier\".\n\nA spokesman for eBay said the website would be banning the sale of the products, adding: \"Our team will be informing sellers and removing any listings that contravene our policies.\"\n\nBoots said it is removing the sale of all sleep positioner products \"whilst we investigate further with our suppliers\".\n\nSleep positioners are however still available on other websites, including Amazon, which said it would not be commenting on the issue.\n\nA spokeswoman for Jo Jo Maman Bebe said it was still selling the products but was \"investigating the issue as a matter of urgency with our suppliers\".\n\nThe Lullaby Trust said there is no need to use any type of equipment or rolled up blankets to keep a baby in one position, unless parents have been advised to do so by a health professional for a specific medical condition.\n\nIt added: \"Babies are at higher risk of SIDS if they have their heads covered, and some items added to a cot may increase the risk of head-covering and can also increase the risk of accidents.\n\n\"We recommend that while evidence on individual products is not widely available, parents do not take any chances and stick to scientifically proven safer sleep guidelines\".\n\nThe charity has published a checklist to help new parents which can be found here.\n\nHave you used a baby sleep positioner or any other sleep products? Let us know about your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk with your stories.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Trudeau attends the opening of the National Holocaust Monument\n\nA plaque has been removed from Canada's Holocaust memorial because it neglected to mention Jewish people.\n\nPM Justin Trudeau opened the National Holocaust Monument last week in the capital Ottawa.\n\nThe plaque commemorated the \"millions of men, women and children murdered\" but did not specifically mention Jewish people or anti-Semitism.\n\nAbout six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, the largest group to be persecuted by the Nazis.\n\nThe omission was seized upon by MPs and senators of the opposition Conservative Party on Tuesday.\n\n\"If we are going to stamp out hatred toward Jews, it is important to get history right,\" said MP David Sweet.\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\nHeritage Minister Melanie Joly assured parliament that the plaque had been removed, and would be replaced with one that reflects \"the horrors experienced by the Jewish people\".\n\nThe omission on the plaque appears to have been an oversight - during the opening on 27 September both anti-Semitism and the effects of the Holocaust on the Jewish people were mentioned.\n\n\"Today we reaffirm our unshakeable commitment to fight anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia and discrimination in all its forms, and we pay tribute to those who experienced the worst of humanity. We can honour them by fighting hatred with love, and seeking always to see ourselves in each other,\" Mr Trudeau said at the unveiling.\n\nUntil then, Canada had been the only Allied power to not have a national Holocaust memorial.\n\nEarlier this year, US President Donald Trump was admonished for failing to use the word Jew on Holocaust Remembrance Day.", "A former GCHQ boss has admitted assaulting a female dinner guest during a \"sexualised\" Truth or Dare-style party game.\n\nBrian Lord OBE, the ex-deputy director for intelligence and cyber operations at the Cheltenham spy base, denied sexually assaulting the woman by putting his hand on her knee.\n\nProsecutors instead proceeded with a charge of assault, which Lord admitted.\n\nHe was ordered to pay the woman £100 compensation and £200 costs.\n\nThe judge in the case also gave him a conditional discharge.\n\nThe court heard Lord, 56, who now works in the private sector, and his partner, Natasha Marshall, attended a colleague's dinner party in Churchdown, near Gloucester, on 26 November 2016.\n\nProsecutor Robert Duvall said: \"During some party games the defendant placed his hand on the lady's knee.\n\n\"It was there for a significant time and caused her embarrassment and awkwardness.\"\n\nMr Duvall said the woman had not felt able to express her concern but when Lord's partner left the table, she followed her to the kitchen.\n\nHe said Lord was \"apologetic and left without question\" when the issue was raised.\n\n\"He was emphatic that his actions, however unwise, were not sexual in nature.\"\n\nRosemary Collins, defending, said everybody at the party had been drinking and Lord accepted he had put his hand on the woman's knee for \"two to three minutes\".\n\nShe said: \"This was during the course of party games.\n\n\"They were sexualised party games such as 'Did you ever...?', 'Have you ever...?' that sort of thing.\n\n\"He intended no disrespect to her at all and accepts it was something that was stupid, done in drink.\n\n\"He thought he was getting on rather well with the complainant.\"\n\nShe added: \"He has never been in trouble before.\n\n\"He is a family man, it is such a shame that it has come to this.\"\n\nJudge Michael Cullum told Lord: \"Your behaviour crossed the line to criminal behaviour, as a result of which you have lost your good name and your good character which, I know, you will have held dear.\"\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\n\"How should a Nobel laureate dress?\" asked Kazuo Ishiguro, who, 40 minutes earlier, had found out he had won the Nobel Prize for Literature.\n\nTo say the news was unexpected is an understatement. He literally couldn't believe it.\n\nUntil, that was, his phone began to ring constantly, an orderly queue of TV crews started to form outside his front door (\"how do they all know where I live?\"), and his publishers dispatched a top team to his house as back-up.\n\nThis was not fake news. This was delightful, surprising news. Maybe there were others who should have won instead, he wondered. \"But that is the nature of prizes. They are a lottery.\"\n\nWhile chaos reigned around him, he was calm, assured and thoughtful, talking (after nipping upstairs to fetch a smart jacket for our interview) about his belief in the power of stories and how those that he wrote would often explore wasted lives and opportunities.\n\n\"I've always had a faith that it should be possible, if you tell stories in a certain way, to transcend barriers of race, class and ethnicity.\"\n\nFor me, he is one of the great living writers working in any language. All writers can tell stories. Ishiguro tells stories on another level.\n\nHe places the reader in some sort of alternative reality - which might be the future, it might be the present, it might be the past. They feel like places that are whole and real, but you don't know them.\n\nThey're weird and not necessarily happy places. But they're places that you can inhabit and relate to, and you become deeply involved with the characters. That's the writer's job - he just does it better than most.\n\nKazuo Ishiguro held an audience with reporters in his garden\n\nGrowing up in England in a Japanese household was crucial to his writing, he says, enabling him to see things from a different perspective to many of his British peers.\n\nIt is most obvious in the slightly detached nature of many of his narrators, which he explains as coming from \"a long tradition in Japanese art towards a surface calm and surface restraint. There is a felling emotions can feel more intense if they are held down to the surface level\".\n\nThere was nothing superficial about his emotions when we met earlier today. He was chuffed to bits, and rightly so.\n\nKazuo Ishiguro is worthy recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. Follow my Twitter feed: @WillGompertzBBC If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The 4,500-acre (seven-sq-mile) Inner Hebridean island of Ulva was put up for sale over the summer\n\nA beautiful, remote Scottish island is up for sale - but can the local community raise the money to buy it for themselves? Emma Jane Kirby writes from Ulva.\n\nThe problem with Ulva is that once you get on to the 4,500-acre (seven-sq-mile) Inner Hebridean island, you really don't ever want to get off it.\n\nThe unexpected autumn sunshine is showcasing the rusty browns and mossy greens of its landscape as a true bucolic idyll, and the dark sea, which follows the contours of its dramatic coastline, inspires childish thoughts of escape and adventure.\n\nDonald Munro, the island's ferryman tugs the brim of his hat down a little over his eyes when I tell him this.\n\n\"And how many others feel the way you do?\" he smiles. \"How many others with £4.25m to spend? But this is our home... we have roots here.\"\n\nFor Donald Munro, the island's ferryman, Ulva is his home\n\nOver the summer, Ulva was put up for sale.\n\nBilled as the ultimate private getaway, the island has drawn attention from wealthy individuals from all over the world.\n\nRumours flip and fly across the narrow strait of water that separates it from the Isle of Mull - someone has heard a sheikh is keen, another fears Russian oligarchs, there are whispers of a professional footballer wanting his very own millionaire's playground.\n\n\"It's not really about who the buyer is,\" explains my tour guide for the day, John Addy, who lives on neighbouring Mull.\n\n\"It's about what that buyer wants to do with this island. The buyer could really want to regenerate this island; that would be great - or the buyer could just want it as a plaything. That's why we are putting in a bid for a community buyout - to protect the people from an absentee landlord.\"\n\nJohn Addy has put in a bid for a community buyout of Ulva and hopes to develop and repopulate the island\n\nJohn is a director of the North West Mull Community Woodland Company Ltd, a community body, affectionately known as The Woodies, which has applied to the Scottish government to exercise the community right to buy, created by the land reform legislation, which gives communities the opportunity to try to buy land themselves if it comes up for sale.\n\nThe Woodies, set up in 2006, have already successfully taken over acres of forests on Mull from the Forestry Commission Scotland.\n\nIn Ulva they have plans to repopulate the island by increasing economic activity and the housing stock, building new affordable homes and developing farming, fishing, and even crofting.\n\n\"Just look at the potential here,\" says John, as we stop in front of an information board that boasts of the island's red deer, sea eagles, otters and dolphins.\n\nThe community group would like to transform derelict cottages into hostels and B&Bs\n\n\"Can't you just imagine the tourism potential if we won our bid and were allowed to develop and restore and repopulate this place?\"\n\nWe walk past some rundown farm buildings and some fairytale but derelict cottages the community group would like to transform into hostels and B&Bs.\n\nAt the moment, wild camping is the only way to stay overnight as a visitor on the island.\n\n\"All that would change with the community buyout,\" says John. \"We're even thinking of electric cars.\"\n\nTwo hundred years ago, more than 500 people lived here. Today, only six call Ulva their home. They rent their homes from the current owner, Jamie Howard, who is resident on the island and whose family have owned Ulva for over 70 years.\n\nIf The Woodies don't succeed in their community buyout, and the island is put back on the market for private sale, the residents fear that a new owner may not want tenants on their land.\n\nBarry George has been an Ulva resident for 21 years but fears a new owner could shut the island down\n\n\"I have nowhere else to go,\" says Barry George as he harvests vegetables from his beautiful island garden.\n\nBarry, who used to work on the local fish farms, has been an Ulva resident for 21 years.\n\n\"This is all I've got,\" he says. \"A new owner could shut our island down - when you buy the island, you also buy the piers - so we could be cut off and told to go.\"\n\nIt is possible that the Scottish government could refuse to consider North West Mull Community Woodland Company's buyout bid as the application came in late, but for now The Woodies' action has caused the private sale to be put on hold.\n\nIf the bid is registered, the group would then have about eight months to come up with a viable economic plan, and the necessary funding, to meet whatever eventual sale price was set by the government.\n\nUlva is not the first Scottish island to attempt a community buyout - in 1997, the Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust successfully took ownership of the Isle of Eigg, meeting the sale price of £1.5m through a series of grants and a major fundraising campaign.\n\nJohn Addy is confident the money needed to buy Ulva could also be raised through grants and crowdfunding.\n\nThe fifth Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, known as the Father of Australia, was an Ulva man, and there have already been encouraging noises from down under.\n\nThe owner of this seafood cafe believes the community are the best people to run Ulva\n\nAs she opens oysters for the hungry day-trippers at the thriving seafood cafe she runs with her sister-in-law, 30-year-old Rebecca Munro tells me that living on Ulva with her fisherman husband and bringing up their two young children here is \"exceptionally special\".\n\nSince the announcement that the island was up for sale however, she admits to sleepless nights.\n\nRebecca is passionate about the community buyout and adamant that if Ulva was community-owned, it would be easy to repopulate the island because people would feel secure.\n\n\"This is about securing opportunities and our future,\" she says, wiping lemon juice from her hands on to her apron.\n\n\"Surely it's obvious that the community are the best people to run this place.\n\n\"Why would the people who live here and care about this place not be the best placed people to take over?\"\n\nAs he ferries me back to Mull in his small boat, Rebecca's father-in-law Donald waves away my question about what would happen to his livelihood if the community buyout failed and a new owner decided to shut access to Ulva.\n\n\"Let's not talk about that,\" he says gruffly. He turns his head to look at Ulva's retreating and stunning coastline.\n\n\"It's a beautiful day, isn't it?\" he says. \"The girls will be busy in the cafe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A prankster interrupted the prime minister during her speech\n\nSecurity at future Conservative Party conferences will be reviewed after a prankster got close enough to the prime minister to hand her a P45.\n\nComedian Simon Brodkin - also known as his TV persona Lee Nelson - handed the sheet of paper to Theresa May in the middle of her speech.\n\nHe was arrested by Greater Manchester Police to prevent a breach of the peace, but later released.\n\nThe force said he had \"legitimate accreditation\" to attend the event.\n\nBrodkin approached the podium as the PM was giving her address to close the conference.\n\nHe held piece of paper up to Mrs May, which she took amid a sea of photographers.\n\nHe allegedly told her that the P45 was from Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, before giving her cabinet colleague a thumbs up.\n\nBrodkin was then led out of the conference hall to angry shouts from party members.\n\nThe paper, a faked P45, was later discovered on the floor of the hall.\n\nAfter being released by police, the comedian tweeted Mr Johnson.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Simon Brodkin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBrodkin has a reputation for carrying out pranks at big public events.\n\nPolitical moves by the comedian include throwing US dollar bills over former Fifa president Sepp Blatter during the football organisation's bidding scandal.\n\nHe was also found handing out Nazi golf balls at a Donald Trump speech.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK prankster Simon Brodkin was behind the protest at the news conference\n\nDuring Glastonbury Festival in 2015, he ran on to the stage as Kanye West was performing.\n\nHe pulled a similar stunt on The X Factor in 2014 as boy band Stereo Kicks were playing.\n\nThe incident split opinion online. Some praised the prank, including fellow comedian Russell Kane who tweeted that he was an \"absolute ledge\".\n\nBut Conservative MP George Freeman, head of the prime minister's policy board, said: \"There should be some very serious questions - that could have been a terrorist.\"\n\nHe added that \"questions will be asked about how he was allowed to get that close\".\n\nEven opposition MPs stepped in, with Labour's Angela Eagle tweeting that whilst the incident was \"harmless\", there were \"worrying questions about her security\".\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\nShaun Hinds, chief executive of Manchester Central - where the conference was being held - said: \"At the time of the disturbance, conference security protocols were immediately enacted resulting in the individual being quickly ejected from the venue and handed over to [police].\"\n\nA Conservative spokesman added: \"In light of the arrest during the prime minister's speech we are working with the police to review the accreditation process and security arrangements for party conference.\"", "A couple in Indiana stole $1.2m from Amazon by repeatedly claiming that packages had arrived damaged\n\nA couple in the US have admitted stealing goods from Amazon valued at more than $1.2m (£910,000) by repeatedly pretending that items they ordered were damaged in the post.\n\nErin Joseph Finan, 38, and Leah Jeanette Finan, 37, from Indiana, have pleaded guilty to postal fraud and money laundering.\n\nThe couple face fines of up to $500,000, as well as prison sentences of up to 20 years.\n\nThey will be sentenced on 9 November.\n\nAccording to local newspaper the Muncie Star Press, the Finans used hundreds of false online identities to order popular tech gadgets from Amazon, including Samsung smartwatches, GoPro cameras and Xbox video game consoles.\n\nThe couple then contacted Amazon's customer service department to report that the items had arrived damaged or were not working, and Amazon sent out replacement products for free.\n\nThe Finans then sold the merchandise on to another individual, who resold the products to an unnamed firm based in New York.\n\nThe couple and their accomplice were eventually caught after a joint investigation conducted by the US Postal Inspection Service, Indiana State Police and the Internal Revenue Service.", "Mr Foster, who moved to Cardiff for university, was a sales representative for an outdoor clothing firm\n\nThe family of a climber from Wales killed shielding his wife from a rock fall in California have said he will \"always be our hero\" for saving her.\n\nAndrew Foster, 32, originally from Cheltenham, died when rocks fell from El Capitan in Yosemite National Park on 27 September.\n\nHis wife Lucy, 28, who was seriously injured and is recovering in hospital, was protected by her husband's body.\n\nMr Foster's family said they were so proud of their \"brave boy\".\n\nIn a statement, they said they wake up every morning hoping his death had been a \"bad dream\".\n\n\"As has already been reported, Andrew died whilst shielding Lucy and, indeed, we understand another climber witnessed him running back to the rock fall to protect Lucy,\" his family said.\n\n\"They loved each other dearly and, while our loss is indescribable, we are so proud of our brave boy in saving Lucy; he will always be our hero.\"\n\nThe couple got engaged during a skiing holiday\n\nMrs Foster's family said he was \"the man of her dreams\".\n\n\"We take some comfort from the fact that Andy's last act of love saved Lucy's life. Both families are supporting each other at this incredibly difficult time of loss and sadness,\" they said.\n\nThe families said she was stable in hospital and the friends the couple had been climbing with had been at her hospital bedside.\n\nThey said they were now focused on getting his body back to the UK.\n\nThe El Capitan rock formation is the world's largest granite monolith and one of the best-known landmarks in Yosemite.\n\nThe pair, found with climbing equipment, are believed to have been scouting out the ascent from a trail when a \"sheet\" of granite plummeted from a height of 200m (656ft).\n\nMr Foster proposed to his wife in the Alps in 2015 and the couple married last year.\n\nHe went to Cleeve School in Bishop's Cleeve, Gloucestershire, before going to Cardiff University in 2003 to study engineering.\n\nIn 2006, he began working for the Cardiff-based outdoor activity shop Up and Under, before joining the international company Patagonia.\n\nMrs Foster is originally from Staffordshire and went to school in Market Drayton, Shropshire.", "Mr Puigdemont is not the first Catalan leader forced to leave the region\n\nCatalonia's sacked President Carles Puigdemont has spearheaded the region's peaceful drive for independence from Spain.\n\nIn defiance of the law and Spain's constitution, he has pushed forward in the hope of international recognition.\n\nBut his zeal for secession has put him on a collision course with Spain's authorities, which outlawed the independence referendum held in Catalonia on 1 October.\n\nBut the result on 21 December was bad news for Madrid. The separatists won a slim majority, even though a pro-unity party came top.\n\n\"[Rajoy] has only demonstrated a greater mobilisation of Catalans, greater votes,\" Mr Puigdemont said, calling for negotiations with the Spanish PM.\n\nHe was speaking in Brussels, having fled there with four ministers after declaring independence.\n\nThe election result proved that his campaigning via videolink from Brussels had worked.\n\nBut the village baker's son from Girona faces the weight of Spanish law if he returns to Spain. The separatist leaders are accused of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds.\n\nBorn in Amer in 1962, Carles Puigdemont grew up under the dictatorship of Gen Francisco Franco and was taught in Spanish at a Church-run boarding school, but spoke Catalan at home like others of his generation.\n\nJoan Matamala, a few years his senior at the school, remembers the boy everyone got on with, even the older pupils.\n\nBookseller Joan Matamala went to school with Carles Puigdemont\n\nMr Matamala runs a bookshop, Les Voltes, that has been promoting Catalan language and culture in Girona for 50 years.\n\nThe young Mr Puigdemont did not come over as a natural leader at the time, but he was someone you did not forget, he says.\n\n\"Despite the difference in age, he was a role model for others,\" Mr Matamala remembers.\n\nAs a young man, Mr Puigdemont had a passion for his native tongue, going on to study Catalan philology at the local university and polishing colleagues' copy when he first found work at the city's newspapers.\n\nMiquel Riera worked with him, often late into the night, at the fiercely pro-independence paper now known as El Punt Avui.\n\nMiquel Riera worked with Carles Puigdemont at the pro-independence newspaper now known as El Punt Avui\n\n\"Right from the start he was very interested in new technology and the internet,\" says Mr Riera. This may have fed Mr Puigdemont's awareness of social media, which was crucial in promoting the referendum campaign.\n\n\"He's a man who makes friends easily and remembers them,\" says Mr Riera, whose 25-year-old son, he says, was bruised on the chest by a police rifle butt at a polling station at the 1 October referendum.\n\nMr Puigdemont served as mayor of Girona from 2011 until 2016 when he was elected regional president of Catalonia.\n\nThere is no denying his star appeal among his supporters, who clamour to take selfies with him at rallies and avidly follow his social media accounts, which he curates himself.\n\n\"Mr Puigdemont has been absolutely key to bringing Catalonia to where we are now,\" said Montse Daban, international chairperson of the Catalan National Assembly, a grassroots pro-independence movement.\n\n\"An absolute and positive surprise for Catalan citizens\" - Montse Daban describing the impact of Puigdemont\n\nBut in the eyes of Spain's government, the Catalan leader has ruthlessly created a crisis, burning all the bridges in order to make a unilateral declaration of independence.\n\n\"Democracy is not about voting - there are referenda in dictatorships too,\" a Madrid government source told the BBC. \"Only when you vote with guarantees according to the law is it a democracy.\"\n\nImages of violence at the polling stations in October's banned referendum caused an international outcry.\n\nBut the source said this was \"150% part of Puigdemont's plan\".\n\n\"It's unfortunate because it was a trap. There's no doubt it looks bad for the Spanish government.\"\n\nMr Puigdemont talks the language of independence in a way his more cautious predecessor, Artur Mas, did not during the dry-run referendum of 2014, which was also banned by Madrid.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC after the 1 October referendum, Mr Puigdemont said: \"I think we've won the right to be heard, but what I find harder to understand is this indifference - or absolute lack of interest - in understanding what is happening here. They've never wanted to listen to us.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police were filmed violently tackling voters and appearing to pull a woman by her hair\n\n\"How can we explain to the world that Europe is a paradise of democracy if we hit old women and people who've done nothing wrong? This is not acceptable. We haven't seen such a disproportionate and brutal use of force since the death of the dictator Franco.\"\n\nHe calls for mediation - something the Spanish government says is unacceptable.\n\nA Madrid source dismissed the idea, telling the BBC it would be \"mediation between the Spanish government and part of the Spanish state\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFrom Brussels, Mr Puigdemont has watched as his Catalan allies back home have been placed in Spanish custody to face trial.\n\nHe has been mocked by some for not going to Madrid along with them and placing himself in the hands of Spanish justice.\n\nOne cartoon apparently being circulated on the Whatsapp messaging app shows him, with his distinctive mop of hair and glasses, hiding out in a box of Belgian chocolates.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Pascal Hansens This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Mr Puigdemont told Belgian TV he was not hiding from \"real justice\" but from the \"clearly politicised\" Spanish legal system.\n\nLast year Spain issued then dropped European arrest warrants against him and his four colleagues in Belgium.\n\nBut he was arrested in Germany on 25 March while travelling back to Brussels from a conference in Finland. The European arrest warrant against him had been reissued two days earlier, apparently taking him by surprise.\n\nGermany must now decide whether to extradite him to Spain.\n\nMeanwhile, the man from Girona is keeping the cause he holds so dear, Catalan independence, squarely on the doorstep of the European Union.", "Royal Mail workers are set to strike for 48 hours from 19 October in a dispute over pensions, pay and jobs.\n\nThe Communication Workers Union said it had told the Royal Mail Group that 111,000 postal workers will walk out.\n\nThe industrial action follows the 89.1% vote in favour of a strike announced by the union on Thursday.\n\nRoyal Mail said it will use all legal options, including applying for a High Court injunction, to prevent industrial action.\n\nThe FTSE 250-listed company called for further talks with the CWU, adding: \"We believe any strike action before the dispute resolution procedures have been followed would be unlawful.\"\n\nThe union said the company's move to replace the pension scheme meant its members would lose up to a third of their retirement entitlements.\n\nCWU general secretary Dave Ward said it was a \"watershed dispute\" that would determine the future of the postal service.\n\n\"We are determined to take whatever steps are necessary to deliver an agreement that will protect and enhance our member's terms and conditions and improve the range of services on offer to customers,\" he said.\n\nThe CWU vote, which had a 73.7% turnout, is the first major ballot since the introduction of the Trade Union Act, which requires a 50% turnout.\n\nThe union did not rule out further strike action in addition to the 48-hour walkout later this month.\n\nCWU deputy general secretary Terry Pullinger said it had been in negotiations with the company for 18 months.\n\n\"Royal Mail Group management have clearly moved away from the spirit and intent of our agreements and the empty promises of privatisation, and have suffered a huge vote of no confidence from their employees and CWU members as a consequence,\" he said.", "The Huffpost UK website chooses an image of the prime minister swigging water to control her cough, alongside the headline \"The Cough Drop\".\n\nIts executive editor of politics, Paul Waugh, describes how \"the PM's dogged persistence won her sympathy from her own tribe\" but warns that she \"is now in danger of being neither liked, feared nor respected, merely pitied\".\n\nJason Beattie, in the Daily Mirror, warns that a position that \"now relies on sympathy, not respect\" is no way to win votes, adding that \"the Tories are lumbered with supporting an ill-fated leader whose speech will become a metaphor for a party in poor health and struggling to find its voice\".\n\nThe Sun pokes fun at the party slogan sliding off the backdrop behind her, employing the headline \"things can only get letter\".\n\nIts editorial takes the view that, like the crumbling catchphrase, \"the entire party has come unstuck\".\n\nThe Times says Tory sources blamed the repeated standing ovations - led by ministers in an attempt to let her recover her voice - for loosening the magnets that were securing the motto on the wall.\n\nPolitics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt likens the \"crescendo\" of applause to \"a parent clapping their child when he falls over during the school play\".\n\nThe Daily Telegraph quotes former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell and a professional vocal coach as criticising Theresa May for failing to seek help to preserve her voice ahead of the speech.\n\nHer former chief of staff, Nick Timothy, tells the paper the blame for a disastrous week lies with the whole government.\n\nWhile Conservative former cabinet minister Lord Tebbit says she has been let down by advisers \"lacking in experience and ability\".\n\n\"Carry On Conference\" is the headline for the Independent, which believes her performance \"was so bad, the next P45 may not be a comic's prank\".\n\nIt points out the \"inevitable parallels\" with the Tory conference address given in 2003 by Iain Duncan Smith who was forced to stand down as leader three weeks later.\n\nThe Daily Star claims Boris Johnson was \"smirking\" as the prime minister stumbled along.\n\nJenni Russell, in the Times, agrees that Mr Johnson \"was the only cabinet minister looking alert and cheerful\".\n\nBut she reports that support for him among his colleagues is evaporating amid an \"icy realism that, severe as the party's problems are, Boris's fantasies are not the answer\".\n\nOne Conservative MP tells the Financial Times that Mrs May's critics have already begun plotting her demise.\n\nBut the paper adds that most MPs fear a chaotic leadership contest if she is ousted before Brexit.\n\nPolitico reflects on reporting of the speech across Europe with Italy's La Repubblica describing it as an \"odyssey\", Spain's El Pais regarding her as \"tiptoeing around Brexit\" in an \"anguished\" address and Le Figaro of France referring to her \"arriving weakened and ending up on her knees\".", "An Army sergeant tried to kill his wife by removing parts of her parachute, causing her to spin thousands of feet to the ground, a court has heard.\n\nEmile Cilliers, 37, is accused of two counts of attempted murder of Victoria Cilliers who survived the jump on 5 April 2015.\n\nMr Cilliers, who denies all charges, wanted to leave his wife for a lover he had met on Tinder, prosecutors said.\n\nIt is also claimed that just days before the jump, on 29 March 2015, the defendant tried to kill Ms Cilliers, 40, by deliberately causing a gas leak in the family home while he stayed away.\n\nPolice evidence showed the kitchen cupboard where the gas leak occurred (large arrow)\n\nProsecutor Michael Bowes QC said that on the night of the gas leak Mr Cilliers had left his wife at their home in Amesbury, Wiltshire, to stay at his Army barracks in Aldershot, Hampshire.\n\nHe said the following morning Ms Cilliers contacted her husband complaining of a gas smell coming from a kitchen cupboard next to the oven.\n\nShe noticed dried blood on the fitting which was later found to be a full DNA match to her husband, the court was told.\n\nThe jury was told the Royal Army Physical Training Corps sergeant lied to his lover, Stefanie Glover, that he was leaving his wife because she was having an affair and he was not the father of one of their children.\n\nMr Bowes QC said Mr Cilliers was also having an affair with his ex-wife Carly Cilliers.\n\nHe told the court the defendant had debts of £22,000 and believed he would receive a £120,000 life insurance payout on his wife's death.\n\nEmile Cilliers made up lies about his wife having an affair, the court heard\n\nMr Bowes QC said Ms Cilliers was a highly experienced parachutist and instructor but when she jumped out of the plane 4,000ft (1,200m) above Netheravon Airfield in Wiltshire \"both her main parachute and her reserve parachute failed\".\n\n\"Those attending at the scene expected to find her dead, although she was badly injured, almost miraculously she survived the fall.\n\n\"Those at the scene immediately realised that something was seriously wrong with her reserve parachute, two vital pieces of equipment which fasten the parachute harness were missing,\" he said.\n\nPolice picture of the gas pipe which Sgt Cilliers allegedly tampered with\n\nThe day before the failed jump the couple had visited Netheravon together, the court heard.\n\nWhile there Mr Cilliers collected a hire parachute for his wife and took it into the men's toilets at the base, where he is alleged to have tampered with it.\n\nMr Bowes QC said: \"It's heavy, it's bulky, there is absolutely no reason to take it in there at all.\n\n\"The weather was so poor that afternoon that Victoria couldn't jump, the cloud base was too low.\"\n\nThe court heard that Mr Cilliers then arranged to keep the equipment overnight in his wife's locker, a move that was against normal procedure.\n\nHe added that at the time of the murder attempts, Mr Cilliers was leaving his wife and treated her with \"callousness and contempt\".\n\nThe third allegation, which Mr Cilliers also denies, is damaging a gas fitting, reckless to endangerment of life.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The 2017 Nobel season is still under way, with the prizes for peace, and economics yet to be announced.\n\nBut for the sciences, this year's work is done and many in the scientific community are noticing some similarities about the winners.\n\nIn the case of physics, the winning discovery had already been making global headlines.\n\nThe prize was shared by three researchers for the groundbreaking 2015 detection of gravitational waves.\n\nFor chemistry, the committee recognised the less publicised work of developing a new microscopy technique, which the Nobel committee said had \"moved biochemistry into a new era\".\n\nFor physiology or medicine, a team who uncovered a better understanding our body clocks was honoured.\n\nHowever, the science community was quick to notice that this year's laureates all had one thing in common.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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In 2017, we're challenging them to tackle four of the biggest problems facing women today - the glass ceiling, female illiteracy, harassment in public spaces and sexism in sport.\n\nWith your help, they'll be coming up with real-life solutions and we want you to get involved with your ideas. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and use #100Women\n\nWith prizes often awarded years, or even decades, after the discoveries that merit them, it was an opportunity for celebration for the teams involved.\n\nThe Astronomer Royal, Sir Martin Rees, said the three physicists honoured by the Nobel Committee were \"outstanding individuals whose contributions were distinctive and complementary\".\n\nYet despite being excited by the wider recognition of this groundbreaking research, it is clear that many scientists feel a change is necessary.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Divya M. This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOnly 17 women have been awarded a Nobel prize in the three science categories since the awards' inception in 1901. There have been no black science laureates.\n\nOf the 206 physics laureates recognised, two have been women - Marie Curie (1903) and Maria Goeppert Mayer (1963).\n\nThere are more men named Robert on the list of previous chemistry winners than there are female laureates.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 7 by Alexis Verger This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome researchers on Twitter took issue with the current criteria for awarding the Nobel. Each prize cannot be shared by more than three people, laureates are not nominated posthumously, and nomination lists are kept confidential for 50 years.\n\nVera Rubin, Lise Meitner and Jocelyn Bell Burnell were all cited as worthy potential recipients of a prize in previous years.\n\nRubin's death in 2016 means that her work on dark matter, believed to occupy most of the mass in the universe, is now ineligible for recognition.\n\nMeitner's long-term collaborator Otto Hahn was awarded the chemistry prize for nuclear fission in 1944, which she did not share, despite being nominated in previous and subsequent years.\n\nBurnell and Chien-Shiung Wu, both physicists, also saw their colleagues win for research they had worked on, but were not included.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGiven the lifelong prestige of becoming a Nobel laureate, the prize is a significant boost to any researcher's career. The acclaim can legitimise a life's work, and yield international notoriety in a field where funding is highly competitive.\n\nYet for women in physics and chemistry, there are few forerunners to aspire to. Medicine does only slightly better, with 12 female laureates.\n\nOther prizes such as literature often fare better in terms of gender equality, with previous winners including Alice Munroe, Doris Lessing and Toni Morrison.\n\nThis year the literature prize has gone to a Japanese-British male author - Kazuo Ishiguro.\n\nWhile equality initiatives like Athena Swan and organisations like Stemettes work to promote and encourage women, the Nobels remain the most prominent glass ceiling in the world of science.\n\nAs part of this year's 100 Women Challenge, a team in Silicon Valley, where women hold just one in 10 senior positions, will be looking at ways to tackle the glass ceiling.\n\nThey reveal their results on Friday 6 October.", "The launch of Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, 60 years ago kicked off the space race between the Soviet Union and America.\n\nThe satellite was a success not just in terms of scientific advancement but in terms of providing a propaganda opportunity for the socialist state.\n\nEarly reports detailed a wealth of technical information about the launch of the \"Earth satellite\", such was the general interest in it.\n\nOne news correspondent described seeing the satellite appear \"like a flashing spark over the horizon\" and the Communist Party's main newspaper, Pravda, wrote that \"all the world heard the announcement of the launching of the artificial moon\".\n\nBut reports by the state news agency Tass also mentioned its orbital velocity of about 8km a second, the fact that it was travelling at up to 900km above the surface of the earth, and that Sputnik was making one complete revolution in an hour and 35 minutes.\n\nSputnik was just 58cm in diameter and weighed 84kg\n\nRussian media also detailed the frequencies and wavelengths on which Sputnik was emitting regular beeps, saying its transmitters were powerful enough for amateur radio operators to be able to receive them.\n\nLater, radio broadcasts to America touted the fact that the Soviet magazine Radio was offering \"special prizes\" for radio hams who submitted reports of the signals.\n\nSpecial broadcasts listed the places and times the satellite was expected to pass over.\n\nBBC Monitoring, a unit of the World Service, recorded Soviet broadcasts about Sputnik's movements\n\nThe day after its launch, Tass and Russian radio reported world reaction to it, noting how major media outlets like AFP, the Daily Mail and the BBC had reported it and how \"some US radio stations interrupted their programmes in order to broadcast the satellite's signals\".\n\nOn Soviet radio, various scientists, such as jet propulsion expert Professor Kirill Stanyukovich, called it \"a great victory not only for Soviet science but also for the Soviet order\".\n\n\"I think that the very fact that this has been achieved in our socialist country must not be regarded as mere chance,\" another academic told listeners. \"That we are not as rich as America is no secret to us. Why then has it happened that we have been capable of solving these most advanced and difficult scientific and technical problems ahead of Americans?\"\n\nSeveral digs at America made their way into reports.\n\n\"For 40 years they closed their eyes to the enormous successes of Soviet industry and agriculture,\" one radio broadcast said. \"Now the most reactionary personalities in the USA are trying to raise some doubts about the tremendous value and great significance of this new success of Soviet science.\"\n\nBBC Monitoring, a unit of the World Service which monitored Soviet broadcasts at the time, notes that \"Leading officials were quoted by Tass as showing reluctance to accept the news; and Moscow radio told the home audience on the 7th that the United States Information Agency had adopted a policy of minimising the military and scientific significance of the achievement. US scientists, on the other hand, were given as expressing pleased congratulations.\"\n\nKomsomolskaya Pravda described Sputnik as \"the victory of Soviet power\"\n\nToday, the name Sputnik is also associated with an international news agency, which has a presence on the web and radio, and is one of the main media outlets through which Russia influences global opinion.\n\nSputnik tends to seek audiences on the political margins - whether it's supporters of the Front National in France, or the Democrat Bernie Sanders in the US.\n\nIts political stances include the idea that NATO is a menace to world peace, criticism of what it sees as US hegemony, and the general decadence of Western democracies and their institutions, especially in the face of the challenges posed by Islamist terrorism and migration into Europe.\n\nSputnik is still potent force for Russian influence, just in a different sort of space now.\n\nSee also: The team that tracked Sputnik - and the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile\n\nBBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Edward Heath would have been questioned over sex abuse claims if he was alive when they came to light, police have said.\n\nWiltshire Police launched Operation Conifer in 2015 when the former PM was accused of historical child sex abuse.\n\nThe Conservative politician would have been interviewed under caution over seven claims, including the alleged rape of an 11-year-old, they said.\n\nNo inference of guilt should be drawn from this, police stressed.\n\nThe allegations include one of rape of a male under 16, three of indecent assault on a male under 16, four of indecent assault on a male under 14, and two of indecent assault on a male over 16.\n\nThe earliest, dating from 1961 when Sir Edward was Lord Privy Seal, alleged he had raped and indecently assaulted an 11-year-old boy in London \"during a paid sexual encounter in private in a dwelling.\"\n\nAnother two of the seven claims relate to \"paid sexual encounters.\"\n\nIn a statement, Sir Edward's former cabinet secretary, Lord Armstrong of Ilminster, and chairman of the Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation, Lord Hunt of Wirral, said the report neither justifies or dispels the \"the cloud of suspicion\".\n\n\"All those who knew Sir Edward Heath or worked with him are, without exception, convinced that the allegations of child abuse will all be found to be groundless,\" it said.\n\nSir Edward, who led a Tory government from 1970 to 1974, died in 2005, aged 89.\n\nOperation Conifer - which spanned 14 UK police forces - said a total of 42 claims related to 40 different individuals, with alleged offences from 1956 to 1992 - while Sir Edward was an elected MP.\n\nThe report concluded there was not enough information to meet the threshold for interview for 19 of the claims.\n\nAmong these were two cases where police said there was reason to suspect the individuals \"intentionally misled\" them. One of the two has been cautioned for wasting police time.\n\nIn three further cases, the investigation found that those reporting alleged abuse were \"genuinely mistaken\" in naming Sir Edward as the perpetrator.\n\nAs part of the £1.5m investigation, three people unconnected to Sir Edward were arrested for offences related to child abuse, one of whom is still being investigated.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has said it would investigate further.\n\n\"In regard to the allegations concerning Sir Edward Heath, the inquiry will investigate whether there was any knowledge within Westminster institutions, and if so, what actions were taken,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAhead of the \"closure\" report's publication, Sir Edward's godson said he believed the investigation was flawed and called for a judicial inquiry into the police's handling of the abuse claims.\n\nLincoln Seligman, who knew Sir Edward for 50 years, said: \"If you make a mass appeal for victims you are sure to get them, whether they are legitimate or not.\n\n\"A proper investigation should have taken place, but that's not what happened.\"\n\nFollowing the report's publication, Mr Seligman told the BBC: \"These are still just allegations and I do not believe them.\"\n\nEdward Heath, seen aboard Morning Cloud in 1971, was a world-class yachtsman\n\nOther friends of Sir Edward's have also criticised the investigation, and a psychologist who advised detectives claimed it was based on the allegations of a handful of fantasists.\n\nOne of Sir Edward's closest advisers told the BBC that the former Conservative leader was \"completely asexual\".\n\nLord Armstrong of Ilminster said he \"never felt a whiff of sexuality about Ted Heath, whether it was in relation to women, men or children\".\n\nNorth Wiltshire MP James Gray wants the allegations to be fully investigated by a judge-led inquiry, saying there is \"no evidence whatsoever in the report\".\n\nHe added: \"This is a terrible cloud hanging over the head of a great statesman and we should take steps as a government to put that right.\"\n\nSir Edward's former private secretary Michael McManus, who wrote a biography about him, said he didn't believe there was any evidence of wrongdoing.\n\nHe said: \"I spent 18 months talking to people who had known him. These allegations were out there and not one person believed them, including people who really didn't like him.\"\n\nClinical psychologist Dr Elly Hanson, who was on the independent panel that scrutinised the report for the police, said she \"empathises\" with supporters of Sir Edward but added that it was right for the allegations to be investigated.\n\nChild abuse in the past is extremely difficult to investigate.\n\nThe modern staples of detective work - CCTV, forensics, mobile phones - aren't available.\n\nWitnesses may be dead or psychologically impaired. The purity of their evidence may have been tainted by the years between the alleged act and their account being given.\n\nWhen those accused are famous or powerful, even in the past, and dead, it becomes even harder.\n\nOperation Conifer has gathered a vast amount of evidence - pursuing a total of 1,580 lines of inquiry and it has made public the most serious allegations against the former prime minister, but it can't tell us whether they are true.\n\nMore than anything else, this report prompts more questions than it answers.\n\nMike Veale, chief constable of Wiltshire Police, said the operation was \"fair and rigorous\"\n\nDuring the course of the lengthy investigation, the police have defended their response, with Chief Constable Veale insisting Operation Conifer was neither a \"fishing trip\" nor a \"witch-hunt\".\n\nChief Constable Veale said officers have \"gone where the evidence has taken us\", whether it supported the allegations or not.\n\nHe said: \"The report does not draw any conclusions as to the likely guilt or innocence of Sir Edward Heath.\"\n\nReferring to the political pressure on Operation Conifer to be scaled down or scrapped, Mr Veale said the scrutiny panel overseeing the process said it was \"fair, sensitive and rigorous\".\n\nHe went on to praise the investigation team who had \"not buckled under the pressure of relentless external speculation and criticism\".\n\nAngus Macpherson, police and crime commissioner for Wiltshire and Swindon, said calls for Mr Veale to resign or be sacked were \"fundamentally misjudged\".\n\nThe findings of the investigation will be passed to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.\n\nThe seven victim disclosures for which Sir Edward would have been interviewed under caution:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: \"Look, I've had a cold this week\"\n\nTheresa May has said she has the \"full support of her cabinet\" after a former party chairman said there should be a Conservative leadership contest.\n\nThe PM insisted she was providing the \"calm leadership\" the country needed.\n\nGrant Shapps says about 30 Tory MPs back his call for a leadership contest in the wake of the general election results and conference mishaps.\n\nBut his claims prompted a backlash from loyal backbenchers, several of whom called on him to \"shut up\".\n\nThere has been leadership speculation since Mrs May's decision to call a snap general election backfired and the Conservatives lost their majority.\n\nThe Conservative conference this week was meant to be a chance to assert her authority over the party, but her big speech was plagued by a series of mishaps, as she struggled with a persistent cough, was interrupted by a prankster and some of the letters fell off the conference stage backdrop behind her.\n\nAsked about leadership speculation as she attended a charity event in her constituency, Mrs May said: \"What the country needs is calm leadership and that's what I am providing with the full support of my cabinet.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Tory party chairman Grant Shapps said Theresa May should face a leadership election\n\nShe said her recent speech in Florence had given \"real momentum\" to Brexit negotiations and she was intending to update MPs next week on her plans to help \"ordinary working families\" with a cap on energy bills.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove was among cabinet ministers and MPs publicly defending Mrs May on Friday morning, as the story broke that Mr Shapps was the senior Tory behind a bid to persuade her to go.\n\nMr Gove told BBC Radio 4 the prime minister was a \"fantastic\" leader, had widespread support, and should stay \"as long as she wants\".\n\nHe said that the \"overwhelming majority of MPs and the entirety of the cabinet\" backed the prime minister.\n\nHome Secretary Amber Rudd wrote an article in the Telegraph urging the prime minister to stay, while First Secretary of State Damian Green said on the BBC's Question Time the prime minister \"was determined as ever to get on with her job - she sees it as her duty to do so\".\n\nRuth Davidson, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, hit out at those plotting to oust Mrs May as prime minister.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Political Thinking podcast, she said: \"I have to say, I've not got much time for them...\n\n\"I really don't think that having a bit of a cold... when you are trying to make a speech changes the fundamentals of whether Theresa May is the right person to lead the country.\"\n\nThere is, this morning, an operation being mounted by the government to try to show that nothing has changed in the Conservative Party in the last few days.\n\nThat Theresa May's leadership remains on track and she is, to use another of her famous phrases, just, \"getting on with the job\".\n\nExcept, as happened the last time she proclaimed \"nothing has changed\", something rather fundamental has, after all.\n\nFor the doubts that have been building about her in the party for months are now out there in the wide open.\n\nTo trigger a vote of confidence in the party leader, 48 of the 316 Conservative MPs would need to write to the chairman of the backbench 1922 committee.\n\nA leadership contest would only be triggered if Mrs May lost that vote, or chose to quit.\n\nMr Shapps, who was co-chair of the party between 2012 and 2015, said no letter had been sent and said his intention had been to gather signatures privately and persuade Mrs May to stand down.\n\nBut he claimed party whips had taken the \"extraordinary\" step of making it public by naming him as the ringleader of a plot to oust the PM in a story in the Times.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"I think it's time we actually tackle this issue of leadership and so do many colleagues.\n\n\"We wanted to present that to Theresa May privately. Now I'm afraid it's being done a bit more publicly.\"\n\nHe added: \"The country needs leadership. It needs leadership at this time in particular. I think the conference and the lead-up through the summer has shown that that's not going to happen. I think it's time that we have a leadership election now, or at least let's set out that timetable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The \"overwhelming majority of MPs\" support the prime minister, says Environment Secretary Michael Gove\n\nBut Conservative MP Nigel Evans told the BBC's Daily Politics that if Grant Shapps \"can't get 48 signatures, he should just shut up: \"In my chats to MPs at Westminster nobody wants an early leadership election. We just simply don't want that.\"\n\nFellow MP James Cleverly tweeted: \"I've always liked Grant Shapps but he really is doing himself, the party and (most importantly) the country no favours at all. Just stop.\"\n\nAmong other MPs criticising Mr Shapps was Charles Walker, vice chairman of the Tory backbench 1922 committee, who suggested the plot was going to \"fizzle out\".\n\n\"No 10 must be delighted to learn that it's Grant Shapps leading this alleged coup,\" he said. \"Grant has many talents but one thing he doesn't have is a following in the party.\"\n\nFormer minister Ed Vaizey was the first MP to publicly suggest Mrs May should quit on Thursday, telling the BBC: \"I think there will be quite a few people who will now be pretty firmly of the view that she should resign.\"", "The children's mother said it \"was intended as a joke\"\n\nA fire crew has been suspended from community work after a firefighter wrapped two children in cling film.\n\nThe incident, which involved the children of a crew member, was caught on camera at a fire station in Southend.\n\nEssex Fire Service is investigating after the BBC notified it of photographs sent by a concerned party.\n\nThe chief fire officer said the images had \"raised concerns\" and a \"thorough investigation\" was under way.\n\nThe service said the watch had been put on \"core duties only\", meaning it cannot carry out community work.\n\nThe children's mother said what happened \"was intended as a joke\" and the youngsters enjoyed it.\n\nChief fire officer Adam Eckley said it was believed no harm was done to the children\n\nThe incident happened two weeks ago. Five people, including the two children, were present when the photographs were taken and their mother later posted them on Facebook.\n\nThe youngsters were wrapped in plastic by a colleague of their father.\n\nTheir mother, who is not being named in order to protect the privacy of the children, said it was a joke.\n\nShe added: \"I can see that this was not an appropriate activity, and we should not have played around like this at the fire station.\"\n\nChief fire officer Adam Eckley said although he encouraged \"family spirit\", stations were still \"a workplace\" where behaviour \"must reflect our service values and exemplify professionalism\".\n\nHe said: \"The photos we have seen have raised concerns, we have liaised with the appropriate statutory agencies and a thorough investigation and process has now started.\n\n\"The firefighters involved are embarrassed and regretful of how this event has been interpreted.\n\n\"It does not give the right impression to our public, and it is not who we are.\"\n\nRoger Hirst, the police, fire and crime commissioner for Essex, said: \"I am clear that the behaviour shown in these photos is inappropriate and requires a thorough and robust investigation.\"", "The claim: Prime Minister Theresa May said that following a speech at the Conservative Party conference in 2014, government action had meant \"the number of black people being stopped and searched has fallen by over two-thirds\".\n\nReality Check verdict: The number of black people being stopped and searched by police has fallen by two-thirds since 2010-11 but not since the 2014 conference.\n\nAlso, black people still form a disproportionately large percentage of those being stopped and searched and the percentage has actually risen since 2013-14.\n\nAs she delivered her keynote speech to the Conservative Party conference, the prime minister reminded Tories of what she sees as a key achievement - a reduction in the number of black people being stopped and searched, but all is not what it seems.\n\nTheresa May spoke about a young black man called Alexander Paul who spoke at the conference in 2014 about his experience of police stop-and-search tactics.\n\nShe said: \"Inspired by his example, we took action. We shook up the system, and the number of black people being stopped and searched has fallen by over two-thirds.\"\n\nThe overall number of stop-and-searches fell dramatically between 2010-11 and 2015-16, which is the most recent year for which data is available. So, the number of black people being stopped also fell.\n\nThis graph shows that the number of black people being stopped fell by two-thirds over the total period, but not since Mr Paul spoke at the conference in 2014.\n\nBut even though far fewer black people are being stopped and searched, they are still more likely to be stopped than any other ethnic group.\n\nWhen you look at the percentage of those stopped and searched who define themselves as black, little has changed. It was 15.2% in 2010-11, and fell to about 11% in 2013-14. Then it rose, and in 2015-16 was back up to 15.1%.\n\nThe 2011 census found that 3.3% of people in England and Wales defined themselves as black - meaning black people are being stopped and searched nearly five times as often as you would expect them to be.\n\nSo, while the number of black people being stopped and searched fell, their proportion of the total rose since Mr Paul spoke at the 2014 Conservative party conference.\n\nJust to be clear - these figures don't include stop-and-searches related to terrorism or that are carried out because police are trying to manage an incident that affects public safety - those fall under different legislation and are recorded separately. They would not have significantly changed the data.", "Stranger Things has been a hit for Netflix\n\nNetflix has raised prices in countries including the UK and US for the first time in two years.\n\nThe streaming video service will also increase subscription charges in some European countries, a spokeswoman said.\n\nA standard UK plan will rise 50p to £7.99 a month, while a premium subscription for four simultaneous users jumps £1 to £9.99 a month.\n\nThe standard US plan increases by $1 to $10.99 a month, with a $2 rise to $13.99 for the premium option.\n\nA basic subscription in the UK, which does not offer high definition viewing, remains at £5.99 a month.\n\nThe increases apply immediately for new customers, while existing users will be notified of the change 30 days in advance.\n\nGermany and France are among the other countries where prices will rise. Subscriptions were tweaked in Canada, Latin America and some Nordic countries earlier this year.\n\nNetflix said in July it has 104 million subscribers globally, while revenues rose 32% in the second quarter to $2.8bn.\n\nShares in Netflix closed 5.4% in New York, bringing the stock's gain this year to 56%.\n\nThe price rises come as Netflix faces growing competition from Amazon and other sites such as Hulu in the US.\n\nMary J. Blige (left) and director Dee Rees at the Toronto premiere of Mudbound\n\nThe company continues to spending heavily on original programming such as The Crown, Stranger Things and House of Cards.\n\nIt also promises 40 feature films this year ranging from \"big-budget popcorn films to grassroots independent cinema\".\n\nOne of those titles Mudbound, which Variety describes as \"an epic about race and poverty in the 1940s Mississippi Delta\", starring Mary J. Blige and Carey Mulligan.\n\nThe film, which premiered at the Toronto film festival last month, is available to stream from 17 November - the same day it opens in some US cinemas.\n\nSome critics say it is a contender for the Academy Awards and would be the first Netflix feature to be in the Oscars race.", "Michelle Keegan has returned for the third series of Our Girl\n\nThe first episode of the new series of Our Girl has been criticised by viewers who thought Michelle Keegan looked too glamorous to play an army medic.\n\nEd Power in The Telegraph wrote that Keegan, as Georgie Lane, had a \"straight-from-the-beauty salon complexion\" - but added that she put in a \"solid\" performance.\n\nViewers had mixed views on the return of the BBC drama.\n\nAnd some were unimpressed with a simulated earthquake in the episode.\n\nThe Mirror praised Keegan for her acting prowess\n\n\"On paper, there's nothing wrong with the Nepalese earthquake storyline,\" wrote Ian Hyland in The Mirror.\n\n\"But, sadly, Our Girl clearly lacks the budget to do it justice.\n\n\"As Lane's colleagues rolled off their camp beds during an aftershock, it was like William Shatner and the Starship Enterprise gang throwing themselves around the set of Star Trek in the 1960s.\"\n\nSome Twitter users agreed, with one also comparing the camerawork to that of the 1960s.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Merlin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother said it was \"embarrassing\" and \"unrealistic\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Timmo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMilan and Georgie were caught up in an earthquake in Nepal in the episode\n\nMany were just happy to see the series back on the screen however.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Paul McHugh #Bionics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 molls This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOthers were surprised at how perfect Keegan's make-up was while she was playing a Lance Corporal in a combat zone.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Amy Hutson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother viewer concurred, remarking on how her \"hair and makeup remains untouched throughout the whole episode, even after an earthquake\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Nat This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTuesday night's episode was the highest series opener of Our Girl with four million viewers, according to overnight figures.\n\nThe first series starred former EastEnders actress Lacey Turner in the first series in 2014.\n\nThe Times gave the episode two stars, bemoaning its \"army banter\" and accusing it of firing blanks.\n\nThe Telegraph gave it three stars, with Power saying Keegan played \"plucky Georgie\" with \"real zing\".\n\nHyland wrote in The Mirror that the first episode's issues were \"no reflection on Keegan\", adding: \"She does her best. There simply isn't that much for her to get her teeth into on this second time around\".\n\nAnd in the Daily Mail, Christopher Stevens said it seemed a bit too \"peaceful and idyllic\" for a disaster zone - but noted the episode was \"romantic enough\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "American car registration plates have become aluminium works of art and collecting them has never been more popular.\n\nOn a quiet street in Arlington, Virginia, one man has squeezed the whole world into his garage.\n\nOn one wall, all 50 states of America. Next to it, all 13 of Canada's provinces and territories.\n\nMost of Mexico is above the garage door, while another wall zips from continent to continent: Montenegro one minute, Micronesia the next.\n\nAndrew Pang has spent 40 years collecting plates, and every sheet of metal tells a story.\n\nAndrew has \"between 7,000 and 8,000 plates\". He received his first aged seven while growing up in Virginia.\n\n\"My friend and neighbour across the street was from Louisiana, and he would go back every summer,\" says Andrew.\n\n\"One summer I said 'bring me something back from Louisiana'. He chose to bring me a licence plate from his grandfather's car dealership.\"\n\nAndrew had \"dabbled\" in stamp collecting and \"had developed an interest in other countries, geography, maps\".\n\nWhen Louisiana landed in his lap, he decided to start collecting. \"I thought 'everyone collects stamps',\" he says. \"This was a little different.\"\n\nBy the time Andrew was 12, he had a plate from all 50 states. His next challenge was collecting a Virginia plate from every year they were issued.\n\n\"It took me 25 years to complete,\" says Andrew.\n\nHe found the missing piece of the jigsaw when a woman in Fredericksburg, Virginia, sold her deceased husband's collection. He bought a dozen plates - including the 1906 - for \"around $4,000\".\n\nAfter completing the Virginia set - or \"run\", to use the terminology - Andrew looked for new worlds to conquer. Or new states, at least.\n\nHe spent four years in Texas, and completed its run. He now wants the set from all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia, but admits it will take time.\n\n\"I'm very close on DC, Maryland, North Dakota,\" he says. \"But I particularly focus on quality (the plate's condition). I could have finished many (runs) if I took anything.\"\n\nMany states and territories use their plates to advertise their attractions\n\nWhen Andrew started collecting plates, the hobby was an \"oddity\", he says. But two things have changed that: the internet, and the trend for colourful, well-designed plates.\n\n\"Many of the plates in the old days were very, very boring,\" he says. \"At the time their only reason was for identification: two colours, no pictures, no designs.\n\n\"With a few notable exceptions, the first real foray into more interesting graphics was 1976 for the US bicentennial (the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence).\n\n\"At that time, quite a few states offered very specific bicentennial plates to everyone.\"\n\nThe next marker, says Andrew, was in 1986. After the Challenger space shuttle disaster, Florida issued a plate with a rocket design to raise funds for the Astronauts Memorial Foundation.\n\nStates began to realise the potential of plates, and the era of brighter, distinctive designs began. Oregon's plates have a fir tree, for example. North Dakota's have a bison. Florida's have two oranges.\n\nThe effect, when driving on American roads, is twofold. On one hand, the country seems vast: it's not uncommon in DC to see plates from California, 3,000 miles away, for example.\n\nOn the other, it makes the country seem smaller, more interesting, and more united: oh look, there goes someone from Maine, or Michigan, or Montana. We're all Americans here.\n\nPlates design began to change in the 1970s - as seen in these examples from 1970 and 1996\n\nThere is, of course, another reason for the rise in well-designed plates.\n\n\"The American population is very mobile,\" says Andrew, a 47-year-old accountant. \"This summer we drove 6,000 miles across the country, and that's not unusual.\n\n\"The states realised, 'here's my person from Virginia, people are going to see his licence plate, let's do something'.\n\n\"If you're in Florida, you're nowhere near a mountain, but you see a car from Colorado and they have the snow-covered peaks on the plate.\n\n\"South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and many others put their tourism website on their licence plate. In many ways they have replaced the bumper sticker. It's free advertising.\"\n\nThe Automobile License Plate Collectors Association began in 1954. It has almost 3,000 members from all 50 states and 19 countries.\n\nAround 500 people attend its annual conventions, and there are smaller, regional meetings too. Jeff Minard became a member in the 1960s, aged 15.\n\n\"Your member number is related to when you joined,\" says Jeff. \"My number is 495. There are very few three-digit members alive.\"\n\nJeff says licence plate collecting has become \"enormous\", although he distinguishes between \"serious\" collectors, such as the association's members, and those who may have a dozen or so in their garage.\n\n\"I'm not dismissing them at all (the less serious collectors),\" he says. \"But we're a little more academic, if I can put it like that.\"\n\nOne collector in Florida has 50,000 license plates. \"Unbelievable,\" says Jeff.\n\nJeff himself has 500, after downsizing his collection from 5,000. \"I sold a lot,\" he says. \"I'm finding homes for them. I don't want someone (else) to have to do that.\n\n\"We just hope they don't get recycled for aluminium.\"\n\nBack in Arlington, Andrew Pang looks at the international plates on his garage wall. In between Albania and the Bahamas is a 1998 plate from Monaco, still in a plastic wrapper.\n\n\"I wrote to the prince, asking for a plate,\" he says. \"I didn't expect anything to happen, but it arrived in the post a few weeks later.\"\n\nMost of Andrew's plates, however, are bought online, rather than from royalty.\n\nHe has plates from former countries, such as East Germany, disputed territories, such as South Ossetia in eastern Europe, and moments in history, such as when Iraq occupied Kuwait.\n\nHe even has a plate from the pacific island of Vanuatu. It is made from wood.\n\nAndrew is missing plates from around 40 countries and territories. The Pitcairn Islands - a tiny British territory in the south Pacific - are proving tricky, while the Vatican City is \"tightly controlled\".\n\nCould you buy one, if money wasn't an issue?\n\n\"Probably, but you're talking high hundreds (of dollars), maybe low thousands,\" he says.\n\nAndrew has plates from most countries\n\nDespite having walls covered in plates, does Andrew still glance at every back bumper he passes?\n\n\"I am afflicted with that,\" he admits.\n\n\"Just yesterday I saw a vehicle in a parking lot from Puerto Rico, and that's quite unusual. In this area [near DC] I look for diplomatic plates.\n\n\"What really excites me is if I see a US diplomat that's coming back from another country, but they're back such a short period of time, the plates from the other country are still on the vehicle.\"\n\nAnd what does his wife make of it all?\n\n\"My wife is less of a hobbyist than I am,\" says Andrew, smiling.\n\n\"While she has grown to understand it and live with it... she doesn't necessarily embrace it.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The family-owned pub is on the edge of the North York Moors\n\nA village pub has been named the best restaurant in the world in an international poll based on customer reviews.\n\nThe Black Swan in Oldstead, North Yorkshire, beat Heston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck and Raymond Blanc's Le Manoir.\n\nTripAdvisor said it was the first time a British restaurant had won the title since the awards began in 2012.\n\nBlanc's Belmond Le Manoir Aux Quat'Saisons in Great Milton, Oxfordshire, came second.\n\nThe travel website said the winner was selected based on the millions of reviews and opinions collected on the site over a 12-month period.\n\nTommy Banks became the UK's youngest chef to win a Michelin star at the age of 24\n\nThe Black Swan, which has a Michelin star and 4 AA Rosettes, is a family-owned pub on the edge of the North York Moors, near Thirsk.\n\nIt is run by the UK's youngest Michelin-starred chef Tommy Banks, who won the accolade four years ago at the age of 24, and his brother James.\n\nHead chef Tommy said: \"It's a huge honour to win this award, but what makes it really special is that it's been awarded because of feedback from our customers.\"\n\nMartín Berasategui in Spain has held the title since 2015.\n\nHeston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck came 12th in the website's Travellers' Choice Favourite Fine Dining Restaurants Worldwide poll.\n\nTripAdvisor said the awards differed from others as they were based on feedback from guests and \"not based on a small judging panel\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harvey Weinstein is believed to be in Europe to seek therapy\n\nThe scandal surrounding Harvey Weinstein shows it is impossible to understand the history of film and television without recognising the central role, and potential horror, of the so-called casting couch.\n\nThis colloquialism refers to the capacity for auditions to turn into mechanisms for sexual exploitation. The casting couch is a kind of erotic theatre in itself: one in which would-be performers exhibit their suitability for a particular role and provide sexual favours.\n\nIt is a place with a very hierarchical power dynamic: ambitious, not to say desperate, talent; and producer, director or whoever with the capacity to make dreams come true.\n\nAs both the cliche and the grim reality have it, the talent is often a young woman, and the dream-maker an older man. This is the situation in which a 22-year-old Gwyneth Paltrow found herself when, she alleges, Weinstein made unwanted advances towards her.\n\nIn the revolting revelations emerging about sexual bullying by Weinstein - who denies the bulk of allegations against him - the power dynamic of the casting couch is shown to be a forum for sickening exploitation and potentially criminal abuse.\n\nThe most striking thing about the New York Times and New Yorker's reports is the elaborate lengths to which Weinstein and those around him allegedly went to facilitate casting couch sessions, usually in hotels.\n\nAccording to several actresses quoted in recent stories, assistants would deliver on-screen talent before leaving them to their private rendezvous with Weinstein; and afterward, if they were upset, would help smooth things over by hushing things up or speaking to relatives.\n\nIt may be lazy or dangerous to extrapolate from the individual case of Weinstein to a broader problem in the media and film industries - though as I said in an earlier blog post, it is impossible not to see these awful allegations alongside those levelled at Bill O'Reilly, the late Roger Ailes, Bill Cosby and even Donald Trump.\n\nI also said perhaps some good could come of this awful story.\n\nIf the casting couch ceases to be a forum for sexual exploitation of vulnerable, desperate performers by perverts; and if other women who have experienced the sordid worst of the casting couch feel they can come forward, the media and film industries may yet benefit from the depredations of this Hollywood thug.", "Michael Eisner watched a lot of football in Europe and the US before buying Portsmouth\n\nTwo decades at the helm of global entertainment giant Walt Disney might seem a strange apprenticeship for taking over a lower-level English football club, but Michael Eisner insists it is the latest logical move in his high-flying business career.\n\nThe 75-year-old American completed his takeover of historic south coast club Portsmouth in August for £5.67m, buying it from fans who had stepped in with their own money to save the club.\n\nThe club, nicknamed Pompey, had fallen on hard financial times since winning the FA Cup in 2008, and had dropped from the Premier League to the bottom tier, but did get promoted back to League One at the end of last season.\n\nAfter a lifetime working for some of the biggest US and international TV and film firms, including ABC and Paramount as well as Disney, the native of New York state had launched his own investment firm, and was looking for interesting projects to back.\n\nMr Eisner, whose net worth is estimated at $1bn (£760m), and his Tornante group will invest £10m in the club.\n\n\"What is an American guy doing getting involved with English football?,\" he says.\n\n\"Well, I am qualified for this new role. In a way I feel my whole career has led up to this.\"\n\nPortsmouth FC is starting out on what Mr Eisner hopes is a march back up the league tables\n\nIndeed, during his time in the entertainment industry Mr Eisner was involved in a number of sports-related projects, including TV scheduling, film production, and the acquisition of clubs.\n\n\"There are differences between sport and entertainment - one must be scripted, planned, produced, and the other is more spontaneous, extemporaneous. But both have conflict, a climax and an ending,\" he observes.\n\n\"And whatever your brand, product, league, club - the idea of loyalty or passion is key.\"\n\nAnd Eisner says it was the raucous fan reaction to Portsmouth winning promotion, and the League Two title, last season that was the final factor in convincing him to buy the club.\n\nMr Eisner says it was the passion of the fans that convinced him to buy Portsmouth FC\n\n\"Because of this mad enthusiasm I found Pompey irresistible,\" he said at the Leaders sports conference in London.\n\n\"I had first heard about the possibility of acquiring the club when I was looking at the possibility of buying a US sports team. Investing in US sport is very expensive. The NFL has its physical problems which scare me.\n\n\"It [football] just seemed a great thing to me and my family. We got hooked on the game in the UK.\"\n\nMr Eisner and his three sons, Breck, Eric, and Anders, make up the Portsmouth board, along with Andy Redman, president of Tornante, and Portsmouth FC chief executive Mark Catlin.\n\nDespite its recent woes the club has a strong heritage, winning the League title in 1949 and 1950, and FA Cup in 1939 as well as nine years ago.\n\nMr Eisner says he was struck by Portsmouth's historic past\n\n\"When I passed through the Fratton Park turnstiles I felt like I did when I stepped through the doors at Disney - a sense of excitement and of a rich history,\" he says.\n\n\"Portsmouth fans are passionate. [After] four strange owners the fans stepped in and bought the team.\n\n\"Pompey fans had done a remarkable job but it seemed they would need additional investment to build the brand.\"\n\nHe says there were another reasons, apart from fan passion and history, that he and his family wanted to buy a football club.\n\nThe new owners say they have plans to upgrade Fratton Park stadium\n\nOne is the fact that football has a global appeal, and also - in a currently fractured media landscape - \"the only appointment-to-view [TV] is for sports events\".\n\n\"Today, viewers can watch the shows they want any time they want on on multiple devices. But sport fans want to watch their teams compete in real time,\" he says.\n\nThat means that sports, and football, TV rights will always be in high demand by broadcasters looking for content.\n\nMr Eisner was introduced to the fans before the opening game of the season against Rochdale\n\nAs well as the expertise and cash that Eisner is providing, he is also promising to improve the stadium and promote managerial stability.\n\n\"Over time we will make the match day experience the pleasure it should be,\" he says, adding the club will also continue to build on its strong community work, for which it has won a number of Football League awards.\n\nMichael Eisner at the launch of an ESPN sports-themed restaurant\n\n\"At ABC TV in 1970 we made a crack in the traditional entertainment wall, by moving NFL Football to prime time on a Monday night. ABC was the smallest network and needed success,\" he says.\n\nIt became one of the longest-running prime time shows ever on commercial network TV.\n\nAt Paramount he oversaw production of sports films Players, North Dallas Forty, and the Bad News Bears trilogy.\n\nIn 1984 he became Disney chairman and the company produced the film The Mighty Ducks. Disney in 1993 then created an actual ice hockey team called the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, now the Anaheim Ducks. In 2006-07 the team won the NHL's Stanley Cup.\n\nDisney also produced baseball film Angels in the Outfield in 1984. In 1997 Disney took over the California Angels team. It was renamed the Anaheim Angels and under Disney's ownership won its first World Series championship in 2002.\n\nDuring Mr Eisner's time at Disney it also acquired leading sports cable TV channel ESPN in 1996.\n\nHis current private firm bought the Topps sports trading card firm in 2007. It is licensed to produce English Premier League, German Bundesliga, Uefa Champions League, and Indian Premier League cricket products.\n\nMr Eisner now says the club, which sits mid-table in League One, now needs stability and continuity on and off the playing field.\n\nHe believes if club owners give their manager support, then the coaching team will have the confidence to lead the team to success.\n\n\"If you look at the great sports teams, you try to find a great manager and stick with him through thick and thin,\" he says.\n\nMr Eisner says there are similarities between Portsmouth and Disney fans\n\nHe says he hopes current manager Kenny Jackett will be in the post for a decade, and oversee success during that time.\n\n\"The Disney fans are similar to Portsmouth fans,\" he says. \"When I went there it was about to be broken up. The fans' love of Disney helped support it.\n\n\"All of Disney's sports films had the same theme - the triumph of the underdog. With Portsmouth we hope to get it right in fact, not fiction.\n\n\"We will get there - being slow, steady and smart.\"", "Kuba Moczyk's trainer described his fatal fight as like an \"unlicensed\" event\n\nA medic at a boxing match where a young fighter was knocked out and later died has told an inquest there were too many people in the ring as she tried to save him.\n\nJakub Moczyk, 22, known as Kuba, was knocked out in the third round of his first fight at the Atlantis Arena, Great Yarmouth, in November 2016.\n\nThe medical technician described the ring as \"disorganised\" as she worked on Polish-born Mr Moczyk.\n\nHe died two days later in hospital.\n\nMr Moczyk's fight at the Atlantis Arena was filmed by a spectator\n\nGiving evidence at Norfolk Coroner's Court in Great Yarmouth, emergency medical technician Susan Mitchison said she was called to provide medical cover on the afternoon of the fight.\n\nShe works with her husband, Andrew Cawlard, for his firm, Lifeshield Medical Services, providing medical cover at boxing matches, small festivals and on film sets.\n\nWhen the bout started she and her husband were at a ringside table and they went into the ring when Mr Moczyk was knocked down.\n\n\"He was unconscious, he was fitting and he was bringing up a lot of fluid,\" Ms Mitchison said.\n\nShe said they cleared his airway and put him on oxygen and another man helped support his head.\n\nKuba Moczyk's twin Magdalena Moczyk (far right) with their mother, Jolanta Smigaj, and her partner\n\nMr Moczyk's twin sister, Magdalena Moczyk, asked if she thought there were too many people in the ring.\n\n\"Yes, there were, and there were people who didn't need to be there and I did ask some to leave on more than one occasion,\" Ms Mitchison said.\n\n\"There were so many people there. It was disorganised,\" she added.\n\nMs Mitchison said she carried out the medicals before the fight but that no area was prepared for medicals and she was given no details about the boxers, no list of names or disclaimer forms.\n\nShe said she set up a table beside the DJ booth, and got each boxer to write their name on a piece of paper as they were checked to see if they were fit to fight.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Daryll Rowe met his partners on dating app Grindr, jurors at Lewes Crown Court were told\n\nA hairdresser accused of deliberately infecting his lovers with HIV said \"I got you\" to one of them, a court heard.\n\nDaryll Rowe, 26, denies infecting four men from the Brighton area with the virus and attempting to give it to a further six.\n\nLewes Crown Court heard he bombarded his second victim with texts and calls after the pair had sex.\n\nDuring one call, jurors heard, Mr Rowe said: \"I ripped the condom. Burn. I got you.\"\n\nThe man told the court he and the defendant exchanged explicit images via dating app Grindr before agreeing to meet.\n\nIn messages between the pair, the complainant said, Mr Rowe had told him he wanted to have sex without a condom.\n\nWhen the pair met, he said, the defendant attempted to initiate unprotected sex, but the man refused and insisted he put one on.\n\nAddressing the complainant, Prosecutor Caroline Carberry QC said: \"You told the police that he said, 'Come on, come on, I'm fine, you know you want it'.\"\n\nHe said that was correct, and that he had taken it to mean Mr Rowe was \"clean. That he had no diseases\".\n\nAfter the encounter, the court heard, the defendant began sending aggressive messages to the other man, who blocked him on several platforms.\n\nMr Rowe began repeatedly calling him, jurors heard, and when the phone was answered said he had ripped the condom.\n\nGiving evidence, the man told the court: \"That's a really crazy thing to say to somebody and then I just got worried, so I wanted to listen to what he had to say and that was it.\n\nIt was just panic. Worry.\"\n\nHe described Mr Rowe's tone of voice as \"kind of laughing\" during the call.\n\nThe man tested positive for HIV a few months later.\n\nA third man told jurors Mr Rowe had been \"quite adamant and determined he had been tested\".\n\nHe said he had agreed to have unprotected sex with the defendant because he \"had checked that he was clean and trusted the fact that he was\".\n\nMr Rowe was living and working in the Brighton area at the time of the first eight alleged offences.\n\nHe is accused of trying to infect two more men in the north east of England while he was under investigation by Sussex Police.\n\nThe court previously heard Mr Rowe, who is originally from Edinburgh, was diagnosed with HIV in April 2015.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The village of Blennerhasset saw some of the worst flooding\n\nSome parts of Cumbria saw more than 8ins (206mm) of rain fall in less than 24 hours, according to provisional figures from the Environment Agency.\n\nHonister, Seathwaite and Ennerdale were the worst hit areas as torrential downpours closed schools and disrupted road and rail travel.\n\nThe agency issued 18 flood alerts and eight flood warnings, while a Met Office yellow warning for rain was in place for much of Wednesday.\n\nNo serious injuries were reported.\n\nBBC weather presenter Paul Mooney said the amount of rainfall had been \"significant\" but not on the scale of Storm Desmond in 2015.\n\nThe Borrowdale area was also badly affected, with two bridges forced to close.\n\nNorthern Rail said lines were blocked due to floods between Carlisle and Maryport causing major disruption.\n\nEight schools were forced to shut due to impassable roads. They were:\n\nEgremont Bridge in Egremont and Forge Bridge in Eskdale were both closed.\n\nThe A595 had been closed at Bothel but has now reopened.\n\nSeveral roads were closed, with many others barely passable\n\nThe Borrowdale area also saw some severe downpours\n\nGary Macrae, from the Hazel Bank Country House Hotel in Borrowdale, said the rain had affected their guests and deliveries.\n\nHe told BBC Cumbria: \"We have a house full of guests who can't move backwards or forwards - they can't get into Keswick via Honister or via the main Borrowdale Road into Keswick, which is a bit of a nuisance.\n\n\"Plus our deliveries aren't going to be getting to us today either.\"\n\nSouth Lakeland District Council said sandbags were being made available at its depots in Ulverston, Ecclerigg and Kendal.\n\nPeople are unable to get in and out of Borrowdale\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Graphic: Some fast-thinning glaciers drain into the Amundsen Sea\n\nScientists have identified a way in which the effects of Antarctic melting can be enhanced.\n\nTheir new satellite observations of the Dotson Ice Shelf show its losses, far from being even, are actually focused on a long, narrow sector.\n\nIn places, this has cut an inverted canyon through more than half the thickness of the shelf structure.\n\nIf the melting continued unabated, it would break Dotson in 40-50 years, not the 200 years currently projected.\n\n\"That is unlikely to happen because the ice will respond in some way to the imbalance,\" said Noel Gourmelen, from the University of Edinburgh, UK.\n\n\"It's possible the area of thinning could widen or the flow of ice could change. Both would affect the rate at which the channel forms.\n\n\"But the important point here is that Dotson is not a flat slab and it can be much thinner in places than we think it is and much closer to a stage where it might experience major change.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This animation shows how warm water gets under and melts the ice shelf\n\nDr Gourmelen's new study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, uses the European Space Agency's Cryosat and Sentinel-1 spacecraft to make a detailed examination of the thickness and movement of Dotson.\n\nThe 70km by 40km ice shelf is the floating projection of two glaciers, Kohler and Smith. As they stream off the west of Antarctica, their fronts lift up and join together, pushing out over the Amundsen Sea.\n\nThe shelf acts as a buttress to the ice behind. If Dotson were not present, Kohler and Smith would flow much faster, dumping more of their mass in the ocean, contributing to sea-level rise.\n\nSatellites have long tracked the behaviour of the shelf, but in Cryosat in particular researchers now have an altimeter instrument that is able to retrieve much higher-resolution elevation information than ever before.\n\nIce shelves are the floating protrusions of glaciers flowing off the continent\n\nTaking the period of its observations from 2010-2016, Dr Gourmelen's team can see that Dotson's surface is lowering on average by about 26cm per year, which suggests the roughly 400m-thick shelf as a whole is thinning by about 2.5m per year.\n\nBut Cryosat's sharper vision also reveals that this thinning is concentrated at a surface depression that is roughly 5km wide and 60km long.\n\nIt extends from the point where the glacier ice starts to float as it comes off the land, all the way out to the front edge of the shelf where icebergs are calved into the ocean.\n\nWhat the team is able to show is that this surface depression corresponds to an incised canyon on the underside of the shelf.\n\nThe average width of this inverted gorge is 10-15km but it cuts up into the shelf by as much as 200m in places. The Edinburgh-led group says all the evidence suggests warm water from the deep ocean around Antarctica has got under the shelf to melt out the canyon.\n\n\"We say warm; it's 0.6-0.7 degrees,\" explains Dr Gourmelen. \"It makes its way into the cavity under the shelf along a trough to the grounding line, and then it starts to rotate clockwise and rises. And it comes out on the west side. That's where we see the thinning and the basal melt.\"\n\nArtist's impression: Cryosat, with its radar altimeter, was launched into orbit in 2010\n\nThis export of fresh melt-water from the underside of the shelf carries with it a lot of iron from rocks scraped from the continent, and drives strong growth in plankton and other biological activity in front of Dotson.\n\nJust a simple forward projection using the pattern and rates of thinning observed by Cryosat and Sentinel-1 in this study would lead to complete melt-through of Dotson's front in 20 or so years, and its rear in about 40 years.\n\nThat is on the order of 170 years earlier than Dotson would thin to zero using the ice-shelf-averaged thinning rate. But as previously stated - the shelf is not a static structure and it will react to the formation of the canyon.\n\n\"An ice shelf can be a complicated thing,\" says co-author Prof Andy Shepherd from Leeds University and principal scientific adviser on the Cryosat mission.\n\n\"As you thin them it reduces the traction on the feeding glaciers, allowing those glaciers to speed up; and as they speed up, they should put more ice into the ice shelf so that it thickens again. It is supposed to be a stabilising effect.\"\n\nProf Shepherd said a new high-resolution swath mode used by Cryosat at Dotson was now being deployed elsewhere around Antarctica to look for more patterns of enhanced thinning on other ice shelves.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "South Sudan has been named as the worst place in the world for education for girls\n\nDebates about schools in richer countries are often about the politics of priorities, what subjects should be given most importance, who needs extra help and what needs more public spending.\n\nBut for families in many developing countries questions about education can be a lot more basic - is there any access to school at all?\n\nFigures from the United Nations suggest there has been \"almost zero progress\" in the past decade in tackling the lack of school places in some of the world's poorest countries.\n\nA further report examined the quality of education, and the UN said the findings were \"staggering\", with more than 600 million children in school but learning next to nothing.\n\nIn Niger, four out of five adult women remain illiterate\n\nWhile in affluent Western countries, girls are often ahead of boys in academic achievement, in poorer parts of the world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, girls are much more likely to be missing out.\n\nAnd on the UN's International Day of the Girl, the development campaign, One, has created a ranking for the toughest places for girls to get an education.\n\nAcross these 10 countries, most of those without school places are girls.\n\nThese are fragile countries, where many families are at risk from poverty, ill health, poor nutrition and displacement from war and conflict.\n\nRefugees displaced by fighting this summer in South Sudan\n\nMany young girls are expected to work rather than go to school. And many marry young, ending any chance of an education.\n\nUN figures indicate girls are more than twice as likely to lose out on education in conflict zones.\n\nRefugees in Chad: Conflicts have disrupted the educations of tens of millions\n\nThe rankings are based on:\n\nFor some countries, such as Syria, there was insufficient reliable data for them to be included.\n\nHere are the top 10 toughest places for girls' education:\n\nA shortage of teachers is a common problem across poorer countries.\n\nLast year, the UN said another 69 million teachers would need to be recruited worldwide by 2030 if international promises on education were to be kept.\n\nFlorence Cheptoo learned to read at 60, when her grandchild brought home a library book\n\nThe report says there are great economic dividends if girls can be kept in school.\n\nAnd there are great gains for individuals, such as Florence Cheptoo, who lives in a remote village in Kenya and learned to read at the age of 60.\n\nGayle Smith, president of the One campaign, called the failures in education for girls a \"global crisis that perpetuates poverty\".\n\n\"Over 130 million girls are still out of school - that's over 130 million potential engineers, entrepreneurs, teachers and politicians whose leadership the world is missing out on.\"\n\nIdeas for the Global education series? Get in touch.", "Paul Pugh was in the most critical meeting of his life. He was being told what his future would be like after receiving a brain injury in a brutal assault. He laughed the whole way through the discussion but, to him, it felt like he was sobbing. He would later be diagnosed with pathological laughter.\n\nPugh, now 38, had been on a night out with his Cwmaman Football Club teammates in January 2007 when he was targeted in an unprovoked attack on a cold January night.\n\nAs he left a pub in his home town of Ammanford in Carmarthenshire, west Wales, four men he didn't know rounded on him and repeatedly punched and kicked him.\n\nPugh's skull was fractured and he fell into a coma for more than two months. A blood clot which measured 10cm x 4cm formed on his brain and he was left with slurred speech, chronic fatigue and mobility difficulties which resulted in him having to use a wheelchair.\n\n\"I've had to learn to walk and talk again and come to terms with the fact that I will never fully recover,\" he says. \"Life has been a struggle for me and my family, but we're ploughing through it.\"\n\nPugh spent 13 months in hospital, but it wasn't until month four that he had his first laughing fit.\n\n\"It was a serious meeting with my consultant, rehabilitation therapists and my family to discuss what my life and future was going to be like,\" he says.\n\n\"When they started talking about me, I was frightened and it triggered something off in my brain and I laughed right through the meeting.\n\n\"I was actually crying my eyes out, but it came out on the surface as laughter.\"\n\nAt first, no one understood his behaviour, his family even thought he was \"making a scene in public, pleading for attention\".\n\nIt took several years before Pugh's fits of \"full on laughter\" were diagnosed as pathological laughter or the Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA).\n\nThe condition arises when there is a disconnect between the frontal lobe of the brain - which keeps emotions in check - and the cerebellum and brain stem - which regulate the expression of emotion. It's a real crossed-wires moment.\n\nPBA can affect those with neurological conditions or injuries such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, or Alzheimer's disease.\n\nAndy Tyerman, consultant clinical neuropsychologist of brain injury charity Headway, says: \"The term refers to uncontrolled expression of emotion that is disproportionate or inappropriate to the social context and may be inconsistent with what the person is actually feeling.\n\n\"A person might also appear very distressed about something that would previously have been only slightly upsetting.\"\n\nIn Pugh's case, he laughed when he thought he was crying.\n\n\"I know when I'm laughing or crying, but other people don't,\" he says. \"Some have been upset and reacted by being sarcastic with me or even aggressive and try to hurt my feelings because they think I'm laughing at them.\n\n\"It's amazing how important laughing is. You take it for granted but it has a really powerful effect, if you share a joke with someone it's special.\"\n\nPugh says his family are very understanding. His mum has become his full-time carer to help with his mobility issues, his dad, aged 72, still works and his brothers - Simon and Matthew - have both had a hand in helping him over the past decade.\n\nHe says the diagnosis \"hit me hard\" and sometimes attracts unwanted attention but he can now sense when an episode is imminent.\n\n\"I feel a laugh coming a few seconds before it happens - sometimes I can control it but a blip can happen. The laugh doesn't last long, a minute at the most, but it can cause a lot of problems if people don't understand.\"\n\nPugh has developed his own method to avert an episode by \"thinking of something or someone bad without giving it feeling\" and estimates he can control nine out of 10 laughing fits.\n\nIt's been an \"extremely tough 10 years\" since the assault, he says.\n\nHe had to give up work as an electrician and now spends his time in therapy or visiting the charity Headway Carmarthenshire which, he says, gave him an \"insight of being with people with brain injury\" and reassurance he wasn't on his own.\n\n\"Since the incident we've met the most incredible people you'll ever meet, all wanting to help me,\" he says. \"On the other side of the dice, I feel like I'm under house arrest because the injury affected my mobility and balance, therefore I need assistance whenever I go outdoors.\"\n\nIn 2014, Pugh started Paul's Pledge - a campaign to educate people about alcohol-fuelled violence which Dyfed-Powys Police is also involved in.\n\nHe makes visits to schools, colleges and youth clubs and has had an \"absolutely fantastic\" response because \"they can see that it's real and not theatrical\".\n\n\"This is my life now - I've moved on from what happened,\" he says. \"There are many things I can't do - but this [campaign] I can do. I think it sends a powerful message to the world. I don't want to see anyone, nobody in the situation it left me and my family in.\"\n\nThe four men responsible for Pugh's attack were jailed for between nine months and four years.\n\nPugh says: \"The one that kicked me in the head with full force from point blank range, almost killing me, was let out. What about me? Ten years later, I'm still serving my sentence.\"\n\nFor more Disability News, follow on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to the weekly podcast.\n• None 'Powerful message' to tell says victim\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is traditionally the job of a chancellor to look after the nation's money, not to be flash with taxpayers' cash, to balance the books, and not to go around making promises that can't be paid for.\n\nAnd in normal times under Conservative governments there is usually customary support from the backbenches for them to err on the side of caution when it comes to controlling the purse strings.\n\nBut there is very visible anger from some Tory quarters today about Philip Hammond's approach to spending when it comes to making preparations for life outside the EU. Why?\n\nWell, how much to spend on preparing for leaving the EU without a deal, and when to spend it, has become the new faultline in the Tories' never ending divisions over Brexit.\n\nThe chancellor wrote in the Times this morning that he'd only be prepared to spend money when it was necessary and not in next month's Budget.\n\nAnd he went even further in front of MPs this morning, saying that he wouldn't spend until the \"very last moment\".\n\nThat is a direct challenge to some Brexiteers who have been pushing for billions to be spent now, yes, to be ready just in case, but also in order to demonstrate to Brussels that the threat to walk away is a real one.\n\nAnd two different cabinet sources say his comments today come on top of a row at cabinet yesterday over precisely this issue, an exchange described as \"robust\".\n\nNumber 10 acknowledges that there was a brief discussion of the preparation for the \"no deal\" scenario, although they deny (as they would) that there was anything like a ding-dong.\n\nBut one of the cabinet sources suggests Mr Hammond's behaviour is either \"deliberate and divisive or politically stupid\".\n\nBut it led today to what Brexiteers are claiming was a \"deliberate slapdown\" of the chancellor by Theresa May at Prime Minister's Questions, when she made plain that money would be forthcoming for \"no deal\" planning as and when it was necessary, striking a rather different tone to the chancellor's \"very last moment\", comments.\n\nAs Numbers 10 and 11 point out, the Treasury has already allocated more than half a billion to specific contingency planning and held back billions in last year's spending round to provide headroom if Brexit goes awry.\n\nBut right now, the Treasury is clearly not willing to give in to some of his colleagues' demands to write big cheques for the \"what if\".\n\nFor Mr Hammond's team it makes no sense to be spending money when there's hardly any around, unnecessarily, and certainly not to send political signals to Brussels.\n\nBut for those in the Tory party who already resent and disagree with his attitude, it's another reason to have a pop.\n\nFor those of us watching on, it's another sign of how the Tories are consumed with fighting each other over Brexit, rather than the opposition.", "Protestors said women were not being offered alternatives to abortion\n\nAn \"unprecedented\" ban on protesters outside abortion clinics could be introduced in a London borough.\n\nCouncillors in Ealing overwhelmingly backed a proposal to stop anti-abortion groups protesting outside a Marie Stopes clinic in the borough.\n\nBinda Rai, who brought the motion, said it would allow women to access \"legal healthcare without intimidation\".\n\nThe Good Counsel Network, which holds daily vigils outside the centre in Mattock Lane, denies harassing women.\n\nSome protesters used \"deliberately disturbing and graphic images\" outside the Marie Stopes clinic, the council said\n\nThe council motion said 3,593 residents signed a petition, delivered by campaign group Sister Supporter, backing the move.\n\nIt said dozens also wrote letters describing \"disruption and distress\" caused by the protesters.\n\nSpeaking after the vote, Ms Rai said there could be \"national implications\", and that Ealing could be the first council to take action against protesters outside abortion clinics.\n\n\"I'm absolutely thrilled that there was such huge support in the chamber for the motion, and right across the parties,\" she said.\n\n\"It was really good. And this is really a stand for women, and for women's rights to access healthcare that is legally available to them.\"\n\nShe said the council may use a Public Space Protection Order (PSPOs), which give councils the power to crack down on perceived anti-social behaviour.\n\nRichard Bentley, managing director of Marie Stopes UK, hailed the decision as \"ground-breaking\".\n\n\"We hope that other local authorities will follow this example and act to increase protection for women in their area,\" he said.\n\nLocal pro-choice group, Sister Supporter, demanded action to stop anti-abortion protesters holding vigils six days a week outside the clinic\n\nA spokesman for the British Pregnancy Advisory Service said it welcomed the vote result and urged the government to introduce legislation banning protests at all clinics.\n\n\"The situation in Ealing is sadly not unique, and women and clinic staff across the country report being followed, filmed, and harassed when trying to access or provide legal healthcare services.\n\n\"This has to stop,\" he said.\n\nThe Good Counsel Network said it has held its vigil for 23 years \"without any criminal charges\"\n\nClare McCullough, the Good Counsel Network's founder, told the BBC the group had held its vigil for 23 years \"without any criminal charges\".\n\nResponding to the prospect of a PSPO, Ms McCullough said: \"Most lawyers would agree those orders were not put in place for this kind of issue.\n\n\"They're not there to suppress freedom of speech.\n\n\"I think it would be a grave misuse and would have implications for all kinds of groups who are protesting all kinds of things.\"", "No-one is thought to have been injured in the crash\n\nA white van has crashed through the front door of a listed 16th Century thatched cottage.\n\nIt is thought the vehicle came off at a bend on Ampthill Road, in Maulden, Bedfordshire, on Tuesday before it crossed a grass verge, went through a hedge and embedded itself in the house.\n\nA 34-year-old man from Maulden was arrested on suspicion of being unable to drive through drink or drugs.\n\nNo-one is thought to have been hurt in the crash.\n\nVal Fossey, who lives in the cottage, said there was \"a dreadful noise - like an earthquake\" when the van struck.\n\nThe van crashed through the front door and is said to have gone into the hall and kitchen\n\nShe was in the living room with her husband Steve when the van crashed into their home, which they have lived in for 14 years, at about 22:35 BST.\n\n\"This van came flying over a hedge and crashed into our hall and kitchen,\" she said. \"If I had left the room I don't know what would have happened.\n\n\"We are not right on the bend and we are about 20 yards from the road,\" she said. \"He must have been going fast to go over the verge.\n\n\"There are cracks going up the wall into the bedroom.\n\n\"I don't know when we will be allowed back in.\"\n\nVal and Steve Fossey have lived in the 16th Century cottage for 14 years\n\nCentral Bedfordshire Council's structural engineers have said the house is structurally safe.\n\nA spokesman said an expert had checked the building, and the area that the van damaged had been shored up.\n\nThe authority said it was waiting for the insurers to take over the case and it was not clear when the family would be able to return home.\n\nA police cordon has been put in place around the property\n\nThe house has been assessed and deemed to be structurally sound\n\nA 34-year-old man has been arrested over the crash\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The claim: Nicola Sturgeon told her party conference that the Scottish government's commitment to early years education and childcare was \"unmatched anywhere else in the UK\" as she fleshed out plans to expand childcare provision.\n\nReality Check verdict: Overall, Scotland's planned childcare provision would be the most generous in the UK, as it plans to offer 1,140 hours a year, regardless of whether parents are in work. However, a pilot scheme under way in Wales is better for working parents as it offers 1,440 hours a year.\n\nWhen Nicola Sturgeon took to the stage at the SNP conference, she said she was committed to giving children in Scotland \"the best possible start in life\".\n\nShe confirmed that the Scottish government would increase its offer of free childcare from 16 hours a week to 30 hours for three- and four-year-olds, as well as vulnerable two-year-olds, by 2020.\n\nAnd she pledged to double investment in early years education and childcare, from £420m to £840m a year, by the end of the current parliament.\n\n\"This is a commitment unmatched anywhere else in the UK,\" she said. \"And it's the best investment we can make in Scotland's future.\"\n\nThe first minister's office confirmed that what she meant was that the universality of care offered to children north of the border would be better than that provided in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nReality Check has looked into the claims.\n\nParents of three- and four-year-olds and vulnerable two-year-olds in Scotland are currently offered 600 hours of free childcare a year.\n\nIt works out at roughly 16 hours a week over 38 weeks of the year but families can choose to spread the hours over a longer period.\n\nThe Scottish government wants to increase annual childcare provision to 1,140 hours by 2020.\n\nFunded childcare is currently offered to all families in Scotland - regardless of the employment status of their parents.\n\nThat is where Nicola Sturgeon's plans differ from those in practice across the rest of the UK.\n\nAll families in England are currently offered 570 free hours a year.\n\nHowever, where both parents (or one in single-parent families) work more than 16 hours a week, they are entitled to 1,140 hours a year.\n\nIn Wales, a pilot scheme is under way where working families in seven authorities are offered 1,440 hours of childcare a year.\n\nThat works out at 30 hours a week over 48 weeks.\n\nAs in England, it is available only to families where both parents (or one in a single-parent family) work more than 16 hours a week.\n\nEvery child in Wales is eligible for 10 hours of early years education a week, from the term after their third birthday. That is incorporated into the 30 free hours in the pilot areas.\n\nFamilies in Northern Ireland can access between 12.5 and 22.5 hours of funded pre-school education a week over 38 weeks for all three- and four-year-olds.\n\nOne of the key actions of the NI executive's draft programme for government was to \"extend responsive, high-quality provision in early childhood education and care\" for families with young children.\n\nHowever, Northern Ireland has been without an executive for 10 months, following a row between the DUP and Sinn Fein. The parties are in discussions to restore the government.", "Is the price of our growing addiction to takeaway hot drinks an ever higher mountain of landfill?\n\nSince last year, when we were all made aware of the UK's unrecycled cup mountain, some of us have found it hard to buy a takeaway coffee without being wracked with guilt.\n\nIn the UK, we throw away an estimated 2.5 billion disposable coffee cups every year. In theory, they are \"recyclable\", but in practice, only a tiny percentage is dealt with sustainably.\n\nYet so far, there's no agreed way forward.\n\nParliament's environmental audit committee has been hearing the latest thoughts from campaigners and industry on how we can improve on our record in this area.\n\nA lot of the biggest names in takeaway beverages, including Caffe Nero, Costa Coffee, McDonald's, Pret A Manger and Starbucks, have signed up to a scheme to collect and recycle more of the current type of cups. Costa is also collecting cups from rival brands in its shops.\n\nBut others believe a more fundamental rethink would work better.\n\nHere are four ways the coffee cup waste problem might be tackled.\n\nConventional cups can be recycled, but only in special facilities, thanks to the lamination that makes them waterproof.\n\nFrugalpac, based in Ipswich in the UK, manufactures cardboard cups that can be recycled in regular recycling plants.\n\n\"We looked at this three years ago: everyone was blaming someone else, the cup makers, the coffee shops, councils. We thought, why don't we go out there and solve the problem?\" says Frugalpac's founder, Martin Myerscough.\n\nHe has a patent for his cup - made of recycled materials, with an only very lightly attached plastic lining (representing about 10% of the weight of the cup), that separates easily during recycling.\n\nIt's a more pragmatic solution, he argues, than trying to set up specialist collection points for conventional cups, because we already have recycling bins.\n\nHe has done trials with independent coffee shops and is working with Starbucks.\n\nOf course, consumers will still have to remember to put them in the right bin, and he is still working on replacing the plastic lid.\n\nSafia Qureshi points to chai wallahs in India as one of her initial inspirations. There, tea is poured into glasses that are washed and reused. We all used to drink milk and Coca Cola from returnable, reusable bottles.\n\n\"The current model for reusable cups is that the consumer needs to buy the cup and take it in. The ratio of consumers doing that is 2% of all the total coffee sold,\" she points out.\n\nInstead, she proposes that the customer joins Cup Club and picks up a reusable cup when they buy their coffee. It can be returned later to one of several collection points. Cup Club is responsible for collecting washing and redistributing the clean cups to participating retailers.\n\nBecause the cups are tagged and registered to your account - using RFID, the same technology that's on an Oyster travel card - Cup Club can text you a reminder if you've forgotten to return a cup and charge you if you keep it.\n\n\"I'm very passionate about putting an end to products that are only used one time,\" says Ms Quereshi \"It's a selfish and arrogant stance.\"\n\nShe's starting with company offices and universities, but is aiming ultimately for a London-wide scheme.\n\nIts success will rely on enough retailers subscribing, but she has received an Ellen MacArthur Circular Design Challenge award, which will support her in developing the idea further.\n\nTom Chan, an engineering student from Hong Kong studying in the US, said he saw the coffee cups piling up in the rubbish bins outside his university building and wanted to do something about it.\n\nHe has now patented his TrioCup, a triangular-shaped cardboard cup, with sticking up flaps \"like bunny ears\". Those ears can be folded down and tucked in to close it.\n\nThe entire cup is recyclable and, without the need for a separate plastic lid, potentially cheaper than normal cups.\n\n\"I decided if I were to make a new cup, it needed to have more features than just being eco-friendly,\" he says.\n\nSo he aimed for some other selling points too, such as spill-resistance.\n\n\"From my anecdotal research, a lot more people spill their coffee than you think.\"\n\nHe says you can drop a TrioCup from waist height and most of the coffee will stay in the cup.\n\nHe thinks the shape makes the cups easier to hold and gives them \"a cool aesthetic\".\n\nEven the origami folding technique is pretty simple, he says.\n\nNext month, Mr Chan, another recipient of an Ellen MacArthur award, will be making several thousand cups per week for use in the university coffee shop.\n\nThe ultimate waste-free cup, though, must be this: a coffee cup made of cereals that you can munch on like an ice cream cone, once you've downed your drink.\n\nThree friends from Plovdiv in Bulgaria, Miroslav Zapryanov, Mladen Dzhalazov and Simeon Gavrailov, came up with their \"waffle\" recipe containing no preservatives, colourings or coatings a few years ago and have been working on commercialising it ever since.\n\nApparently slightly sweet and crisp, it will hold your coffee for up to 40 minutes. And if you decide not to snack on it, it will biodegrade within weeks.\n\nThey say they were inspired by a desire to change the world. They might only be changing the diets of a limited number of Bulgarian coffee drinkers, but they are ambitious.\n\nThe founders say that with a shelf life of six months the Cupffee could meet the needs of the big High Street coffee chains.\n\nBut many other firms are thinking along similar lines, at least when it comes to compostable cups.\n\nCompanies such as Bristol-based Planglow have successfully commercialised what they say is fully biodegradable food packaging, including coffee cups.\n\nAnd they boast clients from restaurants to contract caterers, sandwich shops to Parliament, so policy makers presumably are familiar with this option.", "Two 14-year-olds have been charged with murdering a teenager who was stabbed to death, police have said,\n\nSaif Abdul Magid, 18, suffered multiple knife wounds in an attack in Tanfield Avenue, Neasden, north-west London, on Friday afternoon.\n\nBoth boys, who cannot be named due to their age, will appear at Wimbledon Youth Court later, Scotland Yard said.\n\nA 15-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of murder has been bailed until mid-October, the force added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. George Osborne was one of the gang's 103 victims\n\nA moped gang that robbed more than 100 people, including an attempted robbery on former chancellor George Osborne, has been jailed.\n\nClaude Parkinson, 18, and two boys aged 16 and 15, carried out the robberies over a five-day spree that \"spiralled out of control\".\n\nAll three had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery.\n\nA fourth unknown member used a hammer to intimidate victims in Camden, Westminster, Islington and Chelsea.\n\nThe gang were sentenced at Southwark Crown Court.\n\nAfter they were arrested in May, police reported a 40% drop in moped-related robberies in Westminster.\n\nShamsul Chowdhury, 40, and Claude Parkinson, 18, were both jailed for their part in the spree\n\nThe gang rode the streets of London snatching items of value out of victims' hands before driving away.\n\nMr Osborne was one of an estimated 103 victims of the gang when an attempt was made to snatch his mobile phone outside the BBC in May.\n\nIn a victim impact statement previously read out to the court, Mr Osborne said he had felt \"shocked and stunned\" after the attempted robbery.\n\nCCTV footage from near Broadcasting House showed a passenger on the moped trying to grab the phone out of his hand, before fleeing empty-handed.\n\nIn sentencing, Judge David Tomlinson said: \"With or without weapons, throughout this course of conduct there was a risk to the safety and wellbeing of members of our community.\n\n\"Your willingness to use weapons to threaten violence showed that your offending had spiralled out of control.\"\n\nThe gang was paid £55 to £200 for the stolen handsets, the court heard.\n\nA fifth member of the gang Shamsul Chowdhury, 40, of Bethnal Green, would traffic the phones to Bangladesh.\n\nChowdhury was sentenced to four years and 10 months after admitting handling stolen goods.\n\nParkinson, from Islington, was sentenced to five years and three months for robbery.\n\nThe 16 and 15-year-olds - who cannot be named for legal reasons - were both jailed for four years and two months.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police told the driver the cheese had to be \"removed or eaten\" before he could leave\n\nA van driver was pulled over by police as he had too much cheese on board.\n\nOfficers found the vehicle was 41% over its weight limit, in Sawtry, Cambridgeshire on Monday.\n\nThe driver was left in a pickle as the van had 2,822lb (1,280kg) more cheese than it was allowed to carry. Officers said it had to be \"removed or eaten\".\n\nDuring a grilling, the driver was allowed to take some of the dairy produce away but made to call in another van to take the excess.\n\nBedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire road policing unit officers discovered the problematic produce, at a weighbridge off the A1.\n\nIt is not yet known exactly which varieties of cheese had grated with police.\n• None Would Wallace be a master of cheese\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The prime minister said she wanted a deal and believed one was achievable\n\nThe government will spend whatever is necessary to make sure the UK is ready for Brexit, Downing Street has said.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said £250m of new money had been allocated this year to prepare for leaving the EU, \"including the possibility of a no-deal scenario\".\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Theresa May said \"where money needs to be spent it will be spent\".\n\nEarlier, Chancellor Philip Hammond said funding for a no-deal plan would not happen \"until the very last moment\".\n\nHe suggested it was not wise to spend money - which could alternatively go to the NHS or schools - at this stage on an outcome which may or may not happen, merely to \"send a message\" to the EU.\n\nIn response, several Tory MPs have criticised the Treasury, one accusing it of \"incompetence\" and another suggesting the EU would not listen to the UK unless it was sure it was seriously preparing for the possibility of leaving in March 2019 without a negotiated agreement.\n\nThe BBC understands a row broke out at Tuesday's Cabinet meeting over the issue of contingency funding in the event of a \"no deal\" scenario in the Brexit negotiations.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said two different cabinet sources confirmed there was a \"robust\" exchange. Downing Street denied there was a row but acknowledged there had been a brief discussion.\n\nShe added that how much to spend on preparations for leaving the EU without a deal, and when to spend it, had become a new faultline in the Tories' divisions over Brexit.\n\nMrs May announced the £250m Brexit contingency funding in response to a question from ex-leader Iain Duncan Smith, who sought assurances \"all necessary monies\" would be spent in case of a no-deal outcome.\n\n\"We are preparing for every eventuality,\" she told MPs. \"We are committing money to prepare for Brexit including a 'no deal' scenario.\n\n\"The Treasury has committed over £250m of new money to departments like DEFRA, the Home Office, HMRC and DfT in this financial year for Brexit preparations and in some cases, departments will need to spend money before the relevant legislation has gone through the House.\"\n\nMrs May said the UK was striving for a good deal with the EU and rejected claims from a Labour MP that she was \"running scared\" of her backbenchers and \"ramping up\" talk about the odds of there being no deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hammond: Not time yet for 'no deal' spending\n\nTwo hours earlier, the chancellor - who has been accused of being too pessimistic about Brexit - told the Treasury committee of MPs that he was \"committed\" to supporting departments prepare for Brexit but said it would be premature to spend money now on the assumption there would be no deal between the UK and EU.\n\n\"We are prepared to spend when we need to spend against the contingency of a 'no deal' outcome,\" he said.\n\n\"I am clear we have to be prepared for a 'no deal' scenario unless and until we have clear evidence that this is not where we will end up.\"\n\n\"What I am not prepared to do is allocate funds to departments in advance of the need to spend,\" he added.\n\n\"Every pound we spend on contingency planning on a hard customs border is a pound we can't spend on the NHS, social care or education. I don't believe we should be in the business of making potentially nugatory expenditure until the very last moment when we need to do so.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Heidi Alexander says the British people \"deserve better than a prime minister simply running scared\"\n\nIllustrating what he said was one worst case scenario for a \"no deal\", he said there could be no air travel taking place between the UK and the EU on Brexit day - 29 March 2019 - but added that he did not see that as likely to happen, even if the UK/EU talks failed to reach agreement.\n\nThe current state of Brexit negotiations were a \"cloud of uncertainty\" hanging over the UK economy, he said, which could only removed by progress and the EU agreeing to begin talks on its future relations with the UK.\n\nOne ex-minister, David Jones, has said billions should be set aside in November's Budget for a \"no deal\" scenario, arguing that if this did not happen it would be seen as a \"a sign of weakness\" by EU leaders.\n\nAnd Jacob Rees-Mogg said the Treasury's conduct with regard to Brexit had been \"incompetent bordering on the dishonest\" and planning for all possible outcomes was a necessary \"insurance policy\".\n\n\"If you think the EU is claiming 100bn euros from us, to have credibility for the no deal scenario we have to show that it's real and it can happen,\" he said.\n\n\"And most of the money that would be spent for no deal would be money that's needed for the end result anyway.\n\n\"So, changes to the borders, changes to customs and excise, will need to take place regardless of whether there is a deal or not. So it's not wasted money, it will be money that's very well spent.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It was \"an open secret\" a producer tells the BBC\n\nProsecutors have defended their decision not to take action against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein after a woman complained about his behaviour in 2015.\n\nThe Manhattan district attorney's office says undercover audio of the complainant and Weinstein was \"insufficient to prove a crime\".\n\nBut they said the Oscar winner had a \"pattern of mistreating women\".\n\nWeinstein says many of the accusations against him are false.\n\nIn a statement, Chief Assistant District Attorney Karen Friedman-Agnifilo said: \"If we could have prosecuted Harvey Weinstein for the conduct that occurred in 2015, we would have.\n\n\"Mr Weinstein's pattern of mistreating women, as recounted in recent reports, is disgraceful and shocks the conscience.\"\n\nItalian model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, 22, had gone to police to accuse Weinstein of touching her inappropriately. She then agreed to meet the producer again while wearing a hidden microphone.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The New Yorker released audio of an alleged undercover sting operation by New York Police (UK users only)\n\nThe district attorney's office say police arranged the meeting without informing them. \"Prosecutors were not afforded the opportunity before the meeting to counsel investigators on what was necessary to capture in order to prove a misdemeanour sex crime,\" they said.\n\nThey say the \"horrifying\" audio \"was insufficient to prove a crime under New York law\" which left prosecutors with \"no choice but to conclude the criminal investigation without charges\".\n\nIn the recording, Weinstein can be heard asking Ms Gutierrez to come into his hotel room. The model asks the producer \"why yesterday you touched my breast?\" He apologises, saying he \"won't do it again\".\n\nCara Delevingne is the latest actress to accuse Mr Weinstein of inappropriate behaviour\n\nA string of high-profile actresses, including Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie, have come forward to accuse the movie mogul of sexual harassment or assault.\n\nThe British actress and model Cara Delevingne is the latest to accuse Weinstein of inappropriate behaviour. In a statement, she said he tried to kiss her as she attempted to leave a hotel room.\n\n\"I felt very powerless and scared,\" she said.\n\nOn Tuesday, Weinstein denied allegations of rape made in The New Yorker magazine. On the same day, his wife Georgina Chapman said she was leaving him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This is what you will be remembered for\" - Playwright's message to Harvey Weinstein\n\nWeinstein's spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister said: \"Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr Weinstein. Mr Weinstein has further confirmed that there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances.\n\n\"Mr Weinstein obviously can't speak to anonymous allegations, but with respect to any women who have made allegations on the record, Mr Weinstein believes that all of these relationships were consensual.\n\n\"Mr Weinstein has begun counselling, has listened to the community and is pursuing a better path.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Model Zoe Brock tells Radio 4's Today that she was one of Harvey Weinstein's victims\n\nThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which hosts the Oscars, branded the allegations against Mr Weinstein \"abhorrent\" and said it will hold a meeting on Saturday to discuss further action.\n\nIt comes after Bafta, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts suspended his membership of the organisation.", "The bombers took off from Guam and flew over the East Sea and Yellow Sea\n\nThe US has conducted a joint military exercise with South Korea, flying two strategic bombers over the Korean peninsula.\n\nThe B-1B combat bombers were joined by two South Korean F-15K fighter jets, and carried out air-to-ground missile drills off South Korean waters.\n\nIt comes amid heightened tensions with North Korea over its nuclear programme.\n\nPyongyang conducted its sixth nuclear test, and launched two missiles over Japan, in recent months.\n\nThe bombers took off from the US Pacific territory of Guam on Tuesday night, before entering South Korean airspace and conducting firing exercises over the East Sea and Yellow Sea, South Korea's military said.\n\nThe training was part of a programme of \"extended deterrence\" against North Korea, it added.\n\nThe US said Japan's air force also took part in the drill.\n\nUS President Donald Trump met top officials from his national security team on Tuesday night for a briefing on ways to respond to threats from North Korea, the White House said.\n\nMr Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have exchanged heated rhetoric in recent weeks.\n\nIn a speech at the UN in September, Mr Trump accused Mr Kim of being \"on a suicide mission\" - while Mr Kim responded by vowing to \"tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire\".\n\nOn Wednesday, a South Korean lawmaker said North Korean hackers had reportedly stolen a large cache of military documents from his country, including a plan to assassinate North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, and wartime contingency plans drawn up by the US and South Korea.\n\nThe South Korean defence ministry refused to comment about the allegation, while North Korea denied the claim.", "Dairy farmers might, in some circumstances, receive higher prices after Brexit says the report\n\nThe profitability of the average UK farm could fall by as much as half after Brexit, new research suggests.\n\nThe report, by the Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), says the \"worst-case scenario\" would cut average farm profits from £38,000 a year to just £15,000.\n\nThe analysis tries to model the effects of cheaper imported food, reduced subsidies and more expensive labour.\n\nA government spokesman said the report was based on highly unlikely scenarios.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the European Union (EU) in March 2019.\n\nSome formal negotiations with the EU started in June, but so far, it is unclear how trade between the UK and the EU will change if the Brexit timetable is met.\n\nIn fact, the specific negotiations over a future trade deal have not even started.\n\nBut they will be particularly vital to the agricultural and horticultural industries because of the subsidies which are received under the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: \"This report is based on hypothetical and highly unlikely scenarios that do not reflect the government's negotiating position.\n\n\"Outside the EU and free from the bureaucracy of the Common Agricultural Policy, our farmers will be able to focus on growing, selling and exporting more fantastic produce.\"\n\nThe AHDB research looked at three possible outcomes of Brexit:\n\n\"Under the three scenarios outlined in the report, changes in the UK's trade relationships will impact farmers' bottom line when the UK leaves the single market, whether or not a free trade agreement is negotiated with the EU,\" said the Board.\n\nThe CAP gives UK farmers £3.1bn a year which, on the face of it, will disappear after Brexit, though the UK government has guaranteed to maintain \"overall\" farm subsidies or payments at the same level until 2022.\n\nAHDB, a statutory body funded by a levy on the agricultural industry, said Brexit would inevitably have a \"dramatic immediate impact\" on farm sectors that rely most on subsidies.\n\nThe effects of Brexit will not be uniform, though, and the position will be complex, depending on the sector and scenario being modelled.\n\nDairy and pig farmers may benefit from rising prices, the report says.\n\nOn the other hand, significant exporters such as cereal producers and sheep farmers would suffer due to the increased cost of exporting products to the EU.\n\nAnd where businesses rely on migrant workers, higher employment costs due to more stringent immigration restrictions will also push up farmers' costs dramatically, especially in horticulture.\n\nAn AHDB spokeswoman said there were thought to be between 50,000 and 80,000 EU nationals working in UK agriculture and horticulture, in both permanent and seasonal jobs.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mrs May said she would not answer \"hypothetical questions\"\n\nTheresa May has refused to say how she would vote if there was another EU referendum.\n\nThe prime minister, who backed Remain in last year's vote, was repeatedly asked if she would now vote for Brexit.\n\nThe PM, who said during the general election campaign that the UK had a \"brighter future\" after Brexit, added: \"I voted Remain for good reasons at the time but circumstances move on.\"\n\nDowning Street sources suggested it would be ridiculous to say the prime minister's comments raise doubts about whether she will deliver Brexit, as some such as ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage have said.\n\nConservative MP Bernard Jenkin, who was a leading campaigner for Brexit, said: \"She is entirely right to avoid being divisive.\n\n\"She is seeking to unite the country, not to perpetuate referendum divisions.\"\n\nFairly or not, Theresa May's hesitation in giving her answer on this hypothetical question will give pause for thought to those who harbour suspicions of her real commitment to Brexit.\n\nAnd her \"open and honest\" answer, which refused to come down on either side creates the strange situation where the prime minister appears unwilling to give full-throated support to her government's main policy.\n\nPresenter Iain Dale told Mrs May that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt had switched from Remain to Leave because former Chancellor George Osborne's gloomy economic predictions about the latter had failed to come true.\n\nHe asked Mrs May why she could not say she had changed her mind, given that she was leading the country into Brexit.\n\n\"Yes and I'm prime minister ensuring I'm going to deliver Brexit for the British people,\" she replied.\n\nPressed again, Mrs May said: \"I could say I would still vote Remain or I would vote Leave just to give you an answer to that question.\n\n\"I am being open and honest with you. What I did last time round was I looked at everything and I came to a judgement and I would do exactly the same this time round.\n\n\"But we are not having another referendum and that's absolutely crucial.\"\n\nMrs May's second in command, First Secretary of State Damian Green, also refused to say whether he would back Brexit if there was a referendum now.\n\nJeremy Corbyn called on Mrs May to guarantee migrants' rights\n\nMr Green, who was a board member of the campaign to keep Britain in the EU, told Channel 4 News: \"I don't resile from anything I said during the election campaign.\"\n\nBut he added that it was a \"meaningless\" question and \"purely hypothetical\".\n\nLiberal Democrat deputy leader Jo Swinson said: \"It is staggering that even the prime minister isn't convinced by the government's approach to Brexit.\n\n\"If Theresa May doesn't have any faith in her own government's policies, why is she still driving this country towards the cliff edge?\n\n\"Theresa May says she would weigh up the evidence again, she shouldn't deny that right to the British people.\n\n\"The public must have the chance to change their mind if they want to, once the government comes back with a deal.\"\n\nFormer UKIP leader Nigel Farage tweeted: \"How can Theresa May negotiate Brexit without believing in it?\"\n\nIn the same LBC interview, Mrs May said she could not guarantee the status of the estimated 1.2 million UK nationals living in other EU countries if Britain leaves the bloc without a deal.\n\nAnd she warned that rights held by more than three million EU nationals in the UK could \"fall away\" in a \"no deal\" scenario, something the government is actively preparing for if talks in Brussels fail.\n\n\"By definition, if there isn't a deal we won't have been able to agree with the EU what happens to UK citizens currently living in countries like Spain and Italy and other members of the EU,\" said the prime minister.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted: \"Unacceptable. The Tories' chaotic handling of Brexit means no deal is a real risk. Theresa May must guarantee EU migrants' rights now.\"", "Producer Harvey Weinstein and his wife, fashion designer Georgina Chapman, who has since said she is leaving him\n\nWith allegations of rape and sexual harassment swirling around Harvey Weinstein, it is - the Daily Mail says - Hollywood's darkest day. How did the Monster of Tinseltown get away with it for so long, it asks.\n\nAccounts by Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie in the New York Times that they were sexually harassed by the film producer are reported on most of the front pages.\n\nThe Guardian says the stories appear to illustrate a pattern of behaviour by Mr Weinstein that carried on for decades.\n\nThe New York Times - which has been chronicling the claims against Mr Weinstein - says his alleged behaviour was something of an open secret in Hollywood.\n\nMore established actresses were fearful of speaking out because they had work; less established ones were scared because they did not.\n\nA statement by Mr Weinstein's spokeswoman says he unequivocally denies any allegations of non-consensual sex.\n\nThe Times leads on Chancellor Philip Hammond's article for the paper, in which he says it would be irresponsible to spend taxpayers' money now in preparation for a \"no-deal\" Brexit.\n\nThe paper says Mr Hammond supports contingency planning in case the \"divorce\" talks collapse, but with money tight and the government trying to secure a deal, he's reluctant to approve spending unless the danger is imminent.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May's refusal to say whether she would vote for Brexit if another EU referendum were held now, is widely reported - and is the Guardian's main story.\n\nIt says her refusal was seized upon by opposition parties as a sign that she's not fully committed to a Brexit she's promising to deliver.\n\nThe Sun describes it as alarming and says it sparked questions about whether she believed leaving the EU was the right course for the UK.\n\nFor the Daily Telegraph's sketch-writer, Michael Deacon, the person in charge of Brexit apparently still can't say she would actually vote for it. It was - he says - no less than a vote of no confidence in herself.\n\nIn the Spectator's judgement, refusing to give your wholehearted support to leaving doesn't exactly help the UK's position in the negotiations.\n\nA survey has found that a third of children under five now own a tablet device. The Daily Mail reports that parents upgrading their own devices have been handing down their old ones to keep their children quiet.\n\nResearchers who carried out the survey tell the paper: \"Constant access to technology is here to stay - and pre-school children are keeping up with the pace.\"\n\nAnd the UK's hottest-ever ready meal has gone on sale - an Indian curry made with a chilli that is 200 times hotter than Tabasco sauce.\n\nAccording to the Mirror, the Morrison's Volcanic Vindaloo comes with a rating of six chillies on its packaging - and will only be sold to over-16s.", "Harvey Weinstein, the Oscar-winning film producer, has been accused of sexually assaulting three women\n\nAngelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow are the latest actresses to allege they were victims of sexual harassment by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.\n\nBoth said the incidents happened early in their careers.\n\nThey join a string of actresses accusing Weinstein of harassment. On Tuesday he also denied allegations of rape made in The New Yorker magazine.\n\nWeinstein's wife, designer Georgina Chapman, said on Tuesday that she was leaving him.\n\n\"My heart breaks for all the women who have suffered tremendous pain because of these unforgivable actions,\" the 41-year-old told People magazine. London-born Chapman, co-founder of fashion label Marchesa, and Weinstein, 65, have two children together.\n\nThe mogul has also been fired over the allegations by his Hollywood studio The Weinstein Company.\n\nFormer US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have added their voice to growing demonstrations of public outrage. Their eldest daughter Malia worked as an intern at The Weinstein Company in New York earlier this year.\n\nA statement released by the Obamas says they \"have been disgusted by the recent reports about Harvey Weinstein\".\n\nIt adds they \"celebrate the courage of women who have come forward\".\n\nAlso on Tuesday, Paltrow and Jolie both sent statements to the New York Times, which first reported allegations against him last week.\n\nJolie said in an email: \"I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did.\n\n\"This behaviour towards women in any field, any country is unacceptable.\"\n\nIn a statement, Paltrow alleged that, after Weinstein cast her in the leading role in Emma, he summoned her to his hotel suite, where he placed his hands on her and suggested massages in his bedroom.\n\nGwyneth Paltrow has joined the list of people accusing Harvey Weinstein\n\n\"I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified,\" she told the newspaper.\n\nShe said she told her then-boyfriend Brad Pitt about the incident, and said he confronted Weinstein.\n\n\"I thought he was going to fire me,\" she said.\n\nThe separate New Yorker report says that 16 former and current employees at Weinstein's companies told the magazine \"they witnessed or had knowledge of unwanted sexual advances and touching at events associated with Weinstein's films and in the workplace\".\n\nThe magazine quotes Italian actress and director Asia Argento and Lucia Stoller, now Lucia Evans - who says she was an aspiring actress when Weinstein allegedly approached her in 2004. Both say they were forced into sexual acts by the producer.\n\nA third woman, who did not want to be named, said Weinstein had \"forced himself on me sexually\".\n\nArgento said she has not spoken until now because she feared it would ruin her career to do so.\n\n\"That's why this story - in my case, it's 20 years old, some of them are old - has never come out,\" she told the New Yorker.\n\nAsia Argento, pictured in 2009, has spoken to the New Yorker magazine\n\nOther allegations in the piece came from Mira Sorvino, who won an Oscar in 1996 for her role in Mighty Aphrodite for Miramax, a studio headed by Weinstein at the time. She told the magazine that Weinstein had tried to pressure her into a relationship.\n\nRoseanna Arquette also said that she rejected Weinstein's advances and that she believes her acting career suffered as a result.\n\nWeinstein's spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister issued a statement in response to the article.\n\n\"Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr Weinstein,\" she said. \"Mr Weinstein has further confirmed that there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances.\n\n\"Mr Weinstein obviously can't speak to anonymous allegations, but with respect to any women who have made allegations on the record, Mr Weinstein believes that all of these relationships were consensual. Mr Weinstein has begun counselling, has listened to the community and is pursuing a better path.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Merrill This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHillary Clinton shared a statement saying that she was \"shocked and appalled\" by the revelations about Weinstein, who donated to her 2016 presidential campaign and has been a major donor to Mrs Clinton and Mr Obama's Democratic party.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None What next for Weinstein and Hollywood?", "Theresa May has pledged to tackle social and racial injustice in the UK\n\nIt is fitting, perhaps, that the launch of the government's so-called \"race disparities audit\" comes the day after American economist Richard Thaler was awarded a Nobel prize for his work on behavioural economics and nudging, because that is what this project is about.\n\nIt is a giant nudge to change behaviour on issues of race inequality. The odd thing is that the project is not a government trying to nudge the people. It is a government trying to nudge itself.\n\nThe prime minister has dedicated her premiership to fighting burning injustices and says she is determined to shine a light on disparities between different racial groups in the UK on a range of areas - health, education, job prospects, housing and so on.\n\nA focus on the many and often troubling differences is - of course - no bad thing, but people might well wonder why we need a public website to get Whitehall departments to take an interest.\n\nThe race audit commissioned no new research.\n\nAll the information on the website comes from Whitehall departments, the vast majority of which is already in the public domain.\n\nIndeed, most of the shocking headlines of disparity from the audit have been reported upon, discussed and debated many times.\n\nGraduates from ethnic minorities in Britain are less likely to be in work than their white peers, research has found\n\nThis shouldn't come as a revelation.\n\nAnother prime minister, James Callaghan, established the Commission for Racial Equality back in 1976 to deal with racial disparity and discrimination. It is still going, now part of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, a government quango whose job is to promote racial equality.\n\nThe Social Mobility Commission, another quango set up in 2010, has written many reports on racial disparities, and sent them to ministers.\n\nIt is perhaps a recognition of the inability of these bodies to get their messages across over decades that we apparently need a race audit website - a pull together of 60 of all the 300 data sets that relate to the experience of different racial groups.\n\nThe people being nudged are the people who sit around the cabinet table with the prime minister - her own government. \"Explain or change,\" the PM will tell them. Where disparities exist, ministers will be encouraged to explain why they exist.\n\nThere may be understandable reasons why all races do not experience the same outcomes.\n\nIt might be a factor of demographics or income, cultural differences or even the chances of developing certain medical conditions. But if the explanations don't stack up, then departments will be expected to introduce measures to change them.\n\nToday's launch is accompanied by some new initiatives. The Department of Work and Pensions has used its own data to identify 20 hot spots where people from racial minorities struggle to access the jobs market, and will now reintroduce a mentoring scheme that was abandoned 10 years ago.\n\nThe question remains, though. Given that ministers have known about these \"troubling\" and \"shocking\" disparities for years or even decades, why does it take a prime ministerial nudge to get them to take action?", "The UK arm of eBay paid only £1.6m in corporation tax last year, even though its US parent had total revenues from its UK operations of $1.32bn (£1bn).\n\nEbay's UK accounts record only £200m in revenues, which came entirely from a Swiss parent firm, seemingly for acting as its advertising agency.\n\nThe company declined to explain how its UK revenues were not booked though its UK business.\n\nHowever, an eBay spokesman said its tax affairs were entirely legal.\n\n\"In all countries and at all times, eBay is fully compliant with national, EU and international tax rules including those of the OECD, including the remittance of VAT to the appropriate authorities,\" he said.\n\nThe pre-tax profit eBay UK made on its revenues in 2016 was £7.7m, according to the accounts, and it was on this figure that the UK corporation tax was levied.\n\nEbay is a huge international business that makes money mainly from advertisers and the commission on sales made through its auction site.\n\nThe total revenues of $1.32bn that the parent US business generated from the UK included those from subsidiaries such as the Stubhub ticket exchange and Gumtree classifieds site.\n\nWithin the group, the UK arm of eBay is wholly owned by eBay International, which is based in Switzerland and is itself owned by eBay in the US.\n\nThe firm's UK accounts describe the role of eBay UK as providing \"services to eBay International by recommending market penetration and advertising strategies for the UK internal marketplace and related third party advertising sales in the UK, Germany, Italy, Belgium and Australia\".\n\nThe seeming ability of the company to shelter most its UK profits from the UK tax authorities raises again the ability of big international companies to route their revenues to the countries with the most favourable tax regimes.\n\nThis has led in the past few years to intense scrutiny of the tax practices of big firms such as Apple, Amazon, Google and Starbucks.\n\nEbay in the US, whose international revenues hit $9bn last year, acknowledged that its tax affairs were under scrutiny in several countries, which may leave it with more tax to pay.\n\n\"The material jurisdictions where we are subject to potential examination by tax authorities for tax years after 2002 include, among others, the US (Federal and California), Germany, Korea, Israel, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Canada,\" its US accounts said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hammond: Not time yet for 'no deal' spending\n\nTaxpayers' money will not be spent on preparing for a \"no-deal\" Brexit until the \"very last moment\", Chancellor Philip Hammond has suggested.\n\nHe said he was preparing for \"no deal\" and all other outcomes and would make money available when needed.\n\nBut he said he wouldn't take money from other areas, like health or education, now just to \"send a message\" to the EU.\n\nAt PM's questions Theresa May rejected claims she was ramping up \"no deal\" talk, insisting she wanted agreement.\n\n\"We are actively working... with the EU to ensure a good deal, the right deal for Britain for a brighter future for this country,\" Mrs May told MPs at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nOne ex-minister, David Jones, has said billions should be set aside in November's Budget for a \"no deal\" scenario, arguing that if this did not happen it would be seen as a \"a sign of weakness\" by EU leaders who would think the UK was not serious about leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nThe chancellor, who has been accused of being too pessimistic about Brexit, told the Treasury committee of MPs a \"cloud of uncertainty\" over the outcome of negotiations was \"acting as a dampener\" on the economy.\n\nHe said this could only be removed by progress in the talks, which he said was dependent on the EU agreeing to discuss its future relationship with the UK as soon as possible.\n\nHe told MPs one worst case scenario for a \"no deal\", would see no air travel taking place between the UK and the EU on Brexit day - 29 March 2019 - but added that he did not see that as likely to happen, even if the UK/EU talks failed to reach agreement.\n\nWriting in the Times ahead of next month's Budget, Mr Hammond said he had a responsibility to be \"realistic\" about the challenges of leaving the EU and would spend money only when it was \"responsible\" to do so.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mrs May said she would not answer \"hypothetical questions\"\n\nAn extra £412m has already been allocated to government departments to prepare for Brexit over the next four years and Treasury sources suggested more would be made available if negotiations faltered.\n\nAsked about the article as he appeared before the Commons Treasury committee, Mr Hammond said he was \"committed\" to funding departments for Brexit preparation and he was \"rather surprised\" that the article might be interpreted as saying that he was reluctant to do so.\n\n\"We are prepared to spend when we need to spend against the contingency of a 'no deal' outcome,\" he said.\n\n\"I am clear we have to be prepared for a 'no deal' scenario unless and until we have clear evidence that this is not where we will end up.\"\n\n\"What I am not prepared to do is allocate funds to departments in advance of the need to spend,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Would it have been better if the UK voted Remain? Newsnight's Emily Maitlis presses Damian Green\n\n\"We should look in each area at the last point that spending can begin to ensure we are ready for a day-one 'no deal' scenario.\n\n\"Every pound we spend on contingency preparations on a hard customs border is a pound we can't spend on the NHS, social care or education. I don't believe we should be in the business of making potentially nugatory expenditure until the very last moment when we need to do so.\"\n\nTheresa May was pressed on the issue at Prime Minister's Questions, in which former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith sought assurances \"all necessary monies\" would be spent preparing for a no deal outcome.\n\n\"Where money needs to be spent it will be spent,\" the prime minister replied, adding that government departments would be given an extra £250m this year to prepare for a range of Brexit outcomes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Heidi Alexander says the British people \"deserve better than a prime minister simply running scared\"\n\nLabour's Heidi Alexander accused Mrs May of \"running scared\" of Tory backbenchers - prompting the PM to reply \"the honourable lady could not be more wrong... we are not ramping up a no deal scenario\".\n\nOn Tuesday, Mrs May - who backed Remain in last year's vote - repeatedly refused to say if she would now vote for Brexit, telling LBC radio: \"I don't answer hypothetical questions.\"\n\nAt PMQs, the SNP's Ian Blackford claimed the PM \"could not answer a simple question\" and urged her to \"come off the fence\" and recognise the risk to jobs in Scotland from leaving the single market and customs union.\n\nIn response, the prime minister said she was clear the UK would be leaving the EU in March 2019 and that there would be no second referendum.", "Seventy years after its first publication, Anne Frank's original diary is being transformed\n\n\"We do have similar personalities. I'm a bookworm, I love books.\"\n\nIndia is 14 years old. She's wrapped up in a maroon Harry Potter hoodie.\n\nLike so many readers around the world, Anne Frank has helped her to understand an otherwise unimaginable and distant chapter of history.\n\nIndia is one of a group of pupils congregated outside a canal-side warehouse in Amsterdam, where Anne's father once sold the gelling agent pectin. They've come to learn more about the life of the young wartime diarist.\n\nPupils from Dundee's Harris Academy in Scotland visit the building where Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis\n\nAnne Frank was 15 when she died. She was an aspiring author, and one of more than a million Jewish children killed in the Holocaust.\n\nToday her diary - which she nicknamed Kitty - is one of the most-read books in the world. Her teenage prose has spawned Hollywood screenplays, Broadway shows and countless other (re)productions.\n\nNow it has been adapted into comic-strip format, in a book produced by the creators of the Oscar-nominated animation Waltz with Bashir, and there is a film coming soon too.\n\nScenes from the original book are reimagined in the Graphic Diary of Anne Frank\n\nAccompanied by excerpts from her diaries and letters, the \"graphic diary\" depicts the story of how Anne Frank and her family went into hiding after her sister Margot received a summons to report to a Nazi work camp.\n\nThey survived for almost two years, tiptoeing around in the dark, damp confines of the \"achterhuis\" (secret annex) before being discovered.\n\nNazis emptied Anne's schoolbag to carry cash and jewellery looted from Jewish homes - her distinctive red-checked diary was recovered from the floor of the hideout.\n\nRead more on the Holocaust:\n\nAri Folman, author and director of the new graphic adaptation, says he wants to ensure Anne's legacy remains relevant.\n\n\"The Graphic Diary is the perfect solution for the next generation,\" he says.\n\n\"To reach the readers of the diary you also have to find their language - more people will get to know the story. Period.\"\n\nIn fact, readership of the original is increasing every year.\n\nAnne Frank who died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the age of 15\n\nAnne Frank has come to symbolise courage, optimism and determination.\n\nBut it is her teenage attitude and frustrations that resonate with young people.\n\n\"It's easy to understand. She's eloquent,\" explains Eilidh Lean from the Anne Frank Trust, as she follows the Scottish students towards the secret annex where the Frank family hid.\n\n\"Six million people [approximate number of Jews murdered during World War Two] is difficult to get their heads around. Anne puts a human face on it. You can tell she's 13. She's going through puberty. They can empathise with her.\"\n\nBut reimaging Anne's famous prose in cartoon form was not an easy decision.\n\nIllustrator David Polonsky was initially reluctant, for fear of becoming part of the \"Holocaust industry\" sometimes accused of commodifying the Diary of a Young Girl (also known as The Diary of Anne Frank).\n\nBut he hopes the images will inform and stimulate contemporary debates about people forced out of their homes by politicians waging war.\n\n\"It is one story about one person, and each immigrant has a different story, too,\" he says.\n\nZahara Belen Mackay and Sammy Neeter attend the Montessori school that Anne Frank attended before the Nazis made all Jews attend Jewish schools\n\nAt the Montessori primary that Anne Frank attended before the Nazis created Jewish-only schools, not all the pupils are convinced the new version is necessary.\n\nThe concrete building stands in the southern suburbs, away from the city centre tourist strips. Colourful children's bikes lean against one another outside.\n\nEleven-year-old pupils Sammy Neeter and Zahara Belen Mackay are conscious of the historical significance of their environment, proudly leading me to see Anne's old wooden desk. Sammy says it's \"weird but cool\" that he used to sit in her classroom.\n\nHis mother read Anne Frank's diary to him when he was seven years old. What does this earnest young man make of the comic-book style of interpretation?\n\n\"When you look at the pictures you cannot really see what happened; when you read the diary you can see more with your imagination...\"\n\nBut Zahara believes this approach could help to engage younger audiences.\n\n\"It's nice for little children, but once you go to the secondary school you should just read the original book because it's very nice and it actually has her words.\"\n\nThe pupils from Dundee's Harris Academy have stepped out of the claustrophobic confines of the secret annex and into the invigorating autumn sunshine; inspired after literally walking an hour in Anne Frank's footsteps.\n\n\"It's quite surreal,\" Joshua reflects, gazing downwards. \"I saw how she lived... being determined and, like, just getting through and keeping on going.\n\n\"Now we've been here we can see how this genocide happened and we need to go home and really band together to make sure it never happens again.\"\n\nThe Graphic Diary of Anne Frank is published in the Netherlands and Germany. An English edition will reach audiences in the UK and US early 2018. An animated film is scheduled for release in 2019.", "Bafta, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, has suspended Harvey Weinstein's membership from the organisation.\n\nIt is in light of allegations against the film producer which include sexual assault and harassment.\n\nAngelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Heather Graham are some of the stars who have come forward with allegations.\n\nBafta released a statement saying it hoped the announcement would send \"a clear message\".\n\nThe announcement said: \"Whilst Bafta has previously been a beneficiary of Mr Weinstein's support for its charitable work, it considers the reported alleged behaviour completely unacceptable and incompatible with Bafta's values.\n\n\"This has led to Mr Weinstein's suspension, and it will be followed by a formal process as laid out in Bafta's constitution.\n\n\"We hope this announcement sends a clear message that such behaviour has absolutely no place in our industry.\"\n\nWeinstein's name has also been removed from the list of trustees of Bafta New York.\n\nAngelina Jolie and Gwneth Paltrow have made allegations about Weinstein's behaviour\n\nA number of allegations about Weinstein's behaviour, including accusations of sexual assault and harassment from actresses he has worked with, emerged this week.\n\nWeinstein's wife, Marchesa co-owner Georgina Chapman, has now said she is leaving him.\n\nWeinstein has admitted his behaviour has \"caused a lot of pain\" but described many of the allegations against him as \"patently false\". His spokeswoman has said \"any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Cara Delevingne have all spoken out\n\nSalma Hayek, Rose McGowan and Gwyneth Paltrow are among dozens of women who have come forward with allegations ranging from rape to sexual harassment by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.\n\nHe is currently facing five charges relating to two women in New York.\n\nHe has previously admitted his behaviour has \"caused a lot of pain\" but has described many of the allegations against him as \"patently false\".\n\nHis spokesperson has said \"any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied\" and there were \"never any acts of retaliation\" against women who turned him down.\n\nHere are some of those who have made allegations against him.\n\nThe actress has accused Weinstein of raping her by performing oral sex in a hotel at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997, when she was 23 and had just appeared in Scream.\n\nShe later reached a $100,000 settlement with him - and says he offered her $1m for a further non-disclosure deal to stay silent. She declined and has been one of his most vocal accusers.\n\nThe Emmy-nominated former Sopranos actress has alleged that Weinstein forced himself into her apartment in New York in 1992 and raped her.\n\n\"I was so ashamed of what happened,\" Sciorra told the New Yorker. \"And I fought. I fought. But still I was like, Why did I open that door?\"\n\nThe actress says Weinstein asked her to go to his hotel room under the guise of a business meeting, but appeared in a bathrobe and asked if he could give her a massage or if she could watch him shower.\n\nShe refused, and says he got revenge by seeking to damage her career. Director Peter Jackson has come forward to say he removed her from a casting list \"as a direct result\" of what he now thinks was \"false information\" provided by Weinstein.\n\nIn May 2018 Judd sued Weinstein claiming he damaged her career in retaliation for her rejecting his sexual advances but a Los Angeles court later dismissed her sexual harassment suit.\n\nHer defamation claim may still proceed, the judge said.\n\nMira Sorvino was photographed at a Weinstein Company party in January 2017\n\nThe Mighty Aphrodite star says he harassed her in a hotel room in 1995. \"He started massaging my shoulders, which made me very uncomfortable, and then tried to get more physical, sort of chasing me around,\" she said.\n\nLike with Ashley Judd, Peter Jackson said Weinstein warned him off casting her.\n\nHayek said Weinstein threatened to kill her\n\nThe Frida actress says she turned down repeated sexual advances from Weinstein while making the 2002 film Frida.\n\nAnd she says his persuasion tactics included threats. Hayek said Weinstein once told her: \"I will kill you, don't think I can't.\"\n\nThe Italian actress and director Asia Argento says she reluctantly agreed to give him a massage in a hotel room on the French Riviera, but he then raped her.\n\nWeinstein \"terrified me, and he was so big\", she said. \"It wouldn't stop. It was a nightmare.\"\n\nLucia Evans - nee Stoller - encountered Weinstein in 2004 in a New York club when she was an aspiring actress. She says she was forced to perform oral sex by the producer after going to his office for what she thought was a casting meeting.\n\n\"The type of control he exerted, it was very real,\" she told The New Yorker. \"Even just his presence was intimidating.\"\n\nThe Boardwalk Empire star has accused Weinstein of raping her twice in New York in 2010.\n\nThe first time was after he offered her a ride home, and the second was when he turned up uninvited at her apartment. \"I did say no, and when he was on top of me I said, 'I don't want to do this',\" she said.\n\nPaltrow says Weinstein asked her to give him a massage in his hotel suite after casting her in the leading role of 1996's Emma when she was 22.\n\nShe refused. \"He screamed at me for a long time. It was brutal,\" she said. She told then boyfriend Brad Pitt - who threatened to kill the producer if he did anything like that to Paltrow again.\n\nFormer production worker Mimi Haleyi alleges that she was raped by Weinstein when he forcibly performed oral sex on her in 2006 in his New York apartment.\n\n\"I told him 'no, no, no'. But he insisted,\" Ms Haleyi told a press conference in New York.\n\nThe actress also alleges she was raped by Weinstein when he performed oral sex on her without her consent. She says he lured her to a hotel room in 2010 under the guise of helping her procure future TV and film roles.\n\n\"I didn't know how to say no to someone like him at the time, which I regret,\" she said.\n\nThe Norwegian actress accuses Weinstein of raping her in a London hotel after the 2008 Bafta Awards ceremony.\n\nShe also alleges that he then asked her to engage in a threesome with him and another woman when back in Los Angeles following the Baftas.\n\nBritish actress Lysette Anthony says he carried out a \"pathetic, revolting\" attack at her London home in the late 1980s, which left her \"disgusted and embarrassed\".\n\nLysette Anthony told The Sunday Times she had reported an attack by Weinstein to the Metropolitan Police in London.\n\nIn an Instagram post, Delevingne writes how uncomfortable she felt during an encounter with Weinstein in a hotel room and describes what allegedly happened when she told him she wanted to leave.\n\n\"He walked me to the door and stood in front of it and tried to kiss me on the lips. I stopped him and managed to get out of the room,\" she says.\n\nThe French actress has written about how he invited her to come to his hotel room for a drink.\n\n\"We were talking on the sofa when he suddenly jumped on me and tried to kiss me,\" she wrote in The Guardian. \"I had to defend myself. He's big and fat, so I had to be forceful to resist him.\"\n\nAngelina Jolie with Gillian Anderson at the premiere of Playing by Heart in 1998\n\nJolie says she was propositioned by Weinstein in a hotel room in 1998.\n\n\"I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did,\" she said.\n\nThe Pulp Fiction actress says Weinstein pushed her down and \"tried to expose himself\" at the producer's hotel room in London during the 1990s.\n\n\"He tried to shove himself on me... He did all kinds of unpleasant things,\" Thurman said. \"But he didn't actually put his back into it and force me. You're like an animal wriggling away, like a lizard.\"\n\nHarvey Weinstein and Heather Graham at a film party in 1999\n\nThe Boogie Nights actress told Variety she was once propositioned by Weinstein in the early 2000s when she met him to discuss being cast in one of his movies.\n\nShe alleges he implied she had to sleep with him to get a film role, telling her that his wife would have been fine with it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Model Zoe Brock tells Radio 4's Today that she was one of Harvey Weinstein's victims\n\nThe model and actress says he asked for a massage in the south of France in 1997. She said: \"I didn't know what to do and I felt that letting him maybe touch me a little bit might placate him enough to get me out of there somehow.\"\n\nBefore long, she \"bolted\" into the bathroom. He banged on the door with his fists before eventually retreating, putting on a dressing gown and starting to cry.\n\nThe actress and producer says she was attacked by Weinstein when he invited her to his office in a hotel for a meeting about a script she had written at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008.\n\nHe insisted on listening to her pitch in his hot tub, then asked her to watch him masturbate, she says - and told her he could green-light her script if she did so. She left.\n\nThe Splash actress says she repeatedly turned down Weinstein's advances during promotion for Kill Bill and its sequel. He tried, she says, to get into her hotel room on multiple occasions, once getting a key and \"burst[ing] in like a raging bull.\"\n\nHe asked to grope her breasts and then asked her to expose herself to him, she alleges. She suffered physical repercussions as her flights were cancelled and she was left stranded after she turned him down on one occasion, she adds.\n\nThe actress says she rejected Weinstein's advances and that she believes her acting career suffered as a result.\n\nShe told the New York Times in the early 1990s she was directed to his hotel room, where he was in a bathrobe and asked her for a massage. When she refused she says he grabbed her hand and pulled it toward his crotch.\n\nModel Ambra Battilana Gutierrez has said she was groped by Weinstein and later went to New York police in 2015, saying the producer assaulted her. She then met Weinstein wearing a hidden microphone. But prosecutors took no action.\n\nOther stars to have detailed how he made advances in his home or hotel rooms include Brit Marling, Lupita Nyong'O, Lena Headey and Kate Beckinsale.\n\nOther women who have come forward since then with their stories include French actresses Florence Darel, Judith Godreche and Emma de Caunes.\n\nBritish model Kadian Noble, US actresses Jessica Barth, Katherine Kendall and aspiring actresses Dawn Denning, who is now a costume designer, Tomi-Ann Roberts, who is now a psychology professor, have also gone on the record.\n\nTV anchor Lauren Sivan alleges Weinstein cornered her in an empty basement area of a New York restaurant in 2007 and masturbated in front of her.\n\nAnd other workers at the Weinstein film company told the New Yorker about their experiences, including Emily Nestor, who was a temporary front desk assistant who said she had had to refuse his advances \"at least a dozen times\".\n\nActress Claire Forlani has said \"nothing happened\" between her and Weinstein - but only because she \"escaped five times\".\n\nIn an interview with Canadian TV, actress Lauren Holly said the producer approached her naked and requested a massage, at which point she \"pushed him and ran\".\n\nZelda Perkins, a British former assistant of Harvey Weinstein, says she resigned after a colleague accused him of trying to rape her.\n\nWeinstein's spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister issued a statement on 10 October in response to the allegations of sexual harassment and assault.\n\n\"Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr Weinstein,\" she said. \"Mr Weinstein has further confirmed that there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances.\n\n\"Mr Weinstein obviously can't speak to anonymous allegations, but with respect to any women who have made allegations on the record, Mr Weinstein believes that all of these relationships were consensual. Mr Weinstein has begun counselling, has listened to the community and is pursuing a better path.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Grenfell Tower fire survivors whose immigration status was uncertain will have the chance to be granted permanent UK residency, the Home Office has said.\n\nThis is a change to the one-year immigration amnesty announced after the June blaze in west London.\n\nImmigration minister Brandon Lewis said the government \"believed it is right\" to give survivors greater certainty.\n\nMeanwhile, the chancellor has said the government will not \"automatically\" fund fire safety measures for councils.\n\nMr Lewis also announced that relatives of survivors and victims who have been allowed to come into the UK for reasons relating to the fire will have the right to stay for six months.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Lewis wrote: \"Our initial response to this terrible tragedy was rightly focused on survivors' immediate needs in the aftermath of the fire and ensuring they could access the services they need to start to rebuild their lives.\n\n\"However, since the Grenfell Tower immigration policy was announced, we have been planning for the future of those residents affected by these unprecedented events\".\n\nHe added that the granting of permanent residency would depend on the completion of security and financial checks. Anyone wishing to apply for permanent residency under the proposal must come forward by 30 November.\n\nThe announcement came on the same day as another inquest opened into the death of a resident of the tower. Ligaya Moore was a 78-year-old grandmother who had moved to London from the Philippines in 1974.\n\nMrs Moore's inquest is the 68th inquest to be opened in relation to the fire.\n\nThe chancellor said that money for works ordered in the wake of the tragedy in west London will be available only as the \"last resort\".\n\nInstead, Philip Hammond will remove rules which ring-fence some parts of council budgets to allow local authorities to use their own money.\n\nHowever, he insisted that all \"safety-critical\" changes would be made.\n\nSpeaking to MPs, Mr Hammond said he had asked councils that said they did not have the money to set out details of the shortfall, but that none has yet done so.\n\nThe chancellor said the government would act when it was certain that a council \"genuinely does not have any available resource\".\n\nThe measures could include the removal of flammable cladding and retrofitting sprinkler systems in council-owned tower blocks.\n\nCouncils said many of the changes had been recommended by local fire services.\n\nThe inquest into Ligaya Moore's death opened on Wednesday\n\nOn 16 June, two days after the Grenfell fire which claimed at least 60 lives, Communities and Local Government Secretary Sajid Javid pledged that the government would \"do whatever it takes\" to improve safety in tower blocks.\n\nYet several councils have already complained that money has not been forthcoming.\n\nThe leader of the Labour opposition group on Westminster City Council, Adam Hug, said the local authority had struggled to secure funding from Mr Javid's department to pay for the removal of cladding and the installation of sprinklers.\n\n\"Ultimately these are things that the London Fire Brigade says have to be done and ultimately the cost is having to be borne by the housing revenue account, which is tenants' rents and service charge fees,\" Mr Hug said.\n\nMr Javid says Kensington and Chelsea Council plans to have all former residents of the tower moved out of emergency hotel accommodation by Christmas, unless they want to stay,\n\nHe stressed that no one would be forced to decide on a new home before they were ready.\n\nHe said that of the 203 households left homeless by the fire, 92 were still living in hotels with no other offer of accommodation.\n\nJust 10 of them have moved into permanent new homes, and 44 were in temporary accommodation.\n\nAnother 40 households have accepted the offer of permanent homes and 17 have taken temporary placements, but have not yet moved in, he said.", "James and his wife Joanna had seven miscarriages before they had their son Samuel.\n\nOne in four couples who discover they are pregnant have a miscarriage, but men are often forgotten both in terms of emotional support and as the potential cause. But researchers are working on a treatment which focuses on how their health could affect pregnancy.\n\nJames Barnett and his partner endured seven miscarriages before successfully having a son, Samuel, who is now nine months old. Despite their ordeal he says he only cried in front of his wife once.\n\nAt their 12-week scan the couple found the baby had no heartbeat and were sent home with drugs to induce the miscarriage. Within a few hours of agony on their bed, Joanna delivered the baby.\n\n\"She passed it to me and I looked at it and that really was the first time it hit home that this was a baby,\" he told the Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"I was so upset, the potential this baby could have had, what it could have been, what it could have achieved. And I broke down, just to see it in front of you, just what it could have been.\"\n\nMen say they can find themselves overlooked in terms of the emotional impact of miscarriage.\n\nGareth Watkins, whose wife Jo had three miscarriages before their two-year-old daughter Jessica, said he found explaining how he felt to others was the hardest thing.\n\nGareth Watkins said he tried to be a supporting figure for his wife Jo when they had three miscarriages.\n\n\"I'd make an excuse to go out to the shops just so I have ten minutes were I could compose myself, even crying sometimes, just out there on my own just trying to work through it. Just so you can go back into the house, try and be that supportive figure for your partner who's obviously in bits with what's gone on,\" he said.\n\nAnd despite the fact that one in 100 couples will have three or more miscarriages, some men say the emotional support available from medical professionals is \"next to nothing\" unless you are able to pay for it.\n\nAl Ferguson has three children, but has experienced six miscarriages. He said very little support is offered to couples afterwards: \"There's no follow-up appointment. [It would help] even if there was just one appointment or something which the GPs could do, to ask 'how's it going?'\"\n\nProf Lesley Regan, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists says the lack of care for men comes down to resources.\n\n\"Offering counselling and bereavement counselling often in this cash-strapped NHS that we're working in at the moment, is difficult, and it's maybe the one thing that's considered, for example in the clinic I'm running, to be non-essential,\" she said.\n\n\"I would have to prioritise the investigative tests I'm doing and try and encourage the couple to find the support and the counselling from other sources, from family, from friends.\"\n\nOften miscarriage is caused by problems with chromosomes, but one of hardest things for parents is not knowing why it has gone wrong.\n\nBut last year the UK's first national research centre dedicated to understanding miscarriage opened at Birmingham Women's Hospital. It is funded by Tommy's baby charity, in partnership with the University of Birmingham, the University of Warwick and Imperial College London.\n\nSimon and his wife, Kate, had three miscarriages while having their sons Isaac and Ethan.\n\nOne of the researchers is Dr Jackson Kirkman-Brown, who said around half of miscarriages currently have no explanation. But they think a lot may be due to the male's sperm.\n\n\"Until now, everybody has thought, after the man has got the lady pregnant, that's the end of his role. And if she loses the child, that's something that's wrong with her. Our research is really starting to turn that on its head. Now we think around half the time we can't find an answer about miscarriage, it may be down to sperm DNA,\" he said.\n\nThe researchers have developed a dietary supplement which they hope to be able to give to those men to correct the problem in how they make sperm.\n\n\"If we get the trial data to support this supplement working, we'd aim to have it out there on the market within a very few years to treat these problems,\" Dr Kirkman-Brown said.\n\n\"We're incredibly optimistic about this research, and excited to push through to the next stage. We estimate that tens of thousands of miscarriages each year in the UK may be down to a male factor so we hope if we could correct that, perhaps 10,000 babies more a year would be born that otherwise would have had a miscarriage.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Victoria Derbyshire programme hears from four men who have had 19 miscarriages between them\n\nSimon Webb and his wife Kate experienced three miscarriages while having their two sons. Simon said the development sounded amazing, but he remains cautious.\n\n\"You listen to the news and you hear of it all time, 'they've found a cure for this, they've found a cure for that'. When they actually find that cure, then you can start really believing,\" he said.\n\n\"I would like to have another child. I'd find it hard, but going through the experience and actually having a child, gives me that hope.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.\n• None 10 miscarriages but still trying", "Fabio Rochemback played for Middlesbrough from 2005 to 2008\n\nBrazilian footballer Fabio Rochemback - formerly of Barcelona and Middlesbrough - has been arrested after an alleged cockfighting ring was busted in the country's south.\n\nA police operation was conducted at a farm in Rio Grande do Sul state, reported news site Globo.\n\nIt said 89 roosters were seized and more than $100,000 (£75,000) in cash.\n\nHowever, his father said his son was not present at the scene. Cockfighting is banned in Brazil.\n\nUOL Sport reported that police arrested 57 people, out of 147 present during the early-morning raid close to Palmeira das Missoe.\n\nBut Rochemback's father Juarez said they had been together at the family farm elsewhere in the state.\n\nFabio Rochemback, now retired from football, was part of Brazil's national team.\n\nHe also played for Sport Club Internacional, Barcelona and Sporting Lisbon, before joining Middlesbrough in August 2005.", "British model and actress Cara Delevingne says Mr Weinstein tried to kiss her in a hotel room\n\nHollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is pictured on several of the front pages once again, as are some of the growing list of women who have alleged that he sexually harassed them.\n\nThe Daily Mirror leads on one such account by the British actress Cara Delevingne.\n\nAnd the Sun claims Mr Weinstein \"became obsessed\" with Prince Harry's ex-girlfriend Cressida Bonas.\n\nIn a column, the paper's showbiz editor Dan Wootton condemns what he calls a \"disgusting conspiracy of silence\" engineered to protect Mr Weinstein over the years.\n\nMr Weinstein strongly denies the allegations against him.\n\n\"Daggers Drawn\" is the headline for the Daily Mail - which says Theresa May has slapped down the \"treacherous\" Chancellor Phillip Hammond for undermining her Brexit strategy.\n\nIt says their contrasting remarks about how the UK is preparing for a no-deal Brexit is a sign that relations between the two have plunged into a \"deep freeze\".\n\nIn an editorial, the paper calls on the prime minister to issue an ultimatum to Mr Hammond - stop talking Britain down, or else!\n\nThe Daily Express goes further and says if the chancellor cannot accept the referendum result, he really should go.\n\nUS President Donald Trump is set to meet the Queen next year during an official visit to the UK, says the Times.\n\nThe paper reports that diplomats are planning to downgrade the trip from a full-blown state visit, but an audience with the Queen is apparently in the works to mollify Mr Trump, who's said to have asked for a carriage ride down the Mall.\n\nOfficially, both Washington and London tell the paper the state visit will go ahead as planned, at some point.\n\nThe Mirror believes the only people who will be disappointed by the low-key approach are the sellers of eggs and tomatoes.\n\nThe Guardian reports that the Home Office's refusal to issue gender-neutral passports is to be subject to a judicial review.\n\nIt is the result of a successful legal challenge by Christie Elan-Cane, who the paper says has campaigned for passports to feature a third option apart from male or female - called X, or unknown - for 25 years.\n\nThe Sun leads with a report that Sally Jones - the British Islamic State recruiter nicknamed \"the White Widow\" - has been killed in a drone strike.\n\nThe paper reports that CIA officials told their UK counterparts she was targeted in June, after fleeing the Syrian city of Raqqa.\n\nThe Sun says her death has been kept quiet until now because of fears her 12-year-old son also died in the strike.\n\nAnd the Daily Telegraph reports that U-shaped seats are being introduced by a bus company in Dorset in an attempt to make passengers speak to each other.\n\nThe firm's managing director says while he does not believe he can undo the smart-phone revolution - getting people to look up from their screens and have a chat can only be a good thing.\n\nBut the Telegraph is not so sure. The paper believes British travellers instinctively look to the panic alarm if someone sits next to them on a half-empty bus.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCatalan President Carles Puigdemont and other regional leaders have signed a declaration of independence from Spain, following the disputed referendum.\n\nHowever, they say the move will not be implemented for several weeks to allow talks with the government in Madrid.\n\nThe document calls for Catalonia to be recognised as an \"independent and sovereign state\".\n\nThe move was immediately dismissed by the Spanish central government in Madrid.\n\nA 1 October referendum in the north-eastern province - which Catalan leaders say resulted in a Yes vote for independence - was declared invalid by Spain's Constitutional Court.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Mr Puigdemont told the Catalan parliament in Barcelona that the region had won the right to be independent as a result of the vote.\n\nThe referendum resulted in almost 90% of voters backing independence, Catalan officials say. But anti-independence voters largely boycotted the ballot - which had a reported turnout of 43% - and there were several reports of irregularities.\n\nNational police were involved in violent scenes as they manhandled voters while implementing the legal ruling banning the referendum.\n\nA pro-independence rally was held near the Catalan regional parliament in Barcelona\n\nThe declaration reads: \"We call on all states and international organisations to recognise the Catalan republic as an independent and sovereign state.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pablo Insa Iglesias and Elisabeth Besó sit on opposite sides of the argument\n\nMr Puigdemont told the regional parliament that the \"people's will\" was to break away from Madrid, but he also said he wanted to \"de-escalate\" the tension around the issue.\n\n\"We are all part of the same community and we need to go forward together. The only way forward is democracy and peace,\" he told deputies.\n\nBut he also said Catalonia was being denied the right to self-determination, and paying too much in taxes to the central government in Madrid.\n\nSpain's Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria responded to Tuesday's developments by saying: \"Neither Mr Puigdemont nor anybody else can claim... to impose mediation.\n\n\"Any dialogue between democrats has to take place within the law.\"\n\nShe added: \"After having come so far, and taken Catalonia to the greatest level of tension in its history, President Puigdemont has now subjected his autonomous region to its greatest level of uncertainty.\n\n\"The speech the president... gave today is that of a person who does not know where he is, where he's going, nor who he wants to go there with.\"\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has called an extraordinary cabinet meeting for Wednesday morning to address the latest moves in the crisis.\n\nBy the BBC's Tom Burridge, in Barcelona\n\nAs Catalonia's leader announced he would declare independence, thousands of his supporters, watching his speech nearby, on a big screen, were euphoric.\n\nBut seconds later - when Carles Puigdemont qualified his announcement - and said the declaration would be suspended for several weeks, the disappointment was visible in the crowd.\n\nMr Puigdemont's language was stark, claiming that he had to follow the will of the Catalan people.\n\nBut he is playing for time - offering a window for the possibility of dialogue with Madrid.\n\nHis ultimate aim, to pressure the Spanish government to allow a legitimate referendum, remains.\n\nBut it's highly unlikely that the Spanish government will accept that and there are signals now that its patience is wearing thin.\n\nCatalonia's centre-right, centre-left coalition government only had a majority of MPs in the regional parliament with the support of another small pro-independence party, on the far left. That party is unhappy that there has been no clear declaration of independence. And so Catalonia's awkward coalition of pro-independence parties feels more fragile.\n\nIndependence supporters had been sharing the Catalan hashtag #10ODeclaració (10 October Declaration) on Twitter, amid expectations that Mr Puigdemont would ask parliament to declare independence on the basis of the referendum law it passed last month.\n\nBut influential figures including Barcelona's mayor Ada Colau and European Council President Donald Tusk had urged Mr Puigdemont to step back from declaring independence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do Scottish nationalists think about Catalonia?\n\nCatalonia, a part of the Spanish state for centuries but with its own distinct language and culture, enjoys broad autonomy under the Spanish constitution.\n\nHowever, a 2005 amendment redefining the region as a \"nation\", boosting the status of the Catalan language and increasing local control over taxes and the judiciary, was reversed by the Constitutional Court in 2010.\n\nThe economic crisis further fuelled discontent and pro-independence parties took power in the region in the 2015 elections.\n\nCatalonia is is one of Spain's wealthiest regions, accounting for a quarter of the country's exports. But a stream of companies have announced plans to move their head offices out of Catalonia in response to the crisis.\n\nThe European Union has made clear that should Catalonia split from Spain, the region would cease to be part of the EU.\n\nAre you in the region? E-mail us at haveyoursay@bbc.co.ukwith your stories.\n\nYou can also contact us in the following ways:", "Heather Hanbury handed out school branded alarm clocks to students at an assembly marking world Mental Heath Day\n\nA school has handed out free alarm clocks to students in an effort to stop mobile phones interrupting their sleep.\n\nHeather Hanbury, head teacher at Lady Eleanor Holles in west London, advised parents to ban phones, televisions and computers from their children's bedrooms.\n\n\"Students often claim they need their phone to wake them up in the morning,\" Mrs Hanbury told the BBC.\n\nBut she said mobile phones were distracting them from sleeping.\n\n\"Young people are regularly online, dealing with social media distracted by the idea of missing out if they're not online,\" she said.\n\nEvery girl in the Senior School in Hampton - 700 students in total - was given an alarm clock at an assembly marking World Mental Health Day.\n\nThe £20,000-a-year private girls school also carried out workshops for students on how \"to rewire an anxious brain\".\n\nParents of pupils at Lady Eleanor Holles school have been asked to ban phones, televisions and computers from their children's bedrooms.\n\nIn a blog on the school's website, Mrs Hanbury wrote: \"Without a proper amount of sleep nightly, it is very difficult to learn efficiently and effectively.\n\n\"Neurotoxins which build up during the day as we learn and experience things, can only be cleansed from our brains by sleep.\"\n\nThe NHS recommends children aged 12 and above get at least nine hours sleep a night, with those that don't more likely to be overweight or obese.\n\nPersistent sleep-deprivation can leave also children overactive, seeking constant stimulation and unable to concentrate, it said.\n• None How lack of sleep affects the brain", "Jayne Nisbet said getting to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow was emotional\n\nJayne Nisbet's eating disorder almost robbed her of her sporting dream - but the Edinburgh athlete fought back to compete in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.\n\nThe 29-year-old, who has now retired from competing in the high jump, spoke to the BBC about her battle with bulimia in order to highlight the issue and inspire others to fight it.\n\nJayne said she had been a top junior athlete who was tipped for the Olympics, but that she \"spiralled downhill\" because her illness.\n\n\"I felt like I was useless,\" she says.\n\nJayne Nisbet has written a book about her battles with an eating disorder\n\n\"I had bulimia, which was combined with depression, and I suffered from anxiety for lots of years afterwards.\"\n\nJayne says she now recognises features of her condition, such as extreme behaviour and perfectionist tendencies, going back to childhood.\n\nBut it all came to a head in the year before the Commonwealth Games in Delhi in 2010.\n\nShe had moved to Loughborough in Leicestershire to train at the High Performance Training Centre, but was not eating properly and went down to a weight which was very low for an athlete of 5ft 8in (1.72m).\n\n\"People would say to me: 'You are so skinny', and I would genuinely think they were just jealous.\n\nJayne said a medal at Glasgow would have been the icing on the cake\n\n\"I genuinely believed what I was doing was going to help my sport.\n\n\"But my performances got worse and worse and I became more and more isolated, to the point where I identified: 'This is not ok, I'm not myself any more'. I completely lost myself.\"\n\nHowever, Jayne says that admitting she had an issue did not solve the problem.\n\n\"In fact, I probably got worse,\" she says.\n\nOver the next three months she put on a lot of weight.\n\n\"Nobody saw that because I hid myself away,\" she says.\n\n\"I used to hide away in my bedroom because I thought everyone was ashamed of me.\"\n\nEven in the depths of her struggles, Jayne set herself the goal of qualifying for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.\n\nShe says: \"I spent the first couple of years trying to work it out for myself because I was too afraid to speak anyone.\n\n\"By March 2012 I was fluctuating again and I thought: 'Why am I not happy?'\n\n\"I got a therapist at that point and he started working through some of my older issues that I didn't even realise existed.\n\n\"He unravelled things that I never even knew existed in my head.\"\n\nIn 2013, Jayne had a fantastic season but it was cut short in July by an accident in the gym.\n\nShe fell from the top of a step-up box and sustained a compression fracture of the spine, exactly a year before the Glasgow games.\n\nJayne missed out on the high jump in Delhi but fought back to compete in Glasgow\n\n\"In the past that would have triggered a complete downward spiral, and for a small amount of time it did,\" she says.\n\n\"But then I thought: 'What are you doing?' My coach said: 'Do not let this get back inside you, you have come so far'.\"\n\nShe had already pre-qualified for the Commonwealth Games, so needed to get fit and return to her best.\n\nJayne finished 10th in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow\n\nJayne says that making it to Hampden Stadium for the Commonwealth Games was an \"amazing and emotional\" achievement.\n\n\"It was like making it to the finish line for me in terms of mental health issues,\" she says.\n\nWhile a 10th place finish was not as good as she would have wanted, for Jayne making it to the Games was a major success.\n\n\"For me getting a medal would have been the icing on the cake,\" she says.\n\n\"But it was to actually prove that you can overcome something when you are at such a low point.\n\n\"You can get through it all and not let it beat you and become what you were meant to be.\"\n\nJayne has since retired from high jump and runs a successful business as a personal trainer.\n\nShe has also written a book called Free-ed.\n\n\"ED is a shorter version of eating disorder, and I want people to find freedom,\" she says.\n\nIn recent years she has also made a transition from high jump to running marathons.\n\nTwo years after her Commonwealth Games appearance, she ran a marathon in less than three hours and 15 minutes.\n\nShe now wants to reduce her marathon time by competing in the London marathon and the New York marathon next year, to celebrate her 30th birthday.\n\nShe says the Jayne of seven years ago would not recognise the woman she has become.\n\n\"The transformation in my confidence since competing at the Commonwealth Games has been huge,\" Jayne says.\n\n\"I love an opportunity now to get up and try to inspire people and that's the key thing.\n\n\"I want to help people overcome issues to try to get the best out of themselves.\"\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. Emergency crews were seen arriving at the prison\n\nStaff were attacked with pool balls during a disturbance at a high-security prison, the BBC understands.\n\nA total of 81 inmates at HMP Long Lartin in Worcestershire became violent, forcing staff to retreat, a source said.\n\nBy 04:30 BST the disturbance was resolved with no injuries.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said he understood about 10 \"Tornado teams\" of riot officers had been sent to the prison on Wednesday.\n\nEighteen prisoners have since been moved to other jails.\n\nJames Treadwell, professor of criminology at Staffordshire University, said he understood there had been violence at the prison in the lead up to the disturbance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 James Treadwell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 disturbance at the maximum security jail should be \"ringing alarm bells at the most senior level\", the Prison Governors Association [PGA] said.\n\nJohn Attard, national officer for the group, said the trouble was symptomatic of cutbacks and changes in the Prison Service management structure.\n\n\"Last year the PGA called for an independent public inquiry into the state of our prisons due to cuts... It fell on deaf ears. That call has not gone away,\" he said.\n\n\"I think we've dodged a bullet on this. They brought this under control very quickly and it's fantastic that they've dealt with it.\"\n\nOur correspondent said staff on E wing had retreated, after inmates started throwing pool balls, but it had been secured so the troublemakers could not go elsewhere.\n\nThere were also reports of a separate protest elsewhere in the jail, our correspondent said.\n\nThe disturbance followed riots at prisons including Lewes, Bedford, Birmingham and Swaleside.\n\nFive inmates who started a 15-hour riot that caused more than £6m damage at HMP Birmingham in December were sentenced earlier this month.\n\nAlso in December, part of a prison wing was taken over by about 60 inmates at HMP Swaleside on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent.\n\nLong Lartin has housed a number of high-profile inmates, including radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza and murderer Christopher Halliwell.\n\nI understand the trouble at Long Lartin prison has been brewing for several months.\n\nA source with good connections to the prison said there was anger among prisoners over changes introduced by the new Governor, Claire Pearson, who'd previously been in charge at Belmarsh Prison.\n\nAmong the changes were tighter restrictions on the clothes prisoners were allowed to wear, tougher rules on family visits and family photographs, more rigorous security clearance procedures for visitors which meant some inmates waiting longer for visits, and more time spent by prisoners in their cells during the afternoons and evenings. In addition a smoking ban was introduced.\n\nThe source said the former legal high, Spice, was also prevalent in the jail, as it is in many others.\n\nA Prison Service spokeswoman said: \"Specially trained prison staff successfully resolved an incident at HMP Long Lartin on 12 October. There were no injuries to staff or prisoners.\n\n\"We do not tolerate violence in our prisons, and are clear that those responsible will be referred to the police and could spend longer behind bars.\"\n\nLong Lartin is one of the highest-security prisons in England and Wales, with two-thirds of the inmates serving life sentences, BBC home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said.\n\nHe said the prison had suffered cuts and lost a fifth of its staff.\n\nFour prisoners have been killed at the site - which holds up to 622 male inmates - in the last four years.\n\nChild murderer Subhan Anwar was strangled in 2013, while killer John York was beaten to death in his cell in 2015.\n\nIn June 2016, Sidonio Eugenio Teixeira was killed using a rock wrapped in a pair of socks.\n\nTwo inmates who murdered a fellow prisoner were jailed for life last month.\n\nAn inspection report published in 2014 described a \"calm, well controlled prison\".\n\n\"But, while violence and bullying were few, there continued to be some very serious incidents,\" it added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ms Chapman, pictured here with her husband, said his actions were \"unforgivable\"\n\nThe wife of producer Harvey Weinstein has said she is leaving him following allegations of sexual harassment from a string of actresses.\n\nAngelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow are the latest women to come forward. Both said the incidents happened early in their careers.\n\nOn Tuesday, Weinstein also denied allegations of rape made in The New Yorker magazine.\n\nWeinstein was fired on Sunday from his own film studio. The Weinstein Company board said on Tuesday that they would help any criminal investigation.\n\n\"My heart breaks for all the women who have suffered tremendous pain because of these unforgivable actions,\" Georgina Chapman, 41, told People magazine.\n\nChapman and Weinstein, 65, have two children together.\n\nIn a statement, the film mogul said: \"​I support her decision, I am in counselling and perhaps, when I am better, we can rebuild.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Model Zoe Brock tells Radio 4's Today that she was one of Harvey Weinstein's victims\n\nMeanwhile, former US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have joined the growing public condemnation.\n\nIn a statement, they said they were \"disgusted by the recent reports about Harvey Weinstein\" and added that they \"celebrate the courage of women who have come forward\".\n\nWeinstein was a big donor to the Democratic party under Obama's leadership. The Obamas' eldest daughter Malia worked as an intern at The Weinstein Company in New York earlier this year.\n\nWeinstein also donated to Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. Mrs Clinton said she was \"shocked and appalled\" by the revelations.\n\nAngelina Jolie said she had a \"bad experience\" with Weinstein\n\nPaltrow and Jolie both sent statements about Weinstein's behaviour to the New York Times, which first reported allegations against him last week.\n\nJolie said in an email: \"I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did.\n\n\"This behaviour towards women in any field, any country is unacceptable.\"\n\nGwyneth Paltrow said she was \"terrified\" when Weinstein made advances on her\n\nIn a statement, Paltrow alleged that, after Weinstein cast her in the leading role in Emma, he summoned her to his hotel suite, where he placed his hands on her and suggested massages in his bedroom.\n\n\"I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified,\" she told the newspaper.\n\nShe said she told her then-boyfriend Brad Pitt about the incident, and said he confronted Weinstein.\n\n\"I thought he was going to fire me,\" she said.\n\nAsia Argento, pictured in 2009, has spoken to the New Yorker magazine\n\nOthers to have spoken out about their experiences with Weinstein include:\n\nThe New Yorker report also said 16 former and current employees at Weinstein's companies \"witnessed or had knowledge of unwanted sexual advances and touching at events associated with Weinstein's films and in the workplace\".\n\nMira Sorvino said Weinstein tried to pressure her into a relationship\n\nWeinstein's spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister issued a statement in response to the article.\n\n\"Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr Weinstein,\" she said. \"Mr Weinstein has further confirmed that there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances.\n\n\"Mr Weinstein obviously can't speak to anonymous allegations, but with respect to any women who have made allegations on the record, Mr Weinstein believes that all of these relationships were consensual. Mr Weinstein has begun counselling, has listened to the community and is pursuing a better path.\"\n\nMeanwhile, actress Lindsay Lohan posted an Instagram story - which she later deleted - appearing to defend Weinstein, saying: \"I feel very bad for Harvey Weinstein right now. I don't think it's right what's going on.\"\n\nBuzzfeed reporter Lauren Yap did a screen grab and posted Lohan's video, in which she also posted an angel emoji under Weinstein's name, on Twitter. Lohan also said Chapman should \"be there for her husband\" - although it's not clear if she knew at the time that Chapman had said she was leaving him.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None What next for Weinstein and Hollywood?", "The incident happened when Ben Affleck appeared on MTV's TRL\n\nActor Ben Affleck has apologised after being criticised for groping an MTV presenter on air in 2003.\n\nThe incident surfaced after he posted condemnation of Harvey Weinstein, who is facing sexual assault allegations.\n\nOne Twitter user remembered how Affleck \"grabbed Hilarie Burton's breasts on TRL once\" but \"everyone forgot though\". Burton replied: \"I didn't forget.\"\n\nAffleck later wrote on Twitter: \"I acted inappropriately toward Ms Burton and I sincerely apologise.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ben Affleck This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA clip of the moment from TRL Uncensored was recirculated, including a clip of Burton recalling how Affleck had put his arm around her and proceeded to \"tweak my left boob\".\n\n\"Some girls like a good tweakage here and there,\" she said on the programme. \"I'd rather have a high five.\"\n\nOn Twitter, after being reminded, she said she was \"a kid\" at the time and \"had to laugh back then so I wouldn't cry\".\n\nBen Affleck with hosts Hilarie Burton (left) and La La on TRL in 2003\n\nAffleck made his apology a day after posting a message giving his views on Hollywood producer Weinstein's alleged sexual harassment and assaults.\n\n\"I am saddened and angry that a man who I worked with used his position of power to intimidate, sexually harass and manipulate many women over decades,\" he said.\n\n\"The additional allegations of assault that I read this morning made me sick.\n\n\"This is completely unacceptable, and I find myself asking what I can do to make sure this doesn't happen to others. We need to do better at protecting our sisters, friends, co-workers and daughters.\n\n\"We must support those who come forward, condemn this type of behaviour when we see it and help ensure there are more women in positions of power.\"\n\nWeinstein is currently facing a number of allegations involving sexual harassment and assault.\n\nHis spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister said any allegations of non-consensual sex were \"unequivocally denied\" and that \"there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances\".\n\n\"Mr Weinstein obviously can't speak to anonymous allegations, but with respect to any women who have made allegations on the record, Mr Weinstein believes that all of these relationships were consensual,\" the statement added.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Mia Violet says its important everybody is recognised\n\nUK passports currently have \"M\" or a \"F\" for people to specify their gender - but what about \"X\"?\n\nA campaigner has today been given the go-ahead to challenge the government over gender-neutral passports.\n\nChristie Elan-Cane wants there to be an \"X\" - which stands for unspecified - for people who don't identify as male or female.\n\nTransgender blogger Mia Violet, who backs the call, says it would be a sign of \"respect\" to trans people.\n\nShe says it's fantastic the campaign has taken its next step and describes it as a \"sign of progress\".\n\n\"Trans rights do feel as though they've stagnated in the UK and I do hope this pushes forward more changes.\n\n\"We need to ensure everybody is recognised. For trans people to be seen, I think that's going to be incredibly important to them because so often they are overlooked.\"\n\nMia says gender-neutral passports would be an important step\n\nMia, 28, from Dorset, came out as transgender around two years ago.\n\nShe told Newsbeat: \"Initially, I identified as non-binary. I didn't see myself as fully female or fully male, I was kind of in the middle.\n\n\"Over time, I've become more comfortable with using female to describe myself. But it was very awkward and uncomfortable in that time because there was basically no way to select a gender that felt like mine.\"\n\nMia says gender-neutral passports in the UK would be an important step because \"it's recognition and it's respect\".\n\n\"When I changed my passport gender to female, I had to get a letter from my doctor that basically said 'OK Mia is trans. This transition is permanent. She is now considered female, please change it'. It wasn't enough for just my permission to do it.\n\n\"It's almost like the government is looking the other way and not really thinking about trans issues but at the same time we have thousands of thousands of trans people in this country who are having to deal with systems that are just not set up to recognise them.\"\n\nChristie Elan-Cane took the fight for gender-neutral passports to the High Court\n\nChristie launched a High Court fight for the right to have \"X\" passports in the UK. The campaigner has now been given permission to challenge the government in a judicial review.\n\nChristie believes it's wrong to force people to choose either M or F on their passports if they define as neither.\n\nGender-neutral passports are already available in Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Germany, Malta, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Ireland and Canada.\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "The government has unveiled draft legislation designed to lower the cost of energy bills.\n\nThe Draft Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariffs Cap) Bill will give energy regulator Ofgem the power to cap standard variable tariffs.\n\nAbout 12 million households are on some form of uncapped default tariff, which can cost hundreds of pounds a year more than the cheapest deals.\n\nHowever, the price cap is unlikely to take effect before winter.\n\nMaking a statement in the Commons, Business Secretary Greg Clark said the law would send a \"clear message to suppliers they must act to put an end to loyal consumers being treated so unfairly\".\n\nFind out more about events in the Commons and Lords on Today in Parliament on Radio 4. You can listen to the programme on on iPlayer here.", "The age of consent in India is 18, but marital rape is not considered an offence\n\nIndia's Supreme Court has struck down a legal clause that permits men to have sex with their underage wives.\n\nThe clause, which was part of India's law on rape, said intercourse between a man and his wife was permissible as long as she was over 15 years of age.\n\nThe legal age of consent and marriage in India is 18 but marital rape is not considered an offence.\n\nThe verdict has been hailed by women's rights activists but correspondents say the order will be difficult to enforce.\n\nThe judgement said that girls under 18 would be able to charge their husbands with rape, as long as they complained within one year of being forced to have sexual relations.\n\n\"This is a landmark judgement that corrects a historical wrong against girls. How could marriage be used as a criterion to discriminate against girls?\" Vikram Srivastava, the founder of Independent Thought, one of the main petitioners in the case, told the BBC.\n\nHowever, the BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi says that while welcome, the order will be difficult to implement in a country where child marriage is still rampant.\n\n\"Courts and police cannot monitor people's bedrooms and a minor girl who is already married, almost always with the consent of her parents, will not usually have the courage to go to the police or court and file a case against her husband,\" our correspondent says.\n\nIndia's government says the practice of child marriage is \"an obstacle to nearly every developmental goal: eradicating poverty and hunger; achieving universal primary education; promoting gender equality; protecting children's lives; and improving women's health\".\n• None The child marriage tradition of an Indian tribe", "Radhika and Yashoda can travel for up to six hours a day to school and back. They live high in the mountains, in a remote Himalayan village. But getting an education is really important to them. Follow them on their daily journey - or scroll down to read their story.\n\nTap here to see the 360 video.\n\nTo watch 360 video, you will need the latest version of Chrome, Opera, Firefox or Internet Explorer on your computer.\n\nOn mobile - you will need to open the video in the latest version of the YouTube app for Android or iOS.\n\nIt's 05:00 on a sunny morning in the middle of the monsoon season, and sisters Radhika and Yashoda are leaning on the edge of the balcony washing their faces.\n\nThey tease each other over who will get more roti for breakfast.\n\nTheir playfulness gives little indication that in half an hour, they will set off, on foot, on a perilous journey to school.\n\nIt's a trek that will take them through mountainous terrain, thick forests and over a fast-flowing river.\n\nBut first, they visit the Hindu temple at the heart of Syaba, a hamlet of 500 people, in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.\n\nThe ringing of the bell there invokes the protection of the deities.\n\nThe sisters, aged 14 and 16, are two of the six youngsters who make the daily journey to their schools from their remote homes.\n\nTheir father waves them off with a smile and a heavy heart.\n\nThe trek takes two to three hours each way, depending on the weather.\n\nBut it's the only way to reach the far-off towns of Maneri and Malla, where the girls' schools are located.\n\nThere are no roads in or out of Syaba. Carrying their lunch of vegetable curry and chapati, and their school books, the girls set out on a narrow track covered with loose stones.\n\nOne of the most difficult parts of the journey lies some two hours ahead of them - crossing the Bhagirathi River.\n\nThere, they will have to pull themselves to the other side in a metal trolley suspended by a cable high over gushing water.\n\nIt requires a lot of strength - more so when it rains and the rope is heavier to pull. Injuries are not uncommon.\n\nVillagers have damaged, and even lost, fingers in the overhead cables.\n\n\"We have to hold on to the trolley very tight to make sure we don't fall in the gushing waters,\" says Yashoda.\n\nA cousin once got tangled in the ropes and fell into the water below. Luckily, he was saved.\n\n\"We also have to be careful about grease on the wires - our hands get dirty anyway, but we try to protect our clothes from the grease,\" says Yashoda.\n\n\"Our school trousers are white, so the stain shows.\"\n\nOnce they reach the safety of the north bank of the Bhagirathi, they wait for a taxi to take them - by road - to school.\n\nThick forests present their own dangers. Bears and leopards have been spotted by relatives and neighbours.\n\nThere are about 200 villages like Syaba in the mountains of Uttarakhand - that are more than 250 miles (400km) by road from Delhi.\n\nSome are connected by road, but most are accessible only on foot.\n\nYashoda dreams of becoming a police officer, while Radhika has her heart set on being a teacher.\n\nNeither wants to get married at a young age - as their parents did - and both want to continue studying. Apart from that, they couldn't be more different.\n\nYashoda is serious and quiet; Radhika stops chatting for only a few seconds, when she rapidly bends down to remove leeches from her feet.\n\nThere are plenty of leeches in the muddy path during the monsoon.\n\nRadhika doesn't think much of the leeches.\n\n\"I am not afraid of anything,\" she says. Like her sister, she loves her village and the nature around it.\n\n\"When it rains, we see so many tiny waterfalls in the mountains. If you come from the city, you will be mesmerised with these falls,\" says Yashoda.\n\n\"The leaves from the trees fall during winter, and it looks as if somebody has laid out a red carpet to welcome an important person in the village.\"\n\nOn their way to school, the sisters stop to drink from a fountain fed by crystal clear water that has travelled down the mountain, and pick wild cucumbers.\n\nWhen they get hold of one of their relatives' mobile phones, Yashoda and Radhika often play Bollywood song videos and watch the shapes of romantic actors dancing on the small, pixelated screen.\n\nTheir family doesn't own a TV, but one of their uncles does. Sometimes the entire family gathers to watch programmes on it.\n\nOn a tranquil Sunday afternoon, as the BBC crew plans the next shoot, Yashoda sits on the bed with the phone playing songs and Radhika wraps a pink scarf around her head before starting to dance.\n\n\"We dream about many things,\" says Yashoda.\n\n\"We sometimes have dreams about our ghosts, and sometimes we see our younger brother in our dreams, because he lives in the city in a hostel to study and we see him only during weekends.\"\n\nMost children in Syaba leave school after Year 9. If they want to pursue higher education, they have to leave their home and rent accommodation.\n\nMost families can't afford it.\n\nThe BBC team is planning on taking headsets to Syaba, so the girls and their family can experience this VR documentary first-hand.\n\nThis is their film. And for Yashoda and Radhika's parents, it will be a chance to take the journey to school with their daughters.", "US President Donald Trump has challenged his Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, to an IQ test, in the latest sign of discord between the two.\n\nHe made the remark in a magazine interview when asked about reports that Mr Tillerson had called him a moron.\n\n\"I think it's fake news,\" Mr Trump told Forbes, \"but if he did that, I guess we'll have to compare IQ tests. And I can tell you who is going to win.\"\n\nMr Trump had lunch on Tuesday with Mr Tillerson.\n\nShortly beforehand, the president maintained he still had confidence in the secretary of state.\n\n\"I did not undercut anybody,\" he also told reporters. \"I don't believe in undercutting people.\"\n\nAsked about Mr Trump's IQ test challenge, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told the daily news briefing: \"It was a joke. You should get a sense of humour.\"\n\nReports have swirled of a schism in the Trump administration between the commander-in-chief and his top diplomat, as the US faces a host of vexatious foreign policy conundrums, from North Korea to Iran.\n\nLast week Mr Tillerson called a news conference to dismiss reports that he was considering quitting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In October, Rex Tillerson responded to a report he called Mr Trump 'a moron'\n\nBut the former ExxonMobil chief executive did not deny an NBC News report that he had called his boss a moron after a July meeting at the Pentagon.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Trump publicly undercut the former Texas oilman by tweeting that he was \"wasting his time\" trying to negotiate with nuclear-armed North Korea.\n\nLast week the New York Times reported that Mr Tillerson was astonished at how little Mr Trump grasps the basics of foreign policy.\n\nAccording to the newspaper, quoting sources close to the secretary of state, Mr Trump has been irritated by Mr Tillerson's body language during meetings.\n\nMr Tillerson is said to roll his eyes or slouch when he disagrees with the decisions of his boss.\n\nDonald Trump insists that the stories about Rex Tillerson insulting his intelligence - despite being heavily sourced - are \"fake news\". Now, however, he's lobbing one of his trademark counter-punches, just in case.\n\nMr Tillerson thinks he's a moron? Well, he's smarter than Rex, that's for certain.\n\nIt's classic Trump - a slightly less juvenile version of the \"I guarantee you there's no problem\" retort Mr Trump snapped off during a Republican debate, when Senator Marco Rubio questioned the size of his, er, manhood.\n\nMr Trump tends to get touchy when people doubt his intellect. That's probably why the \"moron\" line has prompted such a furious response from the White House and State Department. During the campaign he said he doesn't have to consult generals because he has \"a very good brain\" and told a rally in South Carolina that he was highly educated and has \"the best words\".\n\nIn August, he boasted that he was a \"better student\" and went to better schools than all his elite critics.\n\nMr Tillerson may have opened a difficult-to-repair rift with the president. While Mr Trump is quite comfortable with insult-trading, there's one topic that's clearly off-limits.", "Surveys suggest children find it hard to avoid bullying and abuse on social media platforms\n\nFacebook and Twitter could be asked to pay for action against the \"undeniable suffering\" social media can cause, the culture secretary has said.\n\nCyber-bullying, trolling, abuse and under-age access to porn will be targeted in plans drawn up by Karen Bradley to make the online world safer.\n\nMs Bradley wants social media groups to sign up to a voluntary code of practice and help fund campaigns against abuse.\n\nShe also wants social media platforms to reveal the scale of online hate.\n\nAlmost a fifth of 12 to 15-year-olds have seen something they found worrying or nasty, and almost half of adults have seen something that has upset or offended them, on social media - according to the government.\n\nDespite promising to introduce new laws regulating the internet in the Conservative Party's manifesto, Ms Bradley told the BBC that legislating would take \"far too long\".\n\nMs Bradley said that the plan was for a \"collaborative approach\" with internet groups, adding that she sees a \"willingness from them\".\n\nShe added: \"Many of them say: 'When we founded these businesses we were in our 20s, we didn't have children… now we're older and we have teenagers ourselves we want to solve this\".\n\nMs Bradley said the internet had been an \"amazing force for good, but it has caused undeniable suffering and can be an especially harmful place for children and vulnerable people\".\n\n\"For too long there's been behaviour online that would be unacceptable if it was face-to-face.\"\n\nOne of the proposals is for an annual transparency report which could be used to show:\n\nMs Bradley said that the government \"could legislate in the future\", adding that any changes to existing law would be underpinned by the following principles:\n\nThe government also wants to see a new body, similar to the UK Council for Child Internet Safety, to consider all aspects of internet safety.\n\nIn response to the consultation, Facebook said: \"Our priority is to make Facebook a safe place for people of all ages which is why we spent a long time working with safety experts like the UK Safer Internet Centre, developing powerful tools to help people have a positive experience.\"\n\n\"We welcome close collaboration between industry, experts and government to address this important issue.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the NSPCC said keeping young people safe online was \"the biggest child protection issue of our time\".\n\n\"Social media companies are marking their own homework when it comes to keeping children safe, so a code of practice is definitely a step in the right direction but 'how' it is implemented will be crucial.\n\n\"Young people face a unique set of risks when using the internet and it is important any strategy recognises the challenges they face online and requires industry to act to protect them.\"\n\nVicki Shotbolt, chief executive at social enterprise Parent Zone, said it was encouraging to see the government taking \"concrete steps\" to make the internet a safer place for children.\n\nAsking social-media companies to contribute towards the costs of educating the public about online dangers has precedence in the gambling industry, which currently contributes an amount to the treatment of gambling addiction.\n\nThe government also wants to see online safety given more attention at schools, with social-media safety advice built into existing education programmes.\n\nThe consultation will close on 7 December, and the government expects to respond in early 2018.", "A court in Australia has accepted an unsent, draft text message on a dead man's mobile phone as an official will.\n\nThe 55-year-old man had composed a text message addressed to his brother, in which he gave \"all that I have\" to his brother and nephew.\n\nThe message was found in the drafts folder on the man's phone after he took his own life last year .\n\nBrisbane Supreme Court ruled that the wording of the text indicated that the man intended it to act as his will.\n\nIn the message, the man gave details of how to access his bank account and where he had hidden money in his house.\n\n\"Put my ashes in the back garden,\" he wrote. \"A bit of cash behind TV and a bit in the bank.\"\n\nAccording to ABC News, the man's wife applied to manage his assets and argued that the text message was not valid as a will because it was never sent.\n\nTypically, for a will to be valid in Queensland, it must be written and signed by two witnesses.\n\nJustice Susan Brown said the wording of the text message, which ended with the words \"my will\", showed that the man intended it to act as his will.\n\n\"The reference to his house and superannuation and his specification that the applicant was to take her own things indicates he was aware of the nature and extent of his estate, which was relatively small,\" she said.\n\nShe said the \"informal nature\" of the message did not stop it representing the man's intentions, especially as it was \"created on or about the time that the deceased was contemplating death, such that he even indicated where he wanted his ashes to be placed\".\n\nIn 2006, the law in Queensland was changed to allow less formal types of documents to be considered as a will.\n\nAnother unusual will accepted in Queensland includes a DVD marked with \"my will\", in 2013.\n\nThe UK's Law Commission is currently fielding a public consultation on the legal rules applying to wills.\n\nThe proposals listed by the body includes giving courts the capacity to \"dispense with the formalities for a will where it's clear what the deceased wanted\".", "Child and teenage obesity levels have risen ten-fold in the last four decades, meaning 124m boys and girls around the globe are too fat, according to new research.\n\nThe analysis in the Lancet is the largest of its kind and looks at obesity trends in over 200 countries.\n\nIn the UK, one in every 10 young people aged five to 19, is obese.\n\nObese children are likely to become obese adults, putting them at risk of serious health problems, say experts.\n\nThese include type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke and certain types of cancer, such as breast and colon.\n\nThe Lancet analysis, released on World Obesity Day, comes as researchers from the World Obesity Federation warn that the global cost of treating ill health caused by obesity will exceed £920bn every year from 2025.\n\nAlthough child obesity rates appear to be stabilising in many high-income European countries, including the UK, they are accelerating at an alarming rate in many other parts of the world, lead researcher Prof Majid Ezzati from Imperial College London says.\n\nResearchers believe wide availability and promotion of cheap, fattening food is one of the main drivers.\n\nCharts produced by the World Health Organisation show how weight gain is measured in boys and girls, according to their BMI (body mass index).\n\nThe largest increase in the number of obese children and adolescents has been in East Asia. China and India have seen rates \"balloon\" in recent years.\n\nPolynesia and Micronesia have the highest rate of all - around half of the young population in these countries is overweight or obese.\n\nThe researchers say that if current world trends continue, 'obese' will soon be more common than 'underweight'.\n\nThe number of underweight girls and boys worldwide has been decreasing since a peak in the year 2000.\n\nThe highest rates of obesity are shown in red, followed by orange and yellow. Green and blue means fewer than 5% of the young population is obese\n\nThe highest rates of obesity are shown in red, followed by orange and yellow. Green and blue means fewer than 5% of the young population is obese\n\nIn 2016, 192m young people were underweight - still significantly more than the number of young people who were obese, but that looks set to change.\n\nEast Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean have seen a shift from underweight to obesity within the space of a few decades.\n\nGlobally, in 2016 an additional 213m young people were overweight although still below the threshold for obesity.\n\nObesity researcher Dr Harry Rutter, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: \"This is a huge problem that will get worse.\n\n\"Even skinny people are heavier than they would have been ten years ago.\n\n\"We have not become more weak-willed, lazy or greedy. The reality is the world around us is changing.\"\n\nDr Fiona Bull from the World Health Organization called for tough action to crack down on \"calorie-dense, nutrient-poor food\" and promote more physical activity.\n\nSo far, just over 20 countries around the world have introduced a tax on sugary drinks.\n\nDr Alison Tedstone, chief nutritionist at Public Health England, said: \"Our sugar reduction programme and the government's sugar levy are world-leading, but this is just the beginning of a long journey to tackle the challenge of a generation.\n\n\"The evidence is clear, that just telling people what to do won't work. Whilst education and information are important, deeper actions are needed to help us lower calorie consumption and achieve healthier diets.\"\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. Mrs May said she would not answer \"hypothetical questions\"\n\nUnscripted but uncontroversial - the prime minister had been safely navigating a radio phone-in.\n\nThen a quiet, excellent booby trap question was laid by the interviewer, Iain Dale, for the prime minister.\n\nShe had, as she has said many times, balanced all the evidence and looked at all the facts to come to her original conclusion about backing Remain in the referendum.\n\nShe had been lobbied by both sides to pick them, but in the end went for the doomed side of the status quo.\n\nWould she, more than a year on, stick to that view? Or is she now a convert, a true believer to the Brexit cause?\n\nIf there were to be another referendum, what would she do?\n\nNow, to the mind of someone like Theresa May who is known to take time to make decisions, to call for evidence, answering a hypothetical question about something that isn't going to happen is perhaps the daft kind of game that journalists like to play from time to time.\n\nThe point of those kinds of questions however is to probe a politician's instincts.\n\nIn sticking only ever to purely factual answers it tells us little of their character, little of their thinking, little of their instincts.\n\nFairly or not, Theresa May's hesitation in giving her answer on this hypothetical question will give pause for thought to those who harbour suspicions of her real commitment to Brexit.\n\nAnd her \"open and honest\" answer, which refused to come down on either side creates the strange situation where the prime minister appears unwilling to give full-throated support to her government's main policy.\n\nOf course, as she has said countless times, we are leaving the European Union, \"Brexit means Brexit\" - soundbites repeated ad nauseam.\n\nThere is no question that she is fundamentally committed to the objective she has set for the government, determined to carry out the policy and Downing Street sources have suggested it would be ridiculous to say her comments raise doubts about whether she will deliver Brexit.\n\nBut the refusal to be categoric on whether she would choose this set of circumstances was telling.\n\nIt's easy to see why she wasn't willing to answer.\n\nShe likes to talk about things that are real, rather than imagined.\n\nI remember, in the referendum campaign itself it took months - yes, months - to persuade her to give us an interview about why she had come to her conclusion to support Remain.\n\nAnd most importantly perhaps, she is the kind of politician who believes in doing what people have asked her to do, rather than blindly pursuing what she believes herself.\n\nIn that sense, in many areas she is not a \"vision\" person, not a policy-pusher either.\n\nAnd for some, that's an advantage, one Brexiteer told me today: \"She is the best person to be the Boss because she is an administrator.\"\n\nIt's not about imposing her views on her party, or the country (of course, she doesn't have the majority to do that in any case).\n\nBut her hesitation tonight may haunt her - and it's a judder that Number 10 could well have done without at a time when they are trying to rediscover the ground beneath their feet.\n\nAt the very least, it's a question that she will be asked, again and again.", "It will be the first time the Queen has not laid the wreath since 1999\n\nThe Queen will not lay a wreath at the Cenotaph this year as part of the annual Remembrance Sunday ceremony.\n\nShe will watch the event on 12 November in Whitehall from the balcony of the Foreign Office with Prince Philip.\n\nPrince Charles will take her place in laying the floral tribute on behalf of the nation, along with the Duke of Edinburgh's equerry.\n\nThe Queen has not laid wreaths in six previous ceremonies since her coronation.\n\nTwo were during her pregnancies with Prince Andrew, in 1959, and Prince Edward, in 1963.\n\nThe other four occasions were when she was on visits abroad - in 1961, when she was in Ghana, in 1968, when in Brazil, in 1983, when in Kenya and in 1999, when in South Africa.\n\nIt will be the first time, as head of state, that the Queen will observe the ceremony from a nearby balcony.\n\nThe Queen traditionally lays the wreath at the Cenotaph on behalf of the nation\n\nRoyal officials told the BBC that the Queen chose to ask her eldest son and heir to carry out the royal duty.\n\nIt will be the second time the Prince of Wales has laid the wreath, after standing in for the Queen when she was on a trip to Kenya 34 years ago.\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokeswoman added: \"The Queen wishes to be alongside the Duke of Edinburgh and he will be in the balcony.\"\n\nBBC Royal correspondent Peter Hunt said the change was \"another sign of the Royal Family in transition\", as well as \"an acknowledgment of the fact the Queen is 91.\"\n\nEarlier this year Prince Philip retired from his public duties, but he has continued to join the Queen at some of her official engagements.\n\nIn 2015, the ceremony was made shorter to limit the amount of time the Queen, Prince Philip and the veterans in attendance would have to stand. This move included making some members of the Royal Family lay wreaths together, rather than separately.\n\nHowever, plans for the prime minister to lay one wreath on behalf of all the political parties were scrapped, with opposition leaders still being allowed to place individual wreaths.", "Runny eggs can now be enjoyed by everyone\n\n\"Lion mark\" eggs have been declared safe for pregnant women and young children, nearly 30 years after a salmonella scare.\n\nVulnerable groups had been advised not to eat raw, soft boiled or runny eggs.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency says \"Lion Mark\" eggs, which include almost all of the eggs produced in the UK, are virtually free of salmonella.\n\nThe new advice comes after a vaccination programme, and improvements to animal welfare.\n\nIn 1988, a scare over the presence of salmonella in eggs caused a dramatic collapse in sales of eggs and a series of warnings for vulnerable groups to avoid eating them if they were raw or runny.\n\nThe then junior Conservative health minister, Edwina Currie, declared: \"Most of the egg production in this country, sadly, is now affected with salmonella.\"\n\nMrs Currie's statement wildly overstated the danger and eventually led to her resignation.\n\nBut there was a problem with salmonella in eggs and by the 1990s producers started a vaccination programme.\n\nThe \"British Lion Mark\", printed on eggs in red ink, was introduced so that eggs could be traced back to the farm of origin and to show best-before dates.\n\nAlmost 30 years on from the initial scare, the Food Standards Agency's Heather Hancock, says runny eggs can now be eaten by everyone.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Science now shows the risk from salmonella in eggs is extremely low.\n\n\"We are now saying if there is a British Lion egg, you're safe to do that.\n\n\"The risk of salmonella is now so low you needn't worry.\n\n\"And that's true whether you're a fit healthy adult, or whether you're pregnant or elderly or young.\n\n\"It's only people on strictly medically supervised diets who need to avoid those eggs.\"\n\nThe British appetite for eggs has been growing in recent years.\n\nLast year British hens laid 10,372 million eggs, while on average we consume more than 34.5 million eggs every day.\n\nAnd eggs are very good for you, packed full of vitamin D, protein and valuable omega-3 fatty acids.\n\nMother of two Catherine Millington is a big fan, with eggs providing quick, cheap and nutritious meals for her two daughters, who are aged nearly 4 years old and 7 months.\n\n\"Eggs are brilliant because you can boil them, break them into bits, and the baby can handle them so we can do baby-led weaning with it.\n\n\"And when you're in a rush, they're dead easy.\"\n\nJust outside Penrith on the edge of the Lake District is The Lakes Free Range Egg Company.\n\nEgg farmer David Brass says the introduction of the British Lion standard has made all the difference.\n\n\"We know from back in the '80s when all the scare started, there was an issue with eggs.\n\n\"But what the Lion standard does, it is a fully independent, audited code of practice to make sure we have standards on the farm that make sure we can't have any of those disease problems again.\n\n\"And it has shown time after time, in those intervening years, that it is just a brilliant food safety code.\"\n\nOver the summer, millions of eggs were pulled from supermarket shelves in more than a dozen European countries - including the UK - after it was discovered some had been contaminated with a potentially harmful insecticide at Dutch farms.\n• None 700,000 eggs came to UK from tainted farms\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "President Trump criticised NBC's report as he welcomed Canada's prime minister to the White House\n\nUS President Donald Trump has raised the prospect of challenging media licences for NBC News and other news networks after unfavourable reports.\n\nHe took aim at NBC, which made him a star on The Apprentice, after it reported he wanted to boost America's nuclear arsenal almost tenfold.\n\nNBC also angered the White House last week when it said the secretary of state had called Mr Trump \"a moron\".\n\nMr Trump tweeted on Wednesday morning: \"With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country!\"\n\nWelcoming Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Washington later in the day, the US president denied the NBC story.\n\n\"It is frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write, and people should look into it,\" he said at the White House.\n\nWhen asked if he wanted to increase the country's arsenal, Mr Trump said he only ever discussed keeping it in \"perfect condition\".\n\n\"No, I want to have absolutely perfectly maintained - which we are in the process of doing - nuclear force.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"But when they said I want 10 times what we have right now, it's totally unnecessary, believe me.\"\n\nHe added: \"I want modernisation and I want total rehabilitation. It's got to be in tip-top shape.\"\n\n\"Recent reports that the President called for an increase in the US nuclear arsenal are absolutely false,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"This kind of erroneous reporting is irresponsible.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 CPJ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 president's tweet about US broadcast networks provoked a free-speech uproar.\n\nRepublican Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, a frequent Trump critic, tweeted: \"Mr President: Are you recanting of the Oath you took on Jan 20 to preserve, protect, and defend the 1st Amendment?\"\n\nWalter Shaub, who led the US Office of Government Ethics under President Barack Obama, said it could lead to \"the point when we cease to be a democracy\".\n\nThe Committee to Protect Journalists said the US president's comment was a poor example for other world leaders.\n\nAccording to NBC News, Mr Trump told a top-level meeting at the Pentagon in July that he wanted to dramatically boost the American stockpile of atomic missiles.\n\nHe reportedly made the request after seeing a downward-sloping curve on a briefing slide charting the gradual decrease in US nuclear weapons since the 1960s.\n\nAttributing its report to three officials in the room, NBC said Mr Trump's request surprised those present, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rex Tillerson reacts to a report he called the president a moron.\n\nThe network reported that Mr Trump had also called for additional US troops and military equipment.\n\nThe US has 7,100 nuclear weapons and Russia has 7,300, according to the US non-partisan Arms Control Association.\n\nMedia commentators say the president would struggle to remove broadcasters' licences if he wished to do so.\n\nThe Federal Communications Commission, which regulates US broadcasters, issues licences not to networks as a whole, but to local stations.\n\nIt would be difficult to challenge a licence on the basis that coverage is unfair, say pundits.\n\nLast week, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders assured reporters that Donald Trump was an \"incredible advocate\" of constitutional free-press protections. This week, the president is contemplating whether a broadcaster could be forced off the airwaves because he doesn't approve of its news coverage.\n\nNever mind that the federal government licenses local televisions stations, only some of which are owned by national broadcasters like NBC.\n\nJust because a threat is unworkable in the extreme doesn't mean the president won't make it.\n\nMedia-bashing is one of Mr Trump's favourite pastimes - a means of venting frustration, apportioning blame and, perhaps, distracting reporters who always enjoy a bit of journalistic navel-gazing.\n\nAs with the NFL anthem-kneeling controversy, the cultural battle lines form quickly when it comes to questions of media bias. The president knows this and uses it to his advantage.\n\nTaking pot-shots at journalists is one thing, of course. Contemplating the use of government coercion to stifle a broadcaster because of its news content is another.\n\nEven if such an outcome is unthinkable in the US at the moment, there are places in the world where press freedoms aren't as deeply entrenched. Their leaders are watching the president, too.", "Leaving the EU without a deal was \"not a realistic option\", Mr McDonnell claimed\n\nParliament can stop the UK leaving the EU without negotiating a deal, shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said.\n\nThere was not a Commons majority for such an outcome, he told the BBC, and Labour would work with other parties to stop the \"damage\" it would cause.\n\nHe urged ministers to \"come to their senses\" and publish legal advice about what was owed in financial liabilities.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling said the UK will \"succeed come what may\" but he was confident of a \"sensible deal\".\n\nDismissing Mr McDonnell's comments as \"complete nonsense\", he told the Andrew Marr show on BBC One that it was a \"legal reality\" that the UK would be leaving at the end of March 2019 after Article 50 was triggered earlier this year.\n\nMeanwhile, Brexit minister Robin Walker has suggested the three million citizens of other EU countries currently living in the UK will be able to stay regardless of the outcome of the negotiations, telling Pienaar's Politics on BBC Radio 5 live \"yes, people will be allowed to stay\".\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has said she believes the two sides will reach a deal but the UK must prepare for all eventualities.\n\nAs it stands, the UK will leave the EU in March 2019 whether it agrees a deal on the terms of withdrawal or not.\n\nBut Mr McDonnell said he could \"not countenance\" such a situation and Parliament had the power to force the government to conceded a \"meaningful vote\" on the terms of exit, by amending the EU Withdrawal Bill or other relevant legislation related to Brexit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What practical steps are being taken to prepare for the possibility of no deal?\n\n\"I don't think no deal is a realistic option,\" he said. \"There are enough sensible people in the House of Commons to say 'this cannot happen, we cannot damage our country in this way'.\"\n\nUrging ministers to stop \"fighting\" among themselves and focus on what was best for the economy, he added: \"They should come to their senses, behave responsibly and look after the interests of the country.\"\n\nHe called on ministers to publish legal advice about the size of the so-called divorce bill, saying the UK should honour its obligations but the final figure should not be anywhere near the £60bn quoted in some quarters.\n\nThe government has appointed a Brexit \"contingency minister\" and will spend £250m this year on preparing for the UK's exit, including the possibility of it leaving without an official deal.\n\nSpeaking on the same programme, Mr Grayling said talks were always going to be \"long and challenging\" and it was fanciful to suggest the two sides would \"shake hands and do a deal in half an hour\".\n\nThe airline industry was confident things would continue as normal, Mr Grayling said\n\nWhile he believed that the two sides would ultimately reach agreement, he said Labour was wrong to argue for a deal in any circumstances and he was not personally afraid of the UK leaving the EU without one.\n\n\"Britain will succeed come what may but I don't think we will come to that. I think we will agree a sensible trading partnership... because it is in both of our interests for this to happen.\"\n\nHe rejected suggestions that flights would be grounded - as one major airline has suggested - in the event of a no-deal Brexit, insisting \"people will be able to carry on making their bookings\".\n\nAsked about reported cabinet divisions, Mr Grayling said ministers were \"not clones\" but there was a spirit of collaboration and Philip Hammond, criticised in recent days for being too gloomy, should remain as chancellor.\n\nAmid talk of supporters of a \"soft Brexit\" joining forces to put pressure on the government, ex-Tory education secretary Nicky Morgan said most MPs wanted \"a sensible deal that protects our economy and supports jobs\".\n\nWhile the UK would be \"resilient\" whatever happened, she told ITV's Peston on Sunday that she was dismayed that some of her colleagues were talking up a no-deal Brexit as a \"favourable outcome\".", "The Harry Potter train made an unscheduled stop close to the bothy\n\nA family stranded in the Scottish Highlands have been rescued by the \"Hogwarts Express\" steam train.\n\nJon and Helen Cluett and their four young children were staying at a remote bothy in Lochaber when their canoe was swept away by a swollen river.\n\nFacing a long walk back to their car across boggy land, they phoned the police for advice.\n\nTo their delight, they arranged for the steam train used in the Harry Potter films to pick them up.\n\nThe train, called The Jacobite, is used for excursions on the West Highland Railway Line, crossing the iconic Glenfinnan Viaduct that also features in the movies.\n\nThe Jacobite crosses the Glenfinnan Viaduct, made famous by the Harry Potter films\n\nThe Cluetts and their children - aged six, eight, 10 and 12 - were enjoying a half-term break at the Essan bothy, on the south shore of Loch Eilt.\n\n\"You can get to it by quite an arduous walk in - or you can paddle for 10 minutes in a canoe across the loch from the road. We had a canoe so we paddled across the loch to the bothy,\" explained Mr Cluett.\n\n\"We were all in the bothy, warm and fed - all was good - but we'd moored the boat in a little burn behind the bothy, tied it to a wall, pulled high out of the water. My daughter woke up yesterday and says 'Daddy, Daddy - the stream is massive'.\n\n\"The burn was overflowing. The entire area was underwater. The rocks I'd tied the boat to were pulled apart and the boat was gone.\"\n\nThe bothy, in the distance, is easily accessible by canoe but less so on foot\n\nThe family weighed up their options for getting back to their car. A three-mile walk with small children across difficult boggy ground or along the nearby railway line were discounted as impractical or too dangerous.\n\n\"In the end I decided the only option was to phone the police and mountain rescue, ask if they have any local knowledge that could help us out,\" said Mr Cluett.\n\nThe police came back with a magical solution. They arranged for the next train on the railway line that runs close to the bothy to make an unscheduled stop.\n\n\"The amazing thing was it wasn't just any train. The next train that was passing was the Jacobite steam train - the Harry Potter, Hogwarts Express steam train that goes up and down that line.\"\n\nThe family hurriedly packed up their belongings and made their way to the line, about 400 metres way.\n\n\"We threw all our stuff into some bags and boxes and ran out of the door of the bothy at the same time as the train is coming around the tracks,' said Mr Cluett.\n\n\"The train is getting closer, we're running down, stuff bouncing everywhere, big smiles on the kids faces. It all started to be fun at that point.\n\n\"I'm slightly sad because I'd lost my boat - but the kids, when they saw the steam train coming, all sadness left their little faces and was replaced by excitement and fun - just the real joy of having an adventure and having the train stop right next to them.\"\n\nThe adventure turned out more magical than anyone expected\n\nThe family were dropped off at the next stop, at Lochailort, from where Mr Cluett was able to hitch a lift to retrieve his car.\n\nHe reflected: \"The kids have certainly had an adventure. We've all had an adventure - a big thanks to everyone who helped us.\"\n\nHis only regret is that his canoe has still not turned up - although he remains hopeful someone will find it.\n\n\"I think it will still be bobbing around in the loch somewhere. A big red canoe - so if you see it, that would be helpful. That would make the last part of the story even better.\"", "Nobody knows exactly how many cargo bikes are out there but more than 500 of just one brand have been sold in Cambridge\n\nThere's a new kid on the school run block - the cargo bike. And in one particular university city, parents are eagerly embracing them.\n\n\"Initially the kids thought it was magic - now it's just part of the furniture.\"\n\nDr Sara Lear is the proud owner of a \"box bike\" which was designed in the Netherlands in the late 1990s for ferrying children around.\n\nWhile most are two-wheeled, hers is a three-wheeled model used to transport Dan, aged eight, Susie, six, and five-year-old Jim on their two-mile (3.2km) daily trip to school in Cambridge.\n\n\"They like taking friends for rides and they like that it saves them the legwork, the lazy worms,\" she joked.\n\nThe box bike has a large wooden container between the handlebars and the front wheel.\n\nIt is a descendant of the cargo bike, which has an illustrious history as the delivery vehicle of choice for butchers and bakers for more than a century.\n\nCollectively known as \"bakfietsen\" - Dutch for box bikes - there are now a variety of versions on the market costing £1,500 or more.\n\nThe twist with the modern-day box bike is that children have become the cargo.\n\nMaartin van Andel said he made the first wooden box bike for children in 1999\n\nNobody knows exactly how many cargo bikes are out there.\n\nThe reason for this is that most are built by boutique makers and largely sold by independent bike shops rather than large chains.\n\nIndependent market researchers Mintel said the cargo bike share of the £1bn annual UK bike industry was not yet large enough to claim a bar on a chart.\n\nSteve Garidis, operations director at the Bicycle Association, said although it is known that 95% of all bikes on sale are imported, the breakdown of what types of bikes are being brought in is hard to pinpoint.\n\nHe said getting better data was something the association was \"trying to tackle\".\n\nExact numbers aside, what is clear is that Cambridge is home to a cargo bike boom.\n\nThe ground level of the city's railway station cycle park is given over entirely to cargo bikes.\n\nAnd the original box bike company, Bakfiets, said it had sold more of its box bikes in the university city - more than 500 to date - than in any other place of its size outside its native Netherlands.\n\nThe idea of marrying a wooden box with a standard push bike for the school run came from an unlikely source - an expert in prosthetics.\n\nMaartin van Andel, who lives in Amsterdam, wanted a means of taking his children to school without having to drive his car. The answer was the box bike.\n\nHe said he made the first wooden one specifically for children in 1999.\n\nThe wooden box bike has become a familiar sight on the streets of Cambridge\n\n\"I just wanted to make my own life easier,\" he remembers. \"I had no intention to make something commercial. It was convenient - and it was easy and cheap to make it using wood.\"\n\nHe said he never imagined breaking into the lucrative £850m Dutch bicycle industry, in which one million bikes were sold in 2016.\n\n\"I took the design around but no-one was interested in it at first, so I was obliged to start my own business.\n\n\"When other parents said they wanted one too, I ended up making 10 myself. It took off from there.\"\n\nHugh Salt, a friend of the inventor, later brought the unusual cycle to Cambridge. Mr Van Andel describes him as \"my first British dealer\".\n\nHugh Salt says similarities with Holland make Cambridge ideal for a cycling revolution\n\nMr Salt now runs a business selling and servicing the bikes in the city's Hope Yard.\n\nHe says the rise in popularity of box bikes is down to the cosmopolitan population built around the university and a flat landscape.\n\n\"The science park, the university colleges, the hospital - they're all accessible by bike,\" he says.\n\n\"You can be very time efficient down to the last minute.\"\n\nThe ground level of Cambridge station's cycle park is given over to cargo bikes\n\nParents say the school run has a little more magic when it involves a cargo bike\n\nThe city currently has about 80 miles of cycle paths and wider cycle lanes are emerging in many of its commuter routes.\n\nRoxanne De Beaux, of Camcycle, said the city's infrastructure needed improvement to encourage more people to cycle.\n\n\"While cycling is very safe it's the perception of danger that people base their decisions on - and sharing space with fast-moving traffic is not pleasant even for experienced cyclists,\" she said.\n\n\"What we need are more protected cycle [routes] with adequate width for these kinds of bikes and for people to cycle alongside each other, especially parents and children.\"\n\nOne of the original sketches Maarten van Andel made in the design of his wooden cargo bike\n\nDr Emily Dourish uses a cargo bike to ferry Eleanor, aged six, almost two miles each day to school.\n\nHer other daughter Sarah, eight, now cycles separately.\n\n\"The best thing is being able to chuck all your stuff in, swimming bags, violins and so on and knowing that they'll stay dry if it rains.\n\n\"Now that we have it, I am a complete evangelist. And it keeps me fit.\n\n\"It can be a bit scary on windy days - with just two wheels it feels like we get buffeted around sometimes.\"\n\nEmily Dourish, left, and Sara Lear, right, have become evangelists for the box bike\n\nThe question of box bike safety has left some flummoxed.\n\nIn 2013, for example, a father on a cargo bike in London made national news after he was pulled over by a police officer wanting to know if it was legal.\n\nThe Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents said it did not yet have enough information about the safety of cargo bikes to offer a view on them but would keep a watchful eye on their growing use in case any issues emerge.\n\nAlthough a European safety standard exists for bicycles, there is not one yet written for cargo or box bikes.\n\nIn August, the European Standardization Committee began looking at whether a new standard for cargo bikes was needed.\n\nThe British Standards Institute said it would be involved in the process. If a new standard was needed, the institute said, it might not be completed until 2020.\n\nSam Jones, of Cycling UK, said the child-carrying bikes provided a viable and safe alternative to the car.\n\n\"The long wheel base and low centre of gravity of most cargo bikes also makes them more stable - and therefore easier to ride and safer.\"\n\nAlthough the city is awash with them, Cambridge is not the only place to witness the rise of the cargo bike.\n\nIn London, various cycle hire companies offer cargo bikes. In Manchester, university staff can get free use of a cargo bike as part of an EU-funded scheme.\n\nWaltham Forest Borough Council has also got in on the action, beginning a year-long trial this month offering various types of cargo bikes on free short-term loans.\n\nThe box bikes come in all shapes and sizes, with larger versions and brands holding four children at a time\n\nBut whether the cargo bike is a fad or here to stay remains to be seen.\n\n\"When the children were small they loved chatting and singing songs at each other and me, and waving at people like the Queen,\" Dr Dourish said.\n\n\"It's mainly tourists who point and take photos. The novelty has worn off for most Cambridge people.\"", "The couple have been engaged since 2013\n\nEngland cricketer Ben Stokes has married Clare Ratcliffe at a ceremony in East Brent, near Weston-super-Mare.\n\nInternational team-mates Joe Root, Stuart Broad and Alastair Cook were among the guests at the church service.\n\nStokes, 26, was arrested last month on suspicion of causing actual bodily harm following an incident outside a nightclub in Bristol.\n\nEarlier this week, his agent said the all-rounder would publicly explain what happened \"when the time is right\".\n\nStokes was arrested on 26 September, hours after England's win over the West Indies in their third one-day international, following claims of an early-hours brawl. He was released without charge but remains under investigation.\n\nThe Durham star's right hand was clearly bandaged as he arrived for the wedding ceremony, though the bandages appeared to have been removed for the official photographs afterwards.\n\nStokes's bandaged right hand was apparent in photos taken before the ceremony\n\nClare Ratcliffe is Stokes's long-term girlfriend and mother of their two children\n\nEngland cricketers Alastair Cook and Stuart Broad were among Stokes' team-mates at the ceremony\n\nThe newly-weds, who have two children, posed for photographs outside the church before going on to a reception at a nearby hotel.\n\nWicket-keeper Jos Buttler and Durham colleague Paul Collingwood joined the friends and family at the Somerset church, alongside England teammates Eoin Morgan, Graham Onions and Sam Billings.\n\nThe England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has said that Stokes will not travel to Australia on 28 October with the rest of the Ashes squad \"at this stage\", but has not ruled out his selection for the series.\n\nStokes's agent, Neil Fairbrother, said the cricketer would discuss his version of events in due course, but did not wish to prejudice the investigation.\n\nThe 40-minute service was held in the church of St Mary the Virgin in East Brent", "Keiran Esquierdo died at the scene of the accident in Kelloholm\n\nA 12-year-old boy who was crushed to death by a heavy wooden pole as he played with friends has been named by police.\n\nKeiran Esquierdo died at the scene of the accident in his home village of Kelloholm, in Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nEmergency services were called to open ground near to the medical centre on Corserig Crescent on Sunday afternoon.\n\nDet Insp Bryan Lee said investigations were continuing and the procurator fiscal had been informed.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said they found the boy trapped under the pole but, despite efforts to free him, he could not be saved.\n\nInsp Rory Caldow told BBC Scotland that initial indications suggested he had been playing with friends when the accident happened.\n\nFirefighters and paramedics were also called to the accident after the alarm was raised\n\nInsp Rory Caldow said the accident was a \"real tragedy\"\n\nHe said the incident would have a big impact on the community.\n\n\"You can appreciate this has really been a tragedy,\" he added.\n\n\"The kids raised the alarm at a nearby neighbours and they were really, really upset by what had happened.\n\n\"It's devastating to the family and to the community as a whole.\n\n\"The kids are off the school at the moment and I'm sure the victim will be well known to everyone in this small community town of Kelloholm.\"\n\nHe added that an investigation into the incident is continuing.\n\nOfficers described the object as \"similar to a telegraph pole\".", "Police investigating the death of a 10-year-old boy in County Antrim believe he may have been attacked by the family's German Shepherd dog.\n\nParamedics were called to a house on Queen's Avenue in Glengormley at 12:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe ambulance service said the boy had lacerations and was taken to the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children.\n\nA post-mortem examination was completed on Monday and further forensic tests are to be carried out.\n\nA-38-year-old man who had been helping police with their inquiries was released on Monday night.\n\nA neighbour said she heard loud noises coming from the house minutes before emergency services arrived at the scene.\n\nA boy, bloodied and heavily bandaged, was later taken to an ambulance, she added.\n\nForensic officers carried out an investigation inside the house through until Sunday night and police cordoned off the area around it.\n\nSDLP councillor Noreen McClelland said people in the area had been left deeply shocked after the \"absolute tragedy\" in what is a \"quiet and tight-knit community\".\n\n\"There are no words to describe the horror in this community - people are just devastated,\" she added.\n\n\"My thoughts and prayers are with the child's family and friends at this horrendous time.\n\n\"I know that people will rally around them to offer their support.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAll schools in Northern Ireland are to close on Monday due to risks posed by gusts resulting from Hurricane Ophelia.\n\nThe announcement was made by Stormont officials late on Sunday night after severe weather warnings were issued for Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Met Office is forecasting winds of up to 65mph (105km/h) across the region on Monday.\n\nThe Department of Education said its decision on school closures was \"entirely precautionary\".\n\n\"However, given the weather warnings and the fact that the most severe weather is forecast for when pupils are due to be leaving school, the department believes that this is an appropriate response,\" it 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\nUlster University announced that its four campuses will be shut for the day, while some colleges announced that they would be cancelling all classes.\n\nHurricane Ophelia will be a storm when it hits Ireland and the UK as it weakens on its path across the Atlantic Ocean.\n\nBut it could still cause major damage, according to weather forecasters.\n\nThe Met Office said that a spell of \"very windy weather\" on Monday afternoon and evening has the \"potential for injuries and danger to life\".\n\nIssuing an amber warning - its second most severe - it said there is a good chance that some areas could suffer power cuts.\n\nAll parts of Northern Ireland are expected to be hit by winds of up to 65mph (105km/h) but gusts could reach speeds of 80mph (129km/h) in the far south-east.\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\nPublic transport operator Translink said its services could be disrupted by the weather on Monday - it will issue updates from 07:00.\n\nSome flights from Belfast City Airport have been cancelled due to the strong winds.\n\nAll Aer Lingus departures from the airport on Monday have been grounded, and other airlines are affected.\n\nSenior civil servants in Northern Ireland met on Sunday night to discuss \"a co-ordinated approach in light of the latest Met Office assessment\".\n\nThe Department of Education came in for criticism from parents on social media for the timing of its announcement on school closure.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jayne Knox This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSDLP MLA Colin McGrath said the decision should have been made earlier on Sunday, adding that parents with work or other commitments would struggle to arrange childcare.\n\n\"Principals and teachers will also be under huge strain to communicate with parents and staff about the closure,\" he said.\n\n\"However, the priority is to ensure that all children are kept safe.\"\n\nSchools and colleges in the Republic of Ireland are also to close on Monday after a red warning - the most severe - was issued across the country.\n\nThe Irish national weather agency Met Éireann is forecasting \"violent and disruptive gusts\" and is warning that \"all areas are at risk\".", "A 19-year-old man has died after \"large-scale disorder\" broke out at a boxing event.\n\nPolice have launched a murder inquiry after the brawl at Walsall Town Hall on Saturday, where it is believed the man was stabbed in the neck.\n\nThe scene remained cordoned off on Sunday, as police searched for discarded weapons.\n\nThe venue was hosting an IBF Youth Lightweight title fight between Luke Paddock and Myron Mills.\n\nA witness said the scene inside the town hall as violence flared was \"like a riot\"\n\nPolice said violence spilled on to the street at about 23:00 BST.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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She said people were searched before entering the venue.\n\nMrs Ellis, from Netherton, Dudley, said tension had been building between rival supporters during the evening and violence flared between about 50 people when a plastic cup full of liquid was thrown.\n\n\"There was food flying and then they were picking up chairs, turning tables over and just ploughing into each other.\n\n\"It was horrendous, it was like a riot.\"\n\nBlack Country Boxing said: \"Our thoughts are with the victims and we will be liaising fully with the police and venue.\"\n\nChairs were thrown during the disorder\n\nDet Insp Ian Wilkins from West Midlands Police, said: \"We have widened our cordon following an initial examination to search for potentially discarded weapons and any other evidence which can lead us to those involved.\n\nWalsall Council, which runs the town hall, tweeted to say it was supporting the police investigation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe bout was won by Myron Mills, from Derby, following a split decision.\n\nWriting on Facebook following the disorder, Luke Paddock, from Walsall, said: \"It's just a shame about the violence outside the ring at the end of the show.\"\n\nSeveral roads remained closed on Sunday. Walsall Library was shut as it falls within the cordon.\n\nA second event planned for Sunday was cancelled.\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 the most lethal outbreak of wildfires in California's history\n\nForty people have died and hundreds are still missing in California after six days of wildfires that have devastated swathes of countryside and destroyed thousands of homes.\n\nCalifornia's governor said it was \"one of the greatest tragedies\" the state had ever faced.\n\nMore than 10,000 firefighters are battling 16 remaining blazes.\n\nWinds of up to 70 km/h (45mph) brought them to new towns, forcing many more people to evacuate.\n\nOne of the worst-affected areas is the city of Santa Rosa, in the Sonoma wine region, where 3,000 people were evacuated on Saturday.\n\n\"The devastation is just unbelievable,\" Governor Jerry Brown said on a visit to the city.\n\n\"It is a horror that no one could have imagined.\"\n\nIt is the most lethal outbreak of wildfires in the state's history. More than 100,000 people have been displaced. and whole neighbourhoods have been reduced to ash.\n\nFirefighters had made some headway on Friday, clearing dry vegetation and other combustible fuel around populated areas on the fires' southern flank.\n\nBut the return of strong winds combined with high temperatures and dry air spread the fires further.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Officers braved the fires rampaging across the state's famous wine country\n\nThe huge fires have sent smoke and ash over San Francisco, about 50 miles away, and over some towns and cities even further south.\n\nAt least 13 Napa Valley wineries have been destroyed, a trade group said, and the owner of a winery in Santa Rosa told the BBC that the fires had destroyed millions of dollars worth of wine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why the California wildfires are deadly", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The death toll continues to rise after the deadly blast\n\nA massive bomb attack in a busy area of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday is now known to have killed at least 230 people, police say.\n\nHundreds more were wounded when a lorry packed with explosives detonated near the entrance of a hotel.\n\nIt is the deadliest terror attack in Somalia since the Islamist al-Shabab group launched its insurgency in 2007.\n\nPresident Mohamed Abdullahi \"Farmajo\" Mohamed blamed the attack on them, calling it a \"heinous act\".\n\nNo group has yet said it was behind the bombing.\n\n\"Brothers, this cruel act was targeted at civilians who were going about their business,\" the president said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The aftermath of the explosion in Mogadishu\n\nHe has declared three days of mourning for the victims of the blast.\n\nLocal media reported families gathering in the area on Sunday morning, looking for missing loved ones amid the ruins of one of the largest bombs ever to strike the city.\n\nThere are fears people are trapped under the rubble\n\nPolice official Ibrahim Mohamed told AFP news agency the death toll was likely to rise. \"There are more than 300 wounded, some of them seriously,\" he said.\n\nOfficials also confirmed that two people were killed in a second bomb attack in the Madina district of the city.\n\nMogadishu's Mayor Thabit Abdi called for unity while addressing a crowd of people who had gathered to protest.\n\n\"Oh, people of Mogadishu, Mogadishu shouldn't be a graveyard for burnt dead bodies,\" he said.\n\n\"Mogadishu is a place of respect, and if we remain united like we are today, moving ahead, we will surely defeat the enemy, Allah willing.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA BBC Somali reporter at the scene of the main blast said the Safari Hotel had collapsed, with people trapped under the rubble.\n\nAn eyewitness, local resident Muhidin Ali, told AFP it was \"the biggest blast I have ever witnessed, it destroyed the whole area\".\n\nMeanwhile, the director of the Madina Hospital, Mohamed Yusuf Hassan, said he was shocked by the scale of the attack.\n\n\"Seventy-two wounded people were admitted to the hospital and 25 of them are in very serious condition. Others lost their hands and legs at the scene.\n\n\"What happened yesterday was incredible, I have never seen such a thing before, and countless people lost their lives. Corpses were burned beyond recognition.\"\n\nProtesters gathered, wearing red headbands to show their anger at the blast\n\nThe international community has been quick to condemn the attack:", "Roger Stotesbury was on a \"middle-aged gap year\" with his wife Hilary and they were due to return home this month\n\nA British man has fallen to his death while taking photos at a temple in India during a year-long world trip.\n\nRoger Stotesbury, 56, was visiting Orchha, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, with his wife Hilary on Friday when he plummeted 30ft (9m) from the Laxmi Narayan temple.\n\nThe couple, from Oxford, were blogging about their \"middle-aged gap year\".\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was providing assistance to the family of a British man following his death.\n\nMr Stotesbury's family said the father of two had just finished taking shots of the scenery from the 17th Century temple, about 160 miles south of the Taj Mahal.\n\nThe couple had been due to return to the UK this month, after completing their India trip.\n\nMr Stotesbury was taking photos on first floor of the Laxmi Narayan temple when he fell 30ft\n\nA family spokesman said: \"They were the most happily married couple I have ever known. They were just so devoted to each other.\n\n\"Roger took lots and lots of photographs, and he had gone to take some views from the temple.\n\n\"He put his equipment down and then he fell.\"\n\nOn their blog, Mr Stotesbury wrote that his motto was to \"die young as late as possible\".\n\nThe couple also wrote: \"We took the view that on your deathbed you never wish you'd spent more time in the office.\n\n\"We've seen our two kids off into the wider world and we have no more caring responsibilities for our parents.\n\n\"So we thought now is the time to take a gap year and travel whilst we still have the health and energy. After all you only live once.\"\n\nIn a statement issued on their behalf by the Foreign Office, his family said: \"Roger Stotesbury was one of the most enthusiastic men who walked the planet, and was incredibly loved by his wife, children and the surrounding community.\n\n\"He brightened every room he entered. He and his wife, Hilary had planned their round-the-world gap year since the beginning of 2016 and set off on 1 November last year.\n\n\"They loved the last 11-and-a-half months of energetic travel, exploring from the bottom tip of Patagonia, right up through the Americas, to Canada, Australia, China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia and finally India.\"\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said: \"We are providing assistance to the family of a British man following his tragic death in India on 13 October.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family at this sad time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "California firefighters have struggled to contain the deadly blazes raging across the state\n\nThe wildfires raging across northern California are already the most fatal in the state's history; at least 40 people are dead and thousands of homes have been razed.\n\nWildfires are a common occurrence in California towards the tail end of the state's long, hot, dry summers, but this year a combination of extremely high temperatures, strong winds, a long drought, and population growth have produced lethal, fast-moving blazes.\n\nThe fires are burning in one of the world's most developed countries though. Arrayed against the flames are more than 10,000 firefighters, 880 fire engines, 134 bulldozers, 14 helicopters, and more. So why is this blaze so difficult to control, and the death toll so high?\n\nThe late summer winds that blow into California from the Great Basin region, east of the state - the so-called \"Diablo winds\" - drop elevation as they move out towards sea level. That has a few knock-on effects. As the pressure increases at lower altitudes, the air gets warmer, the wind speed increases, and the humidity level drops.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why the California wildfires are deadly\n\nThat produces ideal conditions for a fast-moving wildfire. Northern California recorded gusting wind speeds of up to 70 mph this week, spreading the flames faster than firefighters could tackle them, and faster than some people could escape.\n\nThe high winds also overwhelm man-made and natural firebreaks, such as protection zones and wide highways, carrying embers across gaps in the brush that might otherwise contain the blaze. Hillsides compound the spread, as heat rises quickly up the steep terrain.\n\nCalifornia has just experienced its hottest summer on record, with less than 25% average rainfall. The heat dries out vegetation, making it all the more combustible if a spark ignites in the wrong place.\n\nThe state is also still feeling the effects of a five-year drought that parched its forests, leaving tens of millions of dead trees in its wake - more fuel for the fire.\n\nAnd counter-intuitively, California's extremely wet 2016-2017 winter may have also contributed to the spread of the blaze. The large amounts of vegetation that grew in the rain then dried out in the extremely hot summer that followed, providing even more fuel.\n\nCalifornia's population is growing, and with it the number of homes built in high-risk fire areas. A 2014 study of residential growth in the state predicted that by 2050 there will be 645,000 homes built in \"very high severity\" zones.\n\nHomes and other structures are increasingly being built adjacent to combustible areas of woodland. California law requires any structures in such a position to create 100 ft of \"defensible space\" - or firebreak - in every direction.\n\nBut the law is not aggressively enforced, it is left largely up to homeowners to police their own safety measures. And with a conflagration moving as fast as this one, in high winds, even a properly maintained firebreak might prove useless.\n\nFirefighters try to extinguish a house fire near Calistoga, California\n\nStory after story is emerging from California of people surrounded by fire in the middle of the night before they had a chance to escape, or of slight hesitations and delays that led to tragedy.\n\n\"This is what was so extraordinary about this event,\" Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, told Inside Climate News. \"Essentially it was a forest fire, a wildfire, that moved into an urban area. At some point it was jumping from house to house, not tree to tree.\"\n\nEven in the world's most developed country, there is no high-tech solution to a wildfire of this size. Firefighters rely on relatively old-fashioned tactics to starve the massive conflagrations.\n\nA fleet of planes and helicopters - including DC-10 airliners - is dumping water and fire-retardant on the blazes in an attempt to cool the air temperature and deprive the fires of oxygen.\n\nFirefighters are also creating so-called containment lines, purposefully burning vegetation in the path of the blaze to deprive it of fuel. In recent years, a steep increase in the number of dead trees - from disease and drought - has made it too dangerous for fire crews to enter certain areas, as the trees are more susceptible to sudden collapse.\n\nThat means containment lines have to be created further back from the blaze itself, allowing more woodland to burn before the fire can be deprived of fuel.\n\nOne key way to save lives is to warn people early, but questions have been raised about the warning system in this case. Text alert warnings were issued last Saturday night, as the blaze began to spread, but only to those who had signed up to receive them.\n\nThe emergency \"amber\" alert system, which pings every phone in a region, was not activated by authorities. \"There wasn't time to map out anything. There wasn't time to make a plan,\" Sergeant Spencer Crum of the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office, told the New York Times.\n\nBeyond evacuation plans and firefighting tactics, California may need some help from above. A sustained, end-of-season rainfall would soak the vegetation and lower the air temperature. But it's a waiting game.", "One of the world's most popular sports is barely known in the US. But, driven by a new generation of immigrants, could cricket finally take off?\n\nIt is a hot, sunny day in Hyattsville, Maryland.\n\nYoung men play basketball in the park. Barbecue smoke hangs in the hazy, late-summer air.\n\nA cyclist rides past with the Stars and Stripes on his trailer. And then, through the trees, comes a most un-American sound.\n\nImran Awan was 17 when he moved from Pakistan to the US in 1997. He didn't think Americans played cricket but he brought his equipment, just in case.\n\nA day after arriving, Imran played his first game on American soil, for a family friend's team. Within two years he was picked for the US national side.\n\nImran represented his new country in matches around the world - from Abu Dhabi to Nepal - and, aged 38, still plays locally. On this hot day in Hyattsville, he's captain of the Washington Tigers.\n\nThe Tigers are in the final of the Washington Cricket League Twenty 20 tournament, premier division. With the first and second division finals also taking place, it's a big day.\n\nBanners hang from the bleachers. Supporters gather in the shade. Two commentators sit behind a camera, broadcasting the games live across the internet.\n\nImran is a bowler and his side is batting, so he stands on the sideline, waiting for his chance. In his youth, he bowled at 90 miles per hour. Has he still got it?\n\n\"I try,\" he says, smiling. \"I try.\"\n\nThe Washington Cricket League is thriving. There are 42 teams in total, and new applicants are turned away each year because of a lack of pitches.\n\nAnother local league, the Washington Metropolitan Cricket Board, has 18 clubs. For an area with barely any \"real\" pitches, it's astonishing.\n\nMost grounds are hired from schools or counties. Today's game is played on a matting wicket: when the game finishes, the matting is pulled up, and the field reverts to more \"American\" sports.\n\nAnand Patel is a 31-year-old engineering professor at Cecil College in Maryland. He moved from Gujarat in India to study at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, in 2007.\n\nHe started playing for his college side - \"the cricket team was actually one of the reasons I picked the school,\" he says - and now plays for 22 Yards, Washington Tigers' opponents in the final.\n\n\"When I arrived, it was hard to get cricket equipment,\" he says. \"We were buying online, importing from India, or going to New York where they might have a vendor.\n\n\"Now, just in the state of Maryland you have at least five or six vendors.\"\n\nThe increase in cricket's popularity has followed a rise in immigration from the sub-continent.\n\nIn 2000, the Indian immigrant population in the US was just over one million, according to the Migration Policy Institute. By 2015, it was 2.4 million.\n\nThat sub-continental influence is clear in the Washington Cricket League. Ram Ragoo, 73 and from Trinidad, has been involved since the league began in the 1960s.\n\nBack then - aside from the embassy teams - \"most of the league was West Indian\", he says. Among them was Keith Mitchell, who studied in Washington and is now the prime minister of Grenada.\n\n\"Keith was the president of the league in 1981,\" says Ram, smiling. \"Really nice guy. But Reagan sent him to Grenada after the overthrow (in 1983).\"\n\nRam, who brims with Caribbean charisma, says the league reflects the changing face of immigration.\n\n\"The Indians came in, Pakistanis came in, the Sri Lankans started coming in, and the West Indians started to go out,\" he says.\n\n\"The young West Indians didn't want to play cricket. They got 400 or 500 dollars to go and play a soccer game.\"\n\nIn the premier division final, most players have a sub-continental background, but other cricket-playing nations are represented.\n\nDerick Narine, the Tigers' left-handed opener, is from Guyana, as is teammate Christopher Vantull. For 22 Yards, Johan de Wet is a South African who moved to the US this summer to be with his wife.\n\n\"I arrived just before the 4 July weekend,\" he says. \"That weekend there was a big Twenty 20 tournament, I saw 22 Yards had organised it, so I gave the guys a call.\n\n\"I played my first game probably within two weeks.\"\n\nWhat did the wife make of it?\n\n\"She is Indian so she gets it,\" says Johan, laughing.\n\nIn a further example of cricket's global reach, WCL side Vikings recently renamed itself. It is now the Afghan Cricket Club of USA.\n\nWhile the Washington Cricket League is certainly cosmopolitan, one thing is missing: Americans from non-cricket backgrounds.\n\n\"When we were in school, once in a while you would get an American guy showing up for practice,\" says Anand Patel.\n\n\"But it's hard to get used to cricket. For them to learn how to bowl or bat is difficult, even if they've played baseball. In baseball you don't bounce the ball - here you bounce the ball.\"\n\nRam Ragoo agrees. \"I only know one or two born Americans who play the game,\" he says.\n\n\"The ICC (International Cricket Council) is trying to create (university) scholarships to get American kids involved.\"\n\nFor now, though, American cricket remains an immigrant-driven sport. As the big-hitting Narine scores another six, bhangra blasts out across this small corner of Maryland.\n\nHelped by Narine's 71 in 39 balls, the Tigers are impressive, reaching 163-8 in their 20 overs. In reply, 22 Yards start well - nine runs from the first five deliveries - before a certain 38-year-old gets involved.\n\nImran Awan - the Tigers captain who moved to America aged 17 - dismissed Shahid Hanif for 8. He takes another wicket in his next over and 22 Yards end up 80 all out.\n\nImran, certainly, has still got it.\n\nThe Tigers take the title, the trophy is lifted, and another cricket memory is made in this most unlikely place. It won't be the last.\n• None Could America take to cricket?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The family lives in a remote village in western Democratic Republic of Congo, in Africa\n\nConjoined twins born in a remote village in the Democratic Republic of Congo have survived a 15-hour journey on the back of a motorbike to be separated.\n\nThey were then flown to the capital, Kinshasa, where they were operated on by a team of volunteer surgeons.\n\nIn total, the one-week-old girls had to endure an 870-mile (1,400km) round trip across jungle, on treacherous roads and by air.\n\nThe twins are now being monitored.\n\nThe babies - Anick and Destin - will return to their village in three weeks. They were born at 37 weeks in August, were joined at the navel, sharing some internal organs.\n\nConjoined twin girls Anick and Destin survived their birth before being separated\n\nAbout one in every 200,000 live births results in conjoined twins and their survival is never certain, especially in remote areas where no medical help is available.\n\nBut to the astonishment of doctors, these twins were born naturally in the village of Muzombo, in the west of the African country.\n\nRealising that the babies needed surgery, their parents Claudine Mukhena and Zaiko Munzadi wrapped the babies in a blanket and set off on an epic journey through jungle to their nearest hospital in Vanga.\n\nWithout the equipment or experience to carry out the complex separation surgery in the small hospital, doctors transferred them to a hospital in Kinshasa more than 300 miles away.\n\nAn emergency plane flew the family to the capital city for surgery\n\nTo get there, the family was flown by MAF, a humanitarian airline which operates in remote regions, rather than risk another long journey over dangerous roads.\n\nDr Junior Mudji, who is now caring for them at Vanga Evangelical Hospital, said he was delighted.\n\n\"At 37 weeks, conjoined twins born naturally - it's unheard of,\" he said.\n\n\"They are doing fine, they sleep well and eat well. In general, they are doing well.\n\n\"We will keep them here for three more weeks to be sure everything is normal.\"\n\nDr Mudji believes the operation was the first to separate conjoined twins in the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In the five years since President Xi Jinping moved to the helm, China has become richer and more powerful. But what has this growth meant for the fate and fortunes of the ordinary Chinese family?\n\nAs China's most powerful decision-makers meet to set the course of the nation for the next five years and a new generation of leaders emerges, we look at data from Chinese authorities and major surveys, to get some clues about how China's family life and society is changing.\n\nIn 2015, the government threw out its notorious one child policy which had been intended to keep population figures low but had led to a crippling gender imbalance.\n\nSo while now the door is open for more kids and bigger families, a look at marriage and divorce rates increasingly shows the same trend as the rest of the developed world: Marriage rates are falling while more and more people end up divorced.\n\nYet this first impression might be misleading.\n\n\"China has always had and is still having a much lower divorce rate than US and western European countries,\" Xuan Li, assistant professor of psychology at New York University Shanghai, explains.\n\n\"A much higher percentage of mainland Chinese people marry eventually, in comparison to those in neighbouring areas and countries. So the idea that the Chinese families (and ergo, the society and nation) are falling apart is statistically ungrounded.\"\n\nChina might have overturned its one-child policy in 2015 yet its legacy will continue to be a problem for years to come. There is even a term for unmarried men over 30: Shengnan, meaning \"leftover men\".\n\nIn 2015, a Chinese businessman in his 40s reportedly sued a Shanghai-based introductions agency for failing to find him a wife, having paid the company 7m yuan ($1m, £780,000) to conduct an extensive search.\n\n\"China's one-child policy advanced and amplified a demographic transition,\" explains Louis Kuijs of Oxford Economics. \"Falling birth rates and an aging population have been exerting downward pressure on the labour force and thus on economic growth.\"\n\n\"Although the one-child policy was changed in January 2016 into a two-child policy, higher birth rates now will only show up in the labour force in around two decades,\" he estimates.\n\nBut higher standards of living are slowly affecting traditional gender perceptions and that in turn will have a positive effect on the gender imbalance.\n\n\"The gender imbalance is already changing,\" Mu Zheng of the Centre for Family and Population Research at National University of Singapore told the BBC.\n\n\"That's because of the relaxed fertility policy, changing attitudes, women's advanced profiles in both education and work, and with a more established social security system,\"\n\nBut for now, the current gender imbalance does make it hard for men to find wives.\n\nAmid the constant talk about China's housing bubble about to burst, here's a detail that stands out: Among millennials, China has a towering percentage of homeowners, a different league it seems from European countries or the US.\n\nWhile the above data from HSBC largely covers urban China, it still illustrates a crucial point: parents are trying whatever they can to equip their sons with some added extras to woo women into wedlock.\n\n\"It is the custom that husbands will provide a home,\" Dr Jieyu Liu, deputy director of the SOAS China Institute, told the BBC in April when HSBC released the data.\n\n\"Many love stories fail to turn to marriage if the men fail to provide a marital house.\"\n\nSo once charm, luck or a property have helped China's singles get hitched - what is life like for families?\n\nChina's average income has seen a steady rise, both in rural and in urban areas. While the relative expenses on food have dropped significantly over the past decade, the money spent on things like health, clothes or transport has gone up. The same goes for communications. The surge in mobile phones illustrates that point.\n\nSmartphones are not just another communications expense - the WeChat app for instance is so woven into everyday routines that life without a phone is virtually unthinkable.\n\n\"WeChat is designed as an app that is like a toolkit for life, sort of a digital Swiss Army knife,\" Beijing-based tech analyst Duncan Clark of ABI Research explains.\n\nHe says consumers have been embracing the convenience of it covering everything from paying utility bills, cashless payments in shops, taxis and bike rentals, money transfers and of course - communication.\n\nHigher incomes translate into more money spent on children's education and recent years have shown a steady rise in parents sending their children overseas to study. What's more, they are coming back.\n\n\"A large proportion of these students are returning to China, with 433,000 having returned in 2016,\" explains Rajiv Biswas, APAC chief economist at analytics firm IHS Markit.\n\nThis rapidly growing pool of Chinese graduates with international degrees and experience of living abroad will make the next generation of Chinese business and government leaders \"very international in their thinking and understanding of other cultures, which will be increasingly important as China assumes the mantle of the world's largest economy in about a decade\".\n\nAnd while a degree from a European or US university is likely to boost your chances on the job market - it might also drive up your chances of bagging the right partner.", "The Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday both lead with the story that NHS doctors and nurses in England will be required to ask patients about their sexual orientation.\n\n\"Doctors to ask: are you gay?\" is the headline in the Mail, which says the \"astonishing diktat\" has been condemned as \"intrusive\" and \"insulting\".\n\nIt says: \"Never before has the state insisted citizens face a question about their sexual identity.\" Dr Peter Swinyard, of the Family Doctor Association, tells the Mail that it is \"a confounded cheek\".\n\nThe Sunday Express welcomes life sentences for causing death by dangerous driving.\n\n\"For too long\", it argues, \"the scales of justice have been tipped in favour of those who treat our roads like their own personal race track.\"\n\nThe Sunday Mirror agrees. In its opinion, drivers who kill through a \"cavalier\" disregard for the lives of others are no less guilty of manslaughter - \"because their weapon was a car\".\n\nAccording to the Sunday Telegraph, the Conservatives' allies, the Democratic Unionists, have told Theresa May to sack the chancellor, Philip Hammond, unless he changes his \"highly sceptical\" approach to Brexit.\n\nThe paper says senior DUP parliamentary sources are \"deeply concerned\" that Mr Hammond is \"divisive\" and appears to be \"trying to frustrate the negotiating process\".\n\nWriting in the Mail on Sunday, the former Conservative deputy prime minister, Lord Heseltine, complains that the chancellor is being made a scapegoat and subjected to a \"show trial\" by Brexiteers.\n\nThe Observer tells the prime minister she must silence what it calls the \"deluded no-Brexit-deal zealots\" in her party.\n\nThe Sun on Sunday reports that the chancellor is planning a \"daring\" November Budget to boost Brexit and save his job, predicting a cut in air passenger duty.\n\nThe Sunday Times says plans for a \"safety first\" Budget have been ditched - and Mr Hammond is planning something \"big and bold\".\n\nIdeas under consideration, it reports, are lower tax rates for young people and writing off student loans.\n\nFinally, The Washington Post carries a full-page advertisement offering a reward of $10m (£7.5m) for information leading to the impeachment of President Trump.\n\nThe ad has been placed by the pornographic magazine publisher, Larry Flynt, who tells the Post he cannot think of anything more patriotic to do than to try \"to get this moron out of office\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Grayling said that British farmers would produce more if food prices increase post-Brexit\n\nBritish farmers would produce more food themselves in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a trade deal, a cabinet minister has suggested.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling was responding to industry claims that food prices could rise sharply in the event of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nIf this happened, he said the UK would respond by \"growing more here and buying more from around the world\".\n\nLabour said his comments amounted to telling people to \"dig for no deal\".\n\nThe National Farmers Union has argued Brexit is an opportunity to \"reverse the downward trend\" in the UK's self-sufficiency in food but insisted this should not be done by \"closing off markets\".\n\nMr Grayling's comments comes amid fresh warnings from supermarket bosses that the UK leaving the EU in March 2019 without at least the outline of a future trade partnership would be bad for British consumers.\n\nSainsbury's chairman David Tyler told the Sunday Times that a no-deal Brexit could result in an average 22% tariff on all EU food bought by British retailers.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium has said this could translate into a minimum 9% rise in the cost of tomatoes, 5% for cheddar and 5% for beef, while warning the figures could actually be much higher.\n\nAgricultural products are one of the UK's most important exports while the UK sources roughly 70% of the food it imports from the EU, leading to claims that items could \"rot\" at the border if there are hard customs checks or supply chains are disrupted after Brexit.\n\nBroccoli is one of a number of products that could be more expensive in the event of a Brexit no-deal\n\nGiven the UK's importance to farmers across Europe, Mr Grayling said it was not in their interests to see an outcome which resulted in higher costs and new obstacles to trade.\n\n\"You may remember the brouhaha over the Walloon farmers when they objected to the Canadian trade deal. I had a look to see who their biggest customer was - it was us,\" he told the Andrew Marr Show on BBC One.\n\n\"We are the biggest customers of the Walloonian farmers - they will be damaged if we don't have a deal.\"\n\nBut if the UK ended up without a deal, which would see it default to World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, Mr Grayling suggested domestic producers and retailers would respond by rethinking their sourcing.\n\n\"What it would mean would be that supermarkets bought more from home, that British farmers grew more and that they bought more from around the world,\" he added.\n\nThe UK is forecast to become steadily less self-sufficient in food\n\n\"What we will do is grow more here and buy more from around the world but that will mean bad news for continental farmers and that is why it will not happen - it is in their interests to reach a deal.\"\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said maintaining tariff-free trade with the EU during a post-Brexit transitional period was vital to preventing the UK facing potential tariffs straightaway of up to 40% on some beef and dairy products under WTO rules.\n\nThe trade body, which recently published research on the subject, acknowledges forecasting the consequent impact on food costs is complex and a range of other factors would have to be taken into account.\n\nBut it said there was a risk that domestic producers could put up their own prices to increase their competitiveness and if this happened, the cost of items like tomatoes could rise by up to 18%, broccoli by up to 10% and cheddar by a maximum of 32%.\n\nA spokeswoman said that while retailers could review their buying policies in the medium to long term to adjust, it was \"very unrealistic to expect farmers to make up the surplus of produce straight away\".\n\nThe NFU has said the UK's ability to feed itself has stagnated and if the country relied entirely on home-grown produce, the cupboard would look bare after about seven months.\n\nLabour said farmers, as much as anyone, wanted to avoid a \"cliff-edge\" departure from the EU.\n\n\"Rather than planning for no deal, ministers appear to be telling us to dig for no deal,\" said shadow Brexit minister Jenny Chapman. \"British farmers already work incredibly hard and to suggest that they could simply grow more food is ridiculous.\"\n• None Reality Check: What would 'no Brexit deal' look like?", "Ken Dooley had worked all his life as a jockey, trainer and coach\n\nA stables worker has died after being injured at Kempton Park racecourse.\n\nIt is thought the groom, who has been named by his employer as Ken Dooley, was kicked by a horse.\n\nSurrey Police said it had been reported a man in his 50s sustained a serious injury to the head while tending to a horse in the stables.\n\nMr Dooley had worked at the West Sussex yard of horse trainer Amanda Perrett, who said he had been with the close-knit family business for seven years.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Perrett said: \"It is with huge sadness that I can confirm we lost our friend and colleague Ken Dooley after an incident in the stable yard at Kempton last night.\n\n\"He was an excellent employee, very experienced with racehorses having worked all of his life with them as a jockey, trainer and jockey coach around the world.\"\n\nPolice are working to establish the circumstances of Mr Dooley's death\n\nPolice were called to the Sunbury-on-Thames venue at 21:20 BST, and doctors at the course also attended.\n\nSaturday's fixture was abandoned with two races remaining as emergency teams responded to the accident.\n\nA police spokeswoman confirmed the death was not being treated as suspicious and also said the man's family had been informed.\n\nShe said police would be working with the coroner and local authority to establish the circumstances surrounding Mr Dooley's death.\n\nJockey Martin Dwyer, who was riding at the course, told Racing UK there was a \"sombre mood\" and shock as the news emerged.\n\nHe said: \"Unfortunately, horses do kick out and I believe that's what happened.\n\n\"They have metal shoes on and if you get a kick from a horse it can be very serious.\"\n\nStaff as well as jockeys at Chepstow and Goodwood are wearing black armbands on Sunday as a mark of respect.\n\nIn a statement, the Racecourse Association said: \"Racecourses do everything they can to provide a safe working environment in all areas and are equipped to provide the highest level of medical care and attention whenever it is required.\n\n\"This tragic accident is a reminder of the dangerous nature of the work stable staff do day in day out, and our thoughts are very much with everybody affected.\"\n\nSaturday's fixture was abandoned with two races remaining\n\nChief executive of the British Horseracing Authority Nick Rust said: \"The entire industry will join in mourning over this tragedy.\n\n\"We owe so much in our sport to the racing grooms who provide such first-class care and attention to our horses.\n\n\"The love and attention that they give to their mounts is unconditional and comes with that small but ever-present level of risk that exists when working with large animals.\"\n\nOrganisers at Kempton Park - one of the UK's best known racecourses - announced Saturday's cancellation on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSteve Parlett, general manager at the racecourse, said: \"All the team here are shocked and upset by the sad loss of a training stables employee last night.\n\n\"Our thoughts and deepest condolences are very much with his family, friends and colleagues.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is set to experience the tail end of a category three hurricane with high temperatures and wind forecast.\n\nAs a result of Hurricane Ophelia, parts of England could see temperatures reach 25C on Sunday beating the 15C average for mid-October.\n\nOn Monday some areas of the UK will be hit with winds of up to 80mph (128km/h).\n\nThe hurricane will be a storm when it hits the UK, exactly 30 years after the Great Storm of 1987 killed 18 people.\n\nOn its way from the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean, Hurricane Ophelia is currently blowing winds of 115mph (185km/h) setting the record for the most eastern category three hurricane in the Atlantic.\n\nCategory three hurricanes are defined as having wind speeds of between 111mph (179km/h) and 129mph (208km/h) and can cause major damage to well-built homes.\n\nThough it is forecast to gradually weaken later on Sunday, the US National Hurricane Center said Ophelia would still be blowing hurricane-force winds as it approaches Ireland on Monday.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's Met Office has issued a red warning for counties in Munster and Connacht, predicting that coastal areas will be hit by winds in excess of 80mph (130km/h) from 09:00 BST on Monday until Tuesday.\n\nThe ferocity of the hurricane will dissipate before it reaches the UK, but Ophelia's remnants are forecast to bring high winds in coastal areas.\n\nWestern England, Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland will be most affected by the storm winds.\n\nWeather presenter Michael Fish is remembered for dismissing reports that a hurricane would hit the south of England in October 1987.\n\nThe storm is often remembered for BBC Weather presenter Michael Fish dismissing reports that \"there was a hurricane on the way\".\n\nAlthough he was right, storm winds of 100mph did batter the south of England, leaving a trail of destruction.\n\nEighteen people died and 15 million trees were destroyed as a result of the high winds.\n\nIt is thought that the storm caused £1bn in damage to property and infrastructure.\n\nThe Met Office has issued severe weather alerts ahead of Ophelia and has warned there could be potential power cuts, disruption to road and rail networks, and damage to buildings as a result of Monday's stormy weather.\n\nBut parts of England will benefit from the warm temperatures brought by the storm, with areas as far up as Nottingham expected to hit highs of 21C on Monday.\n\nClouds in central and southern England are expected to break up to provide sunny spells over the course of the weekend.\n\nSome parts of the country have been enjoying a \"mini heatwave\" already. Ian Senior tweeted a screenshot of the temperature in Cambourne, Cambridgeshire, which was 17C on Saturday morning.\n\nJennie, who lives in Leeds, also wrote on Twitter that she never thought she would be \"walk[ing] around bare legged wearing a skirt and short sleeved T-shirt\" in mid-October.\n\nBut some parts of the country were still waiting for the temperatures to improve. Martin Cluderay, from Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales, posted an overcast scene from the town titled: \"Welcome to the heatwave.\"\n\nWest Scotland and Northern Ireland are forecast to receive heavy rainfall on Sunday.\n\nBBC Weather has tweeted that Monday will bring \"contrasting fortunes\" - wild and windy in some western areas, warm and breezy in the east.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Woody Allen has worked with Harvey Weinstein, pictured together in 2008, on many films\n\nWoody Allen has described Harvey Weinstein as a \"sad, sick man\", as the producer faces sexual assault claims.\n\nHis remarks came as he clarified comments to the BBC that the story was tragic for the women involved but also sad for Weinstein as his life was \"so messed up\".\n\nThe film-maker added he had heard rumours but not \"these horror stories\".\n\nWeinstein was voted off the board behind the Oscars on Saturday following allegations from numerous women.\n\nAllen faced his own sex claims - he was accused of molesting his adopted daughter - a claim he has always strongly denied.\n\nWeinstein has been credited with reviving Allen's career after Allen was accused of abusing Dylan Farrow, his daughter with actress Mia Farrow.\n\nThe allegation emerged in the early 1990s following Allen's separation from Farrow.\n\nThe actress left Allen after discovering he was having an affair with her adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn.\n\nBut despite working with Weinstein on a number of films - including the Oscar-winning Mighty Aphrodite - Allen said he had never heard of any allegations of rape and sexual assault.\n\n\"No-one ever came to me or told me horror stories with any real seriousness,\" Allen told the BBC. \"And they wouldn't, because you are not interested in it. You are interested in making your movie.\n\n\"But you do hear a million fanciful rumours all the time. And some turn out to be true and some - many - are just stories about this actress, or that actor.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On some red carpets, Harvey Weinstein is not a welcome subject\n\n\"The whole Harvey Weinstein thing is very sad for everybody involved,\" he added. \"Tragic for the poor women that were involved, sad for Harvey that [his] life is so messed up.\n\n\"There's no winners in that, it's just very, very sad and tragic for those poor women that had to go through that.\"\n\nAllen later expanded on his comments in a statement quoted by Variety magazine.\n\n\"When I said I felt sad for Harvey Weinstein I thought it was clear the meaning was because he is a sad, sick man,\" he said.\n\n\"I was surprised it was treated differently. Lest there be any ambiguity, this statement clarifies my intention and feelings.\"\n\nAllen said earlier in the BBC interview he hoped the revelations, which emerged after an investigation by the New York Times, would lead to \"some amelioration\".\n\nHe said it was important to avoid \"a witch hunt atmosphere\" where \"every guy in an office who winks at a woman is suddenly having to call a lawyer to defend himself\".\n\nThe star added that his hope was that recent developments could be \"transformed into a benefit for people rather than just a sad or tragic situation\".\n\nAmong those who investigated Weinstein were Allen's own son, Ronan Farrow, who spoke to 13 women who said the producer had sexually harassed or assaulted them.\n\nWeinstein, 65, insists any sexual contacts he had were consensual. His spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister said earlier this week: \"Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr Weinstein.\"", "Mick Fleetwood backstage at Top of the Pops in 1969\n\nMick Fleetwood is the backbone of the band that bears his name; the man who kept Fleetwood Mac rolling through the best and hardest of times.\n\nIn the early days he was their manager, hiring and firing musicians like a soft rock Alan Sugar.\n\nBy the late 70s, he was the bandage that stopped them falling apart amidst drug abuse, infidelity and betrayal.\n\nAnd sitting behind his \"back to front\" drum kit, Fleetwood is the band's beating heart, constructing dozens of unforgettable rhythms - from the syncopated shuffle of Go Your Own Way, to the fidgety cowbell riff of Oh Well.\n\nBut surprisingly, the 70-year-old doesn't rate his own drumming.\n\n\"There's no discipline,\" he says. \"I can't do the same thing every night.\"\n\nAnyone who's listened to the deluxe edition of Fleetwood Mac's Tusk will know otherwise. There, you can hear multiple outtakes from the title track, with Fleetwood sitting doggedly on the song's distinctive groove for more than 25 minutes.\n\nStill, he insists: \"I am very not conformed, I change all the time.\"\n\nThe star says he can't play a rhythm the same way twice\n\nThe confession is prompted by a discussion about Fleetwood's lavish new picture book, Love That Burns, which chronicles his early career and the first incarnations of Fleetwood Mac.\n\nIt's being released 50 years after the band played their first show: A 20-minute set at the Windsor Jazz & Blues Festival alongside artists like Cream, Pink Floyd and Jeff Beck.\n\nBack then, they were a hard-edged blues combo, working under the guidance of guitarist Peter Green - who, like Fleetwood and bassist John McVie, had previously played in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.\n\nGreen called the group Fleetwood Mac \"because I knew I was probably going to leave,\" he later recalled, adding: \"I always wanted Mick and John to have a job.\"\n\nIn the late 60s, the band enjoyed hits with Albatross, Oh Well and Black Magic Woman (later covered by Santana) before the ominous The Green Manilishi presaged Green's descent into drug-induced psychosis.\n\nIt's a period of the band's history that's frequently overshadowed by their wildly-successful 70s incarnation, the one that produced Rumours and Tusk, and that's what Fleetwood hopes to correct in the new book.\n\n\"The other thing is so big and so famous that this [story] could just get swallowed up,\" he says, \"I'm happy that at least there's something that says, 'Hey, this is how it all started.'\"\n\nFleetwood says researching the pictures for his new book brought back unexpected memories\n\nAs the story begins, the young Fleetwood is a three-time runaway from boarding school, who's been cut loose by his parents and is barrelling around London in a second-hand taxi, dropping in and out of blues bands as he learns his craft.\n\n\"In those days, if you had a drum kit that was worth something it was almost more important than if you were a half-way decent drummer,\" he laughs.\n\n\"So if you had the drums and the taxi it was like, 'Yeah, let's give him the gig!'\"\n\nOne of his first paid jobs was with The Cheynes, who were hired as the backing band for visiting blues legend Sonny Boy Williamson when he played London's Marquee Club.\n\nUnprepared for Williamson's tendency to improvise, the band completely lost their way and got a \"monumental scolding\" in front of the audience.\n\nAfter bouncing between gigs for a couple of years, Fleetwood ended up in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, replacing their previous drummer, Aynsley Dunbar.\n\n\"Aynsley is a brilliant drummer,\" says Fleetwood. \"Technically, he's in a whole different league than I am, but he was probably getting a bit too clever.\n\n\"The band didn't want any more drum solos, so he was out and I was in.\"\n\nThat didn't go down well with the audience, however, who started chanting \"Where's Aynsley?\" every night.\n\n\"And I always remember, in the early days, John [McVie] came to my rescue and basically came to the microphone and told them to shut up.\"\n\nAn early line-up of Fleetwood Mac (L-R): Peter Green, John Mcvie, Jeremy Spencer, Mick Fleetwood and Danny Kirwan\n\nIt was a beginning of a beautiful friendship. Fleetwood and McVie not only gave their names to Fleetwood Mac, but they are the only constants in the band's ever-changing line-up.\n\nIn the book, Fleetwood says of McVie: \"Musically, he helped me survive whenever I was drowning.\" And it's this comment that prompts the revelation about the drummer's supposed lack of skill.\n\n\"For a while, he thought he could train me into doing the same bass drum pattern every night but I couldn't... because of the way my mind works,\" he explains, \"so John learned to push all his notes around what I do.\"\n\n\"It's become this weird thing. It's not really how a rhythm section should work. They're supposed to be doing exactly the same thing at the same time. I'm doing different stuff and he's falling in between the gaps.\"\n\nAfter three years of success, Fleetwood Mac's future was jeopardised when Green quit, giving away most of his earnings in the process.\n\nThe guitarist's mental health deteriorated soon after, and he was eventually diagnosed with drug-induced schizophrenia, spending long periods in psychiatric hospitals and undergoing electroconvulsive therapy.\n\n\"I don't know why I left the group in the end,\" Green writes in Fleetwood's book. \"I know that people looked at me like I was in a dream. I could tell that, even at the time.\"\n\nMick Fleetwood: \"Even after Peter left, we didn't realise how serious it had become\"\n\nFleetwood describes Green's decline with tenderness and regret. It's clear he still feels responsible, in some way, for not spotting his friend's illness sooner.\n\n\"I wish we had been better equipped,\" he tells me. \"Maybe we could have seen something that could've helped - not to keep him in the band, but to help this person through the beginnings of a very emotional ride that, really, he's still on as we speak.\n\n\"It affected his life in a very dramatic way,\" he adds. \"I don't think he was treated right for what turned out to be his illness, but he's healthy now and doing ok. I'm going to go and see him on Sunday, in fact.\"\n\nAfter Green left, Fleetwood Mac floundered for a while, before recruiting John's wife Christine McVie - who was already a solo star in her own right.\n\nShe went on to write some of the band's most memorable songs - Songbird, Don't Stop, Over My Head - and remains part of the line-up today. But the band's fortunes really turned around in 1974, when they were joined by two young American singers, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.\n\nIt's at this point that Love That Burns draws to a close. Fleetwood says there are plans for a Volume Two, which promises to go behind-the-scenes on Rumours, the seventh best-selling studio album of all time, and one which was recorded as the personal lives of Fleetwood Mac's five members unravelled.\n\n\"That will be a big monster,\" laughs Fleetwood.\n\n\"I don't know when we're going to do it, but that story needs to be told.\"\n\nStevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham and the rest of Fleetwood Mac with their Grammy for Rumours in 1978\n\nLove That Burns - A Chronicle of Fleetwood Mac, Volume One is out now via Genesis Publications.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "On the morning of 15 October 1917 a grey military vehicle left the Saint-Lazare prison in central Paris. On board, accompanied by two nuns and her lawyer, was a 41-year-old Dutch woman in a long coat and a wide, felt hat.\n\nA decade earlier this woman had the capitals of Europe at her feet. She was a legendary 'femme fatale' known for her exotic dancing, and her lovers included ministers, industrialists and generals.\n\nBut then came the war, and the world changed. She thought she could keep charming her way around Europe. But now the men in top hats wanted something more than sex. They wanted information.\n\nThis was Mata Hari, and she was about to be put to death.\n\nHer crime? Being an agent in German pay, gleaning secrets from Allied officers who she slept with, and passing them on to her paymaster, leading to lurid newspaper claims about her being responsible for sending thousands of Allied soldiers to their deaths.\n\nBut the evidence presented at her trial, plus other documents, cast a different light: that she was actually a double agent and may have died as a scapegoat.\n\nNow, exactly a hundred years on, new light has been shed on the most famous woman spy of all time with the release of hitherto unseen documents by the French defence ministry.\n\nThese include transcripts of her interrogation by the French counter-espionage service in 1917. Some are also on display at a new exhibition at the Fries Museum in her hometown of Leeuwarden in the Netherlands.\n\nMata Hari facing the firing squad. There is doubt over this picture and it may be a still from a contemporaneous film\n\nAmong the papers is the telegram to Berlin from the German military attaché in Madrid which led to Mata Hari's arrest at a hotel on the Champs-Elysees, and later served as a key piece of evidence at her brief trial.\n\nBorn Margarethe Zelle in 1876, Mata Hari (the name is said to come from the Indonesian for 'eye of the day' - the sun) had an extraordinary and tragic life. After a miserable marriage in the Dutch East Indies she reinvented herself as the louche diva of 'Belle Epoque' Paris, where her sensual dances were a ticket to the inner courts of European society.\n\n\"Even without the spying, Mata Hari would be remembered today because of what she did in the capitals of Europe in the early part of the last century,\" says Hans Groeneweg, curator of the Fries Museum.\n\n\"She more or less invented the striptease as a form of dance. We have her scrapbooks on display at the exhibition, and there are piles and piles of newspaper clippings and photographs. She was a celebrity socialite.\"\n\nSadly though, the Mata Hari myth is dominated by the espionage. Over the years many historians have come to her defence. She was sacrificed - some say - because the French needed to find a spy to explain their succession of reverses in the war.\n\nFor feminists, she was the perfect scapegoat because \"loose\" morals made it easier to tar her as an enemy of France.\n\nUntil now the full details of her interrogation by prosecutor Pierre Bouchardon (incidentally the man who later prosecuted Marshal Petain) has been off-limits to historians.\n\nIt was known, though, that in 1916 - after a brief sojourn in London where she was interrogated by the British security service, MI5 - Mata Hari returned to France via Spain.\n\nIn Madrid she made the acquaintance of Arnold von Kalle, the German military attaché. Her later story was that this was all in pursuance of her prior arrangement with French intelligence, under which she undertook to use her pre-war web of German contacts to help the Allied effort.\n\nBut it was von Kalle's subsequent telegram that led to her undoing. In it he set out to his masters in Berlin the details of a certain Agent H21. It gave addresses, bank details, and even the name of Mata Hari's faithful maid. There could be no question to anyone reading it that Mata Hari was agent H21.\n\nThe telegram, intercepted by French intelligence, is now available for scrutiny at the Leeuwarden exhibition. Or rather, the official translation of the telegram is available. Because therein lies the rub.\n\nAccording to some historians, the whole telegram episode is fishy.\n\nPolice photo of Mata Hari from the day of her arrest\n\nThe French - it is argued - had long since cracked the code in which the telegram was written. The Germans knew the French had cracked it. And yet still von Kalle sent the message. In other words, he wanted the French to read it.\n\nSo, in this theory, it was the Germans who led the French by the nose into arresting and executing their own agent.\n\nOr there is the other theory.\n\nWhy is there only a translation in the archives? Where is the original telegram? Could it be that the French themselves invented the document in order to pin the blame on Mata Hari? That way they would find their \"spy\". And the public would be satisfied.\n\nBoth theories make Mata Hari into a victim. One side or the other found it convenient to get rid of her, and so they did.\n\nBut the French archives throw up another detail, which actually relegates these hypotheses to the junior division. Because what the transcripts also show is that in June 1917, during her umpteenth interrogation, Margarethe Zelle decided to come clean: she confessed.\n\nShe told Bouchardon that yes, she had been recruited by the Germans. It was back in 1915 in The Hague.\n\nMata Hari's brooch is just one artefact in the Fries museum's exhibition\n\nCaught outside France at the start of the war, she was desperate to get back to Paris. Karl Kroemer, German consul in Amsterdam, offered her the means… if she would be so good as to help them with certain information from time to time. Thus was created Agent H21.\n\nMata Hari insisted to her interrogators that she just meant to take the money and run. She said her loyalty was to the Allies, as she had shown when she subsequently promised to help French intelligence. But the evidence against her was now clear.\n\nArriving at the Chateau de Vincennes on the eastern outskirts of Paris, Mata Hari was led to a piece of ground where a post had been erected in front of an earthen bank. Twelve soldiers formed the firing squad.\n\nSome reports say she refused to be blindfolded. As one hand was being tied to the post, with the other she made a brief wave to her lawyer. The commander lowered his sword in a swift motion, there was the sound of rifle fire, and Mata Hari crumpled to her knees.\n\nAn officer approached with a revolver and shot her once through the head.\n\nAfter the execution, no-one came to claim Mata Hari's body. So it was delivered to the school of medicine in Paris where it was used for lessons in dissection. Her head was preserved at the Museum of Anatomy. But during an inventory some 20 years ago, it was found to have disappeared.\n• None MI5 advised spies not to use sex", "Vauxhall is cutting about 400 jobs at its Ellesmere Port car plant due to falling sales.\n\nThe carmaker, now owned by France's PSA Group - maker of Peugeot and Citroen - is \"facing challenging European market conditions,\" a spokesman said.\n\nEllesmere Port, which makes the Astra models, will move staff from two production shifts to one in early 2018.\n\nPSA said that manufacturing costs at Ellesmere were higher than other \"benchmark plants\" in the group.\n\nVauxhall employs about 4,500 people in the UK, with about 1,800 at Ellesmere Port. The company also has a factory at Luton, which makes vans.\n\nPSA became Europe's second biggest carmaker after Volkswagen in August when it completed the purchase of Vauxhall and German brand Opel from US car giant General Motors.\n\nUK Prime Minister Theresa May personally sought assurances from PSA chief executive Carlos Tavares during a phone call in February.\n\nLast month, Mr Tavares said it was hard to decide upon the group's strategy for Vauxhall given a lack of clarity over the UK's plans to leave the European Union.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PSA boss Carlos Tavares was asked last month about guarantees for Vauxhall-Opel workers\n\nHowever, a Vauxhall spokesman said the move from two shifts to one was nothing to do with Brexit uncertainty, but was about maintaining competitiveness in a changing industry.\n\nHe pointed out that sales of so-called sports utility vehicles (SUVs) have grown rapidly across Europe, while the type of five-door estates and saloons made at Ellesmere Port have fallen.\n\nEarlier this year, Ellesmere was producing an annual rate of about 140,000 Astra cars.\n\nThe spokesman said there will be a new-generation Astra model in the early 2020s, so Vauxhall wanted to make Ellesmere Port more productive so it can get this car contract.\n\nHowever, PSA's statement on Sunday suggested there would no decision until Brexit uncertainty had cleared.\n\n\"Once [PSA] has enough visibility on the future trading relationship with the EU, and the plant competitiveness has been addressed, the company will be in a position to consider future investments.\"\n\nProf David Bailey, from Aston Business School, said the shift in market trends to SUVs was only part of the problem for Ellesmere Port.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"The depreciation of sterling since the Brexit vote has meant that the cost of importing components has gone up, so it's a more costly plant.\"\n\nPSA's other acquisition from General Motors, Opel, employs about 33,500 staff in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Spain and Italy.\n\nProf Bailey said the only way PSA can make the Vauxhall-Opel purchase work is by cutting costs out of the business.\n\nTackling Ellesmere Port's competitiveness now could turn out to be a very positive move for the business, \"but it does show how vulnerable the plant is,\" he said.\n\nThe Unite union said it would not comment on any job losses until it had spoken to shop stewards at Ellesmere Port on Monday.", "Benefit freezes combined with the predicted rise in inflation could set some low-income households back £300 next year, a think tank has warned.\n\nSeptember's inflation data will be released on Tuesday, and some analysts predict the Consumer Price Index (CPI) will be 2.9%.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation says loss of income due to benefit freezes would be £225 for a single parent in work.\n\nIt says the chancellor should \"ease the squeeze\" on benefit households.\n\nSeptember inflation data is normally used to adjust benefits and tax thresholds the following April.\n\nThe think tank's research indicated that Chancellor Philip Hammond's benefit freeze, which will begin its third out of four years in 2018, will hit working families the hardest.\n\nIts analysis says: \"2018 is set to be the year the freeze bites deepest. Should CPI hit 2.9% on Tuesday, the freeze will save [the Treasury] £1.8bn next year.\"\n\nThe Resolution Foundation's analysis found that a single unemployed person would be £115 worse off, a single parent in work with one child would be £225 worse off, and a single earner couple with two children would be £305 worse off.\n\nTorsten Bell, director of the Resolution Foundation, said Mr Hammond should use his upcoming Budget to \"ease the squeeze on low and middle income families not make it worse\".\n\nBut he added: \"Government policy is currently set to do the opposite, freezing the value of crucial support that 11 million families receive. With inflation approaching 3%, families are on course for the biggest real-terms cut in the value of their benefits for decades.\"\n\nThe Resolution Foundation is calling on the chancellor to thaw the benefit freeze and allow working age benefits to rise in line with CPI next April.", "South Korean forces have been holding exercises along the border with the North\n\nUS Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has insisted President Donald Trump wants to resolve the confrontation with North Korea through diplomacy.\n\nIt will continue until \"the first bomb drops\", he told CNN.\n\nSanctions and diplomacy, he said, had brought unprecedented international unity against North Korea's nuclear weapons programme.\n\nLast month, Mr Trump told Mr Tillerson not to waste time seeking talks with Kim Jong-un.\n\nMr Tillerson's remarks come as the US and South Korea begin their latest joint military exercise in waters surrounding the Korean peninsula, involving fighter jets, destroyers and aircraft carriers.\n\nThe drills regularly anger the North, and Pyongyang has in the past denounced them as a \"rehearsal for war\".\n\nIn Sunday's interview, Mr Tillerson again refused to comment on whether he had referred to Mr Trump as a moron after a July meeting at the Pentagon.\n\n\"I'm not going to deal with that petty stuff,\" he replied, saying he would not dignify the question with an answer.\n\nThe president responded by challenging the secretary of state to an IQ test but a spokeswoman said later it had been a joke.\n\nIn recent months, North Korea has defied international opinion by conducting its sixth nuclear test and launching two missiles over Japan.\n\nAnalysts say the secretive communist state is clearly set on developing a nuclear-capable missile, able to threaten the continental US, despite UN sanctions.\n\nAt the end of last month, Mr Tillerson disclosed that the US was in \"direct contact\" with the North and looking at the possibility of talks.\n\nAfter months of heated rhetoric, it came as a surprise to some that the two countries had lines of communication.\n\nHowever, the next day Mr Trump tweeted Mr Tillerson to say: \"Save your energy Rex, we'll do what has to be done!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mobile phone footage shows the wreckage of the cargo plane\n\nA cargo plane has crashed into the sea off Ivory Coast, close to Abidjan airport, killing four people and injuring six.\n\nThe wreckage of the turboprop plane, which was carrying 10people, was swept toward a beach where rescuers treated surviving crewmen on the sand.\n\nAll four of the dead are Moldovan while four French nationals and two Moldovans were injured.\n\nLocal police told AFP the aircraft had been trying to land when it crashed.\n\nRescuers used a cable to pull the wreck towards the shore\n\nAccording to local news site Ivoire Matin one person was taken into custody after the crash. It is unclear if they are a member of the crew.\n\nReuters news agency reports that the plane crashed during a storm with heavy rain and lightning.\n\nThe plane was a Ukrainian-made Antonov chartered by the French army as part of its anti-jihadist Operation Barkhane, a French military source told AFP.", "Becky (aged 11) meeting Thomas Sankara in Ouagadougou in 1987, shortly before his assassination\n\nOne picture brings it all back home to me again: Me, an 11-year-old London school pupil, gazing up smiling into the eyes of Thomas Sankara, then president of Burkina Faso.\n\nThe picture is too dark; it isn't particularly well composed - the sound engineer is in the way, getting my fellow interviewer, 14-year-old Dan Meigh, ready to film our encounter.\n\nBut it's the kindly warmth in Capt Sankara's eyes as he looks back at me that takes me back; the sense of calm composure, of someone at ease with himself, and at ease with his young, potentially unpredictable young interlocutors.\n\nIt's the simple furniture, the lack of opulence, the lack of Western power-dressing in favour of African fabrics and bare arms.\n\nLittle did we realise at the time that we would become the last non-Africans to interview the Burkina Faso leader.\n\nOn 15 October 1987, he was assassinated in a coup led by his erstwhile brother-in-arms and best friend Blaise Campaoré - who went on to lead the country for the next 27 years.\n\nWe had been in Burkina Faso as winners of a competition run by the BBC news programme for children, Newsround - sent to look at projects run by Sport Aid, a famine-relief fundraising campaign.\n\nThe interview took place in the spartan presidential palace\n\nHearing the news of Capt Sankara's death back home in London, as editing of our programme was still under way, I was saddened and shocked, but the shock was soon superseded by the interview requests that came flooding in from prime-time chat shows, where I was jokily quizzed about bagging a \"scoop\" at such a young age.\n\nIt was only as I grew older that I began to appreciate the legendary status of the man I had interviewed - despite some criticism of his rule, his admirers remain numerous and ardent - and of the symbolism of his murder in the political context of post-colonial Africa.\n\nFor Capt Sankara was pursuing a political project described as revolutionary in scope. And unlike many other African icons, such as South Africa's Steve Biko, he did - at least for a time - have the power to begin trying to make his vision a reality.\n\nI witnessed some of it for myself when I was there.\n\nAs I have said, he did away with the ornaments enjoyed by many leaders.\n\nWe saw few guards at the presidential residence, something Capt Sankara may have come to regret.\n\nOutside there were no luxury cars - we heard he had given them to the national lottery as prizes, replacing the fleet with cheap Renaults.\n\nOne of Capt Sankara's priorities was fighting the desertification of his country.\n\nHe told us he wanted to make it a commonplace that everyone should plant a tree on their birthday - we planted our own.\n\nHe had sent 200,000 people to plant trees and cordon off land, preventing nomadic animals from stripping the land of vegetation.\n\nWe saw home-grown solutions being implemented to problems of malnutrition and poverty - for instance, people building \"diguettes\", stone walls which stop fertile topsoil running off arid agricultural land when it rains, permitting more abundant crops to be grown.\n\nStatistics suggest that the policies Capt Sankara implemented during his short four years in office yielded some startling results.\n\nMany more children went to school under Thomas Sankara's rule\n\nSchool attendance went from 6% to 22%, millions of children were vaccinated and 10 million trees were planted. The number of women in government soared, female genital mutilation was banned, and contraception was promoted.\n\nLike me, Lamine Konkobo, a Burkinabé journalist with BBC Afrique, was only a child when Capt Sankara was killed - and, like me, he only came to fully understand his political importance as he grew up.\n\n\"I was growing up in a village where Sankara was seen as a challenging figure in terms of the ideas he promoted, in terms of women's independence and empowerment, for instance,\" he told me.\n\n\"That did not sit well in the countryside.\"\n\nCapt Sankara had challenged the old centres of power in Burkina Faso: Traditional leaders and big business.\n\nSo among them there was a sense of relief when his rule was over, a relief shared by Lamine's father.\n\nMost young people supported Capt Sankara, but misgivings about his rule even extended to progressive figures, including some intellectuals, who felt his quest to develop the country had an overly paternalistic, authoritarian edge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at former Burkina Faso President Thomas Sankara's time in power\n\nPresident Sankara made physical exercise mandatory, for example, so he could harness the powers of the population for his projects and do it without relying on external aid.\n\nWorkers accused of not pulling their weight were sometimes tried in \"revolutionary tribunals\", which were supposed to target corruption.\n\nBut the perceptions of Capt Sankara changed after Mr Campaoré came to power.\n\nUnder President Campaoré's programme of \"rectification\", power was restored to traditional leaders and businessmen.\n\n\"Justice for Sankara\" became a rallying cry decades after his demise\n\nOpponents were assassinated and a market economy was implemented that many blamed for impoverishing the majority and enriching a tiny elite, including Mr Campaoré and his own family.\n\nThese changes brought about a reappraisal of Capt Sankara's achievements among many - including Lamine's father.\n\n\"After [Sankara] died, we discussed his integrity, his public service, and my dad said everyone had been defending their own interests and had not been not open enough to hear him. 'Now I understand he was much better than what we have now,' my dad said. He died a repentant man.\"\n\nAlthough Mr Campaoré, who was overthrown in 2014, erased Capt Sankara's project, ultimately he failed in his aim to erase his vision, Lamine believes.\n\n\"This is the real legacy of Thomas Sankara. The ideas he tried to promote remain despite all the efforts of Blaise Campaoré to get people to forget.\n\n\"Ultimately those ideas were what spurred people to rise up in 2014 against Blaise Campaoré: They confronted armed police officers and soldiers and they made their point.\n\n\"The uprising would not have been possible without young people being driven by this powerful belief within them - the belief that they were pursuing a vindication, that the regime that killed their hopes would go.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On some red carpets, Harvey Weinstein is not a welcome subject\n\nThe casting couch may seem like a relic of the golden age of Hollywood - but women here say sexual harassment is rife and that exploitation is a price you pay for being part of the industry.\n\nNews that at least 30 women have accused Weinstein of sexually assaulting them - four alleging rape - has been met with sadness and outrage in Tinseltown.\n\nBut no one seems that surprised and many expect other powerful men will be exposed.\n\n\"I think everyone is shocked - not surprised,\" says actress Rita Moreno at a Women in TV gala in Beverly Hills. Ms Moreno, now 85, urged women to tell their stories. She says she was aggressively pursued by the head of a studio when she was 19.\n\n\"It was frightening and scary.\"\n\nMr Weinstein's Oscar for Shakespeare in Love has been tarnished by reports of lewd abuses of his immense power. But women in Hollywood say sexual harassment is common - for actresses and for women behind the scenes on film and TV sets.\n\nWe interviewed dozens of people who work in front of and behind Hollywood's cameras.\n\nAlmost every person reported experiencing sexism - though no one reported behaviour as severe as the allegations against Weinstein.\n\nBut a culture of pervasive sexism emerged. Some are stories of producers soliciting casual sex in exchange for jobs. Most stories involved daily ridicule and disrespect.\n\n\"The casting couch is still a major issue in Hollywood many women are being victimised and are being asked for sexual favours in order to get a job, to keep a job or to be promoted,\" says attorney Gloria Allred who represents women making complaints against Weinstein.\n\nMs Allred says she has women calling her with stories about other powerful Hollywood players.\n\nThe organisation Women in Film has been inundated with calls after they set up a hotline for victims to report abuse this week.\n\nWomen in Film's president Cathy Schulman says the revelations this week about Weinstein may be a tipping point - a chance to reform by employing more women in positions of power.\n\n\"It's a sad situation but we have to turn that into action. What angers me is women believing that they don't have the power to make change,\" says Schulman.\n\n\"What I get angry about is a system that lets them believe that they deserve to be treated this way.\"\n\nMany men and women in the industry agree that more women in power would help stop the cliché of powerful Hollywood executives abusing young women.\n\nWeinstein denies raping anyone and has apologised for hurting colleagues in the past. But his company has fired him and his wife has left him. Two weeks ago he was arguably the most powerful producer in Hollywood. Today, he's reportedly seeking therapy in Arizona.\n\nWhile many of the women who say Weinstein harassed them are A-list actors like Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow, others had their lives and Hollywood careers shattered before they began.\n\nIt's worrying for the newest recruits in the business.\n\nAt the Acting Corps in Los Angeles, Hollywood hopefuls warmed up with word games and improvisational exercises before their big scene.\n\nThese aspiring actors have yet to catch their big break, but many of them said they fear propositions from powerful people.\n\nSeveral male actors have also said they've been groped and hassled by powerful men in Hollywood. The abuses, they say, are about power, not gender.\n\nFor years, there have been rumours about A-list actors and producers abusing children and young men in Hollywood.\n\nStacey Morphis came to LA from England. She left a girl band after being harassed by a colleague.\n\n\"I feel like in music or movies it's all about who you know and what you're willing to do,\" she said before her acting class. \"I feel like that's the way it is and there's nothing I can do about it.\"\n\nAuditions have become a little scarier for Fia Mann since news of Weinstein broke. She said auditions were already scary enough and that it's common for actors to be riddled with self-doubt and insecurities.\n\n\"Before you even step into the room - am I the right look? Are they going to like me because of this? I don't have that. But what if they ask me to do that? I can't do that. OK, maybe I shouldn't go.\n\n\"It sounds crazy but that's literally the conversation that goes on in your head.\"\n\nThe allegations have brought a darker side to auditions, says Fia Mann\n\nBut many people interviewed about sexism in Hollywood and Weinstein still do not want to be identified. There is still a fear about speaking out and upsetting someone who might be the ticket to your next job.\n\nA woman in the costume department said when she was bent down on her knees fixing a male actor's belt, a fellow crew member took her picture and circulated it on set. She demanded he delete it but doesn't know if he did.\n\nFemale cinematographers are daily asked how they manage to carry such a heavy camera. \"That's a man's job,\" is a common jibe.\n\nFilmmaker Rachel Elder says a lighthearted Facebook group for mothers that she belongs to has transformed into a support group for sexual assault victims. She wrote about how she was sexually assaulted by her first boss in LA when she was 21.\n\n\"I'm very overwhelmed. In the last 72 hours I'm reading about all my friends writing about how they were raped and assaulted,\" she said.\n\n\"So many people are sharing really graphic stories that they've never told anyone before. You have to read it. You want to make people feel heard. It's really hard.\"\n\nIf more women talk about their experiences, will it really bring about change in a male-dominated industry?\n\nA lot of people in Hollywood say they are not surprised\n\nChristy Lamb is a co-founder of Moms in Film. She's worked as a producer for 13 years and also as an actress and in the art department.\n\n\"It's such a boys' club,\" she says, while on her (6pm) lunch break. \"We are usually 10% of the people working on projects.\"\n\nMany say Weinstein's career is over. But Hollywood is a forgiving place and they love a comeback story. The town has forgiven men after rape before.\n\nMs Lamb is confident that the culture has changed and that Weinstein will not be welcomed back.\n\n\"A year ago when Trump offended all women with 'Grab them by the pussy' we weirdly didn't get to execute much power,\" she says.\n\nTrump was elected, after all, with 46% of women's support.\n\n\"But in this situation we can fire him [Weinstein] and we can be sure he doesn't work again.\"\n\nMs Moreno - who has won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Tony award - says she's confident that this kind of publicity means young hopefuls in Hollywood won't go through what she did nearly seven decades ago.\n\n\"Who knows? Predators are predators,\" she said. \"It's certainly going to make them very careful, I think.\"", "The man expected to be Austria's new leader, Sebastian Kurz, features heavily this morning.\n\nThe website Politico says a win for Mr Kurz and his People's Party heralds a \"tectonic shift\" in Austrian politics after more than a decade under a centrist coalition.\n\nIt believes his win illustrates the \"continued potency of the refugee crisis in European politics\" and will resonate across the European Union.\n\nThe Austrian newspaper, Wiener Zeitung, writes that Mr Kurz may struggle to woo his fellow European leaders, given that he is tipped to form an alliance with the nationalist Freedom Party - which has raised the prospect of leaving the Euro and perhaps the EU altogether.\n\nThe Daily Mail reports that inmates in England and Wales are being paid to cold call households from prison.\n\nIt says convicts - including a man who ran a telemarketing scam - are receiving £3.40 a day to call potential customers for insurance policies.\n\nIn its editorial, the paper asks: \"Shouldn't we have the right to know if we are giving intimate details of our home to a convicted burglar?\"\n\nThe Prison Service says inmates do not have access to personal and financial information.\n\nThe Sun leads on a report that the Metropolitan Police will no longer investigate some crimes - unless the victims can identify a possible suspect.\n\nThe paper calls the idea \"criminal\" and says it is a \"licence to steal\". Scotland Yard is quoted as saying the force has to \"prioritise\" due to shrinking resources.\n\nBritain is £490bn poorer than thought, according to The Daily Telegraph. The paper reports that the UK no longer has a reserve of foreign assets to help protect against the consequences of Brexit.\n\nThe British ship HMS Sheffield was hit by an Argentine missile on 4 May 1982\n\nQuoting the Office for National Statistics, it says Britain's international investment position has collapsed from a surplus of £469bn to a net deficit of £22bn.\n\nThe Guardian says the catalogue of errors that ended in the sinking of HMS Sheffield during the Falklands War can now be disclosed, 35 years later.\n\nThe paper says a newly-declassified report reveals that the vessel was \"not fully prepared\" for an attack and a radar which could have sensed the incoming missile was being blocked by another transmission.", "Lysette Anthony said she had reported the alleged rape to police\n\nTwo more women have accused Harvey Weinstein of raping them as the top Hollywood producer finds himself increasingly shunned by his peers.\n\nBritish actress Lysette Anthony says he attacked her at her London home in the late 1980s while another, unidentified woman says she was raped in 1992.\n\nThe organisation behind the Oscars has voted to expel Weinstein and his own brother called him \"sick and depraved\".\n\nWeinstein, 65, insists sexual relations he had were consensual.\n\nPolice in London and New York are investigating various allegations against Weinstein.\n\nMore than two dozen women - among them actresses Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Rose McGowan - have made accusations against him including rape and sexual assault.\n\nWeinstein has been a huge figure in the film world, where his productions received more than 300 Oscar nominations and won 81.\n\nLysette Anthony told The Sunday Times she had reported an attack by Weinstein to the London Metropolitan Police.\n\nThe actress, who stars in the British TV soap Hollyoaks, said she had met the producer when she starred in 1982 sci-fi film Krull and the alleged assault had come a few years later.\n\nIt was a \"pathetic, revolting\" attack, she said, that had left her \"disgusted and embarrassed\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was passed an allegation of sexual assault, without giving details.\n\nSeparately an unidentified woman told the Mail On Sunday newspaper she had been raped by Weinstein in 1992 when she was working at his film company offices in West London.\n\nOn Saturday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said its board had \"voted well in excess of the required two-thirds majority\" to expel Weinstein.\n\nBoard members include Hollywood figures such as Tom Hanks and Whoopi Goldberg.\n\nThe \"era of wilful ignorance and shameful complicity in sexually predatory behaviour and workplace harassment in our industry is over\", the Academy said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Film Critic Jason Solomons says Harvey Weinstein \"came for me and shook me\" after a bad review\n\nSpeaking to the Hollywood Reporter magazine, Bob Weinstein said he had had no idea of \"the type of predator\" his brother was.\n\nHe refused to comment on reports that he and the board of Weinstein Company had been aware of Weinstein's settlements with women during recent contract negotiations, saying only that the board \"did not know the extent of my brother's actions\".\n\nThe New York Police Department is looking into an allegation against Weinstein dating from 2004 and is reviewing whether there are any additional complaints.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On some red carpets, Harvey Weinstein is not a welcome subject\n\nThe last time Harvey Weinstein was seen in public, outside his daughter's home in Los Angeles on Wednesday, he told reporters: \"Guys, I'm not doing OK but I'm trying. I got to get help. You know what, we all make mistakes.\"\n\nWeinstein's spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister said earlier this week: \"Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr Weinstein.\"\n\n\"Mr Weinstein obviously can't speak to anonymous allegations, but with respect to any women who have made allegations on the record, Mr Weinstein believes that all of these relationships were consensual,\" her statement added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo men and a woman have been killed as the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia hit the British Isles.\n\nAs hurricane-force gusts battered the Republic of Ireland, one woman and a man died in separate incidents when trees fell on their cars.\n\nA second man died in a chainsaw accident while attempting to remove a tree felled by the storm.\n\nThousands of homes and businesses lost power in Northern Ireland and Wales, along with 360,000 in the Republic.\n\nThe power company Northern Ireland Electricity said 15,000 households in the province should prepare to spend Monday night without power.\n\nPolice in Scotland say the storm has hit Dumfries and Galloway and it is forecast to continue over the region into the evening.\n\nAnd in Cumbria, police in Barrow closed roads around Barrow AFC's stadium after wind damaged its roof.\n\nCumbria Police said it was dealing with \"numerous incidents\" related to the high winds, which reached up to 70mph in the area.\n\nThe force had received reports of roofs and debris on the roads and overhead cables which had come down and it was urging people to only make essential travel.\n\nIn Wales, roads and railway lines have been closed and a gust of 90mph was recorded in Aberdaron, Gwynedd.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance service said a woman has been injured after being hit by a falling branch in Wrexham.\n\nIn Ireland, the woman, in her 50s, died near Aglish, County Waterford, and a female passenger, in her 70s, was injured.\n\nHer injuries were not believed to be life-threatening, the Gardai, Ireland's police force, said.\n\nOne of the men died near Dundalk, Co Louth, after his car was struck by a tree at about 14:45 BST, the Gardai said.\n\nThe other man, in his 30s, was killed in Cahir, Co Tipperary.\n\nAll road users were urged to stay indoors and not travel unless their journey was absolutely necessary.\n\nFlights were also disrupted as several UK planes were forced to land or divert after reports of a \"smoke smell\" linked to weather conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A reporter at the scene is caught in Ophelia's wind\n\nBBC Weather said the strongest winds recorded so far were at Roches Point, near Cork in the Republic of Ireland, where they reached 97mph.\n\nIreland's meteorological service said its highest gust was 109mph at Fastnet Rock.\n\nThe Met Office's amber warning for Northern Ireland, western Wales and western parts of Scotland is still in force for wind.\n\nForecasters are predicting that the far south-west of Scotland will see winds of 80mph on Monday evening, followed by 60mph gusts over Glasgow and the central belt in the early hours of Tuesday morning.\n\nThe main danger facing Scottish commuters in the morning would be debris on roads, they said.\n\nOther parts of the UK have seen unseasonably warm temperatures.\n\nAnd skies have turned red and yellow as Ophelia drags dust from the Sahara through the atmosphere.\n\nAn amber warning is in force in Northern Ireland\n\nIt could be several days before power is restored to some homes in the Republic of Ireland, ESB Networks has warned.\n\nThe roof of Cork's football stadium has also been blown off by the winds.\n\nOphelia has arrived from the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean and coincides with the 30th anniversary of the UK's Great Storm of 1987.\n\nBBC Ireland correspondent Chris Page said it would be the most severe storm to hit Ireland in half a century.\n\nThe Irish Republic's Met Eireann said the storm was forecast to continue travelling north over western parts of Ireland, with \"violent and destructive gusts\" of 75mph to 93mph expected countrywide.\n\nIt also warned of possible flooding due to heavy rain and storm surges.\n\n\"There is a danger to life and property,\" it said.\n\nIt has issued a red alert for the country.\n\nIn England, three flood warnings - meaning flooding is expected - have been issued in the South West, and there are several flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible - across other parts of the country.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency has put a series of flood alerts and warnings in place for south-west Scotland.\n\nA trampoline was blown away by strong winds in Cork, Republic of Ireland\n\nThe storm hit Land's End leaving these two dogs windswept\n\nAnd at Trearddur Bay, Wales strong winds whipped up sea foam on to the road\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.", "Many airports have logged near misses between aircraft and drones\n\nA drone put 130 lives at risk when it passed directly over the wing of an aircraft approaching Gatwick Airport, a report has revealed.\n\nA UK Airprox Board report said the drone was \"flown into conflict\" with the Airbus 319 on 9 July and said there was a high risk of a collision.\n\nIt said: \"A larger aircraft might not have missed it and in the captain's opinion, it had put 130 lives at risk.\"\n\nAn \"airprox\" is when distances between aircraft are seen to compromise safety.\n\nFormer RAF and British Airways pilot Steve Landells said it was a \"worrying near-miss that could have ended in tragedy\".\n\nThe plane was preparing to land and a small, black object seen by the first officer was thought at first to be a bird before it became apparent it was a drone, the report said.\n\nTwilight conditions at 20:35 BST meant the drone appeared black, or dark in colour, the report continued.\n\n\"At its closest point, it passed between the wing-tip and the fuselage, above the right wing,\" it said.\n\nThe plane landed safely and Gatwick police attended the incident at the West Sussex airport.\n\nThe report said the drone was \"very large, certainly not a toy\", with an estimated diameter of 1m (about 3ft) and four blades.\n\nThe report said the pilot's estimate of the distance, and his inability to avoid the object \"portrayed a situation where providence had played a major part\" in avoiding a collision.\n\nIn July, the Department for Transport (DFT) unveiled plans for a drone registration system after research found drones could smash plane windscreens.\n\nMr Landells, flight safety specialist at pilots' association Balpa, said the organisation wanted to see details of the legislation and a timescale for implementation.", "UK police are investigating a number of sexual assault allegations involving Harvey Weinstein, the BBC understands.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says he is accused of assaulting three women in separate incidents in London in the late 1980s, 1992, 2010, 2011 and 2015.\n\nOfficers are looking into claims they were attacked in Westminster, Camden and west London.\n\nThe Hollywood film producer has \"unequivocally denied\" any allegations of non-consensual sex.\n\nNo arrests have been made over any of the allegations, police say.\n\nNew York police are also investigating claims against Weinstein, including rape and sexual assault.\n\nMore than two dozen women - among them actresses Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Rose McGowan - have made a number of accusations against him.\n\nWeinstein, 65, is a huge figure in the film world, where his productions have received more than 300 Oscar nominations and won 81.\n\nOn Saturday, the organisation behind the Oscars (the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) voted to expel Weinstein.\n\nHollywood figures including Tom Hanks and Whoopi Goldberg sit on its board.\n\nAnnouncing its decision, the Academy said the \"era of wilful ignorance and shameful complicity in sexually predatory behaviour and workplace harassment in our industry is over\".\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has said he has taken steps to revoke Weinstein's Legion d'Honneur - the country's top honour - which he was awarded in 2012.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Film Critic Jason Solomons says Harvey Weinstein \"came for me and shook me\" after a bad review\n\nBritish actress Lysette Anthony is the latest named star to accuse Weinstein after she told the Sunday Times he attacked her at her London home in the late 1980s.\n\nAnthony says she reported the attack to the Met adding she met the producer in 1982 when she was in sci-fi film Krull and the alleged assault happened a few years later.\n\nIt was a \"pathetic, revolting\" attack, the actress said, that had left her \"disgusted and embarrassed\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was passed an allegation of sexual assault, without giving details.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford says detectives have two problems going forward - one will be gathering evidence from the time of these allegations, including an incident from 35 years ago.\n\nHe adds the other is that because Weinstein faces allegations in the United States, police will want to deal with that first before agreeing to extradite him to the UK to face any charges against him there.\n\nMeanwhile, Woody Allen has said he had heard rumours about Weinstein but not \"these horror stories\", adding he was \"sad\" to hear about the numerous allegations.\n\nThe film-maker later clarified his comments. \"When I said I felt sad for Harvey Weinstein I thought it was clear the meaning was because he is a sad, sick man,\" he told Variety.\n\nHarvey Weinstein's brother has refused to comment on whether the board of Weinstein Company had been aware of settlements with women during recent contract negotiations.\n\nBut Bob Weinstein told the Hollywood Reporter he had no idea of \"the type of predator\" his brother was.\n\nWeinstein was an executive producer on The Reader, the film which earned Winslet her Oscar", "British actress Sophie Turner and US singer Joe Jonas are to marry.\n\nThe pair, who have been together since 2016, both shared the news on Instagram with the same picture of a diamond ring.\n\nTurner, who plays Sansa Stark in fantasy TV drama Game of Thrones, posted the photo with the caption \"I said yes\".\n\nJonas's brother Nick, who was also in American pop band The Jonas Brothers, tweeted his congratulations.\n\nHe said: \"Ahh! Congratulations to my brother... and sister in law to be on your engagement. I love you both so much.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jonas This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Jonas Brothers was formed in 2005 and gained fame after appearances on the Disney Channel. The band was made up of the three brothers Nick, Joe and Kevin Jonas.\n\nThe three-piece broke up in 2013 and Joe Jonas is currently the lead singer for US dance-rock band DNCE.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA weather warning has been issued for Northern Ireland as Hurricane Ophelia makes its way across the Atlantic.\n\nThe Met Office said winds of between 55mph (89km/h) and 65mph (105km/h) are likely across the region, particularly during Monday evening's rush-hour.\n\nIt added that \"damaging winds\" have the potential to pose \"danger to life\" due to the likelihood of flying debris.\n\nAll schools, colleges and courts in the Republic of Ireland will close on Monday due to the risk the gusts pose.\n\nHurricane Ophelia will be a storm when it hits Ireland and the UK as it weakens on its path across the Atlantic Ocean.\n\nBut national weather services in both countries have issued alerts about severe weather.\n\nThe Met Office said its warning is of a less severe grade than that of Met Éireann because their systems for gauging the alerts differ.\n\nMet Office warnings outline the likely impact of weather, whereas Met Éireann issues its alerts when forecasted weather meets certain risk levels.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Met Office's amber warning will take effect from 15:00 BST on Monday, lasting until 22:00.\n\nGusts in the far south-east of Northern Ireland could reach speeds of between 70mph (112km/h) and 80mph (129km/h).\n\n\"There is the potential for damage to trees, there could be a danger to life from flying debris,\" said John Wylie of the Met Office.\n\n\"A very stormy period is to come on Monday evening.\"\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\nNIE Networks, which controls Northern Ireland's electricity network, said it is preparing to move emergency crews to areas worst affected by the storm.\n\nAnyone who experiences a power cut should report it online or by contacting the 24-hour helpline on 03457 643643.\n\nThe Irish national weather service Met Éireann had initially issued a red warning - its most serious - about the storm winds for counties Clare, Cork, Galway, Kerry, Limerick, Mayo Waterford and Wexford.\n\nIt extended that to a country-wide warning on Sunday evening.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Leo Varadkar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 said \"violent and descriptive gusts are forecast with all areas at risk\".\n\n\"Heavy rain and storm surges along some coasts will result in flooding,\" it added.\n\nThe Irish national emergency co-ordination group met on Sunday to discuss preparations for Hurricane Ophelia.\n\nIrish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said the country's defence forces are being deployed to the areas that are expected to be worst hit.\n\nThe south and south-west of the country is due to be hit by winds in the morning, with eastern counties feeling their force in the afternoon.\n\nAre you affected by Hurricane Ophelia? E-mail your stories and pictures to haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease do not put yourself in any danger to take images and please heed all safety warnings.\n\nYou can also contact us in the following ways:", "NHS England advises sexuality is recorded during \"face to face contact\" with patients\n\nHealth professionals in England are to be told to ask patients aged 16 or over about their sexual orientation, under new NHS guidelines.\n\nNHS England said no-one would be forced to answer the question but recording the data would ensure that \"no patient is discriminated against\".\n\nThe guidance applies to doctors and nurses, as well as local councils responsible for adult social care.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"It will have no impact on the care [people] receive.\"\n\nShe added: \"All health bodies and local authorities with responsibility for adult social care are required under the Equality Act to ensure that no patient is discriminated against.\"\n\nShe said the information would help NHS bodies comply with equality legislation by \"consistently collecting, only where relevant, personal details of patients such as race, sex and sexual orientation.\"\n\nNHS England recommends health professionals - such as GPs and nurses - ask about a person's sexual orientation at \"every face to face contact with the patient, where no record of this data already exists\".\n\nBut the Family Doctor Association said it was \"potentially intrusive and offensive\" for GPs to monitor people's sexuality.\n\nChairman Dr Peter Swinyard told the BBC that for older patients in particular, sexuality \"doesn't affect health outcomes or care\".\n\nHe said that GPs tend to know patients' sexuality, or would ask, if it was relevant to their medical condition.\n\nFor example, patients at a sexual health clinic are likely to be asked, but not those attending a wart clinic.\n\nHe added: \"Given the precious short amount of time a GP has with a patient, sexuality is not relevant.\"\n\nHe said there were \"relatively few medical conditions\" that it affected.\n\nNHS England said the data was already being collected in many areas but that the new guidance makes it standard, and that it expects sexual orientation monitoring to be in place across England by April 2019.\n\nUnder the guidance, health professionals are to ask patients: \"Which of the following options best describes how you think of yourself?\".\n\nThe options include heterosexual or straight, gay or lesbian, bisexual, other sexual orientation, not sure, not stated and not known.\n\nNHS England said lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people were \"disproportionately affected\" by health inequalities such as poor mental health and a higher risk of self-harm and suicide.\n\nIt said public bodies had a legal obligation to pay regard to the needs of LGB people under the Equality Act 2010.\n\n\"Collecting and analysing data on sexual orientation allows public sector bodies to better understand, respond to and improve LGB patients' service access,\" the guidance states.\n\nPaul Martin, chief executive of Manchester's LGBT Foundation, which worked with NHS England and others to develop sexual orientation monitoring, said he was \"so proud\" of the new standard.\n\nHe said earlier this week: \"If we're not counted, we don't count.\"\n\nThe launch of sexual orientation monitoring was a \"hugely important step in the right direction\" towards addressing LGB inequality in health and social care, he said.\n\nHowever, the foundation's good practice guide for healthcare professionals concedes that \"some people will feel uncomfortable asking or being asked\" about their sexuality.\n\nIt warns: \"It would not be appropriate to ask someone's sexual orientation out loud in a busy reception area.\"\n\nIf a patient does not want to disclose their sexuality, \"not stated\" would be recorded as their response.\n\nThe guidance also says patients who are not able to declare their sexual orientation, for example if they require specialist mental capacity care, would be recorded as \"not known\".\n\nFormer Conservative education secretary Nicky Morgan said that \"what looks good on paper... actually when translated into real life becomes very intrusive\".\n\nShe told ITV's Peston on Sunday: \"Could it be appropriate in some circumstances about some conditions or problems that people come to see their doctors about?\n\n\"But clearly (for) the majority you wonder why on earth they need to know.\"", "We are not used to the idea of machines making ethical decisions, but the day when they will routinely do this - by themselves - is fast approaching. So how, asks the BBC's David Edmonds, will we teach them to do the right thing?\n\nThe car arrives at your home bang on schedule at 8am to take you to work. You climb into the back seat and remove your electronic reading device from your briefcase to scan the news. There has never been trouble on the journey before: there's usually little congestion. But today something unusual and terrible occurs: two children, wrestling playfully on a grassy bank, roll on to the road in front of you. There's no time to brake. But if the car skidded to the left it would hit an oncoming motorbike.\n\nNeither outcome is good, but which is least bad?\n\nThe year is 2027, and there's something else you should know. The car has no driver.\n\nDr Amy Rimmer believes self-driving cars will save lives and cut down on emissions\n\nI'm in the passenger seat and Dr Amy Rimmer is sitting behind the steering wheel.\n\nAmy pushes a button on a screen, and, without her touching any more controls, the car drives us smoothly down a road, stopping at a traffic light, before signalling, turning a sharp left, navigating a roundabout and pulling gently into a lay-by.\n\nThe journey's nerve-jangling for about five minutes. After that, it already seems humdrum. Amy, a 29-year-old with a Cambridge University PhD, is the lead engineer on the Jaguar Land Rover autonomous car. She is responsible for what the car sensors see, and how the car then responds.\n\nShe says that this car, or something similar, will be on our roads in a decade.\n\nMany technical issues still need to be overcome. But one obstacle for the driverless car - which may delay its appearance - is not merely mechanical, or electronic, but moral.\n\nThe dilemma prompted by the children who roll in front of the car is a variation on the famous (or notorious) \"trolley problem\" in philosophy. A train (or tram, or trolley) is hurtling down a track. It's out of control. The brakes have failed. But disaster lies ahead - five people are tied to the track. If you do nothing, they'll all be killed. But you can flick the points and redirect the train down a side-track - so saving the five. The bad news is that there's one man on that side-track and diverting the train will kill him. What should you do?\n\nThis question has been put to millions of people around the world. Most believe you should divert the train.\n\nBut now take another variation of the problem. A runaway train is hurtling towards five people. This time you are standing on a footbridge overlooking the track, next to a man with a very bulky rucksack. The only way to save the five is to push Rucksack Man to his death: the rucksack will block the path of the train. Once again it's a choice between one life and five, but most people believe that Rucksack Man should not be killed.\n\nThis puzzle has been around for decades, and still divides philosophers. Utilitarians, who believe that we should act so as to maximise happiness, or well-being, think our intuitions are wrong about Rucksack Man. Rucksack Man should be sacrificed: we should save the five lives.\n\nTrolley-type dilemmas are wildly unrealistic. Nonetheless, in the future there may be a few occasions when the driverless car does have to make a choice - which way to swerve, who to harm, or who to risk harming? These questions raise many more. What kind of ethics should we programme into the car? How should we value the life of the driver compared to bystanders or passengers in other cars? Would you buy a car that was prepared to sacrifice its driver to spare the lives of pedestrians? If so, you're unusual.\n\nThen there's the thorny matter of who's going to make these ethical decisions. Will the government decide how cars make choices? Or the manufacturer? Or will it be you, the consumer? Will you be able to walk into a showroom and select the car's ethics as you would its colour? \"I'd like to purchase a Porsche utilitarian 'kill-one-to-save-five' convertible in blue please…\"\n\nRon Arkin became interested in such questions when he attended a conference on robot ethics in 2004. He listened as one delegate was discussing the best bullet to kill people - fat and slow, or small and fast? Arkin felt he had to make a choice \"whether or not to step up and take responsibility for the technology that we're creating\". Since then, he's devoted his career to working on the ethics of autonomous weapons.\n\nThere have been calls for a ban on autonomous weapons, but Arkin takes the opposite view: if we can create weapons which make it less likely that civilians will be killed, we must do so. \"I don't support war. But if we are foolish enough to continue killing ourselves - over God knows what - I believe the innocent in the battle space need to be better protected,\" he says.\n\nLike driverless cars, autonomous weapons are not science fiction. There are already weapons that operate without being fully controlled by humans. Missiles exist which can change course if they are confronted by an enemy counter-attack, for example. Arkin's approach is sometimes called \"top-down\". That is, he thinks we can programme robots with something akin to the Geneva Convention war rules - prohibiting, for example, the deliberate killing of civilians. Even this is a horrendously complex challenge: the robot will have to distinguish between the enemy combatant wielding a knife to kill, and the surgeon holding a knife he's using to save the injured.\n\nAn alternative way to approach these problems involves what is known as \"machine learning\".\n\nSusan Anderson is a philosopher, Michael Anderson a computer scientist. As well as being married, they're professional collaborators. The best way to teach a robot ethics, they believe, is to first programme in certain principles (\"avoid suffering\", \"promote happiness\"), and then have the machine learn from particular scenarios how to apply the principles to new situations.\n\nA humanoid robot developed by Aldebaran Robotics interacts with residents at a care home\n\nTake carebots - robots designed to assist the sick and elderly, by bringing food or a book, or by turning on the lights or the TV. The carebot industry is expected to burgeon in the next decade. Like autonomous weapons and driverless cars, carebots will have choices to make. Suppose a carebot is faced with a patient who refuses to take his or her medication. That might be all right for a few hours, and the patient's autonomy is a value we would want to respect. But there will come a time when help needs to be sought, because the patient's life may be in danger.\n\nAfter processing a series of dilemmas by applying its initial principles, the Andersons believe that the robot would become clearer about how it should act. Humans could even learn from it. \"I feel it would make more ethically correct decisions than a typical human,\" says Susan. Neither Anderson is fazed by the prospect of being cared for by a carebot. \"Much rather a robot than the embarrassment of being changed by a human,\" says Michael.\n\nHowever machine learning throws up problems of its own. One is that the machine may learn the wrong lessons. To give a related example, machines that learn language from mimicking humans have been shown to import various biases. Male and female names have different associations. The machine may come to believe that a John or Fred is more suitable to be a scientist than a Joanna or Fiona. We would need to be alert to these biases, and to try to combat them.\n\nA yet more fundamental challenge is that if the machine evolves through a learning process we may be unable to predict how it will behave in the future; we may not even understand how it reaches its decisions. This is an unsettling possibility, especially if robots are making crucial choices about our lives. A partial solution might be to insist that if things do go wrong, we have a way to audit the code - a way of scrutinising what's happened. Since it would be both silly and unsatisfactory to hold the robot responsible for an action (what's the point of punishing a robot?), a further judgement would have to be made about who was morally and legally culpable for a robot's bad actions.\n\nOne big advantage of robots is that they will behave consistently. They will operate in the same way in similar situations. The autonomous weapon won't make bad choices because it is angry. The autonomous car won't get drunk, or tired, it won't shout at the kids on the back seat. Around the world, more than a million people are killed in car accidents each year - most by human error. Reducing those numbers is a big prize.\n\nQuite how much we should value consistency is an interesting issue, though. If robot judges provide consistent sentences for convicted criminals, this seems to be a powerful reason to delegate the sentencing role. But would nothing be lost in removing the human contact between judge and accused? Prof John Tasioulas at King's College London believes there is value in messy human relations. \"Do we really want a system of sentencing that mechanically churns out a uniform answer in response to the agonising conflict of values often involved? Something of real significance is lost when we eliminate the personal integrity and responsibility of a human decision-maker,\" he argues.\n\nAmy Rimmer is excited about the prospect of the driverless car. It's not just the lives saved. The car will reduce congestion and emissions and will be \"one of the few things you will be able to buy that will give you time\". What would it do in our trolley conundrum? Crash into two kids, or veer in front of an oncoming motorbike? Jaguar Land Rover hasn't yet considered such questions but Amy is not convinced that matters: \"I don't have to answer that question to pass a driving test, and I'm allowed to drive. So why would we dictate that the car has to have an answer to these unlikely scenarios before we're allow to get the benefits from it?\"\n\nThat's an excellent question. If driverless cars save life overall why not allow them on to the road before we resolve what they should do in very rare circumstances? Ultimately, though, we'd better hope that our machines can be ethically programmed - because, like it or not, in the future more and more decisions that are currently taken by humans will be delegated to robots.\n\nThere are certainly reasons to worry. We may not fully understand why a robot has made a particular decision. And we need to ensure that the robot does not absorb and compound our prejudices. But there's also a potential upside. The robot may turn out to be better at some ethical decisions than we are. It may even make us better people.\n\nIllustrations are From Would You Kill The Fat Man? By David Edmonds. Princeton University Press, 2014\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Two schoolgirls who had been reported missing have been found \"safe and well\".\n\nLeah Dixon, 14, and Jasmine Agnew, 12, were reported missing on Friday night after failing to return to their homes in Renfrewshire.\n\nPolice said they believed they may have travelled to the Falkirk area. Officers said they had been found there.\n\nLeah's mother Pauline Dixon appealed on Facebook for help in tracing her daughter.\n\nPolice Scotland thanked the media for their help in tracing the girls.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. First commercial flight touches down at \"the world's most useless airport\"\n\nThe first scheduled commercial airline service to the remote British island of St Helena in the south Atlantic has touched down safely.\n\nThe virgin flight, an SA Airlink service from South Africa, ends the island's long-standing reliance on a ship which sailed every three weeks.\n\nIt is hoped that the service, funded by the UK, will boost tourism and help make St Helena more self-sufficient.\n\nBut British media have dubbed it \"the most useless airport in the world\".\n\nThe opening of the airport was delayed by problems with wind\n\nBuilt with £285m ($380m) of funding from the UK Department for International Development (Dfid), the airport should have opened in 2016, but dangerous wind conditions delayed the launch.\n\nAfter further trials this summer, the weekly service between Johannesburg and St Helena was passed as safe.\n\nAs seen from inside the cabin, the first ever commercial flight lands at St Helena Airport\n\nSt Helena had for decades been one of the world's most inaccessible locations, served only by a rare ship service from South Africa.\n\nIt is chiefly known as the island to which French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled after his defeat in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, and where he died.\n\nThe Embraer E190-100IGW aircraft took off from Johannesburg on Saturday morning, carrying 78 passengers. It reached St Helena in the afternoon after stopping in the Namibian capital, Windhoek.\n\n\"I for one am getting really excited about the new chapter in St Helena's history,\" said St Helena governor Lisa Phillips.\n\nPreviously travel to and from the tiny island, with its population of just 4,255, was only possible on the RMS St Helena, which took around six days to complete the journey from South Africa.\n\nThe ship's final voyage is scheduled for February.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSt Helena relies on British aid of £52m a year and officials hope increased tourism will make it more self-sufficient.\n\n\"This is an important moment in St Helena's route to self-sufficiency,\" a Dfid spokeswoman said.\n\n\"It will boost its tourism industry, creating the opportunity to increase its revenues, and will bring other benefits such as quicker access to healthcare for those living on the island.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 a report in The Guardian newspaper, the island's diverse geology and wildlife, such as the whales that gather off its coast, may appeal to visitors.\n\nBut \"more flights will have to be added if the airport is to be deemed a success - and not an expensive white elephant\", the report said.\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.", "Sebastian Kurz has taken the conservatives further to the right\n\nAustrians are voting in a general election in which the frontrunner, conservative People's Party (ÖVP) leader Sebastian Kurz, is just 31.\n\nThe far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) and Social Democrats are competing for second place, opinion polls suggest.\n\nThe Social Democrats led the outgoing coalition with the ÖVP.\n\nImmigration has been a dominant issue in the campaign and the FPÖ is thought to have its best chance in years of returning to government.\n\nThe party narrowly missed out on the presidency in December when Norbert Hofer was defeated by Alexander Van der Bellen, head of the Greens, who won with about 53% of the votes.\n\nThe election comes amid anxiety in Europe over the huge influx of undocumented migrants and refugees in 2015, which fuelled an electoral breakthrough by the far right in neighbouring Germany last month.\n\nIf the polls are correct, a political shake-up could be on the cards in Austria, the BBC's Bethany Bell reports from Vienna.\n\nAfter more than a decade in which the Social Democrats have led a coalition with the conservatives, the mood in Austria seems to be moving to the right, our correspondent says.\n\nMr Kurz, the outgoing foreign minister, reinvented the ÖVP after becoming leader in May, moving it rightward with promises to:\n\nMr Kurz forced the snap election when he refused to continue in coalition with the Social Democrats, led by incumbent Chancellor Christian Kern.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Conservative Sebastian Kurz is the frontrunner in the run up to Austria's general election.\n\nThe FPÖ accuse Mr Kurz of stealing their policies. Their candidate, Heinz-Christian Strache, has called him an \"imposter\".\n\nIf his party wins, as polls suggest it will, Mr Kurz would become the youngest leader in Europe, and analysts say his party is likely to form a coalition with the FPÖ.\n\nMr Kern warned on Saturday that the country \"was at the most important crossroads in decades\".\n\nHis own party has been struggling after several scandals including an online smear campaign against Mr Kurz.\n\nThe party's campaign focused on economic growth, jobs and social justice.\n\nAfter a tumultuous year with internal rifts, the pro-refugee Greens are among several smaller parties uncertain of reaching the 4% vote threshold required to enter parliament.\n\nTraditionally, the winning party is tasked with forming the next government which, since the 1980s, has been a coalition with one of the other parties.\n\nUnder the late Jörg Haider, the Freedom Party was the junior party in two coalitions with the ÖVP, between 2000 and 2007.\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.", "James Toback has been a writer and director since the 1970s\n\nOscar-nominated Hollywood film-maker James Toback has been accused by nearly 40 women of sexual harassment.\n\nThe Los Angeles Times said 31 of the women had spoken on the record about their experiences, which span the last 30 years.\n\nToback has denied the allegations and said he had never met any of the women in question or, if he did, it \"was for five minutes and have no recollection\".\n\nThe writer and director was nominated for best screenplay for 1991's Bugsy.\n\nThe mobster film starred Warren Beatty and Annette Bening. He has also directed Robert Downey Jr in three films, including Black and White and The Pick-Up Artist.\n\nHis latest film, The Private Life of a Modern Woman, premiered at the Venice Film Festival last month and stars Sienna Miller.\n\nThe women interviewed by the LA Times have accused Toback, 72, of masturbating in front of them, rubbing himself up against them, asking inappropriate questions of a sexual nature and asking them to perform sexual acts.\n\nOne said that after an alleged encounter, she \"felt like a prostitute, an utter disappointment to myself, my parents, my friends\", adding: \"And I deserved not to tell anyone.\"\n\nToback told the LA Times that for the past 22 years, it had been \"biologically impossible\" for him to engage in the behaviour described, saying he had diabetes and a heart condition that required medication.\n\nLA Times writer Glenn Whipp, who broke the story, tweeted that since the story was published on Sunday, the number of women who originally contacted him - 38 - had doubled.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Mark Acklom is likely to be with his wife Maria Rodriguez, police say\n\nDetectives hunting a man accused of conning a wealthy divorcee out of her life savings have released details of his family in an attempt to find him.\n\nMark Acklom, 44, was named among the 10 most wanted British fugitives living in Spain, last October.\n\nA woman with whom he had a relationship said he posed as an MI6 agent before disappearing with £850,000 she had lent him.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police have released a photograph of Mr Acklom's wife.\n\nPolice believe Maria Yolanda Ros Rodriguez, 47, is likely to be with him and could be assisting him, although she is not the subject of a European Arrest Warrant.\n\nMark Acklom was apparently photographed in Geneva in May\n\nDet Insp Adam Bunting said: \"We believe he'll be with his wife Maria Rodriguez and their two young daughters, who we know up until last year's appeal, were enrolled in El Limonar International School in the Murcia area of Spain.\n\n\"In the days following the appeal he removed his children from the school and, together with his wife, he disappeared.\n\nHe said there were \"significant concerns\" about the children's wellbeing due to them being \"uprooted, with no notice, from their school, friends and family\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carolyn Woods talks about how Mark Acklom convinced her he was an MI6 agent\n\n\"It's highly likely Acklom will have placed his children in another fee-paying school,\" he added.\n\nA spokesman said police particularly want to hear from British expats with children in a private international school abroad, who may have noticed the recent arrival of a family from Spain, with daughters aged six and eight.\n\nThey said Ms Rodriguez may be using the aliases Yolanda Ross, Maria Long or Mary Moss, and may be teaching or attending yoga classes.\n\nDet Insp Bunting added: \"We also have information linking him to Dublin and Italy, but he could be anywhere in Europe. It's possible he may have travelled outside the EU.\"\n\nIn May this year Mr Acklom was apparently photographed in Geneva, Switzerland, but has not been sighted since.\n\nEarlier this year Carolyn Woods, who was working in a boutique in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, when she met him, criticised police for not doing enough to catch Mr Acklom.\n\nShe described how he told her he was a wealthy Swiss banker and MI6 agent before disappearing with her life savings in 2012.\n\nMs Woods said she gave evidence to Avon and Somerset Police, in July 2015, that Mr Acklom was in custody in Spain, but by the time they had got a European Arrest Warrant a year later he had been released.\n\nCarolyn Woods met Mr Acklom when he walked into the shop where she worked in Tetbury\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shinzo Abe called the snap election in September, and said the results were a \"vote of confidence\"\n\nJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has promised strong \"counter-measures\" against North Korea, after winning a decisive victory in Sunday's election.\n\nMr Abe had called an early election for a greater mandate to deal with \"crises\", including the growing threat from Pyongyang, which has fired missiles over Japan in recent months.\n\nHis ruling coalition has retained a two-thirds majority in parliament.\n\nThis paves the way for Mr Abe to amend Japan's post-war pacifist constitution.\n\nThe prime minister has previously called for the existence of the country's armed forces to be formalised, a controversial move which he says is needed to strengthen Japan's defence but which critics say is a step towards re-militarisation.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference in Tokyo, Mr Abe said his coalition's win was a \"vote of confidence\" from the public, and based on that \"we would dramatically show counter-measures against the North Korea threat\".\n\nHe said he would discuss these measures with US President Donald Trump, who is visiting Japan next month, as well as with other world powers such as Russia and China.\n\nHe said they would exert \"stronger pressure\" on North Korea, adding: \"I will make sure the Japanese public is safe, and safeguard our nation.\"\n\nMr Abe saw his popularity plummet in recent months while embroiled in political scandals, but enjoyed a sudden recovery after North Korea fired two missiles over the Japanese island of Hokkaido.\n\nThe BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo says Mr Abe's pledge of tough diplomacy with North Korea is rhetoric that would play well with the Japanese public, but it is unclear what it means in concrete terms.\n\nTokyo has no diplomatic or economic relations with North Korea, and has poor relations with Pyongyang's closest ally China, so the most Mr Abe can do is strengthen Japan's defences and stick closely to the US, our correspondent adds.\n\nTurnout on Sunday was estimated at about 53.7%\n\nMr Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) coalition with the Komeito party has won 313 of the 465 seats in the lower house of Japan's parliamentary Diet - which gives them the power to table a revision to the constitution.\n\nMr Abe had previously announced he wanted to revise a clause which renounces war, known as Article 9, to formally recognise Japan's military, which is known as the \"self-defence forces\".\n\nHe had set a deadline of 2020 to achieve this highly contentious task. But on Monday he appeared to ditch this target, saying it was \"not set in a concrete schedule\".\n\nHe said he hoped to \"form a strong agreement\" on the issue among parties in parliament, and \"gain trust\" from the Japanese public.\n\nEven if an amendment to the constitution is passed and approved by both houses in the Diet - which Mr Abe's coalition controls - it still needs to be put to a public vote in a referendum.\n\nMr Abe two years ago successfully managed to push for a re-interpretation of the constitution to allow troops to fight overseas under certain circumstances, which attracted widespread protests.\n\nOur correspondent says Mr Abe's victory is also in large part due to the chaos of Japan's opposition parties.\n\nIn the lead-up to the snap election, all eyes were on the recently-formed conservative Party of Hope led by the charismatic Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike, with some speculating that it would make significant gains.\n\nMs Koike said she took responsibility for the result\n\nBut in the end it was overtaken by the centre-left Constitutional Democratic Party which emerged as the biggest opposition party, and which opposes Mr Abe's plan to amend Article 9.\n\nMs Koike, who was in Paris for a business trip during the election, told reporters she was personally taking responsibility for the result. Japanese media quoted her as saying her \"words and deeds\" had caused \"displeasure\" to voters.\n\nMr Abe's election win also raises his chances of securing a third three-year-term as leader of the LDP when the party votes next September.\n\nThat would give him the opportunity to become Japan's longest serving prime minister, having been elected in 2012.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: We are in touching distance of a deal\n\nTheresa May has said \"important progress\" on Brexit was made at last week's EU summit - but Jeremy Corbyn said it sounded like \"Groundhog Day\".\n\nThe PM said she had a \"degree of confidence\" of making enough progress by December to begin trade talks.\n\nShe also said there would be no \"physical infrastructure\" on the border in Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the EU Commission president dismissed a German newspaper's account of his dinner with the PM.\n\n\"Nothing is true in all of this,\" Jean-Claude Juncker said, rejecting the article's claims Mrs May \"begged for help\" when they met and seemed tired and politically weak.\n\nAfter five rounds of UK-EU talks, there has been no breakthrough in the first phase of negotiations between the UK and the EU.\n\nAt the summit, the other 27 EU leaders decided progress on the Brexit separation issues had not been \"sufficient\" to open talks on future trade relations with the UK yet - but they did agree to discuss future arrangements amongst themselves, paving the way for talks with the UK to possibly begin in December.\n\nBusinesses are calling for urgent agreement in setting up temporary transition arrangements after the UK's departure date in March 2019.\n\nBut some pro-EU MPs expressed concern that the UK could leave without one in place, after Mrs May suggested it was dependent on details of the final \"partnership\" being clear.\n\n\"The point of the implementation period is to put in place the practical changes necessary to move to the future partnership,\" she said as she updated MPs on last week's summit.\n\n\"In order to have that, you need to know what the future partnership is going to be.\"\n\nMrs May also said the question of citizens' rights after Brexit remained her \"first priority\", with a deal within \"touching distance\", and pledged that EU nationals living in the UK would not face \"bureaucratic hurdles\" after March 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHer \"clear commitments\" on another sticking point, the UK's financial settlement, had helped moved talks forward, she said.\n\nIn response, Mr Corbyn compared Mrs May's updates to 1993 comedy Groundhog Day, where the lead character played by Bill Murray lives the same day over and over again.\n\n\"Well, here we are again after another round of talks,\" he said, saying it was \"no clearer\" when future talks would begin or what the UK had agreed to so far.\n\nTalks have reached an \"impasse\" with no progress abroad or at home, he said, adding that the citizens' rights issue \"could have been dealt with 16 months ago\".\n\nJust before the PM got to her feet in the Commons, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker denied leaking an unsourced account of his dinner with the PM published in German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Juncker: Theresa May was in good shape, she was not tired\n\nThe account, largely written from the perspective of EU officials, suggested Mrs May appeared \"anxious, despondent and disheartened\" and had spoken of her limited room for manoeuvre back at home.\n\n\"Everyone can see: the prime minister is marked by the struggle with her own party,\" the article stated, according to a translated version quoted by a number of British newspapers.\n\n\"She has deep rings under her eyes. She looks like someone who doesn't sleep at night.\"\n\nBut asked by the BBC if he had spoken to the German press, Mr Juncker said: \"No, never. I am really surprised - if not shocked - about what has been written in the German press.\n\n\"And of course repeated by the British press. Nothing is true in all of this.\n\n\"I had an excellent working dinner with Theresa May. She was in good shape, she was not tired, she was fighting, as is her duty, so everything for me was OK.\"\n\nIn the Commons, Tory MP Bernard Jenkin said anyone suggesting Mrs May was weak \"seriously underestimates\" the PM and the Conservative Party, urging her to \"stick to her guns\".\n\nThe apparent leak of what happened at the dinner follows a similar incident in April, when Mrs May accused some in the EU of \"meddling\" in the general election campaign after details of a dinner between her and Mr Juncker in Downing Street appeared in the German press.\n\nDowning Street said it had no comment on the latest reports and pointed out that both sides were of the view that the recent get-together had been \"constructive and friendly\".\n\nMartin Selmayr is a key figure in the European Commission\n\nEarlier Nick Timothy, who was the PM's chief of staff until he quit after the general election, suggested the disclosure had all the hallmarks of coming from the European Commission.\n\nIn a reference to EU official Martin Selmayr, he tweeted: \"After constructive Council meeting, Selmayr does this. Reminder that some in Brussels want no deal or a punitive one.\"\n\nBut Mr Selmayr said the claim was \"false\" and neither he nor Mr Juncker had any \"interest in weakening\" Mrs May.\n\nHe tweeted: \"I deny that 1: we leaked this; 2: Juncker ever said this; 3: we are punitive on Brexit. It's an attempt 2 frame EU side & 2 undermine talks.\"\n\nThe European Commission said it was working for a fair Brexit deal and had \"no time for gossip\".\n\n\"Some people like to point at us to serve their own political priorities,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We would appreciate if these people would leave us alone.\"", "Rosemary Leach played the Queen in Margaret, a BBC drama about Margaret Thatcher\n\nActress Rosemary Leach, best known for her roles in the films A Room With A View and That'll Be The Day, has died, her agent has said.\n\nLeach, who also played Grace in episodes of the sitcom My Family, died in hospital after a \"short illness\", Caroline de Wolfe said in a statement.\n\nThe stage and screen actress, 81, won an Olivier Award in 1982 for her part in the play 84 Charing Cross Road.\n\nShe was also twice nominated for a Bafta award as best supporting actress.\n\nLeach is survived by her actor husband, Colin Starkey.\n\nRosemary Leach appeared alongside Ronnie Corbett in Now Look Here, in the 1970s\n\nShe again starred alongside Corbett in the 1974 series The Prince of Denmark\n\nLeach again played Queen Elizabeth II in the 2005 series Tea with Betty", "Stephen Hawking's handwriting can be seen on the document\n\nDemand for Stephen Hawking's PhD thesis intermittently crashed part of Cambridge University's website as physics fans flocked to read his work.\n\nProf Hawking's 1966 thesis \"Properties of expanding universes\" was made freely available for the first time on the publications section of university's website at 00:01 BST.\n\nMore than 60,000 have so far accessed his work as a 24-year-old postgraduate.\n\nProf Hawking said by making it available he hoped to \"inspire people\".\n\nHe added: \"Anyone, anywhere in the world should have free, unhindered access to not just my research, but to the research of every great and enquiring mind across the spectrum of human understanding.\n\n\"It's wonderful to hear how many people have already shown an interest in downloading my thesis - hopefully they won't be disappointed now that they finally have access to it!\"\n\nProfessor Hawking is still working at Cambridge University at the age of 75\n\nThe 75-year-old's doctoral thesis is the most requested item in Cambridge University's library.\n\nSince May 2016, 199 requests were made for the PhD - most of which are believed to be from the general public rather than academics. The next most requested publication was asked for just 13 times.\n\nPreviously, to read Hawking's PhD in full, people had to pay £65 to the university library to scan a copy or physically go to the library to read it.\n\nBecause of the popularity of the 134-page work the website has, at times, struggled to cope with the volume of users on Monday.\n\nBut thousands have still been able to read the document by the man who would go on to write A Brief History of Time, one of the most influential scientific works ever.\n\nThe abstract of his PhD begins: \"Some implications and consequences of the expansion of the universe are examined\".\n\nThe opening page of Stephen Hawking's PhD, when he was a 24-year-old studying at Trinity Hall\n\nDr Lauren Cadwallader, deputy head of scholarly communications at Cambridge University, said when Prof Hawking was asked whether he wanted to make his PhD available to all he agreed almost immediately.\n\nDr Cadwallader added she hoped it would be a \"great example for academics writing their theses now that maybe in 51 years' time they'll be having theirs still read\".\n\nCambridge University said it now hoped to encourage its other former academics to make their work available to the public, like Prof Hawking has.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A view of Muzaffarabad, where the Neelum River divides the main city from hillside settlements\n\nTowering some 550 metres (1,800 ft) above the Pakistani town of Garhi Habibullah to the west, and the Kashmiri city of Muzaffarabad to the east, Dub Gali looks serene on a cool October morning.\n\nSome two dozen shops sit quietly on both sides of a security barrier that marks the border between Kashmir and the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.\n\nThere is nothing to suggest that hordes of militant Pathan tribal warriors who invaded Kashmir exactly 70 years ago to start one of the world's most enduring territorial conflicts actually broke into the region through this very point.\n\nBut a local villager, Mohammad Hasan Qureshi, 86, clearly remembers those stormy days.\n\n\"A week before the Pathans came, there were rumours that Kashmiri Sikhs [who had a significant population in this area] were planning to attack Muzaffarabad,\" he says.\n\n\"A couple of days later, we heard that Pathans were coming.\"\n\nMohammad Hasan Qureshi says he saw hundreds of Pathans with axes and swords\n\nSuch rumours were natural, coming as they did amid a series of upheavals that shook the princely state of Kashmir when the so-called 3 June Plan was announced.\n\nUnder the plan, British India, a Hindu-majority colony, was to be partitioned to create the Muslim state of Pakistan.\n\nThe fate of Kashmir, a princely state with a Muslim majority but a Hindu ruler, hung in the balance.\n\nMuslims in the western districts of the state revolted against the ruling maharaja in June and there were anti-Muslim riots in southern Kashmir in September. There were also reports of a leaked Pakistani plan for raising a tribal column of 20,000 fighters to attack and annex Kashmir.\n\nMr Qureshi remembers the evening of 21 October, when he and some friends climbed a ridge to have a view of the western valley. They saw trucks carrying Pathans drive down the Batrasi hills into Garhi Habibullah.\n\n\"We stayed up all night, waiting. They came in the morning - just before daybreak. There were hundreds of them. Most of them carried axes and swords. Some had muskets, others just sticks. The Maharaja's guards at the barrier had vanished.\"\n\nFirst clashes took place on their way down to Muzaffarabad, some 8km (5 miles) of steep descent.\n\nThis 1947 picture shows Pathan tribesmen waiting for trucks and more ammunition as they prepare to go into battle\n\nGohar Rahman, a World War Two veteran from Battagram, 80km north-west of Garhi Habibullah, was in the column that crossed from Dub Gali.\n\n\"We knew the area so we led one group through this shorter route, on foot,\" he says.\n\n\"The bulk of the Frontier tribesmen - Wazir, Mahsud, Turi, Afridi, Mohmand, the Malakand Yusufzais - went via the longer but easier Lohar Gali route in lorries and trucks.\"\n\nAround 2,000 tribesmen stormed Muzaffarabad that morning and easily scattered the Kashmir state army deployed there. Military historians estimate it was just 500-strong at the time and had also suffered defections by Muslim soldiers.\n\nFlushed with victory, the tribesmen got down to wanton looting and arson.\n\n\"They plundered the state armoury, set entire markets on fire and looted their goods,\" Mr Rahman says.\n\n\"They shot everyone who couldn't recite the kalima - the Arabic-language Muslim declaration of faith. Many non-Muslim women were enslaved, while many others jumped in the river to escape capture.\"\n\nThe streets were littered with signs of mayhem - broken buildings, broken shop furniture, the ashes of burnt goods and dead bodies, including those of tribal fighters, state soldiers and local men and women. There were also bodies floating in the river.\n\nThe raiders spent about three days in Muzaffarabad before sense prevailed and the leaders urged them to move on towards Srinagar, the state capital some 170km to the east.\n\nFrom here, one column drove in trucks down the Jhelum river, breezing past Uri and reaching Baramulla where another round of looting and arson ensued.\n\nGohar Rahman says the tribesmen shot non-Muslims when they stormed Muzaffarabad\n\nMr Rahman was part of the column that headed north on foot to Teetwal from where they turned east and went past Kupwara to arrive at the outskirts of Srinagar, a journey of well over 200km.\n\nThey did not face any resistance. The maharaja's army had scattered, and Hindus and Sikhs had fled the villages. They only met Muslims on the way.\n\n\"Muslim women would sometimes offer us food but the Pathans were reluctant to accept, thinking it may be poisoned. They would instead capture those people's goats and sheep, slaughter them and roast the meat on fire.\"\n\nOne night the fires attracted aircraft that dropped bombs, killing scores of them. \"Bodies were strewn over a large area in a forest.\"\n\nUnbeknown to them, the maharaja had by then signed an instrument of accession with India. Between 26 and 30 October, the Indians flew in enough troops to Srinagar to tilt the balance against tribal fighters.\n\nThe tribesmen still had numerical superiority but they were more adept at guerrilla war than infantry-style battles.\n\nAt that point, Pakistan's attempt to launch a formal attack on Srinagar in aid of the tribesmen was frustrated due to opposition from the British joint command of the as-yet-undivided militaries of India and Pakistan.\n\nBy November's end, the tribesmen had mostly pulled back to Uri, where the Jhelum gorge becomes narrower and easy to defend. Soon the winter snows arrived and put an end to the Indian advance towards Muzaffarabad.\n\nIt was here that the line that divides Kashmir between the Indian and Pakistani parts stabilised. Pakistani forces formally arrived on the scene in the spring of 1948 to reinforce this border.\n\nHussain Gul, a resident of Shalozan village in the Kurram tribal region who was then a soldier of the paramilitary Kurram Militia, was part of that force.\n\n\"We were there to attack and recapture [the 2,800-metre] Pandu ridge which the Indians had occupied during autumn,\" he says.\n\n\"It was a good victory. We were able to occupy a considerable part of Kashmir but we still lost most of it. It made one feel sad, like when you lose a part of your house,\"\n\nHis father, who went in with a band of friends to fight during the previous season, \"came back defeated\".\n\n\"They brought back war booty though; gold and some women,\" he chuckles.\n\nHussain Gul holds the rifle he used in the battle for Pandu ridge\n\nIn his mid-90s now, and with a fading memory, he is not sure what happened to the women. As for gold, \"they were cheated out of it by Majoor\", an ethnic Hazara businessman in Parachinar, the central town of Kurram.\n\nGohar Rahman returned to Garhi Habibullah when the first winter snows came. With him were many other tribesmen.\n\n\"They had returned with war booty,\" he says.\n\n\"Some had brought cattle, some horses. Most of them had brought arms, and many brought women. One Afridi tribesman walked back with two women in tow. They wept incessantly and just wouldn't stop. A local feudal lord took pity on them and forced the Afridi man to release them.\"\n\nThe invasion not only traumatised a previously well-settled and peaceful Kashmiri society, it also set a disastrous pattern for India-Pakistan relations.\n\nMajor-General Akbar Khan, an army officer who is widely believed to have played a pivotal role in starting the invasion, emerged as \"the architect of (the) philosophy of armed insurrection by aiding non-state actors as state proxies\", writes a military historian, Major (Retd) Agha Humayun Amin, in his book , The 1947-48 Kashmir War: The War of Lost Opportunities.\n\nPakistan repeated this strategy in Kashmir in 1965, during the Kashmir insurgency of 1988-2003, as well as in the Kargil War of 1999. It also used non-state actors in Afghanistan.\n\nBut instead of liberating Kashmir or taming Afghanistan, it has led to the weakening of political processes, and has militarised society not only in Kashmir and Afghanistan, but also in Pakistan.\n\n3 June 1947: The June Plan, also called the Mountbatten Plan, is approved in a meeting. It culminates in the Independence of India Act 1947 which partitions British India into independent states of India and Pakistan. The Act receives royal assent in July.\n\n15 June: Agitation in the form of a No-Tax campaign starts in Poonch, an internal principality of Kashmir state.\n\n15 August: Killings are reported from Bagh in Poonch principality when pro-Pakistan groups try to hoist a Pakistani flag to mark independence and clash with the state police.\n\n12 September: Prime Minister of Pakistan Liaquat Ali Khan holds a meeting with military and civilian officials where a go-ahead is reportedly given to two plans: raise a tribal force to attack Kashmir from the north and arm the rebels in Poonch.\n\n4 October: Rebels clash with state forces at a place called Thorar, and go on to besiege state forces in Poonch.\n\n22 October: Tribal bands attack Muzaffarabad, then move eastwards to capture Baramulla. Some of the fighters reach the outskirts of Srinagar.\n\n24 October: Sardar Ibrahim, a pro-Pakistan landlord from Poonch principality, announces the founding of the government of Azad (free) Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) at a place called Palandri, and appoints himself as its head.\n\n26 October: The Maharaja of Kashmir, earlier inclined to stay independent due to the demographic composition of his state, accedes to India, presumably under duress.\n\n27 October: Indian air and ground troops start landing at Srinagar, tilting the balance against tribal invaders and leading to the partition of Kashmir along the line that more or less exists today", "It was the year Australia went to war in the Gulf, when Monica Seles and Boris Becker won tennis grand slams in Melbourne, and The Simpsons was first shown on Aussie television, while a swooning Bryan Adams was a hit with love-struck teenagers (\"Look into your heart, baby\").\n\nIt was 1991, and the last time Australia tasted the bitter economic taste of recession, defined in these parts, at least, as two or more back-to-back quarters of negative growth in real gross domestic product, or the value of all services and goods.\n\nSince then, Australia has sidestepped the worst effects of the Asian financial crisis in 1997 and its more destructive big brother that hammered global markets a decade or so later.\n\nAustralia's economy - the \"wonder down under\" - has somehow dodged the unstoppable forces that sent other wealthy countries tumbling into reverse.\n\nFor this, a nation of 24 million people must thank not only sound judgement by those in charge but also good fortune, according to Shane Oliver, chief economist at financial services company AMP in Sydney.\n\n\"I certainly don't see Australia as being a miracle,\" he says. \"It has had a bit of good luck and good management, but it would be dangerous to assume that it is never going to have a recession again.\"\n\nThe economy is growing by about 1.9% per year, according to the Reserve Bank. In 2012, that figure was 3.7%. Weaker growth means that pay packets are shrinking for many workers when adjusted for the rising cost of living, and near-record levels of underemployment are stifling wage increases.\n\nIn August, retail sales posted their biggest retreat in about four-and-a-half years, falling by 0.6%, with cafes and restaurants reporting declining turnovers.\n\nRocks, coal and demand from China insulated this country from the global financial meltdown in 2008, as a red-hot mining industry delivered unprecedented wealth.\n\nSurging commodity prices fuelled the bonanza in Western Australia and Queensland, which propped up under-performing states in the south-east, where most Australians live.\n\nShane Oliver says the situation has now \"been turned on its head\" and Australia is once again in transition.\n\nThe mining boom has faded, but areas that once struggled have bounced back in part because of record low interest rates that have unleashed a frenzy into the housing market.\n\nMeanwhile, eye-watering wads of public money have poured into infrastructure projects, which are redefining parts of New South Wales, the most populous state.\n\nThere was another critical factor that helped Australia to largely avoid the ravages of the global financial crisis - unprecedented spending by the Labor government that boosted public expenditure by a whopping 13% in an attempt to stimulate growth.\n\nIt was a classic Keynesian economic manoeuvre to use billions of dollars to sustain household spending, demand and employment.\n\nAustralia loves to win. Here international cricket matches are akin to \"wars\" and Olympic gold medals - or a lack thereof - are greeted with congratulatory back-slapping - or hand-wringing.\n\nIf there was a podium for economic success, this is a country that would be bending forward to accept the award. More than 25 years of uninterrupted growth is a remarkable achievement, although there is debate about the competition.\n\nSome commentators believe the recent economic prosperity enjoyed by the Netherlands lasted for (only) 22 years, putting it firmly into silver medal position behind the Aussies.\n\nTim Harcourt, an economics fellow at the University of New South Wales, believes Australia deserves the plaudits.\n\n\"This time the 'lucky country' made its own luck.\n\n\"The Hawke-Keating [government] reforms of the 1980s and 1990s - the currency float, tariff changes, and embrace of Asia - set up us up for a quarter of a century of growth.\n\n\"Australia found itself in the right place at the right time and embraced the Asia century,\" he argues.\n\nBut as the economy has soared, some Australians have been left behind. At almost 13%, youth unemployment is more than twice the national average.\n\nLabouring work had left 21-year-old Mohammad Al-Khafaji, the son of an Iranian refugee, with endless back pain and homelessness soon followed.\n\n\"I was just trying to apply for jobs online, and then people were just putting me down saying 'you are never going to get that job', so I just stopped trying,\" he says.\n\nMohammad is now employed by a hire car company in Sydney, and has ambitions to one day be the boss.\n\nHe works with Shiv Dhingra, an Indian migrant from Punjab. They are proof that much of Australia's economic might is down to immigration.\n\n\"I am the only one working in my family,\" Shiv explained. \"I am the main financial support they have. I am working seven days a week for the last year. I've got plans for my own business.\"\n\nBoth young men were helped by Charity Bounce, a Sydney-based non-profit organisation that uses basketball to reach out to the disadvantaged and long-term unemployed, who, according to chief executive, Ian Heininger, also deserve a slice of Australia's prosperity.\n\n\"We find a lot of the young people are desperate to find work,\" he says, \"desperate to find an opportunity that is going to get them into a place where they are contributing back to the world.\"\n\nBut will they be part of an ever-expanding economy? Mr Oliver thinks Australia's luck will eventually run out, but not for a while.\n\n\"The Aussie economy is probably going to continue muddling along, not fantastically strong as housing slows and consumer spending remains a bit weak,\" he predicts.\n\n\"We are probably going to go for at least another few years before we have that recession some people say is inevitable.\"", "A man accused of taking two people hostage during a four-hour siege at a bowling alley has appeared in court.\n\nDavid Clarke, 53, was arrested on Sunday after the stand-off at MFA Bowl in Bermuda Park, Nuneaton.\n\nHe is charged a number of offences, including false imprisonment and being in possession of a samurai sword and a sawn-off shotgun.\n\nMr Clarke of Ryde Avenue, Nuneaton, was remanded into custody and will appear before Warwick Crown Court next month.\n\nThe 53-year-old has been charged with the following offences:\n\nAppearing at Warwickshire Justice Centre, Mr Clarke spoke only to confirm his name, age and address.\n\nAbout 40 or 50 people were said to be inside the leisure complex at the time of the incident.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The man has been taken to hospital and the road is closed\n\nA man was stabbed repeatedly outside a primary school and found bleeding on the ground, police have said.\n\nHe was found in the Tower Road area of St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, at about 11:30 BST with multiple stab wounds.\n\nA witness who lives near the scene said he overheard paramedics say the victim had been stabbed five times.\n\nThe witness said the attack happened outside Christ Church Primary School.\n\nSouth East Coast Ambulance Service (Secamb) said crews had taken a man to hospital at about 11:30 BST after a serious assault outside the school.\n\nA spokesman for Secamb said the attack was not on school premises.\n\nThe school's calendar says it is currently closed for half term. The BBC was unable to contact anyone for comment.\n\nInsp Ed Neve, from Sussex Police, said: \"We have officers working in the area to find the suspect and we are asking anyone who saw what happened to get in touch with this information.\n\n\"Tower Road is currently closed while officers are on scene.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Megan Westwood: \"We got evacuated one by one\"\n\nA suspected gunman was arrested after police ended a four-hour siege at a bowling alley in Nuneaton.\n\nOfficers were called to MFA Bowl in Bermuda Park at around 14:30 BST on Sunday after reports a man with a shotgun had taken two hostages.\n\nA 53-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of making threats to kill after police stormed the building at about 18:30 BST.\n\nThe suspect was treated for minor injuries. Two other men were uninjured.\n\nCh Supt Alex Franklin-Smith, from Warwickshire Police, said officers brought the incident to \"a peaceful resolution\".\n\nThe siege was \"unconnected\" to terrorism, he added.\n\nPolice said at about 19:00 BST that the cordon at the retail and leisure complex had been lifted and advised people they could now and any vehicles left there overnight.\n\nThe gunman reportedly walked into MFA Bowl and yelled \"game over\" before ordering people to get out.\n\nAbout 40 or 50 people were said to be inside the complex at the time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eyewitness: \"The guy ran up to the door with a gun\"\n\nBoth of the hostages - a duty manager and a bowling lane host - were unharmed but treated for shock.\n\nChris Clegg, operations director of MFA Bowl, said: \"It's obviously not an everyday situation. The ambulance, police were checking them and making sure they were OK.\"\n\nThe firm's chief executive Mehdi Amshar said he understood the man was known to a member of staff at the bowling alley.\n\nSpecialist firearms officers and police negotiators were sent to the scene, and used flash bangs - which create a loud noise and bright light - to enter the premises.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 WMAS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWarwickshire Police said officers were called to reports of a man - described by eyewitnesses as \"in his 40s\" with a gun \"slung\" over his shoulder - with a firearm at 14:30 BST.\n\nOne witness, Chris Turner, told the BBC he was walking past the front entrance to the bowling alley when the man \"ran up to the door\".\n\nHe had \"a gun in his hand\" and told him to \"get out of the area\", he said.\n\nMr Turner said the man shouted at a crowd of people outside to leave, saying: \"I've already told you once.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We were trying to keep all the kids together'\n\nEyewitnesses also spoke about how they fled the bowling alley, while others hid in toilets, as the gunman brandished a weapon above his head.\n\nAlex Mulholland said he was bowling when he looked up to see a man holding a gun over his head.\n\n\"He was saying 'game over, game over', everyone was shouting, screaming, panicking, trying to get out and I didn't know what to make of it, really,\" he said. \"I ran, got my things as quickly as I could and got out of there.\"\n\nOther businesses in the leisure park, including a children's soft play centre and restaurants, were put into lockdown.\n\nFamilies inside the soft play centre told the BBC they barricaded the front door with tables and chairs.\n\nWarwickshire Police said the incident was unconnected to terrorism\n\nA number of ambulances were dispatched to the area around the bowling alley\n\nKelly Perrett, who was at the Frankie and Benny's restaurant, told the BBC she was \"hiding in the toilet with about 20 people\".\n\n\"It looks like police have got the bowling alley surrounded. The police told me that the gunman is near the door with a hostage,\" she said as the incident unfolded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage posted on social media showed police officers at the scene in Bermuda Park\n\nMegan Westward said she was about to leave a children's soft play centre when staff told her to move away from the windows.\n\n\"There are quite a few bullet proof vans,\" she said. \"We've just seen an air ambulance take off, there are ambulances and there are police in full body suits with guns.\"\n\nShe was then evacuated to a nearby hotel.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Warwickshire 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\nFollowing the conclusion of the siege, forensics officers were examining the scene and a red Peugeot 307 car was removed by police on the back of a vehicle transporter.\n\nAre you in the area? If it is safe to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Cold water corals should be more resilient\n\nAll sea life will be affected because carbon dioxide emissions from modern society are making the oceans more acidic, a major new report will say.\n\nThe eight-year study from more than 250 scientists finds that infant sea creatures will be especially harmed.\n\nThis means the number of baby cod growing to adulthood could fall to a quarter or even a 12th of today's numbers, the researchers suggest.\n\nThe assessment comes from the BIOACID project, which is led from Germany.\n\nA brochure summarising the main outcomes will be presented to climate negotiators at their annual meeting, which this year is taking place in Bonn in November.\n\nThe Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification report authors say some creatures may benefit directly from the chemical changes - but even these could still be adversely affected indirectly by shifts in the whole food web.\n\nWhat is more, the research shows that changes through acidification will be made worse by climate change, pollution, coastal development, over-fishing and agricultural fertilisers.\n\nOcean acidification is happening because as CO2 from fossil fuels dissolves in seawater, it produces carbonic acid and this lowers the pH of the water.\n\nMesocosms (\"giant test tubes\") allow scientists to study acidification effects on real-world organisms\n\nSince the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the average pH of global ocean surface waters have fallen from pH 8.2 to 8.1. This represents an increase in acidity of about 26%.\n\nThe study's lead author is Prof Ulf Riebesell from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel.\n\nHe is a world authority on the topic and has typically communicated cautiously about the effects of acidification.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"Acidification affects marine life across all groups, although to different degrees.\n\n\"Warm-water corals are generally more sensitive than cold-water corals. Clams and snails are more sensitive than crustaceans.\n\n\"And we found that early life stages are generally more affected than adult organisms.\n\n\"But even if an organism isn't directly harmed by acidification it may be affected indirectly through changes in its habitat or changes in the food web.\n\n\"At the end of the day, these changes will affect the many services the ocean provides to us.\"\n\nSince 2009, scientists working under the BIOACID programme have studied how marine creatures are affected by acidification during different life stages; how these reactions reverberate through the marine food web; and whether the challenges can be mitigated by evolutionary adaptation.\n\nSome research was done in the lab but other studies were conducted in the North Sea, the Baltic, the Arctic, and Papua New Guinea.\n\nA synthesis of more than 350 publications on the effects of ocean acidification - which will be given to climate delegates at next month's summit - reveals that almost half of the marine animal species tested reacted negatively to already moderate increases in seawater CO2 concentrations.\n\nEarly life stages were affected in Atlantic cod, blue mussels, starfish, sea urchins and sea butterflies.\n\nBut an experiment with barnacles showed they were not sensitive to acidification. And some plants - like algae which use carbon for photosynthesis - may even benefit.\n\nOrganisms that use calcium carbonate to build their bodies will likely struggle\n\nDr Carol Turley, an ocean acidification expert from Plymouth Marine Labs in the UK described the BIOACID research as enormously important.\n\nShe told BBC News: \"It's contributed enormous insights into the impacts that acidification can have on a wide range of marine organisms from microbes to fish.\n\n\"It's also explored how in combination with ocean warming and other stressors it might play out at the ecosystem level and affect human society.\n\n\"On the lead-up to the UN climate change negotiations in Bonn this November it is clear that the ocean and its ecosystems should not be ignored.\"\n\nThe conference is being held in Germany but it is being chaired by Fiji, which wants delegates to give due prominence to the effects of CO2 on the ocean.", "The Daily Mirror leads with a claim that 50 children a week are now referred to gender realignment clinics - some as young as four.\n\nA gender dysphoria expert and a clinical psychologist tell the paper the rise in cases could be the result of a growing acceptance of gender issues.\n\nHowever, another gender expert cautions that it could be be \"a fad among parents who indulge their children\".\n\nElsewhere on Monday, business leaders take to the Financial Times to \"sharply criticise the state of capitalism\".\n\nA panel of more than 50 leading figures in finance, business and policymaking describe capitalism as in need of reform, as \"management greed, corporate tax dodging and investor short-termism\" have caused it to \"lose its way\", focusing too much on delivering for shareholders, rather than increasing productivity.\n\nThe Times reports that US President Donald Trump's dismissal of so much of the media as \"fake news\" has led to a rise in young Americans paying for newspaper subscriptions.\n\nOnline payments for news have gone up 7% in the past year in the United States.\n\nThe Times says Mr Trump's \"tirades\" have persuaded millennials that print media is cool again.\n\nPerhaps unsurprisingly, the paper argues that investment in quality journalism is needed now more than ever.\n\n\"No mercy for the jihadis\", declares the Daily Express, as it welcomes the suggestion by government minister Rory Stewart that the \"only way\" to deal with British fighters for the Islamic State group is to kill them.\n\nIn its comment piece, the paper says it is \"refreshing to hear a government minister speak forthrightly\" on the issue.\n\n\"Those we spare will not hesitate to return to our shores and murder us,\" it goes on, adding: \"They have forfeited any right to mercy.\"\n\nAs the government brings in measures to tackle so-called health tourism in the UK, the Daily Telegraph reports that there has been a trebling in the past three years in the number of British nationals seeking healthcare overseas.\n\nThe paper says record waiting times prompted almost 144,000 people to go abroad for treatment last year, compared with 48,000 in 2014.\n\nIn other news, the Queen and Prince Philip are keeping their platinum wedding anniversary celebrations low key by refusing to hold a national celebration to mark the event next month, according to the Daily Express.\n\nThe paper says they will be the first Royal couple in Britain to celebrate 70 years of marriage.\n\nBut it points out they have a little way to go to beat the world record for the longest Royal marriage: Japan's Prince Mikasa and Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, were together for 75 years.\n\nFinally, the tabloids offer up some grim weather prospects for the coming season.\n\nThe Daily Mirror warns of the potential for 120mph (193km/h) winds.\n\nThe Daily Star predicts there will be a calm before the storm - a mini-heatwave later this week, with temperatures of 21C (70F).\n\nAnd the Daily Express forecasts a \"choppy winter of discontent\", with 11 more potentially damaging storms between now and the new year.", "A law to set a minimum price for selling alcohol in Wales has been unveiled.\n\nMinisters believe tackling excessive drinking could save a life a week and mean 1,400 fewer hospital admissions a year.\n\nPricing is seen as a \"missing link\" in public health efforts, alongside better awareness and treatment.\n\nUnder a 50p-a-unit formula, a typical can of cider would be at least £1 and a bottle of wine at least £4.69.\n\nA typical litre of vodka, for example, would have to cost more than £20.\n\nThe Welsh Government has not yet decided what the price will be, however.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A 30-second guide to how the minimum price for alcohol is worked out\n\nAlcohol experts from Sheffield University have studied the health picture, drinks market and consumption patterns in Wales.\n\nThe research has helped produce a formula based on the percentage strength of the alcohol and its volume to develop the minimum unit price (MUP).\n\nWhile alcohol consumption levels have been falling in recent years, health officials are concerned that:\n\nCheap drink in supermarkets and other licensed stores is the main target and the law will also address the issue of special offers in its fine detail.\n\nAlcohol sold below 50p per unit makes up 72% of the beer sales in Welsh shops and supermarkets, 78% of the cider sales, 42% of the wine and 66% of the spirits.\n\nThe research suggests that although high-risk drinkers make up only a quarter of people who drink alcohol, they drink 72% of all alcohol consumed and account for 65% of all spending.\n\n\"There is a very clear and direct link between levels of excessive drinking and the availability of cheap alcohol,\" said Public Health Minister Rebecca Evans.\n\n\"So we need to take decisive action now to address the affordability of alcohol, as part of wider efforts to tackle alcohol-related harm.\"\n\nIt has been claimed it could:\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Frank Atherton said they were not the \"fun police\" or the \"nanny state\" but they could not wash their hands of a significant public health issue.\n\n\"It will have a small impact on moderate drinkers,\" he added.\n\n\"The most substantial effects will be experienced by harmful and hazardous drinkers, who are more likely to consume cheaper and higher-strength alcohol products.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alex Loveland, who supports people with alcohol problems, said they might be put under strain\n\nBut Alex Loveland, a recovering alcoholic who supports people with dependency, is worried that it will not help them.\n\n\"They're going to try to get alcohol by any means necessary and I think it will put more strain on very underprivileged people,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh Retail Consortium has also expressed concern that minimum price may hit less affluent, moderate consumers of alcohol \"whilst not necessarily having the desired impact on problem drinkers\".\n\nUKIP Wales leader Neil Hamilton AM said it was another example of the Welsh Government \"sticking its nose into people's private lives\".\n\n\"The problem is not alcohol but anti-social behaviour,\" he said. \"The laws on public drunkenness need to be strictly enforced, as they used to be.\"\n\nBut Prof Mark Bellis, director of policy at Public Health Wales, said it would reduce opportunities for young people to buy alcohol \"at pocket money prices\".\n\nDr David Bailey, chair of the BMA's Welsh Council said it was behind measures \"to ensure that alcohol cannot be sold below cost - in effect, making it cheaper than water to purchase\".\n\nAddictions charity Cais said although the law would not solve alcohol problems on its own it was an \"important day for Wales\" and stressed that it would save lives.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rebecca Evans emphasised that it was not a tax but would be tackle problem drinking\n\nThe legislation is back on the table five years after the Welsh Government first looked at introducing it.\n\nThe measure had been removed from the most recent Welsh public health law as Scotland faced court challenges to its own legislation.\n\nThe Supreme Court is expected to give its judgement within weeks to an attempt to block Scotland's minimum price legislation from being introduced.\n\nMs Evans told BBC Radio Wales that the Welsh Government had moved \"quickly\" to introduce its own legislation because the powers to do so will be removed next April under the terms of the 2017 Wales Act.\n\n\"If we are going to act on this area it has to be now, even though we realise that there's a difficult legal context that we are working in,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Hunt of Filco Supermarkets says it could be seen as a charge on the poor\n\nMinisters in Wales hope it will become law by summer 2018.\n\nCouncils would enforce the legislation through their existing inspection and trading standards regime - with powers of entry, prosecution and the issue of fixed penalty notices.\n\nTalks have been held with local government about funding towards its initial introduction.", "Steve and Paula Boone have run more than 1,000 marathons between them\n\nWhy are more people running marathons in all 50 states - and what does it say about modern America?\n\nIn 1988, Steve Boone was a computer systems designer who played football in his spare time.\n\nOne of his customers was training for the Houston Marathon. He bet Steve - a 39-year-old who had never run 26 miles - that he couldn't finish the race.\n\nIt's safe to say Steve won that bet.\n\nHe finished the 1988 Houston Marathon, and has returned to the race every year since. The 2018 event will be his 31st in a row, and his 700th marathon in total.\n\n\"It was a principle bet,\" says Steve. \"No money at stake.\"\n\nIn 1997, Steve was at the Boston Marathon, waiting outside a hotel for a bus that didn't turn up.\n\nBy this point, he had run more than 100 marathons, including one in all 50 states. He had the idea after running in San Francisco. \"It was one of those obsessions,\" he admits.\n\nWhile waiting for the bus, he got talking to one of his fellow runners, Paula. \"By the time we walked back to the hotel we were best friends,\" he says.\n\nThey were married 18 months later.\n\nIn 2001, the Boones decided to start a club for people who had run - or wanted to run - marathons in all 50 states. They began with 82 members; Steve thought they might get 400 or 500 total.\n\nAt the last count, there were 4,326 members. In total, more than 1,500 have finished all 50 states.\n\nOf the finishers, more than a third are female, and almost all come from the US, although there are members from Brazil to Bermuda.\n\nBut the interesting thing isn't where they come from. It's why they run in the first place.\n\n50 State Marathon Club: The rules (or some of them)\n\nShe ran her first, in her home state of Utah, a year earlier while \"getting in shape after having my two kids\". But after meeting Steve the pace picked up.\n\nBy 2003, she too had run a marathon in all 50 states. She now has 330 marathons in total, including at least four in each state.\n\n\"Steve was a really bad influence,\" she says.\n\nPaula - who's 51 and lives with her husband in Humble, Texas - says she isn't an elite athlete. Her last marathon took seven hours, although she ran her first in three hours and 59 minutes.\n\nSo if she's not breaking records, or winning races, why does she keep going - step after step, state after state, more than 8,000 miles and counting?\n\n\"The actual running is really difficult,\" she says. \"But I love to travel, that's my favourite thing to do. It's really the best way to see the country.\"\n\nFor example - one race took Paula to Minot, North Dakota, a town that's not in many travel brochures. \"The middle of nowhere in the middle of nowhere,\" she says.\n\nThere's also the social side. Jody Reed, a 58-year-old lawyer from Ashburn, Virginia, ran her first marathon in 1987 and has now done 152 - including at least one in every state.\n\n\"At this point, it's the friends [that keep me going],\" she says, speaking from Milwaukee where she's about to run another race. \"I'm here with a friend who I met last fall. We've done several races together since then.\n\n\"It would be a very unusual marathon where I'm not with people I know. And not just people I know - friends.\"\n\nBut while camaraderie is important, Paula thinks there's a deeper reason why people run.\n\n\"Most of us have pretty cushy jobs,\" she says. \"We're not out there sweating, and as humans we like to have some sort of striving, some kind of drive.\n\n\"The marathon fulfils that. We want to work towards some kind of goal; [to have] some kind of stress and strain.\"\n\nSo running marathons is a counterforce to the comfort of modern life?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London Marathon: An inspirational end to the Marathon for two runners\n\n\"I think so,\" says Paula.\n\n\"The people who join our club are from every walk of life - people who are very poor, people who are very rich, and everything in between. The one thing that ties everybody together is they all strive. They are all self-driven.\n\n\"The mountains have all been climbed, everything has been discovered, but this is manageable - while being out of your comfort zone.\"\n\nRoss Brennan, a 57-year-old from Washington, DC, ran his first marathon in 1990. Back then, he says, marathon running \"was just becoming a thing - it was still a little bit exotic\".\n\nNow, marathons are certainly a thing. During the weekend of October 21-22, at least 26 cities in the US and Canada will host one according to marathonguide.com. There are 15 the weekend after and 24 the weekend after that.\n\nThere are a number of reasons for that, says Ross. More people keep fit; the internet makes it easier to find races; and technology has made running \"less boring\".\n\n\"You can nerd-out on the IT stuff,\" he says. \"There are heart rate monitors, you can listen to tunes. In the 80s you couldn't do that.\"\n\nAnd, like Paula, Ross thinks modern life makes marathons more appealing.\n\n\"From time to time, it's kind of primal,\" he says. \"It's me and a pair of shoes, I'm not thinking about work, I'm not doing a PowerPoint presentation, and I've still got it.\n\n\"You can think 'my job sucks, I feel like crap, I'm getting old' but once in a while you show up and still do 26 goddamn miles.\"\n\nBut - while that may explain running marathons - it doesn't explain doing one in every state.\n\n\"Oh, I'm a total geography nerd,\" admits Ross. \"I love travelling in the US. It's so heart-warming to turn up in a small town. The whole place welcomes you and it's wonderful.\n\n\"There are banners, free ice creams at the ice cream parlour, a party in the city park... I need that reality check. It's so much part of why I do it.\"\n\nAt first, Ross didn't realise he was collecting states.\n\nHe ran on holiday. He ran during work trips. But it was only when looking at his spreadsheet - all runners have a spreadsheet, it seems - he noticed he was covering the country, slowly but sorely.\n\nRoss was helped by the rise of \"series marathons\", when races are organised back-to-back over a week or so - often for people who want to complete all 50 states.\n\n\"The most I did was five in a week,\" he says. \"It was the Riverboat Series - Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, I think - four of which I hadn't done before.\"\n\nRoss told his wife he wanted to run in 50 states only three years ago. \"I did it in quite a subtle way,\" he says. \"It was like: 'Here's this thing I'm doing...'\"\n\nBut when he flew to Hawaii to complete the set, his family came to watch him cross the line.\n\nThe date was 26 June 2016; his time was just under five hours. A journey that began 26 years earlier, 5,000 miles east, had ended.\n\nHe has now run 71 marathons and there are no plans to stop. \"Even if I'm not planning to run, I'll log onto Marathon Guide and see what's out there.\"\n\nWhile that may be \"eccentric\", as Ross says, it's nothing compared to some members of the 50 State Marathons Club.\n\n\"I remember being on a shuttle bus in a race in Montana, or somewhere,\" says Ross. \"This guy said to me 'It's number 11.'\n\n\"I said 'Cool - are you going to do all 50 states?' He replied 'No - I've done all 50 states. This is the 11th time round.'\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Renaissance mathematician Luca Pacioli is seen as the father of double-entry bookkeeping\n\nIn 1495 or thereabouts, Leonardo da Vinci himself, the genius's genius, noted down a list of things to do in one of his famous notebooks.\n\nThese to-do lists, written in mirror-writing and interspersed with sketches, are magnificent.\n\n\"Find a master of hydraulics and get him to tell you how to repair a lock, canal and mill in the Lombard manner.\" \"Draw Milan.\" \"Learn multiplication from the root from Maestro Luca.\"\n\nLeonardo was a big fan of Maestro Luca, better known today as Luca Pacioli.\n\nPacioli was, appropriately enough, a Renaissance Man: - educated for a life in commerce, but also a conjuror, a chess master, a lover of puzzles, a Franciscan Friar, and a professor of mathematics.\n\nToday he is celebrated as the most famous accountant who ever lived.\n\n50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world in which we live.\n\nPacioli is often called the father of double-entry bookkeeping, but he didn't invent it.\n\nThe double-entry system - known in its day as \"bookkeeping alla Veneziana,\" or \"in the Venetian style\" - was being used two centuries earlier, around 1300.\n\nThe Venetians had abandoned as impractical the Roman system of writing numbers, and were instead embracing Arabic numerals.\n\nVenice in the 1300s - when Marco Polo set off on his famous travels to the Far East - was already a sophisticated crossroads of trade and ideas\n\nThey may have also taken the idea of double-entry book keeping from the Islamic world, or even from India, where there are tantalising hints that double-entry bookkeeping techniques date back thousands of years.\n\nOr it may have been a local Venetian invention, repurposing the new Arabic mathematics for commercial ends.\n\nBefore the Venetian style caught on, accounts were rather basic. Early medieval merchants were little more than travelling salesmen. They had no need to keep accounts - they could simply check whether their purse was full or empty.\n\nBut as the commercial enterprises of the Italian city states grew larger, and became more dependent on financial instruments such as loans and currency trades, the need for a more careful reckoning became painfully clear.\n\nWe have a remarkable record of the business affairs of Francesco di Marco Datini, a merchant from Prato, near Florence, who kept accounts for nearly half a century, from 1366 to 1410.\n\nThey begin as little more than a financial diary, but as his business grew more complex, he needed something more sophisticated.\n\nWe can see how Datini tracked his increasingly intricate financial transactions\n\nSix months later the sheep are shorn. Several months after that, 29 sacks of wool arrive in Pisa, via Barcelona. The wool is coiled into 39 bales. Of these, 21 go to a customer in Florence and 18 go to Datini's warehouse, arriving in 1396, over a year after the initial order. They are then processed by more than 100 separate subcontractors.\n\nEventually, six long cloths go back to Mallorca via Venice, but don't sell, so are hawked in Valencia and North Africa instead. The last cloth is sold in 1398, nearly four years after Datini's original order.\n\nFortunately, he had been using bookkeeping alla Veneziana for more than a decade, so was able to keep track of this extraordinarily intricate web of transactions.\n\nSo what, a century later, did the much lauded Luca Pacioli add to the discipline of bookkeeping? Quite simply, in 1494, he wrote the book.\n\n\"Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita\" was an enormous survey of everything that was known about mathematics - 615 large and densely typeset pages.\n\nAmidst this colossal textbook, Pacioli included 27 pages that are regarded by many as the most influential work in the history of capitalism. It was the first description of double-entry bookkeeping to be set out clearly, in detail and with plenty of examples.\n\nPacioli's book was sped on its way by a new technology: half a century after Gutenberg developed the movable type printing press, Venice was a centre of the printing industry.\n\nHis book enjoyed a long print run of 2,000 copies, and was widely translated, copied, and plagiarised across Europe.\n\nDouble-entry bookkeeping was slow to catch on, perhaps because it was technically demanding and unnecessary for simple businesses. But after Pacioli it was always regarded as the pinnacle of the art.\n\nAs the industrial revolution unfolded, the ideas that Pacioli had set out came to be seen as fundamental to business life. The system used across the world today is essentially the one that Pacioli described.\n\nFirst, he describes a method for taking an inventory, and then keeping on top of day-to-day transactions using two books - a rough memorandum and a tidier, more organised journal. Then he uses a third book - the ledger - as the foundation of the system, the double-entries themselves.\n\nEvery transaction was recorded twice in the ledger. If you sell cloth for a ducat, you must account for both the cloth and the ducat.\n\nThe double-entry system helps to catch errors, because every entry should be balanced by a counterpart, a divine-like symmetry which appealed to a Renaissance Man.\n\nIt was during the industrial revolution that double-entry bookkeeping became seen not just as an exercise for mathematical perfectionists, but as a tool to guide practical business decisions.\n\nOne of the first to see this was Josiah Wedgwood, the pottery entrepreneur. At first, Wedgwood, flush with success and fat margins, didn't bother with detailed accounts.\n\nJosiah Wedgwood used the insight gleaned from detailed accounts to weather a severe recession\n\nBut in 1772, Europe faced a severe recession and demand for Wedgwood's ornate crockery collapsed. His warehouses began to fill with unsold stock and workers stood idle.\n\nWedgwood turned to double-entry bookkeeping to understand where in his business the profits were, and how to expand them.\n\nHe realised how much each piece of work was costing him - a deceptively simple-sounding question - and calculated that he should actually expand production and cut prices to boost business.\n\nOthers followed, and the discipline of \"management accounting\" was born - an ever-growing system of metrics and benchmarks and targets, that has led us inexorably to the modern world.\n\nBut in that modern world, accounting does have another role.\n\nIt's about ensuring that shareholders in a business receive a fair share of corporate profits - when only the accountants can say what those profits really are.\n\nHere the track record is not encouraging.\n\nEnron's collapse in 2001 was the biggest in US corporate history\n\nA string of 21st century scandals - Enron, Worldcom, Parmalat, and the financial crisis of 2008 - have shown us that audited accounts do not completely protect investors.\n\nA business may, through fraud or mismanagement, be on the verge of collapse. Yet we cannot guarantee that the accounts will warn us of this.\n\nAccounting fraud is not a new game. The first companies to require major capital investment were the British railways of the 1830s and 1840s, which needed vast upfront investment before they could earn anything from customers.\n\nInvestors poured in, and when railway magnates could not pay the dividends that the investors expected, they simply faked their accounts. The entire railway bubble had collapsed in ignominy by 1850.\n\nPerhaps the railway investors should have read up on their Geoffrey Chaucer, writing around the same time as Francesco Datini, the merchant of Prato.\n\nAccountancy did not protect Chaucer's Shipman character from an audacious con\n\nIn Chaucer's Shipman's Tale, a rich merchant is too tied up with his accounts to notice his wife being wooed by a clergyman.\n\nNor do those accounts rescue him from an audacious con.\n\nThe clergyman borrows the merchant's money, gives it to the merchant's wife - buying his way into her bed with her own husband's cash - and then tells the merchant he's repaid the debt, and to ask his wife where the money is.\n\nAccountancy is a powerful financial technology - but it does not protect us from outright fraud, and it may well lure us into complacency. As the neglected wife tells her rich husband, his nose buried in his accounts: \"the devil take all such reckonings!\"", "More patients should be told to go home and rest rather than be given antibiotics, according to health officials.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) says up to a fifth of antibiotic prescriptions are unnecessary as many illnesses get better on their own.\n\nOverusing the drugs is making infections harder to treat by creating drug-resistant superbugs.\n\nPHE says patients have \"a part to play\" in stopping the rise of infections.\n\nAntibiotics are vital in cases of sepsis, pneumonia, bacterial meningitis and other severe infections.\n\nBut PHE says antibiotics are not essential for every illness.\n\nCoughs or bronchitis can take up to three weeks to clear on their own, but antibiotics reduce that by only one to two days, it says.\n\nProf Paul Cosford, medical director at PHE, told the BBC: \"We don't often need antibiotics for common conditions.\n\n\"The majority of us will get infections from time to time and will recover because of our own immunity.\"\n\nHe said patients should not go to their doctor \"expecting an antibiotic\".\n\nInstead, for infections that our body can handle, the advice is to:\n\nProf Cosford said: \"A doctor will be able to tell you when an antibiotic is really necessary.\n\n\"The fact is if you take an antibiotic when you don't need it then you're more likely to have an infection that the antibiotics don't work for over the coming months.\"\n\nThe Keep Antibiotics Working campaign will also see patients handed leaflets explaining how long it normally takes to recover and the warning signs of serious illness.\n\nBacteria are incredibly cunning - once you start attacking them with antibiotics, they find ways of surviving. People have died from bugs resistant to all antibiotics.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer, Prof Dame Sally Davies, has already warned of a \"post-antibiotic apocalypse\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Antibiotics 'may be lost' through overuse, says chief medical officer\n\nIf the drugs fail, then not only do infections become harder to treat, but common medical procedures such as caesarean sections and cancer treatments could become too risky.\n\nThe most serious drug-resistant infections are sent to PHE's laboratories at Colindale, north London, for analysis.\n\nProf Neil Woodford, the site's head of antimicrobial resistance, said the most potent antibiotics, like carbapenems, were failing more often.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"If we go back to 2005/07, we were seeing these bacteria in maybe two to four cases per year.\n\n\"Last year we confirmed these resistant bacteria in over 2,000 cases.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The army fitness instructor denies attempting to murder Victoria Cilliers in April 2015\n\nAn Army sergeant accused of tampering with his wife's parachute contacted his lover as his spouse underwent surgery after a 4,000ft fall, a court was told.\n\nJurors were read messages sent between Emile Cilliers and Stefanie Goller in the hours after Victoria Cilliers' fall at a Wiltshire airfield in 2015.\n\nIn one, Winchester Crown Court heard, the defendant asked Ms Goller to clean for him in the nude.\n\nMr Cilliers, 37, denies attempting to murder his former Army officer wife.\n\nIn another message, the Army fitness instructor told Ms Goller he would repay her services with \"hugs and kisses\", the court was told.\n\nThe court was read WhatsApp messages the lovers exchanged after Mrs Cilliers, 40, was hurt in a jump with the Army Parachute Association at Netheravon, Wiltshire, on Easter Sunday, 2015.\n\nAfter telling Ms Goller that his wife was undergoing surgery, Mr Cilliers, of the Aldershot-based Royal Army Physical Training Corps, wrote: \"One day we might have a family of our own.\"\n\nIn a later exchange, Ms Goller told him: \"I love you in uniform ;)\", to which he replied: \"You going onto salute me?\" and Ms Goller responds \"I guess sometimes I will have to obey you ;)\"\n\nHe then asked her: \"Will you call me your Mr Grey?\"\n\nDuring the messages sent over several months, the pair appear to plan a future together as well as a summer holiday in Honduras.\n\nThe court has heard Mr Cilliers was also continuing a sexual relationship with his ex-wife Carly Cilliers and half-an-hour after making arrangements to meet her on March 29 2015, the defendant was exchanging sex messages with Ms Goller.\n\nThe court heard Emile Cilliers messaged his ex-wife and his lover for sex within minutes of each other\n\nThe court was read messages from Victoria Cilliers describing her \"joking\" fears that the defendant had tried to kill her by tampering with the gas fitting at their home.\n\nProsecutors allege Mr Cilliers twisted the lines of his wife's main parachute and removed two slinks - which attach lines to the harness from a reserve chute - the day before her jump.\n\nHe is also accused of a third charge of damaging a gas valve at their home a few days earlier, in the second allegation that he attempted to kill his wife.\n\nJurors were previously told the defendant had debts of £22,000 and believed he would receive a £120,000 life insurance payout on his wife's death.\n\nThe prosecution also claim Mr Cilliers lied to Ms Goller that he was leaving his wife because she was having an affair and he was not the father of one of their children.\n\nMr Cilliers denies all three charges and the trial continues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Netflix's Stranger Things has been one of the company's big hits\n\nNetflix is raising another $1.6bn (£1.2bn) from investors to finance new shows and possibly make acquisitions.\n\nThe video streaming service plans to spend up to $8bn on content next year to compete with fast-growing rivals.\n\nNetflix will issue bonds to investors, although the interest rate it will pay has yet to be decided, the company said in a statement.\n\nNetflix plans to release 80 films next year, but some analysts are wary about its cash burn and debt interest costs.\n\nThe company's latest debt fundraising is its largest so far, and the fourth time in three years it has raised more than $1bn by issuing bonds.\n\nEarlier this month, Netflix said it would raise prices in countries including the UK and US for the first time in two years.\n\nThe price rises come as Netflix faces growing competition from Amazon and other sites such as Hulu and Disney in the US.\n\nNetflix has spent heavily on original programming such as The Crown, Stranger Things and House of Cards.\n\nOne movie, Mudbound, was described by Variety as \"an epic about race and poverty in the 1940s Mississippi Delta\", and stars Mary J. Blige and Carey Mulligan.\n\nSome critics say it is a contender for the Academy Awards and would be the first Netflix feature to be in the Oscars race.\n\nNetflix's share price has risen more than 50% this year on the back of subscriber growth that has beat expectations. The company now has more than 109 million subscribers globally, adding 15.5 million so far this year.\n\nThe move to take on more corporate debt comes amid expectations that borrowing costs may increase in coming months. The US Federal Reserve is weighing another rate hike by the end of 2017.", "Wayne Esmonde was wanted by South Wales Police in connection with an assault\n\nA man who asked police to remove his mugshot from a wanted appeal because it was unflattering has been sentenced for assault.\n\nSouth Wales Police posted the photo of Wayne Esmonde, 35, from Swansea, on social media when he was wanted for attacking his then-partner.\n\nHe had an eight month sentence suspended for 18 months after pleading guilty at the city's crown court.\n\nThe court heard he head butted and threw a bottle at his victim.\n\nHe had written on the force's Facebook page: \"I am him. Not a very flattering mugshot.\n\n\"I'd appreciate it if you'd take this post down. Innocent until proven guilty and all that.\"\n\nThe court heard on Monday how he accused his then-partner of cheating, pushed her off a doorstep and on to the ground before carrying out the attack.\n\nProsecutor Janet Gedrych said he had previously admitted a harassment charge and was subject to a three-year restraining order.", "Tom Cullen and Kit Harington play Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby respectively\n\nA BBC drama about the gunpowder plot has drawn criticism for its violence.\n\nOne viewer labelled an execution scene in Gunpowder \"grotesque and completely unnecessary\", while another called it \"one of the most painful things I've ever witnessed on TV\".\n\nThe drama, starring Game of Thrones' Kit Harington, tells of the 1605 plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament.\n\nThe BBC said the offending scenes were \"grounded in historical fact\" and reflected what took place at the time.\n\nThe first episode, shown on Saturday, showed a woman being pressed to death and a priest being disembowelled.\n\n\"I'd been really looking forward to #Gunpowder but just had to turn off during the first episode,\" tweeted one viewer.\n\nBut another Twitter user said the drama had to be \"graphic & gory... for us to understand the depth of persecution, and why [Robert] Catesby & co did what they did\".\n\nThe first episode showed a woman being stripped naked and tortured to death\n\nThe drama began at 21:10 BST, just after the watershed, and was preceded by a warning.\n\nIn a statement, the BBC said: \"The scenes aired after 9.30pm with a clear warning given to viewers before the episode started. The methods depicted are grounded in historical fact and reflect what took place during the time of the gunpowder plot.\"\n\nBroadcasting watchdog Ofcom said it had received seven complaints. The corporation would not confirm how many direct complaints it had received.\n\nIn an interview with Radio 1 Newsbeat, Harington - who plays his ancestor Robert Catesby in the three-part drama - said the violence was justified by the context.\n\n\"It was important for the story because right from the start we need to know why Catesby embarks upon this very, very violent act,\" the actor said.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Dolly Parton is known as much for her business acumen as her song-writing skills\n\nEven when she's talking about cold, hard cash, Dolly Parton manages to seem down to earth.\n\nShe's promoting her new children's album \"I Believe in You\" and is in top, self-deprecating form, talking to the BBC.\n\n\"It's hard for me to spend money on tonnes of stuff because I'm going to look the same, no matter what I wear. If I wear diamonds I'm still going to look like a rhinestone,\" she tells me.\n\nStill, if Dolly was inclined to buy diamonds, she could afford them. She's known as much for her business acumen as her song-writing skills.\n\nAt the start of her career she took lessons from her dad, she says: \"Even though he wasn't an educated man, he wasn't able to read and write, daddy had a great sense of business.\n\nDolly Parton at Glastonbury - in the past year she's earned some $37m\n\n\"He said, 'Don't let other people take advantage of you, keep your mind on your business.' So when I got into the music business I thought of it as a business.\"\n\nEarly on she launched her own publishing company and hung on to the rights to her songs, and she says that other artists should do the same.\n\n\"As soon as you start making money, you should invest and get into other businesses that you can fall back on if you don't make it big, or if you make it big and you fall on hard times.\"\n\nThat attitude has served her well over the years and continues to do so, according to Forbes magazine's Celebrity 100 list.\n\nIt claims Dolly earned $37m (£28m) in the year to June 2017, with most of this coming from her Pure and Simple concert tour and income from her Dollywood theme park in Tennessee.\n\nBrian Warner, founder of website CelebrityNetworth.com, estimates her total fortune to be $500m (£379m) but says this is conservative.\n\n\"We think that Dollywood alone is worth around $200m; $100m for the land itself and $100m for the brand - you could class it as an intangible asset.\n\n\"On top of that she makes a lot of money from touring and has had a 50-year career in which she's sold millions of records and has also written songs for other artists.\"\n\nMr Warner says \"I will always love you\", a hit Dolly wrote and recorded in 1973, has made her more than $20m in total.\n\nHe explains that although individual music contracts may vary, \"as the writer of a song you might be keeping 50% of the revenue or more and as a writer and performer you could be getting 80%\".\n\nDolly's own version of \"I Will Always Love You\" was a big commercial success, topping the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart twice, in 1974 and 1982.\n\nWhitney Houston made the song a hit all over again when she recorded a version for the 1992 film The Bodyguard. It was number one for 10 weeks in the UK charts and for 14 weeks in the US. The song had another resurgence in 2012 after Ms Houston's death.\n\nMore The Boss features, which every week profile a different business leader from around the world:\n\nThe proceeds from Dolly's latest album won't be adding to her fortune, though; instead they'll be going to the Imagination Library.\n\nSet up in 1995 it aims to improve child literacy by distributing free books to children in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.\n\nDolly says her own impoverished childhood in Tennessee inspired the library and has shaped her attitude to money in general.\n\n\"Being brought up poor means I don't take things for granted, and no matter how much money I make, I'll always count my blessings quicker and more often than I count my money.\n\nShe has \"always realised the value of a dollar\", too.\n\n\"Even now if I go in a store it's hard for me to pay a huge amount of money for one item. I say 'good Lord', what could mummy and daddy have done with that!\"\n\nAt 71 years old, Dolly's career has spanned more than five decades and following her Glastonbury performance in 2014 she's reached a whole new audience. So what's the secret of her longevity?\n\n\"I think a lot of people can relate to me, because of my upbringing and because I'm from a big family. I think people see me as an aunt, an older sister or a cousin. I've been around so long I'm part of their family.\"\n\nDolly will be hoping that this loyal fan base will support ambitious plans to expand her empire.\n\nThe DreamMore hotel at Dollywood, opened in 2015, is \"doing well\" and she is thinking of franchising it. She'd also like to do more kids projects and launch a line of wigs, cosmetics and clothes.\n\n\"I've still got a lot to do... I'm going to be an old lady before I get it done but at least I'm going to be working till I fall over dead!\"\n\nDolly Parton is a force of nature and a tremendously successful one at that; it's hard to imagine her ever stopping.", "The T-charge aims to cut pollution in the capital\n\nDrivers of older, more polluting vehicles now have to pay almost twice as much to drive in central London.\n\nMayor Sadiq Khan's £10 T-Charge, which mainly applies to diesel and petrol vehicles registered before 2006, has come into force.\n\nIt covers the same area as the existing congestion charge zone, bumping up the cost to £21.50 for those affected.\n\nOpponents said the scheme would \"disproportionately penalise London's poorest drivers\".\n\nThe measure is the latest attempt by Mr Khan to improve air quality in the capital and, according to the mayor's office, will affect 34,000 motorists a month.\n\nSpeaking on the Today programme, Mr Khan said: \"We've got a health crisis in London caused by the poor quality air.\n\n\"Roughly speaking each year more than 9,000 Londoners die prematurely because of the poor quality air - children in our city whose lungs are underdeveloped, with adults who suffer from conditions such as asthma, dementia and strokes directly caused by poor quality air.\"\n\nHowever, Simon Birkett, from the campaign group Clean Air London, does not believe the move goes far enough.\n\n\"The mayor has pledged in his manifesto to restore London's air quality to legal and safe limits and that means he has to do a whole lot more.\n\n\"We want him to take steps which are bigger, stronger and smarter.\"\n\nMr Khan has described the introduction of the T-Charge as \"part of a package of measures\" being undertaken.\n\nMany people have taken to social media to express their views on the new levy.\n\nDaniel McGuiness said on Twitter: \"T-Charge, it's a start but there's still a long way to go in tackling the public health emergency that is our filthy air. #CleanAir\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Daniel McGuinness This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhile David Smith said: \"With the introduction of the new T-Charge, it'll be the poorest who will be paying the most... again.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by David P-Smith This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFrom Monday 23 October, there is a £10 daily fee for those who drive more polluting vehicles in the congestion charging zone, on top of the existing £11.50 congestion charge.\n\nVehicles that do not comply with the Euro IV exhaust standard must pay the £10 charge.\n\nThe standard defines emissions limits for cars, vans, buses, coaches and lorries. Most vehicles registered before 2006 are likely to exceed these limits.\n\nThe zone will operate between 07:00 and 18:00, Monday to Friday.\n\nYou can find out if your car is affected with TfL's T-Charge checker.\n\nThe T-Charge is the first of a series of new rates being introduced in London.\n\nIt is due to be replaced by a stricter Ultra-Low Emission Zone in 2020, although Mr Khan is consulting on bringing this forward to 2019.\n\nThis will mean diesel cars registered before September 2015 and petrol cars registered before 2006 will face a £12.50 charge in addition to the £11.50 congestion charge.\n\nThe mayor hopes to expand the area covered for cars and vans up to the North and South Circular roads in 2021.\n\nCity authorities in Birmingham, Leeds, Southampton, Derby and Nottingham have also been advised to impose charges for some polluting diesel vehicles by 2020, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said.\n\nTo tackle air pollution, Oxford City Council and Oxfordshire County Council proposed a ban on petrol and diesel cars in the city centre from 2020.\n\nParis, Grenoble and Lyon introduced an emission sticker scheme in January which splits vehicles into six different groups depending on their Euro Emissions standard.\n\nVehicles deemed too polluting - which includes petrol and diesel-powered cars registered before 1997 - are not granted a sticker, banning them from driving in the city during certain times.\n\nThe mayor has launched a poster campaign to highlight pollution\n\nSue Terpilowski, from the Federation of Small Businesses, said: \"The introduction of the T-Charge comes at a time when small and micro-businesses in London are already facing astonishingly high property, employment and logistics costs.\n\n\"There is a fear that this will be the final straw that closes businesses and takes jobs.\"\n\nShaun Bailey, Conservative environment spokesman at the London Assembly, said: \"As an asthmatic I'm well aware of how critical an issue this is for London but we need policies that actually deliver progress.\n\n\"By boasting about a policy that so disproportionately penalises London's poorest drivers and puts jobs at risk, the mayor is simply blowing more smoke into the capital's already polluted atmosphere.\"\n\nFriends of the Earth air pollution campaigner Jenny Bates said: \"Clearly, the last thing individuals want is a new charge for moving around, but the grim reality is that nearly 10,000 early deaths are caused in London each year by the capital's toxic air, so the mayor is right to try to dissuade drivers bringing the oldest, dirtiest vehicles into central London.\n\n\"It's only one small step towards clean air though - we urgently need a programme of meaningful financial assistance to help drivers of the dirtiest vehicles switch to something cleaner, and bold policies to cut traffic overall.\"\n\nThe mayor is also seeking new powers to ban wood burning in the most polluted areas of the capital.\n\nWhen asked if wood-burning stoves would be banned entirely, Mr Khan told the Today programme the problem was with the material that was being burnt and a lack of maintenance rather than the stoves themselves.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Times reports that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is furious about the alleged leak from a dinner in Brussels, which claimed Theresa May begged for help with Brexit.\n\nMrs Merkel is said to be concerned that further hostility from Brussels could lead the talks to collapse, which could in turn bring about the fall of Mrs May's government.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph believes the leak amounted to a character assassination. The Sun comments that every time Theresa May extends the hand of friendship to Brussels, they pull her close, only to stab her in the back.\n\nThe Daily Mirror says that whatever the truth over who said what, the prime minister isn't an inspiring leader in the most important negotiations to engulf the country for nearly half a century.\n\nIn other news, the Times claims that Catalan separatists are threatening mass civil disobedience if Madrid carries out its threat to depose their leaders.\n\nThe paper says civil servants, fire-fighters, teachers and students are preparing to resist direct rule. It also highlights a warning from a senior Spanish cabinet minister, who says Catalan police would be used to quell protests.\n\nThe Guardian warns that the Catalan crisis is getting more volatile and dangerous. The paper calls for an honest broker to help the two sides back from the brink.\n\nBuzzfeed News, meanwhile, says women are coming forward in increasing numbers to report sexual assaults on the London Underground.\n\nIt says data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act shows that transport police recorded more than 1,700 reported assaults in the past two-and-a-half years. That's more than in the previous four years put together. Police still estimate that 90% of incidents go unreported.\n\nNew pension freedoms are funding some retired workers alcohol and gambling addictions, according to the Financial Times\n\nThe Financial Times reports that some retired workers have used new \"pension freedoms\" to fund alcohol and gambling binges, and are then falling back on benefits.\n\nRather than manage their pension pots wisely, the paper says some have frittered away substantial amounts.\n\nA written submission to a Commons committee revealed that one man released £120,000 from his pension pot and spent every penny on drink, betting and a car.\n\nThe Daily Express uses its front page to launch a campaign for cuts in foreign aid, saying the money should go to help the health service and old people in the UK.\n\nThe paper says Whitehall sources believe International Development Secretary Priti Patel has worked hard to eliminate some of the more spurious schemes funded by taxpayers, but says critics believe the government should go further.\n\nHumans are hardwired to fear spiders, according to the Times\n\nFinally, scientists have found proof that humans are hardwired from birth to find spiders scary, according to the Times.\n\nThe researchers found that six-month-old babies who were shown pictures of spiders showed signs of stress by dilating their pupils. In contrast, other studies have suggested that fear of animals like rhinos and bears has to be learned, and babies don't associate images of them with fear.", "David Davis is holding Brexit talks in Paris on Monday\n\nThe UK risks losing jobs and investment without an urgent Brexit transition deal, Britain's five biggest business lobby groups have warned.\n\nIn a joint letter being sent to Brexit Secretary David Davis, the groups including the CBI and Institute of Directors, say time is running out.\n\nThe head of the CBI said firms wanted an agreement on the transition period by the end of the year.\n\nA government spokesman said the talks were \"making real, tangible progress\".\n\nThe other lobby groups backing the letter are the British Chambers of Commerce, the Federation of Small Businesses, and the EEF manufacturers' body.\n\nCBI director-general Carolyn Fairbairn told the BBC: \"One of the big messages from firms is 'get on with it' on both sides.\n\n\"This is real, this is urgent and a transition agreement by the end of the year would help enormously to keep investment and jobs in the country,\" she said.\n\nTheresa May has suggested a transition period of about two years, with the UK and EU trading on broadly similar terms to now and payments to Brussels to meet Britain's budget commitments.\n\nFirms in the City of London are drawing up Brexit contingency plans\n\nBut although EU negotiators have agreed to start preliminary work on a future relationship, they still want more concessions on the UK's so-called \"divorce payment\" before starting talks on trade and transition.\n\nThe five business bodies - which together represent firms employing millions of people - are calling for more urgency, with less than a year and a half left until the UK leaves the European Union.\n\nConcern about the loss of UK jobs and investment was underlined last week when the boss of investment banking giant Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, tweeted that he will be \"spending a lot more time\" in Frankfurt.\n\nEarlier this month, the deputy governor of the Bank of England, Sam Woods, warned that the UK and the EU must agree a transition deal by Christmas or companies would start triggering contingency plans.\n\nAnd in a survey released on Monday, the EEF said that Brexit uncertainty was holding back the plans of manufacturing firms to invest in new plants and machinery.\n\nMr Davis is holding Brexit talks in Paris on Monday after France appeared to emerge as the most hardline EU member state when it comes to the divorce bill.\n\nThe prime minister is also due to update the Commons on the progress made during last week's summit of EU leaders in Brussels.\n\nIt is thought that Mrs May will say that negotiations are \"deeply technical\", but she has not forgotten that the lives of millions of people are at the heart of the process.\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Exiting the European Union said the prime minister proposed a strictly time-limited implementation period in her Florence speech.\n\nHe said: \"We are making real and tangible progress in a number of vital areas in negotiations. However, many of the issues that remain are linked to the discussions we need to have on our future relationship.\n\n\"That is why we are pleased that the EU has now agreed to start internal preparatory discussions on the framework for transitional arrangements as well as our future partnership.\"", "George Michael is on course to top the UK album chart this Friday, 10 months after his death.\n\nListen Without Prejudice Vol 1 spent a week at number one when it was originally released in 1990.\n\nIt has now been reissued with a bonus disc including the singer's 1996 MTV Unplugged session.\n\nIt leads this week's album chart race, outselling Niall Horan's solo debut by almost 25,000 copies after three days, the Official Charts Company said.\n\nThe Listen Without Prejudice re-release coincides with the airing of a documentary about the ex-Wham! singer's career, which he had been working on before his death on Christmas Day last year.\n\nGeorge Michael: Freedom was shown on Channel 4 last week and focused on the period leading up to and following the original release of Listen Without Prejudice Vol 1.\n\nThe album, which includes hits like Freedom '90 and Praying For Time, is currently ahead of Niall Horan's debut album Flicker.\n\nThe One Direction singer announced his album release with a note about how \"proud\" he was of the record.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Niall Horan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 24-year-old told fans on Twitter he was \"really nervous\", particularly because he had written some of the songs as long as 18 months ago.\n\nLast week's number one, Beautiful Trauma by Pink, is currently ranked third.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "But his message to Catalonia's devolved government, which spearheads the pro-independence movement, was blunt. He said Madrid would remove its leaders and impose direct rule.\n\nMariano Rajoy is conservative by party, and in his political style.\n\nHe has meandered his way through other crises; a financial one for his country; a corruption scandal that tainted his party. His \"keep calm and carry on\" strategy worked each time.\n\nBut Catalonia today is a completely different ball game.\n\nThis Spanish region has enjoyed a high degree of autonomy since the 1980s - only the Basque Country has more.\n\nIt's also important to note that in cultural terms, Catalonia is arguably the most distinct of Spain's regions.\n\nThe Catalan language is widely spoken and from the folkloric dance of Sardana to human towers, there is a long list of cultural traditions here, which enforce the sense of Catalan identity.\n\nAnd a large part of Catalan society will see Madrid's planned takeover as an affront to their whole way of life.\n\nCompetitions to build tall and elaborate human towers are a common sight at Catalan regional festivals\n\nThe word among the pro-independence camp is that, in the coming weeks, peaceful direct action will be the order of the day.\n\nThe Spanish government has outlined a clear strategy, couched within a legal framework.\n\nAdvisers close to the prime minister emphasise that the decision to intervene was not taken lightly but they also argue that Mr Rajoy was left with no choice.\n\nAt stake, they say, is Spain's entire system of governance; no other Western government would allow a regional administration to ride roughshod over its constitution and laws.\n\nCatalonia's independence, or a legitimate vote on the matter, has never been and never will be an option, they exclaim.\n\nBut over the next days Mariano Rajoy's government faces an unfathomably delicate task.\n\nIt must now reassert Madrid's authority in Catalonia.\n\nThe practicalities of that won't be straightforward.\n\nSome within Catalonia's civil service will be die-hard supporters of independence. Others will simply hate the concept of Madrid being ultimately in charge.\n\nCatalonia's regional police force, Mossos, insists it remains impartial. \"We are policemen, not politicians,\" Inspector Albert Oliva told me.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police inspector: 'We are not politicians'\n\nBut he admits that his force is in the middle of a \"political hurricane.\" Over the coming weeks the loyalties of Catalan police will be tested to the absolute limit.\n\nBefore we reach that point, the Spanish senate will have to approve Madrid's proposals. That could take days.\n\nIn the meantime, the soon-to-be-sacked Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont will try and convene the regional parliament, before it is stripped of powers.\n\nIf that happens, he will probably make a more emphatic declaration of independence.\n\nThe vast majority of Spaniards will, in turn, declare that meaningless.\n\nBut every twist and turn from now will play into an already febrile political atmosphere.\n\nEvery time I speak to a taxi driver or an old lady pushing her shopping trolley down the street, be it in Catalonia or in the neighbouring region of Aragon, people's views, on both sides, have hardened.\n\nTo the naked eye of a tourist, Spain is a country at ease, a country of sun, sea, beautiful buildings and friendly people.\n\nScratch below and there are deep political divisions.\n\nAnd in Catalonia the situation is becoming fractured beyond belief.", "A 15-year-old boy who had been missing in London has been found.\n\nBenjamin Moorcroft, from Shrewsbury, had been separated from his family while they were on a trip to the capital on Saturday evening in Covent Garden.\n\nHe was found shortly before 07:30 BST on Monday in the Waterloo area.\n\nIn a statement, the Metropolitan Police thanked a member of the public who spoke to the teenager and called police.\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. Local television catches Nemo the dog in the act\n\nVideo has emerged of French President Emmanuel Macron's dog Nemo urinating on a fireplace at the Elysée palace.\n\nThe footage shows the black Labrador-Griffon cross relieving himself in the background as Mr Macron talks with three junior members of his government.\n\n\"I wondered what that noise was,\" says the junior minister for ecology, Brune Poirson, who had previously been talking, as they all laugh.\n\nMr Macron then says that Nemo has done something \"quite exceptional\".\n\nThe incident was captured by French TV station TF1, which was recording the discussion.\n\nJunior minister for planning Julien Denormandie asks if this is something that \"happens often\".\n\nNemo appeared in Mr Macron's entourage in August, continuing a tradition of French presidents having a \"first dog\".\n\nMr Macron and his wife Brigitte reportedly bought him from an animal rescue centre for €250 (£225).\n\nIt is not the first time a French first dog has caused trouble for its master. French investigative website Mediapart reported that Nicolas Sarkozy's dogs damaged valuable furniture in the palace that cost thousands of euros to restore.\n\nMeanwhile Jacques Chirac's miniature white Maltese, Sumo, became unhappy at having to leave the Elysée with its spacious garden and began attacking Mr Chirac, the Guardian reported.", "The \"only way\" to deal with British IS fighters in Syria is \"in almost every case\" to kill them, the minister for international development has said.\n\nRory Stewart said converts to so-called Islamic State believed in an \"extremely hateful doctrine\" and had moved away from any allegiance to Britain.\n\nThey can expect to be killed because of the \"serious danger\" they pose to the UK's security, he said.\n\nThe government said his comments were in line with the UK's stated position.\n\nMr Stewart made the remarks after Brett McGurk, a top US envoy for the coalition fighting IS, said his mission was to ensure every foreign fighter in Syria dies there.\n\nAsked about the comments on BBC Radio 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics, Mr Stewart, a former diplomat, said they were \"very difficult moral issues\".\n\nHe said: \"They are absolutely dedicated, as members of the Islamic State, towards the creation of a caliphate.\n\n\"They believe in an extremely hateful doctrine which involves killing themselves, killing others and trying to use violence and brutality to create an 8th Century, or 7th Century, state.\n\n\"So I'm afraid we have to be serious about the fact these people are a serious danger to us, and unfortunately, the only way of dealing with them will be, in almost every case, to kill them.\"\n\nMr Stewart's comments contrast with the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, who recently told the BBC that Britons who join IS through \"naivety\" should be spared prosecution if they return home.\n\nMax Hill QC said UK authorities should instead look at reintegrating such people.\n\nWhen the question of rehabilitation was put to Mr Stewart on the BBC Asian Network, he said that his original comments referred to fighters still on the ground in Syria and Iraq.\n\n\"If they came back to the UK they need to be arrested and tried in accordance with normal British law,\" he said.\n\n\"And then you need to work with them as you work with anyone else.\"\n\nA government spokesman said Mr Stewart's remarks were consistent with the position set out by Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon on 12 October.\n\nSir Michael said British IS fighters in Syria and Iraq had made themselves \"a legitimate target\" who could end up on \"the wrong end of an RAF or USAF missile\".\n\nHis comments came after it was reported that British IS recruiter Sally-Anne Jones had been killed in a US drone strike in Syria in June.\n\nThe head of MI5 revealed this month that more than 130 Britons who travelled to Iraq and Syria to fight with the terror group have died.\n\nMr Stewart also said British authorities had made it \"very clear\" that people should not be volunteering with militia groups to fight against IS.", "The Faroe Islands are home to an impressive array of seabirds but there is only one colony of gannets, located on the most westerly island, Mykines. The young birds are considered a delicacy by the islanders. So, once a year, hunters abseil down the cliffs to catch the birds.\n\nIt takes eight fit men to carry the 150m of thick rope which will form the essential lifeline for the bird catchers.\n\nAs thick as a man's wrist, it has to be lugged along a cliff-top path and then across a narrow gorge to the adjoining island of Mykinesholmur.\n\nOscar Joensen lays out the long rope needed for the climb\n\nSkirting a colony of chattering puffins outside their burrows, I followed the men for an hour towards the gannet cliffs, 150m high, and dropping almost vertically into the Atlantic swell.\n\nCarrying the rope out to the bird cliffs takes a strong team\n\nAs dusk fell I could see the ghostly white shapes of the adult birds, cruising silently above the darkening ocean.\n\nAbout 50 men had taken the small ferry out to the island to help with the hunt, essential now that Mykines's single village only has about a dozen full-time residents.\n\nOn a steep grassy incline we stopped to rest. In the half-light, food supplies were shared - bread and skerpikjot, fermented legs of lamb, which the men carved with sharp hunting knives at their belts.\n\nOnce it was dark, the final climb to the cliff edge where the birds nest began.\n\nNesting gannets can be seen on the northerly cliffs of Mykinesholmur\n\nOne by one the men stepped into a simple harness cushioned with sheep's wool, and abseiled backwards down the rock face.\n\nThe drop is sheer and within seconds they were out of sight. Once on a suitable ledge below, each of them removed the safety harness and the rope was hauled back up for the next man.\n\nMen from the rope team are needed to pull the hunters back up the cliffs\n\n\"Hiva! Hiva!\" came the cry to pull together.\n\nOnce about a dozen men had been deposited on ledges out of sight, the rest of us could only wait, and in my case imagine the slaughter going on below.\n\nThe constant wind chilled me to the bone, and groups of men lay in the grass through the darkest hours talking about the hunt, wondering how many sula, as they are called locally, would be caught. They seemed impervious to the cold, bred in a country where even in summer it rarely gets above 16C (60F).\n\nThe hunters were sanguine about the process.\n\n\"We look forward to the gannet hunt,\" a young man named Johannus explained.\n\n\"The seabirds, the sheep and even the pilot whales which we catch occasionally are all part of the traditional Faroese diet. That's our culture,\" he insisted.\n\n\"We don't want to depend on imported food from plastic packets and eat animals kept in captivity all of their lives.\"\n\nThis young gannet still has down rather than feathers, so it will be spared\n\nAt around 04:30 in the morning a watery dawn light crept across the sea, and we returned to the rope.\n\nSlowly and with much effort, hundreds of dead birds tied by the neck in bunches were hauled up. These chicks, just a day or two away from flying for the first time, were large, over 4kg (8lb) in weight and perhaps 80cm (30in) tall.\n\nAnd then the men came. They were an extraordinary sight, faces and hands sometimes as black as if they had been down a coalmine. Reeking of the oily, fishy smell of gannet guano, many had scratched hands and ripped clothes, caused by the birds' spear-like beaks.\n\nA gannet's nostrils are inside, rather than outside, its beak\n\nThe last man up was Espern, the island's chief gannet catcher. Extraordinarily fit and strong he walked up the vertical cliff with the rope in one hand and two live gannets held by the neck in the other. A swift expert cut to the back of the neck and in a second the great grey creatures hung lifelessly from a beefy human hand.\n\nBut the night's work was not over.\n\nNow the birds had to be thrown from the cliffs into the sea to be picked up by a small fishing boat which would deliver them to the village jetty. Otherwise, in rougher weather, the men would have to carry the rope and climbing equipment as well as around 500 birds, all the way back to the village.\n\nA boat waits at the bottom of the cliffs to collect the birds\n\nLater, after a hearty serving of soup, we were allowed to choose two birds each, as a reward for helping raise and lower the rope during the long cold night.\n\nWe had all been up for the best part of two days and a night, but everyone was in a good mood.\n\n\"Now you know what to do, you must come again next year,\" said Johannus. \"And maybe try going down the cliff next time.\"\n\nIt was a generous offer. But I know I'm simply not brave enough.\n\nAthaya Slaetalid with husband Jan and their son Jacob\n\nThere's a shortage of women in the Faroe Islands, so local men are increasingly seeking wives from further afield - Thailand and the Philippines in particular. But what's it like for the brides who swap the tropics for this windswept archipelago?\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "A screengrab from the 90s hit Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)\n\nA Canadian man is contesting a C$149 ($118; £90) ticket for \"screaming in a public place\" after being caught singing in his car.\n\nThe tune that got him grooving - and in trouble - was C+C Music Factory's 90s smash hit Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now).\n\nTaoufik Moalla, 38, was driving near his suburban Montreal home on 27 September when police pulled him over.\n\nPolice asked him for identification and whether he had been screaming.\n\n\"I said, 'No, I was singing,'\" Mr Moalla told the Montreal Gazette. \"I was singing the refrain 'Everybody Dance Now,' but it wasn't loud enough to disturb anyone.\"\n\nThe Montreal man had been on his way to the grocery store to buy a bottle of water when the 90s dance track started playing in his CD player.\n\nPolice checked the inside of his car along with his licence and registration. They handed back his documents along with the fine.\n\nMr Moalla told CTV News that he was shocked by the ticket. He did not think his singing merited a fine.\n\n\"I understand if they are doing their job, they are allowed to check if everything's okay, if I kidnapped someone or if there's danger inside, but I would never expect they would give me a ticket for that,\" he told CTV.\n\nMontreal police said they do not comment on individual tickets handed out to the public.", "When Stacey wrote about her experience of not wanting to sleep with anyone, even her husband, dozens of readers sent emails saying that they too were asexual. Many described feeling isolated in a sexualised society. Here is a selection of their stories - and a response from an asexual activist about the importance of joining a community.\n\nI am in my sixties and have had two failed marriages, but I have never initiated or enjoyed sex with another person. As a teenager it was easy to refuse sex, it was expected of a \"good\" girl, but family pressure meant that I was married at 21 and suddenly had no more excuses. I loved my husband and wanted to please him, but I felt no sexual desire and hated the experience of a physical relationship. I never initiated sex with him, and was almost glad when he eventually had affairs because the pressure was no longer on me to satisfy his needs. I felt overwhelming guilt for being so cold and took all the blame for my first marriage ending. I couldn't understand how I could love someone so much but dislike being touched by them... I married an older man 10 years ago who had led me to believe that he also was past sexual desire. Unfortunately this wasn't the case and he took my reluctance to have sex with him very badly. He forced me to perform sexual acts and I ended up hating him for it. We are going through an acrimonious divorce. In hindsight I should never have married again. Gill, London\n\nI am a 35-year-old man, and have only just realised I am asexual. I have always been attracted to people, form romantic feelings very quickly and have always dated. I would fancy someone, enjoy the kissing and physical contact, but when it came to sex, my body would just switch off. I thought it could have been performance issues and I kept trying - it caused huge embarrassment and destroyed my confidence for years. I am desperate for a relationship and had completely resigned myself to being alone and childless forever. But recently I have seen a lot of articles about asexuality, and I can't begin to describe the relief that I am now able to label what it is about me that is different. I can even begin to dream about finding someone who could understand. Matt\n\nI only discovered that I am asexual a few months ago when a therapist suggested it to me. Until then I had no idea what to call myself. I became sexually active when I was 17 and in college, I had a steady boyfriend and was in love with him, but I never felt sexually attracted to him. At first I thought it was due to lack of experience, but as time went on nothing changed. After we broke up I began questioning my sexuality a lot more, considering if I was a lesbian, and if that led me to feel this way. I noticed my body could become aroused, but it's like my mind isn't connected to it any more, it doesn't feel anything. Sex isn't painful for me, it doesn't repulse me, I just don't get pleasure from it. I discovered the Asexual ACES group and page on Facebook and am pleased to have found people who feel the same - or similar - ways as me. But I do worry that I'll never have a romantic partner. I am open to the idea of sex to please the other person, but the fact that I do not enjoy it seems to be a huge barrier for people. I feel very much like I will be alone for my whole life. Devi, Kent\n\nBeing asexual I feel irrelevant to a culture which is all about coupling: how much of daily life (fashion, recreation, entertainment) is about attracting or pleasing a partner? I'm not averse to having a partner, but feel excluded from the possibility, because who would invest time and effort into a relationship that isn't going to get them any sex? In a way, passing through the world as a sort of invisible extra is a privilege - you get more of an objective view of human relations when out of the throng yourself - but too much reflection and you start to see how you're surplus to requirements. Maybe someday I'll accept that, but I haven't got there yet. Sarah, Cambridge\n\nIt's possible to feel all alone, to feel like, \"I'm too weird to get a partner,\" or \"I'm not normal.\" But asexuality is just a sexual orientation, it's part of the normal spectrum of human sexuality, there's nothing pathological about it - and that goes a long way to helping people understand themselves as asexual.\n\nPeople who think they identify as asexual who are feeling isolated or lonely should join an asexual community - whether online or offline (see examples at the bottom of the page). Having a label really helps and finding a community definitely helps.\n\nThe internet has really given asexuality its impetus as a movement. Of course, there were always asexual people around but it was very hard for them to find each other - it's not something that easily comes up in conversation and there was no obvious way for people to come together.\n\nAsexuality still isn't really an option that's talked about. People think if you're not straight you're probably gay or you might be bi. So even though there has been more awareness of asexuality in recent years it is still a relatively young movement, and there is still a long way to go.\n\nI've known that I wasn't like everybody else since I was 13. I tried to pretend and even went out with a few mates just to see I was just being a bit slow on the uptake. It wasn't until I was 15 that I came across the term asexual and knew then that was what I am. I would never tell my parents or family. They wouldn't understand. There is a huge generation gap of knowledge between us and none of them would have heard about it or understand it. These issues are not a new thing, they have been around for a very long time but many older people are saying that it's a new fad. They are just hearing about it for the first time because of the wonders of the internet. But the fact that you can now find a community of people online who feel like you, and who can help you come to terms with the fact that you are not a broken person, is so important. Tabitha, Bristol\n\nI am a 52-year-old guy who has been repulsed by sex for as long as I can remember. In my younger days I was always sexually active, but I never got any satisfaction from it. Other than seeing my partner receiving pleasure, I pretty much hated it. I have been in a few strong, loving relationships through my life, and even happily married once, but they all failed as a result of one thing, my total disinterest in sex. While I was still in love, and very happy to be cuddled up in bed or on the sofa, I always found the thought of sex repulsive and this eventually ended the relationships. I've now been single for 11 years and, although I don't particularly enjoy being so, it is far easier than trying to find one of the other 1-3% of people who are the same as me. I just hope that more young people become aware of and open about their asexuality so they can find a similar person and enjoy a normal, loving, non-sexual relationship. Jon, Runcorn\n\nAt 28 years old, even having known about asexuality for about five years and knowing that is what I am, I am still struggling to come to terms with it. This is partly due to the overwhelmingly negative and dismissive attitude that people have demonstrated when I have tried to tell them that I am Ace. They always tell me, \"Oh, you just haven't met the right person yet,\" or \"You're a prude then.\" This has damaged my self-image, and undermined my confidence in being asexual in a modern world which revolves almost exclusively around sex. Living as part of a generation who has been constantly bombarded with sex from the media has left me feeling extremely isolated and backwards. I honestly live in fear of dying alone because I am unable to have sex. I am happy with what I am, but the world around me is not, and as such I am increasingly becoming a social hermit, because it easier than living with the disdain of an over sexualised world. Lucy, Cornwall\n\nI'm a 42-year-old man, and it's only recently I've realised what asexuality is and how well I slot into the concept. I used to keep diaries as a teenager, full of the usual angst, but it was interesting that all my feelings and thoughts towards (exclusively) girls were almost entirely romantic, bordering on platonic, rather than the horny, sex-laden fantasies that teenage boys are stereotypically supposed to have. I never really enjoyed my first sexual encounters, though they were interesting as a kind of fact-finding mission. Pretty much every encounter since, regardless of my relationship with the person in question, has been unsatisfying to the point of unfulfilling. I tend to only get even slightly aroused in positions where I'm completely passive, where I'm not in control. I've tried most positions, largely to experiment, and most of them don't work for me, I don't enjoy them and consequently nor does the person I'm with at the time. I do have a long-term partner at the moment. I call her my partner because it doesn't really feel right describing her as a \"lover\" or \"girlfriend\" as we're not, by normal standards. Although we regularly share a bed we don't even kiss never mind do more intimate stuff. I don't think she's ever quite got to grips with my lack of sexuality and tends to assume I'm gay. Ian, Nottinghamshire\n\nThe Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN) hosts the world's largest online asexual community as well as a large archive of resources on asexuality\n\nMy Umbrella is a volunteer-led support group for the lesser known LGBT+ identities\n\nFor more information on sex and relationships visit BBC Advice\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.\n• None Why don't I want to have sex with the man I love?", "Labour MP Jared O'Mara has quit the Commons equality committee over online homophobic comments he made before being elected to parliament.\n\nMr O'Mara also made misogynistic remarks, joked about having an orgy with members of Girls Aloud and posted degrading comments about fat people.\n\nThe Sheffield Hallam MP, 36, was elected in June, unseating ex-deputy prime minister Nick Clegg.\n\nMr O'Mara resigned from the Women and Equalities Committee after apologising.\n\nIn posts made on the Drowned in Sound music website in 2004, Mr O'Mara claimed singer Michelle McManus only won Pop Idol \"because she was fat\" and said it would be funny if jazz star Jamie Cullum was \"sodomised with his own piano\".\n\nThe posts were first reported by the Guido Fawkes website, which has since revealed that two years earlier Mr O'Mara made homophobic remarks on an internet forum.\n\nThe MP has also apologised for these comments and said he was \"deeply ashamed\" of his actions.\n\nThe Labour leadership described Mr O'Mara's online remarks as \"horrendous\" and \"vile\" but sources said he would not be suspended from the parliamentary party, BBC political correspondent Chris Mason reported.\n\nMr Mason said he understood Mr O'Mara addressed his colleagues at a meeting of Labour MPs and made \"a full and very personal apology\" for his remarks.\n\nThe @LGBTLabour group tweeted that it was \"deeply concerned\" by the MP's comments.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 LGBT Labour This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLib Dem peer Lord Scriven, former leader of Sheffield Council, said: \"It seems like a nasty pattern of sexist language and misogyny is developing from the Labour MP for Sheffield Hallam.\n\n\"He clearly isn't fit to sit on the Women and Equalities Committee. He must stand down from that committee immediately and if he doesn't, Jeremy Corbyn must take action to remove him.\"\n\nStella Creasy, Labour MP for Walthamstow, added she had asked for a meeting with Mr O'Mara to discuss his comments.\n\nHowever Wes Streeting, Labour MP for Ilford North, who was at the meeting earlier, said: \"He offered what seemed to be a heartfelt and genuine apology and admitted that these are views he once held, which took guts.\n\n\"The battle for equality is a battle for hearts and minds and that must surely mean that people are allowed to change their views and therefore must also be offered a second chance.\n\n\"I hope I don't end up eating my words and that he demonstrates his commitment to equality as a new MP. I think we owe him that chance.\"\n\nGirls Aloud were the subject of one of Mr O'Mara's online comments\n\nIn a statement, Mr O'Mara said he had been \"wrong to make\" the comments.\n\n\"I understand why they are offensive and deeply apologise for my use of such unacceptable language.\"\n\n\"I made the comments as a young man, at a particularly difficult time in my life, but that is no excuse.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jared O'Mara Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBefore his resignation from the committee, LGBT Labour said: \"Whilst we recognise that these comments were made some time ago, that doesn't excuse such ignorance and bigotry.\n\n\"We expect a full and public apology from Mr O'Mara and ask that he meets with members of the LGBT Labour committee in order to understand the inequality many LGBT people face.\"\n• None The only MP who wears a T-shirt in Parliament", "Jamie Harron was convicted of public indecency over the incident in a Dubai bar\n\nA Scottish man has been sentenced to three months in jail for touching a man's hip in a Dubai bar.\n\nJamie Harron, from Stirling, was arrested in July and charged with public indecency.\n\nHe claimed he had simply been trying to avoid spilling his drink when he touched the man.\n\nThe 27-year-old electrician had already been sentenced to a month in jail for drinking beer and still faces further court proceedings.\n\nThe businessman who made the complaint against Mr Harron later withdrew it, but prosecutors in Dubai continued with the case.\n\nNews of the three-month sentence was released by campaign group Detained in Dubai, which has been supporting Mr Harron.\n\nMr Harron was on a stopover break in the United Arab Emirates when the incident happened\n\nThe group said lawyers acting for him would appeal and they would be pursuing a civil action against his accusers.\n\nA statement from the group said: \"Today Jamie Harron was sentenced to three months imprisonment for accidentally brushing the hip of an Arab customer at the Rock Bottom bar in Dubai.\n\n\"Key witnesses to the incident were not called upon to testify to discredit the allegations.\n\n\"Jamie will appeal the verdict, though this will prolong his increasingly difficult circumstances in Dubai, and compound the enormous financial losses he has suffered as a consequence of the ongoing case.\"\n\nDetained in Dubai's chief executive Radha Stirling said Mr Harron was \"understandably distraught\".\n\nShe added: \"Now Jamie has been sentenced to three months, there is no telling whether a judgment on appeal will be better or worse.\n\n\"He has already suffered tremendously as a result of these allegations, and now faces the likelihood of incarceration.\n\n\"His family was unable to visit him during this critical time because they faced a very real risk of imprisonment themselves under the UAE's cybercrime laws which forbid criticism of the government.\n\n\"At this point, Jamie will definitely be pursuing civil action against his accusers when he does eventually return home, as it appears that he will not be able to find justice in the UAE.\n\n\"He is angry, disappointed, and dreads what may happen next. He feels betrayed and exploited by the system, which did not investigate the reports of key witnesses in his defence and led him to believe that the case would be dropped.\"\n\nMr Harron, who worked as an electrician in Afghanistan, was on a two-day stopover in the United Arab Emirates at the time of the incident on 15 July.\n\nHe is still to face court on two other charges stemming from the case - one of consuming alcohol, and one for allegedly making a rude gesture.", "The incident happened near the town of Avignon\n\nA British woman has died after a boat accident in southern France on Saturday night.\n\nThe 27-year-old was thrown overboard when the boat she was on collided with a warning beacon on the river Rhone.\n\nHer body was found six metres underwater, firefighters near Avignon told the AFP news agency.\n\nFive other people, including one Briton, were injured and taken to hospital. Two of them are in serious but not life threatening condition.\n\n\"Everyone is in shock,\" local police said.\n\nAn investigation has been launched to determine the circumstances of the incident.\n\nEight friends, four French and four British, aged between 20 and 30, were on the boat, along with the captain.\n\nThey were on the river near the popular tourist town of Avignon.", "Jodie Whittaker will be joined by Mandip Gill, Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole\n\nDoctor Who's first female Time Lord will be joined by three new regular cast members, the BBC has announced.\n\nJodie Whittaker, who takes over as the 13th Doctor next year, will be joined by Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill, as well as Sharon D Clarke in a returning role.\n\nWalsh will star as Graham, Cole will play Ryan and Gill will play Yasmin.\n\nWalsh said he was looking forward to being part of the show - some 50 years after first becoming a fan.\n\nThis is just another interesting career move for the man with one of the most varied CVs in showbusiness.\n\nWalsh is best-known for hosting game shows like The Chase and Wheel of Fortune, and will be familiar to Coronation Street fans for playing Danny Baldwin between 2004-06.\n\nHe started out as a professional footballer for Brentford FC and launched a music career last year - notching up the biggest-selling debut album of 2016 by a British artist.\n\nThis isn't his first experience of the world of Doctor Who - Walsh says he's watched the show for 50 years and even briefly appeared as a villain in spin-off show Sarah Jane Adventures in 2008.\n\nHe said: \"I remember watching William Hartnell as the first Doctor. Black and white made it very scary for a youngster like myself.\"\n\nGill, who has worked in film, theatre, radio and television, got her first major TV role in 2012 when she was cast as Phoebe McQueen in Hollyoaks.\n\nShe was on the soap for three years before her character was killed by an infamous murderer. She has also popped up in Doctors, Cuckoo and Casualty.\n\nAnd she will soon be seen in Kay Mellor's new BBC drama Love, Lies and Records.\n\nGill said she was \"over the moon\" to join the \"iconic\" Doctor Who, adding: \"Certain roles seem unattainable and this is one of those, so much so I didn't believe it to be true for the first few weeks.\"\n\nCole is no stranger to the world of sci-fi as he's already appeared in Star Wars: The Force Awakens with a speaking role as a member of the Red Squadron.\n\nHe will now join the elite group of Warwick Davis, Dave Prowse and Felicity Jones who have starred in both Doctor Who and Star Wars.\n\nCole has also had roles in EastEnders spin-off E20 and Hollyoaks, so has already worked with Mandip Gill.\n\n\"I'm grateful and excited to be a part of this journey with the team,\" Cole said of his casting. \"I'm looking forward to jumping in this Doctor Who universe.\"\n\nChris Chibnall, the show's new head writer, described the trio as \"three of Britain's brightest talents\".\n\nHe added: \"The new Doctor is going to need new friends.\"\n\nThe BBC also confirmed the series will have a 10-week run of 50-minute episodes in autumn 2018, starting with a special hour-long show for the launch.\n\nNo details about the new characters beyond their names have yet been revealed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jodie Whittaker was revealed as the next Time Lord in July\n\nWhittaker was revealed as the next Time Lord in July. The Broadchurch star succeeds Peter Capaldi, who took over the role in 2013 and leaves in the forthcoming Christmas special.\n\nThe reaction to Whittaker's casting was mostly positive - but some fans protested that the Doctor shouldn't be played by a woman.\n\nThe appointment also sparked a war of words between two former Doctors.\n\nPeter Davison, who played the character from 1981 to 1984, said he felt \"a bit sad\" that the character might no longer be \"a role model for boys\", but his comments were dubbed \"rubbish\" by his successor Colin Baker.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This autumn, MPs are due to debate whether they will have to leave the Houses of Parliament while it undergoes essential repairs. But could they be forced out of their iconic building by a potentially messy blockage?\n\nTurn on a gas alarm as a precaution, open a substantial iron gate and head down into a basement. The hum of machinery grows louder - and the smell grows stronger. Impressive but distinctly old-fashioned cylinders and pumps appear.\n\nAn engineer accompanying me explains that these are \"sewage ejectors\", dating from 1888.\n\nAn enterprising Victorian technology museum, you might be assuming, with working exhibits? But this is in fact the basement of the Palace of Westminster. And these Victorian antiques are all that stand between Parliament and an almighty stink.\n\nThe engineer is Andrew Piper, design director for Parliament's Restoration and Renewal programme, which is planning a project lasting several years and will cost billions of pounds.\n\nThe original steam engine, once used to power the sewage ejectors, is still in working order\n\nHe explains that \"everything from the toilets, the rainwater outlets - it all comes down to this point\" - before being ejected out to the main London drain. The ejectors were installed to stop London's sewage invading the buildings after heavy rainfall.\n\nAnd there they still are, working away, almost 130 years later. But, adds Mr Piper \"we can't rely on these sorts of systems for much longer\".\n\nSo what happens if they suddenly fail?\n\n\"If you can't use the toilets any more a building quickly becomes unusable. The end result would be potentially shutting the building down.\"\n\nThe sewage system is just one of several growing hazards. Mr Piper and his basement maintenance team struggle with constant fire dangers. There are modern electrical cables crammed next to older asbestos-covered steam pipes. And a system of vents that could carry smoke or flames swiftly through the building.\n\nFlooding in the basement of the Palace of Westminster in June 2017\n\nThe building that's meant to represent the British constitution is a kind of national monument to make do and mend, with lots of bits from different eras bolted on to each other and much left unwritten - like where all these cables and vents end up, and what they actually do.\n\nThe Palace of Westminster, one of the best known buildings in the world, is in a truly terrible state.\n\nSome have known this for years. A joint committee, including MPs and peers, published a report last year which warned that the palace \"faces an impending crisis which we cannot responsibly ignore\".\n\n\"There is a substantial and growing risk of either a single, catastrophic event, such as a major fire, or a succession of incremental failures in essential systems.\"\n\nSo how has this happened? And what does the state of Parliament say about the state of our politics?\n\nFirstly, there's the belief that the building represents political stability. Maintenance has long been limited by MPs' insistence that nothing must stop them from sitting there. So any repairs have been crammed into recess times.\n\nAnd there's another layer to this psychological attachment, says Dr Caroline Shenton, historian and former parliamentary archivist. The palace, with its bars and restaurants, gym and post offices, becomes a kind of home from home for MPs and peers, giving a \"daily sense of continuity and security\".\n\nAdd to that anxiety - in this increasingly angry, anti-politics era - about what public opinion and headline writers will say as the multi-billion cost of renewal emerges.\n\nSheffield University's Prof Matthew Flinders, chair of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, who has closely followed the Restoration and Renewal programme, says this failure to take a decision is a classic example of what political scientists call \"elite blockage\".\n\nThe palace, he says, \"casts a spell\" on many who use it. It represents a kind of politics with \"low expectations of public engagement\" which \"locks in by its design not only a two-party system but also a very masculine, adversarial kind of politics\".\n\nThose who benefit leave it to others to take tough unpopular decisions in the future. Meanwhile \"the building can't take it any more - we've reached a crunch point.\"\n\nThe Palace of Westminster's cast iron roofs are 160 years old\n\nHe would like the current problems to be seen as an opportunity - to open up the building and change the way we do politics. Public access could be greatly improved, especially for disabled people who currently struggle to enter.\n\nOthers say a renovated palace would prove a huge asset as Brexit Britain tries to reinforce its international reputation.\n\nMPs are due to debate the latest restoration and renewal plan at some point this autumn. But those who have watched years of delay and disagreement don't expect swift action.\n\nSo will it take a catastrophe - like the 1834 fire which destroyed the palace's predecessor - to force a change?\n\n\"It's starting to look like that,\" says Dr Shenton. It might be that \"the whole place just grinds to a halt\".\n\n\"In terms of British pride,\" warns Prof Flinders, \"if we wait for a catastrophe to close down Parliament, it's going to be an absolute disaster.\"\n\nAnd as for the failure of those sewage ejectors - that would create an \"elite blockage\" like no other.\n\nChris Bowlby presents Parliament - A Building Catastrophe? on BBC Radio 4 on Monday 23 October 2017 at 20:30 BST. You will be able to listen via the Radio 4 programme website or download the programme podcast.", "Harvey Weinstein insists any sexual relations he had were consensual\n\nNew York prosecutors are investigating the company co-founded by Harvey Weinstein following allegations of sexual assault made against the film producer.\n\nThe civil rights inquiry seeks to identify employees who have been subject to harassment.\n\n\"If sexual harassment or discrimination is pervasive...we want to know,\" the attorney general's office said.\n\nCompany documents will be seized as part of the investigation.\n\nThe Weinstein Company, which is based in New York, has come under intense pressure over the scandal and fired Mr Weinstein from its board earlier this month.\n\nMore than two dozen women - among them actresses Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Rose McGowan - have made a number of accusations against Mr Weinstein.\n\nIn a statement, New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman said: \"No New Yorker should be forced to walk into a workplace ruled by sexual intimidation, harassment, or fear.\"\n\n\"If sexual harassment or discrimination is pervasive at a company, we want to know.\"\n\nA source familiar with the investigation told the BBC that prosecutors would subpoena documents as part of the inquiry. These include documents relating to complaints about sexual harassment and how such complaints were handled.\n\nHarvey Weinstein, whose films have received more than 300 Oscar nominations, has \"unequivocally denied\" any allegations of non-consensual sex.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On some red carpets, Harvey Weinstein is not a welcome subject\n\nElsewhere, Los Angeles police announced its first investigation involving Mr Weinstein in California.\n\n\"The Los Angeles Police Department's Robbery Homicide Division has interviewed a potential sexual assault victim involving Harvey Weinstein which allegedly occurred in 2013,\" LAPD spokesman Sal Ramirez told the BBC.\n\nIn London, police say Mr Weinstein is accused of assaulting three women in separate incidents in the late 1980s, 1992, 2010, 2011 and 2015.\n\nOfficers are looking into claims they were attacked in Westminster, Camden and west London.\n\nNo arrests have been made over any of the allegations, police say.\n\nMeanwhile, the actor Matt Damon said he became aware of Harvey Weinstein's alleged harassment of Gwyneth Paltrow in 1999.\n\nSpeaking to ABC News, he said: \"I knew the story about Gwyneth [Paltrow] from Ben [Affleck], because he was with her after Brad [Pitt], so I knew that story.\"\n\nIn the same interview George Clooney, whose big-screen break was a Weinstein film, said it is \"beyond infuriating\" that \"predator\" Harvey Weinstein was \"out silencing women\".\n\nOn Monday, at a film premiere in Los Angeles, he spoke about the need to believe women who speak out about sexual assault.\n\n\"Maybe this is the watershed moment, where we believe women, where they feel safe that they can talk about what they're experiencing\", he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Hanks: \"Everybody has stories about some aspect of the so called casting couch\"\n\nGeorge Clooney and Matt Damon join the list of Hollywood stars who have spoken out to condemn Harvey Weinstein.\n\nLast week, the actor Tom Hanks told the BBC that he sees no way back for the film producer.\n\n\"His last name will become a noun and a verb. It will become an identifying moniker for a state of being for which there was a before and an after\", he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Everything Everything perform Can't Do at BBC Music Introducing Live 2017\n\n\"There's a tide and it's coming in now,\" sings Jonathan Higgs on Night Of The Long Knives, the latest single from Everything Everything.\n\nThe title refers to Hitler's bloody purge of the Nazi party in 1934, drawing a parallel to the rise of the right-wing politics in the last two years.\n\nOnly Higgs isn't convinced that fascism will sweep everything in its path.\n\n\"They're saying it's a wave but it feels like a dribbling mouth,\" he sneers in the single, questioning whether the alt-right are a powerful force, or just a bunch of idiots.\n\n\"And the answer is both,\" says the singer, sitting down to discuss the album with BBC News at the Brixton Academy.\n\n\"It depends how we react to it. If everyone [panics and] says, 'Oh God!' the next thing you know, they're the prime minister.\n\n\"But if you go, 'Ha, ha, ha, you're idiots,' well... they'll probably still become prime minister. But you have to keep your head about it.\"\n\nIt's surprising to hear Higgs make a plea for perspective. After all, this is a man whose last album, Get To Heaven, was a \"wretched and anxious\" response to Islamic State militants, beheadings, mass shootings and political corruption.\n\n\"I was in a dark place,\" he told the BBC on its release. \"I was essentially trying to inhabit the minds of the [extremists] and that's a really horrible thing to face.\"\n\nEverything Everything's new album dials back on the paranoia and dread - partly because Higgs thinks the world has caught up with him.\n\n\"I'm not less in that headspace, but I think everyone else is in it more,\" he says.\n\n\"But the album's a bit more abstract, a bit more personal. Away from politics and all that stuff, it's about the human relationships we all have.\"\n\nThe album is called A Fever Dream, a reference to the \"surreal, nightmarish things happening, day after day\" - especially the absurdity of modern politics.\n\nIt's there in Big Game, a pomposity-pricking parable about Donald Trump (\"Even little children see through you\"), and it's there in Run the Numbers, a song that explores Michael Gove's comment that \"people in this country have had enough of experts\".\n\n\"Is it the first song to be inspired by Michael Gove? Yes, and it should be the only one. Let's leave it at that.\"\n\nA Fever Dream reached number five when it was released in August - the band's best chart position to date\n\nHiggs is smart enough to be aware that he comes from a position of privilege, and his liberal views are out of step with the prevailing political climate.\n\nThere's a song on the album called Ivory Tower, where people threaten to \"come and crush me in the Waitrose aisle\". On the title track, he sings: \"I hate the neighbours, they hate me too / The fear and the fury make me feel good.\"\n\n\"It's admitting that I sort of enjoy arguing,\" he explains. \"I think we all do on some level. It's certainly popular.\"\n\n\"With anonymity you can go much further than you ever could in real life,\" Higgs continues.\n\n\"People become very extreme very quickly. It feels good to give yourself over to that emotion.\"\n\nThis leads to a discussion of the fake news stories that spread in the wake of this month's mass shooting in Las Vegas.\n\nEverything Everything are named after the first two words on Radiohead's Kid A album\n\n\"I just can't begin to find a way into that mindset,\" says Higgs. \"But the whole idea about what's true has been thrown up in the air: Who do we trust? Why do we trust our journalists? Is it just because we're used to it?\"\n\n\"There are codes of practices in place, right?\" interjects his bandmate, Jeremy Pritchard. \"But does the Daily Mail care? Does Fox News care? I don't think so.\"\n\nHiggs says keeping up with the news \"feels like a bad dream - sometimes it's scary and frightening and sometimes it's electrifying and exciting\".\n\nHe adds: \"That's why there's a reference to being asleep or dreaming or waking up in every single song. There's a feeling of 'is it real, or is it not?'\"\n\nIf this all sounds pretty heavy, it's worth noting that Everything Everything have always dressed up their angst in a cathartic explosion of melodic pop.\n\nThat's how they sneak songs like Cough Cough (about greed for oil), My Kz Ur Bf (airstrikes) and Night Of The Long Knives onto daytime radio.\n\n\"Musically, A Fever Dream's a bit more electronic but also heavier with guitars and riffs,\" says Pritchard (second left)\n\nIn concert, this results in fans bellowing out the lyrics to No Reptiles - a song about feeling passive and useless and alienated from society.\n\nThere's something bizarre, I observe, about hearing 3,000 people chanting: \"It's alright to feel like a fat child in a pushchair.\"\n\n\"We're always surprised by what people's favourites are,\" adds Pritchard. \"And we're still towards the beginning of that process on this album.\n\n\"We've written them, we've recorded them and now we're seeing what works in the live arena - where the energy is, how to play it.\"\n\nBut the \"fat child in a pushchair\" remains the bassist's favourite part of the set, every night.\n\n\"I don't have to play anything at that point in the song,\" he says, \"So I always take my earphones out and listen to the crowd. It's incredible.\"\n\nA Fever Dream is out now.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Florida police search for suspect in connection with three murders\n\nFlorida police have said they are searching for a possible serial killer believed to have fatally shot three people over the last two weeks.\n\nOfficials believe the murders, which happened blocks apart, were committed by the same gunman who may have chosen the victims at random, police say.\n\nThe latest victim was an autistic man who was shot while walking home from work after getting on the wrong bus.\n\nLocal residents have been advised not to walk alone after dark.\n\n\"Now we have someone terrorising the neighbourhood,\" said interim Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan, who added that there is \"no doubt\" that the crimes are linked.\n\nAnthony Naiboa, 20, was found gunned down on 19 October in the central Tampa neighbourhood of Seminole Heights.\n\nThe autistic charity worker was shot to death around 20:00 local time (00:00 GMT), less than a mile away from where two others were shot and killed.\n\nOfficers heard the gunshots that killed Mr Naiboa, but the suspect had fled before they arrived on scene, according to Chief Dugan.\n\n\"You can imagine the frustration of these officers to hear gunshots and not be able to find this person,\" Chief Dugan said.\n\nBenjamin Mitchell, 22, was alone at a bus stop after dark when he was shot dead on 9 October.\n\nMonica Caridad Hoffa, 32, was walking to meet a friend when she was fatally shot. She was found in a vacant lot on 13 October.\n\nPolice say the killings could be connected based on the proximity of the murders and time frame, but Mr Dugan said he was cautious about using the term serial killer.\n\nThe FBI are helping local police in the investigation and have released a photo of a possible suspect, but a motive is still unclear.\n\nPolice say the murders are probably linked due to the proximity and time frame of the murders\n\nLocal police are accompanying students to bus stops in the wake of the murders, department spokesman Steve Hegarty told the Tampa Bay Times newspaper on Monday.\n\nOfficers first began escorting residents during a vigil held after dark on Sunday.\n\nA crowd of more than 100 marched to the scenes of the murders and chanted: \"Whose streets? Our streets.\"\n\nThe US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay have offered a $25,000 reward (£19,000) for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for the murders.", "The blue Pagani Zonda crashed on the A27 at Tangmere\n\nAn extremely rare £1.5m supercar was badly damaged after it smashed into a crash barrier in West Sussex.\n\nThe Pagani Zonda, which has a top speed of more than 200mph (322kmph), crashed on the A27 at Tangmere on Saturday shortly after 07:30 BST.\n\nSussex Police said the driver was not injured but the \"one-off\" Italian-made car was left with \"significant damage\".\n\nIt is thought the car was travelling in a convoy of sports cars at the time and police have appealed for witnesses.\n\n\"We are hoping someone would remember as it is so distinctive,\" PC Peter De Silvo said.\n\nPolice believe it was travelling from Worthing to Chichester with several other sports cars\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gemma Procter spoke only to confirm her name, age and address\n\nA woman has appeared in court charged with the murder of an 18-month-old boy who fell from a sixth-floor flat window.\n\nEmergency services were called to the Newcastle House block of flats in Bradford city centre at 17:10 BST on Saturday after Elliot Procter fell.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said it \"quickly became apparent\" the boy had died by the time officers arrived.\n\nAt the city's magistrates' court, Gemma Procter was remanded in custody.\n\nMs Procter, 23, of Barkerend Road, Bradford, spoke only to confirm her name, age and address to district judge Michael Fanning.\n\nShe is due to appear at Bradford Crown Court on Wednesday.\n\nThe seven-storey Newcastle House is in Bradford city centre\n\nEnquiries into the \"extremely traumatic\" incident remain ongoing, a force spokesperson said.\n\nNewcastle House, which is in the city centre, is a seven-storey block of flats with shops on the ground floor.", "Teresa Wishart was found with head injuries at her home\n\nA man has been charged with the murder of an 80-year-old woman at her home.\n\nThe body of Teresa Wishart was found in Changford Close in Kirkby, Merseyside, on Thursday. She had suffered head injuries.\n\nCharles Stapleton, 51, from Watts Close, Kirkby, is accused of murder and burglary.\n\nHe is due to appear at Liverpool, Knowsley and St Helens Magistrates' Court on Monday morning.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tatyana Felgengauer is seen here posing in a team photo of Ekho Moskvy presenters\n\nOne of Russia's top radio presenters has had surgery after being stabbed in the neck by a man who broke into her newsroom at broadcaster Ekho Moskvy.\n\nTatyana Felgengauer is in a medically-induced coma in a Moscow hospital but her life is not said to be in danger.\n\nA male suspect is under arrest. His motive is not clear, though police say it appears to be a personal grudge.\n\nEkho Moskvy, an independent station, often broadcasts views critical of the Kremlin.\n\nThe knifeman reportedly sprayed a gas into the face of a security guard as he broke in.\n\nAccording to Ekho Moskvy, the alleged attacker's name is Boris Grits. It describes the attacker as an Israeli, citing \"informed sources\".\n\nRussian police described him as a 48-year-old foreigner. \"Initial findings show that personal dislike was the motivation,\" police told Interfax news agency.\n\nThe Moscow police have released a video clip of the suspect under arrest, in which he claims that Felgengauer had \"sexually harassed me through telepathy\".\n\nA blog apparently published by Boris Grits also contains posts vilifying Felgengauer.\n\nBlood was spattered on the floor as police tackled the intruder\n\nA Russian state TV channel recently accused Ekho Moskvy (\"Moscow Echo\" in English) of working with the West to produce anti-Russian propaganda, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford reports from Moscow.\n\nJust last month, another of its journalists, Yulia Latynina, left the country after she was sprayed with faeces and her car was set on fire.\n\nThis photo of the suspect was published by Ekho Moskvy after the attack\n\nStaff at the radio station say the man did not shout anything before he stabbed Tatyana Felgengauer on the building's 14th floor.\n\nShe is deputy chief editor at Ekho Moskvy and has worked there for more than 10 years. She is the daughter of Pavel Felgengauer, a prominent journalist with military expertise.\n\nA photo of the suspect was published by the radio station's website editor, Vitaly Ruvinsky, on Facebook.\n\nOne of the broadcaster's security guards was injured as the knifeman was being overpowered.\n\nEkho Moskvy is a major broadcaster, respected for its independent stance\n\nMost Russians rely on TV for their news and the main channels are either directly state-controlled or run by companies with close links to the Kremlin.\n\nThere have been many attacks on investigative reporters and other journalists who have challenged Russia's powerful vested interests.", "Jamie Harron had been unable to leave the country since July\n\nA Scottish man accused of public indecency in Dubai has had the charges against him dropped after the ruler of the Emirate of Dubai intervened.\n\nJamie Harron, 27, from Stirling, had been sentenced to three months in jail for touching a man's hip in a bar.\n\nDetained in Dubai, the group representing Mr Harron, said he had been exonerated by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum.\n\nIt said Mr Harron had his passport returned and is free to leave Dubai.\n\nMr Harron's mother Patricia declined to be interviewed, but told BBC Scotland that the family were \"ecstatic\" at the news.\n\nMr Harron had also been accused of drinking alcohol and making a rude gesture towards the businessman who made the complaint.\n\nDetained in Dubai spokeswoman Radha Stirling said: \"The cases against him have been dismissed, and the sentence imposed by the court yesterday has been nullified.\n\n\"We wish to express our deepest gratitude to Sheikh Mohammed for his personal intervention in this case, and for exonerating Jamie at long last.\n\n\"It has now been established that the allegations against Jamie were entirely unwarranted, defamatory, and meritless.\"\n\nMs Stirling said Mr Harron was now considering a civil action against the businessman and his employers.\n\nMr Harron was arrested in July and charged with public indecency.\n\nHe claimed he had simply been trying to avoid spilling his drink when he touched the man.\n\nThe man who made the complaint against Mr Harron later withdrew it, but prosecutors in Dubai continued with the case.\n\nMr Harron, who worked as an electrician in Afghanistan, was on a two-day stopover in the United Arab Emirates at the time of the incident.\n\nHe said he lost his job and has spent more than £30,000 in expenses and legal fees as a result of the case.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Feras Kilani was in Raqqa with anti-IS troops\n\nRussia has accused the US-led coalition of bombing the Syrian city of Raqqa \"off the face of the earth\" during the fight against so-called Islamic State.\n\nThe Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, took Raqqa last week.\n\nPictures suggest much of Raqqa is in ruins, and Moscow compared it to the Allied destruction of the German city of Dresden in World War Two.\n\nThe US-led coalition says it tried to minimise risks to civilians.\n\nRussia has itself been accused of committing war crimes for its bombardment of Aleppo last year.\n\nUN war crimes investigators in June that there had been a \"staggering loss of civilian life\" in Raqqa.\n\nSyrian activists say between 1,130 and 1,873 civilians were killed and that many of the civilian casualties were the result of the intense US-led air strikes that helped the SDF, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias, advance.\n\nA Russian defence ministry spokesman said the ruins evoked the destruction of Dresden.\n\n\"Raqqa has inherited the fate of Dresden in 1945, wiped off the face of the earth by Anglo-American bombardments,\" Maj Gen Igor Konashenkov said.\n\nHe said the West now appeared to be hurrying to send financial aid to Raqqa as a way of covering up evidence of its crimes.\n\nAllied bombing destroyed most of Dresden in 1945\n\nThe US-led coalition said it had adhered to strict targeting processes and procedures aimed to minimise risks to civilians.\n\nThe SDF declared victory in Raqqa last week after a four-month battle to retake the city from IS, which had ruled it for three years.\n\nThey say they have since taken the al-Omar oilfield, Syria's largest and a significant source of revenue for IS.\n\nThe SDF's fight against the militants is now focused on their last stronghold in Syria's eastern province of Deir al-Zour.\n\nThe Syrian army, supported by Russian airpower and Iranian-backed militias, is also attacking the extremist group.", "Wim Wenders chose himself as a subject for some of his photos\n\nWim Wenders became a major film-maker when, in the 1970s, German cinema became cool around the world. His hits included The American Friend and Paris, Texas. But Wenders was privately experimenting with one of the most straightforward of visual technologies - the Polaroid stills camera. Thousands of those shots were thrown away - but now a selection of surviving images has gone on display in London.\n\nWenders says when he started taking Polaroid pictures in the mid-1960s it had nothing to do with art.\n\nWim Wenders says taking snaps was useful to his film-making and it was fun\n\n\"It was just part of my life. I would photograph things to do with movies I was making, or when I travelled. It was useful and fun - which I think is what Polaroids were for most people.\"\n\nInstant photography - doing away with a separate and lengthy process of developing film outside the camera - arrived commercially in 1948. It was the creation of Polaroid's founder Edwin Land. In the early years the images were black and white.\n\nThe big step forward was the arrival of the Polaroid sx-70 camera in the early 1970s.\n\n\"It was science fiction and nobody had seen anything like it. You pointed the camera and took the picture and then it came out - an empty, blank bit of white paper.\n\n\"And before your eyes it slowly turned into the image you had shot a few moments before. It was exhilarating in its colours and brightness.\n\nNew York is given the Wim Wenders treatment\n\n\"You have to remember that at this time people didn't have even VHS tape - we were in a simpler, analogue world. So to be able to create and record a visual image almost immediately seemed extraordinary.\"\n\nNow some 200 of the images are on display in London, under the title Instant Stories. Some of them show well-known people the director worked with such as the actor Dennis Hopper. Others are landscapes or pictures of odd corners in places Wenders visited such as New York or Sydney.\n\nThere are also close-up images of a TV set showing the 1956 film The Girl Can't Help It, with appearances from Eddie Cochrane and Gene Vincent.\n\n\"It's still my favourite rock and roll movie. And suddenly with a Polaroid you could photograph something you enjoyed and you had it in front of you to hold, almost at once. At the time it was extraordinary.\n\n\"The other great thing is that if friends were in the image you could give it to them - and that's what happened to many of the pictures I took.\n\n\"I'd had traditional cameras since I was six or so and I enjoyed using them. But there was a whole new spontaneity with the Polaroid which I think some people are now starting to rediscover the way they've rediscovered music on vinyl.\n\n\"Everyone says, 'oh the kids aren't interested in physical objects any more: they don't want a book or a newspaper or a CD.'\n\n\"But the kids will regret it when they're older: if you're 25 you have to realise that the phone which seems so great now will one day be yesterday's technology and lots of the digital images we all have will be hard or even impossible to look at.\"\n\nDennis Hopper invented the selfie in the Wenders movie The American Friend, says the director\n\nBut doesn't a modern smartphone produce images far more sophisticated than any Polaroid camera did 40 years ago? Wenders says the basic character of the technology was part of the appeal.\n\n\"I think people who look at the images will find a sort of beauty here. The colours the process produced are great, though the monochrome images are attractive too.\"\n\nThe director points out a particular black and white picture. \"It's the Hoboken Terminal in New York and I was shooting a film 30 years ago there called Lightning Over Water. These places are mainly gone.\"\n\nFor a long time the pictures just went up on Wenders' refrigerator and then were stored away in cigar boxes.\n\n\"But they remain unique: they only existed once and there's no negative and you can't duplicate it. Forty years later they seem quite precious.\"\n\nWenders remembers that at the time a new Polaroid model or a big technical development was the equivalent of an Apple launch today.\n\n\"So when the sx-70 came out we were delighted to get hold of it early to use in the film Alice in the Cities (1974).\"\n\nThe new show in London plays on a loop the scene from The American Friend in which, says Wenders, \"Dennis Hopper invents the selfie with a Polaroid camera.\"\n\nThere was something \"sacred\" about the instantaneity of the Polaroid, says Wenders\n\nThere was also a use behind the camera. \"So at this time there's no video playout and you only see your rushes three days later. The Polaroid camera can be a real help setting up a shot.\"\n\nBut in the 1980s Wenders abandoned Polaroids entirely. \"I was starting to take stills photography more seriously and I started to use large-size cameras\".\n\nBut he retained one of his old Polaroid cameras and only recently gave it to Patti Smith to replace one she was having problems with.\n\nWenders thinks digital photography is now so problem-free and so cheap that a lot of the creativity has gone.\n\n\"It's so easy for a professional photographer to take hundreds or even thousands of pictures of a particular face or of a scene and of course a few of them will be good and the rest are wiped. It can be an impersonal, industrial process.\n\n\"The Polaroid was instant but it was still connected to the original idea of photography. There was always something sacred about the act of stealing an image from the world.\"\n\nInstant Stories: Wim Wenders' Polaroids is at the Photographers' Gallery in London until 11 February 2018.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A British man has told the BBC how he swam over four miles to safety after being \"followed\" by a tiger shark.\n\nA British diver says he swam 7.5km (4.5 miles) to safety off the coast of Australia after losing sight of his boat and being \"followed\" by a shark.\n\nJohn Craig, 34, had been spear-fishing underwater in Western Australia on Friday when he surfaced and could not see the boat, being crewed by a friend.\n\nMr Craig said he noticed a shark as he called and splashed for help.\n\nHe then began a long swim back to shore before reaching land and walking for another 30 minutes until he was seen.\n\nThe Sunderland man, an experienced diver who moved to Australia two years ago, said the shark had appeared to be a tiger shark about 4m in length.\n\n\"It was extremely close and curious and kept approaching me from different angles. It was trying to work out what I was and whether I could be on the menu,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"It was terrifying. I thought I was just going to be eaten out here in the middle of nowhere... this shark is just not leaving me alone.\"\n\nMr Craig said he placed his spear gun between himself and the shark as it swam around him in Shark Bay, about 800km north of Perth, the state capital.\n\nHe then decided to swim towards the Francois Perron National Park after spotting a red cliff \"very low on the horizon\".\n\nBut Mr Craig said he was followed by the \"curious\" shark for about 15 minutes.\n\nThe diver said he was thankful he was able to complete the swim\n\n\"At this point I thought I was gone - 4 nautical miles out to sea with a huge tiger shark following me - I thought this was it, this is how I am going to die,\" he said.\n\n\"I would look back and see its head come out of the gloom and at my fins, keeping pace with me.\"\n\nHe said he felt almost like the shark was \"escorting\" him to shore, but after a time it disappeared.\n\nMr Craig estimated he swam for another three hours before reaching land, where he noticed an air and sea rescue effort was under way.\n\nUnable to gain anyone's attention, Mr Craig began walking towards a campsite until a plane spotted him about 30 minutes later.\n\n\"I could not believe that someone could swim that far in such a short period of time,\" said Glen Ridgley, from Shark Bay Volunteer Marine Rescue.\n\n\"I guess where there's a shark besides you spurring you on... it's like a trainer.\"\n\nMr Craig was reunited with his wife aboard one of the rescue boats. He has praised the quick response of the area's search and rescue authorities.\n\nHis original boat had experienced mechanical issues but his friend was OK, Mr Craig said.\n\nTiger sharks are responsible for the second-highest number of reported attacks on humans, according to the International Shark Attack File.", "The biggest UK jackpot on record is up for grabs on Tuesday after no-one took home Friday's Euromillions top prize.\n\nIf one lucky ticketholder takes the estimated £167m jackpot, they will be go down as the biggest lottery winners in British and European history.\n\nThe current UK record is £161m, won by Colin and Christine Weir, from Largs, North Ayrshire, six years ago.\n\nWinning numbers for Friday's draw, which had a £157m jackpot, were: 7, 18, 19, 32, 48. Lucky Stars were 3 and 7.\n\nAndy Carter, at the National Lottery, said: \"At an estimated £167m, Tuesday's Euromillions jackpot will be the biggest ever offered to National Lottery players in the UK.\n\n\"A single UK winner would be the biggest this country and Europe has ever seen.\"\n\nTo date, 91 UK ticketholders have won the Euromillions jackpot or a share of the jackpot prize, placing the country second behind France in terms of jackpot wins.\n\nOther European countries taking part in Euromillions, which has been running since 2004, include Spain, Austria, Belgium, the Irish Republic, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland.\n\nRecord winners Christine and Colin Weir have donated millions to political and charitable causes\n\nThe Weirs, who won their fortune in 2011, have since used their money for political and charitable causes.\n\nAs supporters of Scottish independence, they donated more than £4.5m to the Scottish National Party and £3.5m to the pro-independence Yes Scotland campaign ahead of the 2014 referendum.\n\nThey also bought a prosthetic leg for a 13-year-old boy and have established a charitable trust to help fund health, sport, cultural, recreational and animal welfare projects.", "One of the UK's largest supermarket chicken suppliers has suspended operations after an investigation allegedly exposed food safety breaches.\n\nThe 2 Sisters Food Group said staff at its site in the West Midlands will need to be \"appropriately retrained\" before it starts resupplying customers.\n\nIt comes after allegations that workers had changed slaughter dates to extend the shelf life of meat.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency (FSA) has also been investigating the claims.\n\nThe Guardian and ITV News claimed an undercover reporter witnessed workers changing the \"kill dates\" on chickens.\n\nThey also allegedly saw meat of different ages being mixed together and codes on crates of meat altered.\n\nIn a statement, the company said an internal investigation had shown \"some isolated instances of non-compliance\" at its plant in West Bromwich.\n\n\"We have therefore decided to temporarily suspend operations at the site to allow us the time to retrain all colleagues, including management, in all food safety and quality management systems.\"\n\nAll staff will remain on full pay and take part in training on site, it added.\n\n\"We will only recommence supply once we are satisfied that our colleagues have been appropriately retrained.\"\n\nMarks & Spencer, Aldi, Lidl and The Co-op have stopped taking chickens from the site while investigations take place.\n\nThe company also supplies Tesco and Sainsbury's, which are looking into the allegations.\n\n2 Sisters said the FSA had visited the site every day since the allegations came to light and had \"not identified any breaches\".\n\nIt went on: \"We continue to work closely with the FSA and our customers throughout this period.\"", "Several of the front pages have a picture of a Spanish policeman clad in armour brandishing a baton as he confronts protesters in Barcelona.\n\n\"Spain torn apart,\" says the headline in the Times, \"as 850 are hurt in referendum riots\".\n\nThe Financial Times warns that the vote threatens to trigger one of the gravest political and constitutional crises in Spain's 40-year old democracy.\n\nFor the Daily Telegraph, the clashes have \"plunged the EU into a new crisis\" - because of a failure by Brussels to criticise the Spanish government's violent response.\n\nThe Sun describes the scenes as \"Helldorado\".\n\nElsewhere, the i is among those reporting a backlash among senior Tories against Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson over his recent interventions in the Brexit debate. Some are said to have warned \"nobody is unsackable\".\n\nThe Daily Mail sounds of note of exasperation, with the headline: \"What a time to be squabbling\".\n\nNevertheless, according to the lead in the Daily Express, Theresa May is \"winning the Brexit battle\".\n\nIt highlights claims by the prime minister on Sunday's Andrew Marr show that a string of European leaders have personally praised plans for the UK's departure - laid out in her recent Florence speech.\n\nThe Daily Mirror claims an exclusive with a report that the captain of a nuclear submarine has been relieved of his duties as military chiefs investigate an alleged inappropriate relationship with a female officer.\n\nIt believes senior naval officers have been sent to the vessel, in international waters, to sort things out.\n\nThe MoD confirmed an investigation was taking place but gave no details.\n\nThe Daily Mail reports a study suggesting half of all NHS dentists plan to leave the health service within five years.\n\nA survey carried out by the British Dental Association found 58% want to go private, move overseas, retire or quit the profession.\n\nNHS Engand tells the paper there are 3,800 more dentists offering NHS care than a decade ago, with no significant increase in the number leaving.\n\nAnd finally, there are pictures all over the papers of Prince Harry apparently kissing Meghan Markle in public for the first time.\n\nThe Sun says it has \"sparked a frenzy of engagement speculation\".", "Rex Tillerson is in China meeting President Xi Jinping and other top officials\n\nThe US is in \"direct contact\" with North Korea, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said.\n\nMr Tillerson said Washington was \"probing\" the possibility of talks with Pyongyang, \"so stay tuned\".\n\n\"We have lines of communications to Pyongyang,\" he said during a trip to China. \"We're not in a dark situation.\"\n\nNorth Korea and the US have engaged in heated rhetoric in recent months but it was not previously known they had lines of communication.\n\nThe US state department later confirmed there were a number of communication channels open with Pyongyang, but said little progress was being made.\n\n\"Despite assurances that the United States is not interested in promoting the collapse of the current regime (...) North Korean officials have shown no indication that they are interested in or are ready for talks regarding denuclearisation,\" department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe US wants North Korea to halt its weapons programme, which has seen it perform repeated missile tests and, on 3 September, the test of a miniaturised hydrogen bomb which could be loaded on to a long-range missile, which Pyongyang said was successful.\n\nBut attempts at dialogue seem to be at odds with President Donald Trump's own attitude to the issue. Just last month, he said \"talking is not the answer\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Trump has previously threatened to annihilate North Korea, saying the country's leader, Kim Jong-un, \"is on a suicide mission\". Mr Kim then vowed to \"tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire\".\n\nNorth Korea continued the rhetoric on Saturday, releasing a statement calling Mr Trump an \"old psychopath\" bent on the \"suicidal act of inviting a nuclear disaster that will reduce America to a sea of flames\".\n\nThe UN has brought in sanctions against North Korea in an attempt to force the secretive state to stop its weapons programme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe US sees China - North Korea's biggest trading partner - as key to ensuring the sanctions are effective.\n\nChina this week told North Korean businesses operating in its territory to close down. However, China remains keen to see negotiations with North Korea.\n\nMr Tillerson revealed the communications channels following a meeting in Beijing with President Xi Jinping and other officials.", "Prince Harry says he hopes to expand the Invictus Games in the future, saying the \"sky's the limit\".\n\nHe launched the Paralympic-style competition for injured servicemen and servicewomen and veterans in 2014.\n\nThe prince was joined at the closing ceremony by his girlfriend Meghan Markle, and her mother Doria Radlan.\n\nHe made a speech, watched by the participants from the 17 nations who have taken part during the week-long event in the Canadian city of Toronto.\n\nIn his closing speech, Prince Harry urged people to take inspiration from the athletes and set an Invictus goal for themselves\n\nCanada has hosted over 500 participants at the third edition of the Invictus Games - the first was held in 2014 in London\n\nPrince Harry, in an interview with the host broadcaster, said: \"We have a social responsibility to continue this for a long as it's needed.\"\n\nBruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams and Kelly Clarkson were among the acts to perform at the closing ceremony.\n\nBruce Springsteen and Bryan Adams performed their own sets and then sang two songs together - Badlands and Cuts Like A Knife\n\nFormer US president Barack Obama made a surprise appearance at the Games on Friday, while US First Lady Melania Trump accompanied Prince Harry at last week's opening ceremony.\n\nAnd at the closing ceremony, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, wife of Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, handed out participation medals to the competitors.\n\nIn a rousing send-off to all who competed at the third Invictus Games, Prince Harry addressed them directly in his closing speech, saying: \"Right now you're on a high. At the summit of a mountain many of you thought was too high to climb. You have done it.\n\n\"This is the moment, right here, right now, shoulder to shoulder, you are Invictus.\"\n\nPrince Harry served in the Army for 10 years\n\nPrince Harry and Bruce Springsteen met some of the competitors at the closing ceremony", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRuth Davidson has demanded Scotland benefits more from being part of the Union with a plea for more government jobs to be relocated north.\n\nThe Scottish Conservative leader said the UK \"continues to be far too London-centric\" with \"enough civil servants to fill Wembley Stadium\".\n\nMs Davidson also urged activists not to lose heart in the face of a resurgent Labour Party.\n\nShe predicted Jeremy Corbyn's \"bubble\" would burst if the party worked hard.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have enjoyed a significant revival under Ms Davidson's leadership, winning 13 seats in June's snap election, including those of former first minister Alex Salmond and SNP depute leader Angus Robertson.\n\nShe told the Conservative conference in Manchester: \"Just as the SNP came crashing down to earth. Just as they lost 40% of their seats in June.\n\n\"Just as half a million Scots chose to take their vote away. So too can the Corbyn bubble burst, but only if we work hard to make it so.\n\n\"Because, you know what? People tire of being offered free unicorns. Of easy promises that don't add up.\n\n\"They want serious solutions to the issues facing their world. They want opportunities to make their own lives better.\"\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives leader said she loved London but - in an allusion to speculation she could be a future prime minister - joked: \"No plans to move there myself, but great to visit.\"\n\nBut she then criticised the concentration of civil servant jobs in the UK capital, saying: \"For all the devolution of power in the last 20 years, our Union continues to be far too London-centric.\"\n\nMs Davidson praised the V&A Dundee project but argued more jobs must move outside London\n\nShe told the conference: \"We live in a country where the property values of London's top 10 boroughs are worth more than all of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales combined.\n\n\"Where you can sell a three bed semi in Ilford, and buy half of Sutherland.\n\n\"Where, in a capital city already zooming forward on the jet fuel of high finance, the economy is further boosted by enough civil servants to fill Wembley stadium.\"\n\nMs Davidson cited the new V&A museum in Dundee as a model of investment already taking place.\n\nShe argued that the civil service and cultural bodies must \"represent and be present\" across the whole of the UK.\n\n\"The government is reviewing the various agencies based in London to see which ones could be ready for a move,\" Ms Davidson said.\n\n\"So I want us to seize the opportunity to ensure more of them come to Scotland.\"\n\nThe SNP described Ms Davidson's call for a transfer of civil service jobs \"lightweight\".\n\nMSP Joan McAlpine said: \"Given the nature of Ruth Davidson's speech this afternoon, we now expect her to stand up to Theresa May and get behind our efforts to bring more powers to Holyrood after Brexit.\n\n\"David Mundell previously promised a powers 'bonanza' for Scotland so let's see some progress made on that promise with real action.\"\n\nShe added: \"Scotland needs more than just the relocation of some civil service departments - we need full powers in areas such as immigration and social security in order to make a real, positive difference to people's lives.\"\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. Newly-reformed GCSEs are leaving teenagers 'spaced out and stressed out', Lauren Stocks tells Labour delegates\n\nIt was a moment that caught the Labour party conference off-guard.\n\nSixteen-year-old Lauren Stocks had just received her GCSE results and wanted to talk about the toll that changes to the exams had taken on her and her classmates.\n\nIn a passionate speech, she articulated the scale of the mental health problems that blight her generation.\n\n\"There's a statistic we were shown when I was about 13 or 14 that told me three in 10 people in every classroom suffer with a mental illness.\n\nUsing strong language, she denied that to be the case. \"It's a good half.\n\n\"I could've walked into any food tech, history, art, maths classroom and just watched seas of spaced-out, stressed-out, depressed kids, in a battlefield where they can't afford pens and paper,\" she said, gulping hard.\n\n\"It is a disgusting sight,\" she told delegates, and urged parents of teenagers with newly-reformed GCSEs ahead of them to make sure they know they are loved.\n\nIn under three minutes, Lauren delivered a speech conveying the impatience of youth. (\"I didn't make notes before I came on stage and my thoughts will be fairly scattered, so please go easy on me.\")\n\nHer audience were on their feet, cheering Lauren for a speech that's since been shared thousands of times on social media.\n\nLauren has been a Labour party member since the age of 14\n\n\"It felt pretty weird,\" she tells the BBC. \"I was kind of in my own little world.\n\n\"To see everyone stand up - I really appreciated it.\"\n\nAnd the plaudits didn't stop there. \"My Snapchat blew up,\" she says. About 30 people from her old school contacted her to say they were really glad she had spoken up for them.\n\n\"I have suffered with many a mental health issue. I was worried it was just me but the response was overwhelming.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome social media users though, with characteristic brutality, were less than warm, criticising her choice of hair dye and appearance.\n\nThe impact of these negative comments is something her mum, Sarah Hilton, worries about a lot but Lauren less so.\n\n\"They're saying: 'That's not a girl'.\n\n\"When I checked last night, I was definitely female,\" she says, laughing it off.\n\nShe also diplomatically brushes off the inevitable parallels being drawn with a famous 1977 Conservative conference speech by another 16-year-old, which was watched by a smiling prime minister-in-waiting - Margaret Thatcher.\n\n\"I haven't seen the speech but I have studied William Hague,\" she says. \"I don't have the best opinion of him.\"\n\nLauren's mum, Sarah Hilton, says her daughter has been educating her about politics\n\nDespite her years, Lauren is no stranger to public speaking. Now under-19 representative for North West Young Labour, she has been an activist for two years.\n\nHer interest in politics was first piqued at 12 as she idly watched YouTube videos of people discussing left-wing ideas.\n\nAfter a brief dalliance with the Greens, she joined the Labour party on 3 August 2015. \"I remember if as if it were yesterday,\" she says, almost wistfully.\n\nA few weeks later, Lauren received an email asking people to attend a Manchester food bank that leader Jeremy Corbyn would be visiting.\n\n\"I asked mum if I could go. I'd never been into Manchester alone before.\n\n\"My mum dropped me off at the food bank and after that they kept me involved,\" she says.\n\nAfter her experience of sitting the new GCSEs, she says students should be empowered and told what they can achieve, not threatened that if they fail, they'll be left watching Jeremy Kyle all day.\n\nThis year's GCSE students in England were the first to sit exams which were numerically graded and tougher than in the past.\n\nThe changes, introduced by former education secretary Michael Gove, resulted in a dip in results, but schools minister Nick Gibb said pupils and teachers were rising to the challenge.\n\nExam regulators said the new qualifications had allowed students to better demonstrate their abilities and had better prepared them for further study.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"We recognise there are challenges facing the profession including a more demanding curriculum and higher expectations for pupils. Where staff are struggling we trust head teachers to take action to tackle the causes of stress and ensure they have the support they need.\n\n\"The government has also taken steps to reduce the burden of exams on young people including removing multiple, pointless resits and investing £1.4 billion in children's mental health services\".\n\nConference was, Lauren admits, a fast-paced eye-opener but also a chance to meet her heroes, Dennis Skinner (\"soon-to-be Sir\"), writer and activist Owen Jones (\"I love him so much\") and Laura Smith (\"a rising star who I hope to see in Cabinet\").\n\nFor all her enthusiasm for politics and its people - and despite lobbying from her mum - she is not certain that's where her future lies.\n\nLauren is now studying history, sociology and politics at college, and plans to stand for council in 2019.\n\nBut beyond that, she says she has no political ambitions. \"If it's meant to be, it's meant to be.\"", "Macklemore: \"No freedom 'til we're equal, damn right I support it\"\n\nAmerican artist Macklemore sang in support of gay rights at one of Australia's biggest annual sporting events during the country's vote on same-sex marriage.\n\nThe singer performed a set ahead of kick-off in the National Rugby League (NRL) grand final in Sydney.\n\nOpponents had called for the song Same Love to be left out of the show to stop the event becoming \"politicised\".\n\nBut Macklemore said it \"was one of the greatest honours of my career\".\n\nAustralians are in the middle of a postal vote on whether gay marriage should be introduced. The poll is non-binding for the government, but has been deeply divisive.\n\nSeattle native Macklemore - whose real name is Benjamin Haggerty - had previously told Australia's Channel Nine he would donate his portion of the proceeds from the song's sales in Australia to the Yes campaign.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 GEMINI This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 song had rocketed to the top of Australia's charts on the iTunes digital music store.\n\nAmong its lyrics are: \"I might not be the same, but that's not important / No freedom 'til we're equal / Damn right I support it.\"\n\nA petition asking the NRL to ban what it called an \"LGBTIQ anthem\", started by former rugby league player Tony Wall, gathered thousands of signatures in the lead-up to the final on Sunday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by GEMINI This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFormer Prime Minister Tony Abbott was among those calling for the song - one of Macklemore's biggest hits - to be excluded.\n\nBut the song, accompanied by rainbow pyrotechnics, was the centrepiece of his set in front of 80,000 stadium spectators and was televised around the world.\n\nWhile the music played, the stadium's large screens displayed the NRL logo with the message: \"We stand for equality.\"\n\nThe postal ballot runs for two months, ending on 7 November. Opinion polls have suggested a majority of Australians support same-sex marriage.\n\nAfter Macklemore's performance ended, Melbourne Storm handily defeated their rivals the North Queensland Cowboys 34-6 to win the grand final.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Formula 4 racing driver Billy Monger had to have both legs amputated after a crash\n\nA teenage racing driver who lost the lower part of both his legs in a crash has walked part of the Brands Hatch circuit for charity.\n\nBilly Monger, from Charlwood, Surrey, hit the back of a stationary car at Donington Park on 16 April - three weeks before his 18th birthday.\n\nThe Formula 4 driver had to have both legs amputated and spent nearly a month in hospital recuperating.\n\nHe walked 200m of the track before driving a buggy to complete the feat.\n\nBilly was back in a specially adapted racing car just 11 weeks after his crash\n\nAbout 1,000 people turned out at the track to support and cheer on the teenager - who only got his new prosthetic limbs on Thursday.\n\nSpeaking just before the walk, which is in aid of the air ambulance, he said: \"I'll just be making sure I don't make any mistakes and don't fall over.\n\n\"Obviously there will be a lot of overriding emotion that will go with it, but I'll try and do my best, that's all I can do really.\"\n\n\"We all felt quite helpless because we were struggling to release Billy. He was talking to us, he knew he'd injured himself badly, and he looked so young,\" he said.\n\n\"It had a big effect on a lot of the people involved. Quite amazingly Billy seems to be the one that's bounced back quicker than anybody else who was there.\"\n\nIn July, just 11 weeks after the crash, Billy returned to the cockpit of a specially adapted racing car and is hoping to be back racing fully by spring 2018.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Debbie McGee and her dance partner Giovanni Pernice topped the Strictly leaderboard\n\nStrictly Come Dancing continues to outpace ITV rival The X Factor in the competition for Saturday night views.\n\nAn average of 9.3 million people saw Saturday's episode, making it the day's most watched show with a 45% viewing share.\n\nThe X Factor attracted 4.9 million viewers, slightly up on last week but its peak fell from 6m to 5.8m.\n\nThe BBC and ITV shows, which overlap for 50 minutes, have long competed for viewers during one of TV's prime slots.\n\nStrictly's episode did better than its 2016 equivalent, which had an average of 8.6m views.\n\nIt had a peak viewing of 10.2m, compared to 9.5m in 2016.\n\nThis was despite some concern that the celebrity contestants in the dancing competition are less popular than in previous years.\n• None Who's still in Strictly Come Dancing?", "BBC Three drama Overshadowed is a little different to most TV shows - it's made up entirely of the vlogs of its lead character, Imogene. It's through these videos that her followers begin to notice all is not well in her life.\n\n\"I don't think I've seen anything on television like this, I think it's a new kind of concept,\" says Michelle Fox, the actress who plays the teenage central character of Overshadowed.\n\nMichelle plays Imogene, a young vlogger who uploads videos every day - recorded in her bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, at school... even while out jogging.\n\nBut, over the course of eight 10-minute episodes, viewers gradually see her start to show signs of anorexia.\n\n\"Basically, Imogene decides to share her life with the world, and the world sees more of her life than she does, with the outside force of the eating disorder,\" Michelle explains.\n\n\"It's an insight to Imogene's life and how anorexia is affecting it.\n\n\"In the first couple of episodes, she seems like a really normal teenager, and she's lovely, embarrassing, funny, and I think it's not until the end of episode one that you get a snippet that something is not right.\"\n\nThe show's title, Overshadowed, is a reference to Imogene feeling that there's an outside force literally standing over her, compelling her to skip meals and count calories.\n\nThis external force is presented as an on-screen character - Anna (a reference to anorexia) - who constantly pushes Imogene to eat less and exercise more.\n\n\"When someone is going through a mental health crisis or eating disorder, often people blame the person, 'Why can't you just stop? Why can't you see what's going on?'\" Michelle says.\n\n\"And by showing the eating disorder as a separate entity, you remove the control, you can see the person trying, but there's this outside control overshadowing them. It's not this person's fault, they're not doing it in a malicious way.\"\n\nTackling such a serious subject would be a tall order for any TV show, let alone one which is doing it via a series of vlogs - a relatively new format.\n\n\"I think this is a good way to tell a story,\" Michelle says.\n\n\"The way I like to watch things as a viewer is I like to be a bit ahead, and be in on the secret, on what's going on.\n\n\"But with a vlog, it's blunt, it's instant, people say how they feel, and as an audience member it feels real, like you're right there with the person, especially because they're talking to you directly.\n\n\"Imogene is speaking to herself but she's also speaking to a camera, so it puts the viewer in an awkward and horrible position, like the struggle with mental illness is really in your face.\"\n\nThe slightly unusual format was what helped Michelle get the part.\n\nThe Irish actress graduated from Bristol Old Vic drama school last summer and was appearing in the theatre's production of Medea when she heard about Overshadowed.\n\n\"My agent called and she said the casting director wanted to see me, so as well as recording a traditional audition tape, I sent in tapes which I filmed myself on my phone, because I had a feeling the series might all be shot handheld.\n\n\"So I sent in two different copies, and the casting director really liked that, and I got cast off the tape [i.e. without meeting the casting director in person], which was really surprising.\"\n\nOvershadowed is certainly one of the first TV dramas to be told through vlogging, so producers will be watching closely to see how the audience reacts.\n\nBut Michelle says: \"I think this could be the first of many.\"\n\nOvershadowed is available to watch now on BBC Three.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None 8 things to know about YouTuber Joe Sugg", "Passengers could see the damaged engine from windows mid-flight\n\nAn Air France flight from Paris to Los Angeles was forced to make a sudden diversion when it lost part of an engine over the Atlantic.\n\nOne of the four engines on the Airbus A380 flight AF66 failed west of Greenland on Saturday.\n\nNo-one was injured in the incident, but passengers remained on board hours after the landing at 15:42 GMT.\n\nThe plane was carrying 496 passengers and 24 crew at the time, an Air France spokesperson told AFP news agency.\n\nDavid Rehmar, a former aircraft mechanic who was a passenger on the flight, told the BBC that based on his observations, the incident was a fan failure.\n\nHe said there was a sudden movement followed by a loud noise, which caused panic among the passengers.\n\n\"You heard a loud 'boom', and it was the vibration alone that made me think the engine had failed,\" he said.\n\nMr Rehmar said that for a few moments, he thought \"we were going to go down.\"\n\nHis worry that the aircraft's wing could have been compromised disappeared when the flight stabilised within 30 seconds. And he added that the pilots had quickly shut down the affected engine.\n\nThe wing suffered no serious damage and the plane landed safely\n\nThe plane flew for about an hour on three engines before it reached Goose Bay Airport, in Labrador in eastern Canada.\n\nPhotos taken by passengers showed the cowling, or engine covering, completely destroyed, and some cosmetic damage to the wing's surface.\n\nMr Rehmar said that a bird strike was not a likely cause of the incident at such a high altitude, and his experience led him to believe the stage-one fan - the exterior fan blades on the front of the engine - had somehow failed. But the cause of any such failure is not yet clear.\n\nPassengers were stranded on the plane in Canada for a number of hours, as the airport is not equipped to handle an Airbus A380.\n\nHe said passengers had been provided with meals and that the captain had come out to speak to passengers. Some posed with him in images posted on social media.\n\nTwo 777s were dispatched from Montreal to pick them up and transfer them to Los Angeles.\n\nIn a statement, Air France simply confirmed \"serious damage\" to one engine and said its crew had \"handled this serious incident perfectly\".", "Theresa May features on many of the front pages ahead of the start of the Conservative Party conference. The Observer says knives are being sharpened as an increasingly desperate prime minister tries to shore up her flagging premiership with a raft of new policies.\n\nThe paper says there are growing signs that Cabinet discipline is breaking down - and support for Mrs May is draining away.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday says Mrs May has performed a huge policy U-turn to try to avert any coup against her, but it says she risks criticism that she's pursuing \"Labour Lite\" policies.\n\nThe prime minister tells the Sun on Sunday that she wants to build a better future for young people - a message she admits didn't get across well enough in the election campaign.\n\nThe paper says Mrs May has shown that she has started to listen.\n\nBut it warns that better orators and thinkers are waiting in the wings and, if the prime minister doesn't show more imagination, urgency and energy, her head will roll.\n\nThe Sunday Mirror accuses Mrs May of trying to bribe young voters after misunderstanding why they have flocked to Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThe Sunday Times believes the prime minister needs to give the Conservatives something to lift their spirits. It says a house-building revolution should be her domestic priority.\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph urges a cut in house prices, by increasing supply and reducing, or abolishing, penalties such as stamp duty.\n\nFrom a disappointing election result, the paper says, can be snatched an opportunity to revive Conservatism.\n\nThe Observer says ministers are under mounting pressure to halt their radical welfare changes.\n\nThe paper says senior Conservative MPs are privately voicing unease about the Universal Credit system - after the Scottish government called for a pause and the DUP raised serious concerns.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday reports that hundreds of undercover police officers have received bills for up to £5,000 after a ruling that their vehicles should be taxed as company cars.\n\nIt says says that, to date, they have been taxed only on personal mileage, but they are now facing levies based on the vehicle's retail value and emissions.\n\nThe paper believes treatment of the officers is in contrast to that of police chiefs. It claims they have previously fitted blue lights to their executive cars to reduce tax bills.\n\nSeveral papers look at the problems facing Monarch Airlines, after it was granted a 24-hour extension to sell package holidays.\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph says there are fears that the company, facing huge losses, could collapse.\n\nThe Sunday Times says officials are racing to put together a rescue plan for up to 100,000 holidaymakers.\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph reports that Ernest Hemingway scholars have found what they say is the earliest example of the author's fiction.\n\nA water-stained notebook contains an account of an imaginary journey through Scotland and Ireland, said to have been written in meticulous detail - at the age of 10.", "Det Leanne McKie had worked at Greater Manchester Police since 2001\n\nDetectives investigating the death of a police officer whose body was found in a lake are appealing for anyone who saw her car to come forward.\n\nMother-of-three Leanne McKie was discovered in the water at Poynton Park, Cheshire, on Friday.\n\nAnyone who saw the 39-year-old's red Mini between Thursday afternoon and the early hours of Friday is urged to contact Cheshire Police.\n\nA man, 43, from Wilmslow, remains in custody on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe mother-of-three's body was found in Poynton Park on Friday\n\nThe force has also appealed for dashcam footage from drivers on the A523 in Poynton and the A5149 Chester Road toward Wilmslow, between 23:30 BST on Thursday and 03:30 on Friday.\n\nDet McKie joined Greater Manchester Police in 2001 and worked in the force's serious sexual offences unit.\n\nIts Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said she had \"worked tirelessly to provide support and seek justice for victims\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Within 24 hours of losing a public vote, Uber had left Austin\n\nUber's new chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi will be in the UK on Tuesday for a meeting with Transport for London (TfL). He hopes the negotiations will stop the imminent revoking of his company’s license to run its ride-sharing business in the capital.\n\nWhen TfL, backed by Mayor Sadiq Khan, announced Uber would no longer be allowed to operate, the service's 3.5m users, and 40,000 drivers, were aghast.\n\nDespite the very best efforts of the cab trade, Uber has become a valued way for Londoners to get around, particularly late at night.\n\nThe same was true in Austin, Texas. It’s a city that shares few similarities with London, other than its own bitter tussle with Uber - the fallout from which could contain clues as to what might happen if, and it's a big if, TfL follows through with its threat.\n\nUber had been available in Austin since 2014. But on 10 May 2016, Uber (and rival service Lyft) turned off their apps and left.\n\nLess than 24 hours earlier, Austinites had gone to the polls to vote on Proposition 1. It was a law that removed a requirement on ride-sharing companies to gather fingerprints as part of their background checks on drivers, as well as sharing more data with city officials.\n\nUber didn't want to do this. It argued that the fingerprint database drivers would be cross-checked against would be ineffective.\n\nIt's also likely - though Uber never expressed this publicly - that adding a layer to the sign-up process would make it more time-consuming, and expensive, to recruit drivers.\n\nIt's something the company, in all the markets it works in, constantly seeks to avoid - and in Austin it was prepared to spend big to avoid the restrictions.\n\nDavid Butts, a political consultant who campaigned against Uber during the dispute, estimates that the firm spent more than $10m (£7.5m) fighting city officials.\n\n“We have never seen a campaign that spent that much money, for anything,” he said.\n\nUber did not respond to the BBC’s request to comment on this story.\n\nWhatever the size of the lobbying bill, it wasn’t enough. Mr Khosrowshahi said Uber’s poor corporate reputation may have been a factor in TfL's thinking, and the same may have been true for Austin’s voters, according to Ben Wear, a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman.\n\nUber's chief executive will be in London to discuss TfL's concerns over his company\n\n\"I think a lot of people that actually actively used their service here in Austin voted against them, knowing that they’d leave, because of the corporate behaviour that at that time had gone on for about two years.\n\n\"They showed up and basically ignored the city’s rules.\"\n\nAnd so just like that, Uber and Lyft were gone.\n\nAndy Tryba and his team got to work. \"We basically stayed up all night for about four weeks or so to kind of get it up and going,\" he told me.\n\n“It’s to my knowledge the world’s only non-profit version of ride-share.”\n\nHe's the co-founder of Ride Austin, a locally developed app that stepped in to take Uber’s place - one of about 11 eventual alternatives that popped up in the weeks and months after Uber's disappearance.\n\nUnlike Uber and Lyft, which take a percentage of a ride’s final fare, RideAustin takes a fixed $2 fee, regardless of how long or far the journey.\n\nRiders are offered the chance to round up their fare and donate the extra amount to a number of charities - it has so far raised over $250,000.\n\n“There were 125,000 a week or so that were occurring in the city when Uber and Lyft were operating here. Obviously, the day that they pulled out there was a bit of an adjustment period.\n\n“But within a few weeks, there were several players that came into town. Very quickly that total number of rides were filled by those other players.”\n\nThere were teething problems with these new apps, said Mike Allen, who has driven in Austin for almost two years.\n\n“It was a fun challenge to get them to a point where they were able to work for us as drivers,” he said. \"But we got there.\"\n\nThe real test came when it was time for the most famous event in Austin’s calendar - South by Southwest. The tech, music and film festival draws thousands to the city every year, and in 2017 it presented the new apps with their biggest challenge yet in handling the demand.\n\nSouth by Southwest attracts thousands every year - including Barack Obama in 2016\n\nThat challenge grew too great on the middle Saturday of the festival, when as afternoon rolled into evening, it started to pour down with rain.\n\nI was among those hopelessly opening up apps trying to find one that was still working. RideAustin buckled, as too did Fasten, another app that had moved into the city when Uber left.\n\n\"Technical issues are just part and parcel of tech businesses,\" said Vlad Christoff, co-founder of Fasten.\n\n“We had braced for a 10x increase… we got 17x. Yes - we had a little bit of a hiccup!”\n\nBut by June, Uber and Lyft were back. There hadn’t been a compromise on security or data. Instead, state power in Texas overruled Austin’s local decision by creating statewide rules on ride-sharing that did not insist on fingerprint checks.\n\nWithin a week, one Austin app, Fare, had folded. RideAustin saw its bookings drop by 55% - and it hasn’t ever recovered.\n\nThe local apps all maintain that they have plenty of drivers, who make more money on their apps per trip than Uber or Lyft. And though it's difficult to measure independently, the fares are the same or cheaper too.\n\nWhich makes you wonder - why did users go back to Uber and Lyft?\n\n\"They are very good at leveraging their cash position to do lots of free rides and promotions to get their share back,\" Mr Tryba said.\n\nFasten’s Mr Christoff thinks brand recognition beyond the city is the problem.\n\n“The part that we’ve lost is visitors. For one year people landed at Austin’s airport, and they found out the hard way that the default ride-sharing apps on their phone didn’t work.\n\n\"Once Uber and Lyft came back, business continued as usual. [But] the locals stayed with us.”\n\nDrivers too have turned more frequently to Uber and Lyft instead of the smaller apps.\n\n\"It boils down to the quantity of rides,\" says Mr Allen.\n\n\"When you’re getting 10 requests on Uber to every one request on RideAustin, you’ve got to go to where the rides are. Right now Uber is paying me the most money, but per ride RideAustin is the best.\"\n\nI think it's unlikely that Uber's troubles in London will reach such a breaking point that the company ends up being forced off the streets.\n\nThe appeal process keeps it on the road for the foreseeable future, and when dealing with city officials, Uber’s new CEO Mr Khosrowshahi has hinted at an ever-so-slightly more understanding approach than the man he replaced, Travis Kalanick.\n\nIf Uber does leave, there are already a number of apps already in play (not to mention black cabs) that would seek to pick up the extra business - and the orphaned drivers.\n\nBoth RideAustin and Fasten said they would consider looking at London as a new market for them, but had no immediate plans.\n\n“There is life after Uber,” Mr Christoff said.\n\nFor political consultant David Butts, who worked with Austin City Council on the issue, the entire dispute speaks to a bigger problem of billionaire-backed start-ups believing they are free to dictate the rules.\n\nTo city officials in London, he says: \"Stand up to them.”\n\n\"Don’t cave in. They’re not as strong. Make the case to people: do you want a corporation dictating to the City of London?”\n\nYou can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "There were lengthy delays for motorists in the Winchester area\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been charged after \"potentially hazardous material\" forced the closure of the M3 motorway.\n\nThousands of people were stuck in queues for 11 hours on 23 September between junctions nine and 11.\n\nThe teenager, from Winchester, faces two counts of arson with intent to endanger life and two of causing danger to road users, Hampshire Police said.\n\nHe will appear before Basingstoke magistrates on Monday over incidents on the M3 on 16 and 23 September.\n\nThe discovery of the partly-ignited substance, dropped from a bridge, led to military bomb disposal experts being called to the motorway near Winchester.\n\nThe road was closed shortly before 04:00 BST and had fully reopened by about 15:30.\n\nAt the time of the incident, police revealed they were also investigating a similar case on the same bridge at about 04:00 BST on 16 September, when an object was dropped on to the carriageway.\n\nOn that occasion officers found \"a quantity of broken glass\" but no fire.\n\nNo-one was hurt on either occasion.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There has been a fair amount of sniggering that the government has announced a freeze in tuition fees - something the Telegraph heralded as part of a \"revolution\".\n\nThat will matter within the sector.\n\nBut it is unlikely to change Britain's electoral dynamics.\n\nThere is, however, one enormous and expensive change that is worth unpicking in all this: Theresa May also told the Telegraph that the government is going to raise the student loan repayment threshold from £21,000 to £25,000.\n\nThis has two big effects.\n\nFirst, all graduates earning above the old threshold will now repay less in any given year.\n\nA person earning, say, £30,000 a year would pay 9% of their income above £25,000 - not £21,000. So their flow of annual repayments would drop from £810 to £450.\n\nSecond, the interest rates charged on the outstanding balance for each student is tied to how far they are above the repayment threshold.\n\nAs a result, moving this threshold will also reduce the flow of interest accruing to the Treasury that might eventually be payable by ex-students.\n\nThere are good reasons for doing this.\n\nMartin Lewis, founder of MoneySavingExpert, has been campaigning for the threshold to rise - it was, after all, promised.\n\nAnd this change reduces the pinch on young people's pay very directly: it feels like a very targeted tax cut to some young graduates.\n\nBut, to channel the spirit of the Treasury, it is very expensive. Not in the short term, when I'd expect it would make a pretty small impact. But definitely in the longer term.\n\nDemonstrations against the interdiction of tuition fees were held in 2010\n\nBack in 2012, when the current student finance system took effect, the £21,000 threshold was supposed to rise steadily over time, but it was later frozen in nominal terms to save money.\n\nThe reason for the freeze was that the loss rate on student loans issued after 2012 was estimated to be around 45p in every pound lent out - higher than originally budgeted for. The freeze cut the cost and, combined with a few changes to how the cost is estimated, took the estimate down to about 30p.\n\nBy eye, I would estimate that this change would increase the cost by at least 10p in the pound. The losses would be over 40p in the pound. That is potentially a lot of money.\n\nHow much? This affects the so-called \"Plan 2\" debt pile, which stood at £44bn in the last debt statistics release.\n\nThis category is currently accruing at a rate of about £13bn a year. So with fees at current levels, it is heading to about £120bn at the end of this Parliament.\n\nEven with the most conservative assumptions, we are talking well over £10bn of losses on the value of that debt by 2022.\n\nThat loss won't appear in any debt statistics in 2022 - but the losses will be there, and will slowly get added to the national debt between now and the 2050s.\n\nIt will happen subtly, but this is a \"putting on the Olympics\" level of outlay.\n\nThe politics of this are baffling, too.\n\nThe interest charge on outstanding debt - now at 6.1% for higher-earners and students still studying - was a major issue.\n\nThey could have gone for that without making the whole student finance system a lot more expensive.\n\nThis measure is a boon for current and recent students - but this looks like progress for Labour. It makes it harder for the government to defend the status quo by making it much dearer.\n• None May: We 'listened' on student fees", "On 30 September, 1967, the BBC's Light Programme split in two. Younger listeners were given Radio 1, while the Light Programme itself morphed into Radio 2, continuing with its mix of big bands, record requests, sport and comedy.\n\nBut do you know which DJ inspired the lyrics to I Am The Walrus? Or why Radio 1's first weather forecast prompted 12 complaints?\n\nHere are 50 facts to celebrate the stations' first 50 years.\n\n1. The first voice on Radio 1 was Tony Blackburn, right? Wrong. Shortly after 5:30am on 30 September, broadcaster Paul Hollingdale was at the helm, with his Breakfast Special show broadcast simultaneously on both stations.\n\n2. The opening announcement was not what you'd call dynamic...\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Vine and Johnnie Walker look back at Radio 2's first broadcast.\n\n3. The two stations split at 7:00am. After a five-second countdown, Tony Blackburn officially launched Radio 1 with a jingle promising \"too much fun\" and the sound of a barking dog.\n\n4. The first song played on Radio 1 was Flowers In The Rain by The Move. Over on Radio 2, it was Julie Andrews singing The Sound Of Music.\n\n5. George Martin's Theme One, however, was technically the first piece of music on Radio 1. Blackburn also played Johnny Dankworth's Beefeaters under his opening link.\n\n6. Blackburn later revealed that the famous film footage of the launch was recorded the night before, and he had to write down the words, so he could replicate them when the station went live.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n7. Many of Radio 1's presenters were drawn from the ranks of pirate radio - but they found the BBC a lot more strait-laced. \"I was yelled at when a 10-second link lasted 11 seconds,\" recalled Keith Skues. \"'You cannot just ignore Greenwich Mean Time, Skues!'\"\n\n8. Weather presenter Rosie O'Day received 12 complaints in the opening weeks of Radio 1 and 2. Why? Because she had the audacity to be a woman. \"Please, please spare us from Rosie O'Day reading the weather forecast,\" complained one. \"It sounds more like a children's fairy story. I'm sure she is a charming girl, but let us stick to a man for the weather news!\"\n\n9. Radio 2's Ken Bruce has a licence to drive Routemaster double-decker buses, and owns six of them, which he hires out for weddings and funerals.\n\n10. Before his Radio 1 debut, Dave Lee Travis stole the microphone he'd used on Radio Caroline. \"The very first pirate broadcasts were made on it, and I thought, 'I have spent so much of my time on this ship, I'm having a souvenir,'\" he said. \"I just went and got a pair of scissors and cut the cable.\"\n\n11. Radio 1 launched half a decade after The Beatles' debut single, a fact that did not go unnoticed by the music industry. Trade magazine Record Retailer accused the BBC of \"trailing years behind public taste\" and warned \"the new station must swing if it is to be effective\".\n\n12. Radio 2's own soap opera, Waggoners Walk, launched in 1969. Set in Hampstead, it was often controversial, covering story-lines like contraception and homosexuality.\n\n13. The show was cancelled at short notice in 1980. Some of the cast heard the news on the radio, and the writers responded by having aliens invade Hampstead Heath.\n\n14. Terry Wogan made his Radio 2 debut in 1967, presenting show Late Night Extra - \"on the beat with music and news [and] off the record with pop\".\n\n15. The Radio 1 Roadshow began in July 1973 with a Land Rover pulling a converted caravan around British holiday resorts. It's now morphed into the Big Weekend, with up to 100,000 fans watching acts like Jay-Z, Foo Fighters and Madonna playing unlikely towns like Swindon, Dundee and Norwich.\n\nThe Radio 1 Roadshow in 1987, with pop stars Pepsi and Shirley alongside shorts enthusiasts \"Ooh\" Gary Davies and Mike Read\n\n16. Between 1967 and 2004, John Peel brought more than 2,000 artists into the BBC to record one of his fabled Peel Sessions. First up were psychedelic rock band Tomorrow, with the likes of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, The Smiths, Nirvana, Pulp and The White Stripes coming after.\n\n17. But it was The Fall who recorded the most Peel sessions - 32 in all.\n\n18. These days, DJs are expected to know everything about music - but no-one can be right all the time. Revealing the Radio 1 Top 40 in March 1981, Tony Blackburn announced a new entry by pop newcomers \"Duhran Duhran\". After several phone calls, he corrected the mistake, saying: \"None of us are too big to apologise.\"\n\n19. Kenny Everett recorded several interviews with The Beatles for Radio 1 and 2 - but he also helped inspire one of their lyrics after taking an acid trip with John Lennon on the Weybridge golf course (of all places).\n\n\"A couple of months after my psychedelic round of golf with John I was in the Abbey Road recording studios where the Beatles were recording I Am The Walrus,\" wrote Everett in his autobiography. \"When he got to the line about getting a tan from standing in the English rain, he stopped and said to me: 'Reminds me of that day on the Weybridge golf course, eh Ken?' to which I replied: 'What'?' I'm sure he thought I was a complete lemon... or was it a bird?\"\n\n20. Chris Evans has presented both the Radio 1 and Radio 2 Breakfast Shows - but he got his start in radio as Timmy Mallet's assistant on Manchester's Radio Piccadilly, playing a character called Nobby No Level, whose catchphrase was: \"What I don't know - I don't know!\"\n\n21. To celebrate its fifth birthday in 1972, Radio 1 released hundreds of balloons from the top of Broadcasting House. Attached to each balloon was a form on which the finder could write their favourite record title and return it to their favourite DJ, who would play it on air.\n\n22. In 2015, Elaine Paige helped Pieter - a regular listener to her Radio 2 show - propose to his boyfriend live on air.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elaine Paige helps a listener propose to his partner on Radio 2\n\n23. Derek Jameson, who presented Radio 2's Breakfast Show from 1986 - 1991, became a broadcaster late in life as a consequence of suing the BBC. The former newspaper editor accused Radio 4's Week Ending of libel for saying he was \"so ignorant he thought erudite was a type of glue\". He lost the case and was ordered to pay £75,000 in costs - forcing him to accept a job with the corporation he had sued.\n\n24. Many songs have been \"banned\" by BBC Radio over the years - but one of the first to be censored by Radio 1 was Pink Floyd's It Would Be So Nice. A reference to the Evening Standard newspaper in the opening verse was enough to breach the BBC's strict no-advertising policy.\n\nMike Read - did he ban Relax, or not?\n\n25. DJ Mike Read got the blame for banning Relax - but he says the decision wasn't in his power. \"I didn't ban Relax,\" he said, \"the BBC banned it. I was just a BBC employee.\" Defending the decision, he added: \"The video did have that big fat Buddha bloke urinating from the balcony into somebody's mouth. Even now, that's not terribly good.\"\n\n26. Read later made up with the band and provided a voice-over on the TV advert for their debut album.\n\n27. Jimi Hendrix, Madness and The Who have all recorded jingles for Radio 1 and 2.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n28. On December 6, 1980 Radio 1's Andy Peebles interviewed John Lennon and Yoko Ono in New York, just two days before John was assassinated.\n\n29. In 1976, Tony Blackburn fell to pieces on air, after his wife Tessa Wyatt, star of hit sitcom Robin's Nest, left him. With millions listening, he played Chicago's If You Leave Me Now over and over again, begging for Tessa to return. He has called this his \"one big broadcasting mistake\".\n\n30. In 1991, Radio 1 managed to persuade Whitney Houston to cover for Simon Bates while he was on holiday.\n\n31. Nowadays, almost every show has some sort of interactive element, but Annie Nightingale's Sunday Show was Radio 1's first dedicated request show. It ran for 12 years from 1975.\n\n32. Taping songs off the radio was a rite of passage days before streaming. It was illegal, of course, but Annie used it to her advantage. \"I used to say: 'In a few minutes, I'll be playing Is That All There Is by Cristina,' so it gave people a chance to set up their tape recorders,\" she laughs.\n\n33. Nigel Ogden, the host of Radio 2's big organ bonanza, The Organist Entertains, first featured on the show as a player in his teens, before taking over as a presenter in 1980.\n\n34. \"Hi there, pop pickers\". \"Quack Quack, Oops\". \"Stop!.... Carry on\". \"One Year Out\". \"It's Another True Storeeee!\" \"Not 'Arf\".\n\n35. After a Christmas Party got out of hand in 1995, Chris Evans \"phoned in sick\" for the following day's Breakfast show. He was duly docked a day's pay - reportedly in the region of £7,000. The following morning, he was back on the airwaves, telling listeners: \"I feel like I've had a holiday in Bermuda - although it was more expensive than a week in Bermuda, obviously.\"\n\n36. Simon Bates' first job at the BBC was as a Radio 4 continuity announcer. \"I was very bad at it too,\" he told The Independent. \"I never mastered the art of saying 'Radio 4' between the end of one programme and the start of the next. If you try it, it's really very difficult.\"\n\n37. Early DJs were hired for their skills as presenters, rather than an interest in music. John Peel, the one exception, remembered attending a party at Dave Lee Travis's house when he \"suddenly realised that DLT didn't own any records\". He asked him about it and Travis replied, \"Oh no, it's too much trouble... Anything I really like I've copied on tape. I've got quite a lot of tapes and I play them in the car, you see.\"\n\n38. Chris Moyles opened his first Radio 1 Breakfast Show in 2004 with a five-minute song crammed with clips of his predecessors. The song concluded with the prescient declaration: \"From now until they fire his ass, the saviour of Radio 1 is here\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n39. Moyles clocked up eight years in the hot seat before bowing out in 2012 - making him Radio 1's longest-serving Breakfast presenter.\n\n40. Terry Wogan managed 27 years on Radio 2's Breakfast show, before bowing out in 2009. Bidding farewell, he said: \"Thank you for being my friend,\" before cueing up The Party's Over by Anthony Newley, which features the lyrics: \"Now you must wake up, all dreams must end.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n41. In 1976, Noel Edmonds presented the Radio 1 Breakfast show live from a flight from London to Aberdeen. During take-off, he played Fifth Dimension's Up & Away In My Beautiful Balloon, the needle on the record skipping as the plane's wheels left the ground.\n\n42. Except they didn't... the whole programme was an elaborate hoax for April Fool's Day.\n\n43. Jeff Young pioneered Radio 1's first dance music programme with his \"Big Beat\" show in 1987. Pete Tong and Dave Pearce picked up the mantle with Dance Anthems and the weekend Recovery Session - a breakfast show for clubbers - in the 1990s.\n\n44. Amy Winehouse's Live Lounge cover of Valerie by The Zutons was so popular it was later turned into a single in its own right, produced by Mark Ronson. It became one of her biggest hits, charting at number two (higher than the original, which peaked at nine).\n\n45. Emma Freud once introduced a song by an artist she called \"PJ and Harvey\" - raising the enticing prospect of indie queen PJ Harvey duetting with Ant and Dec's alter-egos PJ and Duncan.\n\nPJ and Harvey and Duncan - together at last\n\n46. Laura Sayers, a former Radio 1 producer, met her husband through a feature on the Scott Mills show, which she was working on at the time. One Night With Laura saw Scott and the team scour the country to find a listener to be her new boyfriend. After trying to impress a panel of judges, the contestants were whittled down to a final four, before an eventual winner was chosen. However, Laura actually ended up marrying one of the runners-up, James Busson.\n\n47. In 1992, a poll conducted by Radio 1 saw listeners vote Stars by Simply Red as their favourite album.\n\n48. The most popular video on Radio 1's YouTube channel is Miley Cyrus's cover of Lana Del Rey's Summertime Sadness - which has more than 35 million views.\n\n49. In 2011, Radio 1 entered the Guinness World Records when Chris Moyles and his then-sidekick Comedy Dave presented the longest music radio show by a DJ team or duo, clocking in at more than 51 hours. Their record has since been broken and is currently held by Belgian DJs Eva Daeleman and Peter van De Veire, who broadcast non-stop for a staggering 100 hours in 2015.\n\n50. When it was first launched, the Radio 1 website had a considerably longer URL than it does now, as Pete Tong found out when he attempted to read it out on air.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The attack took place outside the train station in the southern French port city\n\nTwo young women have been stabbed to death at Marseille's main train station in a suspected terrorist attack.\n\nSoldiers on guard at the station shot dead the attacker, who police described as of North African appearance and aged about 30. Witnesses said he shouted \"Allahu akbar\" (God is greatest).\n\nSo-called Islamic State (IS) said the attacker was one of its \"soldiers\".\n\nOne victim had her throat slit and the other was stabbed in the stomach. They were both aged 20.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron said he was disgusted by the \"barbarous act\" and paid tribute to the soldiers and the police officers who responded.\n\nThe attack took place by a bench outside the southern French city's Saint Charles train station.\n\nInterior Minister Gérard Collomb told reporters that the attacker had fled after the first murder but returned to kill again.\n\nSoldiers were already in the station as part of Operation Sentinelle, which sees combat troops patrol streets and protect key sites amid France's ongoing state of emergency.\n\nIS claimed it was behind the attack via its Amaq news outlet. The group regularly claims responsibility for militant attacks it believes are inspired by its ideology.\n\nIS recently released a tape purportedly of leader Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi in which he urged supporters to step up attacks.\n\nPolice are treating this as a terrorist attack, but there are plenty of question marks about the man and his motivation.\n\nFrench media report that the killer was in his 20s with a police record for petty offences.\n\nIf so, that fits in with a steady pattern of recent attacks in France, carried out by individuals who seem to have a deep hatred of French authority, aggravated by exposure to Islamist ideas.\n\nUpdate 12 October 2017: This article has been amended to give the correct age of one of the victims.", "Monarch is in last-ditch talks with the aviation regulator about renewing its licence to sell package holidays.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) extended Monarch's licence by 24 hours on Saturday amid uncertainty about the company's future.\n\nHowever, with the deadline now passed, the regulator has yet to announce a decision on what it means for the UK's fifth biggest airline.\n\nAbout 10,000 people on holidays sold by the airline are thought to be abroad.\n\nThe CAA is understood to have contingency plans in place to bring those passengers home on other airlines if Monarch faces difficulties.\n\nMonarch had until midnight on Sunday to reach a deal with the CAA - but neither the company nor the CAA have issued updates since then.\n\nIf the regulator decides not to renew its package holiday licence, consumer confidence in Monarch's scheduled airline operations could also be undermined.\n\nPackage holidays accounted for a fraction of the 6.3 million passengers Monarch carried last year to 40 destinations from Gatwick, Luton, Birmingham, Leeds-Bradford and Manchester airports.\n\nThe government's Atol scheme refunds customers if a travel firm collapses and ensures they are not stranded.\n\nThe agreement with the CAA on Saturday means package holidays bought from Monarch on Sunday are still Atol protected.\n\nMonarch's owner, Greybull Capital, has been trying to sell part or all of its short-haul operation so it can focus on more profitable long-haul routes.\n\nThe airline reported a loss of £291m for the year to October 2016, compared with a profit of £27m for the previous 12 months, after revenues slumped.\n\nMonarch, founded in 1968, is made up of a scheduled airline, tour operator and an engineering division. In total it employs about 2,500 people.\n\nThe company said its flights are operating as normal, and that it continues to work on plans to resolve its future.\n\nMonarch has focused more on destinations such as Spain following terror attacks in Turkey and Egypt\n\nMonarch has experienced the perfect storm of challenges in recent years.\n\nThe terror attacks in Turkey and Egypt have deprived the airline of a large chunk of its annual revenues, and forced it to compete on heavily congested traditional routes to Spain and Greece.\n\nThat has forced down prices and profits on top of weaker demand from UK travellers - for whom a less valuable pound has made travelling costlier.\n\nMonarch will not be facing the winter with much confidence.\n\nThe short-haul market has been described as \"horrendous\" by senior aviation industry figures. It has already resulted in the collapse of Air Berlin and placed huge pressure on other airlines.\n\nPut simply, there are too many seats and not enough bums to put on them to make a profit for all major carriers.\n\nAre you currently abroad with Monarch or planning to travel soon? E-mail us at haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nYou can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nation, a Spanish region, an aspiring independent state: however you define it, Catalonia has become a byword in Spain for controversy and political conflict.\n\nNow, the deadlock between Catalonia's devolved government, which wants independence, and Spain's central government, which has always ruled out a vote on the issue, has reached a critical moment.\n\nTweetie Pie, the yellow Warner Bros cartoon bird known here as Piolín, adorns a cruise ship parked in Barcelona port. There are no tourists on board the huge floating hotel, just thousands of national Spanish police.\n\nThis ship, decorated bizarrely with cartoon character Tweetie Pie, is one of three chartered to house extra Spanish police\n\nBut there is an underlying and deadly serious message, too.\n\nThe boat's occupants are the guardians of Spanish territorial integrity. No-one questions where their loyalties lie.\n\nThen there is the confusing.\n\nCatalonia's government, or Generalitat as it is known locally, promises the vote will happen. However, a proper election campaign has been strikingly absent.\n\nWith children back at home for the weekend will schools quickly turn into voting stations, or will they remain closed?\n\nAnd there is the downright baffling.\n\nCatalonia's own police force, Mossos d'Esquadra, in theory should - if they follow the letter of Spanish law - work alongside national Spanish police and stop the vote from happening.\n\nBut it is the Mossos' colleagues and friends at the Generalitat who are keeping the pro-independence dream of a referendum alive.\n\nThe vote has stoked tension between Spain's Guardia Civil (L) and the Catalan Mossos d'Esquadra\n\nCatalan police are stuck between a rock of Spanish court orders to stop the vote and a hard place of Catalan nationalist desires for it to go ahead.\n\nIf police physically stop people from voting, will this maintain public order or encourage trouble on the streets?\n\nFearing a backlash, the Spanish government has stopped short of suspending the powers of the Catalan government. But it has tightened its grip on Catalonia's finances.\n\nIn such uncharted waters, opinion polls about both independence and the idea of a vote suddenly feel outdated.\n\nSo, what I can offer are my perceptions based on the many people I have met in Catalonia over the past month, and during the four years when I lived in Spain, when Catalan nationalism evolved into a potent force.\n\nFor the record, this is anecdotal evidence, not scientific political data.\n\nFirst, an army-sized, highly motivated chunk of Catalan society will at least try to vote on Sunday.\n\nThe chaotic nature of Sunday's poll means many No-supporters will stay away.\n\nAnd so a majority of those who turn out will almost certainly be impassioned supporters of independence.\n\nThe opinions of these people have been well documented on the BBC over the past two weeks.\n\nOthers, like Silvia Gomez, who has family from two other Spanish regions, Andalucía and Aragón, admit that giving up 38 years of Spanish nationality would be a difficult call.\n\nHowever she is tempted to vote Yes, for the same reasons as Cristina Caparros, who designs boats in Barcelona's port.\n\nCristina inclines towards independence because she disapproves of Spain's centre-right Popular Party government.\n\n\"I don't want to belong to this country any more… I think we can make a better, new country,\" she told me.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why some Catalans want independence\n\nI suggested to Spanish Education Minister Iñigo Mendez de Vigo that the stubborn negotiating tactics of his government, and sometimes less-than-diplomatic language on the Catalan issue, had driven more people into the pro-independence camp.\n\nPast corruption cases, linked to his party, appeared to add fuel to an already-burning fire.\n\nHe simply ruled out any possibility of a legitimate Catalan vote on Sunday.\n\n\"In order to hold a referendum you need the ballot, an administrative organisation - nothing exists. So there will be no [public] consultation on Sunday,\" he told me.\n\n\"There isn't a consensus in order to change the Spanish constitution, so this is why the Catalan government goes unilaterally.\n\n\"To dance the tango you need two and in this case the Spanish government was always ready to talk, but they didn't want to dance. They only wanted to do things unilaterally and this is what the Spanish government will not accept.\"\n\nThere is another large, quieter and more ill-defined section of Catalan society, within which people have more nuanced opinions.\n\nFisherman Luis Talló, 54, has always considered himself \"very Catalan, but not pro-independence\".\n\nBut he is still demanding that the Spanish government allow a proper referendum.\n\nHis colleague, José González, who buys seafood in bulk straight from the boats, says his and other families are so split on the issue that it is no longer a comfortable topic at the dinner table.\n\nOriginally from Málaga in the south of Spain, he has lived in Barcelona for 66 years.\n\nHe is one of many people I have met in recent weeks favouring a referendum \"done correctly\" - but not the type of vote expected to take place on Sunday.\n\nJosé says he protested and voted in a referendum in favour of more autonomy for Catalonia, before Spain's courts blocked the initiative, at the behest of the Popular Party, in 2010.\n\nBut he blames the pro-independence movement for \"dividing Catalan society\".\n\n\"If we want to stay friends, we cannot talk about politics anymore.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eyewitness Anthony Biscardi recalls the moment a prop collapsed on US rockstar Manson\n\nRock star Marilyn Manson was injured during a concert in New York when a large piece of stage scenery fell on him on stage.\n\nThe prop - apparently two large guns held together with metal scaffolding - fell as he was performing at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Saturday.\n\nAn eyewitness told the BBC that the singer lay on stage for up to 15 minutes covered by a sheet before he was carried out on a stretcher and taken to hospital.\n\nHe has cancelled nine tour dates following the injury, according to Billboard magazine.\n\nEyewitness Anthony Biscardi told the BBC that fans at the concert \"instantly freaked out\".\n\n\"He was performing the song Sweet Dreams. Towards the middle of the song it seemed as though he tried climbing onto a prop.\n\n\"The first touch of weight on those poles and it came crashing down onto him.\"\n\nThe 48-year-old 'shock rock' star has been nominated for four Grammy awards\n\nIn videos of the incident posted online, stage crew and band members can be seen lifting the prop off the singer but he does not get back up.\n\n\"He was pretty limp, almost as though he was unconscious,\" Mr Biscardi said.\n\nMr Biscardi said a black sheet was put around him until he could be taken off stage, when an announcement was made that the show was cancelled \"due to injury\".\n\nA representative told Rolling Stone magazine that: \"Manson suffered an injury towards the end of his incredible NYC show. He is being treated at a local hospital.\"\n\nThe 48-year-old artist was three dates into his The Heaven Upside Down Tour. He was due to perform in Boston on Monday night.", "The distinctive design of Birmingham Selfridges - worth an eight-page souvenir pullout?\n\nThe Qatar World Cup was due to be the context in which TV audiences existed in the summer of 2022 - wall charts and stickers, the lot. But then concerns over the searing heat kicked in and the tournament was shifted to winter.\n\nWhat, then, instead for those from four-and-a-half years into the future missing out on a spot of sport with their after-work ciders, sipped in short sleeves? Whose prowess could pub sages and armchair fans possibly debate?\n\nStep in the 2022 Commonwealth Games to punctuate those longer evenings.\n\nWhere Qatar was concerned, audiences would have been overwhelmed with colour pieces about the country - a host nation, and its cities, tending to capture the imagination.\n\nBut can the same eight-page pullout flattery be levelled at Birmingham?\n\nIt is the UK choice for the Games' host city, and on Friday cleared another hurdle to nudge it closer to that ultimate prize. But can England's middle child - neither London nor Manchester - ever pique the interest of audiences domestic and international? And what might one find out about Digbeth as opposed to Doha?\n\nIt turns out there is more there than a bendy traffic interchange named after pasta. There is more - to reference recent notoriety - than a backlog of bin bags in a city that once thought a bid to be an Olympic host should look like this...\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. According to this song, bringing the 1992 Olympic Games to Birmingham would be \"the best thing that anybody could do\".\n\nIn fact, it might be fair, as of 2017, to call it boomtown Brum, at least in terms of investment and shifting national perception.\n\nThe area seemed on to something when more people leaving London moved to Birmingham than any other UK city - Londoners gave their reasons here.\n\nAnd to help with those heading a little bit north, the BBC created this handy survival guide, advising sophisticates how to navigate a network of canals, public transport called the \"buzz\" and those riding the \"buzz\" who might call you \"bab\".\n\nSpeaking of public transport, conditions remain favourable for Birmingham's popularity. High-speed rail line HS2 is set to link London to the second city in a way that will kill boxset-watching time, albeit a few years after a 2022 javelin is thrown in anger.\n\nAgainst this backdrop, HSBC bank announced an HQ relocation from London to Birmingham, with about 1,000 jobs set to be transferred and the bank describing its new home as a \"growing city\" with \"expertise and infrastructure\".\n\nAnd away from commercial property, house prices in the West Midlands are among those experiencing the biggest increase as prices in the south east fall.\n\nCombined, all this might not amount to Birmingham becoming a London borough by the back door, no matter how many references are made to a symphony orchestra, ballet, Michelin stars and international class stadia.\n\nBut it remains the case that Birmingham is seeing significant investment, and with it, a changing look that flies in the face of assumptions of a pasta-themed concrete jungle.\n\nNew buildings such as the Library of Birmingham have seen the city's landscape change\n\nEarlier in 2017, Deloitte said a \"record number\" of new developments across all sectors meant Birmingham was enjoying \"a well-deserved boom\", with Marketing Birmingham's boss adding the city was \"embarking on an unprecedented construction spree\" to meet \"record demand created by new and relocating businesses\".\n\nAmong the projects have been a revamp of New Street Station and the shopping centre above it, Grand Central - £600m and £150m schemes respectively.\n\nBut numbers cannot do all the talking. What do locals think visitors to the Games would make of Birmingham?\n\n\"Birmingham is getting more international\" - Kevin Cunningham\n\n\"Every year Birmingham is getting more international and in 10 years it'll be an amazing city,\" said Kevin Cunningham.\n\n\"When people come, I think they'll be surprised by Birmingham's diversity but also its history.\"\n\nRamavtar and Martin think the Games could change views on Birmingham\n\nRamavtar saw even more potential, and something of possibly greater value than the economic bounce he expected: \"It'd be perfect, people would get to see more of Birmingham.\"\n\nAnd for Martin, it is seeing that is believing: \"There's been a misconception of Birmingham and there's a certain stereotype, but a lot of people haven't even been here.\"", "It was one of the world's most opulent railway stations, sitting imposingly on the French-Spanish border - but then it fell into disrepair. Now, writes Chris Bockman, the building is showing new signs of life.\n\nWhen they built the station at Canfranc, it was on a grand scale and with no expense spared. It had to be bold and modern - an architect's dream come true, built in iron and glass, complete with a hospital, restaurant and living quarters for customs officers from both France and Spain.\n\nAt the time it was nicknamed the \"Titanic of the Mountains\".\n\nTo give you an idea of its size - there are 365 windows, one for each day of the year; hundreds of doors; and the platforms are more than 200m long. The question is, how did such an extravagant station, high up on a mountainside in a village with a population of just 500 people, ever see the light of day?\n\nThe ticket hall fell in to disrepair after the French abandoned the train line in 1970\n\nAt the turn of the 20th Century, the Spanish and French authorities had a grand project to open up their border through the Pyrenees, enabling more international trade and travel. It was a remarkably ambitious scheme, involving dozens of bridges and a series of tunnels drilled through the mountains.\n\nAt one point, work stalled as the French workers were sent off to fight in World War One. They were replaced by Spanish counterparts.\n\nCelebrating the digging of the Somport tunnel in 1912, which would form part of the international train line\n\nThe station was built just to the Spanish side of the border, but one of the platforms was still considered French territory - like a kind of foreign embassy. French police and customs staff sent their children to a French-speaking school installed in the village.\n\nBut the day the station was opened in 1928 by the French President Gaston Doumergue and Spanish King Alfonso XIII, flaws quickly became apparent.\n\nThe rail gauges were different, so passengers still had to change trains. It made transporting goods as freight too slow. The Wall Street Crash of 1929 didn't help.\n\nIn the early 1930s, as few as 50 passengers a day were using Europe's second-biggest train station. And then things got worse. During the Spanish Civil War, Franco ordered the tunnels on the Spanish side sealed off, to prevent his Republican opponents from smuggling weapons in.\n\nWhen the international line re-opened during World War Two, however, the route was used by thousands of Jews and Allied soldiers to escape into Spain.\n\nToday, the mayor of Canfranc is Fernando Sanchez, whose father was a customs officer at the station - he told me it became a spy hub for the Allies, but the Germans also used the rail line to transport gold they'd stolen from Europe.\n\nAfter the war, the French lost interest in the line and allowed it to deteriorate. When a train derailed on the French side in 1970, that signalled the end and France abandoned the line.\n\nThe Spanish were furious, according to Fernando Sanchez - there was an international agreement to maintain the line and the French were accused of breaking it. Canfranc's population, which had risen to 2,000 thanks to the station, dwindled to 500.\n\nThe grand building itself went to rot. The tracks rusted, the ceilings fell in with the harsh winter weather and vandalism did the rest.\n\nThe bar at Canfranc station, which fell in to disrepair\n\nBut a few years ago the local government in Aragon decided to buy the place and restore it, claiming it was a major part of Spanish history. In the past four years 120,000 people have visited, wearing hard hats - ironically, far more than ever actually used the line when it was in service.\n\nNearly all the tourists are Spanish. They're fascinated by the station's size, and perhaps also a little proud of its symbolism - the image it projected to the world. There are now even two trains a day between Saragossa and Canfranc.\n\nNow the Aragon government wants not only to refurbish the station as a hotel, but to build another one right next to it, and relaunch rail travel through the Pyrenees. The French regional government based in Bordeaux has agreed to reopen the line on its side too.\n\nIts president, Alain Rousset, told me the route through the achingly beautiful Valley of Aspe will be branded the the \"western trans-Pyrenean line\" when it opens. He promised to find 200 million euros (£175m) to pay for it, and Brussels will offer matching funds.\n\nRousset says he has made a lot of enemies by pushing for this plan - pointing out that politicians in Paris had envisaged a motorway instead.\n\nGraffiti scrawled on walls in the valley now read \"Long live Canfranc\". The line is back in favour.\n\nIf all goes to plan, the Titanic of the Pyrenees could be back in business within five years. I noticed that the massive wooden ticket counters at the station have already been restored.\n\nPhotographer John Sanderson discovered the delight of taking pictures as a 13-year-old, shooting the Strasburg Rail Road and its historic steam engine. Returning to the subject of railways in adulthood, he rebelled against his younger self and this time chose to photograph American railroads devoid of trains.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the leading Impressionist painters (stolen piece not pictured)\n\nA small oil painting by French Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir has been stolen from a sale room near Paris, the day before it was due to go up for auction.\n\nThe piece was on display ahead of the auction in Saint-Germain-en-Laye when it was removed on Saturday.\n\nIt had an estimated sale price of between €25,000 and €30,000 (£22,000 and £26,500; $29,500 and $35,500).\n\nPolice hope surveillance footage will provide clues about the theft.\n\nMeasuring just 14cm by 12.2cm (5.5ins by 4.5ins), the Portrait d'une Jeune Fille Blonde (Portrait of a Blonde Young Girl) includes the initials AR in the top left corner.", "Charlie Roberts, pictured in 1912, founded the body that became the Professional Footballers' Association\n\nA footballer labelled Manchester United's \"first real star\" has been inducted into the National Football Museum's Hall of Fame. But Charlie Roberts is now remembered more for his trade union activism off the pitch than his success on it.\n\nRoberts was an England international who captained the Red Devils to their first two league titles and their first FA Cup win in the years before World War One.\n\nHe was also a campaigner for players' rights, founding football's first successful players' union and leading his team of self-declared \"outcasts\" to victory over the Football Association (FA).\n\nBorn in County Durham in 1883, he had grown up among mining communities that were at the heart of the burgeoning trade union movement - an upbringing that would go on to influence his later career.\n\nHis football talent took him to Manchester United in 1904 where his robust defending made him a fans' favourite.\n\nHe was capped for England a year later and, over the next few years, captained the Red Devils to their first major trophies.\n\nThe team was hit by one of football's forgotten tragedies, though, in April 1907. Scottish defender Tommy Blackstock, 25, collapsed and died on the pitch after heading a ball during United's match against St Helens.\n\nHis death spurred Roberts and his teammate Billy Meredith - one of the game's early superstars - into action.\n\nRoberts' grandson Ted Roberts said: \"There was nothing available for Blackstock's family, and my grandfather was horrified that nothing was available.\n\n\"So they decided to do something about it.\"\n\nBilly Meredith, known as \"the Welsh Wizard\", founded the union with Roberts\n\nRoberts and other star players were already unhappy about the FA's wage cap, which prevented clubs from paying players more than £4 a week - the equivalent of about £440 today.\n\nHe believed \"footballers were working men like any others, and deserved to be treated fairly\", said football historian Dr Gary James.\n\nThe pair founded the Association of Football Players' and Trainers' Union (AFPTU), popularly known as the Players' Union, with the aim of removing the the wage cap and winning footballers the same rights enjoyed by other workers.\n\nThis worried the FA and club owners.\n\nRoberts (left) led Manchester United to a 1-0 victory over Bristol City in the 1909 FA Cup final\n\n\"Football was a business, just as it is now, and... clubs had to make money to pay their staff,\" said Dr James.\n\n\"The authorities didn't want the possibility of fixtures disappearing due to strikes.\"\n\nDespite clubs' reservations, many footballers joined the AFPTU, and the FA reluctantly recognised it as the players' official representative body.\n\nThis uneasy peace deal failed in spectacular fashion in 1909.\n\nA proposed transfer to Chesterfield saw Fulham's George Parsonage, who was not keen on making the move north, ask for more than the regulation signing-on fee of £10.\n\nAghast at what they saw as an exorbitant request, the Derbyshire club reported Parsonage to the FA, who banned the midfielder for life.\n\nRoberts' 1909 FA Cup final shirt was sold for £30,000 in an auction in 2015\n\nIn response, the AFPTU gathered a petition of 1,322 signatures. Fearing strike action, the FA demanded players resign from the union or face a life ban.\n\nWhile most left, Roberts' United teammates stood firm - and were promptly suspended by the club.\n\nA stand off between the club and players ensued. Roberts and his colleagues posed with a wooden sign calling themselves \"The Outcasts Football Club\". This photograph made the front pages of the next day's newspapers \"much to our enjoyment and the disgust of several of our enemies\", as Roberts later recalled.\n\nAs the beginning of the 1909/10 season neared, the row had still not been resolved. Unable to put out a side, United contacted their first opponents, Bradford City, to discuss the possibility of a cancellation.\n\nHowever, the FA backed down and struck a deal which allowed union members to play in Football League matches.\n\nA scroll at the PFA's offices pays tribute to Charlie Roberts, who was captain in Manchester United's victorious 1909 FA Cup final\n\nRevenge was taken on Roberts, however. Although he went on to become one of the country's most expensive footballers when he moved to Oldham Athletic for £1,500 in 1913, he was frozen out by the FA. He never added to his three England caps won in 1905.\n\nThe union survived and would later become the Professional Footballers' Association - which finally won its battle to abolish football's wage cap in 1961.\n\nGordon Taylor, its long-serving chief executive, said modern multi-millionaire players should be aware of the role Roberts played.\n\n\"I think it's really important. They need to know the state of the profession they are in and the part that Charlie Roberts played,\" he said.\n\n\"By coming together and showing solidarity, Roberts and his teammates helped make the game attractive. They had big concerns. The profession of football was not even recognised at the time.\n\n\"Now we can be very proud that this country has got the most full-time professional clubs in the world.\"", "Violence has broken out in Catalonia during a massive police operation to halt an independence referendum which Spain's constitutional court has suspended.\n\nEmergency services have treated people who were injured when police smashed their way into polling stations to seize ballot boxes.\n\nWarning: Some of the images below contain scenes of a violent nature\n\nNational riot police carried this woman away from a gathering outside a school in Barcelona\n\nSpain's deputy prime minister said police had acted in a \"proportionate\" way\n\nHundreds of people queued to vote outside this school in Barcelona\n\nHundreds of people were injured, Barcelona's mayor said\n\nAt least 12 police officers were injured in clashes\n\nA witness in Barcelona sent this photo to the BBC's Tom Burridge - the man had been caught up in scuffles at a polling station\n\nOfficers from the Guardia Civil tried to prevent these people from voting in the referendum\n\nFC Barcelona's match against Las Palmas took place behind closed doors after a last-minute decision", "The body of Leanne McKie was discovered in the early hours of Friday in Poynton, Cheshire\n\nA detective found dead in a lake was a \"tireless worker\" and \"popular figure\" among colleagues, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has said.\n\nThe body of Leanne McKie, 39, was discovered in the early hours of Friday in Poynton, Cheshire.\n\nChief Constable Ian Hopkins said the mother-of-three worked in the sexual offences unit and sought justice for victims.\n\nA man, 43, from Wilmslow remains in custody on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe body was found in a lake in Poynton Park\n\nCheshire Police said her death appeared to be \"an isolated incident\" and officers were not looking for anyone else.\n\nMr Hopkins paid tribute to Det McKie, who joined GMP in 2001.\n\nHe added: \"I would like to offer my most sincere condolences to Leanne's family and friends at this devastating time. My heart particularly goes out to her three young children, who she adored.\n\n\"Leanne worked tirelessly to provide support and seek justice for victims of sexual crimes.\n\n\"[She] was a popular figure among her colleagues, who have been left devastated by the news of her tragic death. She will be sorely missed by everyone she worked with.\"\n\nA 43-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder remains in custody\n\nTributes were also paid online to to the officer.\n\nAdi Taylor wrote on Facebook: \"My memories of Leanne was [sic] of a really cheerful, happy and approachable person.\n\n\"My thoughts go out to family and friends and especially her poor children.\"\n\nMatt Rogers, who said he was \"devastated\" in a social media post, described her as a \"lovely, gentle woman\".\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. Theresa May says the government \"has to look again\" at the issue of tuition fees\n\nTheresa May has admitted a change in her party's approach on tuition fees in England, saying she has listened to voters and fees will freeze at £9,250.\n\nFee repayment thresholds will also rise, so graduates will start paying back loans once they earn £25,000, rather than £21,000, the PM said.\n\nShe said the whole student finance system would be reviewed and did not rule out a move to a graduate tax.\n\nLabour, which wants to scrap tuition fees, called the plan \"desperate\".\n\nThe prime minister, who is in Manchester for her party's conference, also pledged to extend the Help to Buy scheme which helps people buy newly-built homes, in an attempt to win over younger voters.\n\nMrs May told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show she plans to apologise to Conservative activists for her decision to call a snap election.\n\nShe said the message she had taken from the election, at which she lost her Commons majority, was that the Conservatives needed to \"listen to voters,\" particularly younger people and those who are \"just about managing\".\n\nShe said that when the government increased student fees it had been expected that there would be a \"diversity in the system,\" with some universities offering shorter and cheaper courses, rather than always charging the maximum amount.\n\n\"That hasn't happened. We've got to look at it again,\" she told Marr.\n\nAsked if there could be a graduate tax instead of the current system, she said: \"By looking at it again we will be looking at the issues that people are raising, we will be looking at where the system has worked, we will be looking at the concerns that people have.\"\n\nThe Conservative Party conference runs from Sunday until Wednesday\n\nThe planned £250 increase in tuition fees for 2018-19 to £9,500 will not go ahead and fees will instead remain at the current maximum of £9,250 per year.\n\nThe overhaul of the higher education sector could also see the introduction of fast-track, two-year degree courses, an idea which has been suggested to limit the costs for young people considering higher education.\n\nOther ideas being considered by the government as part of the overhaul are cutting the interest rates on loans and introducing lower fees for students studying certain subjects, such as engineering, where there is a skills shortage.\n\nAlistair Jarvis, chief executive of Universities UK, said he wanted to see the government going further by reintroducing maintenance grants for the poorest students and reducing interest rates for low and medium earners.\n\n\"We also need to do more to reverse the worrying decline in the numbers of part-time and mature students,\" he added.\n\nSir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust education think tank, agreed that maintenance grants should be reintroduced and also called for fees to be means-tested so those from low-income families repay less.\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said the move was \"a desperate attempt by the Tories to kick the issue into the long grass because they have no plans for young people and no ideas for our country\".\n\nShe added: \"They are yesterday's party.\"\n\nCalling this a \"freeze\" on tuition fees in England is a distinctly positive spin on abandoning a policy of increasing fees above £9,250 only put in place this year. If not a U-turn, it's certainly a Uni-turn.\n\nBut it shows how quickly the politics have changed - with rising fees and ballooning debts now a toxic combination for any party wanting to court young voters.\n\nAlthough billed as a change of direction, universities had already predicted that a fee rise was \"dead in the water\" because, without a majority, the government had no realistic prospect of pushing it through.\n\nPerhaps more significant is the increase in the earnings threshold for repayments - up from £21,000 to £25,000.\n\nThere is also the promise of re-examining interest rates for loans, hiked to 6.1% from this autumn.\n\nBut this will be the first time an announced fee rise has had to be ditched.\n\nThe question will be whether cancelling an increase will be a bold enough move compared with promises to scrap them altogether.\n\nMartin Lewis, founder of the Money Saving Expert website, welcomed the move, saying increasing the repayment threshold from £21,000 to £25,000 could save many lower and middle earning graduates thousands of pounds.\n\nWriting on his Facebook page, he said \"every single graduate earning over £21,000 a year will pay less\".\n\n\"And it has a long-term progressive benefit too,\" he added.\n\n\"As most graduates won't clear their loans in full before it's wiped - by reducing what they repay each year, you reduce what they repay in total too.\"\n\nHowever, he said details were still \"sketchy\" and it was unclear who it would apply to.\n\nThe Help to Buy mortgage scheme is currently only available on newly-built homes in England\n\nThe Help to Buy expansion will see £10bn go to another 135,000 buyers in order to help them to own their own home.\n\nThe funding will allow recipients to get a mortgage with a deposit of just 5%.\n\nThe money can only be put towards the purchase of new-build homes.\n\nThe Conservative Party conference runs from Sunday until Wednesday - when Mrs May will be the final speaker in Manchester.\n\nThe conference slogan isn't \"anything but Brexit\", but listen to what the party's high command wants to talk about here in the next few days, and it might as well be.\n\nThere is a clear attempt by senior Conservatives here to change the subject; stray beyond the ever present - and divisive - topic of leaving the European Union, and flesh out the government's domestic political priorities.\n\nMinisters want to be seen to be addressing an Achilles heel for them at the general election - young people, who overwhelmingly rejected them in June.\n\nHence two policies pitched directly at them: university tuition fees in England, and getting on the property ladder.\n\nThe political reality, though, is Brexit - the defining political issue of our time - will never be far from the lips of people here.\n\nAnd neither too will the precarious state of the party and its leader, after the humiliation of going backwards in an election Theresa May called voluntarily.", "The Nevada Department of Corrections shared this image of OJ Simpson being released\n\nThe former American football star and actor OJ Simpson has been released on parole after nine years in a Nevada jail.\n\nHe had been serving time for armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and 10 other charges over a 2007 confrontation at a Las Vegas hotel.\n\nSimpson was approved for early parole release at a board hearing in July.\n\nIn 1995 he was acquitted of the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Nevada Department of Corrections released an image and video of Simpson signing documents and leaving Lovelock Correctional Centre early on Sunday.\n\nThey confirmed the 70-year-old had been released from the facility at 00:08 (07:08 GMT).\n\nHe will face restrictions - including up to five years of parole supervision.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four things OJ did in while in prison\n\nSimpson has expressed his desire to move to Florida after leaving jail.\n\nHis lawyer, Malcolm LaVergne, told Reuters news agency that his client's whereabouts would be kept confidential for now.\n\nBut Florida's attorney general, Pam Bondi, has publicly sad the state does not want Simpson to serve his parole there. The state, she tweeted, \"should not become a country club for this convicted criminal\".\n\nThe football player was sentenced to a maximum 33-year sentence in 2008 after storming a Las Vegas hotel room with five others in an effort to seize items from two sports memorabilia dealers.\n\nIn July this year, he was granted parole and approved for release in October.\n\nSimpson was found guilty in 2008 exactly 13 years to the day after he was famously acquitted in the double-murder case.\n\nDespite the 1995 not-guilty verdict, a civil court jury held Simpson liable for the deaths of Brown Simpson and Goldman, awarding $33.5m (£25m) to their families.\n\n'If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit', his lawyer argued\n\nA lawyer representing Ron Goldman's family told Associated Press this amount had nearly doubled with interest under Californian state law, and that the family would continue to seek payment from Simpson after his release.\n\nHis lawyer said on Wednesday that he was feeling \"very upbeat\" ahead of the release.\n\nSimpson became a cult figure in the National Football League (NFL) after record-breaking performances for the Buffalo Bills team.\n\nAfter retiring in 1979 he starred in television shows and movies, including the 1988 film The Naked Gun.", "A father murdered his baby daughter just two weeks after formally adopting her with his husband, a court heard.\n\nMatthew Scully-Hicks, 31, is accused of \"violently shaking\" 18-month-old Elsie, causing her \"catastrophic head injuries\" following months of abuse.\n\nCardiff Crown Court heard she died at University Hospital of Wales on May 29, four days after the defendant called 999 saying she was \"floppy and limp\".\n\nBaby Elsie was placed in the care of Vale of Glamorgan Council just days after being born, the jury was told.\n\nAt the age of 10 months she was taken in by fitness instructor Matthew Scully-Hicks and his husband Craig in September 2015.\n\nThe couple relocated from Swindon, Wiltshire, to Cardiff six years ago and had been married for three years.\n\nMatthew Scully-Hicks had given up full-time work to care for any children.\n\nEight months after they took Elsie in, the couple completed the adoption process. A fortnight later she was dead.\n\n\"Within two weeks of Elsie's formal adoption by the couple, we allege that the defendant had inflicted fatal injuries upon her,\" prosecutor Paul Lewis QC said.\n\nHe told the jury that on 25 May 2016, the ambulance service received a 999 call from Matthew Scully-Hicks reporting that Elsie was unresponsive.\n\nMr Lewis told the court that paramedics attended the house and found Elsie was not breathing, with no signs of cardiac output.\n\n\"The injuries that caused her death were inflicted upon her by the defendant shortly before he called emergency services that day,\" said Mr Lewis.\n\n\"His attack upon her that day was not the first time he had employed violence towards Elsie, nor was it the first time he had caused her serious injury.\n\n\"His actions on the late afternoon of 25 May were the tragic culmination of a course of violent conduct on his part towards a defenceless child - an infant that he should have loved and protected, but whom he instead assaulted, abused, and ultimately murdered.\"\n\nThe trial is being held at Cardiff Crown Court\n\nThe court heard Elsie had suffered haemorrhages to her brain and behind her eyes, and doctors decided to switch her ventilator off.\n\nTests showed there were older bleeds to her brain and behind her eyes and a post-mortem examination revealed she had also suffered broken ribs, a fractured left femur and a fractured skull.\n\nThe court was told Matthew Scully-Hicks carried out the alleged attacks on Elsie while his husband worked full time as a company director.\n\nMr Lewis told the jury about a catalogue of injuries Elsie had suffered during her short life.\n\nIn November 2015, two months after she had been taken in by the couple, she had fractured her ankle while in the sole care of the defendant, who had given differing accounts of how she had suffered the injury.\n\nA month later she sustained a bruise to her forehead which a health visitor advised needed treating. Matthew Scully-Hicks allegedly lied he had done so, the jury heard.\n\nIn January, Elsie suffered another bruise on her head and in March she was taken to hospital by ambulance after Matthew Scully-Hicks said she had fallen down the stairs.\n\nShe was discharged from hospital after four hours after her injuries were considered \"consistent with a fall downstairs\".\n\nThe jury were read a series of text messages the defendant allegedly sent to friends. One described the baby as a \"psycho\".\n\nOne read: \"I'm going through hell with Elsie. Mealtimes and bedtimes are like my worst nightmare at the minute.\"\n\nAnother said: \"She has just screamed non stop for 10 minutes. She had a full bottle and clean nappy. Literally not even half an hour and she is a psycho.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "White tigers are believed derive their colour from a recessive gene\n\nAn animal keeper at a national park in southern India has been attacked and killed by two rare young white tigers, officials say.\n\nThe keeper, 40, was mauled to death as he attempted to direct the tigers into their enclosure on Saturday night at the Bannerghatta Biological Park.\n\nAn official said the tigers pounced on him because one of the four enclosure gates was not properly latched.\n\nThe keeper had only been employed by the national park for a little over a week.\n\nHis angry relatives protested outside the park on Sunday - they want financial compensation from park management, accusing them of negligence.\n\nA keeper at the park near Bangalore was reported to have been injured two years ago by lions.", "Harvey Weinstein, the Oscar-winning film producer accused of sexually harassing female employees, has been fired by the board of his company.\n\nHarvey Weinstein has denied many of the allegations against him, but in such a convoluted and incoherent manner that it is not too soon to conclude his behaviour over the course of a storied career has, at times, been disgusting.\n\nNow that he has been sacked by the company named after him and his brother, a cascade of allegations is swirling and many people who have been loyal to him over the years are suddenly questioning why they bothered.\n\nIt is hard not to see the allegations against Weinstein in the light of similarly tawdry claims made against the late Fox News boss Roger Ailes, Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly, comedian Bill Cosby, and even the President, Donald Trump, who - we should remind ourselves - stands accused of sexually exploitative behaviour by many women. Those allegations are unproven and Trump denies them.\n\nChanging attitudes to the behaviour of powerful men are driving a cultural shift, which most people will consider long overdue if it means that bullying and intimidation in exchange for sexual favours is no longer so widespread.\n\nI wonder too if the advent of social media is making more women feel able to speak out: perhaps the capacity for an accusation to go viral, and so garner both attention and support from a vast global audience in a matter of seconds, incentivises honesty where women might previously have feared the consequences of speaking out.\n\nBut it would be a dereliction of duty to ignore that these allegations are pouring forth from the American media and creative industries.\n\nThe painful fact is, many, many people were aware of Weinstein's behaviour for years. He was, as the saying goes, hiding in plain sight, no doubt protected to some extent by his friendships with famous people and his ability to hand out internships to the likes of Malia Obama (who as far as we know was treated with the utmost civility). That he was a major supporter of Hillary Clinton will have done him little harm, too.\n\nWeinstein was also protected by sheer force of character. The few times I've met him in New York he was declaiming at a party, raconteuring his way through Manhattan's most starry joints, a sun around which other stars would orbit. It's pathetic, of course, but one reason those who knew about his sordid malefactions didn't speak out is because he was their host, and they enjoyed his parties.\n\nThere is outrage in American media circles now - though many would say it pales in comparison to the outrage that attended the claims of rampant sexual harassment at Fox News. To that extent, this scandal - revealed by that other icon of liberal America, The New York Times - is in fact a test of liberal America. If late night TV hosts and their boosters in the media don't pour the same opprobrium on Weinstein as they have on, for instance, O'Reilly, they could stand accused of double standards.\n\nWhy are all these scandals erupting in the media? There's no firm evidence that sexual intimidation is more prevalent in, say, Hollywood than Wall Street. But if - and it is a big if - it is, I wonder if that's because the likes of Weinstein are part of an economy within an economy in the creative industries: they buy and sell fame.\n\nWeinstein was the kind of man who used his power to be a gateway to both financial riches and fame: he controlled access to huge audiences, with all the money that can bring. If some of the claims made by actresses are true, it may be that Weinstein was - unforgivably - allowed to get away with it because of his power. Not just his power to make people very rich; also, his power to make them very famous.\n\nThat's the same power Roger Ailes had. Do this sexual favour for me, his sick argument allegedly went, and you'll have a better chance of ending up on screen.\n\nIf more women feel prepared to speak out, and fewer lecherous men are allowed to get away with exchanging sexual favours for fame and riches, some good may yet come from the turpitudinous exploits of Harvey Weinstein and his ilk.", "The American embassy in Ankara will not issue visas to those travelling to the US for tourism, medical treatment, business, temporary work or study\n\nTurkey and the US have become embroiled in a consular row, mutually scaling back visa services.\n\nThe American mission in Ankara said it had suspended all non-immigrant visa services in order to \"reassess\" Turkey's commitment to staff security.\n\nTurkey's embassy in Washington replied by suspending \"all visa services\".\n\nThe latest spat began when a US consulate worker in Istanbul was held over suspected links to a cleric blamed for last year's failed coup in Turkey.\n\nWashington condemned the move as baseless and damaging to bilateral relations.\n\nThe row prompted a 4% fall in Turkey's main share index while the Turkish lira tumbled more than 2.5% against the dollar.\n\nTurkey accuses Fethullah Gulen of being behind the failed coup - a charge he denies\n\nIn its statement on Sunday, the US embassy in Ankara said: \"Recent events have forced the United States government to reassess the commitment of government of Turkey to the security of US mission and personnel.\n\n\"In order to minimise the number of visitors to our embassy and consulates while this assessment proceeds, effective immediately we have suspended all non-immigrant visa services at all US diplomatic facilities in Turkey.\"\n\nOnly people permanently moving to the US will now be able to apply for visas.\n\nTurkey stands accused of holding detainees as hostages in its bilateral disputes with countries.\n\nAs well as the consular employee, an American pastor was arrested here a year ago. Several German nationals are also in custody as Ankara presses the US to extradite the cleric it accuses of masterminding the coup, and urges Berlin to deport Turkish citizens who have claimed asylum there.\n\nGermany has already warned its nationals against travelling to Turkey.\n\nThere could now be a similar response from Washington in this unprecedented row.\n\nThe Turkish statement mimicked the American one, but said that \"effective immediately we have suspended all visa services regarding the US citizens at our diplomatic and consular missions in the US\".\n\nIt added: \"This measure will apply to sticker visas as well as e-visas and border visas.\"\n\nAnkara has for months been pressing Washington to extradite US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen over his alleged role in the botched coup in July 2016.\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accuses Mr Gulen of instigating the unrest - a charge the cleric denies.\n\nIn the aftermath of the coup attempt, which was led by military officers, 40,000 people were arrested and 120,000 sacked or suspended.\n\nThe new diplomatic low between the US and Turkey comes less than a month after Donald Trump said ties between the countries were \"close as we've ever been\".", "Ryan Gosling, Denis Villeneuve, Ana de Armas and Harrison Ford at the Paris premiere of Blade Runner 2049\n\nBlade Runner 2049 has made far less than expected on its opening weekend at the US box office.\n\nThe $31.5m (£24.1m) total will be a major disappointment for distributor Warner Bros, which had projected ticket sales of between $45m and $50m.\n\nIts 163-minute running time, limiting the number of screenings, was said to be one factor in the under-performance.\n\nBut it was still the weekend's most popular movie in the US. It topped the UK box office, with sales above £6m.\n\nThe sequel to the 1982 cult classic, which also stars Harrison Ford as well as Ryan Gosling, cost Sony and Alcon Entertainment $150m to make.\n\nDespite strong advance ticket sales and glowing reviews from many critics, the movie made $12.7m on Thursday night and Friday, $11.4m on Saturday and a projected $7.4m on Sunday from just over 4,000 cinemas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford star in the sequel of Blade Runner\n\nPaul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst with comScore, said: \"The core of enthusiastic and loyal 'Blade Runner' fans were over 25 and predominantly male, and propelled the film as expected to the top spot, but a lengthy running time and lesser interest among females made it tougher for the film to reach the original weekend box office projections.\"\n\nMen over 25 accounted for half the audience, according to PostTrack, with women over 25 making up 27%.\n\nJeff Goldstein, of Warner Bros, said Blade Runner 2049 had disappointed in smaller cities and in the South and Midwest, where the running time and baseball playoffs appeared to have deterred moviegoers.\n\n\"We did well in the major and high-profile markets,\" he said. \"Alcon and Denis [Villeneuve, the director] made an amazing movie. The audience for it was narrower than we anticipated.\"\n\nGlobally, the film took $50.2m and claimed the number one spot in 45 of its 63 markets, Screen Daily reported.\n\nThat tally was higher than the $44.6m for The Martian, starring Matt Damon, on its opening weekend in 2015. The movie was directed by Ridley Scott, who also made the original Blade Runner and was an executive producer on 2049.\n\nThe Chinese comedy Never Say Die took $66m globally to top the international box office, pushing Kingsman: The Golden Circle into second place.\n\nThe remake of the Stephen King killer clown thriller It has now taken $305m in the US, and almost as much internationally, to top the $600m mark globally, making it the most successful horror film.\n\nUK moviegoers have been its biggest fans, spending $40.7m (£31.1m) on tickets since its release on 8 September.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: \"The ball is in their court\"\n\nThe UK has set out how it could operate as an \"independent trading nation\" after Brexit, even if no trade deal is reached with Brussels.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May told MPs \"real and tangible progress\" had been made in Brexit talks.\n\nBut the country must be prepared for \"every eventuality\", as the government published papers on future trade and customs arrangements.\n\nLabour said \"no real progress has been made\" since last June's referendum.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said a \"no deal\" scenario was starting to appear \"more likely\" even if it was not something either side in the talks wanted.\n\nMrs May's statement comes as the fifth round of negotiations began in Brussels. Focusing on technical issues, it is the final set of talks before EU leaders meet on 19 October to decide if enough progress has been made to talk about post-Brexit relations with the UK, including trade.\n\nEuropean Commission spokeswoman Margaritis Schinas said \"the ball is entirely in the UK court\" to reach agreement on Britain's \"divorce deal\", without which the EU has said it will not move on to the second phase of talks.\n\nMrs May appeared to reject that in her statement to MPs, saying: \"As we look forward to the next stage, the ball is in their court.\n\n\"But I am optimistic we will receive a positive response.\"\n\nMrs May also confirmed that the UK would remain subject to the rulings of the European Court of Justice during a planned two-year transition period after Britain leaves the EU in March 2019.\n\nResponding to a challenge from Eurosceptic Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, she told MPs the need to ensure the minimum of disruption \"may mean that we will start off with the ECJ still governing the rules we're part of for that period\".\n\nShe said it was \"highly unlikely\" any new EU laws would come into force during the transition, but did not rule out the possibility that any which did so would have effect in Britain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"What on earth the government has been doing?\"\n\nThe prime minister rejected existing models for economic co-operation, such as membership of the European Economic Area or the Canadian model, calling instead for a \"creative\" solution that would be \"unique\" to the UK.\n\nBut she also stressed - as she has done before - that the government was preparing for \"every eventuality,\" reinforcing her long-held position that walking away without a deal is a possibility.\n\nShe rejected a call from a Tory MP to name a date when the UK would walk away from talks without an agreement, saying \"flexibility\" was needed.\n\nOn Northern Ireland, she said the government had begun \"drafting joint principles on preserving the Common Travel Area, and associated rights and we have both stated explicitly we will not accept any physical infrastructure at the border\".\n\nThe two White Papers give the most detail yet of contingency planning that is under way.\n\nThe White Papers set out three strategic objectives: ensuring UK-EU trade is as frictionless as possible, avoiding a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, and establishing the UK's own independent international trade policy.\n\nBut there is also contingency planning, in case the UK leaves the EU without a negotiated settlement.\n\nA customs bill will make provision for the UK to establish a stand-alone customs regime from day one, applying the same duties to every country with which it has no special deal.\n\nThe level of this duty would be set out in secondary legislation before the UK leaves the EU.\n\nFor high-volume roll-on roll-off ports, the legislation would require that consignments are pre-notified to customs authorities, to try to ensure that trade continues to flow as seamlessly as possible.\n\n\"No deal\" is not the government's preferred option; and the detail in the customs paper in particular hints at how disruptive it could be. But the UK wants the EU to know that it is planning for all eventualities.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the government had spent the 15 months since the EU referendum \"squabbling amongst themselves\" and were making a \"mess\" of Brexit.\n\nHe urged Mrs May to unilaterally guarantee the rights of EU citizens in the UK, as well as criticising the lack of progress on Northern Ireland.\n\nThe SNP's leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford, said there had not been a single mention of the devolved administrations in Mrs May's speech, as he called for urgent action on EU citizens' rights.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats, who want a referendum on any final Brexit deal, urged the prime minister to \"show real leadership\" by ring-fencing the issue of EU citizens' rights, confirming the UK will remain in the single market and customs union and firing Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.\n\nJacob Rees-Mogg told the BBC he was \"troubled\" by the PM's statement: \"If we're remaining under the jurisdiction of the ECJ then we haven't left the European Union or the date of departure is being delayed.\"\n\nBut Boris Johnson said the UK would \"still be able to negotiate proper free trade deals\" during the transition period.\n\n\"She (Theresa May) has reaffirmed the destination of a self-governing, free-trading, buccaneering and Global Britain taking back control over our laws, money, and borders,\" he said in Facebook post.\n\n\"The future is bright. Let's keep calm and carry on leaving the EU.\"", "Ivana Trump (L) said she was the first lady\n\nA spokeswoman for US First Lady Melania Trump has described comments by her husband's ex-wife Ivana as \"attention seeking and self-serving noise\".\n\nIvana Trump told ABC's Good Morning America she was \"basically first Trump wife, I'm first lady\".\n\nShe said she had a direct line to the White House but did not want to \"cause any kind of jealousy\".\n\nThe first Mrs Trump is promoting her book Raising Trump, to be released on Tuesday.\n\nShe was married to Donald Trump in 1977 but they divorced in the 1990s over his affair with Marla Maples, who became his second wife.\n\nIvana and Donald had three children - Donald Jr, Ivanka and Eric Trump.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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\nIvana Trump told GMA she spoke to her former husband about once a fortnight.\n\n\"I have the direct number to White House, but I no [sic] really want to call him there because Melania is there,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't want to cause any kind of jealousy or something like that because I'm basically first Trump wife. I'm first lady, OK?\"\n\nMelania Trump responded with a barbed statement through her spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham.\n\n\"Mrs Trump has made the White House a home for [their son] Barron and The President,\" it read.\n\n\"She loves living in Washington, DC and is honoured by her role as First Lady of the United States. She plans to use her title and role to help children, not sell books.\n\n\"There is clearly no substance to this statement from an ex. Unfortunately only attention seeking and self-serving noise.\"\n\nThe exchange is thought to be the only public row between a US first lady and a president's former wife.\n\nBefore Mr Trump, Ronald Reagan was the only divorcee president.", "Richard Thaler has won a Nobel prize for his research into 'nudge' theory\n\nThink the Nobel prize for economics has nothing to do with you? In some years that may well be true.\n\nBut this year's award has gone to Richard Thaler who, in his book Nudge, was one of the first to outline how tiny prompts can alter our behaviour.\n\nThe Nobel judges are clearly keen on the discipline, since they awarded fellow behavioural economist Daniel Kahneman the Economics prize in 2002.\n\nSince when \"nudge theory\" has been applied to a wide range of problems.\n\nHere are a few ways you may have been nudged yourself.\n\nIn probably the most well-known example, spillage around the toilet, an age old problem for at least half of the human race, was cut by 80% using an ingeniously simple intervention.\n\nFirst introduced at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam back in 1999, the idea was simple: etch the image of a fly in the urinal and men cannot help but take aim, saving on clean-up costs as well as alleviating unpleasantness.\n\nThe painted porcelain was one of Prof Thaler's early favourite examples of tweaking the environment in a way that makes us change how we behave.\n\nWhen David Cameron became prime minister in 2010, one of his pet projects was the \"Nudge Unit\" or to give it its official title: the Behaviourial Insights Team.\n\nIt set about encouraging better behaviour amongst UK citizens in a range of ways from letting you know that other people had filled in their tax returns (so you should do yours now) to offering a more personal approach at the job centre.\n\nBut the most eye-catching, for those on the receiving end, was what you were sent if you failed to pay your car tax.\n\nA big heading shouted: \"Pay your tax or lose your Ford Fiesta\" (or whatever car you owned) accompanied by a photograph of the untaxed car. The focused approach paid off.\n\nA more positive tone was taken with the wealthy failing to pay their taxes. They received letters explaining how their taxes would help improve local services, and pointing out what would disappear without funding. These tweaks saw £210m in overdue tax paid into the Treasury.\n\nWoolwich in south-east London had a problem with anti-social behaviour. During the riots in 2011 several shop fronts were smashed in.\n\nThe following year advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather, embracing the new science of behavioural economics, offered an innovative strategy.\n\nKnowing that even the toughest heart is melted by the sight of a infant, they spent a night with graffiti artists painting pictures of local babies' faces onto the shutters protecting the shop windows.\n\nThe move was credited with helping to reduce anti-social behaviour by 18% in Woolwich.\n\nIf you've ever been on the phone to a salesperson, you may well have heard one of the following:\n\n\"Most people in your position buy this\" or \"This deal is only available today\".\n\nThe first plays on our susceptibility to \"social norming\" - we think if others are doing it they must have a good reason.\n\nThe second is based on loss aversion: we hate the idea of missing out.\n\nThirdly, there can often be a tone of inexplicable cheeriness. Relentless positivity is catching apparently, and makes us feel good about signing up.\n\nBig brands have embraced the idea. For example, a team from Ogilvy and Mather has coached staff selling subscriptions to the Times and the Sunday Times to use these persuasive techniques. Did they work on you?\n\nIn the past, people who want to donate their vital organs in the event of their death have usually been asked to \"opt in\" by putting their name on a register. Thanks in part to behavioural economics, there's a growing trend to adopt policies that presume consent and ask objectors to \"opt out\".\n\nThough the results are inconclusive it's clear we've embraced the concept - that we need to design the system in a way that helps us to \"do the right thing\" rather than rely on individuals' consciences.\n\nLikewise, we all know we need to save for our retirement, but it can be hard to summon the will-power.\n\nThe \"save more tomorrow\" approach pioneered in the United States saw employees automatically signed up to pay into a pension, but starting with very small contributions to avoid loss-aversion that could make them baulk. Only later do payments rise.\n\nAll if all this makes you feel as though the policymakers and marketers are only out to manipulate us, well at least thanks to Prof Thaler we now understand what they're up to a little better.", "Airbnb, the accommodation website, paid less than £200,000 in UK corporation tax last year despite collecting £657m of rental payments for property owners.\n\nThe commissions the company earns in the UK are booked by its Irish subsidiary, but it also has two UK subsidiaries.\n\nOne unit made a pre-tax profit, but the other did not incur UK corporation tax because deductions resulted in a loss.\n\nAirbnb said in a statement: \"We follow the rules and pay all the tax we owe.\"\n\nOne of the British subsidiaries, Airbnb Payments UK, handles payments between landlords and travellers for countries other than the United States, China and India.\n\nThat unit made a pre-tax profit of £960,000 and paid £188,000 in UK corporation tax - £8,000 less than in 2015.\n\nThe other British subsidiary, Airbnb UK, markets the website and app to British consumers. It reported a £463,000 pre-tax profit last year but because it gave shares to staff, which are tax-deductable, there was no corporation tax bill.\n\nAirbnb said: \"Our UK office provides marketing services and pays all applicable taxes, including VAT. The Airbnb model is unique and boosted the UK economy by £3.46bn last year alone.\"\n\nThe tax arrangements of other technology giants have come under under closer scrutiny in recent years.\n\nOne of the most vocal critics has been EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager. She has taken aim at the likes of Apple, Amazon and others for where they book the revenues and profits of their European activities.\n\nBruno Le Maire, the French finance minister, has also asked why Airbnb paid tens of thousand of euros in French corporation tax despite a turnover in the millions.\n\nThe company, founded in San Francisco in 2008, has disrupted the hotel industry by linking travellers with landlords who generally want to rent out a spare room or an entire property for short-term stays.\n\nIt has become one of the most successful examples of the digital economy, with an estimated value of about $24bn.\n\nHowever, Airbnb has faced a growing backlash in cities including Barcelona, Berlin and Paris, where politicians have taken steps to stop landlords renting properties to tourists rather than local residents.\n\nWhile Airbnb has long been linked with a stock market listing, it remains privately owned.\n\nIt takes a 3% commission from landlords for each booking, and also charges fees to travellers.\n\nIn the UK last year Airbnb catered for 5.9m travellers and had 168,000 listings.", "BAE Systems's two sites in Lancashire produce the Eurofighter Typhoon\n\nMore than 1,000 jobs are set to be axed by defence contractor BAE Systems, the BBC understands.\n\nThe firm is expected to make an announcement on Tuesday regarding the cuts, which are thought to mainly affect its two plants in Lancashire.\n\nUnion Unite warned the cuts would undermine the nation's defence and said it was demanding urgent talks with BAE.\n\nUp to 10,000 people work at the Warton and Samlesbury plants, where aircraft assembly takes place.\n\nThe cuts are believed to centre on the lack of orders for the Eurofighter Typhoon on which 5,000 staff work.\n\nThe Warton and Samlesbury sites are involved in making parts and the final assembly of the Typhoon fighter.\n\nBAE is yet to make a specific announcement, but a spokesman said the business \"continually reviews its operations to make sure we are performing as effectively and efficiently as possible\".\n\n\"If and when there are any changes proposed we are committed to communicating with our employees and their representatives first,\" he said.\n\nAsked about the reports, Prime Minister Theresa May's official spokesman said it would be wrong to pre-empt any announcement by the firm.\n\nHowever, he said: \"We do have a long track record of working with BAE Systems and with its works and we'll continue to do so.\"\n\nUnite assistant general secretary Steve Turner said the government could end the uncertainty for thousands of British BAE defence jobs \"at a stroke by committing to building the next generation fighter jets here in the UK\".\n\nHe said BAE must also come clean on its plans, too.\n\n\"If these job cuts materialise it will significantly undermine our nation's sovereign defence capability and leave us reliant on foreign powers and foreign companies for the successor to the Typhoon and the defence of the nation.\n\n\"Once these jobs are gone, they are gone for a generation and with them the skills and ability to control our own defence and manufacture the next generation of fighter jets and other defence equipment in the UK.\"\n\nHe added: \"At a time of Brexit, these are precisely the kind of jobs the UK government should be protecting.\n\n\"Rather than shipping our defence spend overseas to factories in America and cutting defence, ministers should be investing in jobs, skills and communities by buying British.\"\n\nFylde Conservative MP Mark Menzies said it was a \"deeply unsettling time\" for BAE workers.\n\nBut he hoped it would end up the same as in November 2015 when hundreds of redundancies were announced but \"in reality, very few people left the business as they were deployed on other projects\".\n\nHe said the firm would look at other opportunities for the workers, such as on BAE's nuclear submarine and shipbuilding programmes.\n\nMr Menzies said: \"Potentially lucrative contracts on the way from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and others could help sustain these jobs.\"\n\nRibble Valley MP Nigel Evans said the job losses would be a \"massive detriment not only to my own constituency but to Lancashire as a whole\".\n\nIn a statement he urged BAE systems to put emphasis on voluntary redundancy and offer \"transitional assistance\" for redundant staff to find new employment.\n\nHe said he was working with Chorley MP Lindsay Hoyle on the issue and they were contacting all the affected North West MPs \"to get them on board when representations are made to the Secretary of State for Defence\".\n\nNia Griffith MP - shadow secretary of state for defence - said it was \"devastating news\" for workers and their families.\n\n\"The men and women who work on the Eurofighter are highly skilled and the potential loss of these jobs would have an appalling impact on them, the local economy and wider supply chains,\" she said.\n\nThe Labour MP for Llanelli also called on the government to urgently come up with a \"clear plan to secure these jobs\" and said it \"must give long-term certainty to the industry\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "I have done something so stupid I still can't believe it.\n\nMaybe I had fallen under the influence of the 10-headed demon Ravana.\n\nThe vanquishing of Ravana by Lord Rama is the excuse for Dussehra, one of the wildest of all Hindu festivals.\n\nTowering wicker effigies of Ravana and his henchmen - complete with curling moustaches and wicked smiles - are filled with fireworks, ready to be burned in the climax of a re-enactment of Lord Rama's great victory.\n\nLast year my wife and I took our four children to the biggest Dussehra celebration in Delhi, at the Ramlila Maidan, a vast field outside the gates of the old city.\n\nAs the sunlight turned a delicious gold, we joined the jostling queues.\n\nBut Ravana's malign influence isn't enough to explain what follows. I blame the fairground, too.\n\nThere's an Indian concept called jugaad. It means a simple, cheap solution to a complex problem. Basically - it means bodging it. The rides applied jugaad with breathtaking abandon.\n\nIt was as my 14 and 15-year-old daughters and I tottered, giggling nervously, from a terrifying, harness-free spin on a juddering big wheel that I noticed the sheet laid out on the dry mud.\n\nCrouched on it was a man offering temporary tattoos.\n\nNow, I have always hated tattoos. I live in fear of my children getting some ugly doodle etched into their perfect skin. That's why I thought it would be so funny to surprise my wife, Bee, with a fake one.\n\n\"How about a heart with her name in it for her birthday?\" I said.\n\nI promise I hadn't had anything to drink.\n\n\"They wash off, yes?\" I asked the tattoo man.\n\n\"Yes, yes, yes,\" he said.\n\nI felt the chrome nozzle of his little machine. I couldn't feel a needle.\n\nHe showed me a pot of ink. Well, you'd need ink for a temporary tattoo, wouldn't you?\n\nI pointed to a heart on one of the laminated sheets with pictures of his craft, and then at the letters B, E, E.\n\n\"Yes, yes, yes,\" he said and took my arm firmly.\n\nBefore I knew it, he was already at work, and here's the thing: it didn't hurt.\n\nEveryone I know who has ever had a tattoo says it hurt.\n\nAll I felt was a prickle. That said, it did worry me, but by then the tattoo man had already inked out a rough heart - and I do mean rough - in the middle of my upper arm.\n\nIt must have taken all of 30 seconds.\n\nHe started on the letters.\n\nFirst an L. Hold on a second…\n\nNow I was really worried. I tried to pull my arm away.\n\n\"No, no, no,\" said the tattoo man, pulling back.\n\nWith a sharp tug I got my arm free and wiped in desperation at the ink. But beneath my fingers I could feel my skin was slightly raised. The blue-black ink didn't even smudge.\n\n\"What have you done?\" my wife wanted to know when we found her in the crowd and showed her my arm.\n\nMy daughters were doubled up with glee. Who wouldn't laugh when your dad has just got himself a tattoo by mistake?\n\nThe first fireworks exploded in the sky. Ravana was about to be put to the torch. I was already rushing for the exit.\n\n\"There must be a way to get rid of this thing,\" I told myself.\n\nThere wasn't. And here's some advice you probably don't need - never follow home tattoo removal instructions from the internet.\n\nFlushing it with gin - the only alcohol to hand - didn't make any difference.\n\nSalification - literally rubbing salt in the wound - didn't work either.\n\nI now have a white scar as well as a cheap tattoo.\n\nMy wife was more worried about the risk of blood-borne infection, which is how I came to be sitting in front of a doctor in one of Delhi's hospitals.\n\nSo how risky is a street tattoo like this, I wanted to know?\n\n\"Oh, infection is very, very, very common,\" he told me with a huge smile.\n\nHe said as well as hepatitis B and C, there was also the risk of HIV.\n\n\"Oh, this is a very, very, very common way to get HIV. I see it all the time. All the time,\" he said, apparently delighted.\n\nTwo weeks later, the results of the blood test came through. It was clear. I have booked another test to make sure that is still the case.\n\nThe tattoo, however, isn't going anywhere. Ugly as it is, I'm keeping it - a permanent reminder to be less impetuous.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "McDonalds sent the out-of production sauce to the show's creators before announcing its return\n\nA McDonald's PR stunt to bring back a rare dipping sauce left thousands of fans disappointed, with police called to some US restaurants on Saturday.\n\nThe Szechuan sauce, which was only made in 1998 to promote the film Mulan, has become well known after featuring in the popular cartoon Rick and Morty.\n\nIn July the chain sent a large bottle of the sauce to the show's creators.\n\nThey then announced it would come back for one day on 7 October, but fans were left disappointed after stores ran out.\n\nIn one video, police can be seen holding back people chanting \"we want sauce\".\n\nOfficers also attended other stores because hundreds of people turned up.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFans took to social media to vent their frustrations after being unable to get their hands on the out-of-production dip.\n\nOne couple posted that they had driven for four hours to a restaurant stocking the sauce, but were left disappointed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jillian Campagnola This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 global fast food chain apologised to fans on social media but repeated their warning that the release was going to be \"super limited\".\n\nPots of the sauce are now listed for sale on online auction websites for hundreds of dollars.\n\nAngry customers posted pictures of breaded chicken and dipping sauces from other fast-food chains in protest at the stunt.\n\nOthers posted pictures of large bowls of the sauce they had made for themselves at home.", "Unlike oil, which is finite, data is a super-abundant resource in a post-industrial economy\n\nHow do you know when a pithy phrase or seductive idea has become fashionable in policy circles? When The Economist devotes a briefing to it.\n\nIn a briefing and accompanying editorial earlier this summer, that distinguished newspaper (it's a magazine, but still calls itself a newspaper, and I'm happy to indulge such eccentricity) argued that data is today what oil was a century ago.\n\nAs The Economist put it, \"A new commodity spawns a lucrative, fast-growing industry, prompting anti-trust regulators to step in to restrain those who control its flow.\" Never mind that data isn't particularly new (though the volume may be) - this argument does, at first glance, have much to recommend it.\n\nJust as a century ago those who got to the oil in the ground were able to amass vast wealth, establish near monopolies, and build the future economy on their own precious resource, so data companies like Facebook and Google are able to do similar now. With oil in the 20th century, a consensus eventually grew that it would be up to regulators to intervene and break up the oligopolies - or oiliogopolies - that threatened an excessive concentration of power.\n\nMany impressive thinkers have detected similarities between data today and oil in yesteryear. John Thornhill, the Financial Times's Innovation Editor, has used the example of Alaska to argue that data companies should pay a universal basic income, another idea that has become highly fashionable in policy circles.\n\nA drilling crew poses for a photograph at Spindletop Hill in Beaumont, Texas where the first Texas oil gusher was discovered in 1901.\n\nAt first I was taken by the parallels between data and oil. But now I'm not so sure. As I argued in a series of tweets last week, there are such important differences between data today and oil a century ago that the comparison, while catchy, risks spreading a misunderstanding of how these new technology super-firms operate - and what to do about their power.\n\nThe first big difference is one of supply. There is a finite amount of oil in the ground, albeit that is still plenty, and we probably haven't found all of it. But data is virtually infinite. Its supply is super-abundant. In terms of basic supply, data is more like sunlight than oil: there is so much of it that our principal concern should be more what to do with it than where to find more, or how to share that which we've already found.\n\nData can also be re-used, and the same data can be used by different people for different reasons. Say I invented a new email address. I might use that to register for a music service, where I left a footprint of my taste in music; a social media platform on which I upload photos of my baby son; and a search engine, where I indulge my fascination with reggae.\n\nIf, through that email address, a data company were able to access information about me or my friends, the music service, the social network and the search engine might all benefit from that one email address and all that is connected to it. This is different from oil. If a major oil company get to an oil field in, say, Texas, they alone will have control of the oil there - and once they've used it up, it's gone.\n\nThis points to another key difference: who controls the commodity. There are very legitimate fears about the use and abuse of personal data online - for instance, by foreign powers trying to influence elections. And very few people have a really clear idea about the digital footprint they have left online. If they did know, they might become obsessed with security. I know a few data fanatics who own several phones and indulge data-savvy habits, such as avoiding all text messages in favour of WhatsApp, which is encrypted.\n\nBut data is something which - in theory if not in practice - the user can control, and which ideally - though again the practice falls well short - spreads by consent. Going back to that oil company, it's largely up to them how they deploy the oil in the ground beneath Texas: how many barrels they take out every day, what price they sell it for, who they sell it to.\n\nWith my email address, it's up to me whether to give it to that music service, social network, or search engine. If I don't want people to know that I have an unhealthy obsession with bands such as The Wailers, The Pioneers and The Ethiopians, I can keep digitally schtum.\n\nNow, I realise that in practice, very few people feel they have control over their personal data online; and retrieving your data isn't exactly easy. If I tried to reclaim, or wipe from the face of the earth, all the personal data that I've handed over to data companies, it'd be a full time job for the rest of my life and I'd never actually achieve it. That said, it is largely as a result of my choices that these firms have so much of my personal data.\n\nServers for data storage in Hafnarfjordur, Iceland, which is trying to make a name for itself in the business of data centres - warehouses that consume enormous amounts of energy to store the information of 3.2 billion internet users.\n\nThe final key difference is that the data industry is much faster to evolve than the oil industry was. Innovation is in the very DNA of big data companies, some of whose lifespans are pitifully short. As a result, regulation is much harder. That briefing in The Economist actually makes the point well that a previous model of regulation may not necessarily work for these new companies, who are forever adapting. That is not to say they should not be regulated; rather, that regulating them is something we haven't yet worked out how to do.\n\nIt is because the debate over regulation of these companies is so live that I think we need to interrogate superficially attractive ideas such as 'data is the new oil'. In fact, whereas finite but plentiful oil supplied a raw material for the industrial economy, data is a super-abundant resource in a post-industrial economy. Data companies increasingly control, and redefine, the nature of our public domain, rather than power our transport, or heat our homes.\n\nData today has something important in common with oil a century ago. But the tech titans are more media moguls than oil barons.", "Ernesto Guevara shares his father's love of motorbikes and cigars\n\nOn 9 October 1967, guerrilla leader Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara was executed in Bolivia. Fifty years on, the BBC's Will Grant takes a motorbike tour of Cuba with the leader's son and asks him about the pressures of living under his father's legacy.\n\nAt times, the family resemblance is uncanny.\n\nThe stubbly beard, the unmistakable nose, the similarity extending down to a smouldering cigar clasped firmly between his forefingers.\n\nBeyond the physical attributes, the youngest son of Latin America's most recognisable revolutionary, Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara, has inherited another trait from his late father: his love of motorbikes.\n\n\"I've always liked mechanics, speed, motorbikes, cars,\" said 52-year-old Ernesto, named after his father, over a cold drink in a Harley Davidson-themed bar in Havana.\n\n\"As a child I was interested in repairing cars and bikes. I suppose it's something I picked up from my old man but wherever it's from, I love it.\"\n\nDespite the shared passion, the younger Guevara has taken a very different path in life: into tourism.\n\nHe runs a motorbike tour company whose only link to Che is in the name, La Poderosa Tours after La Poderosa, the famous Norton 500cc on which his father crossed the Americas in the Motorcycle Diaries.\n\nChe Guevara and Aleida March on their wedding day in Havana in June 1959\n\nLa Poderosa Tours is a private company using foreign capital and works with several state-run Cuban companies. It is part of the wave of private enterprise permitted under rule changes by President Raul Castro in 2010, and a far cry from Ernesto's training as a lawyer.\n\nWhen I joined him on a recent tour, we headed out west, towards the tobacco-growing region of Pinar del Río.\n\nHeads turned on the streets of Havana as the fleet of Harley Davidsons swept out of the capital.\n\nThe motorbike is proving an increasingly popular way to see the island. The tour group was a broad cross-section of nationalities including riders from the United States, China, Britain and Argentina.\n\n\"Americans my age have never been able to come to Cuba and now we can,\" reflected amateur bike enthusiast Scott Rodgers from Massachusetts when we stopped for coffee.\n\n\"I don't know long that is going to last so I thought I had to jump through this window while I could.\"\n\nOthers were directly drawn to the link to Che, including Eduardo Lopez, a fellow Argentine.\n\n\"Of course he is part of the attraction,\" Eduardo said. \"Travelling the world by motorbike is my hobby but we specifically came on this tour because Che lived for years in my home town of Córdoba. So we feel a link to this myth, this figure.\"\n\nSome tourists say they take the tour because they are interested in the Guevara history\n\nDespite the famous surname, Ernesto insists he is very much his own man.\n\n\"I always try to not link things. Anything I've achieved I've done as Ernesto Guevara March - as myself, as a human being,\" said the son from Che's second marriage to Cuban Aleida March.\n\n\"I do everything with a sense of responsibility. If it works out, then great. If not, fair enough.\"\n\nChe Guevara's image - seen here in Havana - is used in graffiti worldwide\n\nSo far, it's a business philosophy that has served him well. Last year saw record numbers of tourists visit Cuba and business at La Poderosa Tours is brisk.\n\nHe knows he has his critics though, particularly in Miami. It is often pointed out that after being born with such Marxist credentials, the younger Guevara has made a capitalist's career in tourism.\n\nIt's not a charge that worries him, however.\n\n\"It has nothing to do with whether it's socialist or capitalist,\" he argued with a hint of indignation in his voice.\n\nPinar del Río, west of Havana, is known for its tobacco plantations\n\n\"It makes no sense to focus on that issue. For me, we're doing a good job, one that helps my country.\"\n\nOur tour carried on to a place synonymous with the darker side of his father's image, the Cabaña Fortress.\n\nIt was here that after the revolutionaries took power, Che presided over the revolutionary trials of members of the ousted military government. Dozens were executed in what critics of the Cuban Revolution say was summary justice.\n\nFifty years after his father's death, Ernesto still leaps to his defence insisting the trials were \"normal\". I pointed out that such a view will incense some families the other side of the Florida Straits.\n\nErnesto Guevera (R) named his company after his father's bike, La Poderosa\n\n\"The enemy can say what he likes. The people of Cuba know why it was done, how it was done, and above all in order to bring tranquillity to all Cuban society that they weren't going to pardon murderers of that kind,\" he said looking out across the bay to Havana.\n\n\"So I'm very calm, my soul is at peace, and my father's soul is too.\"\n\nErnesto readily admits it wasn't always easy growing up with a famous father - or rather, without one. Che Guevara was executed in Bolivia in 1967 when Ernesto was just two.\n\n\"Of course, at school sometimes you'd be pointed out as 'Ernesto Guevara', but generally you were known as 'Ernesto Guevara March', which is the person you are. The son of both your father and your mother.\"\n\nAnd as the worldwide fascination with his iconic father shows no signs of slowing down, this has become a point the younger Ernesto is keen to stress.\n\n\"Those who love me, love me for the person I am. Not just for the name Guevara.\"", "The case was heard by the Family Division of the High Court\n\nThree teenage brothers should be taken from their mother and put into care, having developed a \"narcissistic cult\" mentality, a High Court judge has said.\n\nThe boys, who were not sent to school and suffered from a lack of food and healthcare, were led to believe they should not socialise or go outside.\n\nTheir mother, who cannot be identified, had mental health issues.\n\nPsychotherapists said the brothers had \"formed a group identity\" and \"saw themselves as intellectually superior\".\n\nMr Justice Hayden, the judge, said the children had been placed in temporary residential care while further decisions could be made about their futures.\n\nHe said they should not be returned to their mother.\n\nSocial services said the trio had come to believe there was \"no purpose to attending school, leaving the home or socialising with others\", while two psychotherapists said they saw themselves as \"separate to the rest of the world\".\n\nThey said a \"cult mentality\" had developed. One described it as a \"narcissistic cult\".\n\nTwo of the boys were said to have communicated with each other in a secret language.\n\nThe court was also told about the strict reward system imposed on the boys.\n\n\"There was an elaborate and quite rigid structure to their interactions predicated on an achievement and award system,\" Mr Justice Hayden said.\n\n\"Achievement of particular tasks enabled time on the computer or an opportunity to pet and stroke the cat.\"\n\nThe boys are now in the care of Wandsworth Council social services.", "One of the most dramatic stories from the night of the Grenfell Tower blaze - that a baby was thrown from a window and caught - probably never happened, a BBC investigation has concluded.\n\nThe news was reported in the media right across the UK and the world.\n\nBut neither the police nor ambulance service have a record of the event, and experts have questioned whether it is scientifically possible.\n\nNo witnesses quoted at the time were willing to be interviewed on camera.\n\nThe report, by BBC Newsnight, found the first reference to the story can be traced back to 10:08 on 14 June while firefighters were still battling the blaze.\n\nIt was one of the few good news stories out of Grenfell Tower that awful night in June\n\nThe Press Association tweeted an interview with a woman named Samira Lamrani.\n\nShe told them that she had witnessed a woman on the \"ninth or 10th floor\" throwing a baby from a window and that the child was caught by a man below.\n\nThe quotes were picked up by news organisations across the UK, including by the BBC.\n\nNewsnight contacted Ms Lamrani but she declined to be interviewed. \"My memory of that night is fading… I don't want to talk about it,\" she said.\n\nAnother witness quoted at the time was the broadcaster and architect George Clarke who told Newsnight on the day of the fire that he saw a man catch \"a kid\" thrown out of the window from the eighth floor.\n\nWhen we contacted him for this report, he told us he did not wish to make any comment on the matter at all. \"It's such a contentious issue and I think it's so hurtful to so many people,\" he said.\n\nThe news was first reported in this tweet from a journalist with a video of a witness at the scene\n\nOn the 16 June, two days after the fire, a dramatic account of a similar sounding incident appeared in The Sun newspaper. It was subsequently picked up by many other news organisations.\n\nThe story features photographs of a man holding a young girl. The Sun names him as \"Pat\" and says the picture was taken just after he had caught the girl, aged 4, who the newspaper said had been dropped from the fourth floor.\n\nHowever, we tracked down the man in the picture. His name is Oluwaseun Talabi, and the girl he is holding in the picture is actually his own daughter. The pair had escaped the fire by walking down from the 14th floor.\n\nBelief in this miracle doesn't seem to have diminished in the streets around the burned-out tower. If you ask local residents some will tell you that they are certain the story is true, although they didn't see it themselves.\n\nNewsnight has attempted to contact every person quoted as saying they did see the baby thrown and caught. Some told us that they had been misquoted. For some supposed witnesses, we found no evidence that they actually exist at all. None of those we could track down were willing to go on the record and give us an on-camera interview.\n\nOne local resident, Jody Martin, has a theory about where the baby story originated. He arrived at the scene of the fire at about the same time as the first fire crews, just after 01:00.\n\nJody Martin saw a woman holding a child outside a window to give it air\n\nHe says his attention was drawn to activity on the third or fourth floor.\n\n\"There was an African-Caribbean lady with her baby and she was leaning out the window,\" he says. \"It was more like a toddler. And there was smoke just billowing out behind us, so obviously she was just trying to get oxygen. So she was at the lowest point of the ledge, you know right down low, top half of her torso hanging out, but her infant at arm's length.\"\n\nJody is clear that the woman was only minutes away from being rescued by fire crews and wasn't throwing the baby, just trying to make sure it had enough air.\n\nAccording to psychologists it is common in fast moving situations for witnesses to see part of an event and then assume what happened next. There is nothing dishonest about this. It is just how we formulate memories.\n\nAs experts told us, human memory isn't a video tape - it is a best guess assembly of often incomplete or even contradictory information.\n\nThere is another reason we should perhaps be sceptical of this story. The physics of such a fall would make serious injury to any child and anyone who tried to catch it a probability according to medical experts.\n\nEven dropped from five storeys or 15m, an object would be travelling at 17.15m per second or 61.73km per hour (38mph).\n\nDouble the height to the 10th floor, or 30m, and an object is travelling at 24.25m per second or 87.3kmh (54.2mph).\n\nAny fall from above one storey would likely result in serious injury, irrespective of whether someone tries to catch the child or not, according to Dr Dan Magnus, Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.\n\n\"I would be sceptical of a baby falling from a very high height and someone catching that baby would somehow make the fall benign. I think that is difficult to understand,\" he said.\n\nIf this event had happened you would think that there would be some official record of it, but Newsnight has established that neither the police, nor the ambulance service know anything about it, and no children from Grenfell were treated at hospital for the serious physical injuries likely to have resulted from such a fall.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police could not have been clearer in their statement: \"We have no record of this incident.\"\n\nIt is often not possible to definitively say something didn't happen. All we can do is search for the witnesses and scrutinise the evidence.\n\nWe have done that and haven't turned up anything that suggests this amazing event actually happened. Indeed all the available evidence points to the opposite conclusion.\n\nDavid Grossman was reporting for BBC Newsnight. Watch his full report here.", "Google has found evidence that Russian agents spent tens of thousands of dollars on adverts in a bid to sway the 2016 US election, media reports say.\n\nSources quoted by the Washington Post say the adverts aimed to spread disinformation across Google's products including YouTube and Gmail.\n\nThey say the adverts do not appear to be from the same Kremlin-linked source that bought ads on Facebook.\n\nGoogle said it was investigating attempts to \"abuse\" its systems.\n\nUS intelligence agencies concluded earlier this year that Russia had tried to sway the election in favour of Donald Trump.\n\nThe Russian government strongly denies the claims and President Trump has denied any collusion with the Kremlin.\n\nThe issue is under investigation by US congressional committees and the Department of Justice.\n\nSources said to be close to the Google investigation said the company was looking into a group of adverts that cost less than $100,000 (£76,000).\n\nGoogle said in a statement: \"We have a set of strict ads policies including limits on political ad targeting and prohibitions on targeting based on race and religion. We are taking a deeper look to investigate attempts to abuse our systems, working with researchers and other companies, and will provide assistance to ongoing inquiries.\"\n\nMicrosoft said on Monday it was also investigating whether any US election adverts had been bought by Russians for its Bing search engine or other products.\n\nA spokesman told Reuters it had no further information at the moment.\n\nFacebook said in September that it had uncovered a Russian-funded campaign to promote divisive social and political messages on its network.\n\nIt said that $100,000 was spent on about 3,000 ads over a two-year period, ending in May 2017.\n\nFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg later said his company would pass the information to US investigators.", "England manager Gareth Southgate painted a brutally honest picture of his current squad - and arguably their chances at next summer's World Cup - when he cast doubt on whether he possessed \"big players\".\n\nSouthgate has secured qualification for Russia but England's progress has been unspectacular and they will not travel accompanied by great expectations.\n\nEngland's last brush with tournament football was that harrowing night in Nice in June last year when they lost 2-1 to Iceland in the last 16 of Euro 2016 and manager Roy Hodgson effectively resigned on the spot.\n\nIt followed a dismal World Cup in Brazil in 2014, when England did not make it out of the group stage following defeats by Italy and Uruguay and were reduced to the embarrassment of playing out a dead rubber against Costa Rica in their final game.\n\nSo, with Southgate putting his squad's quality into context, and looking back at previous selections, are England in any better shape to make an impact in Russia than they were in Brazil and France?\n\nEngland's goalkeepers at the past two tournaments\n\nEngland's goalkeepers for the 2018 World Cup almost pick themselves - and it is a stronger hand than Hodgson had to play with in the past two major tournaments.\n\nSouthgate appears to have settled on Joe Hart as his first choice but the memories of his edgy, hyped-up displays in the 2014 World Cup and his crucial errors for goals conceded against Wales and Iceland at Euro 2016 mean this is a debate that will continue.\n\nEngland are in a better place to deal with this problem now because back-up and competition is better than it has been for years with 24-year-old Jack Butland excelling at Stoke City and Jordan Pickford, 23, shining after his £30m move to Everton.\n\nHart needs to maintain his form to fight off this pair, with Burnley's Tom Heaton also in the shake-up for a squad place, but he will be under the microscope once the World Cup starts to see how he copes with the pressure.\n\nVerdict: England's overall quality is stronger but Southgate looks set to keep faith with a keeper whose flaws were exposed in Brazil and France. Will it prove a mistake?\n\nEngland's defenders at the past two tournaments\n\nEngland's options in the defensive areas for next year look stronger than they did in previous tournaments - but that does not mean Southgate's backline will give off an air of confidence.\n\nThe full-backs are almost interchangeable with Kyle Walker established at right-back and Ryan Bertrand now the regular left-back. Liverpool's Nathaniel Clyne and Danny Rose at Tottenham provide similar alternatives but are struggling with injury.\n\nA back four of Leighton Baines, Gary Cahill, Phil Jagielka and Glen Johnson was ageing and cruelly exposed in Brazil and Southgate will surely be casting eyes in the direction of Manchester in the hope a solid central-defensive partnership emerges.\n\nPhil Jones' career had threatened to stall after early comparisons with Duncan Edwards but he has flourished under Jose Mourinho at Manchester United. John Stones, who also suffered a dip after his £47.5m move from Everton to Manchester City, is again starting to look like the defender who was once regarded as the future but then disappeared almost undetected from the England team.\n\nJones and Stones, at their best and if their renaissance continues, offer a good blend in central defence and an upgrade on the Cahill/Chris Smalling partnership in France - but Southgate may still want the Chelsea's captain's experience, even though he has struggled at major tournaments.\n\nHe will probably want his pairing to come from those three, with Smalling still in contention, because the likes of Leicester City's Harry Maguire and Everton's Michael Keane offer promise, but will have nothing in the way of experience at the sharp end of a major tournament when the action starts in Russia.\n\nSouthgate opened up another possibility by using a three-man defensive system in Sunday's final qualifier in Lithuania.\n\nEngland have high-profile friendlies coming up against Germany and Brazil and they would appear to be the perfect opportunity to test out his preferred players in that system against high-class opposition.\n\nEngland's defensive candidates in the Premier League since August 2016\n\nChris Waddle, who reached a World Cup semi-final with England in 1990, has concerns.\n\n\"Central defence has been a problem for a long time now since people like Rio Ferdinand left the scene,\" he said. \"I don't think we've really had an outstanding partnership since the Terry-Ferdinand years.\n\n\"I think age is creeping up on some and do the younger ones like Keane and Maguire have the experience to go into a major tournament against the likes of Brazil, Argentina, Germany and Spain? I'm not so sure.\"\n\nVerdict: If Jones and Stones are at their best they will be a nice contrast and give England a more solid appearance in central defence - it is still a big \"if\" at this stage of the season.\n\nWalker and Bertrand or Rose will be the full-back partnership, positions England were found short in at the past two tournaments.\n\nSouthgate may just have a better defence than Hodgson had in Brazil and France but it still has a vulnerable look and you would not stake your life on its reliability under pressure.\n\nEngland's midfielders at the past two tournaments\n\nHere is where Southgate might have to pull off his biggest balancing act of all.\n\nThe central pairing of Jordan Henderson and a Steven Gerrard at the end of his England career failed in Brazil, while Liverpool's current captain and Eric Dier were colourless and lacking impact in France. Their shortage of creativity and 'much of a muchness' combination must be addressed or Southgate risks faring no better than Hodgson in tournament combat.\n\nThe increasing desperation to find a cure has seen eyes cast towards Ross Barkley, injured and an outcast at Everton, in the hope he might find form with a move to Spurs in January and a quick-fix partnership with Dier that could work for club and country.\n\nThis is the same Barkley that Hodgson would not touch with a bargepole in France. Even Jack Wilshere's name has appeared in the debate after resurfacing at Arsenal.\n\nFormer England international Waddle suggested Chelsea new boy Danny Drinkwater and Newcastle United maverick Jonjo Shelvey as possibilities and the stakes are high. If Southgate can find the answer England could make real progress on what was on offer in Brazil and France.\n\nA creative player could serve Dele Alli in his telepathic link with Spurs team-mate Harry Kane, and Adam Lallana - England's best player before his injury, according to Southgate - will be another important addition in the midfield area once he is fit and playing for Liverpool.\n\nThere are young possibilities such as Everton teenager Tom Davies, Spurs rookie Harry Winks and Nathaniel Chalobah at Watford but it would require serious progress and serious trust from Southgate.\n\nIt could end up being a mix-and-match three-man midfield of Dier centrally, with Lallana and Henderson either side, Alli at 10 and a threatening strikeforce of Kane and Manchester United's Marcus Rashford.\n\nVerdict: Southgate will hope for a late wildcard, perhaps Barkley, to stake a claim otherwise England's stodgy central midfield will lack imagination and offer little improvement on 2014 in Brazil, and France last summer.\n\nEngland's forwards at the past two tournaments\n\nEngland will definitely pose more danger in attack than in France, when Kane looked exhausted and Wayne Rooney's England career was drawing to a disappointing conclusion.\n\nKane is rejuvenated, full of confidence and is now a match-winner on the brink of world-class.\n\nRashford will have another 12 months of experience and know-how to make even more use of his fearlessness and blistering pace that will force any defence in world football to take a few steps back.\n\nIf one, or indeed both, come off in Russia - with Alli in support - England will carry real danger if they can get the supply right.\n\nFormer England international Phil Neville told BBC Sport: \"We know the qualifying rounds are not really a barometer and friendlies are exactly that. Until we go to a major tournament it is difficult to say England are going to do this or that.\n\n\"We have got quality. This team are better for experiences in France.\n\n\"I see this as a fantastically talented England team who have got every chance of doing well in a tournament but until they get there and see how they react under pressure we will never know.\"\n\nEngland were short of punch in Brazil and France. Kane and Rashford can provide the knockout blows with the pace of Leicester City's Jamie Vardy a weapon off the bench.\n\nVerdict: If it all comes together and Kane and Rashford stay fit, this is an area of real progress and promise for Southgate and England.\n\nHodgson actually looked at his best at Euro 2012, weeks into the England job and concentrating on what he did and does best. Organisation. Organisation. Organisation.\n\nIn Brazil and France it looked like Hodgson was too keen to get \"with it\" to prove critics who questioned his pragmatic style wrong, tinkering with attacking formations in a manner that was out of character, with inevitably disappointing results.\n\nSouthgate, new to the job and this elite level of international football, will be learning as he goes but the 2018 World Cup will be no free hit - he will need to produce acceptable results.\n\nFormer England captain Terry Butcher is an admirer, saying: \"I have seen him change systems and personnel. The Wayne Rooney situation, when he left his captain and major personality out, is an example where he showed he had a tough mentality and a tough character.\n\n\"Sometimes people see a calmness and gentleness about him but you shouldn't mistake that for timidity and being afraid. He has got a lot of steel there.\n\n\"Gareth would not have had the career he had as a player without real steel and character. He was captain everywhere he played, and he would not be England manager without being ruthless.\n\n\"He has shown he can be ruthless and flexible. I have got no worries about Gareth and I am quite looking forward to him going into the World Cup as England manager.\"\n\nSouthgate is a calm-headed realist who accepts some recent England displays have been disappointing. They have made heavy weather of a comfortable group and will strike no fear into opponents in Russia.\n\nSouthgate has a matter of months to put that right.\n\nVerdict: Southgate will find it hard to do any worse than Hodgson did in Brazil and France but whether he is the upgrade England required will only be measured by events next summer.\n\nEngland have improved goalkeeping alternatives - but will Southgate use them? - and an attack that looks potent as the preparations ramp up. Midfield, however, is a serious headache.\n\nFriendlies against Germany and Brazil will sharpen some of the blurred lines around England's squad and their World Cup aspirations but Southgate believes he has a blend of youth and experience to prove they are a better bet in Russia than they have been at recent showpiece events.\n\nChoose who you would pick in the England starting XI in Russia - and then share it with your friends using our team selector.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video shows the spot where the cocaine was hidden on board the boat\n\nNearly four tonnes of cocaine worth an estimated $260m (£200m) have been seized by international law enforcement officers in the Atlantic.\n\nThe drugs were found on a boat between Portugal's Madeira and Azores islands.\n\nOfficials found 165 individual packages of cocaine weighing 23kg - a total of 3.7 tonnes - concealed beneath the vessel's cooking area.\n\nIt is not clear where the drugs were being taken to.\n\nThe Comoros-flagged vessel was towed into the Spanish port of Cádiz on Friday after Spanish officials received intelligence from the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA).\n\nThe crew, from Turkey and Azerbaijan, were arrested.\n\nThe cocaine was hidden beneath the vessel's galley\n\nSpanish officers made the seizure after a tip-off from the UK\n\nThe operation was jointly conducted by Spanish customs and police and the NCA under the overall co-ordination of the Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre-Narcotics (MAOC-N) in Lisbon.\n\n\"Seizing this quantity of cocaine represents a major disruption to international crime groups, depriving them of revenue potentially running into the hundreds of millions of pounds,\" NCA spokesman Mark Blackwell said.\n\nThere have been two other big Atlantic drug busts in recent months.\n\nThirteen Spanish citizens of Moroccan origin were arrested on Monday over what is believed to be a record seizure of cocaine in the North African country, officials there said.\n\nOfficials say the bust will cause traffickers major disruption\n\nPolice were reported to have seized more than 2.5 tonnes of the drug, with a street value of hundreds of millions of dollars.\n\nThe cocaine was thought to have come from Venezuela on its way to Europe or the United Arab Emirates.\n\nMorocco's investigations chief Abdelhak Khiam said South American drug cartels were using smuggling routes through sub-Saharan countries where he said there was \"little control\".\n\nThe Portuguese navy and air force is also reported to have carried out a drugs seizure on Thursday after intercepting a yacht suspected of transporting cocaine to the country from the Caribbean.\n\nThe vessel was stopped about 965km (600 miles) south of the Azores, Portugal News Online reported, and was carrying a large amount of \"highly pure\" cocaine believed to be worth about $23.5m (£18m).", "Gordon Strachan said genetics were to blame for Scotland's failure to beat Slovenia\n\nThe claim: Gordon Strachan, the former manager of Scotland, said after the country's failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia that his team lacked the height and strength to compete, saying that Scotland were the second-shortest team \"in the last campaign\".\n\nReality Check verdict: In recent years, Scotland have been among the shortest teams in Europe, when measuring average height of the squad - but not the second-shortest. However, height in football doesn't necessarily lead to success.\n\nAfter failing to lead Scotland to victory in their must-win World Cup qualifier against Slovenia, where did ex-manager Gordon Strachan lay the blame?\n\nScotland's opponents might not have been technically superior, but they had \"height and strength\" the Scots had been unable to combat, Strachan said.\n\n\"Genetically, we are behind,\" he said. \"In the last campaign we were the second-smallest, apart from Spain.\"\n\nStrachan's comments sparked a debate in the football world about whether Scotland, or any football team, needed more height in their team to succeed.\n\nReality Check looked at whether Strachan has a point.\n\nLittle and large. Shaun Wright-Phillips and Peter Crouch training for England.\n\nSlovenia are one of the tallest teams in Europe. Scotland's starting XI in Ljubljana were, on average, more than 3cm (1in) smaller than their opponents.\n\nStrachan's team, featuring players with an average height of 180.1cm, are actually in the top 10 of the \"shortest\" teams in Europe this year, according to research by the International Centre for Sport Studies (CIES) football observatory.\n\nIn fact, by the average measure, they are surpassed - or maybe undercut - by only Cyprus, Israel and Armenia, level with Spain.\n\nBased on research by the CIES, which excludes seven countries (none of whom qualified), only two of the 10 shortest teams - Spain and France - will qualify for Russia 2018.\n\nThe height of footballers does not necessarily reflect the national trend. Dutch men are the tallest in world, but their football team is currently one of the shortest in Europe.\n\nLionel Messi, in action here for Argentina against Ecuador, is 170cm (5ft 6in) tall.\n\nSeven out of the 10 tallest teams in 2017, excluding the World Cup hosts Russia, either qualified automatically - Serbia, Iceland, Belgium and Germany - or made the play-offs - Sweden, Greece and Denmark.\n\nSo it's certainly true that in the run-up to the World Cup, some of the tallest teams in Europe were in form this year.\n\nBut it's difficult to say whether these teams were successful because of their stature.\n\nStrachan also claimed that Scotland had been the second-shortest team in their previous qualifying campaign (for Euro 2016). But they were in fact the sixth-shortest in 2015. The eventual winners of the tournament were Portugal, who were also one of the shortest teams, suggesting height was not necessarily a bar to success.\n\nGlobally, the top 10 shortest teams in 2015 contained some of the most successful football nations, and four World Cup winners: Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Spain.\n\nAmong the tallest countries, there was only one previous World Cup winner: Germany.\n\nAt the top of the list, with an average height of 1.86m, was Serbia.\n\nWho has the tallest team? Average heights of European national teams in 2017.\n\nThis article has been updated since its original date of publication to reflect new data.", "Street musicians in animal masks have also been issued warnings. File picture\n\nA man in a shark costume has fallen foul of an anti-burka law that recently came into force in Austria.\n\nDesigned to ban the full-face Islamic veil, the law says people's faces must be visible from hairline to chin.\n\nThe man in the shark mask was advertising a business in central Vienna and the business was fined.\n\nStreet musicians in animal masks have also been given official warnings. Police have called for the controversial new law to be clarified.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by WARDA NETWORK This article contains content provided by Facebook. 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 Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nThe company that had employed the man in a shark costume posted a picture of him on Facebook and announced the fine, saying officers had forced the man to take the costume head off. \"Life isn't easy,\" they wrote.\n\nHis costume reportedly came to the attention of police after a member of the public reported him for breaking the law.\n\nFull-face burka-style veils are banned in several European countries.\n\nIn January Austria's ruling coalition agreed to prohibit full-face veils (niqab and burka) in public spaces such as courts and schools. It said it was considering a more general ban on state employees wearing the headscarf and other religious symbols.\n\nThe measures were seen as an attempt to counter the rise of the far-right Freedom Party, which almost won the presidency in December 2016.\n\nAn Algerian billionaire wearing a Halloween mask has led a protest outside the Austrian interior ministry in Vienna, promising to pay the fines of any women who are prosecuted for wearing the niqab or burka.\n• None Austrian ban on veil comes into force", "Scott Pruitt addressed a crowd in Kentucky - where some hope for a coal revival\n\nThe Trump administration has confirmed plans to repeal an Obama administration rule to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nEnvironmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt, who has voiced doubt of climate change, called the Clean Power Plan an overreach.\n\nPresident Donald Trump ordered the EPA to rewrite the rule in March.\n\nThe Clean Power Plan requires states to meet carbon emission reduction targets based on their energy consumption.\n\nMr Pruitt said he would sign the proposed rule to begin withdrawing from the plan on Tuesday.\n\n\"The war on coal is over,\" he told a crowd in Hazard, Kentucky, on Monday.\n\nHe continued: \"That rule really was about picking winners and losers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt McGrath explains why we should care about climate change\n\n\"Regulatory power should not be used by any regulatory body to pick winners and losers.\"\n\nMr Pruitt has previously argued that the Clean Power Plan would force states to favour renewable energy in the electricity-generation market.\n\nAs Oklahoma's attorney general, he took part in a lawsuit by 27 US states against the rule.\n\nA Supreme Court ruling in February 2016 left the regulation in limbo.\n\nThe EPA under President Barack Obama said the Clean Power Plan could prevent up to 150,000 asthma attacks in children and 6,600 premature deaths.\n\nBut according to US media, a leaked draft of the repeal proposal disputes the health benefits touted by the previous administration.\n\nThe draft also reportedly argues the country would save $33bn (£25bn) by dropping the regulation.\n\nThe Clean Power Plan required states to devise a way to cut planet-warming emissions by 32% below 2005 levels by 2030.\n\nEliminating the rule would make it difficult for the US to fulfil its promise to cut emissions as part of the Paris Climate accord, a 2015 international agreement which President Obama signed with nearly 200 other countries to limit greenhouse gas emissions and combat global warming.\n\nMr Trump in June signalled that he would pull out of the pact, dismantling his predecessor's environmental legacy.\n\nIn August the Trump administration issued its first written notification to the UN that it intended to withdraw from the agreement.\n\nBut the move was largely viewed as symbolic as no nation seeking to leave the pact can officially announce an intention to withdraw until 4 November 2019.\n\nThe process of leaving then takes another year, meaning it would not be complete until just weeks after the US presidential election in 2020.\n\nThe planned repeal of the Clean Power Plan has sparked outrage among environmental groups.\n\nThe National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) threatened to sue the EPA if the plan is repealed while the Sierra Club has indicated it would fight any new rule that does not comply with the country's air pollution laws.\n\nMary Anne Hitt, the director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign, said in a statement the Trump administration was \"putting the safety of our communities at risk, and making it crystal clear they have no intention of safeguarding people from the very real, immediate dangers of climate change\".", "The star is celebrating the 30th anniversary of her breakthrough album, Heaven On Earth\n\n\"I have an original voice,\" says Belinda Carlisle,\n\n\"It may not be the best voice but it's distinct and I think that's what has carried me through the years.\"\n\nAnd then there's her catalogue with The Go-Go's, the new wave girl band she formed in her teens. Hits like We Got The Beat and Our Lips Are Sealed sent their debut album to number one in America.\n\nTo this day, Beauty and the Beat is still the only US chart-topper to be written and played by women.\n\nBut through all of that success, Carlisle was harbouring a severe cocaine habit. Even fellow party animal Rod Stewart was shocked, writing in his autobiography that Carlisle \"could snort the lacquer off a table\".\n\nAfter two decades, though, the singer finally got clean after hearing a voice telling her: \"You are going to be found dead in a hotel if you don't stop.\"\n\nThat was in 2005. Now, aged 59, she's releasing her first album in a decade, Wilder Shores, which is built around the Kundalini yoga chants that helped her recovery.\n\nOn the phone from Brighton, she told the BBC about that record, the 30th anniversary of the Heaven On Earth album and what it's like to be covered in spit at a punk show.\n\nCarlisle now lives in France, and practises yoga every day\n\nI love Brighton! I've been coming here since the late 70s when it was just one fish-and-chip shop on the sea front.\n\nThat would have been when The Go-Go's supported Madness on tour?\n\nYes, exactly. It was my second trip to the UK - I think I was probably 19 and we opened for Madness on their tour, and it was mostly seaside towns.\n\nWhat were the audiences like at those gigs?\n\nOh my God! Back then, the whole National Front thing was unfortunately involved with the ska movement - so there were lots of tattooed skinheads, and one of the things they would do is, if they liked you, they would gob on you. So we would be coming off stage covered in spit.\n\nWe were just five girls from Southern California, so it was really scary. There were a lot of tears. But overall, even though we had no money and were covered in spit, we still had a good time.\n\nI'm always amazed that The Go-Go's are still the only all-female band to have written a number one album. It's like you battered down the door and no-one else came through.\n\nBut they used a lot of co-writers..\n\nYeah, they did. Go figure. You'd think there would be more after us, but there weren't. I don't understand that at all.\n\nYou can still see your legacy in other bands, like Haim or Hole or L7. It's just a shame no-one else has replicated the success.\n\nWell, I mean, good luck now, unless you're put together by a svengali. Something like The Go-Gos could never happen now. It was too authentic. And authenticity is really lacking in music.\n\nThe star scored five top 10 albums in the UK between 1987 and 1993\n\nWas there a backlash when you went from punk-inspired sound of The Go-Gos to the pure pop of Heaven On Earth?\n\nOh, I think so - and I can see why. But everything I've ever done has been true to myself. The albums Heaven On Earth and Runaway Horses and Live Your Life Be Free were harking back to when I was a young girl and listening to Californian radio - lush productions, complicated melodies, harmonies like the Beach Boys and the Mamas and Papas. That's what those albums remind me of.\n\nSo they're all very dear to my heart. Except A Woman and a Man [Belinda's sixth album, released in 1996].\n\nBut even on that record you got to work with Brian Wilson.\n\nWell, gosh, that was one of the highlights - but, you know, at that point I was in a lot of personal turmoil… I guess there were a few good songs in there and California was one of them. Having Brian Wilson sing on my album was an unforgettable experience.\n\nWhat do you recall of making the Heaven On Earth album?\n\nI'll never forget the first time I heard Circle In The Sand; or I Get Weak, which [songwriter] Dianne Warren played on the piano and sang for me. I actually told her she should release it, because she has a great voice. And then hearing Heaven for the first time, I realised, and I think we all realised, that it had the potential to be a global hit.\n\nWhich songs have you enjoyed revisiting on the tour?\n\nShould I Let You In - I'd totally forgotten about that one. And Fool For Love, which I started working into my set this last summer, people love it! It's just such a fun, powerful, pop song.\n\nHeaven On Earth produced five hit singles in the UK\n\nYou don't have any writing credits on Heaven On Earth but by your fifth album, Real, you were contributing to almost every song. What changed?\n\nFor the first three albums, pretty much, I was just a voice - and I mean that in the best possible way. But on Real, I felt I needed to make a change.\n\nI've always known I could write. I have an ear for production and melody. It was just that in those early years, I let everyone do it for me. To be honest, I was a little lazy!\n\nListening to Real now, it was ahead of its time, insofar as its sound and incorporating loops. And right after that, Alanis Morrisette came out with Jagged Little Pill, which had a similar approach. I mean, I'm not claiming that - there's not an original thought out there. It just happened to be a little ahead of its time.\n\nFast-forward to 2017, and you've just performed a concert at a yoga class...\n\nThat was really good fun. The yoga audience was pretty new for me, but what was funny was seeing fans who'd never done yoga before coming in with their mats and experiencing the mantra and singing along with it.\n\nHow did you end up making an album of chants?\n\nI started chanting before I got sober, and chanting is really interesting, because it's a science and it definitely works.\n\nWay back at the beginning… I had made so many messes in my life and it had all come to a head. It would have been very easy for me to jump off a cliff but because of all the chanting I was doing, I was flying high. It was like a feeling of elation at the very beginning of my sobriety. It was very strange, so I know it's power.\n\nThen I started experimenting with repetitive mantra in a pop song format. And I think it works. And that's how you get Wilder Shores.\n\nThe Go-Go's have reformed several times, and performed at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards\n\nWhich of the mantras on the album has been the most useful to you personally?\n\nEk Ong Kar Sat Gur Prasad [roughly translated as, \"There is one creator of all creation. All is a blessing of the one creator\"]. It's one that, simply put, makes me feel pretty happy, instantaneously.\n\nCould you have got sober without it?\n\nOh I probably could have, but there's no question that it made my transition into sobriety easier, no question.\n\nWill you be singing the mantras on tour?\n\nI do one chant at the very, very end of the show [but] it doesn't really work in the context of a full-on rock concert. The focus is really on the Heaven On Earth album.\n\nYour voice sounds stronger than ever on the record. What do you put that down to?\n\nWell, I always say it was 30 years of booze and cigarettes!\n\nBelinda Carlisle's new album, Wilder Shores, is out now; as is a three-disc anniversary edition of Heaven On Earth. She is currently on tour in the UK.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mike Pence said he abandoned the game because kneeling during the anthem \"disrespects our soldiers\"\n\nUS Vice-President Mike Pence has walked out of a National Football League (NFL) game after several players refused to stand for the US national anthem.\n\nMr Pence said he could not be present at an event that \"disrespects our soldiers, our flag\" after abandoning the game in his home state of Indiana.\n\nPresident Donald Trump tweeted that he had asked Mr Pence to leave if players kneeled and said he was \"proud of him\".\n\nKneeling at NFL games has become a form of protest against racial injustice.\n\nMr Trump has criticised players sharply for the protests and pressed the NFL to ban them.\n\n\"I left today's Colts game because @POTUS [President Trump] and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our flag, or our National Anthem,\" Mr Pence tweeted on Sunday.\n\nMike Pence travelled quite a ways - from Nevada to Indianapolis then back west to California - to make a statement.\n\nThere's little doubt the vice-president, despite his earlier tweet about looking forward to attending an NFL game in his home state, planned to walk out early.\n\nThe matchup involved the San Francisco 49ers, whose then-quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, started the kneeling protests. Mr Pence's media pool was told the vice-president might be making a quick exit. And Mr Pence's press statement, followed by a presidential tweet of approval, appeared shortly after Mr Pence left.\n\nNext come the questions. Was that statement worth the vice-president's time? And how much did that trip cost US taxpayers?\n\nTrump's supporters are already celebrating the move, helping the vice-president burnish his standing with his boss's loyal base.\n\nSome of the NFL players were clearly irritated by what they saw as a political publicity stunt.\n\nAmericans, according to polls, are split. They're not happy about the NFL protests, but they don't like Mr Trump's eagerness to stoke the flames of controversy. Now - as tensions rise in North Korea and yet another hurricane slams into the US - Mr Pence is joining the anthem fray.\n\nMr Pence's departure came after players from the visiting San Francisco 49ers did not stand during the anthem before the game against the Indianapolis Colts.\n\n\"While everyone is entitled to their own opinions, I don't think it's too much to ask NFL players to respect the flag,\" Mr Pence 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 Vice President Pence This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 had earlier tweeted that he and his wife Karen were looking forward to the game in a tweet in which he used of photo of then both wearing Colts shirts.\n\nThat the photo appeared also to have been used in 2014 has in part helped fuel critics' claims his walk out was a publicity stunt.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Vice President Pence This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Trump has previously said that his comments condemning the NFL protests have \"nothing to do with race\".\n\nBut his criticism of the protests has appeared to galvanise players,\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRecent protests have involved players kneeling, linking arms or staying in the locker room during the Star-Spangled Banner.\n\nSan Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick stirred controversy last year when he first knelt for the anthem to highlight the treatment of black Americans after a series of police shootings.\n\nSince then, more and more public figures in the US have been \"taking a knee\" at big events and using the hashtag #TakeAKnee on social media.", "There is continuing speculation that Theresa May is coming under pressure to carry out a cabinet reshuffle - and move Boris Johnson to another job.\n\nBut the Daily Telegraph says allies of the foreign secretary have warned that he will \"just say no\" if the prime minister tries to sack him.\n\nAccording to the paper, sources say that firing him would undermine Brexit and destabilise the government.\n\nInstead, the paper says the prime minister is being urged by members of her cabinet to remove Chancellor Philip Hammond for \"making Brexit hard\" and being \"miserable\".\n\nThe Times reports one ex-senior minister saying Mr Johnson is not the problem and it is Mr Hammond who has been stirring Tory divisions on Brexit.\n\nThe former minister claims the chancellor is trying to force Mrs May into an \"endless no-change transition deal\".\n\nThe Guardian says Brexit-supporting politicians have told the paper that concerns about the chancellor are being widely discussed on the Tory backbenches.\n\nBut, it says, a cabinet ally of Mr Hammond has warned that \"realism is no sin when it comes to Brexit\".\n\nThe Daily Mail and the Sun are aghast at news that the Office for National Statistics is considering making it optional for people to declare their sex in the next census.\n\nThe move is aimed at recognising transgender people.\n\nThe Sun rejects the idea as crazy - pointing out that the information is needed to determine how many men and women make up the population.\n\nIn the Mail's view, if we don't even know such a fundamental fact, the whole purpose of the census is undermined.\n\nThe old pound coin ceases to be legal tender next Sunday - but the Daily Telegraph reports that thousands of shops and businesses will ignore the deadline.\n\nIt says a trade association representing 170,000 small shops has advised its members to continue taking the round coins if customers don't have any other change.\n\nThe Mail reports that the old coins are already being rejected by some supermarket self-service checkouts.\n\nFor its lead, the Daily Mirror says the vast majority of households in England no longer have weekly bin collections.\n\nThe paper reports that 76% of council areas have a 14-day wait - and six local authorities have even reduced collections to one in every three weeks.\n\nAccording to the paper, young families are having to resort to paying for private collections.\n\nFinally, the dining room is doomed - according to Mary Berry.\n\nThe Times reports that she told the Cheltenham Literature Festival she had stopped using her dining room - and kitchens were much more homely places in which to eat.\n\n\"We have given up our dining room finally,\" she said.\n\nThe Daily Mail says the former Great British Bake Off star told her audience that her family use the dining room at Christmas and occasionally if people come round, but it's much easier eating in the kitchen - with the sink and dishwasher nearby.", "Kim Yo-jong (circled) has often appeared alongside her brother\n\nNorth Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un has given his sister more power by promoting her to the nation's top decision-making body.\n\nKim Yo-jong, the youngest daughter of late leader Kim Jong-il, will be replacing her aunt as a member of the Workers Party's Politburo.\n\nMs Kim, 30, was referred to as a senior party official three years ago.\n\nThe Kim family has ruled North Korea since the country was established following the Second World War in 1948.\n\nMs Kim, who has frequently appeared alongside her brother in public and is thought to have been responsible for his public image, was already influential as vice-director of the propaganda and agitation department.\n\nShe is blacklisted by the US over alleged links to human rights abuses in North Korea.\n\nHer promotion was announced by Mr Kim at a party meeting on Saturday as part of a reshuffle involving dozens of other top officials.\n\nWhen Ms Kim was given a key post at the country's rare ruling party congress last year, it was widely expected that she would take up an important role in the country's core leadership.\n\nAmong other announcements made on Saturday was the decision to promote Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho - who last month referred to US President Donald Trump as \"President Evil\" at a UN meeting - to a full vote-carrying member of the Politburo.\n\nMr Ri has recently accused Mr Trump of declaring war on North Korea and said that if the president continues with his \"dangerous\" rhetoric the US will become an \"inevitable\" target for missile strikes.\n\nThe promotions come as a defiant Mr Kim once again made it clear that North Korea's nuclear weapons programme would continue despite sanctions and threats.\n\nHis comments were made hours before Mr Trump tweeted that \"only one thing will work\" in dealing with Pyongyang following years of dialogue that the US president said had failed to deliver results.", "Changing the positioning of healthier foods can change shopping habits\n\nHow do you get people to eat more healthily?\n\nYou could construct some powerful arguments about how an obesity epidemic is leading to more diseases such as Type II diabetes and coronary heart conditions.\n\nYou could put large red traffic light signs on unhealthy foods and engage in expensive public information campaigns warning that overeating products high in salt, sugar and fat can reduce life expectancy.\n\nOr you could just change where you put the salad boxes on the supermarket shelves.\n\nThe last option is an example of nudge theory at work, a theory popularised and developed by Richard Thaler, the University of Chicago economist who was today announced as this year's recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics.\n\nProf Thaler's central insight is that we are not the rational beings beloved of more traditional economic theory.\n\nGiven two options, we are likely to pick the wrong one even if that means making ourselves less well off.\n\nLack of thinking time, habit and poor decision making mean that even when presented with a factual analysis (for example on healthy eating) we are still likely to pick burger and chips.\n\nWe're hungry, we're in a hurry and burger and chips is what we always buy.\n\nNudge theory takes account of this, based as it is on the simple premise that people will often choose what is easiest over what is wisest.\n\nTests have shown that putting healthier foods on a higher shelf increases sales. The food is more likely to be in someone's eye line and therefore \"nudge\" that person towards the purchase - whether they had any idea about the obesity argument or not.\n\nSuch theories, which sit in a big bucket of academic study called \"behavioural economics\", are what Prof Thaler is famous for.\n\nSo famous that the government now has its own Behavioural Insights Team, otherwise known as the \"nudge unit\".\n\nIt helps formulate policies, for example on pensions, to try and make us behave \"more rationally\" and push us towards better outcomes.\n\nShoppers will spend more on a credit or debit card in a food shop compared with cash\n\nOne of its projects revealed that charitable giving via your pay packet - called payroll giving - increased dramatically if people were told who else in their peer group (maybe Facebook friends) were also giving via that method.\n\nAttaching a picture of \"mates giving money\" also improved the level of charitable donations. We tend to like doing what our friends like doing - called the peer group norm.\n\nProf Thaler also gave us the concept of \"mental accounting\" - that we will tend to divide our expenditure into separate blocks even though they come from the same source.\n\nFor example, we will spend more on a credit or debit card in a food shop compared with cash even though all the money ultimately comes from our earnings.\n\nThen there is his work on the \"planner-doer\" syndrome - that we lack self-control, will act in our own short-term self-interest and need extra incentives to plan long term than simply being told that, rationally, it is good idea.\n\nHow many times do we let that gym membership lapse, despite our best intentions?\n\nHaving just received news of the award, Prof Thaler told me that his job was to \"add human beings\" to economic theory.\n\nAnd today he has been rewarded, both via the recognition of the Nobel Prize and by the not inconsiderable sum of £845,000 in prize money.\n\nAsked how he would spend the money Prof Thaler gave a succinct answer. \"Irrationally.\"", "Daryll Rowe met his partners on the gay dating app Grindr, the jury was told\n\nA man who says he was deliberately infected with HIV by a Brighton hairdresser felt \"pressured\" into having sex, a court has been told.\n\nHairdresser Daryll Rowe is accused of telling partners he was virus-free and then insisting on unprotected sex.\n\nIn a video statement to Lewes Crown Court, the man said he felt he was starting a relationship with Mr Rowe.\n\nHe said he later received a text from Mr Rowe saying: \"Maybe you have the fever... I have HIV LOL.\"\n\nMr Rowe, from Brighton, denies infecting four men with the virus.\n\nHe also denies attempting to infect a further six men in the Brighton area between October 2015 and December 2016.\n\nIn his taped police interview, the complainant said: \"He asked for sex and I gave him oral sex. He asked for more and I said no and he started to get angry.\n\n\"I felt like we had to do it. So we did.\"\n\nThe two men had unprotected sex in a car but stopped when a cyclist rode past.\n\nMr Rowe then wanted them to continue but the alleged victim said he did not.\n\nWhen the complainant drove him home, Mr Rowe refused to get out of the car and tried to bully him into having sex behind some bins, the court heard.\n\n\"It felt like an hour with him just going on and on. I felt very vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nA second complainant, an American man, also said Mr Rowe aggressively demanded unprotected sex but he insisted on a condom.\n\nHe said Mr Rowe's messages became aggressive, so he blocked the number.\n\nHe said Mr Rowe called him on a withheld number and said: \"I ripped the condom, you're so stupid you don't even know. You may have it. Burn.\"\n\nA few months later the American was diagnosed as HIV positive.\n\nThe four men Mr Rowe is accused of infecting with HIV all had very similar strains to the one he was infected with, making it highly likely he was the source of the virus, the court heard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police said the bike's rider failed to stop and left the scene \"at speed\"\n\nA boy has died after he was shot in the head while riding pillion on a motorbike, police have said.\n\nJames Meadows, 17, came off the motorcycle after being shot at Lyme Cross Road, Huyton, at about 21:40 BST on Sunday.\n\nMerseyside Police said the bike's rider had failed to stop and had left the scene \"at speed\".\n\nHe died in hospital on Monday evening. A murder investigation has been launched by Merseyside Police.\n\nA police spokesman said the victim's family had been informed and a post-mortem examination will be carried out.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man who planned to bomb a railway line with a device made from fairy lights and a pressure cooker has been jailed for life.\n\nZahid Hussain, 29, from Birmingham, filled the appliance with 1.6kg of shrapnel and made \"improvised igniters\" from the festive decorations.\n\nHussain became radicalised reading books and websites in his bedroom.\n\nHe was convicted of preparing for an act of terrorism in May and sentenced at Winchester Crown Court on Monday.\n\nHussain was spotted climbing down a storm drain near the West Coast Main Line\n\nHis trial was told he wrongly believed his non-viable pressure cooker \"bomb\" was capable of causing devastation.\n\nIn the days running up to his arrest, in August 2015, Hussain had made repeated visits to a section of the West Coast Main Line, which the prosecution said was to research a possible attack.\n\nFollowing his arrest books on guerrilla warfare were also discovered, including one which talked of mounting attacks on railways.\n\nHis computer showed he had an interest in so-called Islamic State and events in Syria.\n\nSentencing \"dangerous\" Hussain, Mr Justice Sweeney said that had his device been viable, it would have been capable of causing a \"significant explosion\".\n\nThe judge concluded that on the evidence and reports of several expert psychiatric reports, Hussain had - during the time of the offence - and still did, suffer with paranoid schizophrenia.\n\nThe judge said a life sentence was \"appropriate\" in view of \"the level of the danger that you pose, and the impossibility of predicting when it will come to an end\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Rochdale MP Cyril Smith was a governor at Knowl View\n\nMI5 was made aware prosecutors lied to the press over the existence of a Cyril Smith child abuse file, an inquiry heard.\n\nDetectives had said the \"sordid\" claims about the late MP's alleged abuse of young boys in 1970 \"stood up\".\n\nNo charges were brought, but in 1979 the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) lied to the press over the case.\n\nThe national inquiry is examining how Smith was allegedly able to target boys in Rochdale institutions.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) heard how the investigation into Smith had \"illuminated\" wider abuse suffered by the boys.\n\nIn 1988, when Smith was made a knight, then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had probably been informed of his chequered past, it was told.\n\nThe hearings are focusing on alleged offences at Cambridge House hostel and the Knowl View residential school in Rochdale, where Smith was a governor.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kevin Griffiths was abused at a Rochdale care home as a teenager in the 1960s by Sir Cyril Smith, he alleges\n\nA police probe into the MP in 1970 - the year he first ran for national office - concluded he was hiding behind a \"veneer of respectability\" to target eight young boys at Cambridge House during the 1960s.\n\nIn his opening statement, counsel to the inquiry Brian Altman QC, said Sir Norman Skelhorn - the then DPP - claimed the police inquiry was unlikely to lead to a prosecution.\n\nThis was followed nine years later, Mr Altman said, when MI5 was informed the Rochdale Alternative Press (RAP) was told by Sir Norman's successor, Thomas Hetherington, there was no record of the 1970 case.\n\nAt the time, the RAP had just published an investigation into Smith.\n\nAccording to the records, the DPP told the publication it had never received police reports of abuse by the Liberal MP.\n\nBut two MI5 documents - \"notes for file\" that were written by the security service's then legal adviser - were read out by Mr Altman.\n\nThe first, dated 24 April 1979, recorded that Mr Hetherington \"telephoned me today to say a man named David Bartlett, representing RAP in Lancashire, had telephoned about a gross indecency case involving Cyril Smith and boys at a hotel in Rochdale, which an unnamed senior police officer had asserted had been sent to the DPP in 1970.\n\n\"After consultations, the DPP's press representative had untruthfully told Bartlett that they had no record of this case. In fact, their file closely accorded with the details given by Bartlett.\"\n\nThe second note, from the same day, recorded \"the DPP telephoned me again late this morning to say that they had now had an inquiry about the 1970 investigation from the Daily Express\" which had been told \"the DPP had no record of this case.\"\n\nThe inquiry will examine claims of a cover-up over Knowl View\n\nThe inquiry had heard how a detective superintendent at Lancashire Police made an \"unsparing\" report about Smith to the force's chief constable in 1970.\n\nThe report said: \"It seems impossible to excuse his conduct over a considerable period of time whilst sheltering behind a veneer of respectability.\n\n\"He has used his unique position to indulge in a sordid series of indecent episodes with young boys towards whom he had a special responsibility.\"\n\nSmith was the subject of sex abuse claims over decades during his career but was never prosecuted and received the knighthood before his death in 2010.\n\nMr Altman said of material provided to the inquiry by MI5: \"The documents show that the Security Service's legal adviser was informed of the false representations to the press from the DPP's office.\"\n\nThe hearing was also told a draft letter from Lord Shackleton on behalf of the Political Honours Scrutiny Committee to Mrs Thatcher had directly referred to the police investigation and coverage in RAP and Private Eye.\n\nWhile it is not clear whether the prime minister received this letter, another letter enclosing the coverage is believed to have been sent to her private secretary in May 1988.\n\nMr Altman told the inquiry the letter demonstrated that the police investigation and the RAP article had been \"considered at the very highest level of politics\" and seemingly \"did not prompt more than consideration of the DPP's decision not to prosecute\".", "Rebel Wilson won her defamation case against Bauer Media in June\n\nA magazine publisher will appeal against a A$4.5m (£2.7m; $3.6m) defamation payout awarded to Hollywood actress Rebel Wilson.\n\nWilson was awarded the damages by an Australian court last month after arguing that she had been wrongly portrayed as a liar in several articles.\n\nThe sum was a record for a defamation case in Australia.\n\nOn Monday, publisher Bauer Media said it would lodge an appeal.\n\n\"It's important for us to revisit this unprecedented decision on the quantum of damages, which also has broad implications for the media industry,\" a lawyer for the group, Adrian Goss, said in a statement.\n\nBauer Media argued during the case that the articles were not defamatory, but the appeal announced on Monday contests only the payout's size.\n\nIn June, a jury ruled the eight articles had harmed the Australian actress's career in Hollywood, where she has appeared in films such as Bridesmaids and Pitch Perfect.\n\nWilson sought A$7m during the trial but had offered to settle for A$200,000 before taking the case to court.\n\nIn ordering the payout in September, Justice John Dixon said the defamation case had been \"unprecedented in this country\" because of its international reach.\n\n\"Ms Wilson's reputation as an actress of integrity was wrongly damaged in a manner that affected her marketability in a huge worldwide audience,\" he said.", "The universities watchdog has announced a clampdown on \"essay mills\" which help students cheat to gain their degrees.\n\nAn investigation last year by the Quality Assurance Agency found hundreds of companies were producing work for students to pass off as their own.\n\nThe companies charge from as little as £15 to almost £7,000 for a PhD dissertation, the QAA found.\n\nUniversities minister Jo Johnson says new guidelines will help prevent \"unacceptable and pernicious\" cheating.\n\nHe asked the QAA to produce the guidelines, which urge universities to\n\nMr Johnson said this form of cheating \"not only undermines standards in our world-class universities, but devalues the hard-earned qualifications of those who don't cheat and can even, when it leads to graduates practising with inadequate professional skills, endanger the lives of others\".\n\nAnd QAA chief executive Douglas Blackstock said it was important that students were not \"duped by these unscrupulous essay companies\".\n\n\"Paying someone else to write essays is wrong and could damage their career,\" he said.\n\nLast year there were posters advertising essay writing services at London Underground stations near universities, and another company was distributing flyers to students on the Queen Mary University of London campus.\n\nThe National Union of Students is launching its own campaign against essay cheats.\n\nAmatey Doku, NUS vice-president for higher education, said some students were turning to essay mills because the pressure to get the highest grades when they faced debts of £50,000 was often \"overwhelming\".\n\nHe said some were having to spend so much time earning money to pay for their studies that time for academic work was squeezed.\n\n\"Many websites play on the vulnerabilities and anxieties of students, particularly homing in on students' fears that their academic English and their referencing may not be good enough.\n\n\"Making money by exploiting these anxieties is disgusting.\"\n\nUniversities UK, which represents vice-chancellors, helped produce the guidance and welcomed its publication.\n\nA spokesman said universities were increasingly engaging with students \"from day one\" to underline the risks of cheating and to support struggling students.\n\n\"Universities have severe penalties for students found to be submitting work that is not their own,\" he said.\n\n\"Such academic misconduct is a breach of an institution's disciplinary regulations and can result in students, in serious cases, being expelled from the university.\"\n• None The man who helps students to cheat\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The gang attacked Mappin & Webb in Regent Street armed with a machete and a hammer\n\nSix robbers fled on a single moped after a smash-and-grab raid at a high-end jewellers in central London.\n\nThe gang raided Mappin & Webb in Regent Street at about 19.20 BST, armed with a machete and a hammer, police said.\n\nThey arrived on three scooters but abandoned one at the scene and crashed another in nearby Oxford Street.\n\n\"All six\" fled on the remaining moped, police said. An eyewitness told the BBC he saw three men on a single moped with a fourth \"running alongside\".\n\nTwo of the robbers crashed their moped on Oxford Street during their escape\n\n\"Four men, one with a sledgehammer sticking out of his bag, were swerving around traffic heading towards Soho on two mopeds,\" the eyewitness said.\n\nHe added: \"One of the mopeds must have clipped another vehicle as it crashed and came sliding towards the pavement.\n\n\"The two robbers then scrambled to get on the remaining moped, but one man ended up running along side with the public giving chase.\"\n\nThe gang made off with a \"high-value\" haul, police said\n\nThe robbers made off with a \"high-value\" haul after smashing cabinets at the store. No arrests have been made, police said.\n\nA Met Police spokesman said following the Oxford Street crash \"the suspects who were on that moped were then picked up before all six fled on a single remaining moped\".\n\nMappin & Webb was founded in 1775 and customers have included Queen of France Marie Antoinette, Grace Kelly and Winston Churchill.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "You can trace the extent of our reliance on air travel to many inventions. The jet engine, perhaps, or the aeroplane itself.\n\nBut sometimes inventions need other inventions to unlock their full potential.\n\nFor the aviation industry, that story starts with the invention of the death ray, or at least an attempt to design a death ray, back in 1935.\n\nOfficials in the British Air Ministry were worried about falling behind Nazi Germany in the technological arms race.\n\nThe death ray idea intrigued them: they had been offering a £1,000 prize for anyone who could zap a sheep at a hundred paces. So far, nobody had claimed it.\n\nBut should they fund more active research? Was a death ray even possible?\n\nHarry Grindell Matthews claimed to have invented a death ray in 1923, but couldn't persuade the British government to buy it\n\nUnofficially, they sounded out Robert Watson Watt, of the Radio Research Station.\n\nAnd he posed an abstract maths question to his colleague Skip Wilkins.\n\n\"Suppose, just suppose,\" said Watson Watt to Wilkins, \"that you had eight pints of water, 1km [3,000ft] above the ground.\n\n\"And suppose that water was at 98F [37C], and you wanted to heat it to 105F.\n\n\"How much radio frequency power would you require, from a distance of 5km?\"\n\nHe knew that eight pints was the amount of blood in an adult human, 98F was normal body temperature and 105F was warm enough to kill you, or at least make you pass out, which - if you're behind the controls of an aeroplane - amounts to much the same thing.\n\nSo Wilkins and Watson Watt understood each other, and they quickly agreed the death ray was hopeless: it would take too much power.\n\nBut they also saw an opportunity.\n\nClearly, the ministry had some cash to spend on research. Perhaps Watson Watt and Wilkins could propose some alternative way for them to spend it?\n\nWilkins pondered. It might be possible, he suggested, to transmit radio waves and detect - from the echoes - the location of oncoming aircraft long before they could be seen.\n\nWatson Watt dashed off a memo to the Air Ministry's newly formed Committee for the Scientific Survey of Air Defence. Would they be interested in pursuing such an idea? They would indeed.\n\nWhat Skip Wilkins was describing became known as radar.\n\n50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations that helped create the economic world.\n\nAs Robert Buderi describes in his book The Invention That Changed the World, the Germans, the Japanese and the Americans all independently started work on it too.\n\nBut by 1940, it was the British who had made a spectacular breakthrough: the resonant cavity magnetron, a radar transmitter far more powerful than its predecessors.\n\nPounded by Nazi bombers, Britain's factories would struggle to put the device into production. But America's factories could.\n\nFor months, British leaders plotted to use the magnetron as a bargaining chip for American secrets in other fields.\n\nPrime Minister Winston Churchill decided Britain should share its radar research with the US\n\nThen Winston Churchill took power, and decided that desperate times called for desperate measures.\n\nBritain would simply tell the Americans what they had, and ask for help.\n\nSo in August 1940, a Welsh physicist named Eddie Bowen endured a nerve-wracking journey with a black metal chest containing a dozen prototype magnetrons.\n\nFirst, he took a black cab across London: the cabbie refused to let the clunky metal chest inside, so Bowen had to hope it wouldn't fall off the roof rack.\n\nThen, he took a long train ride to Liverpool, sharing a compartment with a mysterious, sharply dressed, military-looking man who spent the entire journey ignoring the young scientist and silently reading a newspaper.\n\nThen, he took a ship across the Atlantic. What if it were hit by a German U-boat? The Nazis couldn't be allowed to recover the magnetrons; two holes were drilled in the crate to make sure it would sink if the boat did. But the boat didn't.\n\nMIT's Radiation Laboratory went on to spawn 10 Nobel laureates\n\nThe magnetron stunned the Americans. Their research was years off the pace.\n\nPresident Roosevelt approved funds for a new laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - uniquely, for the American War effort, administered not by the military but a civilian agency.\n\nIndustry got involved: the very best American academics were headhunted to join Bowen and his British colleagues.\n\nBy any measure, MIT's Radiation Laboratory - known as the Rad Lab - was a resounding success. It spawned 10 Nobel laureates. The radar it developed, detecting planes and submarines, helped to win the War.\n\nRadar played a crucial role in helping Britain and her allies win World War Two\n\nBut urgency in times of war can quickly be lost in times of peace.\n\nIt seems obvious that civilian aviation would need radar too, given how quickly it was expanding.\n\nIn 1945, at the War's end, US domestic airlines carried seven million passengers. By 1955, this figure had risen to 38 million.\n\nAnd the busier the skies, the more useful radar would be at preventing collisions.\n\nBut rollout was slow and patchy. Some airports installed it; many didn't.\n\nIn most airspace, planes weren't tracked at all. Pilots submitted their flight plans in advance, which should in theory ensure that no two planes were in the same place at the same time.\n\nBut avoiding collisions ultimately came down to a four-word protocol: \"see and be seen\".\n\nOn 30 June 1956, two passenger flights departed Los Angeles Airport, three minutes apart: one was bound for Kansas City, one for Chicago. Their planned flight paths intersected above the Grand Canyon, but at different heights.\n\nThen thunderclouds developed. One plane's captain radioed to ask permission to fly above the storm. The air traffic controller cleared him to go to \"1,000 on top\" - 1,000ft above cloud cover. See and be seen.\n\nNobody knows for sure what happened: planes then had no \"black box\" flight recorders, and there were no survivors. At just before 10:31, air traffic control heard a garbled radio transmission: \"Pull up! We are going in...\"\n\nThe 1956 crash was a watershed moment in the history of airline safety\n\nFrom the pattern of the wreckage, strewn for miles across the canyon floor, the planes seem to have approached each other at a 25-degree angle, presumably through a cloud.\n\nInvestigators speculated that both pilots had been distracted by trying to find gaps in the clouds, so passengers could enjoy the scenery.\n\nAccidents happen. The question is what risks we're willing to run for economic benefits.\n\nThat question is becoming pertinent again with respect to crowded skies: many people have high hopes for unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones.\n\nThey're already being used for everything from film-making to crop-spraying.\n\nCompanies such as Amazon expect the skies of our cities soon to be buzzing with grocery deliveries.\n\nThere have been occasions of near misses between drones and other aircraft\n\nCivil aviation authorities are grappling with what to approve. Drones have \"sense-and-avoid\" technology, and it's pretty good, but is it good enough?\n\nThe crash over the Grand Canyon certainly concentrated minds. If technology existed to prevent things like this, shouldn't we make more effort to use it?\n\nWithin two years, what's now known as the Federal Aviation Administration was born in the United States.\n\nAnd American skies today are about 20 times busier still. The world's biggest airports now see planes taking off and landing at an average of nearly twice a minute.\n\nCollisions are absurdly rare, no matter now cloudy the conditions.\n\nThat's thanks to many things, but it's largely thanks to radar.", "Harvey Weinstein, the Oscar-winning film producer accused of sexually harassing female employees, has been fired by the board of his company.\n\nOne of the biggest producers in Hollywood, Mr Weinstein was behind films including Shakespeare in Love, The King's Speech and Pulp Fiction.\n\nThe Weinstein Company directors said that \"in light of new information about misconduct\" his employment had been terminated \"effective immediately\".\n\nHis sudden departure comes after the New York Times published a report last week about sexual harassment claims dating back nearly three decades.\n\nThe 65-year-old apologised and said he planned to take a leave of absence.\n\n\"The way I've behaved with colleagues in the past has caused a lot of pain, and I sincerely apologise for it,\" Mr Weinstein said.\n\nHowever, he later disputed the report, which said he had reached at least eight settlements with women, and vowed to take legal action.\n\nMr Weinstein is one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, having co-founded the Miramax and Weinstein Company production firms.\n\nThe allegations against him, according to the New York Times report, emerged mainly from young women hoping to break into the film industry and included celebrities Ashley Judd and Rose McGowan.\n\nAmong the accusations levelled against the film producer are that he forced women to massage him and watch him naked. In return for sexual favours, he promised to help advance their careers, they said.\n\nPresident Donald Trump said on Saturday he was \"not at all surprised\" by the revelations about Mr Weinstein, a major backer of Democratic candidates.\n\nMany Democratic lawmakers have since vowed to give their contributions from Mr Weinstein to charity. Mr Trump faced his own sex scandal last year when video emerged of him using lewd language to describe groping women.\n\nWeinstein has two children with wife Georgina Chapman\n\nMr Weinstein, who is married to English fashion designer Georgina Chapman, formed the Miramax production house in the late 1970s with his brother and then sold it to Disney.\n\nThe pair went on to create The Weinstein Company and produce such hits as Django Unchained, Lion and The Butler.\n\nThe Weinstein Company statement was issued on Sunday by the firm's all-male board, Bob Weinstein, Lance Maerov, Richard Koenigsberg and Tarak Ben Ammar.\n\nHis departure leaves control of the company in the hands of his brother, Bob Weinstein, and chief operating officer David Glasser.\n\nActress Rose McGowan called on the Weinstein board to resign immediately over the allegations.\n\n\"Men in Hollywood need to change ASAP,\" she told The Hollywood Reporter. \"Hollywood's power is dying because society has changed and grown, and yet Hollywood male behaviour has not.\"\n\nFeminist author Naomi Wolf said his sacking was \"a landmark in penalties for this kind of eruption of testimony\" against a powerful man.\n\nLast week Mr Weinstein's lawyer, Lisa Bloom, said that he denied many of the allegations made against him as \"patently false\".\n\n\"He has acknowledged mistakes he has made,\" said Ms Bloom. \"He is reading books and going to therapy. He is an old dinosaur learning new ways.\"\n\nBut on Saturday, Ms Bloom said in a tweet that she was no longer advising Mr Weinstein.\n\n\"I have resigned as an advisor to Harvey Weinstein,\" the tweet said. \"My understanding is that Mr Weinstein and his board are moving to an agreement.\"", "The government has unveiled draft legislation designed to lower the cost of energy bills.\n\nThe Draft Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariffs Cap) Bill will give energy regulator Ofgem the power to cap standard variable tariffs.\n\nAbout 12 million households are on some form of uncapped default tariff, which can cost hundreds of pounds a year more than the cheapest deals.\n\nHowever, the price cap is unlikely to take effect before winter.\n\nMaking a statement in the Commons, Business Secretary Greg Clark said the law would send a \"clear message to suppliers they must act to put an end to loyal consumers being treated so unfairly\".\n\nFind out more about events in the Commons and Lords on Today in Parliament on Radio 4. You can listen to the programme on on iPlayer here.", "Rachel's daughter was raped by a boy at her school. He was arrested, bailed, and put back in his normal lessons, alongside his victim, the following day.\n\n\"Somebody who's been raped is already in a terrible place, but to be expected to be back in the same space as the rapist is just terrible,\" she told the Victoria Derbyshire programme. \"It's re-traumatising - it's just a terrible thing to do to a rape victim.\"\n\nThe government says it is writing interim guidelines for schools to prevent schoolchildren being forced to share classes with pupils who have raped or sexually assaulted them, but campaigners say it is taking too long.\n\nRachel - not her real name - said her daughter's anonymity was compromised at an early stage - which made life especially difficult.\n\n\"Being in the same classroom as the person that's raped you is difficult enough, but when people in that room know what's happened and they're watching how you cope being in the same room as the rapist - that's just awful,\" she explained.\n\n\"It's a whole extra layer of stress, knowing that these people are watching you - it's just vile. It's voyeurism gone mad.\"\n\nRachel said the school seemed to have no policy in place for the situation and dealt with it \"extremely badly\". She had to instigate a meeting and, despite her efforts, she says, they did not prioritise her daughter's needs.\n\n\"They were very keen to protect his right to an education, but seemed to give no consideration at all to her rights as a rape victim and somehow or other they just didn't understand what it would do to a rape victim to be expected to be in the same space as the rapist,\" she said.\n\nHer daughter started to absent herself from lessons where she might see him, before gradually withdrawing herself from school entirely.\n\nThe issue was highlighted in a report by the Commons Women and Equalities Committee in 2016, which exposed the widespread incidence of sexual violence and harassment in England's schools.\n\nAccording to BBC research, 5,500 sexual offences were reported to the police as having taken place in UK schools over a three-year period to July 2015, including 600 rapes.\n\nLast month, lawyers who had been contacted by victims, wrote to Education Secretary Justine Greening, accusing her of being in breach of her statutory duty under section 149 of the Equality Act 2010 which requires her to have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination against girls in school and advance equality of opportunity.\n\nHer department has replied saying it is drafting interim guidance.\n\nRachel says the current guidance on the Department for Education website includes 11 pages of notes of what to do if the perpetrator is an adult, but the paragraph on peer abuse has no detail.\n\n\"Which is why you get a patchwork approach, and it leads time and time and time again, to the victims being treated really, really badly by schools,\" she said.\n\n\"I believe strongly that it's time the government stepped up and provided as much guidance as they provide when the perpetrator is an adult, because it's just as complicated.\"\n\nRachel Krys, co-director of End Violence Against Women, agreed that it was all taking \"far too long\".\n\nShe said the extent of the problem highlighted by last year's select committee report was shocking and the government was failing to act on its obligations under human rights legislation to protect students.\n\n\"Girls continue to be failed by schools and the system,\" she said. \"The government has to tell schools what to do, you can't expect each individual head teacher and board of governors to decide, it's not easy and the government has to take responsibility.\"\n\nRachel says her daughter is recovering well but feels \"hugely\" let down.\n\n\"A terrible situation was made much worse and there are long-term consequences for her of that, both in terms of her ability to access criminal justice is in some ways compromised and in terms of her psychological wellbeing,\" she said.\n\nThe Department for Education said it was working with specialists to determine how the issues raised in the committee inquiry should be best reflected in guidance and it was important to get it right.\n\nMinister for Children and Families Robert Goodwill, said: \"Statutory safeguarding guidance is clear that schools should have an effective child protection policy that addresses peer-on-peer abuse. This should include procedures to minimise it along with advice on how allegations will be dealt with and how victims will be supported.\n\n\"We are considering what more can be done to assist schools and we listen to the views of stakeholders and experts when updating our safeguarding guidance.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "Reports of sexual assaults by children on other children are rising, according to police figures seen by BBC Panorama. But those reported cases are only the \"tip of the iceberg\", according to one police child abuse expert.\n\nEmily - not her real name - was 15 when she was sexually assaulted by a boy in her class, unnoticed by her teacher, who was at the front of the room.\n\nBut after reporting the ordeal to the police, she says she was bullied by her classmates.\n\n\"About 10 to 15 pupils were all swearing and shouting at me, like 'you're a grass'… I got some comments like 'he should have raped you'. I was tagged in photos. I was called a liar.\"\n\nShe says her head teacher was unsympathetic. \"He'd say 'well, maybe this isn't the school for you. You can leave, you know, we suggest you do and make a fresh start'.\"\n\nThe number of reported sexual offences by under-18s against other under-18s in England and Wales rose by 71% from 4,603 from 2013-14 to 7,866 from 2016-17, according to figures from a Freedom of Information request.\n\nA total of 38 out of the 43 forces in England and Wales responded.\n\nThe number of reported rapes among under-18s rose 46% from 1,521 to 2,223 over the same period, according to 32 police forces that supplied a breakdown of figures.\n\nReports of sexual offences on schools premises also increased from 386 in 2013-14 to 922 in 2016-17, according to 31 police forces - including 225 rapes on school grounds over the four years.\n\nSimon Bailey, the national police chief lead for child protection, said: \"We are dealing unequivocally with the tip of the iceberg ... we are seeing an increasing number of reports, we are seeing significant examples of harmful sexual behaviour and the lives of young people blighted and traumatically affected by sexual abuse.\"\n\nSarah Hannafin says schools need more support\n\nJames and Anna's daughter, Bella, was six when they discovered she had been sexually assaulted in the playground for six weeks by two boys.\n\n\"She burst into tears, she just dissolved in front of me,\" Anna says.\n\nAnna and James went straight to the police, but were told that as the boys were under the age of criminal responsibility they could not be charged.\n\nThe family say they had to fight to get the police to make a record of the incident.\n\nThey are now taking legal action against the local authority, as they say the school failed in its duty of care.\n\n\"We have all of these unheard victims... and they're unheard because there's no register, because there's no crime,\" Anna says.\n\nSince March 2013 a total of 1,852 children under the age of 10 were reported to police for sexual offences.\n\nThe youngest was a four-year-old accused of attacking another boy, aged five, in Northumbria.\n\nTeachers have a duty to report an alleged assault by an adult, according to the Department for Education, but there is no such obligation if a child is accused - schools are advised to follow their own child protection procedures.\n\n\"School leaders and schools want to get it right, but they're not always getting the help and support they need,\" Sarah Hannafin, policy adviser for the National Association of Headteachers, told Panorama.\n\n\"There needs to be some more clarity in terms of the specific procedures that schools must take.\"\n\nOf the sexual offences perpetrated by under-18s, 74% resulted in no further action, according to responses from 36 out of 43 police forces in England and Wales.\n\nMr Bailey said such cases are very difficult to prosecute.\n\n\"You're dealing with people who'll be reluctant; you're dealing with cases whereby there's been a relationship in the past.\n\n\"It's very much a case of the Crown Prosecution Service deciding to charge, invariably on the word of one person against another.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"Sexual assault is a crime and any allegation should be reported to the police.\n\n\"Schools should be safe places and they have a duty to protect all pupils and listen to any concerns.\"\n\nYou can see more on this story on Panorama on BBC One on Monday at 20:30 BST.", "Munaf Kapadia runs a successful \"pop up\" restaurant at his family's home in Mumbai. His mother also works as head chef.\n\nWhile watching TV one Sunday afternoon back in 2014, Munaf Kapadia had an argument with his mother that would change his life.\n\nThe then 25-year-old Google employee wanted to watch US cartoon the Simpsons, but as usual, his mother Nafisa preferred to see her favourite Indian soap opera and switched channels.\n\nHis mum had lots of skills, but in his view she spent too much time watching bad TV.\n\nDiners usually eat Bohri food from the same large platter, or \"thaal\"\n\nDetermined to get her doing something more meaningful, he struck upon an idea.\n\nNafisa had always been good at cooking \"Bohri\" food, an Indian cuisine that is much feted, but hardly served anywhere in their home city of Mumbai.\n\nAnd so he decided to email 50 friends, inviting them for lunch at the family home.\n\n\"We settled on a group of eight friends of friends, and served them my mom's food,\" recalls Mr Kapadia, now 28.\n\n\"Then we started doing it every Saturday and Sunday, opening it up to the public and charging like a restaurant. That's how The Bohri Kitchen was born.\"\n\nMembers of the public dine at the Kapadias' home every weekend\n\nTraditionally, Bohri cuisine has only been available within the Dawoodi Bohra community, a small Muslim sect that lives in parts of India and Pakistan.\n\nAs Mr Kapadia says, \"you literally had to beg Bohri friends or gatecrash Bohri weddings\" to get a spoonful of it.\n\nIt blends Gujarati, Parsi, Mughlai and Maharastrian influences, and is often enjoyed by groups of friends or families, who eat from the same large steel platter, or \"thaal\".\n\nFor his first \"pop-up\" lunch, Mr Kapadia charged guests 700 rupees (£8, $11) per head for a traditional seven-course banquet. By the time they had finished eating he knew the idea had potential.\n\nMutton Khichda - goat meat cooked with dal and rice along with various Indian spices\n\n\"I was really shocked, but they actually hugged my mom. They said, 'aunty, you have magic in your hands, this food is outstanding!'.\"\n\nHe adds: \"I saw the glint in my mom's eyes when she got that acknowledgement, which she is not used to, because we in the family take her cooking for granted.\n\n\"That's when I decided to just keep on doing this, I thought let's try to keep getting new people exposed to my mother's cooking skills.\"\n\nSo Mr Kapadia quit his marketing job at Google, and in January 2015 launched the \"The Bohri Kitchen\" as a brand.\n\nThanks to word-of-mouth publicity and some good reviews, it quickly gained a reputation among adventurous young food-lovers.\n\nMr Kapadia now charges 1,500 rupees per meal, typically offering lunches and occasional dinners at his parents' home.\n\nHe has also launched a separate takeaway and catering business, which operates through the week, and employs three members of staff from outside the family.\n\nThe firm recently broke into profit and is now looking to open outlets across India.\n\nMore The Boss features, which every week profile a different business leader from around the world:\n\nBut it hasn't all been plain sailing. For one thing, it took Mr Kapadia a while to get used to hosting strangers in his home.\n\n\"We started a 'no serial killer policy', so customers can't just book a seat, they have to ask for it,\" he says. We then do a background check by calling them up and asking a few questions to make sure they're legitimate.\"\n\nThere have been other challenges too, including convincing his parents that he wasn't crazy for leaving his job at Google, and learning how to hire good staff.\n\n\"My biggest challenge now is ensuring that our takeaway produces the same quality of food that my mother makes at home.\"\n\nBohri Kitchen samosas are stuffed with smoked lamb mince, coriander, onion and lemon\n\nRavinder Yadav, of management consultancy Technopak Advisors, says that many Indian food businesses struggle to build a loyal customer base.\n\n\"These days, consumers in India have plenty of options when it comes to eating out. So making sure you know who your consumer is, and creating something that they will keep coming back to, is vital, even for the biggest brands.\"\n\nStill, he says in some respects things are getting easier.\n\n\"Finding investment is less of a challenge in India nowadays. And the government is making it easier to do business, so it's simpler to get the licenses you need and to meet other regulations.''\n\nThe dessert Doodhi Halwa is made by slow-cooking calabashes in milk, with dry fruits and sugar\n\nIndia's food services industry is also expanding fast. In the past decade, consumer spending power has grown, along with people's appetite for eating out and ordering takeaways.\n\nMr Kapadia's mother, the hidden culinary talent behind The Bohri Kitchen, says that the business has brought out a different side of her personality.\n\n\"I have never looked at this from a business angle, it's just something that I love doing,\" she says.\n\n\"And when guests say my food reminds them of home, it's amazing. I get a lot of satisfaction and happiness.\"\n\nBut has her son managed to wean her off her TV habit? Not likely, she says with a giggle.\n\n\"I still watch all my favourite soaps while cooking for our guests.\"\n\nYou can hear an interview with Munaf Kapadia on The Big Debate on BBC Asian Network, Monday 9 October.", "Only 17 years old and he is already a recognised scientist. Muhammad Shaheer Niazi's research on electric honeycomb was recently published in the Royal Society Open Science journal.\n\nPhysicists have known the phenomenon of electric honeycomb for decades. It occurs when a layer of oil is placed in an electric field between a pointy electrode and a flat one - and the instability caused by the build-up of ions applies pressure to the surface of the oil - creating a beautiful pattern that looks like a honeycomb, or a stained glass window.\n\nThe high school student from Pakistan's city of Lahore managed to photograph the movement of ions that forms the honeycomb besides recording the heat found on the surface of oil. No one has done this before.\n\nElectric honeycomb phenomenon was the problem given to him at the International Young Physicists' Tournament held in Russia last year. Mr Niazi, and four other students, made up the first-ever team to represent Pakistan at the tournament. Returning from Russia, Mr Niazi decided to get his research published.\n\nIt took him another year of work to come up with \"novel ideas\" before his paper was finally accepted for publication. He received the letter of acceptance just days ahead of his 17th birthday last month.\n\n\"Your research is like your child, and you feel out of this world when it is accepted for publication,\" Mr Niazi tells the BBC in an interview at his residence in Lahore's posh Sukh Chayn sector.\n\nWith the slim stature of a teenage boy with curly hair and spectacles sitting firmly on his nose, the young scientist cuts a smart figure.\n\nAnticipating the first question, he settles down on a couch next to a desk laden with boxes full of wires, motherboards and incomplete circuits. This is where he conducts his experiments.\n\nHow is an electric honeycomb formed? Mr Niazi elaborates: \"Electric honeycomb perfectly demonstrates how everything in this universe is seeking equilibrium. Its hexagonal shape is the most stable structure.\"\n\nIn this case, he says, two electrodes are used; a pointy needle on top of a flat surface with a thin layer of oil on it. High voltage from the needle makes ions bombard the surface of the oil, on their way to meet the ground electrode.\n\n\"It is just like lightning striking the surface of earth,\" he says. But oil is a non-conductor. The ions start accumulating on the surface of the oil. As the pressure increases, they create a depression and manage to meet the ground electrode.\n\nIn the process the surface of the oil loses its shape, something it does not want. So within no time, honeycomb-like hexagonal structures appear on the surface of the oil.\n\n\"The amount of energy that goes in equals the energy that comes out and thus the flow of electricity is efficient. This way equilibrium is restored,\" he sums up. Mr Niazi replicated the phenomenon at last year's tournament.\n\nTo prove his findings, he photographed the ion wind demonstrating that the ions were moving. He also recorded the heat produced through their movement, a finding that needs further study.\n\nHe says he had been using the shadowgraphy technique just for fun before he decided to use it in his research. \"I thought if I see my research from that perspective, I might discover something new. That's how I managed to photograph the shadow of ion wind and it was added as novelty in my paper.\"\n\nMr Niazi says that using this technique an oil droplet can be manipulated without touching it. Engineers can use the visualisation of this phenomenon to develop technologies that can be used in biomedicine and in printing.\n\nIn the country he comes from, not many his age would dare venture into avenues of learning other than conventional schooling. For Shaheer Niazi, the traditional classroom learning became boring at times. It was then that he turned to other avenues such as books he received from his father and grandfather.\n\nAt a very young age he was also introduced to the concept of self-learning. He was only 11 when he first started taking online courses. He has taken 25 courses in different subjects from platforms like Coursera. For toys, he owns a telescope and tools for his scientific experiments.\n\n\"When I was a child I used to watch documentaries on science with my grandfather and read books on mathematics and other science subjects,\" says Mr Niazi.\n\nHe has an inquisitive nature. His mind is always abuzz with questions and then theories to explain them. Yet, he too seeks equilibrium. Mr Niazi has a deep interest in music and art. He creates excellent pencil sketches and is a self-taught pianist.\n\nHe was not expecting the media attention he is now getting. But he is glad he did something that made his country proud. He hopes to get into a reputable educational institution where he can further his research in physics.\n\nMr Niazi aims big - \"I would love to win another Nobel Prize for Pakistan\" - and he thinks bigger - \"Isaac Newton was 17 when his first paper was published; I was 16 when I officially received my acceptance letter.\"", "Microsoft said creating Windows 10 Mobile phones was not a \"focus\" for the company\n\nMicrosoft appears to have abandoned its smartphone operating system ambitions.\n\nThe company's Windows 10 chief has tweeted that developing new features and hardware for the Mobile version of the OS was no longer a \"focus\".\n\nJoe Belfiore added that he had also switched to Android himself.\n\nWindows 10 Mobile tried to attract users by letting them run the same \"universal apps\" on both their PCs and handsets, but the concept failed to catch on.\n\nThe OS accounted for just 0.03% of the global market - based on smartphone shipments - between April and June, according to research company IDC.\n\nThe market intelligence provider said the news had been a long time coming.\n\n\"There wasn't a wide range of devices running Windows 10 Mobile, so it wasn't attractive to retailers or operators,\" said IDC's Francisco Jeronimo.\n\n\"And from a consumer perspective, the operating system didn't provide as good an experience as Android or iOS.\"\n\nMr Belfiore headed up Microsoft's Windows Phone platform before it moved to Windows 10 Mobile\n\nMr Belfiore began a series of tweets on Sunday by discussing the recent launch of a test version of Microsoft's Edge web browser for Android and iOS - the latest in a series of releases of its core software for rival mobile platforms.\n\nHe then went on to respond to questions about whether there was any point sticking with Windows 10 Mobile.\n\nHe said that while Microsoft would support the \"many companies\" that had adopted the platform, he had switched to Android for the diversity of its apps and hardware.\n\n\"Of course we'll continue to support the platform... bug fixes, security updates, et cetera,\" he said.\n\n\"But building new features or hardware is not the focus.\"\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 Belfiore posted Microsoft had tried \"very hard\" to incentivise other companies to release universal apps - even writing their software for them in some cases - but the number of users had been too low for most to bother.\n\nThe announcement comes a week after HP had said it no longer planned to release further Windows 10 Mobile handsets, and a fortnight after Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates disclosed that he had already made the switch to Android.\n\nHowever, some manufacturers - including the UK's Wileyfox and Germany's TrekStor - had unveiled new models powered by Windows 10 Mobile as recently as last month.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Ben Wood This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Most Microsoft applications are now available and supported on other mobile operating systems,\" said Mr Jeronimo.\n\n\"After Satya Nadella took over [as chief executive], that clearly became the strategy - and after that happened what incentive was there to buy a Windows-powered phone?\"\n\nHowever, Microsoft may not have given up on powering smartphones altogether.\n\nEarlier this year, Windows Central reported the company was working on a new version of Windows 10 - codenamed Andromeda - that would run on all types of computer and make it possible for third-party apps to adapt without having to code a special \"universal\" version.\n\nIt said the OS was due for release next year, but suggested the code would not be offered as an upgrade to existing Windows 10 Mobile devices.\n\nA spokeswoman for Microsoft was unable to provide further comment.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The People's Liberation Army has seen profound changes\n\nOf the many noteworthy developments that have characterised Chinese President Xi Jinping's first five-year term, none stands out as much as military reform, and this reveals a great deal about the coming political trajectory in China, writes political analyst Cheng Li.\n\nXi Jinping did not shy from the bold and broad undertaking of military reform and it has resulted in profound changes to the People's Liberation Army (PLA).\n\nEven beyond the monumental purges of top generals, whose shameless corruption extended to practices like selling military titles, Mr Xi has worked with single-minded purpose to organise and modernise China's military.\n\nHis efforts have centred on marginalising the four so-called \"general departments\" of the PLA that functioned as a virtual arm of government and had undermined the authority of the civilian-led Central Military Commission (CMC).\n\nHe also transformed China's military operations from a Russian-style, army-centric system toward what analysts call a \"Western-style joint command\"; and swiftly promoted \"young guards\" to top positions in the officer corps.\n\nIn addition to being president, Mr Xi is also the commander in chief of China's military\n\nIt will take years to fully assess the impact of these reforms. But further changes appear to be in the works.\n\nJudging from the list of military and police delegates to the forthcoming congress where China's future leaders are to be unveiled, the largest turnover of senior officers in the history of the People's Republic of China (PRC) is set to occur.\n\nAn extraordinary 90% of the 300 military delegates will be first-time attendees.\n\nAt most, only 17% (seven of 41) of the military representatives with full membership on the 18th Central Committee will retain their seats.\n\nThis would constitute the largest-ever turnover of military elite in the history of the PRC.\n\nThe new top military leadership will most likely consist of Mr Xi's long-time friends Gen Zhang Youxia, Gen Li Zuocheng, and Adm Miao Hua, along with the newly promoted commanders of the PLA army, navy, air force, and strategic support force.\n\nIn addition to their perceived loyalty to Xi Jinping, these generals are known for their extended military service, combat experience, and professional knowledge of modern warfare.\n\nGen Li Zuocheng (centre) is known to be a long-time friend of President Xi Jinping\n\nThe degree of military reshuffling also offers a clue to broader leadership changes, particularly the likelihood of Mr Xi further consolidating power.\n\nWith firm control over the military, Mr Xi has set the stage for a massive turnover in the party leadership at the 19th Party Congress.\n\nOf the 376 members of the 18th Central Committee, 38 (about 10%) have already been purged on corruption charges and other transgressions.\n\nThose purged comprise one Politburo member (former Chongqing party secretary Sun Zhengcai), 19 full members, and 18 alternate members.\n\nIn addition, about 200 members (53% of the committee) have either retired or will soon retire and, so will not be considered for the 19th Central Committee.\n\nSo the turnover rate between the 18th and 19th Central Committees could be as high as 70%, making it the largest turnover since the 9th Party Congress in 1969 at the peak of the Cultural Revolution.\n\nFactional politics certainly help explain the fall of some prominent officials.\n\nBut Mr Xi can also make a strong case that the overall objective of his anti-corruption campaign has been to restore faith in a ruling party that had lost trust among the Chinese public.\n\nNevertheless, Mr Xi and his strongest political ally, the anti-corruption tsar Wang Qishan, seem to understand that the unprecedentedly widespread campaign has earned them many political enemies.\n\nWang Qishan is one of Mr Xi's closest allies\n\nWhat began with the military ends with the civilian administration.\n\nThe biggest risk for Mr Xi and Mr Wang is that, having purged a large crop of corrupt officials, they have become wary of spending political capital to accelerate institutional reforms.\n\nThis may explain why they have striven to win public support and demonstrate that the leadership agenda aligns with the country's best interests.\n\nJust as military reform aimed to assert civilian control over the military and spur its modernisation through initiatives like structural transformation and a strategic overhaul, the upcoming congress will likely pursue some structural changes, which can move toward improving governance.\n\nBut what does this mean for the make-up of the all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee?\n\nMr Xi's confidants in the current Politburo - director of the general office of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee Li Zhanshu, and director of the central organisation department Zhao Leji - will most likely enter it.\n\nProtégés from his years in Zhejiang province who were known for their strong support for market reform, namely Chongqing party secretary Chen Min'er, Jiangsu party secretary Li Qiang, and Beijing party secretary Cai Qi, are positioned to obtain seats in the new Politburo - Mr Chen and Li Qiang may even be contenders for the Standing Committee.\n\nShanghai party secretary Han Zheng and director of the office of the central economic leading group Liu He, two seasoned economic technocrats, are expected to emerge as two of the top economic decision-makers in the national leadership after the congress.\n\nWhile strong ties to Mr Xi help explain their rapid political career advancement in recent years, a number of civilian leaders, except for Cai Qi, already serve on the Central Committee as full or alternate members.\n\nInstitutional norms and regulations, including age requirements, continue to apply to these leaders' expected promotion path.\n\nHu Chunhua is seen as a possible pick for the Standing Committee\n\nA majority of the national leaders after the 19th Party Congress will have been born in the 1950s, just as a majority of the provincial and ministerial leaders will have been born in the 1960s.\n\nIt is almost certain that the new Politburo, including the Standing Committee, will consist of a few leaders who are protégés of Mr Xi's predecessors.\n\nJiang Zemin's confidant Xu Qiliang, who also has a good relationship with Mr Xi, will likely remain as both a Politburo member and vice chairman of the CMC after the 19th Party Congress.\n\nHu Chunhua, a sixth-generation front-runner and protégé of Hu Jintao, is also a strong contender for the Politburo Standing Committee.\n\nSo the biggest question will be whether or not Xi Jinping unites the party establishment by forming a team of rivals and deepening China's political institutionalisation.\n\nAbiding by established rules and norms and respecting the peaceful transition of power all carry profound implications for the future direction of the country.\n\nMore than the success or failure of any single campaign or initiative, observers in China and abroad are eager to see how Xi Jinping and his colleagues address this crucial issue in just a few short weeks.\n\nCheng Li is Director of and Senior Fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at The Brookings Institution. His latest books include Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era: Reassessing Collective Leadership (2016) and The Power of Ideas: The Rising Influence of Thinkers and Think Tanks in China (2017).", "Six men have been charged as part of a police operation in France and south east England\n\nA group of men have appeared in court on charges of importing firearms and Class A drugs into the UK.\n\nEleven firearms, 74lb (34kg) of cocaine and 16lb (7kg) of heroin were seized near Calais on Friday 6 October.\n\nFrench police arrested four men, including a serving Border Force officer from Dover. The Met Police arrested eight men in Kent and London and charged six.\n\nAccused of conspiracy to import firearms and Class A drugs are:\n\nThey have all been remanded in custody, with no applications for bail.\n\nThe six will appear at Woolwich Crown Court on 6 November.\n\nThe six men arriving at Westminster Magistrates' Court\n\nThe two other men arrested in the UK were released as the investigation continues.\n\nSearches by NCA officers have taken place in the Dover and Folkestone areas.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Streep and Weinstein have worked together on such films as The Iron Lady\n\nMeryl Streep and other Hollywood stars have spoken out against producer Harvey Weinstein in the wake of the sexual harassment claims that saw him being fired by his own company.\n\nStreep told the Huffington Post she was \"appalled\" by the \"disgraceful\" news.\n\nShe went on to praise \"the intrepid women who raised their voices to expose this abuse\", calling them \"heroes\".\n\nDame Judi Dench also issued a statement saying she was \"completely unaware\" of the \"horrifying\" claims.\n\nThe British actress also praised those who had spoken up.\n\n\"I offer my sympathy to those who have suffered, and wholehearted support to those who have spoken out,\" she said.\n\nMeanwhile, another British actress - Romola Garai - says she felt \"violated\" after being asked to visit Weinstein in his hotel room when she was 18 so he could \"approve\" her for a role.\n\nGarai told The Guardian he opened the door in his dressing gown. \"It was humiliating for me,\" she said, adding: \"It was an abuse of power.\"\n\nOscar-winner Kate Winslet has also praised those, like Garai, who spoke out, telling Variety they are \"incredibly brave\", adding it had been \"deeply shocking to hear\".\n\nEmma Thompson, Mark Ruffalo and Seth Rogen are among other leading actors to express similar sentiments.\n\nThe Weinstein allegations have instigated a fierce debate about abuse of power in Hollywood and beyond.\n\nStreep's statement followed criticism that leading Hollywood figures had maintained a \"deafening silence\" in the wake of the allegations against Weinstein that surfaced in the New York Times on Friday.\n\nStreep said she wanted to make it clear that \"not everybody\" had known about the allegations, including herself.\n\nThe three-time Oscar-winner said the news had \"appalled those of us whose work [Weinstein] championed, and those whose good and worthy causes he supported.\"\n\nStreep worked with Weinstein on such films as The Iron Lady and August: Osage County and jokingly referred to him as \"God\" in a 2012 acceptance speech.\n\nRose McGowan has been highly vocal without mentioning Weinstein by name\n\n\"Harvey supported the work fiercely, was exasperating but respectful with me in our working relationship, and with many others with whom he worked professionally,\" Streep wrote about the allegations.\n\n\"I did not know about his financial settlements with actresses and colleagues; I did not know about his having meetings in his hotel room, his bathroom, or other inappropriate, coercive acts.\n\n\"And if everybody knew, I don't believe that all the investigative reporters in the entertainment and the hard news media would have neglected for decades to write about it.\"\n\nShe added: \"The behaviour is inexcusable, but the abuse of power familiar. Each brave voice that is raised, heard and credited by our watchdog media will ultimately change the game.\"\n\nThompson said Weinstein was known to be \"a predatory man\"\n\nWeinstein was made an honorary CBE by the Queen in 2004 for his contribution to the British film industry.\n\nA spokesman for Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May said she had expressed \"concern\" about the allegations, but said his CBE was not a matter for her office but for the Honours Forfeiture Committee, where each case is \"considered on its merits\".\n\nSpeaking earlier on Monday, Britain's Emma Thompson said she was pleased the story had come out and described Weinstein as \"a predatory man\".\n\n\"Male predatory behaviour is everywhere, not just in the film industry,\" the actress and screenwriter told the BBC.\n\n\"Let's support those women who don't have the confidence to speak out.\"\n\nSome male stars have also spoken out to denounce Weinstein and express support for the women he is alleged to have abused.\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\nActress Rose McGowan, who the New York Times claimed had reached a legal settlement with Weinstein in 1997, has also been highly vocal.\n\n\"Ladies of Hollywood, your silence is deafening,\" she tweeted on Saturday, going on to tell the Hollywood Reporter that \"men in Hollywood need to change ASAP\".\n\nWhen the claims were first reported in the New York Times, Weinstein issued a statement in which he apologised.\n\n\"I appreciate the way I've behaved with colleagues in the past has caused a lot of pain, and I sincerely apologise for it,\" he wrote.\n\nBut he later disputed the article, with one of his legal team claiming the newspaper's report was \"saturated with false and defamatory statements\".\n\nMr Weinstein's lawyer, Lisa Bloom, said in another statement that he denied many of the allegations against him as \"patently false\".\n\nBloom later announced she had resigned as Mr Weinstein's adviser.\n\nThe painful fact is, many, many people were aware of allegations about Weinstein's behaviour for years. He was, as the saying goes, hiding in plain sight, no doubt protected to some extent by his friendships with famous people and his ability to hand out internships to the likes of Malia Obama (who as far as we know was treated with the utmost civility).\n\nThat he was a major supporter of Hillary Clinton will have done him little harm, too.\n\nWeinstein was the kind of man who used his power to be a gateway to both financial riches and fame: he controlled access to huge audiences, with all the money that can bring.\n\nIf some of the claims made by actresses are true, it may be that Weinstein was - unforgivably - allowed to get away with it because of his power. Not just his power to make people very rich; also, his power to make them very famous.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The ball, second from left, appeared to be labelled number 33 as well as number 38\n\nOne of the winning balls in Saturday's Irish National Lottery appeared to change numbers due to a trick of the light, lottery chiefs have said.\n\nBall 38 was the second one to drop during the draw.\n\nBut after it was nudged by the next ball it seemed to be labelled number 33 as well as 38.\n\nThat led some people on social media to suspect foul play, but the Irish National Lottery has stressed that nothing sinister was afoot.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Bridgette This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"A brief reflection of light during filming caused an illusion and some players to think there were two numbers on ball 38,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"The weight and size of all Lotto balls, and the numbers, are strictly checked in advance of each draw.\n\n\"This process, as well as the draw itself, is independently observed by our auditors KPMG.\"\n\nThe ball was the second one drawn during Saturday night's game\n\nThe ball was drawn in the Irish National Lottery's Lotto Plus 1 game, which has a jackpot of 500,000 euros (£449,000).\n\nIt is not known how many winners there were, but it is thought to be unlikely that any of them were among those who complained.", "Editors offer a different view of the Brexit talks with their choice of photographs.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph's front page shows Theresa May, flanked on either side by Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron.\n\nThey face Mrs May with their hands cupped over their mouths. \"The whispering campaign,\" the paper calls it.\n\nA similar picture appears in the Times under the label \"crunch talks\".\n\nMany other papers show the three politicians all smiling. The Sun adds the caption \"Give me summit to work with\". The Daily Mail says: \"Merkel finally gives Theresa news to smile about\".\n\nIn the Guardian, the former Labour education minister, David Lammy, highlights his concerns about Oxbridge admissions and what he calls \"social apartheid\".\n\nThe paper reports that one in three Oxford Colleges didn't accept any black A-level students in 2015, and none was taken at six Cambridge colleges.\n\nMr Lammy notes that almost 400 black students got three As or more at A-level but few are attracted to Oxbridge. Both universities tell the paper they're working to improve the figures.\n\nThey are not the only institutions facing diversity issues. The Financial Times reports that MPs on the Treasury committee have warned that they could refuse to endorse high-level appointments at the Bank of England because there are too many white men.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson tells the Guardian the recruitment process is fair and open.\n\nResponding to Scotland's plan to ban smacking, the i reports that the UK's four children's commissioners want the other home nations to follow suit.\n\nThe Guardian says the case has also been made by the NSPCC. But the Sun says English MPs have vowed to resist such calls.\n\nScott Macnab suggests in the Scotsman that there's an \"enthusiasm among MSPs for imposing bans\" - \"from smacking to fracking\". He calls it \"worrying\" and a \"wider erosion of personal liberty\".\n\nThe increase in recorded crime is analysed by several papers. The Mirror headlines its report \"not safe on our streets,\" and calls it a \"damning indictment\" on Theresa May's policing cuts.\n\nThe paper urges her to recruit more officers. The Daily Mail says burglars get away with nine out of 10 break-ins.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph suggests the police have been \"side-tracked\" by \"other questionable priorities.\"\n\nAmong these it includes the investigation of thousands of historic sex allegations.\n\nIt also says counter-terrorism is stretching the Metropolitan Police. The paper proposes passing responsibility for terrorism to the National Crime Agency.\n\nBeseeching puppy eyes stare out of several papers to explain how, as the Guardian puts it, \"dogs turn on the charm for humans.\"\n\nResearchers suggest that dogs have learned that widening their eyes elicits sympathy and affection in humans.\n\nWhat they don't know, says the Daily Telegraph, is whether they aware that they look sad.\n\nThe i says it seems their expressions are doggy attempts to communicate. Although the paper says the scientists don't yet know if dogs can truly understand us or whether it's a learned response to seeing a face.", "Sgt Johnson's widow with his coffin at Miami International Airport\n\nThe Donald Trump condolence-call story is a White House headache that shows no signs of abating.\n\nIt started badly for the president, as he responded to a question about US military casualties in Niger by questioning how his predecessors dealt with the families of war dead. It got worse, as the story morphed into one of an allegedly callous presidential call to Myeshia Johnson, a grieving widow of one of the US soldiers killed in Niger.\n\nNow it's devolved into a he-said, she said debate, with Democratic Congresswoman Frederica Wilson - who knew the slain soldier - and Ms Johnson and her family claiming the president mishandled the call, while Mr Trump and chief of staff John Kelly insist everything went smoothly.\n\nNeedless to say, arguing with a war widow is a no-win situation, regardless of who has facts on their side. President George W Bush notably withstood harsh criticism from some bereaved families during the Iraq War without swiping back.\n\nThis president is different, which should come as a surprise to no one at this point. His choices could come at a political high price, however. Here are five reasons why.\n\nMr Trump campaigned on being a defender of the US military and, in particular, US veterans. Time and again he said those in the armed services weren't being treated well and railed against ongoing evidence of bureaucratic bungling in the veterans' health system.\n\nAs a candidate and as president, he has boasted of how much the military loves him and regularly surrounded himself with soldiers and martial symbolism - a way of burnishing his credentials as a strong commander-in-chief. He appointed ex-generals to his administration and lined his redecorated Oval Office with flags.\n\nNow he has to deal with accusations that he is dishonouring the memory of service member who died on his watch. Questions are already swirling about why these soldiers were put in harm's way and whether enough was done to ensure their safety.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Congresswoman Frederica Wilson: \"How insensitive can you be?\"\n\nReporters are digging into other contacts Mr Trump has had with the families of slain soldiers. One widow has released a recording of her call with the president.\n\nAccording to The Atlantic, at least 11 of the 46 families had received neither a letter nor a call from the president. One father told the Washington Post Mr Trump had promised him a personal cheque for $25,000 (£18,900) but hadn't delivered. The White House has since announced the money is on the way.\n\nSome families who have heard nothing said they were angry. The next time the president surrounds himself with soldiers, the public might be reminded of this - and become angry, too.\n\nAn important job of a modern US president is to serve as \"consoler-in-chief\"; a stable, reassuring voice in times of national distress or tragedy. This can take place on a large scale - when visiting the site of a natural disaster or high-profile accident - or small, in comforting a family member grieving over their loss.\n\nIt's a skill that successful politicians learn early on - the human touch - and anti-politician Trump is having a difficult time with it.\n\nIn the days after Puerto Rico was struck by a massive hurricane, he was tweeting about the territory's pre-existing financial mismanagement and escalating a feud with San Juan's mayor.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump said Mrs Khan had nothing to say, as David Willis reports\n\nIn the hours after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville led to violent clashes and the death of a counter-protester, Mr Trump gave a statement about how there was blame on both sides.\n\nMr Trump responded to the militant attack on London Bridge by criticising the city's mayor. He's responded to other attacks, foreign and domestic, by claiming they vindicated his policy proscriptions.\n\nThe president has also developed a reputation for getting embroiled in petty disputes. His counter-puncher mentality, while it has served him well against his presidential rivals, also has led him into spats with a former beauty queen, celebrities, sports stars, major companies, prominent journalists, members of his own party and the parents of a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq.\n\nThat last one seems pretty relevant at this point.\n\nIt's worth remembering that this whole swirling story started because Mr Trump was asked why four US soldiers had died in Niger and why it took him so long to respond.\n\nIn fact, it had been 12 days and the president had issued no statement - tweet, comment or White House release - about the incident whatsoever.\n\nMr Trump defended himself by taking an (inaccurate) shot at his predecessors for not making similar calls. Although he later backed away from such a sweeping statement, the following day he told a reporter to ask his chief of staff, John Kelly if he had received a call from President Obama.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Kelly's son had been killed in Afghanistan, and the ex-general has been reluctant to publicly discuss details of his grief.\n\nThe White House said he hadn't been called, but it was later revealed that he attended an event for Gold Star families - parents of slain soldiers - hosted by the Obama administration.\n\nThen the president called Johnson's widow, and ... didn't help the situation.\n\nNow he's in a war of words with a sharp-tongued Democratic congresswoman over a story that, however one slices it, does not paint the president in a good light.\n\nWhen Mr Kelly defended the president later that week, he insisted the president handled a difficult call well - although he confirmed that Mr Trump did say the slain soldier \"knew what he signed up for\".\n\nSince then, the president has seemingly enjoyed trading barbs with Congresswoman Wilson, calling her \"wacky\" and a \"disaster\" for Democrats.\n\nWhen Ms Johnson insisted in a television interview that Ms Wilson's account was correct - and that the president didn't even know her husband's name - the president took to Twitter within hours to say she was incorrect.\n\nMr Trump once again has shown that he doesn't believe in the Law of Holes - that when you're in a hole, you stop digging. Instead he seems to think that if he keeps digging long enough, he'll come out on the other side.\n\nThis story could have been nipped in the bud early, with some sort of presidential statement of condolence shortly after the 4 October Niger incident.\n\nIn fact, according to Politico, a release had been drafted and circulated within the National Security Council on 5 October - but it never saw the light of day.\n\nDuring Wednesday's White House press conference, Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that there were administration protocols that had to be followed before the names of slain US servicemen could be released - but that wouldn't have applied to the draft statement responding to reports, which didn't mention the soldiers' names.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gold Star Mother Christina Ayube: \"We don't need to be reminded of that on the way to receiving the body\"\n\n\"Somebody screwed up here, OK?\" Leon Panetta, who served as defence secretary and CIA chief in the Obama administration, told The Washington Post. \"You don't let that amount of time pass when our men and women in uniform have been killed.\"\n\nCompounding matters was that it appears Mr Trump went into the conversation with Johnson's widow without a clear script. It's not outside the realm of possibility that while Mr Trump's intentions were good, his preparation was poor - and he misspoke or made comments open to misinterpretation.\n\nSince Mr Trump first brought up his contacts with the Gold Star families, the White House has reportedly been scrambling to send out presidential letters of condolences to those who had not yet received them.\n\nAccording to a leaked Pentagon document, the administration didn't even have a current list of slain military personnel when the president told reporters he had spoken with \"virtually\" all of them.\n\nAll of this could have been avoided with more careful planning.\n\nThis is a big month for Mr Trump. If he wants to see Congress pass a tax cut before the end of the year, the coming weeks will be when it gets off the ground.\n\nDemocrats are pushing hard to paint the proposal as an unaffordable sop to the rich - and Republicans need to get their message out before public opinion is solidified.\n\nDonald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have a lot of work ahead of them this month\n\nThe president also took a high-risk gamble in ending cost-sharing subsidies that help insurance companies provide affordable policies to less affluent Americans. Without congressional action, some premiums could skyrocket. If Mr Trump isn't vigorous in defending his decision, he'll be the one that takes the brunt of the blame.\n\nThe federal budget process is heating up as well. Although the day of fiscal reckoning was pushed back to the end of December thanks to a deal with the Democrats, that deadline is growing closer every day. If the president wants to see funds for his priorities, like the Mexican border wall, he'll need to be fully engaged in congressional negotiations.\n\nSpeaking of negotiations, talks with Mexico and Canada to modify the North America Trade Agreement are hanging by a thread. If they fall apart, the president may have to make the case to the public that pulling out of the deal won't do lasting harm to the US economy.\n\nAll the oxygen in Washington is being sucked up by the condolence-call story, however.\n\nAlthough Mr Trump likes to tout his presidential accomplishments, his record so far is bereft of legislative victories. Recent events have done little to help his cause.", "Whether crime is rising or falling is hugely important. It can affect how much is spent on policing and other related services, even how people vote. But working out what is happening is not an exact science.\n\nWhen we talk about crime rates in England and Wales we usually look at two things:\n\nAnd those two sources often throw up quite different results.\n\nFor example, in recent years police records have shown significant increases in crime while the survey has suggested crime is falling.\n\nDespite this difference, neither source is wrong - they just measure different things.\n\nThe more difficult question is which best represents how much crime is actually being committed.\n\nWe're talking about England and Wales only, because Scotland and Northern Ireland have separate criminal justice systems.\n\nAccording to the most recent survey, which is conducted face-to-face and asks individuals about their personal experiences, levels of crime in the year to September 2018 remained pretty stable compared with the year before.\n\nCrimes recorded by the survey have been falling for years, so this represents a slowing of improvements.\n\nThere was no change in the overall number of violent offences - the only significant change was seen in the category of \"computer misuse\" (generally fraud and financial crimes), which went down by a third.\n\nOn the other hand, police records suggest crime went up by 7% in the past year and violent crime went up by 19%. Violence that actually resulted in injury or death went up by 7%.\n\nSo which of these two very different pictures - one showing no change to the levels of violence people are experiencing and one showing it going up quite considerably - should we trust?\n\nThe crime survey is generally considered a good measure of crime experienced by individuals because it is not affected by changes to how crime is recorded.\n\nIt also includes crimes that have historically been under-reported to the police.\n\nHowever, it has some limitations. It does not cover crimes against businesses or people living in communal residences like care homes, prisons or student accommodation. It is also excludes crimes where there is no victim to interview, for example murders and drug possession or dealing offences.\n\nAnd there is a time-lag in the survey, so the figures are older than police figures. This means the survey is very good for looking at long-term trends but less good at spotting emerging ones.\n\nThe trouble with police records is they can sometimes be a measure of police activity rather than of crime itself. They're by definition not good at capturing offences that people under-report to the police, such as petty theft or sexual offences.\n\nThey are skewed by police priorities - that is, focused efforts from police to tackle certain crimes can also lead to higher levels being recorded.\n\nAnd police-recorded crime is sensitive to changes in recording practices, for example, the number of crimes described as \"violence against the person\" went up considerably in recent years, after two new harassment offences were added to the category. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said this didn't reflect a genuine increase in crime.\n\nPolice recorded crime had its designation as a national statistic removed in 2014.\n\nBut, that being said, police-recorded crime is very good measure of what's happening to well understood and well reported crimes such as burglary.\n\nThose figures suggest there have been genuine increases in less common but more serious crimes such as weapons offences over the past couple of years.\n\nHelen Ross from the ONS's centre for crime and justice, said: \"In recent decades, we've seen the overall level of crime falling - but in the last year, it remained level.\"\n\n\"Burglary, shoplifting and computer misuse are decreasing but others, such as vehicle offences and robbery, are rising.\n\n\"We have also seen increases in some types of 'lower-volume, high-harm' violence, including offences involving knives or sharp instruments.\"\n\nBut, the statistical body says, this should be seen in the context of an overall fall in crime over the past decade, adding that the crime survey \"provides the best measure of trends for overall violent crime\".\n\n\"The survey covers crimes that are not reported to or recorded by the police and so tends to provide the better measure of more common but less harmful crimes.\"\n\nScotland has a similar survey on perceptions of crime that runs every two years. In the most recent survey, for 2016-17, crimes committed against adults were down 34% since 2008-09 and 16% since the previous survey, in 2012-13.\n\nCrimes recorded by the police in Scotland are at their lowest level since 1974.", "Anna says she had to visit a food bank after the changes to her benefits left her without any money.\n\nMPs voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to back a Labour demand for the controversial universal credit scheme to be put on hold but Tory MPs abstained. The Victoria Derbyshire programme has been told some people are being left near-destitute due to flaws in its design.\n\nWithout any income for two weeks, Anna was unable to buy food for her five-year-old daughter.\n\nShe was waiting for her first instalment of the new benefit.\n\n\"Last weekend her last food was school dinners. On Saturday we were walking down the street and she was searching in bins for food, she was starving. She was ripping McDonald's bags to see if there were any chips or anything on the floor. It was awful, broke my heart,\" she says.\n\n\"You take her to bed but her tummy's rumbling. You're just giving her water but she wants food and you can't. She had no food Saturday, Sunday, went to school really, really, hungry.\"\n\nAnna, from Hammersmith in west London, says she was told to apply online and the first payment would take up to three months to arrive. This was despite the government's expectation that claimants should be paid within six weeks - a target which has itself attracted criticism.\n\nThe government says universal credit, which rolls six working-age benefits into a single payment, is designed to make the system simpler and ensure no-one faces a situation where they would be better off claiming benefits than working.\n\nAnna says all of her current benefits were stopped - child benefit, child tax credit, income support, council tax and housing benefits - whilst she waited for them to be grouped under the new system.\n\nSenior Labour backbencher Frank Field told the Victoria Derbyshire programme claimants were being \"pushed into destitution\". He called on the government to temporarily halt the \"disastrous\" roll-out.\n\n\"What we're seeing is increased numbers who are hungry, increased numbers of people who can't pay their rent, and an increase in the number who are without fuel or light in their houses… those numbers [of people in destitution] are rising,\" he said.\n\nAnna says she had to go to a food bank for supplies - otherwise they would still be hungry.\n\n\"I can't go to the shop and steal. It's awful. I can't keep asking neighbours for food, I shouldn't have to live like this,\" she says.\n\n\"I don't know if I am going to still have my house, as I need to pay my rent, my council tax is due. What do I do next? Beg on the street to get some milk and bread?\"\n\nThe Trussell Trust says its network of 400 food banks may be unable to cope with the rise in demand resulting from the introduction of universal credit.\n\n\"We're genuinely worried that with the combined demands of winter and [the fallout from universal credit] we might not be able to feed everyone who comes through our doors,\" says Gareth Lemon, from the charity.\n\nThe government has said anyone in financial distress can apply for advance payments. But these payment are only a type of loan, which claimants have to pay back from subsequent instalments.\n\nFor some, the requirement to pay back an advance, has itself resulted in them slipping into debt.\n\nBrendan said his sisters helped him buy food after problems with his benefit payments\n\nBrendan, 51, from West Yorkshire, who has a range of disabilities and is awaiting bariatric surgery, says the failure to be paid the housing element of universal credit has left him thousands of pounds in arrears and facing eviction.\n\nHe took an advance while waiting for his first instalment but is now paying that back, exacerbating his debt problems.\n\n\"It probably lasted me about two weeks and then left me with nothing. Then you're hoping that what you have in is enough, which it wasn't. I've got a good family who have helped me out a lot. Without my sisters I'd be absolutely on my knees,\" he says.\n\nBrendan says he went without food for three days, until his sister took him shopping and gave him some money. \"She said, 'If you're ever like this again, phone me'. But I won't because it's embarrassing,\" he adds.\n\n\"I've never struggled like this before in my life I've never been in this situation where I could lose my home. I'll die on those streets if I do get evicted, I don't know what I'll do. I don't know where to go for help.\"\n\nEd Boyd, managing director at the Centre for Social Justice, which designed the policy, insisted that the government should be congratulated for introducing universal credit, saying that it is far better than the system it replaces. He said the old system disincentivised work and trapped people on benefits.\n\n\"When universal credit is fully rolled out you will have 250,000-to-300,000 more people in work and the effect this will have on families across the country, taking people out of poverty, is really significant,\" he says.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions says its latest data, from last month, indicates 81% of new claimants were paid in full and on time at the end of their first assessment while 89% received some payment.\n\nCases of non-payment, it said, were due to claimants either not signing paperwork, not passing identity checks or facing \"verification issues,\" such as providing details of their earnings, housing costs and childcare costs.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking in September 2017, claimants told the BBC about the problems they faced\n\nPeople will be able to call the government's universal credit helpline without being charged, within weeks.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said she had listened to criticism of the charges, which can be up to 55p a minute, and decided it was \"right\" to drop them.\n\nBut she again rejected calls by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to \"pause\" the roll-out of the controversial benefit amid fears it is causing hardship.\n\nIn a symbolic vote, MPs backed a pause after Tory MPs were told to abstain.\n\nThe opposition won by 299 votes to 0 with one Conservative - Totnes MP Sarah Wollaston - defying her party by siding with Labour.\n\nThe outcome is not binding on the government although Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said ministers must \"act on the clearly expressed will of Parliament\" and halt its roll out.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow advised ministers to take account of the vote and \"show respect for the institution\" by indicating what they intended to do.\n\nUniversal credit, which rolls six working-age benefits into a single payment, is designed to make the system simpler and ensure no-one faces a situation where they would be better off claiming benefits than working.\n\nBut it has faced a backlash from Tory MPs, who fear payment delays risk pushing families into destitution.\n\nExplaining her decision to rebel, Dr Wollaston said the length of time people were waiting to be paid - in many cases more than six weeks - was a \"fundamental flaw\" that must be addressed.\n\nShe told the BBC she wanted to \"see a much stronger commitment\" from government \"that they'll do that immediately\".\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions earlier, Mr Corbyn said he was glad the PM had \"bowed to Labour pressure\" by scrapping the hotline charges.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut he added: \"The fundamental problems of universal credit remain - the six week wait, rising indebtedness, rent arrears and evictions.\n\n\"Will the prime minister now pause universal credit and fix the problems before pressing ahead with the roll-out?\"\n\nMrs May prompted cheers from Labour MPs as she began her reply with \"yes\", before urging them to \"listen to the whole sentence I was going to make\".\n\nShe said universal credit was \"a simpler system\", that \"encourages people to get into the workplace - it is a system that is working because more people are getting into work\".\n\nThe universal credit hotline will become free to use \"over the next month\", the government has said, and that would be followed by all DWP helplines by the end of the year.\n\nThe government says it makes no money from the 0345 number. It is charged at local rate and is included as a free call in many landline and mobile phone packages but can cost some mobile phone users as much as 55p a minute.\n\nUniversal Credit has been introduced in stages to different groups of claimants over the past four years, with about 610,000 people now receiving it.\n\nAlmost a quarter of all claimants have had to wait more than six weeks to receive their first payment in full because of errors and problems evidencing claims.\n\nBut the government recently approved a major extension of the programme to a further 45 job centres across the country, with another 50 to be added each month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM appears to give a surprising initial answer when asked to pause the national rollout of universal credit.\n\nLabour's Frank Field told MPs a food bank in his Birkenhead constituency needed to order five tonnes of extra food to deal with hardship caused by the roll-out of universal credit over Christmas.\n\nHe asked Work and Pensions Secretary David Gauke if his constituents should ignore the food bank's warnings, or give it extra donations as a result of the minister's \"inability to deliver a scheme that works\".\n\nMr Gauke had earlier accused Labour of attempting to wreck the new benefit rather than taking a constructive approach to reforming it.\n\nThe SNP's Mhairi Black said the offer of advance payments made matters worse for some claimants because they had to be paid back.\n\nShe accused the government of acting like a \"pious loan shark - except that instead of coming through your front door they are coming after your mental health, your physical well-being, your stability, your sense of security.\"\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions says its latest data, from last month, indicates 81% of new claimants were paid in full and on time at the end of their first assessment while 89% received some payment.\n\nBBC Newsnight's political editor Nick Watt said he understood ministers were giving \"serious thought\" to cutting the initial waiting period for payments from six to four weeks around the time of next month's Budget.", "British scientists have worked out how many changes it takes to transform a healthy cell into a cancer.\n\nThe team, at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, showed the answer was a tiny handful, between one and 10 mutations depending on the type of tumour.\n\nIt has been one of the most hotly debated issues in cancer science for decades.\n\nThe findings, published in the journal Cell, could improve treatment for patients.\n\nIf you played spot the difference between a cancer and healthy tissue, you could find tens of thousands of differences - or mutations - in the DNA.\n\nSome are driving the cancer's growth, while others are just along for the ride. So which ones are important?\n\nThe researchers analysed the DNA from 7,664 tumours to find \"driver mutations\" that allow a cell to be more selfish, aggressive and cancerous.\n\nThey showed it could take:\n\nDr Peter Campbell, one of the researchers, told the BBC News website: \"We've known about the genetic basis of cancer for many decades now, but how many mutations are responsible has been incredibly hotly debated.\n\n\"What we've been able to do in this study is really provide the first unbiased numbers.\n\n\"And it seems that of the thousands of mutations in a cancer genome, only a small handful are responsible for dictating the way the cell behaves, what makes it cancerous.\"\n\nHalf the mutations identified were in sets of genetic instructions - or genes - that had never been implicated in cancer before.\n\nThe long-term goal is to advance precision cancer treatment.\n\nIf doctors know which few mutations, out of thousands, were driving a patient's cancer, it could allow drugs that specifically targeted that mutation to be used.\n\nDrugs such as herceptin and Braf inhibitors are already used to attack specific mutations in tumours.\n\nThe researchers were able to pick out the mutations that were driving the growth of cancer by turning to Charles Darwin and evolutionary theory.\n\nIn essence, driver mutations should appear more often in tumours than \"neutral\" mutations that do not make the cell cancerous.\n\nThis is because the forces of natural selection give an evolutionary advantage to mutations that help a cell grow and divide more readily.\n\nDr Nicholas McGranahan, from the Cancer Research UK and the UCL Cancer Institute, said the approach was \"elegant\".\n\nHe said: \"Cancer is a disease that evolves and changes over time, and it makes sense to use ideas like this from species evolution to work out the genetic faults that cause cancer to grow.\n\n\"But as this study focuses on one part of cancer evolution, it can only give us insight into part of the puzzle.\n\n\"Other components such as how DNA is packaged into chromosomes are also key in how a tumour progresses and will need to be looked at to give us a clearer picture of how cancer evolves.\"", "Wollaton Park said it is \"extremely dangerous\" to approach the deer\n\nVisitors to a park have been warned they are putting themselves in danger by posing for selfies with deer.\n\nThe herd of 80 red deer and 120 fallow deer roam freely in Wollaton Park, Nottingham.\n\nWildlife photographer Ted Shillitto said he saw people \"getting close to what are potentially very dangerous animals\".\n\nHe said one man posed behind a stag's antlers, while a woman attempted to put her child on a stag's back.\n\nA spokesman for Wollaton Park said it was mating season and \"any person or animal invading their space at any time may be attacked as the stags will defend their group\".\n\n\"They are very large and could inflict a lot of damage.\"\n\nThe deer at Wollaton Park roam freely throughout the grounds\n\nMr Shillitto said the deer are \"dangerous animals and not pets\".\n\n\"It was ridiculous how close and how many were coming along. When somebody has done it, then others think that's great, we'll do it.\n\n\"One of them actually got a hold of the stag's neck as he was down on the floor and was posing between his antlers.\"\n\nThe photographer said one woman at the park \"picked her child up and it looked like she was going to put it on the stag's back\".\n\nCharles Smith-Jones, of the British Deer Society, said deer parks recommend people stay at least a distance of 165ft (50m) away from the animals.\n\n\"In a park, the deer are used to people and they seem tame and people are fooled into thinking they are tame,\" he added.\n\n\"But the red deer rut is going on and the males are full of adrenalin and testosterone and are competing for breeding rights.\"\n\nLast month, a woman was gored in a deer park in Richmond, London, after taking a video of deer.\n\nLondoner Yuan Li, who suffered thigh injuries, said she thought she was going to die.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One of the successful stocking-fillers of last Christmas was the GCHQ puzzle book, which allowed mere mortals to wrestle with fiendish conundrums produced by the folk at the intelligence and security organisation. Jumping on the brilliance bandwagon this year is Bletchley Park Brainteasers.\n\nTry our combination of trivia and twisters to find out if you would have been welcomed at the home of the World War Two codebreakers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe White House chief of staff has launched an impassioned attack on a \"selfish\" congresswoman who said President Trump made a war widow cry.\n\nGeneral John Kelly said he was \"broken-hearted\" by the Democrat's criticism of the president's condolence call to Sgt La David Johnson's wife.\n\nSgt Johnson was one of four killed in Niger by Islamist militants this month.\n\nGen Kelly also said he did not receive a call from President Barack Obama when his son died in Afghanistan in 2010.\n\nThe chief of staff, a former Marine Corps general, said in the White House briefing room that Representative Frederica Wilson was \"an empty barrel\".\n\nSgt Johnson's widow with his coffin at Miami International Airport\n\nThe Florida Democrat said on Wednesday that she had overheard Mr Trump telling bereaved Myeshia Johnson of her slain husband: \"He knew what he was signing up for, but I guess it hurts anyway.\"\n\nMs Wilson said the president's alleged remarks, shortly before Sgt Johnson's coffin arrived by aircraft in his home city of Miami, made Ms Johnson break down in tears.\n\nPresident Trump said the congresswoman had \"totally fabricated\" the comments, but the soldier's mother later backed up Ms Wilson, saying he had disrespected the family.\n\nOn Thursday, Gen Kelly said he was so \"stunned\" by Ms Wilson's attack that he spent more than an hour walking among soldiers' graves at Arlington National Cemetery, just outside Washington.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Congresswoman Frederica Wilson: \"How insensitive can you be?\"\n\nThe chief of staff said he had advised the president not to call the loved ones of the four American servicemen killed in Niger, telling him: \"There's nothing you can do to lighten the burden on these families.\"\n\nGen Kelly described such a task as \"the most difficult thing you can imagine\".\n\n\"There is no perfect way to make that phone call,\" he added.\n\nHe also discussed the death of his own son, Robert Kelly, a 29-year-old Marine first lieutenant who died when he stepped on an Afghan landmine.\n\nGen Kelly said: \"He [President Trump] asked me about previous presidents. And I said, 'I can tell you that President Obama, who was my commander-in-chief when I was on active duty, did not call my family.'\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gold Star Mother Christina Ayube: \"We don't need to be reminded of that on the way to receiving the body\"\n\n\"That was not a criticism. That was just to simply say, I don't believe that President Obama called. That's not a negative thing.\n\n\"I don't believe President Bush called in all cases. I don't believe any president, particularly when the casualty rates are very, very high, that presidents call.\"\n\nThe controversy began on Monday when a reporter asked Mr Trump at the White House why he had still not called the families of the four soldiers killed in the fatal ambush in Niger on 4 October.\n\nThe president provoked outrage by suggesting that his predecessor, Barack Obama, and other former US presidents did not call the relatives of dead service members.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Trump ratcheted up the row by stating that President Obama did not call Gen Kelly's family.\n\nMr Kelly also said the Pentagon was investigating the details of the deaths of Sgt Johnson and the other servicemen in the west African country.\n\nBut Senator John McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he was not being given any details, adding that he could issue a subpoena for the information.\n\nAsked by reporters what information he still lacked, he said \"everything\".\n\nAnd asked if the White house had been forthcoming, he responded: \"Of course not.\"", "In Britain, a lot of low paid workers are permanently stuck in poorly paid jobs\n\nA quarter of low paid workers are permanently stuck in poorly paid jobs in the UK with little chance of earning more, according to new research.\n\nThe Social Mobility Commission said low pay was \"endemic\" in the UK, with women more likely to get stuck on low pay.\n\nIt found just one in six low paid workers had managed to escape from poorly paid jobs in the last decade.\n\nThe report defines low pay as hourly earnings below two-thirds of the median hourly wage, which was £8.10 last year.\n\nThe median hourly wage for an average person across the entire British workforce was £12.10 per hour in 2016, according to the report.\n\n\"This lack of pay progress can have a huge scarring effect on people's lifetime living standards,\" Conor Darcy, a senior policy analyst with think tank Resolution Foundation, which carried out the research, said.\n\nHe called for \"a more comprehensive response from business and government\" to help people earn more.\n\nThink tank IPPR said wealth inequality was growing in the UK\n\nOn average, people stuck on low pay have seen their hourly wages rise by just 40p in real terms over the last decade, compared to a £4.83 pay rise for those who have permanently \"escaped\", said the report.\n\nThe report found that low pay was a particular issue for women in their early 20s and said a lack of \"good quality, flexible work\" for those with child caring responsibilities was to blame.\n\nThe industries with the lowest paid jobs are retail and hospitality, the report said.\n\nAlthough some employers in the hospitality and retail industries try to keep overheads down with low-paid jobs, Mr Darcy said this solution would not work in the long term, as employment costs are likely to go up.\n\nA Business Department spokesman said it had made progress on low pay: \"We have more people in work than ever before, taken 1.3 million people out of income tax altogether since 2015 and the national living wage has delivered the fastest pay rise for the lowest earners in 20 years.\"\n\nA separate report from think tank IPPR said inequality was growing in the UK with young people particularly affected.\n\nIt said the richest 10% of British households had an average of £1.32m in net property, pension and financial wealth.\n\nIn contrast, the average wealth of the bottom 50% of households was £3,200, it said.", "In November, the man who holds the UK's purse-strings will announce how the nation's money will be spent in the year ahead. And rumours have begun flying about potential cuts and giveaways in the pipeline.\n\nAmong these, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond is rumoured to be planning a reduced rate of National Insurance for young people, while cutting older people's pension relief.\n\nThe plans to redistribute wealth across the generations were mooted by Whitehall sources, according to The Telegraph.\n\nPension relief is a system in which the more you pay into a pension, the more money you can get back as a tax relief from government.\n\nWe don't know exactly how this policy - were it to be announced - would work, or which ages would benefit.\n\nBut at BBC Reality Check, we wanted to know - can you make someone pay more tax just because they're older?\n\nThe short answer is yes - there are lots of instances of people paying more or less tax, based on their age.\n\nIt may be discrimination, but it's not illegal.\n\nUntil last year, people over the age of 65 were allowed to keep more money tax-free, and it's still the case that UK workers reaching state pension age no longer have to make National Insurance contributions.\n\nYou can also be paid a lower minimum wage if you are younger. There are four different minimum wages depending on your age, from £4.05 an hour for under-18s, increasing to £7.50 for over-25s.\n\nThese variations don't count as age discrimination in law, and are allowed in the UK system of tax and earnings.\n\nIt wouldn't be too difficult to implement either.\n\nBut does it make sense to do so?\n\nThere is very little economic justification for allowing young people to pay a reduced National Insurance rate according to a spokesman for independent think tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).\n\nThe IFS says government usually has one of two main aims when reducing taxes for a particular group:\n\nIf the aim is to change behaviour - in the case of National Insurance contributions, probably to encourage people to enter or stay in the workplace - certain groups are more \"responsive\" to tax cuts than others.\n\nTax cuts for people nearing retirement age, or mothers with school-age children, are more likely to get them to stay in work, according to the IFS.\n\nBut young people without dependants are less likely to work more because they are being taxed less.\n\nIf changing how the wealth of the country is distributed is the aim, this is a very blunt tool, the IFS says.\n\nIt would be better to address the root problems facing young people like the housing market or student debts, according to Julian Jessop at the Institute for Economic Affairs.\n\nHe says this system could mean young City workers on six-figure salaries could pay less tax than NHS workers in their 50s.\n\nIt could also create an unfair system whereby women who take career breaks when they are younger in order to have children don't benefit from tax breaks in their 20s, but end up paying more tax later in life.\n\nInstead of putting more money in young people's pockets via tax cuts, government could introduce a new form of pension tax relief favouring the young, according to Tom McPhail, head of policy at financial services company Hargreaves Lansdowne.\n\nThis could mean the government \"tops up\" young people's pensions by a larger amount than older people's pensions.\n\nBut this may not have the same political capital as a giveaway for young people that they can feel immediately in their pay packets.", "A year on from the Brexit referendum, says the Financial Times, the government has still not spelled out what that will mean for the economy.\n\nThe paper sees division in the two main parties, the House of Lords, and across the UK.\n\nIf things turn nasty, it thinks the government should resist the \"petulant and reckless\" option of walking out.\n\nBut the Sun tells Theresa May \"the time for niceties is over.\"\n\nIt says the PM has now assured every EU ­citizen here that they can stay, come what may - and it's time for other EU leaders to be \"equally forthcoming\".\n\nAnd four former Conservative cabinet ministers tell the Daily Telegraph that she should walk away if the EU won't move on to discussions about trade and the future.\n\nThe Daily Mail and the Daily Express both see signs that Germany, at least, might want a comprehensive free trade accord.\n\nSeveral of the papers are struck by - and concerned about - the figures showing how many people are financially exposed.\n\nMillions of people, says the Financial Times, have to borrow from friends and family \"to make ends meet.\"\n\n\"More than four million people are living on the brink of financial meltdown,\" says the Daily Mail, \"figures that add up to a crisis.\"\n\nThe i believes half the adult population are at risk, with 15 million of them failing to pay anything into any kind of pension.\n\nA headline in the Times calls that a \"retirement timebomb ticking for millions\".\n\nThe switch to universal credit, says the Guardian, was a sensible idea \"on paper\".\n\nBut in practice, the paper argues, it has been anything but.\n\nThe old system, it believes, \"was baggier and more accommodating\" - for all its flaws - and the new one just doesn't take account of the actual circumstances of many claimants.\n\nThe paper fears that pressing on with the change \"will leave families to celebrate Christmas on the contents of a food parcel\".\n\nThe Mirror says Mrs May is \"still pig-headedly making life worse for struggling individuals\".\n\nThe Times is concerned by the limitations which have been imposed on free speech at several universities since the start of the academic year.\n\nAnd it therefore commends the Universities minister, Jo Johnson, for telling higher education institutions that they will face penalties if they deny a platform to people whose views might upset some.\n\nThe paper says free speech is central to what universities do.\n\nThe Daily Mail wonders whether Prince Harry's girlfriend, Meghan Markle, has already had a meeting with the Queen.\n\nIt says the actress appears to have been whisked into Buckingham Palace a week ago - in a Ford Galaxy with blacked out windows.\n\nThe paper says she spent almost an hour with the Queen having tea and cake. The Palace declined to comment.\n\nThe Times reports that \"the tree that first brought Bramley apples to the world is dying.\"\n\nThe 200-year-old tree, at Southwell in Nottinghamshire, has an incurable honey fungus infection.\n\nScientists, says the Daily Express, believe they can save it.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph hopes they succeed - saying \"if Eden's apple gave the world sorrow, Southwell's brought it only wholesome delight\".\n\nThe Express thinks their mission is a \"project with core a-peel.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. O'Neill's lawyer said it had been an \"error of judgement\"\n\nNorthern Ireland football manager Michael O'Neill has pleaded guilty at Edinburgh Sheriff Court to drink-driving.\n\nThe court heard he was caught by police in the early hours of 10 September at three times the Scottish drink-drive limit.\n\nHe had been stopped while driving on the outskirts of the city.\n\nSheriff Thomas Welsh QC fined O'Neill £1,300 and banned him from driving for 16 months.\n\nProsecutor Chloe Shoniwa told the court that police officers had \"reason to stop\" O'Neill as he drove on the A720 Edinburgh city bypass between Lothianburn and Straiton.\n\nO'Neill was breathalysed and he was found to have a breath alcohol level of 65mcg - the legal limit in Scotland is 22mcg.\n\nSolicitor James Mulgrew, representing O'Neill, told the court: \"This was simply a bad error of judgement on the part of Mr O'Neill.\"\n\nO'Neill, who lives in Edinburgh, is currently preparing Northern Ireland for the World Cup play-offs - a two-legged home and away tie against Switzerland next month.\n\nIn a statement last month, the Irish Football Association (IFA) said it was \"aware of an alleged drink-driving incident involving Michael O'Neill\".\n\nDuring his playing career, O'Neill won 31 caps for Northern Ireland and scored four international goals.\n\nThe midfielder started out playing for Irish League club Coleraine and went on to play for Newcastle United, Dundee United and Hibernian.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lisa was one of 650 people on Utoya island when Breivik came ashore\n\nWhen Anders Breivik opened fire on youngsters attending a summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utoya, he carried out a massacre that to this day remains the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman anywhere in the world.\n\nAmong those taking part in the Labour Party youth camp was 17-year-old Lisa Marie Husby.\n\nShe was one of 650 young people gathered on the tiny island on 22 July 2011, when Breivik appeared dressed as a police officer and began shooting.\n\nHowever, minutes before he arrived, Lisa had been on the phone to her mother in the wake of an explosion that had killed eight people in the centre of Oslo.\n\nLisa had been telling her mother that she was safe and that there was no need to worry because she was miles away from the Norwegian capital.\n\nShe said: \"I wanted to tell her that I was far away from Oslo and I was safe. But as I talked to her, I heard the police cars leaving our part of Norway to go and help in Oslo and I told her this and she said 'I think you guys are the next target'.\n\n\"She just had a gut feeling and I said 'there's no way, we're on an island, we're safe' and then I hung up.\n\n\"Then a couple of minutes later I heard what I thought were fireworks.\"\n\nFar right extremist Breivik went on to kill 69 youngsters, 33 of whom were under the age of 18. In total, he murdered 77 people that day, including those in Oslo.\n\nSpeaking to Stephen Jardine on Radio Scotland's Kaye Adams programme, Lisa said in the hours before the shooting began, people had been considering going home because of the weather.\n\nShe said: \"It was very rainy and usually the island is beautiful, but this day it was flooding.\n\n\"A lot of people were thinking about maybe going home, because we were sleeping in tents, and a lot of rain is not good for that.\n\n\"But everyone was in good spirits and we had the first female prime minister of Norway coming to see us and later we were going to have a disco so everyone was happy and having a good time.\"\n\nThen news of the terror attack in Oslo started to filter through to those in the camp.\n\nLisa said: \"Some people wanted to go back to Oslo because they couldn't reach their family back there.\n\n\"But we realised it wasn't possible to go back to Oslo at that point because everything was closed - no buses, no trains or anything. We said the best thing to do was stay.\"\n\nIt was then that Lisa spoke to her mother and tried to reassure her about their position on the island.\n\nShe was with a group of a few dozen people, sheltered by a forest, who were about 50m (164ft) away when Breivik arrived on the island claiming to be there for security.\n\nLocals gathered boats near the island to try and help those jumping into the water to escape\n\nThen she began hearing what she thought was fireworks.\n\n\"Everyone was in shock at first, and I think we thought this is a horrible joke, this is too early to try and scare us.\n\n\"But then I realised seeing everyone who actually saw the gunman fleeing, that this was actually not a joke.\"\n\nLisa said her group were standing next to their tents looking confused by the sound of gunfire.\n\nShe said: \"I don't think they understood what was going on. A lot of the people who actually saw what happened were fleeing, but this group were sheltered and they couldn't see what was happening, so they were just standing there not knowing what to do.\"\n\nShe added: \"This island is very small. You can walk across it in 10 minutes. It's a lot of cliffs and trees everywhere. At the time, I didn't even think that I could get off the island by swimming, I didn't even think that I was on an island - I just thought I have to run and hide.\"\n\nLisa gathered the group and then ran through the forest to a cabin that had previously been used as a medical base.\n\nShe said: \"By the time we got to the cabin, they had actually prepared for attack. They had had a drill earlier that week in case of attack so they had already barricaded the doors and blocked the windows by the time we got into the cabin.\n\n\"We managed to get in, but then I got completely shocked and scared and thought I needed to get back out.\n\n\"They said: 'if you go we will lock the door behind you', but I still kept running.\n\n\"And then I saw this girl who was shot and I decided to go back in because I realised how serious things were then.\"\n\nTerrified youngsters hid in the woods, with some jumping into the water to escape the hail of bullets.\n\nIn total, 47 students, including Lisa, barricaded themselves into the cabin, hiding as best they could.\n\n\"At this point there was so many gunshots because of the automatic gun he was using, so we thought there was more than one shooter.\n\n\"We just hid under beds and tried to get into the small rooms inside the cabin and shelter ourselves from what was going on outside. We could hear the gunshots getting closer and further away and then suddenly they were very close.\"\n\nLisa and the other students heard Breivik try the door. When he could not get in he fired two shots through the window before walking off.\n\n\"We didn't know how long it would take the police to get to the island,\" Lisa said. \"We could hear boats outside, but that turned out to be civilians helping out the people who had fled or who had tried to get out by swimming.\n\n\"And we could also hear helicopters, but that turned out to be news helicopters.\"\n\nThe 47 students spent more than four terrifying hours inside the cabin.\n\nDuring that time they were receiving frantic calls from their families, who had warned them that the gunman was reportedly posing as a police officer.\n\nBreivik shot 69 people dead on the island of Utoya during his rampage\n\nThe group had also decided that if Breivik entered the cabin they would lie still and pretend to be dead.\n\nLisa said: \"The last message that I got from my family at the time was 'don't trust the police they say online that he's dressed as the police so don't trust anyone who says that they're from the police'.\n\n\"When we were just waiting, it got very quiet and the gunshots stopped.\n\n\"People started to come out from their hiding places because it got very, very quiet.\"\n\nLisa said that at this point the police suddenly stormed the cabin.\n\nShe said: \"They told us to get on the floor with our hands above our head. We thought these people are here to kill us.\"\n\nLisa said she later learned that officers stormed the cabin unaware whether or not Breivik was inside with hostages.\n\n\"After the police came in we thought we were dead, we said our goodbyes. Then they asked is he here and I thought 'who's here - it's the terrorist' and then we understood they're not here to take us, they're actually looking for him.\"\n\nAs soon as he was confronted by officers, Anders Breivik immediately surrendered.\n\nHe was later jailed for 21 years following a trial that Lisa decided to attend.\n\nShe said she was struck by how small Breivik appeared in the dock and how sad it was that such a person could cause so much harm.\n\nLisa now studies at the University of St Andrews after being shown around the town by her partner Richard\n\nFor two years following the massacre Lisa tried to continue her life in Norway.\n\nHowever, in 2013 her ordeal finally took its toll.\n\nShe said: \"Something this traumatic is not going to leave you ever.\n\n\"So trying to go back to being a normal teenager again was very, very difficult.\n\n\"It started off with nightmares, a lot of flashbacks to the day. My nightmares sometimes got really, really bad where I woke up in the middle of the night actually believing that I was shot.\"\n\nLisa said she developed a sense of being on auto-pilot and of being an observer in her own life.\n\nShe then spent a year in intensive treatment, during which she learned to talk about her experiences and their aftermath.\n\nShe developed a sense of determination that \"this one day in July wouldn't define my entire life.\"\n\nMonths later, Lisa met her partner Richard in Norway and she began to put her life back together.\n\nShe said: \"He took me to St Andrews to show me around one day and I just completely fell in love.\n\n\"I said 'maybe this is what I need. I need to get out of Norway and try and study abroad' and that's always been a dream.\"\n\nIn 2016 Lisa began studying at the University of St Andrews in Fife and has since become an advocate for raising awareness about issues relating to mental health.", "A Canadian man has filed a lawsuit against Sunwing Airlines for promising a champagne service and instead serving sparkling wine.\n\nDaniel Macduff booked a holiday to Cuba through Sunwing that advertised a complimentary on-board champagne toast.\n\nMr Macduff, from Quebec, said he received a cheaper bubbly instead - and only on the outgoing flight.\n\nThe airline said it believes the lawsuit \"to be frivolous and without merit\".\n\nMr Macduff's lawyer says the class action hinges on misleading marketing and not the quality of the wine served.\n\n\"It's not about the pettiness of champagne versus sparkling wine,\" said Montreal-based lawyer Sébastien Paquette.\n\n\"It's the consumer message behind it.\"\n\nMr Paquette said references to real champagne - a sparkling wine variety made specifically in the Champagne region in France - was front and centre in Sunwing's marketing materials.\n\nIn an emailed statement, Sunwing said the terms \"champagne vacations\" and \"champagne service\" were used \"to denote a level of service in reference to the entire hospitality package\" and not to describe the in-flight beverages.\n\nThe airline says it still offers sparkling wine to all its passengers on flights to southern vacation destinations, but are no longer referencing \"champagne service\" in active marketing campaigns.\n\nSunwing said it has always described these services as including \"a complimentary welcome glass of sparkling wine\" and announce it as such on the aircraft.\n\nThe airline added the inflight service has been \"consistently been well-received by customers\".\n\nThe class action has yet to be certified by the courts, but seeks compensation for the monetary difference between the actual wine served and a glass of champagne as well as punitive damages.\n\nMr Paquette said about 1,600 other plaintiffs have come forward in Quebec to join the lawsuit.", "Jennifer Lawrence spoke out about her early career at the Elle Women in Hollywood Celebration\n\nMany were shocked when Jennifer Lawrence revealed she was forced to stand in a \"nude line-up\" as part of a film casting.\n\nShe described the experience as \"degrading and humiliating\".\n\nThe actress spoke in light of recent allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein, who has been accused of rape, sexual assault and harassment.\n\nHe has \"unequivocally denied\" the claims against him and said all sexual relationships he had were consensual.\n\nCasting director Brendan McNamara said a nude casting call is \"not a normal process\"\n\nBut Lawrence's revelations raise questions about whether her casting experience is commonplace in Hollywood and the wider film industry.\n\nBrendan McNamara, who worked as a casting assistant on The Bourne Supremacy, described Lawrence's ordeal as \"an awful situation\", which \"isn't representative of the industry as a whole\".\n\nHe now has his own casting company and makes British independent films, and said his job is to \"make actors feel as comfortable as possible to get the best performance for our directors and producers\".\n\n\"We want to put them in a position where they can give us their best and not feel awkward,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"I've never had to do anything that might be risque, but if I did, we would contact their agent beforehand to make the actor fully aware and make sure they are comfortable with what we are doing.\n\nWhen asked about standing naked in a line-up with other women at a casting and being told to lose weight by a casting director, McNamara added: \"I don't think that's a normal process at all\".\n\n\"It just seems horrible and cruel.\n\n\"It's not a casting director's job to say how someone looks or tell them to lose weight, it's our job to find someone who's right for the role.\"\n\nMcNamara's films include Treacle Jr which starred Tom Fisher and Game of Thrones' Aiden Gillen\n\nHe added that on his low-budget indie British films he now works on, \"we try to treat everyone with the upmost respect and all these stories coming out are awful\".\n\n\"I'm sure the Weinstein stories are not isolated, these people are in positions of power where they take advantage of those that are vulnerable.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Terry Butcher, left, said the life of his son Christopher, right, was \"tragically cut short\"\n\nFormer England football captain Terry Butcher has said he is \"devastated\" by the death of his son, Christopher.\n\nThe ex-army captain, who had served in the Royal Artillery and in Afghanistan, died on Monday morning, aged 35.\n\nSuffolk Police said his death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nThe former Ipswich Town and Rangers defender said his son's life had been \"tragically cut short\" while a family statement described him as a \"formidable leader and soldier\".\n\n\"Chris was a larger than life character whose personality, laughter and compassion touched the hearts of all who were fortunate to know him,\" it said.\n\n\"He always put others before himself and was a true and trusted brother-in-arms.\n\n\"His life has been so tragically cut short, but we will cherish and treasure the memories we all shared, forever.\"\n\nThe family thanked people for the \"overwhelming number of messages\" which they said were \"a testament to how much love and respect surrounded Chris\".\n\nTheir statement added: \"We are all devastated by his loss and thank you now for allowing us some time to ourselves, to grieve and come to terms with his passing.\"\n\nButcher, now 58, won 77 caps for England and appeared at three World Cups during his career.\n\nHe also played for Ipswich Town where he made more than 250 appearances in the 1970s and 1980s, and has managed several clubs including Sunderland, Motherwell and Inverness Caledonian Thistle.", "The badger ate all the cat food in the kitchen before settling down\n\nA sleepy badger was caught napping in a cat bed in a house in Linlithgow.\n\nThe badger entered the kitchen through a cat flap and filled up on cat food before going to sleep in the soft bed.\n\nThe Scottish SPCA was called to the house at Beecraigs Country Park on Wednesday and an officer was able to persuade the badger to leave of its own accord.\n\nThe charity said it was unusual behaviour for badgers, which are usually shy animals, to enter a home.\n\nThe Scottish SPCA officer had to slide the cat bed towards the door before the badger would leave\n\nAnimal rescue officer Connie O'Neil said: \"I got a surprise when I arrived at the property and saw a badger having a nap.\n\n\"He had gotten in through the cat flap and had eaten all the cat food before going for a sleep on the cat bed.\n\n\"I don't think it realised it was going into a house - it just smelled the food and wanted somewhere to have a wee nap.\n\n\"When I got there I pulled the badger's bed round so I could see him properly and he just looked at me.\n\n\"It was then that the badger noticed the back door was open so made a run for it.\"\n\nMike Flynn, chief superintendent at the Scottish SPCA, said: \"It is highly unusual for a wild badger to enter a house and we would urge anyone to immediately contact our animal helpline on 03000 999 999 should they find one in an unusual place.\n\n\"Like all wild animals badgers can be aggressive when injured or cornered so we would advise not to go near or touch them without giving us a call first.\"", "Santiago Maldonado has been missing since 1 August\n\nMajor political parties in Argentina have suspended election campaigning after the discovery of a body thought to be that of a missing activist.\n\nSantiago Maldonado, 28, was last seen in August during a confrontation between police and indigenous rights activists at a protest in Patagonia.\n\nMr Maldonado's disappearance caused a national outcry and has since become highly politicised.\n\nThe news comes ahead of Argentina's congressional elections on Sunday.\n\nBoth governing and opposition parties have suspended campaigning as the body is transported to Buenos Aires for identification.\n\nForensic experts have been assigned and a post-mortem will take place at the request of the Maldonado family.\n\nProsecutor Silvia Avila said the body, discovered in a riverbed just a few hundred metres from where Mr Maldonado was last seen, was found with clothing that resembled those belonging to the missing activist, AFP news agency reports.\n\nIn a statement, the Maldonado family said that the true identity of the body and cause of death would not be known until \"experts have completed their work\".\n\nThey added: \"We are asking that our privacy be respected at this difficult time.\"\n\nWitnesses say Mr Maldonado was last seen after he was arrested at a demonstration for the rights of the Mapuche indigenous group in southern Argentina on 1 August.\n\nOn the day that he disappeared, border police clashed with protesters while dismantling a roadblock that had been erected on Route 40, the main road crossing Argentina from north to south.\n\nHuman rights campaigners, union leaders and left-wing groups had called on the government of Mauricio Macri, which has denied allegations of a cover-up, to do more to find him.\n\nPresident Macri's government then offered a reward of almost $30,000 (£23,000) for information on his disappearance.\n\nMeanwhile Mr Maldonado's brother, Sergio, has called for an independent investigation outside police authority.\n\nIn September, thousands of Argentines marched in the capital Buenos Aires to protest the activist's disappearance.\n\nThe rally was one of many protests in cities across Argentina.", "An estimated 4.1 million people are in financial difficulty owing to missed domestic or credit bills, a major study has found.\n\nThese consumers - most likely to be aged between 25 and 34 - have failed to pay bills in three or more of the last six months.\n\nThe findings come as part of a survey of 13,000 people by the regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).\n\nIt suggests 25.6 million consumers could be vulnerable to financial harm.\n\nThis means that they display at least one of a series of issues, such as lack of internet access or an overdraft, so their finances would be at an increased risk if something went wrong.\n\nThe Financial Lives research, the first of its kind by the regulator, revealed a range of concerns among consumers at a time of weak wage growth, but also low-cost credit.\n\nIt concluded that 15 million people had low levels of resilience to a bill shock, that eight million were struggling with debt, and 100,000 had used an illegal money lender in the last 12 months.\n\nOne in six (17%) of those with a mortgage or who are paying rent, an estimated five million people, said that they would struggle if monthly payments rose by less than £50.\n\nA rise in interest rates, heavily hinted by policymakers at the Bank of England, could affect many of these people - especially if the Bank rate rose rapidly.\n\nRent, car loans, mortgages, credit cards, pay day loans, unsecured credit, overdrafts - with real wages falling, the amount of debt we are taking on is rising and the pressure we are under is increasing.\n\nFor many, a savings cash buffer to deal with shocks and rising prices is non-existent.\n\nWhen it comes to the build up of debt, this is a classic story of supply and demand.\n\nThe digitisation of financial products - making many loans little more than a mobile phone swipe away - has meant that supply has become broader and easier.\n\nHistorically low interest rates have also made products cheaper, meaning that taking on debt appears to be low cost, in the short term at least.\n\nIn the same week as the BBC News Money Matters series revealed worrying levels of debt among young adults, the FCA report highlights the issue again for 25 to 34-year-olds.\n\nIts findings show that 23% of consumers of this age were \"over-indebted\", the highest proportion of any age group.\n\nThe report also found that this group were most likely to be in difficulty (13%) or just surviving with their finances.\n\n\"This [research] exposes the story around the scale of those who are potentially in difficulty in the younger generation,\" said Christopher Woolard, executive director of strategy and competition at the FCA.\n\nHe added that there were \"challenges\" faced by every age group and that flexibility was required to ensure that these various issues were tackled.\n\nGareth Shaw, from consumer group Which?, said: \"That such a high number of people in middle-age have not properly considered how they will manage in retirement should be cause for concern.\n\n\"The current complex pensions system is leading to disengagement, leaving consumers vulnerable through the real lack of information, support and tools needed to empower consumers to make informed decisions about their financial futures.\n\n\"Today's figures should spur on the FCA to take action to deliver a consumer-friendly pensions system that everyone can engage with.\"\n\nThe FCA said that the survey would provide a \"wealth of information\" that would be used when deciding how to protect vulnerable consumers in the future.\n\nA Treasury spokesman said the government had tightened rules \"to ensure that money can only be lent to people who can afford to repay\".\n\n\"We have also cracked down on pay day loans, saving borrowers over £150m a year, and are introducing an energy cap to help people with household bills,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: I want 'urgency' on citizens' deal\n\nEU leaders have urged Theresa May to do more to break the deadlock in the Brexit negotiations as they gather at a crunch Brussels summit.\n\nDutch PM Mark Rutte said \"a lot more clarity\" on the UK's financial offer was needed before talks could progress.\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel said there were \"encouraging\" signs but that progress so far was \"not sufficient\" to open trade talks.\n\nHowever, Mrs Merkel suggested this could happen in December.\n\nMrs May, who has called for \"urgency\" in reaching agreement on the issue of citizens' rights, will address EU leaders at the summit later.\n\nAt a meeting on Friday, at which the UK will not be present, the 27 leaders are expected to conclude officially that \"insufficient progress\" has been made on the first topics for discussion to move onto the second phase of trade discussions.\n\nThese topics are citizens' rights, the UK's financial obligation and the border in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe UK prime minister spoke of her desire for a future partnership with the EU as she arrived in Brussels, but added: \"We'll also be looking at the concrete progress that has been made in our exit negotiations and setting out ambitious plans for the weeks ahead.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I particularly, for example, want to see an urgency in reaching an agreement on citizens' rights.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Rutte said he welcomed the PM's recent speech in Florence, where she set out what she has described as a \"bold and ambitious agenda\".\n\nBut he said she needed to make \"absolutely clear\" what she was offering to do in relationship to the UK's financial obligations towards the EU.\n\n\"Maybe it's not possible now to name a number but at least to come up with a methodology, a system, a complete proposal to solve this issue,\" he said.\n\n\"As long as that is not happening I don't see how we can move forward.\"\n\nTheresa May chatted to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron at the EU summit\n\nThe October summit was always the first date in the EU calendar on which a gathering of the 27 heads of government could declare themselves satisfied with the Brexit divorce negotiations and agree to start talking about trade.\n\nIt's been clear for weeks that they won't do that - but they will offer the UK some encouragement by starting internal discussions about future trade with the UK - ready for any breakthrough at the next summit in December.\n\nTheresa May isn't expected to make any big new proposal in her after-dinner remarks but to underline the quality of the financial offer made in her speech in Florence - worth around £20bn.\n\nThe EU side wants more though - more money as well as further movement on citizens rights and the Irish border.\n\nThere are almost as many predictions about what happens next as there are diplomats in Brussels; one has suggested that the prospects of a December breakthrough are no better than fifty-fifty but an official close to the talks said the signal on Brexit from this summit would be fundamentally positive.\n\nBefore leaving for Brussels, Mrs May used a Facebook post to offer further assurances to the three million or so nationals of other EU countries living in the UK and uncertain about their future after Brexit.\n\nIn the open letter, which was also mailed to 100,000 EU nationals, she said those who already had permanent residence would be able to \"swap this\" for settled status in as hassle-free a way as possible.\n\nThe process of applying for permanent residency, for which EU nationals are eligible after five years, has long been criticised as cumbersome and overly bureaucratic. At one point, it involved filling out an 85-page form.\n\nTheresa May says the future of British and EU nationals has always been her \"first priority\"\n\nIn simplifying it, Mrs May said she was committed to putting \"people first\" in the negotiations and expected British nationals living on the continent to be treated in the same way.\n\n\"I know both sides will consider each other's proposals with an open mind and with flexibility and creativity on both sides, I am confident we can conclude discussions on citizens' rights in the coming weeks,\" she said.\n\nNicolas Hatton, of the 3million pressure group formed to fight for the rights of EU nationals in the UK, described the PM's statement as \"very positive\", but said its timing was \"a bit more dubious\".\n\n\"We should have received that letter maybe 12 months ago so we would not have felt so anxious about our future\" he said, adding: \"I think the letter was actually addressed to EU leaders.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMeanwhile a group of pro-Brexit Tory and Labour politicians - including former Chancellor Lord Lawson, former Conservative minister Owen Paterson and Labour MP Kate Hoey - is urging Mrs May to walk away from negotiations this week if the EU does not accommodate the UK's wishes.\n\nIn the event of no progress at Thursday's meeting, the letter, organised by the Leave Means Leave campaign, says Mrs May should formally declare the UK is working on the assumption it will be reverting to World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules on 30 March 2019.\n\nMr Paterson told the Today programme the UK should not be \"terrified\" of leaving the EU without a deal in place, saying this appeared \"inevitable at the moment\" due to the EU's \"complete obsession with money\" - the so-called Brexit divorce bill.\n\nBut Labour's Brexit spokesman, Sir Keir Starmer, said it would be \"irresponsible\" to threaten to walk away with the talks only at \"phase one\".\n\nHe added that Labour was not \"duty bound\" to support any deal the PM secures with Brussels.\n\nSir Keir and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn are also in Brussels for their own talks with EU officials.", "An Atlantic storm, which is due to hit parts of the UK and the Republic of Ireland this weekend, has been named Brian, the Irish Met office has said.\n\nThe Met Office has issued a yellow warning for strong winds and potential flooding in parts of southern and western England and Wales on Saturday.\n\nMet Éireann issued an orange warning, of potentially \"significant\" impact, for parts of the Irish Republic.\n\nIt is the second named storm to hit the UK this winter, after Storm Aileen.\n\nThe storm - which could bring gusts of wind of up to 70mph (112kmph) - is likely to hit parts of south-west Ireland in the early hours of Saturday morning.\n\nIt is then forecast to affect parts of southern England and southern and western Wales later in the morning.\n\nThe Met Office's warning is in place from 04:00 BST (03:00 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nIt warned some coastal areas in the UK could be affected by large waves, with the potential for flooding.\n\nSome transport disruption was \"likely\", with delays to road, rail, air and ferry transport all possible, the warning added. Short term loss of power and other services is also possible, it said.\n\nThe Met Office's chief forecaster Dan Suri said the worst of the storm was likely to be felt in Ireland.\n\n\"At the moment, we don't expect the same level of impacts for the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"Gusts exceeding 50mph are expected widely within the warning area, with gusts of around 70mph along exposed coastal areas. These are expected to coincide with high tides, leading to locally dangerous conditions in coastal parts.\"\n\nThe Met Office said it currently has no plans to issue an amber warning for any part of the UK, but the situation was \"under continual review\".\n\nMet Éireann said there was a risk of coastal flooding in some areas of the Irish Republic.\n\nUnder storm naming guidelines, the Met Office and its partner agency Met Éireann name any storm with an amber - or orange - wind warning.\n\nA storm - the tail end of Hurricane Ophelia which travelled across the Atlantic Ocean from the Azores - caused significant damage to the Republic of Ireland, Scotland and north Wales last week.\n\nThe Met Office and Met Éireann do not rename the remnants of storms that have moved across the Atlantic, if they have already been named.\n\nOn Monday, three people in Ireland died in the storm. Thousands of people were also left without water and power.", "India is in the throes of an economic slowdown and a jobs crisis under Mr Modi's leadership\n\nOne of the reasons why Narendra Modi swept to victory with a historic mandate in 2014 was his combative and upbeat oratory. Three years on, the Indian prime minister is beginning to sound unusually defensive.\n\nMany say Mr Modi's characteristic bluster and bombast have begun to wane. In recent speeches, he has described his critics as doomsayers, blamed the previous Congress government for India's economic ills, painted himself as an \"outsider\" and said he was \"willing to drink poison\" for the good of the country. Has the victor turned victim?\n\n\"A small number of people weaken us,\" Mr Modi told a gathering of company secretaries recently. \"We need to recognise such people.\"\n\nSo is Mr Modi beginning to lose his mojo? Three years ago, when he won his landslide, he promised reforms and jobs. But under his leadership - and at a time when the world economy appears to be taking off - India is looking like a sorry outlier, battling an economic slowdown and a jobs crisis.\n\nBanks are struggling with mountains of bad loans, which in turn has choked credit and hurt domestic investment. \"India's economy is grounded,\" says economist Praveen Chakravarty.\n\nMr Modi's response has been criticised as piecemeal and clumsy. A controversial currency ban last November, politically sold as a crackdown on the illegal economy, ended up halting growth and causing a lot of misery.\n\nThe Goods and Services Tax was criticised for the way it was introduced\n\nJuly's introduction of a much-lauded countrywide Goods and Services Tax (GST) to help India move towards a common market has caused widespread business disruption because of what is seen as shoddy execution.\n\nIn cities and towns, traders are upset over the grinding tax bureaucracy engendered by the GST. In villages - nearly half of Indians are engaged in agriculture - farmers are complaining of income insecurity as they believe the government isn't paying them enough for their produce.\n\nAlso, for the first time since winning power, Mr Modi's government is under attack.\n\nA senior functionary from Mr Modi's party, the BJP, recently blamed his government for the economic slowdown. \"The prime minister claims that he has seen poverty from close quarters,\" former finance minister Yashwant Sinha wrote. \"His finance minister is working overtime to make sure that all Indians also see it from equally close quarters.\"\n\nAnd Mr Modi is taking flak from the opposition too for a change. His main political rival, Rahul Gandhi, of the once mighty Congress party, appears to be suddenly re-energised and has been taking on Mr Modi more aggressively than ever before.\n\nAdded to this, the son of Amit Shah, Mr Modi's closest aide, is accused of corruption. Jay Shah denies the allegations and has threatened to sue non-profit news website The Wire over the story.\n\nThus far since taking office, Mr Modi has been greatly helped by four unrelated things.\n\nLow oil prices - India imports most of its crude - helped boost growth and tame inflation. Second, a chunk of the domestic mainstream media which depends on government advertising has been largely uncritical of his government. Third, Mr Modi faces no leadership challenge from within his party, which he and Amit Shah dominate. Lastly, and most importantly, a political opposition largely in disarray has failed to offer aspirational Indians an alternative - and persuasive - narrative of hope.\n\nStill, there's \"something in the air\", as Shekhar Gupta, editor of The Print news site, says.\n\nOne indication is that even Mr Modi's fiercely pugnacious supporters are markedly subdued on social media these days. On the other hand, social media is awash with memes making fun of the prime minister.\n\nMr Modi's politics are also causing discontent. By whipping up what many say is hysteria over the sale and consumption of beef and pandering to Hindu radicals, observers say his party has begun to frighten off many young people and urban folk.\n\nTo make matters worse, his party appointed a controversial Hindu religious leader known for anti-Muslim rhetoric to run the political bellwether state of Uttar Pradesh, where the BJP won a decisive mandate in March. About a fifth of Uttar Pradesh's 200 million people are Muslim.\n\nIn 2014, Mr Modi secured the overwhelming majority of the young votes. But is support from this quarter waning? BJP-supported student unions have lost elections in three major universities in Delhi and Hyderabad. Last month's unrest in a leading university in Mr Modi's constituency in Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh, where police beat female university students protesting against an alleged sexual assault, will not endear him and his party to young voters.\n\nOn the economy, Mr Modi clearly seems to have overplayed his hand and questions are being asked over whether he can fulfil expectations. In June, the Economist said Mr Modi was \"not the radical reformer he is cracked up to be\". The magazine said he had few big ideas of his own - the GST, for example, had been initiated during the previous, Congress, regime.\n\nCritics say despite running India's most powerful government in recent history, he has achieved little in creating functioning markets for land and electricity, and reforming labour laws. On his politics, they say, Mr Modi appears to be hostage to the party's ideological fountainhead, the right-wing Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (National Volunteers' Organisation), known for what many say are visions of Hindu glory and achievement.\n\nEconomists such as Dr Chakravarty believe Mr Modi still has time to revive the economy by exploiting the buoyant stock market, which is flush with money from foreign institutional investors. Money could be raised by divesting stakes in state-run companies and used to recapitalise and clean up the ailing banks, so that they can begin lending again.\n\nAlso the rupee could be depreciated to boost exports, the GST simplified further to help small businesses and interest rates lowered to spur growth. Growth will also depend on social stability, but it is not clear whether Mr Modi will be able to rein in the radical hotheads.\n\nHowever, Mr Modi is a redoubtable fighter. It is too early to say the tide is turning against him decisively. One opinion poll in August indicated he would win handsomely if elections were held. But then again, a month can be a long time in politics. State elections in BJP-ruled Gujarat in December will offer some clues - a recent survey by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) suggested people were \"unhappy with GST\". Nobody expects the BJP to lose, but the margin of victory will be closely watched.\n\nAmong his supporters, Mr Modi enjoys a reputation of being a hardworking and honest prime minister. \"What has helped in stopping this wind of dissatisfaction from turning into a strong hurricane are two factors - the absence of a viable alternative, and the personal credibility of Mr Modi,\" says political scientist Sanjay Kumar.\n\n\"The only question that remains is: how long will Mr Modi be able to hold down this wave of resentment with his own image and credibility?\" And right now that answer is blowing in the wind.", "Danny Jordaan is a prominent member of the governing ANC party\n\nSouth African singer and ex-MP Jennifer Ferguson has accused the country's football boss Danny Jordaan, 66, of raping her nearly 24 years ago.\n\nHe \"overpowered\" her and \"painfully\" raped her in a hotel in Port Elizabeth city, she has alleged in a blog.\n\nMr Jordaan, who organised the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, has not yet responded to a request for comment.\n\nNow living in Sweden, Ms Ferguson said she had been moved by the #MeToo campaign on social media to speak out.\n\nShe said the attack took place when she was \"high and happy\" following her unexpected nomination by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress (ANC) party to serve in South Africa's first democratically elected parliament in 1994.\n\nMr Jordaan, a prominent member of the ANC and president of the South African Football Association, came to her hotel suite after she had given a performance at a dinner.\n\n\"He overpowered me and painfully raped me. It must have been over in about 20 seconds although it felt like a lifetime,\" she alleged.\n\n\"He left immediately without saying a word.\"\n\nJennifer Ferguson says she wants rape survivors to \"begin to heal\"\n\nMs Ferguson said she had been \"bewildered\" and in a state of \"complete shock\".\n\n\"Not sure what to do, I washed and left the hotel and began to walk. I reached the beach and sat there a very long time trying to process what had happened,\" she said.\n\n\"The thought of going to the police felt intolerable. What would I say? Should I have screamed louder? Fought him off harder? Had I been complicit in some way? All these questions raged in my mind. I wept.\"\n\nShe accused the football boss of using her as \"an object for his sad need for power and twisted gratification\".\n\n\"I am not speaking out to get revenge on Danny Jordaan or a million South African men like him. I am doing this so we can help each other be courageous, speak out and begin to heal as we find we are not alone,\" she added.\n\nMs Ferguson campaigned against military conscription during white-minority rule in South Africa.\n\nState radio banned her songs, including Letters For Dickie, sung in the form of letters from a girl to her boyfriend who was a conscripted soldier on the border.\n\nMr Jordaan was widely praised for spearheading South Africa's 2010 football World Cup bid. It was the first time that the tournament was played in Africa.\n\nIn 2015, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) alleged that South Africa had paid a $10m (£6.5m) bribe to host the tournament. Mr Jordaan and the government strongly denied the allegation.\n\nMr Jordaan was mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay, which includes Port Elizabeth, until 2016, when the opposition took control of it in elections.", "Cpl Dillon Baldridge was killed over the summer by a rogue Afghan commander he had been training\n\nThe White House says President Donald Trump has sent a personal cheque to a dead soldier's family after they said he had not kept his promise to do so.\n\nThe father of a soldier killed in Afghanistan said Mr Trump offered $25,000 (£19,000) of his own money during a June phone call.\n\nThe White House said it was \"disgusting\" that the media would exploit the issue.\n\nThe dispute came as Mr Trump denied being insensitive to a war widow.\n\nOn Wednesday, the president rejected a claim that he had told the wife of a soldier killed in Niger this month her husband knew what he signed up for.\n\nLater that day, the Washington Post reported on a phone call that bereaved father Chris Baldridge said he had received from the president.\n\nHis 22-year-old son Cpl Dillon Baldridge was killed over the summer by a rogue Afghan commander he had been training.\n\nMr Baldridge said that during the call he vented frustration to Mr Trump about a US military survivor benefits programme.\n\nTo his surprise, he said, the president offered to send a personal cheque and set up an online fundraiser.\n\nBut the family told the Post they are still waiting for the money.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Congresswoman Frederica Wilson: \"How insensitive can you be?\"\n\n\"I was just floored,\" said Mr Baldridge, of Zebulon, North Carolina.\n\n\"I wish I had it recorded because the man did say this.\n\n\"He said, 'No other president has ever done something like this,' but he said, 'I'm going to do it.'\"\n\nWhite House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters told US media hours later: \"The cheque has been sent.\n\n\"It's disgusting that the media is taking something that should be recognised as a generous and sincere gesture, made privately by the President, and using it to advance the media's biased agenda.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gold Star Mother Christina Ayube: \"We don't need to be reminded of that on the way to receiving the body\"\n\nJessie Baldridge, stepmother of the slain soldier, told local media the family feels no resentment towards Mr Trump over the delay.\n\n\"We just thought he was saying something nice,\" she told WTVD, a local TV station, in North Carolina.\n\n\"We got a condolence letter from him and there was no cheque, and we kind of joked about it.\"\n\nA White House official said the payment \"has been in the pipeline since the President's initial call with the father\".\n\n\"There is a substantial process that can involve multiple agencies anytime the President interacts with the public, especially when transmitting personal funds\", the official said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"The President has personally followed up several times to ensure that the cheque was being sent. As stated earlier, the cheque has been sent.\"\n\nMr Trump is not the first president to be accused of breaking his word to a grieving family.\n\nIn 2016, President Barack Obama was prodded into sending a donation by cheque to a foundation set up by the family of slain US hostage Kayla Mueller.\n\nThe White House acted after an ABC News report that the private presidential promise was unkept.", "Some PCSOs will take on new roles within the force\n\nA police force could be the first to axe all of its community support officers amid falling budgets and an \"unparalleled growth in complex crime\".\n\nNorfolk Constabulary will scrap 150 PCSOs if its proposals are approved.\n\nChief Constable Simon Bailey said \"an average police constable\" costs only slightly more to employ and would be more useful in \"high risk, high harm\" cases.\n\nUnison official Caren Reeves said it was \"a life-altering day\" for Norfolk.\n\nThe news comes as the Office for National Statistics said the numbers of crimes recorded annually in England and Wales had risen by 13%.\n\nWith the £1.6m saved by ditching PCSOs, the chief constable is proposing to appoint an extra 81 officers and 16 staff members.\n\nSeven front counter services and seven police stations would also be shut under the plans.\n\nMr Bailey said the \"radical\" measures came at a time when the police service was facing \"unparalleled growth in complex crime\" alongside \"reduced policing budgets\".\n\nHe said the force had seen a large increase over the past three years of serious crimes such as \"rape, sexual offences, adult and child abuse, indecent images, drugs and serious violence as well as cyber crime\".\n\nHe said they were \"high risk, high harm\" cases and needed \"a workforce that is able to deal with that\".\n\nMr Bailey added: \"When you compare the cost of a PCSO, and the average cost of a PC, there's only a difference of £1,800.\n\n\"Police officers are fully flexible, fully warranted powers, and I'm able to do a lot more with them than I am with my PCSOs, so it's a tough decision.\"\n\nPCSOs were first introduced in England and Wales in 2002 to tackle the fear of crime and provide back-up to forces.\n\nThey do not have powers of arrest, cannot interview prisoners or carry out the high-risk tasks of police officers.\n\nThey can give someone a fixed-penalty notice, for instance for littering, demand the name and address of someone accused of being anti-social, and take alcohol off a person aged under 18.\n\nThey can also provide support at special events, direct traffic and make house-to-house inquiries.\n\nSome critics of the role have previously described them as \"plastic policemen\" because they do not have as many powers as PCs.\n\nThe number of PCSOs in England and Wales has been in decline since 2010, when there were 16,918.\n\nBy March 2017 there were 10,213.\n\nNorfolk has seen one of the biggest declines in PCSOs, a fall of 46%, from 275 in 2010, to 149 as of March 2017, but it is Essex that has seen the biggest drop, down 78% from 445 to 96.\n\nLondon's two forces, the Metropolitan Police and City of London Police, saw a combined fall of 69%.\n\nThe Home Office figures are \"full-time equivalent\" and will count two or more part time PCSOs as one full time officer.\n\nThis comes alongside a decline in the number of police officers from 144,273 in 2009 to 123,507 in 2017.\n\nMs Reeves, branch secretary of Norfolk Police Union, said: \"I believe these losses are a direct result of the ongoing unreasonable and insurmountable government cuts to police budgets.\n\n\"Not only is this a life-altering day for my members, my colleagues and their families, but also for the good people of Norfolk and the visitors to our safe and beautiful county.\"\n\nChairman of the Police Federation, Andy Symonds, said he feared the PCSO workload would transfer to officers left behind and there would also be an impact from the length of time it took to train a police officer.\n\nThere will now be a 45-day formal staff consultation on the proposals.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Three of Northern Ireland's most senior police officers are under investigation for alleged misconduct in public office and criminality that could amount to conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.\n\nChief Constable George Hamilton and his deputy Drew Harris are being investigated by the Police Ombudsman.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton is also under investigation.\n\nIn a statement, the PSNI said they \"completely refute the allegations\".\n\nMr Hamilton said he was \"absolutely confident\" there would be no findings of misconduct against him or the other officers.\n\nThe inquiry focuses on concerns about how the Police Service of Northern Ireland conducted an investigation into allegations of bribery and fraud in 2014.\n\nIt includes allegations that entries in police notebooks and journals were changed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton said he was confident no misconduct would be found\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, the ombudsman's office confirmed \"a number of allegations\" had been made against a range of officers.\n\nBBC News NI has established that those under investigation include:\n\nThe nature of the complaints and the seniority of those under scrutiny make this investigation unprecedented.\n\nIn terms of current policing issues, it's considered to be the most serious investigation the Ombudsman's office has undertaken.\n\nThe investigation was launched after the Police Ombudsman, Dr Michael Maguire, received complaints from seven people questioned as part of an investigation into allegations of bribery and misconduct in public office in the awarding of PSNI vehicle contracts.\n\nThey included retired PSNI Assistant Chief Constable Duncan McCausland, and the former Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police, Mark Gilmore.\n\nGeorge Hamilton was appointed PSNI Chief Constable in May 2014 - he was previously Assistant Chief Constable\n\nThey were questioned in June 2014. Eighteen months later, the public prosecution service informed them that none would face any charges.\n\nThe Police Ombudsman has established a dedicated team of six investigators to examine the allegations about the PSNI investigation.\n\n\"They include allegations of criminality and misconduct in how this investigation was undertaken,\" added the Ombudsman's statement.\n\nIt's understood the alleged criminality being investigated includes claims that entries in police notebooks and journals were changed.\n\nThere are also claims that the PSNI didn't follow proper procedures to obtain warrants.\n\nA solicitor for those who lodged complaints said he believed there were a number of serious flaws in the way the PSNI conducted the investigation against his clients.\n\n\"It is our contention that there is evidence of serious criminal activity on the part of members of the PSNI,\" said Ernie Waterworth.\n\n\"It's an extremely serious allegation and I have to say my clients thought long and hard before going down this road.\"\n\nMr Hamilton told the media that he was confident the Police Ombudsman would \"vindicate\" him and the other officers.\n\n\"I've got confidence in the Police Ombudsman, let them do the job, let them vindicate us rather than me saying this because actually that's the way it's supposed to work,\" he added.\n\nThe PSNI normally does not comment in detail on live investigations by the ombudsman, but on this occasion has robustly rejected the allegations.\n\n\"The Chief Constable, Deputy Chief Constable and other officers completely refute the allegations made against them and are strongly of the view that these complex investigations into the complainants were conducted with professionalism and integrity,\" said its statement.\n\nIt said the PSNI \"acknowledges and supports the need for office of the Police Ombudsman to investigate these allegations and all officers are co-operating fully with the investigation\".\n\nExplaining its unusual decision to give a more detailed response, the statement said media coverage of the investigation \"has the potential to negatively impact on public confidence in policing\".\n\nSources have told BBC News NI that the PSNI consulted a number of external criminal justice agencies throughout the 2014 investigation, which it was fully satisfied was conducted properly.\n\nThe ombudsman has declared the investigation a \"critical incident\".\n\nThat means it's considered a matter that \"could have a significant impact on the person making the complaint, on the police or on the wider community\".\n\nThe PSNI said it had \"full confidence\" in the ombudsman to complete a thorough investigation, adding that he should be allowed to do so \"without ongoing public commentary\".\n\nThe investigation is expected to take more than a year to complete.", "Let me be the first to make the bad joke, to use the predictable metaphor.\n\nThere will be a sour mood over the EU summit in the next couple of days, and that's not just because of the problem with the drains that sent toxic fumes into the atmosphere at the summit building forcing the talks back to the old premises next door. (Sorry)\n\nIt will also be the sense of frustration in the air, maybe even of exasperation, and likely too a whiff of foreboding about the whole situation.\n\nOn both sides there will be spin. On both sides there is already expectation management.\n\nHere are a few things, however, that are currently true and will probably still be true by Friday lunchtime, with the slim but real chance of course that it could all get turned upside down.\n\nFirst, the UK-EU talks are significantly behind. The UK hoped that by autumn we'd be able to move onto trade talks properly. That's not going to happen, underlining the change since those heady days when Brexiteers promised it could be straightforward.\n\nSecond, there is not likely to be any answer to the main bind on Friday. The UK does not want to put any more cash on the table, beyond the 20bn euros implied by Mrs May's Florence speech.\n\nThe strongest voices in the EU, although not every country agrees, think the UK ought to have to wait for the next phase of talks unless it is willing to offer hypothetical extra cash.\n\nWhatever else is said or briefed privately, this is the fundamental issue. And until the PM feels she is in a political situation where it's possible and desirable to budge it's hard to see how they will move on as certainly, there is no appetite on the EU side for a shift.\n\nThird, something will have gone very badly wrong, however, if there is not a nudge towards moving on.\n\nSources say foreign ministers agreed the draft version of the conclusions of the summit yesterday that are not likely to change much.\n\nThey don't exactly give a green light to the next phase, but they do at least give a bit of a push in that direction - although not quite as clearly as the UK had hoped.\n\nFourth, the EU is still concerned that the UK government is yet to present a clear picture of what it really wants the long-term relationship to be. And it's still the case, sources tell me, that the full cabinet is yet to have a proper discussion that tries to find that answer.\n\nSounds extraordinary but given how divided the party is, arguably the lack of discussion is what keeps things even vaguely calm. With guns drawn in the Tory party there is no temptation for Theresa May to fire a shot.\n\nAnd there's nothing in the next couple of days, or even the next couple of months, that's likely to change that or to answer that much more fundamental question.", "The Pussycat Dolls have recently reformed, after a break of seven years\n\nThe Pussycat Dolls have issued a joint statement denying allegations that the pop group was a \"prostitution ring\".\n\nKaya Jones, who left the band before they became famous, claimed that she and other members were regularly subjected to sexual abuse.\n\n\"We are all abused,\" she said on Twitter, claiming the group were made to \"sleep with whoever they say\".\n\nThe band, led by Nicole Scherzinger, said they \"were not aware of Kaya's experiences\" and offered her support.\n\nHowever, they firmly denied that the remaining members had been abused.\n\n\"We cannot stand behind false allegations towards other group members partaking in activities that simply did not take place,\" they said.\n\nKaya Jones says she walked away from the band to escape abuse\n\n\"To liken our professional roles in The Pussycat Dolls to a prostitution ring not only undermines everything we worked hard to achieve for all those years but also takes the spotlight off the millions of victims who are speaking up and being heard loud and clear around the world,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"We stand in solidarity with all women who have bravely spoken publicly of their horrific experiences of abuse, harassment and exploitation.\"\n\nJones's original accusations came in a string of Tweets last Friday:\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\nIn their statement, The Pussycat Dolls said: \"While we were not aware of Kaya's experiences that allegedly took place during her short time working with us, before the group signed a recording contract, we can firmly testify that we were not privy to any misconduct taking place around us.\n\n\"If Kaya experienced something we are unaware of then we fully encourage her to get the help she needs and are here to support her.\"\n\nThe Pussycat Dolls were founded by choreographer Robin Antin in 1995 as a burlesque dance troupe. Their shows attracted a huge following in Hollywood, with stars like Britney Spears, Pink and Brittany Murphy joining them on stage.\n\nIn 2003, Antin decided to reinvent the troupe as a pop group, and held open auditions to find new singers and dancers.\n\nKaya Jones joined the band at this point, but had left by the time they released their debut single, Don't Cha, in 2005 and does not appear on any of their recorded output.\n\nThe Pussycat Dolls in 2008 (L-R): Melody Thornton, Kimberley Wyatt, Nicole Scherzinger, Ashley Roberts and Jessica Sutta\n\nSpeaking to The Blast on Monday, Antin called Jones's accusations \"disgusting, ridiculous lies\" and claimed the singer was \"clearly looking for her 15 minutes\".\n\nJones responded by warning the media not to \"discredit the victim\" by reporting Antin's denials, describing her as a \"predator\".\n\n\"You don't have to believe me,\" she added. \"I lived it.\n\n\"It's now about helping other people in the world scared to stand up to their abusers.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "John was devastated when his son Archie was taken into care\n\nWhen John's son was placed into care at birth he was distraught - his drug abuse had been the cause. But with the help of a family court focused on reuniting children with their parents, his life began to change.\n\n\"Not only was I using heroin, I was using crack, I was using prescription drugs, I was using alcohol - and I was homeless.\"\n\nJohn, who is 49, is candid when it comes to talking about his past addictions.\n\nHe started experimenting around the age of 14, and continued the habit during the birth of his two children - both with women who were also addicts.\n\nIt meant he didn't see his first child Daniella for long periods of time - at one stage as much as two years.\n\nHe says he and the mother \"really tried to do normal life, but it didn't really work.\n\n\"It was a combination of the drugs and the lifestyle that went with that. Trying to be a parent, hold down a job - it wasn't doable,\" he explains.\n\nArchie was taken into foster care from birth\n\nWhen Daniella was 10, John found himself preparing for the birth of another child - his son, Archie, with another addict who had already had several children put into care.\n\nHe began looking for a place to live - having been homeless at the time - but failed to tackle the underlying drug problem.\n\nAfter Archie was born, he was monitored in hospital to see if he had grown dependent on the heroin substitute his mother had taken during pregnancy. Then, he was immediately placed into foster care.\n\nAs John recalls this devastating period, he asks for a moment to compose himself, leaving his chair as he wipes away the tears.\n\nOnce he's ready to continue, he says it was seeing his son enter the care system that made him realise how out of hand his own life had become.\n\n\"That's when I knew this is serious, really serious.\"\n\nJohn was assigned to a type of family court specifically designed to help parents keep their children, known as the Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC).\n\nIts aim is to place parents at the centre of the process - speaking to them directly rather than through lawyers, and having regular two-week sessions with the same judge.\n\nSocial workers and psychiatrists, as well as experts in substance misuse, domestic violence, finance and housing, are also available.\n\nWatch Catrin Nye's full film about the Family Drug and Alcohol Court on the Victoria Derbyshire website.\n\nIt was founded in 2008 by Judge Nicholas Crichton after years of seeing families being broken up by court rulings.\n\n\"I often think it must be terrifying for a parent to have to come to [a traditional] court knowing at the end of the proceedings they may well lose their children,\" he says.\n\nFDAC's task can, however, be substantial.\n\n\"I have seen mothers who have been heroin addicted from the age of 10, children who sleep on urine-sodden beds, where no-one has bothered to bath them or feed them properly,\" Judge Crichton explains, running through some of the cases he has seen.\n\nDr Mike Shaw says the effect FDAC can have by reuniting families justifies the cost of the service\n\nFor John, this approach made \"total sense\" - helping him to tackle \"the problem that was right at the front\".\n\nFDAC helped him to arrange detox classes to combat his addiction, followed by a day programme.\n\nThe court is now receiving a further £6.2m of government money over seven years, through a complex financing structure - something called a \"social impact bond\" or \"pay-for-success financing\".\n\nPrivate investors will pay the upfront costs and if the process works they make a profit - being paid back by the local authority and the government.\n\nIf it fails, they will not receive that money.\n\nDr Mike Shaw, a child psychiatrist and co-director of FDAC National Unit, concedes that it makes the process more complex, but says it will ensure the service strives for the best outcome.\n\nBut its work does come at an inflated price.\n\nEach intervention costs around £13,000 a year, he suggests, compared to £5,000 for standard care proceedings.\n\nHe says, however, that the overall cost of care proceedings might in some cases be as much as £100,000.\n\nMinister for Sport and Civil Society, Tracey Crouch, says the additional FDAC funding will \"benefit some of the most vulnerable people in society\" and \"achieve real results in communities across the country\".\n\nAt one stage, John went as long as two years without seeing his daughter Daniella\n\nJohn's intervention lasted around 16 months - at which point he estimates he had been clean for a year.\n\nHis son Archie, now aged eight, lives with him permanently, and he says he's rebuilding his relationship with Daniella - who's now 18.\n\nA 2016 study by the University of Lancaster, commissioned by the Department for Education, suggested that others have successful outcomes from FDAC too.\n\nIt found 37% of families were reunited or continued to live together at the end of proceedings - compared to 25% of those who go through ordinary family courts.\n\nHowever, the sample group was relatively small - 240 families in all.\n\nJohn says he is now \"trying to make up for lost time\" with Daniella, who smiles as he says it.\n\nHe is grateful for the opportunity.\n\n\"I've got two children, I work, I pay my bills, I do lots of fun stuff,\" he says.\n\n\"The way I live my life today is totally different from who I was nearly eight years ago.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.", "Bodyform has become the first brand in the UK to feature sanitary pads stained with red liquid, rather than blue, in its adverts.\n\nParent company Essity said it wanted to confront taboos surrounding periods.\n\nThe firm says research found 74% of people wanted to see more honest representation in adverts.\n\nBodyform's video campaign, #bloodnormal, shows a woman in the shower with blood running down her thigh and a man buying sanitary towels.\n\nIt follows a 2016 advert where sportswomen were shown muddy and bloodied while doing activities like bike riding, boxing and running.\n\nWith the slogan \"no blood should hold us back\", it featured a sanitary towel on a TV advert for the first time.\n\nThe new advert features a woman in the shower\n\nSanitary brands and adverts have traditionally opted to use blue liquid in order to represent how much moisture their pads can hold.\n\nThe new campaign has been mostly well received.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEssity, the company which makes Bodyform, said it wanted to \"challenge the stigma around periods\".\n\nTanja Grubna said: \"We believe that like any other taboo, the more people see it, the more normal the subject becomes.\"", "So it's come down to money. Who would have thought it?\n\nAfter five rounds of negotiations on Brexit, the EU remains insistent: there will be no discussions with the UK on a transition period, or on future relations, until financial commitments have been clarified.\n\nSo what exactly is it about the money that is proving so difficult to resolve?\n\nIt comes down to the detail (or lack of it) contained in Theresa May's carefully crafted speech in Florence.\n\nOverall, the speech was greeted across the EU with a considerable sense of relief. It suggested that progress was at least possible at a time when some countries were beginning to fear the worst.\n\nThe prime minister opened the door for the UK to contribute roughly €20bn (£17.9bn) to the EU budget in 2019 and 2020, so that no-one else would be out of pocket.\n\nAnd - crucially - she went on to say that \"the UK will honour commitments we have made during the period of our membership\".\n\nBut EU negotiators - under clear instructions from the member states - want to know exactly what that means in practice.\n\nThe prime minister said the UK would \"honour commitments\"\n\nLooming large in the background is something called the Reste à Liquider (RAL) - EU money that has already been committed to projects in the long-term budget but has not yet been spent.\n\nThe RAL is currently running at an eye-watering €239bn, which could mean a UK share of more than €30bn.\n\nMuch of it is due to be spent on big infrastructure or development projects that have been delayed. There are also pensions and contingent liabilities, such as loans to other countries, to consider.\n\nThe EU isn't asking for a figure to be agreed - but for a guarantee within the negotiating process, probably in writing, that \"honouring commitments\" means \"all commitments.\"\n\nThe UK position, on the other hand, is that the prime minister made a substantial gesture in her Florence speech, and it is in no position to move further unless it gets something in return.\n\n\"They are using time pressure to get more money out of us,\" the Brexit Secretary David Davis told the House of Commons this week. \"Bluntly, that is what's going on.\"\n\nIt sounds like deadlock, but that's not necessarily the case. Three more rounds of negotiation have been suggested between this week's summit and another one in December.\n\nThe hope is that a way will be found to move forward, even if it takes a moment of crisis to get there.\n\n\"The EU27 don't believe the UK is too far off 'sufficient progress',\" says Mujtaba Rahman, the managing director for Europe at the political consultancy Eurasia Group.\n\n\"They want Mrs May to be able to leave Brussels with a win that will enable her to strike a deal by December.\"\n\nThat's why both sides have said they want to accelerate the negotiating process, and prepare for discussions about the future.\n\nIf the language of the current draft of the summit's conclusions doesn't change much, the EU27 will agree to begin internal discussions about a transition period and the nature of a future relationship.\n\nThey won't talk directly to the UK about these issues until December at the earliest. And only then if \"sufficient progress\" has been made on all the \"divorce\" arrangements, including money.\n\nIt doesn't sound like much. But it's a start, and it is seen in Brussels as a carrot for the UK negotiating team.\n\nSo what might the EU be likely to decide in internal discussions over the coming weeks?\n\nFor EU officials involved in the negotiating process one thing about transition is clear: the more you keep things the same, the easier it will be to agree.\n\nThat's why the internal deliberations among the 27 on transition could be concluded very quickly. They will probably offer to prolong all existing EU rules and regulations (the body of law known as 'the acquis') - or, to put it another way - to extend the status quo.\n\nThat means that after Brexit - for \"about two years\" (ie for the length of a transition period) - the UK would be outside the EU's political institutions, but inside its economic arrangements.\n\nIt also means the UK would have to accept EU budget payments, EU regulations and the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nTo put it in the formal language of the European Council's Article 50 negotiating guidelines: \"Should a time-limited prolongation of Union acquis be considered, this would require existing Union regulatory, budgetary, supervisory, judiciary and enforcement instruments and structures to apply.\"\n\nThe details of what that means are difficult for some Brexit supporters in the UK to stomach. But the prime minister, in her Florence speech, has already accepted that the framework for any transition (she prefers to call it an implementation period) would be \"the existing structure of EU rules and regulations\".\n\nProblems would arise, however, if the UK tried to argue for exemptions or exceptions. Take, for example, one idea that has been floated (forgive the pun): leaving the Common Fisheries Policy at the same time as the UK leaves the EU in March 2019.\n\nThat doesn't really tally with the kind of transition that EU officials have in mind. Once you start unpicking the offer, all sorts of complications begin to arise. So it's not quite take it or leave it. But it's not far off.\n\nUnpicking the agreement, such as leaving the Common Fisheries Policy, could lead to further complications\n\nThere are other potential problems with a transition period that will need to be resolved. What, for example, does it mean for trade agreements with third countries, when it makes a difference whether products (or parts of products) are manufactured in the single market or not?\n\nBut agreeing upon the terms of a transition will be much easier for the EU27 than agreeing on the outline of a final deal - on everything from trade to security. The 27 member states are a little more nervous about those discussions because differences of opinion are bound to emerge between them.\n\nMany countries have obviously been thinking hard about this already. One internal German government paper has been reported here.\n\nBut there is another issue that overshadows debate about Brexit in capitals across the EU - what exactly is it that the UK wants? Every change of emphasis in London adds to the confusion.\n\nAs Finland's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Samuli Virtanen, put it this week: \"It seems that at the moment the EU 27 is more unanimous than the UK 1. And that is one of the main problems here.\"\n\nBut it all rests on finding a compromise on money. And that really has to happen before the end of this year. Otherwise time is going to start running out.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the wines of Canadian winemaker Norman Hardie are winning fans around the world.\n\nWith winter temperatures regularly dipping below -25C at his vineyard, winemaker Norman Hardie definitely didn't choose an easy place to grow his grapes.\n\n\"Minus 25 is the absolute death knell for vitis vinifera [the common grape vine], we actually have to bury our vines in the winter [to protect them]. It's a huge job,\" says the 51-year-old.\n\n\"And then we can get snap spring frosts that can quickly ruin a crop. We lost more than 80% in 2015.\"\n\nWhile most of us associate winemaking with warm countries, Mr Hardie has since 2004 been making wine in… Canada.\n\nNorman Hardie Winery is currently continuing with its 2017 harvest\n\nBased in picturesque Prince Edward County, Ontario, a two-hour drive east of Toronto alongside Lake Ontario, the summers are more often glorious.\n\nThe winters, on the other hand, are harsh, which means that the team at Norman Hardie Winery face a race against the cold weather every November.\n\n\"I have 80,000 plants today, so that is almost a quarter of a million canes [the vine's branches] that we have to tie down by hand, and then cover with a mound of earth,\" says Norman.\n\n\"Before we then carefully open up and untie in the spring.\"\n\nIf that wasn't labour intensive enough, come April and May Norman and his team have to light fires and position wind turbines to try to drive away late frosts. But sometimes, such as in 2015, they just aren't that successful.\n\nNorman Hardie says that Canada's cool weather helps him to make excellent wine\n\nUp against such challenges, you might question why Norman ever chose to plant vineyards and build a winery in Ontario. He says that despite the challenges, the combination of cool weather and the clay and limestone soil of Prince Edward County allow him to make world class wines.\n\n\"The great wines are always made on the edge, and we're certainly on the edge,\" says South African-born Norman, who prior to going into winemaking had been a sommelier (wine waiter) in Toronto.\n\n\"I'd rather be here than anywhere else in the world because the flavours we get out of these soils are unique.\"\n\nWhile many wine regions around the world have cold winters, they aren't as cold as Canada's\n\nPrimarily making white wines from chardonnay and red wines from pinot noir, Norman Hardie's wines now have a cult following in Canada, and are even said to be the favourite tipples of Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau.\n\nBut from day one, Norman - who studied winemaking in Burgundy, Oregon, California, South Africa, and New Zealand prior to establishing his own winery - wanted his wines to be sold internationally.\n\nThis brought his next big challenge - how to persuade a sceptical world to take Canadian wine seriously, when even Norman admits that 30 years ago the country made \"terrible wine\".\n\nNorman's solution was to turn himself into a travelling salesman, and build up his wine's global reputation \"one top sommelier one top buyer, and one top wine journalist, at a time… flying around the world, pounding the pavement, speaking to people, changing people's ideas about Canada\".\n\nSo attending wine fairs, visiting wine importers, and knocking on the doors of Michelin-star restaurants, he started to slowly build up export orders.\n\nThis is the first feature of a new 20-week series called Connected Commerce, which highlights companies around the world that are successfully exporting, and trading beyond their home market.\n\nFocusing particularly on the UK and New York, Norman says his personal, face-to-face approach enabled him to let some of the most influential people in the global wine world \"understand what we're doing, why we're doing it, and how we are doing it\".\n\nHe adds: \"You can only do that with face time, and once you have them they are your evangelists.\"\n\nFrom selling 6,000 bottles in 2004, Norman Hardy Winery produced 240,000 in 2016. From that 6,804 bottles were exported across eight countries - China, Denmark, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, Taiwan, the UK, and the US.\n\nAnd he still is regularly overseas promoting his wines, including spending five to six days every year in the UK.\n\nBack at the winery, there are now six year-round employees, rising to 50 in the busy summer months and at harvest time in late September and October. The business now has annual revenues of 4.1m Canadian dollars ($3.3m; £2.5m).\n\nJohn Downes, a London-based wine expert, who has the top master of wine qualification, says that Norman was right to recognise the fact that as Canada is such a little known wine region he had to do a lot of marketing work to \"stand out\" on the global stage.\n\nPrince Edward County is now home to 40 wineries\n\nMr Downes adds: \"A lot of people in wine don't tell stories, they say 'here's my wine what do you think about it?'.\n\n\"But they don't tell the story behind the wine, and that gives the picture of the wine to the consumer. Norman does that very well.\"\n\nWhile exporting wine is not without its challenges, such as the need to produce different labels for each country, Norman says that building up a vibrant export business has also boosted his sales in Canada.\n\nNow preparing to bury the vines for another winter, Norman says: \"That credibility, that international credibility, says you're doing something right.\"", "Marina Titova lays a carnation in memory of her great-great-uncle who died on Mudyug\n\nWhen British soldiers were sent to Russia after the Russian Revolution their main enemies were the Germans - their opponents in World War One - but they also found themselves fighting and imprisoning Bolsheviks. In the process they opened what Russians regard as the first concentration camp in their country.\n\nThe boat sails down the River Dvina past onion-domed churches, lumber yards and logs floating in the water. Finally it reaches the open sea and an hour later a brown smudge appears on the horizon.\n\nGetting closer, I can make out a lighthouse and a few radio towers. As my companions and I jump off the boat and walk along a deserted beach a pack of dogs surrounds us, barking furiously. They are not used to visitors. The only people who live on this remote spot today are border guards and a couple of meteorologists.\n\nBack in the Soviet era, boatloads of day trippers came to the island of Mudyug to visit a museum. It was located among the remains of a prison camp - one very different from the scores of old Gulag outposts scattered across the Russian north and Siberia. For one thing, it was set up as far back as 1918. Even more remarkably, the people in charge were were British and French.\n\nMy colleague Natalia Golysheva, who grew up in the regional capital, Arkhangelsk - Archangel as it used to be known in English - says the place had a fearsome reputation. Locals called it Death Island.\n\n\"When I was little, people said if you don't behave, the Whites will come and take you to Mudyug,\" she says. \"I didn't understand but when I tried to ask questions - 'What is Mudyug? Who are the Whites?' - my grandmother just said shush and turned her face away, meaning the conversation was over.\"\n\nThe Whites were the anti-Bolshevik forces that emerged after the October Revolution in 1917. They got the name from the cream-coloured uniforms worn by higher ranks in the Tsarist army. Some were reactionary military officers who wanted to bring back the monarchy, others were moderate socialists, reformers, tradesmen, fishermen or peasants.\n\nWhen the Bolsheviks seized power in the autumn of 1917, Russia was still fighting in World War One, allied with Britain, France and the US against the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary and their Ottoman allies.\n\nHowever, Lenin had come to power promising supporters not only bread to eat and a share of the aristocrats' land, but also peace. When he signed a peace treaty with Germany, Western governments acted rapidly to re-open this eastern front.\n\nBritish and French troops lining up in Arkhangelsk in 1919\n\nWithin months, tens of thousands of soldiers from Britain, the United States, France, Canada, Australia and other countries were ordered to Russia in what became known as the Allied Intervention. Some went to the south and far east of Russia and 14,000 troops under British command were sent to Arkhangelsk, near the Arctic Circle. The men were told their mission was to protect military stores and stop Germany from establishing a submarine base.\n\nBut the foreign troops also took the side of the Whites in Russia's nascent Civil War. Some European politicians, such as Winston Churchill, worried about Communism spreading across Europe.\n\nSoon after the Allies docked in Arkhangelsk on 2 August 1918, they began locking people up. \"They didn't know who to trust or the difference between the Reds and Whites - so they decided to incarcerate anyone who seemed suspect,\" says Liudmila Novikova, a Moscow-based historian who has become an expert on the post-revolutionary period in the Russian north.\n\nSince the main prison in the town was overcrowded, potential troublemakers were shipped to the island of Mudyug, 70km (45 miles) away. The first batch of inmates had to build their own prison camp in this desolate, windswept place.\n\nBolshevik prisoners in the prison camp on Mudyug island\n\nWe walk along the beach past a rickety watchtower before taking a path through a pine forest. It leads to some wooden barracks with rusty barbed wire on the windows.\n\nThe door opens with a creak and we are inside a long dormitory with hundreds of beds, divided by panels of wood. Each seems as narrow as a coffin.\n\nMarina Titova, a young museum guide from Arkhangelsk who has joined us on the trip, sits on one of the beds, lost in thought.\n\nHer great-great-uncle Fyodor Oparin, a roofer, had been at the front fighting the Germans in World War One. He was only briefly reunited with his wife and small daughter before he was arrested and sent to Mudyug, accused of recruiting the men in his village into the Red Army.\n\nWith few washing facilities and no change of clothes, inmates soon became infested with lice. Typhus spread like wildfire. Overall, about 1,000 people were imprisoned here and up to 300 died - either as a result of disease, or because they were shot or tortured to death.\n\nWhen we visit it is a muggy summer afternoon and the air is thick with midges. I dread to think what it would be like here during an Arctic winter when temperatures can reach -30C (-22F). Signs from the now abandoned museum point out the \"ice cells\", left open to the elements, where rebellious prisoners were punished and either perished or lost limbs to frostbite.\n\nPavel Rasskazov, a radical journalist, spent several months on Mudyug. In his Prison Memoirs, which became a well-known and much-studied text in the Soviet era, he documented the appalling conditions and the lack of food.\n\nHe describes how, when dried bread was distributed in the morning, \"starving, angry men with greedy eyes crawled all over the filthy, damp floor, full of spit, picking up each and every crumb\".\n\nRasskazov managed to survive this place, unlike Marina's relative, Fyodor Oparin. According to one account, he tried to escape but was too weak to move fast and was shot as he ran. In another version of events, he was caught and executed the following day, along with 13 other prisoners.\n\nUnder some fir trees Marina has found a commemorative plaque to the men killed trying to escape. As she places two red carnations on the crumbling stone, a cloud of mist swirls through the trees and a soft rain falls.\n\n\"Perhaps it was just a coincidence,\" she says later. \"But it seemed like a greeting from the past, and maybe those prisoners who suffered here, who tried to survive, could see that they were being remembered.\"\n\nIn Soviet times these men were remembered more often. On a small hill by the camp, there is a 25m-high obelisk adorned with a red star and hammer and sickle. Some chunks of granite have fallen off but you can still read the inscription which says it was built \"in honour of patriots tortured to death by the Interventionists\".\n\n\"This monument could be seen by all the ships sailing past,\" says historian Liudmila Novikova. \"Foreign sailors who came to Arkhangelsk were often taken to Mudyug to remind them of all the atrocities their fellow countrymen and governments committed here.\"\n\nSchoolchildren and factory workers also came on visits.\n\nNear the monument, we find a run-down hall with dusty glass cases, peeling red posters on the walls and photographs of the \"martyrs who gave their lives for the Revolution\" or died here on the island, which is described in the inscriptions as a concentration camp.\n\nThere are pictures of Gen Edmund Ironside, the British commander of all the Allied troops in the region. Novikova says he would have known what was happening on the island even if he never visited.\n\nThis is confirmed by an entry in the leather-bound notebooks he kept in Russia, now in the possession of his 93-year-old son.\n\n\"Scurvy seems to be beginning among the Russian prisoners on Mudyug Island… and as it is a difficult place to get to, rations have been pinched,\" the general writes.\n\nIf the British established the camp and some of those in charge were French, many guards seem to have been local men. \"We cannot have a scandalous camp,\" he writes. \"I am responsible that the Russians treat their people well. I am always after them over the state of the prison.\"\n\nBut Novikova says improving conditions on Mudyug was hardly a priority for Ironside. \"For him it was just a necessary security measure, and after all people were fighting and dying every day on all the fronts. So if prisoners in the rear were dying from bad conditions, that was just a drop in the ocean of suffering here.\"\n\nThe treatment of prisoners on Mudyug horrified one man who would later play a devastating role in northern Russia. A prominent Bolshevik close to Lenin, Mikhail Kedrov, was sent to Arkhangelsk after the October revolution and later became became a fanatical regional head of the Cheka - the secret police.\n\nAlexander Orlov, a fellow Chekist who later defected to Canada, recalls Kedrov as a tall handsome man with ragged black hair. He writes that his eyes were often \"gleaming like burning coal… possibly these were the sparks of madness\".\n\nSoviet citizens were encouraged to visit the Mudyug prison camp\n\nWhile the Red Terror was not mentioned in the USSR for decades, the crimes of the White forces were endlessly listed in official propaganda. Atrocities were committed on both sides, says historian Liudmila Novikova, but the scale was different.\n\n\"The Whites and Allies who supported them were mainly pragmatic. They wanted to kill those who undermined their effort, troops who rebelled or members of the Bolshevik underground - they didn't care about eliminating their enemies totally. It was quite different on Red side because they were waging a war against the old regime - the bourgeoisie, Tsarist officers and whole classes were perceived as enemies who had to be liquidated,\" she says.\n\nLucy Ash tells the story of the forgotten war fought by Western troops in Arctic Russia in The Red and the White, on the BBC World Service\n\nClick here for transmission times, or to listen online\n\nMikhail Kedrov set up a number of death camps in the North, including the first one of its kind, in Kholmogory, an hour's drive from Arkhangelsk.\n\nSomewhere between 3,000 and 8,000 people were imprisoned and killed at a 17th Century convent. Many were White Army officers and sailors from the Kronstadt naval fortress near Finland who had rebelled against the Bolsheviks. But others had nothing to do with the military. Some were clergy, some were ordinary people who for some reason had been labelled \"counter-revolutionaries\".\n\nAt Kholmogory, where much of the convent is now held up by scaffolding and wrapped in corrugated iron, I met Elena, a parishioner who sings in the convent choir. She says people in the area sometimes find skulls when they dig pits to store potatoes over the winter.\n\nElena says the priest and volunteers collected some human remains in sacks and buried them under a marble cross on one side of the Cathedral of the Transfiguration. Each year they sing a requiem for those who died.\n\nIt's hard to pinpoint but there is an oppressive atmosphere which clings to this place, like the cold to the refectory walls when Elena invites us inside for a cup of tea.\n\nLocals use the path through the garden as a shortcut across the town but Elena says few know - or care - about Kholmogory's terrible history.\n\nDoes she believe the Allied Intervention was the catalyst for Russia's devastating civil war, as Lenin and others have often claimed?\n\n\"I remember in my childhood hearing stories from my granny,\" she says. \"I was a Young Pioneer and I told her the Reds were good and the Whites were bad and the Intervention troops were bad. And my granny said 'What are you talking about? The English came to our village, they brought us white flour, they gave the children sweets.' And I said: 'Granny - that is impossible they are our enemies!'\"\n\nElena shakes her head. \"They were not our enemies and to say they were responsible for the civil war is wrong. Of course not! We had enough of our own scoundrels without the intervention troops.\"\n\nThe radical journalist, Pavel Rasskazov, who documented his ordeal on Mudyug island, describes a French-Russian officer and former businessman from Moscow, a man \"of medium height, stout, with a round, flabby face, like a bulldog\".\n\nErnest Beaux was actually a perfumer who concocted scents for the tsar's family - such as the \"Bouquet de Napoleon\". But in 1918 he was working as a counter-intelligence officer on Mudyug, interrogating Bolsheviks captured by the White Russian and Allied armies.\n\nBy the end of the year, Beaux had emigrated to France, where a cousin of Nicholas II introduced him to the couturier, Coco Chanel. He has gone down in history as the man who invented Chanel No5. According to some accounts he wanted to capture the essence of snow melting on black earth and as inspired by his time in the \"land of the midnight sun\" - the Russian Arctic.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTesco has announced it will start selling green satsumas and clementines, as part of plans to cut food waste.\n\nThe supermarket chain says the green oranges are \"perfectly ripe\" and will be as sweet as orange-coloured ones.\n\nHigher early season temperatures in Spain have slowed down the natural process by which the skin of the fruit turns orange.\n\nOther UK supermarkets have also branched out to sell less-than-perfect produce.\n\nIn the past, retailers have been criticised for being too fussy. This has led to farmers throwing away large amounts of perfectly edible fruit and vegetables.\n\nSatsumas and clementines actually grow as green fruit to begin with, and the skin only turns to orange as summer wanes and the nights cool.\n\nHowever, in recent years, warmer temperatures during the early growing season for satsumas in September and October have continued to remain high into the autumn, thus delaying the natural process by which the fruit turns orange.\n\nTesco launched the Perfectly Imperfect range in March 2016, which features apples, pears, potatoes, parsnips, cucumbers, courgettes, strawberries and frozen mixed berries.\n\nDon't be put off by the colour - Tesco says these satsumas are just as ripe as orange-coloured ones\n\nTesco's aim is that no food safe for human consumption will go to waste from its UK outlets by the end of 2017.\n\n\"Key to encouraging consumers to buy these is communicating - for example, prominently at the point of sale - that the satsumas are ripe and shoppers can expect the same taste they are used to, perhaps even by offering tasters,\" Kiti Soininen, Mintel's head of UK food and drink research, told the BBC.\n\n\"From international examples, the success stories for initiatives to cut food waste by embracing 'ugly' fruit and vegetables have been the ones helping shoppers understand what to expect from the taste and quality of the food, and reassuring them that 'ugly' doesn't mean that the fruit and vegetables wouldn't still taste great.\"", "Head teacher Aydin Onac has been suspended by the high-achieving grammar school\n\nThe grammar school head teacher at the centre of a row about pupils not being allowed to stay on to take A-levels has been suspended.\n\nAydin Onac, head of St Olave's in Orpington, has been suspended by the school's governors.\n\nParents had threatened legal action after some pupils were told to leave the school before the upper sixth year.\n\nIt raised questions about schools boosting their league table rankings by restricting who could take A-levels.\n\nSt Olave's, in the London borough of Bromley, is one of England's top-performing grammar schools.\n\nBut in August it was caught up in a high-profile dispute when some of its pupils were told they would not be re-admitted for their final year.\n\nParents began legal proceedings that claimed that removing pupils between Year 12 and 13 - the lower and upper sixth - would have been a form of unlawful exclusion.\n\nThe parents challenged whether the school could stop pupils returning because of their expected A-level grades.\n\nSt Olave's reversed its decision and allowed the pupils to return for upper sixth - and the planned court hearing did not take place.\n\nBut the school's governors have now decided that the head teacher, Mr Onac, should be suspended.\n\nThe governors say that the local authority is carrying out its own investigation into the A-level controversy.\n\nSt Olave's was at the centre of a controversy over pupils being removed from the school before A-levels\n\nThe St Olave's dispute began a wider debate about whether schools should be able to stop pupils progressing in this way - and whether filtering out academically-weaker pupils ahead of exams was being used to artificially boost results and league table rankings.\n\nOther schools were forced to review their procedures on whether to allow pupils to continue into the final year of A-levels.\n\nA statement from the chair of governors, Dr Paul Wright, said: \"I have been informed that the London Borough of Bromley will be conducting an investigation of St Olave's Grammar School in respect of concerns that have been raised over recent weeks.\n\n\"In light of this, and in order to protect the integrity of the investigation, Mr Onac has been suspended from all of his responsibilities as headmaster of the school.\"\n\n\"Please remember that this suspension is without prejudice and does not presume any particular outcome. We are committed to full transparency and will be co-operating fully with the local authority in this matter.\"\n\nBromley Council confirmed \"that there will be an investigation into concerns raised\".\n\nThis year's A-level results at St Olave's saw 75% of all grades being awarded at A* or A and 96% were at A* to B grades, far above the national average.", "Many protesters are highly critical of the Gupta family\n\nUK financial regulators and the Serious Fraud Office are to review if banks HSBC and Standard Chartered are linked to a South Africa corruption scandal.\n\nIt comes after Lord Peter Hain said the banks may \"inadvertently have been conduits\" for laundered money.\n\nThe Labour peer told the House of Lords that up to £400m of illicit funds may have been moved by the banks.\n\nHis concerns relate to links between South Africa's President Jacob Zuma and a wealthy business family, the Guptas.\n\nThe peer has written to the Chancellor Philip Hammond, telling him a whistle-blower had indicated the banks \"maybe inadvertently have been conduits for the corrupt proceeds of money\".\n\nLord Hain told the BBC he named 27 people in the letter, in addition to companies, adding that any person or firm linked to alleged corruption in South Africa is \"going to be badly contaminated\".\n\nThe Treasury has referred Lord Hain's letter to regulators, including the Financial Conduct Authority, and the SFO.\n\nA Treasury spokesman said: \"We take allegations of financial misconduct very seriously, and have passed Lord Hain's letter on to the Financial Conduct Authority and relevant UK law enforcement agencies, including the National Crime Agency and Serious Fraud Office, to agree the right action.\"\n\nThe BBC's correspondent in Johannesburg, Andrew Harding, said Lord Hain's letter was \"a new twist in a giant corruption scandal that is shaking the South Africa state, and damaging the reputations of a number of global companies\".\n\nMr Zuma and the Guptas strongly deny wrongdoing, and say they are victims of a \"politically motivated witch-hunt\".\n\nBut leaked emails and official investigations have fuelled claims that the Guptas have bought influence in government in order to loot state enterprises.\n\nIn South Africa, the scandal has already ruined British public relations company Bell Pottinger and damaged auditors KPMG, which removed its top executive team in the country.\n\nA spokeswoman for the FCA said it was already in contact with the banks named by Lord Hain and would \"consider carefully further responses received\".\n\nStandard Chartered said: \"We are not able to comment on the details of client transactions, but can confirm that following an internal investigation accounts were closed by us in 2014.\" HSBC declined to comment.\n\nLord Hain, a leading anti-apartheid campaigner who grew up in South Africa, urged UK authorities \"to track that stolen money down and make sure that British financial institutions help return it to South African taxpayers\".\n\nIt is claimed that money was taken out of South Africa via Hong Kong and Dubai.\n\nLord Hain, a former Northern Ireland secretary, alleged in his letter to the chancellor that the issue was \"a result of the corruption and cronyism presided over by President Zuma and close allies the Guptas\".\n\nDuring his Lords statement, the peer asked what steps the government was taking to prevent money laundering through UK banks.\n\nThe minister, Lord Bates, said the UK is \"committed\" to fighting money laundering and is \"concerned\" at the allegations. He added that the high commission in South Africa is \"monitoring the issue closely\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Financial Times on Thursday reported that the FBI had opened an investigation into possible links between the Guptas and \"individuals, bank accounts, and companies in the US\".\n\nThe Gupta brothers Ajay, Atul and Rajesh Gupta have interests in computer, mining, media, travel, energy and technology and employ about 10,000 people through their company Sahara Group.", "British Airways said reports of bed bugs were extremely rare (file photo)\n\nBritish Airways has apologised to a Canadian family after they were bitten by bed bugs on an overnight flight.\n\nHeather Szilagyi was flying from Vancouver to London with her eight-year-old daughter and fiancé earlier this month, CTV reported.\n\nAfter spotting the bugs, Ms Szilagvi complained to the flight attendant but was told she could not change seats.\n\nShe said she and her daughter woke up the next morning covered in bug bites.\n\nBritish Airways offered an apology to the family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Heather Szilagyi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 have been in touch with our customer to apologize and investigate further,\" an airline representative said in a statement.\n\n\"British Airways operates more than 280,000 flights every year, and reports of bed bugs on board are extremely rare.\n\n\"Nevertheless, we are vigilant and continually monitor our aircraft.\"\n\nMs Szilagvi said that as someone who has worked in the hotel industry, she easily spotted several on the seat in front of her during the flight.\n\nShe said she had alerted the flight attendant, but was told nothing could be done.\n\n\"She was like, 'Oh ok, sorry about that. We're sold out. We don't have anywhere to move you',\" Ms Szilagyi told CTV Vancouver.\n\nOnce they landed, Ms Szilagvi said she and her daughter were covered in bug bites. She phoned customer service to alert them to the problem and to ask that they not be on the same plane going home.\n\nAfter several attempts to get through to customer service failed, she posted pictures of the bites on Twitter.\n\nThe airline then reached out to apologise, and offered them an upgrade to business class for their flight home.\n\n\"We were not asking for a refund. All we were asking for was a flight on a different plane, to make sure it was a different plane, to make sure that the plane that was infested with bed bugs was taken care of,\" she told CTV.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Tom said: \"What's tried on women is tried on men as well\"\n\nSir Tom Jones has said the abuse and harassment alleged to have taken place in Hollywood is also widespread in the music industry.\n\nThe singer was discussing the allegations surrounding Harvey Weinstein in an interview with the BBC.\n\n\"Things have always happened in the music industry as well,\" he said.\n\n\"There's been people complaining about publicists and different things they've been expected to do to get a record contract, just like a film contract.\"\n\nAsked on BBC Radio 5 live's Afternoon Edition whether it was something he'd experienced, Sir Tom replied: \"Yes. At the beginning, yes.\n\n\"There were a few things like that. But you avoid it. You just walk out... But what's tried on women is tried on men as well.\"\n\nSir Tom said the encounter early in his career made him feel \"terrible\".\n\n\"But then you think, 'Well, I've got to get away from this person and it can't be like this.'\n\n\"You should know that yourself, you don't do things just because you think, 'I should do this.' Your own mind will tell you that. Not just in showbusiness, but in any thing you're in.\"\n\nHe added: \"There's always been that element there that people with power sometimes abuse it, but they don't all abuse it, there are good people.\"\n\nSir Tom is currently a coach on ITV's The Voice\n\nAsked further about his own experience, he said: \"It wasn't bad, just somebody tried to pull... it was a question and I said 'No thank you.'\"\n\nThe singer was asked about the number of allegations against major figures in the film industry that have come out in recent days.\n\nHe replied: \"Things happen in showbusiness, and sometimes things are covered up and then they come to light and other people come forward - it's like taking the cork off of a bottle.\n\n\"Things come out that maybe should've come out years ago, who knows. But that's the way it is with showbusiness, you are in the public eye, and that's it, you have to take the good with the bad.\n\n\"But justice will out. If you've done something wrong you've got to pay for it, or prove that you haven't done anything wrong.\"\n\nEarlier this week, music manager Sarah Bowden told the Victoria Derbyshire programme the treatment and sexual exploitation of women in the music industry is \"as bad, if not worse\" than in Hollywood.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Music manager: 'He exposed himself to me'\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Ms Sobchak said her candidacy was motivated by her desire to be \"a mouthpiece for those who cannot be candidates\"\n\nRussian socialite Ksenia Sobchak is to stand in the country's presidential election in March, when Vladimir Putin is widely expected to run again.\n\nMs Sobchak conceded she was an unlikely candidate and said she supported opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is barred from standing.\n\nHowever he had warned her not to stand and some commentators now predict an opposition split.\n\nThe Kremlin welcomed her candidacy, saying it was fully constitutional.\n\nMr Navalny is currently serving a 20-day prison sentence for his role in organising \"unsanctioned\" protests.\n\nHe is banned from the election due to a fraud conviction which he says was fabricated.\n\nThis announcement was a long time rumoured, so Alexei Navalny made his views clear last month shortly before his latest arrest.\n\nThe anti-corruption blogger dismissed Ksenia Sobchak as a Kremlin stooge, a \"liberal laughing stock\" and an opposition \"caricature\", brought in to lend legitimacy to a sham vote. He scorned her as a showbiz celebrity, only seeking more social media \"likes\" and followers.\n\nMs Sobchak herself denies she is a spoiler, saying she will step down if Mr Navalny himself is allowed to run for president. That scenario looks highly improbable though.\n\nMr Navalny has been seen as the biggest political threat to Mr Putin\n\nSo the socialite-turned-journalist has promised to be a \"loudspeaker\" for those fed up with the lies, theft and corruption of their leaders. It is language that she borrows quite heavily from Mr Navalny.\n\nShe would be the first woman candidate in 14 years, a point which her campaign video in a kitchen underscores. But Ms Sobchak also has the \"Marmite\" effect: she is as unpalatable to as many people as she attracts.\n\nAnd crucially, it's not clear how far she'd actually go in criticising Vladimir Putin himself, a close family friend since her childhood.\n\nMs Sobchak, a journalist and TV presenter, called for the bar on him standing to be lifted.\n\nShe said she wanted to be \"a mouthpiece for those who cannot be candidates\".\n\n\"I am against revolution but I am a good middleman and organiser,\" Ms Sobchak wrote in a letter published on the website of Vedomosti business daily.\n\nRussia's election campaign starts around 7 December, when political parties are expected to hold congresses to nominate their candidates.\n\nA Russian citizen not backed by a political party has the right to register as an independent presidential candidate provided he or she collects at least 300,000 signatures.\n\nPresident Putin, who first took office as president in 2000, has not announced yet whether he will stand again.", "Mr Neistat suggests YouTube's community of creators acts as a defence against online competitors\n\nOne of YouTube's most influential vloggers has chastised the service's leaders, claiming they are failing many of their most popular video creators.\n\nSpecifically, Casey Neistat criticised the way the platform had made it impossible for some videos to generate advertising revenue, without clearly explaining the rules to its community.\n\nOne of his own videos - an interview with Indonesia's president - was temporarily \"demonetised\" last week.\n\nYouTube has said it is listening.\n\n\"We watched Casey's video and appreciate him and the wider community voicing their concerns,\" a spokeswoman told the BBC.\n\n\"We know this has been a difficult few months, and we're working hard to improve our systems. We're making progress, but we know there is a lot more to do.\"\n\nMr Neistat has more than eight million subscribers on YouTube, who have signed up to be alerted when he posts. He has also struck a multi-million-dollar deal to create content for CNN on the platform.\n\nHe is normally viewed as being one of the leading champions of the site.\n\nBut in a video posted on Tuesday, he said he felt compelled to speak out because the level of upset among creators posed an \"existential threat to YouTube's entire business\".\n\nMr Neistat's vlog from Indonesia was demonetised until he appealed against the decision\n\nThe Google division began stripping some videos of adverts earlier in the year after several major brands suspended YouTube campaigns because their marketing clips had been attached to extremist content.\n\nTo address the problem, YouTube introduced an algorithm that determines which clips are \"family friendly\" and thus allowed to continue making money for their creators.\n\nBut Mr Neistat said the decision-making process had been badly communicated.\n\n\"There are no answers anywhere, and there's no-one telling you what's going on,\" he said.\n\n\"The thing that was most troubling for me... was the lack of communication, the lack of transparency on the part of YouTube.\"\n\n\"People are... putting the same amount of work, the same amount of energy and the same amount of expense into the content they're creating, but now they're getting paid only a fraction of what they did.\"\n\nA recent decision to demonetise creators' videos about the Las Vegas shootings had caused particular ire, Mr Neistat said, since a video featuring the chat-show host Jimmy Kimmel discussing the same incident had been allowed to continue featuring ads.\n\n\"It sort of reeks of hypocrisy, and again the community felt like a second-class citizen,\" he said.\n\nAs a rule, YouTube prevents adverts from running on videos about tragedies.\n\nBut this does not apply to clips posted by select partners - including Mr Kimmel's employer, ABC - who are allowed to sell ads themselves rather than relying on Google to do so.\n\nA recent clip of Jimmy Kimmel discussing a mass shooting in Las Vegas was allowed to show adverts\n\n\"In the specific case of tragedies, like the one in Las Vegas, we are working to not allow such partners to sell against such content,\" a YouTube spokeswoman said last week.\n\n\"We have not completed this work yet, but will soon.\"\n\nMr Neistat suggested a better alternative would be to give creators more control over whose adverts appeared alongside their clips.\n\nThe video-maker is far from being the first YouTuber to complain about the issue. But one industry-watcher said his intervention carried weight.\n\n\"People look to Casey to be not just an inspiration but also a voice for the community - he's very well respected and people do listen to what he says and follow his lead,\" said Alex Brinnand, editor of TenEighty magazine.\n\n\"The fact that he has put out this video... will help ensure his audience is aware of the issue and becomes as equally unhappy as he is.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Other YouTubers told the BBC about their frustrations last month\n\nMr Neistat highlighted that Twitter's rival video-based social network, Vine, had collapsed after its managers had disappointed several of its leading clip creators and suggested YouTube could face a similar exodus.\n\n\"When you think about Netflix or Amazon or Hulu or any of these other digital distribution platforms right now, they've all got money, they're all willing to spend money, and they're trying to figure out how to diversify their audience,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Amazon's Twitch service - which currently focuses on video-games-related live feeds - had already tempted some.\n\nTwitch began allowing users to upload pre-recorded videos a year ago and may unveil new features at its annual TwitchCon event, which begins on Friday.\n\nHowever, Mr Brinnand questioned whether the service had done enough to lure away YouTube's biggest names yet.\n\n\"For creators like Casey, I don't think at the moment that Twitch is a viable option,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a lot more geared to live or as-live content, so doesn't cater to the same audience the vloggers have with their more packaged, produced videos.\n\n\"But Twitch has laid the foundations for the future - it already offers very appealing revenue streams - and could be a contender if it develops a stronger platform for standard video.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Losses of rare insects are well documented, but there is little research on insects as a whole\n\nIt's known as the windscreen phenomenon. When you stop your car after a drive, there seem to be far fewer squashed insects than there used to be.\n\nScientists have long suspected that insects are in dramatic decline, but new evidence confirms this.\n\nResearch at more than 60 protected areas in Germany suggests flying insects have declined by more than 75% over almost 30 years.\n\nAnd the causes are unknown.\n\n\"This confirms what everybody's been having as a gut feeling - the windscreen phenomenon where you squash fewer bugs as the decades go by,\" said Caspar Hallmann of Radboud University in The Netherlands.\n\n\"This is the first study that looked into the total biomass of flying insects and it confirms our worries.''\n\nThe study is based on measurements of the biomass of all insects trapped at 63 nature protection areas in Germany over 27 years since 1989.\n\nThe data includes thousands of different insects, such as bees, butterflies and moths.\n\nScientists say the dramatic decline was seen regardless of habitat, land use and the weather, leaving them at a loss to explain what was behind it.\n\nThey stressed the importance of adopting measures known to be beneficial for insects, including strips of flowers around farmland and minimising the effects of intensive agriculture.\n\nAnd they said there was an urgent need to uncover the causes and extent of the decline in all airborne insects.\n\n\"We don't know exactly what the causes are,'' said Hans de Kroon, also of Radboud University, who supervised the research.\n\n''This study shows how important it is to have good monitoring programmes and we need more research right now to look into those causes - so, that has really high priority.''\n\nThe finding was even more worrying given that it was happening in nature reserves, which are meant to protect insects and other living species, the researchers said.\n\n''In the modern agricultural landscape, for insects it's a hostile environment, it's a desert, if not worse,'' said Dr de Kroon.\n\n''And the decline there has been well documented. The big surprise is that it is also happening in adjacent nature reserves.''\n\nThe loss of insects has far-reaching consequences for entire ecosystems.\n\nInsects provide a food source for many birds, amphibians, bats and reptiles, while plants rely on insects for pollination.\n\nThe decline is more severe than found in previous studies.\n\nA survey of insects at four sites in the UK between 1973 and 2002 found losses at one of the four sites only.\n\nDr Lynn Dicks, from the University of East Anglia, UK, who is not connected with the study, said the paper provides new evidence for \"an alarming decline\" that many entomologists have suspected for some time.\n\n\"If total flying insect biomass is genuinely declining at this rate (around 6% per year), it is extremely concerning,\" she said.\n\n\"Flying insects have really important ecological functions, for which their numbers matter a lot.\"\n\nThe research is published in the journal Plos One.", "The pressures of school life can be tough for a lot of kids, but for a child who's experienced abuse, neglect and years in care, the strain can be even greater.\n\nWhen Evelyn and Tony adopted Ryan at the age of seven, his special educational needs were not immediately apparent.\n\nRyan is smart, bright and eager to please - every teacher's dream. But the trauma of his early years meant the day-to-day expectations of mainstream school were too much for him.\n\nEvelyn: Ryan came to us with a history of abuse and neglect - domestic violence, drugs and alcohol, not getting enough food, inadequate clothing, extremely poor hygiene - but nothing actually diagnosed as being any particular special need.\n\nHe used to hide a lot when we first had him, so if you even very slightly raised your voice, or there was even a slight sign of disapproval - the slightest - he would hide behind a curtain or under the bed and shake and ask you if you were going to hit him.\n\nHe'd been in multiple schools before he came to us and when he came to us we were advised that he only went in for a couple of hours per day for the first few weeks.\n\nI think he did very well with that. He integrated in the beginning very well because the pressure isn't so much in Year 2 and in Year 3. He coped quite well then.\n\nTony: It was more Year 5 and 6. That's when it really started to hit. He found it more of a struggle, the work was harder and he couldn't cope with it.\n\nWhen he was in Year 6 we stopped all homework because when we tried to do homework with him he couldn't cope with it. He threatened to self-harm and to harm us, as well.\n\nEvelyn: Especially then with Sats tests in Year 6. The anxiety got worse and worse. His sleep became much worse, he became much more anxious. He started not being able to go in in the morning, feeling really sick. There were days when we couldn't get him in to school. It was dreadfully stressful.\n\nTony: Plus he wouldn't sleep very well, so we were trying to help him to sleep. We were often up 'til one or two in the morning. Both ends of the day were a problem.\n\nEvelyn: We repeatedly asked the primary school to have an educational psychologist come in and make an assessment and we were constantly told: \"No, there's not enough need. He's intelligent\". So we got absolutely nowhere.\n\nThe subsequent move to a comprehensive school proved highly stressful for Ryan and, after a term and a half, he dropped out.\n\nEvelyn: The Senco (special educational needs co-ordinator) seemed not to have much experience around trauma and attachment issues.\n\nWhen he met Ryan on the first day, we felt as if he was suggesting that we were lying, because he didn't outwardly appear to be anxious and he was very good at trying to fit in and looked good, looked smart and didn't look like a child with special needs.\n\nUnfortunately because they didn't adequately understand him - because it is mainstream education - they couldn't provide for his needs.\n\nTony: Things slowly got worse and worse and he started school-refusing. We tried all sorts of things to help him and talked to the teachers.\n\nThat worked for a little bit, but eventually he just couldn't cope. He couldn't cope with the large classrooms, he couldn't cope with certain teachers, any teacher that shouted, and eventually he just hid in a cupboard for a couple of days and wouldn't come out. We just couldn't get him to school.\n\nEvelyn: And when he wasn't in school anymore, he became quite agoraphobic, he became very isolated and his mental health was even worse because he wasn't in any form of education.\n\nDesperate for help, Evelyn and Tony turned to the adoption agency Family Futures and to a specialist children's hospital. These organisations assessed Ryan and reported that he did have specific needs.\n\nEvelyn: The Family Futures report came out telling us that Ryan had developmental trauma, sensory modulation difficulty, generalised anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.\n\nWe also went to the attachment and trauma team at the children's hospital and they did assessments, as well. So between the two places, that was the diagnosis and this gave us all the evidence we needed for getting our EHCP [education, health and care plan], which we triggered ourselves.\n\nTony: Luckily we got that EHCP and that helped us secure Ryan's education - to go to a special needs school.\n\nEvelyn: But none of the schools in our local authority [area] met his needs. We were then advised that we'd have to look beyond our own borough to try and find something. So we searched the internet and we found a local therapeutic provision for education. He was offered a place and started this September.\n\nHis new school is much smaller, with much smaller classes. It's individually tailored to each child's needs and there's much more encouragement. It's about building him up, meeting his needs - it's not about getting him nine GCSEs; it's about trying to help him survive.\n\nFor two weeks he went part-time. He's full-time now and he loves it. In fact, tonight he said to me: \"Thank you for fighting for me. If I ever win the Oscars, I'll get you on stage to celebrate with me.\"\n\nIn spite of their battles, Evelyn and Tony have no regrets, but wish the authorities were more honest with, and supportive of, adoptive families.\n\nEvelyn: We've had a lot of people in education look at Ryan and say: \"But there's nothing wrong with him, he looks completely normal.\" And I think that, as adopters, when we adopted him, we thought exactly the same.\n\nI don't think that we had any idea that he had this level of special need and when you finally get these diagnoses, in some ways it's quite shocking. It's quite a relief but it's also a shock because you do feel they did know or they could have really guessed that there would be some degree of need in this way - but they don't tell you and it would really help if you did know.\n\nTony: It would be much better if the authorities were able to give a lot more help, because without so much of a battle it would be great. Sometimes it is just really hard work and it seems like you're constantly having a wall to climb each time to get help, which there really shouldn't be.\n\nWe don't have any regrets at all. To anyone who's thinking about adopting I'd say you've got to go in with your eyes open, getting as much information as you can and realising that lots of the children that get adopted will have special needs in some way, or need extra help in their life, and that's a battle sometimes - but it's worth it.\n\nAll names have been changed. Produced by Katherine Sellgren, BBC News family and education reporter\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lancaster said she didn't feel she could tell her parents at the time\n\nModel Penny Lancaster has said she was sexually assaulted as a teenager by someone she worked for.\n\nLancaster, who is married to rock singer Rod Stewart, told ITV's Loose Women that she had her drink spiked.\n\nShe said she found herself being attacked on a bed and \"can't remember much of what happened\".\n\n\"I just know he was on top of me and enjoying the experience but I certainly wasn't. I don't really remember much more. I was too afraid to tell anyone.\"\n\nLancaster, now 46, said she had been a virgin at the time of the assault, which she said happened after she went to the house of a man who had promised to take her to an event where she could make work contacts.\n\n\"I was like, 'Oh, someone will be interested, I might get some more work,'\" Lancaster said.\n\n\"So I went with him. And he said: 'Oh, I have to stop at my apartment.'\"\n\nShe said he gave her a drink \"and unfortunately the next thing I knew... I found myself face down on a bed with him on top of me\".\n\nThe model, who was in tears as she spoke, said: \"I couldn't tell my mum and dad because I thought they would be saying to me, 'What on earth were you doing going back to his house?'\n\n\"But he was a guy that I had worked with and he promised me to meet other people and so I was naive and I trusted him.\"\n\nShe said she wanted to speak out so young girls in a similar situation could understand it was \"not their fault\".\n\n\"They are not guilty. The other person is. And they need to be brave enough to tell the authorities.\"\n\nLancaster was speaking out during a discussion on the chat show about the #MeToo campaign social media started by survivors of sexual harassment and assault, which followed the recent allegations about Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rachel wants to be an organ donor\n\nOrgans from 505 registered donors could not be made available for transplant in the last five years because of objections from relatives.\n\nBBC 5 live found that almost a third of families blocked organ donation because they felt the process took \"too long\".\n\nThe law states that consent lies with the deceased, but in practice, relatives' wishes are always respected.\n\nThe NHS wants to reduce the number of \"overrides\" by encouraging prospective donors to talk to their relatives.\n\nIn England, NHS figures showed that 457 people died last year whilst waiting for an organ transplant.\n\nRachel, 17, from Stoke-on-Trent, wants to be an organ donor, but is concerned that her family do not support her wishes.\n\nShe told 5 live: \"I wasn't aware when I signed up that your family had to be supportive of your decision. It seems like, well, what's the point of signing up if it could be overruled anyway?\n\n\"It does worry me because, if I died now, my mum does make the main decision. I hope I can trust her to make the right one.\"\n\nWhen somebody dies who is on the Organ Donation Register, specialist nurses from NHS Blood and Transplant work with their family.\n\nIf relatives object, nurses will encourage them to accept their loved one's decision, and make it clear that they do not have the legal right to override it.\n\nHowever, in practice, if a family still refuses, the donation does not go ahead.\n\nBen Cole, a specialist nurse for organ donation working in the Midlands, said it was \"frustrating\" when families say no.\n\n\"We understand that families are approached about donation at a very difficult time, and it can come as a shock to find out their relative had made the decision to donate.\n\n\"I had one family whose son had joined the Organ Donor Register, but they found it hard to believe because he'd never spoken about it.\n\n\"Another family said their dad would have ticked any box, and so weren't convinced he'd signed up intentionally.\n\n\"The relationship we build with a family at this time is so important, particularly as they can provide vital information about their relative before donation.\n\n\"If they are strongly opposed to donation, we would not want to upset them further.\"\n\nOther reasons relatives gave for refusing consent include that they thought \"the patient had suffered enough\", they \"didn't want surgery to the body\", or the family were divided over the decision.\n\nAnthony Clarkson, assistant director of organ donation and transplantation for NHS Blood and Transplant, said: \"Although the number of blocked transplants is declining, a number of families each year feel unable to support their relative's decision to be a donor.\n\n\"As a result hundreds of opportunities for potentially life saving transplants are being missed every year.\"\n\nThere are currently 6,406 people on the transplant waiting list across the UK.\n\nJess Harris, 29, from London, needs a pancreas and a kidney. She thinks it's a \"crazy system\" that gives families the final say.\n\n\"Why isn't it like your will? Why don't they have to honour your wishes?\" she told 5 live.\n\n\"I don't know why anyone would be against donating organs - one person can save up to eight lives and you're not going to need them when you're dead.\"\n\nBut Dr Rebecca Brown, a research fellow in practical ethics at the University of Oxford, supports families having the final say.\n\nShe says: \"There's an implication that these families are selfish or unreasonable, but I don't think that's the case.\n\n\"Losing a loved one, in sudden circumstances, is very traumatic and forcing them to go along with organ donation when it is something to which they feel strongly opposed, would be very distressing.\n\n\"This is a relatively small number of families and going against their wishes would be frankly awful for them and would create all sorts of problems.\"\n\nIn 2016/17 the total number of deceased donors was 1,413. In the same year, families blocked the donations of 91 people who had signed the register.\n\nIn December 2015, Wales adopted an opt-out system of organ donation, but families can still have the final say over their loved one's donation. Last year, nine people in Wales who had signed up to the organ donation register were blocked from donating their organs.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has pledged to introduce presumed consent for organ donation in England and a consultation will be held before the end of the year.", "Violence in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus might be \"upsetting\", students have been warned\n\nShakespeare contains gore and violence that might \"upset\" you, Cambridge University students have been warned.\n\nThe \"trigger warnings\" - red triangles with an exclamation mark - appeared on their English lecture timetables.\n\nLectures including Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus contain \"discussion of sexual violence, sexual assault\", the BBC's Newsnight programme has learned.\n\nThe university said the warnings were \"at the lecturer's own discretion\" and \"not a faculty-wide policy\".\n\nThe lecture timetables were issued to this term's students by the university's faculty of English.\n\n\"Any session containing material that could be deemed upsetting (and it is not obvious from the title) is now marked with a symbol,\" they say.\n\nAmong those considered \"upsetting\" is a lecture on \"violence\" - which includes a discussion of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Sarah Kane's play Blasted.\n\nAlongside the warning symbol, students are told to expect discussion of sexual violence and sexual assault.\n\nShakespeare's play includes mutilation, murder and violent rape with similar topics, plus torture and genocide covered in Kane's play.\n\nParts of this term's English lecture timetable for Cambridge students include \"upsetting\" themes\n\nAlso singled out for a warning is a lecture on \"inhabiting the body\" which includes a discussion on dismemberment.\n\nIncluded in this is the Greek playwright Euripides' The Bacchae, which features scenes of women tearing cattle and humans to pieces.\n\nCambridge University said it was at the lecturer's own discretion to flag up upsetting material\n\nAsked about the warnings, one Cambridge academic who did not wish to be named, said their \"duty as educators was to prepare students for the world not protect them for three years\".\n\nProf Dennis Hayes from Derby University's education faculty said: \"Once you get a few trigger warnings, lecturers will stop presenting anything that is controversial... gradually, there is no critical discussion\".\n\nCambridge University said the English faculty \"does not have a policy on trigger warnings\", but added: \"Some lecturers indicate that some sensitive material will be covered in a lecture... this is entirely at the lecturer's own discretion and is in no way indicative of a faculty-wide policy.\"", "Reports of deadlock over Brexit negotiations may have been exaggerated, European Council President Donald Tusk has said after a Brussels summit.\n\nProgress was \"not sufficient\" to begin trade talks with the UK now but that \"doesn't mean there is no progress at all\", he said.\n\nEU leaders will discuss the issue internally, paving the way for talks with the UK, possibly in December.\n\nTheresa May said there was \"some way to go\" but she was \"optimistic\".\n\nSpeaking at the end of a two-day summit, Mr Tusk told reporters: \"My impression is that the reports of the deadlock between the EU and the UK have been exaggerated.\"\n\nThe EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, described the talks as deadlocked earlier this month.\n\nMr Tusk said he was not at odds with Mr Barnier, but his own role was to be a \"positive motivator for the next five or six weeks\".\n\nHe said he felt there was \"goodwill\" on both sides \"and this is why I, maybe, in my rhetoric, I'm, maybe, a little bit more optimistic than Michel Barnier, but we are also in a different role\".\n\nThe so-called divorce bill remains a major sticking point in talks with the EU.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said there was still much work to be done on the financial commitment before trade talks can begin, adding: \"We are not halfway there.\"\n\nTheresa May declined to say in a press conference after the summit what the UK would be prepared to pay, saying the \"final settlement\" would come as part of a \"final agreement\" with the EU.\n\nThe UK prime minister did not name any figures but refused to deny that she had told other EU leaders the UK could pay many more billions of pounds than the £20bn she had indicated in her Florence speech last month.\n\n\"I have said that ... we will honour the commitments that we have made during our membership,\" she said. But those commitments were being analysed \"line by line\" she said, adding: \"British taxpayer wouldn't expect its government to do anything else.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three key points about how the Brexit talks are going\n\nThere are whispers that Theresa May has privately reassured the other leaders that she is willing to put a lot more than the implicit 20 billion euros (£17.8bn) on the table as we leave.\n\nNumber 10 doesn't deny this, Mrs May didn't deny it when we asked her in the press conference today, nor did she reject the idea that the bill could be as high as 60 billion euros.\n\nIf she has actually given those private reassurances though, there's not much evidence the other EU leaders believe her or think it's enough.\n\nBut if she is to make that case more forcefully she has big political problems at home.\n\nShe said the two sides were within \"touching distance\" of a deal on other issues - particularly on citizens' rights.\n\n\"I am ambitious and positive for Britain's future and for these negotiations but I know we still have some way to go,\" she said.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU in March 2019, following last year's referendum result.\n\nIt had hoped to move onto phase two of negotiations - covering future trade arrangements - after this week's summit.\n\nBut EU leaders took just 90 seconds to officially conclude that not enough progress has been made on the issues of citizens' rights, the UK's financial obligation and the border in Northern Ireland, but \"internal preparations\" would begin for phase two.\n\nThe prime minister made a personal appeal to her 27 EU counterparts at a working dinner on Thursday night, telling them that \"we must work together to get to an outcome that we can stand behind and defend to our people\".\n\nBBC Europe editor Katya Adler said all EU leaders knew Mrs May was in a politically difficult situation and did not want her to go home empty-handed, so had promised they would start talking about trade and transition deals among themselves, as early as Monday.\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel said there were \"encouraging\" signs of progress in Brexit negotiations and the process was progressing \"step by step\".\n\nAnd European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he hoped it would be possible to reach a \"fair deal\" with Britain.\n\n\"Our working assumption is not the 'no-deal' scenario. I hate the 'no-deal' scenario. I don't know what that means,\" he said.", "A soldier at a checkpoint leading to the Maiwind district of Kandahar, where this attack took place\n\nAt least 43 Afghan soldiers have been killed and nine wounded after two suicide bombers in Humvee armoured vehicles destroyed a military base in the southern province of Kandahar.\n\nSix are still missing and 10 militants are also said to have died.\n\nSeparately, two members of the security forces died in a siege of police headquarters in the eastern province of Ghazni.\n\nThe Taliban said they were behind the early morning bloodshed.\n\nThe attacks are the third and fourth major assaults on Afghan security forces this week.\n\nOnly two soldiers are known to have survived the Kandahar attack without injuries, AFP news agency reports.\n\n\"Unfortunately there is nothing left inside the camp,\" defence ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri said. \"They have burned down everything they found inside.\"\n\nIt happened in the Chashmo area of Maiwand district.\n\nAfghanistan's army and police suffered heavy casualties this year at the hands of the Taliban, who want to re-impose their strict version of Islamic law in the country. This week, more than 100 people died in four attacks.\n\nOn Tuesday, Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen killed at least 41 people when they stormed a police training centre in the eastern Afghan city of Gardez.\n\nAbout 150 people were injured in the violence. The local hospital, in Paktia province, said it was \"overwhelmed\" and issued an urgent appeal for blood donors.\n\nThe same day, at least 30 more people died in car bombings in Ghazni province. Armoured Humvee vehicles filled with explosives were detonated near the provincial governor's office before gunmen moved in.", "People with dyslexia have difficulty learning to read, write or spell\n\nFrench scientists say they may have found a potential cause of dyslexia which could be treatable, hidden in tiny cells in the human eye.\n\nIn a small study they found that most dyslexics had dominant round spots in both eyes - rather than in just one - leading to blurring and confusion.\n\nUK experts said the research was \"very exciting\" and highlighted the link between vision and dyslexia.\n\nBut they said not all dyslexics were likely to have the same problem.\n\nPeople with dyslexia have difficulties learning to read, spell or write despite normal intelligence.\n\nOften letters appear to move around and get in the wrong order and dyslexic people can have problems distinguishing left from right.\n\nHuman beings have a dominant eye in the same way that people have a dominant left or right hand.\n\nIn the University of Rennes study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, scientists looked into the eyes of 30 non-dyslexics and 30 dyslexics.\n\nThey discovered differences in the shape of spots deep in the eye where red, green and blue cones - responsible for colour - are located.\n\nIn non-dyslexics, they found that the blue cone-free spot in one eye was round and in the other eye it was oblong or unevenly shaped, making the round one more dominant.\n\nBut in dyslexic people, both eyes had the same round-shaped spot, which meant neither eye was dominant.\n\nThis would result in the brain being confused by two slightly different images from the eyes.\n\nResearchers Guy Ropars and Albert le Floch said this lack of asymmetry \"might be the biological and anatomical basis of reading and spelling disabilities\".\n\nThey added: \"For dyslexic students, their two eyes are equivalent and their brain has to successively rely on the two slightly different versions of a given visual scene.\"\n\nProf John Stein, dyslexia expert and emeritus professor in neuroscience at the University of Oxford, said having a dominant spot in one eye meant there were better connections between the two sides of the brain and therefore clearer vision.\n\nHe said the study was \"really interesting\" because it stressed the importance of eye dominance in reading.\n\nBut he said the research gave no indication of why these differences occurred in some people's eyes.\n\nHe said the French test appeared to be more objective than current tests, but was unlikely to explain everyone's dyslexia.\n\nDyslexia is usually an inherited condition which affects 10% of the population, but environmental factors are also thought to play a role.\n\n\"No one problem is necessary to get dyslexia and no one problem is behind it,\" Prof Stein said.", "Channing Tatum has stopped making his film with The Weinstein Company\n\nChanning Tatum has halted the development of a film about sexual abuse, which he had been making with Harvey Weinstein's company.\n\nThe Oscar-winning producer was fired as chairman of The Weinstein Company last week, when the allegations emerged.\n\n\"The brave women who had the courage to speak their truth about [Mr] Weinstein are true heroes to us,\" said Tatum.\n\n\"They are lifting the heavy bricks to build the equitable world we all deserve to live in.\n\n\"Our lone project in development with The Weinstein Company (TWC) - Matthew Quick's brilliant book, Forgive Me Leonard Peacock - is a story about a boy whose life was torn asunder by sexual abuse.\n\n\"While we will no longer develop it or anything else that is property of TWC, we are reminded of its powerful message of healing in the wake of tragedy.\n\n\"This is a giant opportunity for real positive change that we proudly commit ourselves to.\n\n\"The truth is out - let's finish what our incredible colleagues started and eliminate abuse from our creative culture once and for all.\"\n\nThe project would have seen Tatum starring in the film and also directing for the first time, alongside Reid Carolin.\n\nHarvey Weinstein pictured at the Marchesa New York Fashion Week show in September 2017\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Weinstein's chauffeur Mickael Chemloul has told French TV channel BFMTV he had to drive around \"tearful aspiring actresses for him\".\n\n\"We were all afraid of him,\" he said.\n\n\"When he came back angry, he was unmanageable, agonising. He was suffocating.\"\n\nMr Chemloul, who worked for the producer in Cannes from 2008 to 2013, said: \"I had the feeling of driving poor innocent people, innocent girls, to the jaws of the wolf, and I could not say to them, 'Be careful where you're heading - it's dangerous'.\n\n\"When they left Weinstein's place, there was sadness; they were melancholy.\n\n\"I didn't know what had happened, but I had to console them - offer them water, or a cigarette.\"\n\nRobert Lindsay also added to the debate, saying his Hollywood film career was halted after a run-in with Mr Weinstein meant he was scrapped from a role in Shakespeare in Love.\n\nLindsay was working with Molly Ringwald in romantic comedy Strike it Rich and said on Simon Mayo's Radio 2 show he had a row with Weinstein over a title change for the film and says this incident halted his career.\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\nGame of Thrones actress Lena Headley and Beautiful Girls star Lauren Holly have also come forward to say they were abused or harassed by Mr Weinstein.\n\nAnd, on Wednesday, Harvard University said it would be stripping him of the Du Bois medal awarded to him in 2014 for his contributions to African-American culture.\n\nJennifer Lawrence spoke out about her early career at the Elle Women in Hollywood Celebration\n\nMeanwhile, at an Elle event in Los Angeles, Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Lawrence both shared stories of sexual abuse and harassment earlier in their careers at the hands of other producers and directors.\n\nMr Weinstein's two companies, Miramax and The Weinstein Company, have made some of the biggest films in Hollywood.\n\nHe has admitted his behaviour has \"caused a lot of pain\" but has described many of the allegations against him as \"patently false\".\n\nHis representative has said \"any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied\" and there were \"never any acts of retaliation\" against women who turned him down.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Tiny elephants carved from ivory are the type of product that would be banned under the proposals\n\nThe sale and export of almost all ivory items would be banned in the UK under plans set out by the government.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove has announced a consultation to end the trade in ivory of all ages - previous attempts at a ban would have excluded antique ivory produced before 1947.\n\nThe government says there will be some exemptions, for musical instruments and items of cultural importance.\n\nConservation groups have given a guarded welcome to the plan.\n\nWhile the UK has had a ban on the trade in raw ivory tusks, it has become the world's leading exporter of legal ivory carvings and antiques in recent years.\n\nAccording to an Environmental Investigation Agency report, there were more than 36,000 items exported from the UK between 2010 and 2015, more than three times that of the next biggest exporter, the US.\n\nConservationists argue that these sales stimulate the demand for the product, and are linked to increased elephant poaching across Africa.\n\nPrince William condemned illegal wildlife trading during a trip to China in 2015\n\nPrince William has long been a campaigner against against ivory trade and in 2016 urged the UK to pass a total ban on domestic sales.\n\nAt a wildlife conference in Vietnam, he said: \"Ivory is not something to be desired and when removed from an elephant it is not beautiful.\n\n\"So, the question is: why are we still trading it? We need governments to send a clear signal that trading in ivory is abhorrent.\"\n\nPrevious attempts in the UK by the Conservative Party to limit sales of ivory have failed to get off the ground.\n\nA ban on sales of ivory produced after 1947 was announced by then Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom in 2016 but a follow-up consultation never materialised.\n\nHowever, a 12-week consultation on Mr Gove's proposals is due to start immediately, and draft legislation covering a ban on sales and exports is likely in the new year.\n\nCampaigners have been pushing hard for government action on UK ivory sales\n\nThe government says that the proposals are being driven by concern for the 20,000 elephants that are killed by poachers every year.\n\n\"The decline in the elephant population fuelled by poaching for ivory shames our generation,\" said Mr Gove in a statement.\n\n\"The need for radical and robust action to protect one of the world's most iconic and treasured species is beyond dispute.\"\n\nHe said the proposals will put the \"UK front and centre of global efforts to end the insidious trade in ivory\".\n\nWhile the government says the plans are driven by concerns over elephants, there are other factors at play.\n\nMany countries have moved to end the trade in ivory by destroying stocks such as in Kenya\n\nBritain will host a major illegal wildlife conference in 2018 and it would be embarrassing if the UK was continuing to allow a domestic market in ivory while countries like China were moving to close theirs as they have promised to do by the end of this year.\n\n\"The key thing is, we hope, they will have committed to the ban before this conference,\" said Heather Sohl from WWF UK.\n\nShe said it would allow the UK to have a greater standing in how China enforces its own ban and also strengthen its hand in dealing with countries with legal markets.\n\nWhile environmental groups have welcomed the government's new stand, there are concerns over the size and scale of exemptions to the ban.\n\nMr Gove says there should be four categories of ivory items allowed for sale:\n\nSome conservationists are worried that if these exemptions are too broad, they could become loopholes and undermine attempts at a ban.\n\nOthers, though, believe that clear and strong restrictions can be put in place.\n\nBut those involved in the antiques business are not happy about the proposed ban.\n\nNoelle McElhatton from the Antiques Trade Gazette said those involved in the trade abhor poaching and are disgusted by what is happening to the African elephant.\n\nHowever, she said she expected art and antique sellers to argue that a ban on trade in objects made pre-1947 - which she said could include Georgian chests of drawers, Victorian pianos or Art Deco figures - \"will not save a single living elephant\".\n\n\"We feel strongly that an outright ban would be an over-reaction and would be very detrimental to the honest and legitimate trade of pre-1947 ivory.\"\n\nThe consultation will run until 29 December.\n\nFollow Matt on Twitter and on Facebook", "Most of the papers reflect on the attempt by Conservative backbenchers, led by ex-party chairman Grant Shapps, to oust Theresa May.\n\nThe verdict of the Daily Express is \"Theresa slaps down rebels\", reporting that the prime minister appears to have secured her position, thanks to a \"ruthless operation\" to discredit those seeking to undermine her.\n\nUnder the headline \"rout of the pygmies\", it says the plot to remove Mrs May \"collapsed into a shambles yesterday\" as MPs and ministers united to condemn what it labels \"the betrayal of rivals seeking revenge.\"\n\nThe paper also offers its readers pen portraits of the \"traitors gallery\" of senior Conservatives it says are part of Mr Shapps' attempted coup.\n\nThe paper's columnist Peter Oborne says Mrs May must \"destroy her Tory enemies before they destroy her\".\n\nHowever, even if the rebellion has been seen off, doubts about the prime minister most definitely remain for some.\n\n\"PM clings to power - for now\" is the i newspaper's take.\n\nMeanwhile, the Sun endorses Mrs May, but only because - as its editorial puts it - \"there is no obvious replacement\".\n\nUntil one emerges the Tories must unite behind her, the paper says.\n\nThe Financial Times urges the PM to sack lacklustre members of the cabinet and bring in new talent. The FT concedes that it is a strategy that carries risk, but, it says, \"she has nothing to lose.\"\n\nThe Daily Mirror laments that at a time when the nation is crying out for strong leadership, it has been left rudderless by a \"top of the flops\" prime minister.\n\n\"Britain deserves much better than these incompetent Tories,\" says its leader.\n\nThe Daily Mirror reports on another beleaguered leader: Ryanair's Michael O'Leary.\n\nThe paper says it has seen a letter to Mr O'Leary written on behalf of his pilots, responding to his \"grovelling\" pledge to improve their pay and conditions.\n\nIn it, the pilots accuse their boss of \"considering us nothing more than aircraft parts\".\n\nOne pilot tells the Mirror that Mr O'Leary's offer was \"the ramblings of a desperate man\".\n\nOne of the most successful glossy magazines of recent years is ceasing its monthly print edition and going online, the Times reports.\n\nGlamour's decision to go \"digital first\" is the result of tumbling sales and alarm about the future of beauty and celebrity titles.\n\nThe Financial Times says there is in fact a broader challenge to the magazine industry.\n\nIt says it's partly the result of the \"abundance of free news and entertainment\" available on the internet - and also a \"changing of the guard\" at some of the world's top titles.\n\nIt cites the retirement of Vanity Fair's longstanding editor, Graydon Carter.\n\nThe FT quotes the founder of Rolling Stone, which in another sign of the times was recently put up for sale.\n\nHe says \"publishing is a completely different industry than what it was.\"\n\nIt could be worse, though, as various long-lens photos of Wayne Rooney doing community service at a garden centre attest.\n\nIt follows his conviction for drink-driving last month. He's been painting park benches at the centre.\n\n\"Tired and emulsional\", is the Sun's headline.\n\nTo avoid the glare of publicity, Wayne Rooney could perhaps have benefited from the new England rugby kit, which, as the Daily Telegraph reports sceptically, \"purports to use state of the art camouflage technology to mask player movement\".\n\nAn expert in visual perception doubts the manufacturer's breathless claim and points out that in any case, any advantage gained from the design is counteracted by the fact the shirts have a large, highly visible advertiser's logo in the middle of them.\n\nThe Telegraph says fans have grumbled that the replica strip costs £95 and it is the eighth new kit in the last three years, meaning that, transparently, it is merely a \"revenue raising stunt.\"", "The Royal Navy could lose its ability to assault enemy held beaches, under plans being considered in the Ministry of Defence, BBC Newsnight understands.\n\nTwo specialist landing ships - HMS Albion and Bulwark - would be taken out of service under the proposals.\n\nThe plan - part of a package of cost-cutting measures - has caused alarm among senior Royal Marine officers.\n\nThe MoD told the BBC that no decisions have been made yet and that discussion of options was \"pure speculation\".\n\nIt is understood the head of the Royal Navy, Admiral Sir Philip Jones, formulated the move as part of a package designed to balance the books and free up sailors for the service's two new aircraft carriers.\n\nCritics say the proposal would deprive the Royal Marines of its core mission.\n\nAmong other cuts envisaged are a reduction of 1,000 to the strength of the Royal Marines and the early retirement of two mine-hunting vessels and one survey vessel.\n\nA senior Royal Marine officer blamed the introduction of the new carriers for exacerbating the senior service's financial and manning problems.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"This is the worst procurement decision of the past half century - that's what the Royal Marines are being sacrificed for.\"\n\nThe proposed cuts are part of a raft of \"adjustments\" being considered by all three services - the Royal Navy, the Army and the Royal Air Force - as the Ministry of Defence struggles to balance its books.\n\nThe Royal Air Force could slow down orders of its new F35 fighter, and the Army could lose dozens of helicopters as part of their efforts towards the same goal.\n\nIn 2015 there was a Strategic Defence and Security Review, a paper intended to act as a blueprint for the coming five years.\n\nHowever the depreciation of sterling has made big buys of foreign equipment more expensive and the armed forces have crammed the programme with too many projects, creating a hole in the budget.\n\nThe government announced \"additional work to review national security capabilities\" in July - a review by stealth - under the leadership of its national security adviser Mark Sedwill.\n\nThe proposed cuts to the Royal Navy have been put forward as part of this exercise.\n\nUnder the 1997 defence review, a group of ships was created to improve the UK's ability to land its commando brigade, even in the face of opposition.\n\nThe helicopter carrier Ocean, two specialist landing ships - Albion and Bulwark - and four logistic support ships were to be acquired to allow the 5,000 strong force to continue performing operations such as the 1982 Falklands landing, or the one on the Faw peninsula during the 2003 Iraq conflict.\n\nWith the retirement of HMS Ocean already announced, and the new plans to lose the two landing ships, the Royal Marines' ability to use landing or hovercraft to get ashore would be drastically curtailed.\n\nIn recent years, as an economy measure, the Royal Navy has only been crewing Albion or Bulwark alternately - they are big ships, each requiring a complement of 325.\n\nWhile the government has dubbed 2017 \"the Year of the Royal Navy\" and emphasised its commitment to a new national shipbuilding strategy, observers at the MoD noticed that this blueprint contained no commitment to renew the amphibious warfare fleet.\n\nThe service is already committed to putting its two new carriers into service, replacing Trident, buying a new class of hunter-killer submarines, and two new types of frigate.\n\n\"The Royal Navy has got us into this mess\", said a senior MoD figure, referring to the department's budgetary black hole, \"so it's up to them to take the pain necessary to get us out of it\".\n\nWith budgetary responsibility devolved to service chiefs, it fell to the head of the Navy Admiral Sir Philip Jones, to come up with proposals for how he could run the fleet within the financial and personnel limits he has been set.", "Heart failure left Julie exhausted and grey-skinned - a pump has brought the colour back to her cheeks and given her a good quality of life\n\nAt home, Julie Bartlett has her bags packed and people on standby to drive her to hospital, just in case she receives a phone call saying doctors have a heart that is a match for her.\n\nIf the call comes, she'll have a couple of hours to get to Harefield Hospital in west London - she can even rely on a police escort if she gets stuck in traffic.\n\n\"That call could be this afternoon. It could be never,\" she says, but she's optimistic that government plans for a new organ donation system of presumed consent in England might boost her chances significantly.\n\nWhile the policy content of Theresa May's conference speech on Wednesday might have been overlooked, one of the prime minister's announcements could potentially save many lives - about three people a day in the UK die because of a lack of organ donors.\n\nThe Conservatives are proposing a consultation on changing the organ donation system in England from opt-in to opt-out, meaning people's organs could be used in transplants when they died unless they expressly said otherwise.\n\nCurrently, anyone who wants to donate their organs after death has to \"opt in\" through the donor card scheme.\n\nThere are currently 6,500 people waiting for an organ donation and it is hoped the new system would see more organs becoming available.\n\nWhat do people waiting for an organ, and recent recipients of life-saving transplants, think of the proposed changes?\n\nLast Christmas, former midwife Julie Bartlett was fitted with an LVAD - a mechanical pump for the heart known as a \"bridge to transplant\" - but what she really needs is a new heart.\n\n\"I could kiss Theresa May - although she's got that bad cold,\" she said.\n\n\"It was something that I have been waiting for, for a long a time - the sooner they do it, the better.\"\n\nIn 2009, Julie was diagnosed with heart failure and never expected to see her first grandchild or go to her daughter's wedding.\n\nAfter it became end-stage heart failure and she was in a hospice, the option of the LVAD was presented to her.\n\n\"My quality of life is good now, but I have good days and bad days,\" she says.\n\nThe LVAD means Julie is permanently attached to two lines, has to recharge batteries overnight and can shower only weekly because of the wound.\n\n\"There are limits, but I'm very blessed to have one and it's better than being bedbound in a hospice,\" she says.\n\nHowever, a new heart would transform her life. It would even free her to travel abroad, as while on the waiting list she must stay in the UK.\n\nWhile she waits for that heart, Julie lives in limbo.\n\nShe believes families should have the final decision over donation, as they do under the Welsh \"soft opt-out\" system - where if the individual's family objects, their organs are not removed.\n\n\"Families need to share what their wishes are, so they are less likely to go against the person's wishes. It's a gift,\" she said.\n\nMatthew's new kidneys allow him to \"do what normal boys do\"\n\nThe Victoria Derbyshire programme spoke to 12-year old Matthew Pietrzyk, who spent eight years on dialysis after he was born with failing kidneys which had to be removed.\n\nHe and his mum Nicola told the programme that the transplant has not only \"given him his life back\" but had also transformed those of his brothers and parents.\n\nThe family can now go on holiday and make plans without the fear of emergency hospital visits.\n\nNicola said she can finally \"be a mum\" instead of a nurse.\n\nMatthew believes that the new opt-out scheme will \"save lives\".\n\nBut another patient in need of a kidney donor is not so impressed with the proposals.\n\nKerigh Palmer, from Hertfordshire, whose first kidney transplant failed this summer, said the change would be \"pointless\" because, under the system the government is proposing, families could still stop donations.\n\n\"The majority of possible transplants are blocked by family members,\" she says.\n\n\"I don't think doctors should be saying 'these are your loved one's wishes, now what do you want to do?'\"\n\n\"It takes away the individual's choice.\"\n\nKerigh Palmer does not think the new opt-out scheme goes far enough\n\nKerigh's transplant story has been long and full of hurt. After her kidneys failed in 2015, her wife, Julie, offered to donate hers.\n\nBut they weren't compatible so Julie donated to another patient, and Kerigh, 40, received hers from someone else.\n\nJulie's recipient's transplant was a success. Kerigh's, though, was not - complications during surgery meant it failed at the last hurdle.\n\nAs she drifted in and out of consciousness after the operation, she heard the words: \"We are very sorry that it did not work.\"\n\n\"Is it true?\" she asked Julie, who was lying in a hospital bed nearby.\n\n\"It was devastating. That person is living with my kidney effectively. We feel pretty bitter.\"\n\nJulie, left, saved another kidney patient's life. But the kidney Kerigh received did not transplant successfully\n\nStraight after the gruelling failed operation, she was back on dialysis twice a week.\n\n\"I'm trying not to think about what's happened, because I will depress myself.\n\n\"I'm thinking ahead to Christmas, because I love Christmas. I'm not thinking 'where's my next kidney coming from?'\"\n\nBut she admits it would be life-changing to have a successful transplant.\n\n\"I wouldn't be tied to the hospital, I could work full-time without having to work from hospital, I could go abroad on holiday, eat what I like, not have to second-guess everything I do.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Heavy rain has swollen rivers and affected towns across Costa Rica\n\nTropical Storm Nate has killed at least 22 people in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras.\n\nIt caused heavy rains, landslides and floods which blocked roads, destroyed bridges and damaged houses.\n\nIn Costa Rica, nearly 400,000 people are without running water and thousands are sleeping in shelters.\n\nThe eye of the storm has since moved over the sea, heading towards Mexico and the United States, where it could become a hurricane.\n\nAt least eight people died in Costa Rica, while another 11 were killed when Nate moved north and reached Nicaragua, where as much as 15ins (38cm) of rain had been predicted to fall by the US National Hurricane Center.\n\nThree people were killed in Honduras, including two youths who drowned in a river, and several are reported missing.\n\nOne man was killed in a mudslide in El Salvador, according to emergency services.\n\nOil companies have been evacuating staff from platforms in the Gulf of Mexico that lie along the predicted path of the storm.\n\nIn Costa Rica, people were trapped on a stretch of the Inter-American Highway known as the Mountain of Death, after the bus in which they were travelling got stuck between two landslides on Wednesday, according to La Nación newspaper.\n\nThere are also concerns crocodiles may be lurking around the overflowing Tárcoles river, and could appear in places where they are not normally expected.\n\n\"Please do not kill crocodiles,\" said officials, according to news site CRHoy.com. The advice was to avoid standing in overflowing water, to protect children and pets, and to call emergency services if one was spotted.\n\nSome 5,000 people are sleeping in temporary shelters in Costa Rica\n\nAll train journeys were suspended in Costa Rica and dozens of flights cancelled on Thursday, when the weather worsened.\n\nMore than a dozen national parks popular with tourists have been closed as a precaution.\n\nThe storm also caused extensive damage to infrastructure in Nicaragua.\n\n\"Sometimes we think we think we can cross a river and the hardest thing to understand is that we must wait,\" Vice-President Rosario Murillo said on state radio.\n\n\"It's better to be late than not to get there at all.\"\n\nForecasters say the storm could become a category one hurricane before it makes landfall on the southern coast of the United States on Sunday.\n\nResidents from Florida to Texas have been told to prepare for Nate, which, if it does strike, would be the third major storm to hit the southern coast this year.\n\nMost of the damage in Nicaragua has been along its Caribbean coast\n\nTexas and Florida are recovering from the damage inflicted by Hurricane Harvey, which hit the former in August and caused \"unprecedented damage\", and Hurricane Irma, which made landfall in Florida in September.\n\nA state of emergency has been declared in 29 Florida counties, and in New Orleans.\n\nThe city's mayor told people who live on low-lying ground to evacuate.\n\n\"There is no need to panic,\" Mitch Landrieu tweeted. \"Be ready and prepare. Get a plan. Prepare to protect your personal property.\"", "Thousands of travellers had their holiday plans ruined by a Ryanair scheduling mistake\n\nEmbattled low-cost airline Ryanair said its chief operations officer will depart the company at the end of the month.\n\nMichael Hickey will be the first executive to leave the company after a rostering error led to the cancellation of thousands of flights.\n\nIn his role, Mr Hickey was responsible for scheduling shifts for pilots.\n\nChief executive Michael O'Leary earlier faced calls to resign over his handling of the mishap.\n\nMr O'Leary on Friday said Mr Hickey \"will be a hard act to replace\".\n\nRyanair announced its first wave of 2,100 cancellations in the middle of September, after it rearranged pilots' rosters to comply with new aviation rules requiring a change in how their flying hours are logged.\n\nTowards the end of September it announced 18,000 further flights would be cancelled over the winter season. These moves affect more than 700,000 passengers.\n\nIn the airline's first wave of cancellations Ryanair offered affected passengers a £40 voucher per cancelled flight as a way to say sorry.\n\nThis was short of European rules governing flight cancellations and passenger rights, and Ryanair was eventually forced to bow to regulator demands and spell out the options on offer to affected passengers.", "Alice McBrearty committed \"the grossest breach of trust\", a judge said\n\nA teacher who had a \"full-blown sexual relationship\" with a 15-year-old boy has been jailed for 16 months.\n\nAlice McBrearty, 23, admitted the four-month relationship with a pupil she taught at an east London school.\n\nSnaresbrook Crown Court heard McBrearty kissed the youngster in a classroom, and had sex with him at her parents' home in Wanstead Park, east London.\n\nShe pleaded guilty to seven counts of sexual activity with a child while in a position of trust.\n\nProsecutors said the relationship began when the teacher sent the boy a friend request on Facebook.\n\nBarrister Lisa Matthews said the teenager, who cannot be named, \"felt special\" and \"appeared to be besotted\" with McBrearty.\n\nThe court heard the pair met in several locations, including a hotel room McBrearty had booked, and had sexual contact.\n\nTheir relationship ended when the boy's father contacted police.\n\nMcBrearty put her head in her hands and sobbed when she was sentenced by Judge Sheelagh Canavan.\n\nThe judge described her as a \"bright, intelligent and gifted young woman, who knew right from wrong,\" but who had committed the \"grossest breach of trust\".\n\n\"You engaged in a full-blown sexual relationship with a 15-year-old child,\" she said.\n\n\"I accept he was consenting - what 15-year-old schoolboy would turn down such an attractive offer?\n\n\"I accept you truly believed this was a great romance, you were in love with him and vice versa, and that age didn't matter. But it did.\n\n\"You were supposed to keep him safe, to help him make the right decisions. Instead, you helped him make all the wrong ones.\"\n\nEmma Shafton, defending, said her client, who is no longer a teacher, has had \"a spectacular fall from grace\".\n\n\"She has been utterly disgraced by this,\" she added.", "A father has lost a damages claim against a London IVF clinic after his ex-partner forged his signature to use frozen embryos.\n\nThe High Court found IVF Hammersmith was not negligent.\n\nThe couple broke up in 2010 but some months later the woman asked the clinic to implant an embryo, which they had stored.\n\nThe man, who can only be identified as ARB, said he did not give his consent and was tricked by his former partner.\n\nAfter the couple had a son together through IVF at the clinic in 2008, a number of embryos were frozen and they signed agreements annually for these to remain in storage.\n\nIn October 2010, the mother handed IVF Hammersmith a 'consent to thaw' form, forged with ARB's signature. On the basis of this document, an embryo was thawed and successfully implanted.\n\nThe father said his ex-partner's dishonesty resulted in the birth of his daughter, an \"unwanted child\".\n\n\"It's a very, very difficult situation for me. A beautiful child, a child that everyone would want, a child that I love. But also a child that has brought us so much pain.\"\n\nHe argued that the clinic should pay for the cost of her upbringing, including private school fees, holidays, refurbishing her bedroom and her wedding.\n\nThe presiding judge Mr Justice Jay said: \"Although he has lost this case, my judgment must be seen as a complete personal and moral vindication for ARB.\"\n\n\"The same, of course, cannot be said for R.\" R was used to identify the mother in the case.\n\nJude Fleming of IVF Hammersmith welcomed the finding: \"As a clinic, we place patient care at the heart of everything we do.\n\n\"We have been clear throughout that we have always adhered to the highest industry standards and met all statutory and regulatory obligations.\"\n\nBut the judge said he did have concerns about the way consent was obtained by clinics during this time.\n\nThe clinic said it has since reviewed its procedures to \"ensure such a case could not occur again.\"\n\nThe father said: \"This claim has never been about money; it is about justice.\"\n\nHe plans to appeal the decision regarding damages in the Supreme Court.", "Last month, 145 million Americans discovered they were victims of one of the biggest data breaches in history, after the credit rating agency Equifax was hacked.\n\nSocial security numbers, birth dates, telephone numbers and, in some cases, driver's licence and credit card numbers were exposed, leaving people vulnerable to identity theft and fraud.\n\nCompanies know more about individuals than they ever have. And almost every week there is news of a data hack.\n\nSo does this mean that the age of personal privacy is over?\n\nBBC World Service's The Inquiry programme has been hearing the views of four experts.\n\n\"Technology has created enormous conveniences for us, but there is no reason why those conveniences have to inevitably come at the cost of giving up our privacy wholesale,\" says Ben Wizner, of the American Civil Liberties Union, who is chief legal adviser to the US intelligence leaker Edward Snowdon.\n\nMr Wizner says people should be able to control information held on them, as well as with whom they share it.\n\n\"It is now both technologically and financially feasible for corporations and governments to collect and store records of almost all of our activities, records that never would have existed in the past,\" he says.\n\nAll of this - whether harvested from the web, mobile phones or social media - creates vast amounts of data from consumers, held by corporations.\n\nAnd with the advent of smart appliances, this will only increase.\n\n\"You will be watching your television, your television will be watching you.\"\n\nAnd he has concerns about agreements meant to safeguard consumers' data.\n\n\"It is literally impossible for consumers to read all of those agreements. What we all do instead is we click \"agree\". In legal terms, we have consented. In meaningful terms, have we consented?\"\n\nPersonal information, Mr Wizner says, allows corporations to make highly accurate predictions about a person's life, including their sexuality and any health problems they may have.\n\n\"I think that we hear all too often this sort of blase remark that 'I don't need to be worried about surveillance because I've done nothing wrong and I have nothing to hide.'\n\n\"For every single one of us, there is some pile of aggregated data that exists, the publication of which would cause us enormous harm and, in some cases, even professional and personal ruin.\n\n\"Every single one of us has a database of ruin.\"\n\nFormer Amazon chief scientist Andreas Weigend says the time has come to recognise that privacy is now an illusion.\n\nHe grew up in West Germany, where his family moved following his father's release from prison in East Germany, where he had been a political prisoner.\n\nLater, he discovered that, though his father's Stasi files had been destroyed, the secret police had opened a file on him, in 1986, when he was a graduate student in the US.\n\nThough he felt vulnerable after this revelation, his views on privacy are clear.\n\n\"I have realised that even if you were a privacy zealot, you don't have a chance.\n\n\"Data is being created as we breathe, as we live, and it is too hard a battle to try to live without creating data.\n\n\"And that is a starting point: that you assume that we do live in a post-privacy economy.\"\n\nIndeed, he has just written a book called Data For the People: How to Make Our Post-Privacy Economy Work for You.\n\nOr daily lives, he says, constantly lead to the creation of new data: from phones, credit cards, public transport systems and more.\n\n\"I think we don't have the time in the day to know everything that's being created about us.\n\n\"On the other hand, we don't want companies to just scoop up all the data that we create and never tell us anything about it.\"\n\nHe believes we should embrace the fact we're creating lots of data, because we get better products and services in return.\n\n\"Every battle we should fight now is, 'And what can we, as individuals, as citizens, get out of the data which we create?'\n\n\"Having new technologies means that we need to think about what actually does 'privacy' mean. So, it's time to actually redefine privacy.\"\n\nBut Mr Weigend isn't willing to let go of all privacy. There is \"no way\", for instance, he would publish his browsing history.\n\n\"I think our browsing histories are way more personal than what we share with our partners.\n\n\"Our most secret questions in our mind, our most secret desires, they end up at Google and where Google takes us.\"\n\nHis message to people concerned about privacy is simple.\n\n\"Think about your computer security, think about your passwords, think about just how lax, probably, your own personal security is.\"\n\nAnd he believes that people's views on privacy will change, just as things have already changed.\n\n\"What the KGB wouldn't have gotten out of people under torture, now people knowingly and willingly publish on Facebook.\"\n\nSvea Eckert is an investigative reporter for Germany's national broadcaster, ARD. Last year she decided to adopt a fake name and set up a fake company, complete with its own website.\n\nHer target? Detailed information showing which web pages individuals had visited, offered for sale by companies who gather data about people's internet use.\n\nJournalist Svea Eckert was able to view the internet browsing histories of about 20 people, all in high-profile positions in Germany\n\nShe and a colleague eventually gained access to a month's worth of de-anonymised browsing records of about 20 people, all in high-profile positions.\n\nThe URLs pointed to details of a criminal investigation, a senior executive's complete financial records, a judge's daily porn viewing habits and the browsing histories of politicians.\n\nThe subjects were shocked when shown the data held about them.\n\nIt emerged that all this data had come from a browser plug-in that these users had installed.\n\nMs Eckert says it wasn't legal for the data to be sold but there has been no action against the company selling it, because it was based outside the EU.\n\nAnd she is concerned at how smaller marketing companies were able to sell this sensitive data but may not have had the money available to wealthy corporations to protect themselves from hackers.\n\n\"I think at the moment we are living in a time which is like the time was when people were not wearing seatbelts in the car.\"\n\n\"The beauty of what's been occurring in the past year or two,\" says Gus Hosein, head of Privacy International, a global non-governmental organisation campaigning for privacy, \"has been that some of the companies who are core now to the delivery of the internet as we know it have taken security and privacy much more seriously.\n\nThe EU is set to introduce new regulations on data privacy\n\n\"What is disappointing is that below the waterline, below what we can see, some of these companies have doubled-down or tripled-down on the extent to which they are grabbing data and doing things with that data without you ever being able to see.\"\n\nBut he thinks there is a limit to how much individual behaviour can achieve in securing online privacy.\n\n\"Almost every positive move that Facebook and Google and the other large companies have taken, particularly the data companies… has been as a result of regulatory pressure.\"\n\nMost technology companies are based in the US where, he says, lobbyists have prevented regulations from being imposed.\n\nThat lobbying influence has proven less effective in Europe, where a new law, the General Data Protection Regulation, designed to increase safeguards on the storage and handling of personal data, is due to come into effect next year.\n\n\"My worry is that we'll become desensitised and we'll become quite resigned to the fact that, 'Yeah, our data is harvested, and, yeah, I guess it is not secure, and, yeah, I guess any criminal who wanted to can get access to it.'\n\n\"The defence of privacy will be the saviour of the future, essentially.\"\n\nThe Inquiry: Is privacy dead? was broadcast on Thursday 5 October. Listen online or download the podcast.", "Ryanair's boss has made an unprecedented apology to pilots\n\nRyanair chief executive Michael O'Leary has written to the airline's pilots to offer them better pay and conditions.\n\nThe improved conditions came after the airline was forced to cancel thousands of flights in recent weeks.\n\nIn a letter to pilots, Mr O'Leary also apologised for changes that caused disruptions to their rotas and urges them not to leave the airline.\n\nThe Irish Air Line Pilots' Association was sceptical, saying the letter gave no details of the cost of the promises.\n\n\"Our members have experienced Ryanair promises before and therefore we will need to carefully consider each point before we decide on a response,\" it added.\n\nThe letter also received a lukewarm response from pilots who contacted the BBC.\n\nOne, who didn't want to be named, said: \"It's the standard. It's a, How nice we are, followed by a carrot and then a threat.\"\n\nMr O'Leary's apology came after he accused the pilots of being \"full of their own self-importance\".\n\nBut in the letter he urges pilots to stay with Ryanair \"for a brighter future\".\n\nRyanair has been in crisis after the rota changes - brought about to comply with new aviation rules - led to a shortage of pilots because the airline failed to plan for enough leave.\n\nMany of the airline's 4,200 pilots had joined unions over the past two weeks over discontent with the disruptions caused by the rota changes.\n\nMr O'Leary's letter implored the pilot team not to leave the airline and offered them improved terms and working conditions.\n\nRyanair's sweeteners included pay increases, loyalty bonus payments, improved rotas and better compensation for pilots forced to work away from their home base.\n\nMr O'Leary stressed that Ryanair was a \"very secure employer in a very insecure industry\" and he emphasised that the airline's pilots \"are the best in the business\".\n\nAnd he asked them not to allow competitor pilots or their unions \"to demean or disparage our collective success\".\n\nThe Ryanair boss also urged the airline's pilots not to join \"one of these less financially secure or Brexit-challenged airlines\".\n\nMr O'Leary's letter asked the pilots to take note of \"the recent bankruptcies of Air Berlin, Alitalia and Monarch\", as well as the difficulties faced by another budget airline, Norwegian Air, which has been under pressure to boost its finances.\n\nRyanair has cancelled thousands of flights since September\n\nRyanair announced its first wave of 2,100 cancellations in the middle of September, after it rearranged pilots' rosters to comply with new aviation rules requiring a change in how their flying hours are logged.\n\nTowards the end of September it announced 18,000 further flights would be cancelled over the winter season. These moves affect more than 700,000 passengers.\n\nThe airline blamed the flight fiasco on its own mistaken decision to force its pilots to take their remaining annual leave before the end of this year, rather than by the end of the financial year next March.\n\nThat left Ryanair without enough pilots to fly all its scheduled flights in September and October.\n\nBut passengers have complained about the short notice of the cancellations and the consumer group Which? said Ryanair's compensation information was \"woefully short\".", "The wife of an Army sergeant who survived a 4,000ft fall after her husband allegedly tampered with her parachute was among the UK's top parachutists, a court has heard.\n\nVictoria Cilliers, 40, suffered multiple serious injuries at Netheravon Airfield, Wiltshire, on April 5, 2015.\n\nWinchester Crown Court heard Mrs Cilliers has completed more than 2,600 jumps.\n\nProsecutors allege her ex-husband sabotaged both her main and reserve parachute by removing components.\n\nMark Bayada, chief instructor of the Army Parachute Association at Netheravon, told the court Mrs Cilliers was \"in the top per cent of competency in the country\".\n\nHe told jurors two vital components, known as slinks, were missing from Mrs Cillier's reserve chute.\n\nIt is \"almost impossible\", he said, for the \"extremely strong\" components to come off by mistake.\n\nMr Bayada said Mrs Cillier's main parachute was \"distorted, rotated and bunched up\".\n\nHe said the parachute's lines were \"massively entangled\".\n\nIt was \"highly unlikely\", he said, that user error \"would result in a malfunction with that much entanglement\".\n\nThe only \"innocent explanation\" for the missing slinks, he said, was that medics had cut them away.\n\nThe court was shown the various parachute parts\n\nBut upon checking, he said, the only thing at the scene which first aiders had cut was Mrs Cilliers' goggles strap.\n\nMr Bayada attributed Mrs Cilliers' survival to the relatively low height of her jump.\n\nIts \"sub terminal\" nature meant she had not reached full speed, he said.\n\nHe also said her small size and \"exceptionally soft\" field had probably contributed to her survival too.\n\nProsecutors alleged Mr Cilliers wanted to leave his wife for a lover he had met on Tinder.\n\nAlongside the allegation he tampered with his wife's parachutes, Mr Cilliers is also accused of deliberately causing a gas leak in the family home while he stayed away.\n\nHe denies two counts of attempted murder.\n\nMr Cilliers, who is based at the Royal Army Physical Training Corps in Aldershot, Hampshire, is also accused of a third charge of damaging a gas valve at their home in Amesbury, Wiltshire.\n\nThe trial will resume on Friday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A view of New Zealand and Kristy and Corey Rousseau on their wedding day\n\nWhy would couples keep their engagement and even their wedding secret from friends and family?\n\nSome would find it hard to believe, but for Kristy Rousseau from Ontario, Canada, it was probably the best decision she and her partner made.\n\n\"We travel a lot and preferred to spend money on marrying on a mountain top in our favourite place instead of a big traditional wedding,\" Kristy told the BBC.\n\nShe and her husband Corey, who had been together for seven years, secretly got engaged so that their friends and family would not discover their plan to elope to New Zealand.\n\nIn the run up to her wedding, Kristy found it hard not to wear her engagement ring. On her birthday, just two weeks before flying to New Zealand, she wore it out to dinner and nearly let the secret out.\n\nKristy says husband Corey thinks he looks like James Bond\n\nThey almost managed to tell no one, as Kristy explains:\n\n\"Corey had to tell his boss [about the elopement] because he was recruited to a new company and needed the time off. Some of his co-workers thought he was in rehab!\"\n\nAs their big day approached, the couple flew to New Zealand, took a helicopter ride to the mountains, and enlisted the help of the pilot as the best man and a photographer as a witness.\n\nHaving been a bridesmaid and maid of honour three times before getting married herself, Kristy saw how wedding planning can be stressful.\n\nShe said: \"I didn't want to ruin what is meant to be the happiest day.\"\n\nPersonalised postcard anyone? The happy couple in 'the most beautiful place on earth'\n\nSo, they got married, took photos and sent home postcards. Kristy said everyone was happy she and Corey had finally tied the knot although her mother was a little disappointed she was not there to witness her only daughter's big day.\n\nHowever, Kristy wanted her day to be about her and Corey: \"Ultimately, we wanted it to just be something personal between the two of us.\"", "Film producer Harvey Weinstein has issued an apology as a newspaper reported a number of sexual harassment allegations against him.\n\n\"I appreciate the way I've behaved with colleagues in the past has caused a lot of pain, and I sincerely apologise for it,\" said the movie mogul's statement.\n\nBut he later disputed a New York Times report that claimed he harassed female employees over nearly three decades.\n\nThe newspaper reported he had reached at least eight settlements with women.\n\nMr Weinstein, a married father-of-five, said he planned to take a leave of absence from his company and had hired therapists to deal with his issue.\n\n\"My journey now will be to learn about myself and conquer my demons,\" the 65-year-old's statement on Thursday said.\n\n\"I so respect all women and regret what happened,\" he added in the statement initially given to the New York Times, and later sent to the BBC.\n\nIt continued: \"I cannot be more remorseful about the people I hurt and I plan to do right by all of them.\"\n\nThe Miramax and Weinstein Company co-founder has produced a number of Oscar-winning blockbusters, including Shakespeare in Love, The King's Speech and The Artist.\n\nMr Weinstein's lawyer, Lisa Bloom, said in another statement that he denies many of the allegations against him as \"patently false\".\n\nShe also said that as a women's rights advocate she had been blunt with him that some of his conduct \"can be perceived as inappropriate, even intimidating\".\n\n\"He has acknowledged mistakes he has made,\" said Ms Bloom. \"He is reading books and going to therapy. He is an old dinosaur learning new ways.\"\n\nBut another Weinstein lawyer, Charles Harder, said in a separate statement to the Hollywood Reporter that his client was preparing to sue the New York Times.\n\nThe attorney said the newspaper's report was \"saturated with false and defamatory statements\".\n\nThe statement also said the report \"relies on mostly hearsay accounts and a faulty report, apparently stolen from an employee personnel file, which has been debunked by 9 different eyewitnesses\". It did not specify which particular parts of the Times article were disputed.\n\nMr Harder's statement said the New York Times had ignored the \"facts and evidence\" and any proceeds from the lawsuit would be donated to women's organisations.\n\nMr Weinstein has been married since 2007 to London-born fashion designer Georgina Rose Chapman, and they have two children.", "A council paid out more than £1.8m in a single compensation claim involving a pothole, it has emerged.\n\nSomerset County Council paid out £1,836,000 to a third party for \"general damages\" following an accident \"involving a pothole defect\".\n\nDetails released to the Somerset County Gazette under a Freedom of Information request also reveal £2.1m was paid in 31 compensation claims in 2016 to 2017.\n\nThe council said it was unable to give further details for legal reasons.\n\nDocuments also reveal a rise in the total amount of compensation paid out by the authority.\n\nIt paid about £170,000 to 28 claimants in 2014 to 2015, and almost £900,000 to 33 claimants in the following year.\n\nThis financial year, however, the authority has had to pay out £2,137,167, with £1.8m of it going to just one person.\n\nAcross the county, the FoI revealed the most common claim for compensation was for potholes, followed by drains and gullies and then \"erosion of road\".\n\nThe lowest compensation pay out was £11.99 for \"damage to clothing caused by overgrown brambles that were not maintained\".\n\nA spokesman for Somerset County Council said, \"data protection legislation\" meant it could not give \"any further details about individual claims against the local authority\".\n\nBut he added, to successfully claim compensation claimants would need to prove the council had neglected or breached its \"statutory duty\".\n\n\"Often events occur that are unfortunate but not due to any party's negligence,\" he said.\n\n\"As such, there is no automatic entitlement to compensation or any guarantee that making a claim will be successful.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The November edition of Glamour magazine, published this month\n\nUK Glamour magazine is going \"digital first\", stopping its monthly editions and instead producing a \"collectible, glossy\" issue twice a year.\n\nA spokeswoman told the BBC the \"mobile-first, social-first\" move with a focus on beauty was based on how readers are \"living their life today\".\n\nGlamour will be going into consultation over jobs but \"can't confirm numbers\" at this stage.\n\nThe last monthly print edition will be published in November.\n\n\"We are taking our lead from our readers, who are largely women aged 20 to 54,\" she 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 British GLAMOUR This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 move is for the \"beauty obsessed\", the magazine said, adding the content will still include \"some celebrities and fashion\".\n\nThe twice-yearly magazines will be out in spring and autumn, reflecting beauty and style \"for the coming season\".\n\nThe move will also see the editorial and commercial teams becoming \"fully integrated\". The BBC understands the move will result in the loss of some editorial and publishing staff.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Leonie Roderick This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"Today's Glamour consumer moves to a different rhythm than the one who bought the magazine when it launched in 2001. It is a faster, more focused, multi-platform relationship,\" the magazine said, adding the \"quality of ideas, vision and execution remain central\".\n\nSimon Gresham Jones, chief digital officer of Conde Nast Britain said: \"We look forward to inspiring the Glamour audience in new ways.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Lebby Eyres This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChanges to the site will begin in the coming weeks.\n\nThis move is taking place in the UK only, although the magazine is published in 17 markets including Brazil, France, Germany and the US.\n\nGlamour is not the first magazine to change its focus to digital content - last year In Style magazine closed its print edition, while in 2014 Company magazine did the same.\n\nWhat can Glamour do online that others can't? Be better - more smart, beautiful, easy to use - perhaps. But that won't be easy.\n\nThere is no getting around the deeper structural forces that are driving this change, which is the flight of readers from print to online, and the pursuit of those readers by advertisers for whom print is an ever lower priority.\n\nThe claim that integrating editorial and commercial departments is \"a further innovative move\" is not up to much, because many others have been forced to do the same. And when editorial and commercial departments merge, it's generally because the money is running out and so the commercial team actually control the editorial content.\n\nJo Elvin is the editor of the UK's Glamour magazine\n\nAnd that must be the concern for staff and indeed readers. The danger is that by moving online and focusing ever more on the traffic-generating beauty content, Glamour invests less and less in quality journalism. Of course they will deny that is either the intention or the probable danger, but it is a substantial risk.\n\nIt has felt over recent months like an era is passing in magazine culture. In the US, the editors of Vanity Fair, Time, Glamour and Elle all departed. Not so long ago Rolling Stone was sold. And in recent weeks Hugh Hefner and Si Newhouse, two giants of magazine publishing, have died.\n\nIt may seem a stretch to link those events to Glamour becoming an online beauty destination, but there is a link: the huge upheaval in journalism, driven by technology.\n\nHigh quality magazine journalism still has a future online of course, but only if people pay for it. Everyone who wants to see journalism thrive will wish Glamour well, and hope it focuses on quality as it navigates this transition.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Bono named on 'women of the year' list", "Liberia's former President Charles Taylor is currently serving a 50-year sentence for war crimes in a prison in the British city of Durham. But is he using that as a base to interfere in the elections in his homeland next Tuesday?\n\n\"If he was to come back today, I'd roll out the red carpet,\" said Justin Luther Cassell, a 32-year-old man sitting outside the Pray for Peace Business Centre in Gbartala, central Liberia.\n\nGathered round on plastic chairs, drinking beer and discussing the forthcoming Liberian elections, the men here are clearly frustrated.\n\nThis was Charles Taylor's rebel headquarters in the 1990s.\n\nThe former military base may be crumbling, with buildings almost completely engulfed by the jungle, but Taylor's name is still as strong as ever in Bong county.\n\nMore than five years since the former president was sentenced for war crimes committed in neighbouring Sierra Leone, people in his heartland are still harking back to the old days.\n\nCharles Taylor's former rebel base in Gbartala is now in ruins\n\n\"Even with the sound of the gun, life was better,\" said one frustrated young man, bemoaning the lack of basic necessities in the country.\n\nIn an unlikely alliance, former world footballer of the year George Weah, who is running on the presidential ballot for the third time, has chosen Taylor's ex-wife, Jewel Howard Taylor, as his deputy.\n\nHaving historically been a staunch critic of Taylor and his National Patriotic Party (NPP), questions are being asked of the motives.\n\nGeorge Weah and Jewel Howard Taylor have been touring the country together\n\nThe union between Mr Weah's Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) and the NPP came just before a phone call from the former warlord was broadcast to a gathering of his supporters on his birthday in January this year.\n\nThe call was made from inside a high-security prison in Durham.\n\nHe is heard saying that \"this revolution is his life\", he advises his people not to betray the party: \"Go back to base and everything will be fine.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRodney Sieh, editor of Front Page Africa - the Liberian paper that published the call - said he was sure that Taylor knew that \"he was speaking to an audience\".\n\nTaylor wanted his people to know that he was still relevant, according to Mr Sieh.\n\n\"He still wants his voice heard\" in the Liberian political scene, he said.\n\nMrs Howard Taylor has made her allegiance to her ex-husband clear.\n\nIn an interview with local journalists outside a campaign rally, she said that the country needed to get back to the \"agenda\" outlined by Taylor when he was president.\n\nBut she denied that he was influencing the 2017 elections.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC after a friendly football game just outside the capital, Mr Weah admitted to taking a call from prison.\n\nBut he rejected the idea that strings were being pulled.\n\n\"Charles Taylor is not running the campaign for us,\" he said.\n\nDefending his choice of running mate he said simply: \"People love her, she was the mother of this nation.\n\n\"If Charles Taylor was campaigning for me, I think the world would be aware.\"\n\nTaylor's supporters in Gbartala say they would roll out the red carpet for the former leader should he return home\n\nBut the world is aware of the alleged interference and it is concerned.\n\nSince news broke of the phone call, the US Congress passed a resolution that condemned any \"external interference\" in the poll and specifically any attempt by the convicted war criminal \"to influence the elections from prison\".\n\nThe EU mission in Liberia has also made it clear that \"Charles Taylor is serving a 50 year jail sentence and he is not coming back to Liberia\".\n\nBut if Taylor himself was to be believed when he left Liberia to be exiled in Nigeria on 11 August 2003, his intentions were clear.\n\n\"God willing, I will be back,\" he said at a resignation ceremony in the capital.\n\nObservers are concerned about meddling that could go beyond election day itself.\n\nVice-President Joseph Boakai says he is nicknamed \"Sleepy Joe\" because he is a dreamer\n\nMr Sieh told the BBC that Mr Weah now has some of Taylor's closest aides around him.\n\n\"He may not be here physically but he could influence a lot of things if one of these people are elected,\" the editor said.\n\nMr Weah and Mrs Howard Taylor's main opponent is considered to be Vice-President Joseph Boakai - or \"Sleepy Joe\" as he is commonly known - because he is often caught napping at public events.\n\nThe 73-year-old has served as vice-president under Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female president, for the past 12 years. But rumours of a rift between the two are rife.\n\n\"A lot more needs to be achieved,\" he told us when we caught up with him on the campaign trail.\n\n\"The Liberian people want to see development and someone who can unify them.\"\n\nThese women are fasting and praying for a peaceful election\n\nAsked about his nickname he smiled and said he is \"a dreamer\", but whether he has the charisma and dynamism to captivate Liberia's youthful population, only the vote on 10 October will prove.\n\nThey have 20 candidates to choose from.\n\nAlthough many commentators predict a second round between Mr Weah and Mr Boakai, former Coca-Cola executive Alexander Cummings, who came on to the scene 18 months ago, is fast becoming a serious contender.\n\nA candidate needs more than 50% of the vote for a first-round victory.\n\nAccording to Mr Sieh, with his door-to-door strategy, Mr Cummings has changed the way campaigns are carried out in Liberia and he might just make it to a run-off.\n\nFormer Coca-Cola executive Alexander Cumming has a chance of making it to the second round\n\nBut for most Liberians, the most important thing is peace.\n\nHundreds of women across the country are fasting and praying for a peaceful election.\n\nJust opposite President Sirleaf's private residence, 44-year-old Bernice Freeman is one of more than 100 women gathered under a tent providing shade from the hot sun.\n\n\"Every woman here has a very bitter past,\" she said with a determined look in her eye.\n\n\"Some of us were raped several times, we are tired.\"\n\nThe power of these women cannot be underestimated - this same group is credited with bringing an end to the conflict by forcing the warlords to engage in peace talks.\n\nNobody here wants a return to those days.", "A 24-year-old secondary school teacher told the BBC she was shocked by the stories she heard from teenage pupils about their sexual activity.\n\nHer frank account prompted many readers to share their concerns.\n\nCatherine: I'm shocked by what I read. The exact thing happened to my 15-year-old daughter two years ago. The teacher could be talking about her experience. It was devastating.\n\nAt the time she didn't realise what was happening to her. Two years on she does understand and she's very angry, but the damage is done.\n\nI'd like you to thank the teacher for speaking so boldly about a serious problem that needs addressing.\n\nJayne: Wow. I'm in my 40s but so much of what you wrote hit home with me. No one taught me any of the things your teacher spoke about.\n\nMy mum worked late nights in a factory. I didn't know I could and should say no. I did think it made me feel special. But it was crumby and lousy and I'm left years later thinking an otherwise idyllic childhood was shadowed and scarred somehow by crappy encounters with crappy boys.\n\nI feel shame for it - until I read your item - maybe I can be/should be kinder to my younger self. If only girls were taught their self worth. It's ok to say no.\n\nShaun: Interesting article. I've just found out that my 14-year-old daughter has gone on the pill and is having sex with a boy one year older than her. I've tried talking to her and asking whether she has been pressurised into having sex but she says she's not.\n\nKids (certainly my one) just want to be an adult but she's not, she's 14 and the media/friends/social network is dictating that she has to be sexually active. This is a con and she's now on the pill pumping hormones into her body unnecessarily.\n\nAs a father all I can do (and have done) is ask her whether she is being pressured, is this what she wants to do and is she happy. Explaining that I cannot condone it, but I accept it, and that I am present and here if/when she wants to talk to me.\n\nToo many parents lose it with their daughters and push them away. Better to accept and be ready for the inevitable \"cry on my shoulders\" that I'll get when she realises she has made a mistake.\n\nJade: I was in the same position and I understand where she is coming from but I still went with it. I regretted it once I got home and told my parents so I could get it off my shoulders.\n\nMy parents helped me a lot. It is always good to tell someone if you regret something after. If it's going to be a weight on your shoulders, tell someone.\n\nI didn't say no, but I regret that because I haven't seen or heard from him since it happened and I know why. He didn't love me, he was only using me.\n\nRachel: This teacher is three years younger than me and believes that 14-year-olds did not exhibit the behaviours she discusses in the article, when she was in school. This seems absolutely ridiculous to me.\n\nWhen I was 14, there were boys saying these things, and worse, every day. There was a ridiculous amount of pressure to be clean-shaven in school - and I didn't even have any sexual partners.\n\nBoys were always commenting on how girls looked; to the point where I was often ridiculed for having hair on my arms.\n\nPorn definitely shaped boys' opinions then, and it shapes boys' opinions now. But the blame can't all go to porn. Girls \"beauty\" magazines are to blame as well for these absurd expectations.\n\nRachel, mother to two teenage boys: The article gives the impression that boys are predatory and incapable of understanding and regulating their own urges. I have found the opposite to be the case.\n\nI talk to my boys about respect, the pressure young women are under and that their desires are normal and healthy, but they should not expect these young women to meet those desires.\n\nThey suffer the occasional feminist rant with good grace. I also leave a few art photography books, maybe a not too sexy underwear catalogue lying around. Images of happy healthy smiling girls, with pubic hair (of course).\n\nIt might appear a little creepy, but in my opinion, as parents it would be foolish to bury our heads in the sand. Things are definitely not like when we were growing up and porn has a lot to do with that.\n\nCaitlin: This is so true and I cannot express how grateful I am to the teacher who wrote this article for starting this conversation.\n\nI'm 25 now. However, this article reflects exactly how the situation was when I was 14, 15, 16 and clearly nothing has changed. The sad thing is that these feelings and attitudes stay with you well past your early teen years.\n\nThe quote \"almost like a validation of their appearance and attractiveness - or they think it is\" really rings true for me - not just at school but throughout my university life, and even in my early 20s I feel this has always been a huge reason I have felt the desire to sleep with men.\n\nNever for my own pleasure, but to boost my self-esteem and to validate that I was attractive to the opposite sex. An incredibly sad truth and one that I was only able to admit to myself very recently and, after speaking with friends about it, one which seems to be true among many bright and attractive young women.\n\nThere really needs to be some radical reform in the way young people are taught about sex and what sex education is focused on. Otherwise I fear that this is something that we will see more and more within society.\n\nHolly: I was particularly struck by the topic of coercion among teenagers.\n\nI am very interested in this topic as I believe it is a monumental issue that exploded with the introduction of the internet, and actually massively affected me - among thousands of other girls - through my teenage years and even to this day.\n\nI currently work in a school and I am thinking about how we can help the current generation of young girls so they are as protected as possible from negative situations as outlined in your article.\n\nI believe so much more needs to be done in schools to educate girls about self-respect and empowerment and would like to develop a course that could be implemented in PSHE [personal, social, health and economic].\n• None Girls go along with sex acts, says teacher", "The order of service gave both Dawn's real and professional names\n\nLiz Dawn's Coronation Street co-stars have paid emotional tribute to the actress at her funeral in Salford.\n\nDawn, who played Vera Duckworth in the ITV soap for more than 30 years, died last week at the age of 77.\n\nSamia Longchambon, who plays Maria Connor, delivered a eulogy alongside Alan Halsall, who plays the role of Tyrone Dobbs.\n\nDawn was \"a wonderful, kind, funny, and considerate person\", Longchambon told the congregation at Salford Cathedral.\n\n\"On this very sad day for us all, we know you'll understand when we say how much we're going to miss Liz,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Her infectious laughter, the mischievous sparkle in her eyes, her considerate and warm way with those around her. Always asking after you and your family before thinking of herself.\n\n\"We will cherish our memories of working with her and our everlasting friendship. God bless you, Liz, sleep tight. We'll never forget you.\"\n\nHalsall described her as \"a true inspiration\" and recalled how she once left fellow cast members in hysterics when she berated Prince Charles on a visit to the set.\n\n\"She had no idea how much she was loved or how funny she was and she'd have been totally overwhelmed by the outpouring of love these last couple of weeks,\" he said.\n\nPivaro (centre) was last seen as Terry Duckworth in 2012\n\nThe Coronation Street theme tune was played by the organist as her coffin was brought into the cathedral.\n\nAnd Dawn's real-life son Graham Ibbetson recounted personal memories, including the time when his mother, before she was famous, gave away the £25 prize from a holiday camp talent competition to a children's charity.\n\nHer generosity, he went on, meant that her husband Don had to borrow petrol money for the journey home.\n\nHe said: \"No matter who met with mum, at any place, at any time, in any circumstances, all of them laughed and walked away smiling. Happier. That was mum's legacy.\"\n\nSally Dynevor and Michael Le Vell were among the Coronation Street stars present\n\nGraham Ibbetson also recounted the actress's final afternoon, when the family sat with her and held her hand, while he played Frank Sinatra on his phone \"hoping she could hear it\".\n\nHe finished his tribute by adapting the words of Sinatra's My Way to apply to his mother, making it Her Way.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Antony Cotton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 cast members at the service included Helen Worth, who plays Gail Rodwell, Sally Dynevor, who plays Sally Metcalfe, and Michael Le Vell, who plays Kevin Webster.\n\n\"It was a lovely service,\" said Worth, holding back tears. \"It was quiet, it was calm, it was gentle. People spoke beautifully and so bravely.\n\n\"We all loved her. I also know she'll be looking down now and saying, 'eh, that were nice.' It was a good send-off for someone we loved.\"\n\nKen Morley (l) and Bruce Jones were among others in attendance\n\nWhen Coronation Street's famous faces emerged from Salford Cathedral after the funeral, the mood was one of sadness - but they were also comforted by remembering and celebrating the woman who they knew as Liz and we knew as Vera.\n\nAbove all, there was huge affection as they spoke. Antony Cotton described the service as the coming together of her \"two families\" - her real family and her screen family.\n\nThe word family was mentioned a lot to describe the atmosphere on the show when she was there - as several co-stars said, she was the matriarch of Corrie.\n\nThere was a third family - the family of fans. A few dozen of them had gathered to watch the mourners amid the everyday bustle of Salford, a couple of miles from the Corrie cobbles, outside Weatherfield's local cathedral.\n\nDynevor said the service had been \"incredible\" and that Dawn was \"the heart of Coronation Street\".\n\n\"There was always laughter where Liz was, and kindness,\" she told the BBC. \"She was friends with everybody.\"\n\nLe Vell remembered an occasion when Dawn, a devout Catholic, returned from an audience with Pope John Paul II in 1998 \"with all these little angel things to bless us with\".\n\n\"She was such a selfless person,\" he went on. \"She was like a proper matriarch. It's a massive loss.\"\n\nFormer stars Ken Morley, who played Reg Holdsworth, and Bruce Jones, who played Les Battersby, were among the others there to pay their respects.\n\nThe Coronation Street theme tune was played as her coffin was brought in\n\nThe funeral was conducted by Father Brendan Curley, the former dean of Salford Cathedral and a friend of Dawn and her family, alongside the cathedral's current dean, Father Michael Jones.\n\nHer coffin was transported to the cathedral with a display of pale pink roses spelling the word \"Mum\".\n\nDawn played the battleaxe Vera from 1974 until 2008, when an episode featuring Vera's death attracted more than 12 million viewers. She was diagnosed with emphysema in 2004.\n\nShe is survived by her husband Don, four children, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police said the security guard appears to have locked the door of the room before starting the fire\n\nFour children and a teacher have been killed in Brazil after a security guard threw flammable liquid on them and set them on fire, officials say.\n\nThe man also set himself alight at the childcare centre in the remote town of Janauba in Minas Gerais state.\n\nVideo footage showed chaotic scenes outside, as parents cried and panicked as the news broke.\n\nTwenty-five people, mostly children aged four and five, are being treated for burns in local hospitals.\n\nSome of the patients may still need to be airlifted to a specialised burns unit in the state capital, Belo Horizonte.\n\nRelatives and residents have gathered outside the local hospital in Janauba\n\nThe mother of one of the victims, four-year-old Juan Miguel Soares Silva, told O Globo newspaper that she had been considering enrolling him in another nursery prior to the attack.\n\n\"We are about to move to a different neighbourhood,\" Jane Kelly da Silva Soares said.\n\n\"I woke up early to drop him at the nursery. When I saw him again he was already dead in hospital.\"\n\nThe security guard has been identified by police as Damiao Soares dos Santos, 50. He died in hospital of his wounds.\n\nThe reasons for the attack are still being investigated.\n\nLocal media has reported that he was dismissed after returning from annual leave last month with an alleged health condition.\n\nHe went to the Gente Inocente childcare centre to hand in his medical certificate and then started the fire, O Globo newspaper reported.\n\nPresident Michel Temer tweeted: \"I'm very sorry about this tragedy involving children in Janauba. I want to express my sympathy to the families.\"\n\n\"This must be a very, very painful loss,\" he added.\n\nThe mayor of Janauba has declared seven days of mourning.", "The National Rifle Association has called for \"additional regulations\" on bump-stocks, a rapid fire device used by the Las Vegas massacre gunman.\n\nThe group said: \"Devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations.\"\n\nRepublicans have said they would consider banning the tool, despite years of resisting any gun control.\n\nLawmakers plan to hold hearings and consider a bill to outlaw the device.\n\nThe NRA called on Thursday for regulators to \"immediately review whether these devices comply with federal law\".\n\nPresident Donald Trump later told reporters his administration would be looking into whether to ban them \"in the next short period of time\".\n\n\"In the aftermath of the evil and senseless attack in Las Vegas, the American people are looking for answers as to how future tragedies can be prevented,\" NRA chiefs Wayne LaPierre and Chris Cox wrote in the statement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It was the scariest moment in my life'\n\nThey criticised politicians who are calling for gun control, writing that \"banning guns from law-abiding Americans based on the criminal act of a madman will do nothing to prevent future attacks\".\n\nThe statement, the organisation's first since Sunday's attack in Las Vegas that left 58 people dead and nearly 500 injured, noted that bump-stocks were approved by the Obama administration's Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms.\n\nThe NRA's strategy for responding to the Las Vegas mass-shooting is now coming into focus.\n\nBy recommending that an executive branch agency conduct a review of the legality of bump stock devices, the extremely influential gun rights lobby is seeking to direct efforts towards administrative, not legislative, solutions.\n\nIf Congress were to start drafting new laws, the process may be more difficult for the NRA to control. Democrats, who have been clamouring for the opportunity to debate new gun-control laws, could have their chance. Republican congressional leadership may try to clamp down on the proceedings, but there's a chance other proposals -like limits on magazine capacity, military-style rifle features and new background check requirements - could come up for consideration.\n\nThese types of provisions are popular with the public at large but vigorously opposed by the NRA and their supporters in Congress. It could make for difficult votes for some conservative legislators.\n\nThe White House and many congressional Republicans are pledging to have a \"conversation\" about the issue and \"look into\" the details. That, for the moment, is a far cry from action.\n\nThe NRA is now suggesting an alternative route.\n\nWhite House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders, who spoke to reporters moments after the NRA statement was issued, said: \"Members of both parties and multiple organisations are planning to take a look at bump-stocks. We welcome that and would like to be part of that conversation.\"\n\nIn the same statement the NRA urged Congress to pass their longstanding pet proposal to expand gun rights nationwide, so-called right-to-carry reciprocity.\n\nThe lobby group wants gun-owners with concealed-carry permits from one state to be allowed to take their weapons into any other US state, even if it has stricter firearms limits.\n\nAnother NRA policy priority, the deregulation of silencer attachments, appears to have stalled in Congress in the wake of the Las Vegas attack, after Republican sponsors withdrew their bill.\n\nA bill to ban bump-stocks was submitted to the US Senate on Wednesday by California Democrat Dianne Feinstein.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After the Las Vegas attack in October 2017 the BBC looked at how US mass shootings are getting worse\n\nA Republican-led version of the bill may be submitted for debate as early as Thursday, Florida Republican Carlos Curbelo told reporters.\n\nHe said there was growing bipartisan consensus and that his office had been \"flooded\" with calls from other lawmakers interested in the bill.\n\n\"I think we are on the verge of a breakthrough when it comes to sensible gun policy,\" he told reporters.\n\nBump-fire stocks, also called bump-stocks and slide-fire adapters, allow semi-automatic rifles to fire at a high rate, similar to a machine gun.\n\nBut they can be obtained without the extensive background checks required of automatic weapons.\n\nAsk survivors of the Las Vegas massacre about gun control and you may well hear the sound of silence.\n\nThe cultures of country music and shooting overlap and many concert-goers remain strong supporters of the right to bear arms.\n\n\"It's obviously kind of a touchy subject,\" singer and performer Krystal Goddard, 35, told me after recounting the horror of her escape from the gig.\n\n\"I think that guns are just a symptom of other things going on,\" she said, although she added that she did not understand why anyone needed to own an assault rifle.\n\nThere is some support among survivors for banning bump-stocks but there is also a realisation that doing so does not amount to serious gun control.\n\nAnd all the while the killing continues. Fifty-nine people died here on Sunday.\n\nBy Thursday afternoon at least 87 more people had been shot and killed across the US, according to the Gun Violence Archive. That's a Las Vegas massacre every three days.\n\nStephen Paddock, the gunman in Las Vegas, had fixed the accessories to 12 rifles used in his attack.\n\nBump-stocks typically cost less than $200 (£150) and allow nearly 100 high-velocity bullets to be fired in just seven seconds, according to one company advert.\n\nOne of the most popular manufacturers of bump-stocks, Slide Fire, said they had sold out \"due to extreme high demands\" since the Las Vegas shooting.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ashraf Ghani: \"Now in terms of management and leadership things are really falling into place\"\n\nPresident Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan makes no bones about the challenges facing his country when we sit down for an exclusive BBC interview in his palace in Kabul.\n\n\"This is the worst job on Earth,\" he tells me.\n\nAnd it is true there are no shortage of tough issues facing Afghanistan. The most obvious is security. His country has been at war for almost 16 years now. Yet the Afghan president is surprisingly bullish about how long the country will continue to require the support of Nato.\n\nNato troops, he says, will be able to pull out \"within four years\".\n\nMany military analysts will consider that optimistic given that it is only three years since the Nato combat mission ended and the Afghan military took responsibility for the battle against the Taliban and other insurgent groups.\n\nAbout 14,000 Nato troops remain in the country to \"train, advise and assist\" Afghan forces. The aim is to strengthen them so they can take the battle to the Taliban.\n\nThe president says the Afghan National Army is prevailing against the Taliban\n\nMr Ghani doesn't deny it has been a difficult three years. \"We were like 12-year-olds taking on the responsibility of a 30-year-old; but we really grew in the process. Now in terms of management and leadership things are really falling into place.\"\n\nHe continues: \"Within four years, we think our security forces would be able to do the constitutional thing, which is the claim of legitimate monopoly of power.\"\n\nHe expects that some foreign troops will remain in Afghanistan after that period as part of the global fight against terrorism but, when I ask whether he is saying Afghan forces have turned the corner in the fight against the Taliban, there is no hesitation: \"Yes,\" he says.\n\nThe Taliban, he says, had two strategic aims: to overthrow the government or to create two \"political geographies\", by which he means whole areas of the country where it holds sway.\n\n\"It has failed miserably in both of these aims,\" Mr Ghani believes.\n\nWhether that is true is debatable. The latest figures from the US military show that the Afghan government controls less than two-thirds of the country. The rest is either controlled or contested by the Taliban and other militant groups.\n\nWhat is more, last year Afghanistan lost some 10% of its entire fighting force: about 7,000 Afghan National Army soldiers were killed, another 12,000 were injured, and many thousands more deserted.\n\nOne reason the Afghan president is so confident is that he believes that the West does not really understand the real nature of the conflict. His government is not fighting a civil war, he argues, but a drug war.\n\nThe US has announced that some of its forces will stay in Afghanistan indefinitely\n\n\"Taliban is the largest exporters of heroin to the world. Why is the world not focusing on heroin? Is this an ideological war or is this a drug war?\" asks Mr Ghani. \"This criminalisation of the economy needs to be addressed.\"\n\nSo what is the ultimate aim, I ask.\n\n\"A peace agreement with the Taliban,\" he answers without a breath.\n\n\"The whole aim of the strategy is to provide the ground for political solution and a political solution is a negotiated solution. It's imperative that the people are given a chance to live their lives. We have been denied breathing space for 40 years, and in an immense tribute to our people for their resilience, any other state would've been completely broken.\"\n\nMr Ghani is full of praise for US President Donald Trump, who finally announced last month that his government was ready to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. Withdrawal, said Mr Trump, would be determined by \"conditions on the ground and not arbitrary timetables\".\n\nThe US president also said he would send a few thousand more troops to support the current Nato mission. In return, Mr Ghani says he plans a complete overhaul of the Afghan government, including redoubled efforts to crack down on corruption.\n\n\"The first principle of tackling corruption,\" he tells me, \"is that you do not engage in it and you have the will to confront it. Whoever engages in corruption, regardless of affiliation, relationship etc, must be subject to the same law.\"\n\n\"A three-star general that I have promoted is now in prison because it was demonstrated that fuel was being stolen,\" he boasts. \"One of the richest men in the country that people thought was untouchable is now in prison. You can ask anyone in the judiciary, I provide full political support.\"\n\nThe Afghan president's message is clear: \"Self-reliance is not just words, but deeds.\"\n\nAnd, with two years to go before a general election, he says he doesn't care if the price of his reform efforts is his presidency.\n\n\"If election is your goal, you're never going to engage in reform. Reform has to be your goal. Election is the means. You run for office in order to do something, not in order to perpetuate yourself. Politicians have become extraordinarily conservative, but our times require imagination and bold action.\"\n• None Afghan president: 'Corner has been turned' Video, 00:01:40Afghan president: 'Corner has been turned'", "The FDA's video about sleep positioners warns that \"all can be dangerous\"\n\nSome UK retailers have stopped selling baby sleep positioners amid concerns over their safety.\n\nA US health regulator said they \"can cause suffocation that can lead to death\" and have been linked to 12 infant deaths in the US.\n\nThe positioners, aimed at infants under six months, are intended to keep a baby in a specific position while sleeping.\n\nMothercare, John Lewis, eBay, Boots and Tesco have stopped sales, but they are still available from other retailers.\n\nThe Lullaby Trust, a cot death charity which advises the NHS, told BBC News that there are hundreds of baby sleep products on the market - and \"parents assume that if something is for sale, it is safe to use\".\n\nLullaby's Jenny Ward added: \"The age-old question that hasn't really changed is: how do I get my baby to sleep?\n\n\"And if there's a product that says: 'This will help your baby to sleep', it's obviously something that some parents will want to find out more about.\"\n\nBut she said the Trust recommends a firm, flat, waterproof mattress, in a clear cot free of pillows, toys, bumpers and sleep positioners, because the evidence shows that this reduces the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).\n\nThe Trust does not recommend wedges or sleep positioners - regardless of other potential benefits.\n\nIf, for example, parents are worried about \"flat head syndrome\" from babies sleeping on their backs, there are techniques that can be used - such as supervised tummy time while they are awake - that will not increase the risk of SIDS.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Here's how to put your baby to sleep safely\n\nThe Food and Drug Administration in the US released a statement on Wednesday explaining that the items - often called \"nests\" or \"anti-roll\" products - have caused some babies to suffocate after rolling from their sides to their stomachs.\n\nIt said the two most common types of sleep positioners feature raised supports or pillows (called \"bolsters\") that are attached to each side of a mat, or a wedge to raise a baby's head.\n\nThe FDA first issued a safety warning seven years ago, saying \"in light of the suffocation risk and the lack of evidence of any benefits, we are warning consumers to stop using these products\".\n\nThere is no FDA equivalent in the UK, though the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is responsible for product safety policy, which is enforced by Trading Standards.\n\nA BEIS spokesman told the BBC: \"Manufacturers, distributors and retailers must ensure products meet the relevant safety requirements and be able to prove this is the case if asked, before the product is placed on the market.\"\n\nMothercare had been selling a sleep positioner for £39.99 but has told the BBC it is no longer for sale.\n\nIt came with a warning that it should not be used once a baby was able to turn around on their own.\n\nTesco, which sold sleep positioners on its website through a third party, said: \"We have removed these products from our website as a precautionary measure.\"\n\nJohn Lewis, which had one sleep positioner for sale, the Cocoonababy Sleep Positioner, also said it was removing it as a \"precautionary measure\".\n\nThe retailer said it was also removing the Cocoonababy Nest, a sleep pod, while it awaits \"further advice and reassurance from the supplier\".\n\nA spokesman for eBay said the website would be banning the sale of the products, adding: \"Our team will be informing sellers and removing any listings that contravene our policies.\"\n\nBoots said it is removing the sale of all sleep positioner products \"whilst we investigate further with our suppliers\".\n\nSleep positioners are however still available on other websites, including Amazon, which said it would not be commenting on the issue.\n\nA spokeswoman for Jo Jo Maman Bebe said it was still selling the products but was \"investigating the issue as a matter of urgency with our suppliers\".\n\nThe Lullaby Trust said there is no need to use any type of equipment or rolled up blankets to keep a baby in one position, unless parents have been advised to do so by a health professional for a specific medical condition.\n\nIt added: \"Babies are at higher risk of SIDS if they have their heads covered, and some items added to a cot may increase the risk of head-covering and can also increase the risk of accidents.\n\n\"We recommend that while evidence on individual products is not widely available, parents do not take any chances and stick to scientifically proven safer sleep guidelines\".\n\nThe charity has published a checklist to help new parents which can be found here.\n\nHave you used a baby sleep positioner or any other sleep products? Let us know about your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk with your stories.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cabin crew reduced to tears, pilots refused days off even for their weddings, and workers \"left in exile\" thousands of miles from their homes and families.\n\nAfter budget airline Ryanair was forced to cancel thousands of flights - repeatedly blaming a rostering error rather than an alleged pilot shortage - chief executive Michael O'Leary has written to pilots offering them better pay and conditions.\n\nHere, a long-serving pilot explains why the offer is \"too little, too late\", and explains why his colleagues are leaving the airline.\n\nRyanair said it had \"messed up the allocation of annual leave\", but pilots claim their colleagues are leaving to fly for other airlines\n\nMr O'Leary is partly right to say the cancellations have been caused by problems accommodating pilots' leave, says the pilot.\n\nBut this has been exacerbated by unhappy staff seeking new jobs with rival airlines, he believes.\n\n\"The Irish Aviation Authority has changed the rules where pilots cannot fly more than 1,000 hours in a rolling year, and the flight hours have to be taken from January to December, whereas Ryanair were using April to April.\n\n\"Ryanair have been given two years' notice but the company have left it to the last minute,\" the pilot says.\n\n\"It's been the perfect storm because, at the same time, other airlines are hiring crews, so they are leaving for pastures new.\n\n\"If it wasn't for the crews' goodwill I think this crisis would have come sooner, because for a long time now they've been asking people to work days off.\n\n\"Pilots are being used as the scapegoat to cover for incompetency in the upper management, and it's just totally disgusting.\n\n\"Instead of O'Leary standing up and taking the blame he's directing the problems and the blame at pilots and saying it's because we're taking leave and holidays.\n\n\"That's simply not true. It may be true in a very few cases, but people are working harder now than ever to try to make up this shortfall in crewing levels that we have.\"\n\nRyanair staff have been sharing memes among each other that compare the management of Ryanair to the North Korean regime\n\nThe pilot said he and many other newly-qualified pilots joined Ryanair following the recession of 2008 when it was one of the few airlines still recruiting.\n\n\"A lot have remained here ticking along, but now that the market has become a lot more buoyant and there are other competitors offering much better terms and conditions, they've had enough and they are leaving,\" he said.\n\n\"On a local level the company is fantastic and I'm very fortunate to work with some very highly-skilled individuals.\n\n\"Then you have the management at the upper level and it's run like a communist regime in some respects. It's dictated from the top and you are just expected to get on with it.\n\n\"I know of colleagues that have had leave denied to get married and then these pilots rely on the goodwill and conscience of other pilots to cover their rostered flights so they can get married.\n\n\"This company will happily fire pilots to quell any uprising, even to the point where they would close a base or multiple bases to send a message to the rest: 'You just get on and do your job and keep doing what we tell you to do'.\n\n\"We have some memes that have been doing the rounds which we feel accurately portray the situation and feelings of the crew - comparing the company to the North Korean communist regime.\n\n\"The way they treat the staff is not much better, if not worse, than the way they treat their customers.\n\n\"People have just had enough of the toxic atmosphere that's been created here.\"\n\nThe BBC contacted Ryanair with these claims and a spokesman said it was \"untrue\" there was a toxic atmosphere among staff.\n\nRyanair chief executive Michael O'Leary has said he would \"challenge any pilot to explain how this is a difficult job or how it is they are overworked\"\n\nMr O'Leary has said pilots fly for no more than 18 hours a week. However, the British Airline Pilots' Association (Balpa) has said this \"does not seem to have any basis in reality\".\n\n\"In reality our hours are much longer than that,\" he said.\n\n\"[Mr O'Leary] has divided the maximum amount of hours a crew can fly in a year, which is 900 hours, by 52 weeks.\n\n\"I typically fly between 30 to 40 hours a week. This is what is called 'flight duty' and starts from reporting to work to when we set the parking brake at the end of the day.\n\n\"This does not include turnarounds and post-duty paperwork, which we are not paid for.\n\n\"If Ryanair advertise to their customers that the flight leaves at five o'clock and arrives at seven o'clock then we only get paid for those two hours.\n\n\"We are not paid for the time spent getting back to base either. Sometimes it's a case that you can't get back on the same day and you are having to pay for a hotel out of your own money, then catch a flight the following day to get home or catch multiple flight connections if the base isn't particularly well connected.\"\n\nRyanair declined to comment on whether pilots are paid only for the advertised length of the flight. It has said previously that pilots receive \"great pay and industry-leading terms and conditions\".\n\nThere is a lack of basic benefits such as crew meals and drinks, the pilot said\n\n\"Cabin crew are employed under similar conditions, on agency contracts, and the things I've seen are pretty disgusting,\" said the pilot.\n\n\"They are given unachievable sales targets, and if they've not reached sales targets they will be berated in a debriefing afterwards by a base supervisor, who is acting as a minion for Dublin.\n\n\"It's known for cabin crew to cry after their debriefings. I've seen them lined up almost like a military parade before being inspected, having their bags searched and all kinds of things.\n\n\"These people are not earning very much money - around £1,000 a month.\n\n\"In some bases the cabin crew even have to rent one room together, and sleep in the same bed - maybe one person who works early shifts and one person who works late shifts - because they are not paid enough to even afford their own accommodation in those particular areas.\n\n\"It's quite common for them to be threatened to be moved to a less desirable base, further away from home, unless their sales improve.\n\n\"There is also a lack of basic benefits - no free bottles of water, coffee or tea and no crew meals. All of this needs to be brought to work by the pilot and it's the same for cabin crew.\n\n\"They provide a water dispenser at every crew room, where you need to take an empty bottle to fill up. You also pay for your own uniform through a Ryanair-approved supplier.\"\n\nThe BBC asked Ryanair to comment on cabin crew being threatened and berated for not meeting sales targets, not being able to afford accommodation and sharing beds with colleagues. Ryanair responded: \"These claims are untrue.\"\n\nThe British Airline Pilots' Association (Balpa) has \"urged Ryanair to do more to encourage pilots to stay with the airline\"\n\n\"Some competitors do have similar work arrangements, but nothing to the extent that Ryanair do,\" the pilot said.\n\n\"They've copied the low cost business model from Southwest Airlines [in the United States] but gone to the extreme.\n\n\"Southwest make good profits and it's been ranked as one of the best airlines in America to fly for, as they take good care of crews and pay them well.\n\n\"However, Michael O'Leary seems to have taken enjoyment from taking the low road and taunting his customers and crews because he knows he can get away with it.\n\n\"Passengers want a British Airways service, but ultimately when it comes to booking they will book with Ryanair because he's offering a 10-euro seat.\n\n\"However, the tactics of ruling by fear and divide and conquer are outdated in the pilot market we're in now.\n\n\"Now, with the invention of WhatsApp people are openly discussing what's going on, and people are starting to see that there is more unity coming together.\n\n\"If there's no improvement here, and the management continue to bury their head in the sand, many people will continue to leave and the mass exodus will just continue.\"\n\nThe pilot said Mr O'Leary's offer of better pay and conditions \"does not come across as sincere and genuine\".\n\n\"People want to stay, they want to work and do a good job, but management are treating us like the enemy when we are the assets of the company,\" he said.\n\n\"We are an airline and without pilots and cabin crew the aircraft go nowhere.\"\n\nIn his latest letter to pilots, Mr O'Leary said he had interacted with many pilots over 30 years. \"Over this period I have always tried to be courteous, respectful and grateful for the outstanding job that you do, and this will remain my approach.\"\n\nMichael O'Leary, pictured outside a British Airways travel shop in 1998, has taken cost-cutting culture to the extreme, said the pilot\n\nThe BBC agreed not to identify the pilot.", "A colourful, shimmering spectacle detected by weather radar over the US state of Colorado has been identified as swarms of migrating butterflies.\n\nScientists at the National Weather Service (NWS) first mistook the orange radar blob for birds and had asked the public to help identifying the species.\n\nThey later established that the 70-mile wide (110km) mass was a kaleidoscope of Painted Lady butterflies.\n\nForecasters say it is uncommon for flying insects to be detected by radar.\n\n\"We hadn't seen a signature like that in a while,\" said NWS meteorologist Paul Schlatter, who first spotted the radar blip.\n\nThe Painted Lady is often mistaken for the monarch butterfly\n\n\"We detect migrating birds all the time, but they were flying north to south,\" he told CBS News, explaining that this direction of travel would be unusual for migratory birds for the time of year.\n\nSo he put the question to Twitter, asking for help determining the bird species.\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\nAlmost every response he received was the same: \"Butterflies\".\n\n\"Migrating butterflies in high quantities explains it\", he later wrote on the NWS Boulder Twitter account.\n\nNamely the three-inch long Painted Lady butterfly, which has descended in clouds on the Denver area in recent weeks.\n\nThe species, commonly mistaken for monarch butterflies, are found across the continental United States, and travel to northern Mexico and the US southwest during colder months.\n\nThey are known to follow wind patterns, and can glide hundreds of miles each day.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 kiki cannon This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parts of Bombardier's C-Series planes are made in Belfast\n\nThe US Department of Commerce has again ruled against aerospace firm Bombardier in its dispute with rival Boeing.\n\nA further tariff of 80% has been imposed on the import of Bombardier's C-Series jet to the US for alleged below-cost selling.\n\nThis is on top of an earlier tariff of 220% which related to subsidies Bombardier got from Canada and the UK.\n\nThere have been warnings that the import tariffs could threaten Bombardier jobs in Belfast.\n\nAbout 1,000 jobs are linked to the C-Series, the wings of which are made at a purpose-built £520m factory in the city.\n\nA spokesperson for Bombardier said: \"We strongly disagree with the commerce department's preliminary decision.\"\n\nThe firm said the ruling represented an \"egregious overreach and misapplication of U.S. trade laws\".\n\n\"The commerce department's approach throughout this investigation has completely ignored aerospace industry realities,\" it said.\n\n\"This hypocrisy is appalling, and it should be deeply troubling to any importer of large, complex, and highly engineered products.\"\n\nThe programme is not just important to Bombardier jobs in Belfast, but also to 15 smaller aerospace firms in Northern Ireland - and dozens more across the UK - which make components for the wings.\n\nThe US Department of Commerce rulings, which could more than triple the cost of a C-Series aircraft sold into the US, could jeopardise a major order placed last year from US airline Delta.\n\nA final ruling in the case is due early next year.\n\nDavy Thompson from the Unite union said workers are very concerned.\n\n\"It looms very large over these workers and it's time for the British government to actually step up for British workers,\" he said.\n\n\"We see the British government being bullied by Boeing.\n\n\"The EU needs to step in, because effectively they are being bullied too. It needs to stop and it needs to stop now.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The history of Bombardier in Northern Ireland\n\nA government spokesperson described the latest development as \"disappointing\", but said it was \"hardly surprising given last week's preliminary ruling sided with Boeing\".\n\n\"As with the investigation into subsidies, this is only the first step in the process,\" they added.\n\n\"Since the interim finding, we have had further Cabinet level engagement with the US Administration and Canadian government.\n\n\"We continue to make all efforts alongside the Canadian government to get Boeing to the table to resolve the case.\"\n\nIn a statement Boeing said: \"Today's decision follows a fact-based investigation by the Commerce Department and it validates Boeing's dumping complaints regarding Bombardier's pricing in the United States.\n\n\"This was an avoidable outcome within Bombardier's control. The laws governing global trade are transparent and well known.\"\n\nUS Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said: \"The United States is committed to free, fair and reciprocal trade with Canada, but this is not our idea of a properly functioning trading relationship\".\n\n\"We will continue to verify the accuracy of this decision, while doing everything in our power to stand up for American companies and their workers.\"\n\nThe Canadian aerospace firm employs more than 4,000 workers across four sites in Northern Ireland.\n\nComponents of the C-Series jet are manufactured at a purpose-built factory in east Belfast and many other local firms are involved in the supply chain.\n\nThe punitive tax would significantly raise the price of the jet in the US market, and threaten the future of the product.\n\nBoeing took the case after accusing Bombardier of anti-competitive practices.\n\nIt claimed its rival was selling the C-Series jets below cost price after taking state subsidies from the Canadian and British governments.\n\nWhen the preliminary tax ruling was made last week, Wilbur Ross said: \"The subsidisation of goods by foreign governments is something that the Trump administration takes very seriously.\"\n\nThe US trade commission is due to rule on the Department of Commerce's 220% tax proposal next year, but the Irish Small and Medium Enterprise (ISME) Association said the EU should not wait for the final decision.\n\nIts chief executive, Neil McDonnell, said the EU \"should signal right now that it will unconditionally, unequivocally and aggressively oppose protectionist measures by the US with tariffs of like effect\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"How should a Nobel laureate dress?\" asked Kazuo Ishiguro, who, 40 minutes earlier, had found out he had won the Nobel Prize for Literature.\n\nTo say the news was unexpected is an understatement. He literally couldn't believe it.\n\nUntil, that was, his phone began to ring constantly, an orderly queue of TV crews started to form outside his front door (\"how do they all know where I live?\"), and his publishers dispatched a top team to his house as back-up.\n\nThis was not fake news. This was delightful, surprising news. Maybe there were others who should have won instead, he wondered. \"But that is the nature of prizes. They are a lottery.\"\n\nWhile chaos reigned around him, he was calm, assured and thoughtful, talking (after nipping upstairs to fetch a smart jacket for our interview) about his belief in the power of stories and how those that he wrote would often explore wasted lives and opportunities.\n\n\"I've always had a faith that it should be possible, if you tell stories in a certain way, to transcend barriers of race, class and ethnicity.\"\n\nFor me, he is one of the great living writers working in any language. All writers can tell stories. Ishiguro tells stories on another level.\n\nHe places the reader in some sort of alternative reality - which might be the future, it might be the present, it might be the past. They feel like places that are whole and real, but you don't know them.\n\nThey're weird and not necessarily happy places. But they're places that you can inhabit and relate to, and you become deeply involved with the characters. That's the writer's job - he just does it better than most.\n\nKazuo Ishiguro held an audience with reporters in his garden\n\nGrowing up in England in a Japanese household was crucial to his writing, he says, enabling him to see things from a different perspective to many of his British peers.\n\nIt is most obvious in the slightly detached nature of many of his narrators, which he explains as coming from \"a long tradition in Japanese art towards a surface calm and surface restraint. There is a felling emotions can feel more intense if they are held down to the surface level\".\n\nThere was nothing superficial about his emotions when we met earlier today. He was chuffed to bits, and rightly so.\n\nKazuo Ishiguro is worthy recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. Follow my Twitter feed: @WillGompertzBBC If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "It's the weekly news quiz - have you been paying attention to what's been going on in the world over the past seven days?\n\nIf you missed last week's quiz, try it here\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter", "The 4,500-acre (seven-sq-mile) Inner Hebridean island of Ulva was put up for sale over the summer\n\nA beautiful, remote Scottish island is up for sale - but can the local community raise the money to buy it for themselves? Emma Jane Kirby writes from Ulva.\n\nThe problem with Ulva is that once you get on to the 4,500-acre (seven-sq-mile) Inner Hebridean island, you really don't ever want to get off it.\n\nThe unexpected autumn sunshine is showcasing the rusty browns and mossy greens of its landscape as a true bucolic idyll, and the dark sea, which follows the contours of its dramatic coastline, inspires childish thoughts of escape and adventure.\n\nDonald Munro, the island's ferryman tugs the brim of his hat down a little over his eyes when I tell him this.\n\n\"And how many others feel the way you do?\" he smiles. \"How many others with £4.25m to spend? But this is our home... we have roots here.\"\n\nFor Donald Munro, the island's ferryman, Ulva is his home\n\nOver the summer, Ulva was put up for sale.\n\nBilled as the ultimate private getaway, the island has drawn attention from wealthy individuals from all over the world.\n\nRumours flip and fly across the narrow strait of water that separates it from the Isle of Mull - someone has heard a sheikh is keen, another fears Russian oligarchs, there are whispers of a professional footballer wanting his very own millionaire's playground.\n\n\"It's not really about who the buyer is,\" explains my tour guide for the day, John Addy, who lives on neighbouring Mull.\n\n\"It's about what that buyer wants to do with this island. The buyer could really want to regenerate this island; that would be great - or the buyer could just want it as a plaything. That's why we are putting in a bid for a community buyout - to protect the people from an absentee landlord.\"\n\nJohn Addy has put in a bid for a community buyout of Ulva and hopes to develop and repopulate the island\n\nJohn is a director of the North West Mull Community Woodland Company Ltd, a community body, affectionately known as The Woodies, which has applied to the Scottish government to exercise the community right to buy, created by the land reform legislation, which gives communities the opportunity to try to buy land themselves if it comes up for sale.\n\nThe Woodies, set up in 2006, have already successfully taken over acres of forests on Mull from the Forestry Commission Scotland.\n\nIn Ulva they have plans to repopulate the island by increasing economic activity and the housing stock, building new affordable homes and developing farming, fishing, and even crofting.\n\n\"Just look at the potential here,\" says John, as we stop in front of an information board that boasts of the island's red deer, sea eagles, otters and dolphins.\n\nThe community group would like to transform derelict cottages into hostels and B&Bs\n\n\"Can't you just imagine the tourism potential if we won our bid and were allowed to develop and restore and repopulate this place?\"\n\nWe walk past some rundown farm buildings and some fairytale but derelict cottages the community group would like to transform into hostels and B&Bs.\n\nAt the moment, wild camping is the only way to stay overnight as a visitor on the island.\n\n\"All that would change with the community buyout,\" says John. \"We're even thinking of electric cars.\"\n\nTwo hundred years ago, more than 500 people lived here. Today, only six call Ulva their home. They rent their homes from the current owner, Jamie Howard, who is resident on the island and whose family have owned Ulva for over 70 years.\n\nIf The Woodies don't succeed in their community buyout, and the island is put back on the market for private sale, the residents fear that a new owner may not want tenants on their land.\n\nBarry George has been an Ulva resident for 21 years but fears a new owner could shut the island down\n\n\"I have nowhere else to go,\" says Barry George as he harvests vegetables from his beautiful island garden.\n\nBarry, who used to work on the local fish farms, has been an Ulva resident for 21 years.\n\n\"This is all I've got,\" he says. \"A new owner could shut our island down - when you buy the island, you also buy the piers - so we could be cut off and told to go.\"\n\nIt is possible that the Scottish government could refuse to consider North West Mull Community Woodland Company's buyout bid as the application came in late, but for now The Woodies' action has caused the private sale to be put on hold.\n\nIf the bid is registered, the group would then have about eight months to come up with a viable economic plan, and the necessary funding, to meet whatever eventual sale price was set by the government.\n\nUlva is not the first Scottish island to attempt a community buyout - in 1997, the Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust successfully took ownership of the Isle of Eigg, meeting the sale price of £1.5m through a series of grants and a major fundraising campaign.\n\nJohn Addy is confident the money needed to buy Ulva could also be raised through grants and crowdfunding.\n\nThe fifth Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, known as the Father of Australia, was an Ulva man, and there have already been encouraging noises from down under.\n\nThe owner of this seafood cafe believes the community are the best people to run Ulva\n\nAs she opens oysters for the hungry day-trippers at the thriving seafood cafe she runs with her sister-in-law, 30-year-old Rebecca Munro tells me that living on Ulva with her fisherman husband and bringing up their two young children here is \"exceptionally special\".\n\nSince the announcement that the island was up for sale however, she admits to sleepless nights.\n\nRebecca is passionate about the community buyout and adamant that if Ulva was community-owned, it would be easy to repopulate the island because people would feel secure.\n\n\"This is about securing opportunities and our future,\" she says, wiping lemon juice from her hands on to her apron.\n\n\"Surely it's obvious that the community are the best people to run this place.\n\n\"Why would the people who live here and care about this place not be the best placed people to take over?\"\n\nAs he ferries me back to Mull in his small boat, Rebecca's father-in-law Donald waves away my question about what would happen to his livelihood if the community buyout failed and a new owner decided to shut access to Ulva.\n\n\"Let's not talk about that,\" he says gruffly. He turns his head to look at Ulva's retreating and stunning coastline.\n\n\"It's a beautiful day, isn't it?\" he says. \"The girls will be busy in the cafe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lee Ridley a.k.a. \"Lost Voice Guy\" reveals the perils of relying on a synthetic voice for comic timing\n\nLife as a disabled person sometimes means you are asked slightly confused questions. But amid those awkward moments, there can be humour.\n\nThe following is an edited version of a monologue by Lost Voice Guy, Lee Ridley. He has cerebral palsy and uses a synthetic voice on his iPad to talk. He first performed this sketch for the BBC at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.\n\nOne thing I've noticed about being a stand-up comedian is that mixing a disabled guy with loads of drunk people is rarely a good idea.\n\nIn fact, I would say the majority of my awkward moments come from meeting people in bars after my gigs.\n\nIt still amazes me how people can quite happily watch me on stage and laugh at my jokes, but as soon as I'm off stage, they aren't sure how to treat me.\n\nThey either think I'm deaf, and write everything down to show me, or they talk to my mates instead, even though they've just seen me on stage.\n\nThey could at least give me a bit of credit.\n\nMy most awkward moment came after a gig at The Stand Comedy Club in Newcastle.\n\nI had just been on stage and was chilling out in the bar when this bloke came up to me and asked me if I really could talk - as if I was only putting it on to take advantage of the disabled parking.\n\nRidley, here with his personal assistant Emy Jones, won the BBC New Comedy Award 2014\n\nI had never been in a position where someone has questioned my disability before. Well, if you don't count my Department for Work and Pensions assessment.\n\nSurely it was obvious I was disabled? I mean, I have the funny walk and everything. Not even the best method actor could put this rubbish on for days at a time.\n\nBut he didn't believe me.\n\nI tried to lighten the mood by making a joke and told him that if I was going to lie about being disabled, I doubt I would have chosen this.\n\nI explained that, as a comedian, not being able to speak is probably the worst disability to pretend to have.\n\nLee was one of seven people with a disability or mental health difficulty to perform a story about awkward moments as part of BBC Ouch's storytelling event at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.\n\nWatch the full programme on BBC iPlayer here or you can also read:\n\nFor more Disability News, follow BBC Ouch on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to the weekly podcast.\n\nIt's far more likely I would pretend I couldn't walk, so I could perform while sitting down, or maybe I would say that I was blind, then I'd be able to let my dog poo on people who didn't laugh at my jokes.\n\nI told him my job would be so much easier if I could talk because, apparently, it's very important to get your tone of voice right when doing comedy. That meant I was completely screwed because my voice always sounds the same when I'm excited, miserable, happy or bored.\n\nExcept on Tuesday nights, I added, when I pretend to be a woman.\n\nThe bloke laughed and I thought that was the end of the matter.\n\nBut instead of walking away, like any normal person, he decided to ask me if I had ever tried to talk just to see what would happen - as if I had just been lazy all of my life.\n\nI said no, I hadn't tried to talk before, mainly because I knew nothing would happen. Besides, I've built a career out of not being able to speak so I didn't think I should encourage my voice to magically reappear.\n\nThen I realised, because he was drunk, he'd be very easy to wind up.\n\nI told him that I talk in my sleep.\n\nI said I know this because I always wake up with random sentences typed out on my iPad and he believed me.\n\nThen I convinced him I had a job as a satellite navigation system. He didn't seem too sure at first, so I got him to suggest a location and said I could direct him to it exactly. Thankfully, he chose somewhere I knew. So I started my journey.\n\n\"After 200 yards bear left. At the roundabout, take the second exit. Or is it the third? Follow the yellow brick road. Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street. Take the bridge over troubled water. You're on the road to hell. Stop - hammer time.\"\n\nBut, even after all this, he still wouldn't leave me alone. So I did what I always do when I get tired of talking to people.\n\nI pretended my batteries had gone flat.\n\nBBC Ouch Storytelling Live: Awkward Moments will be broadcast on the BBC News Channel at 21:30 BST on 6 October and on the BBC iPlayer for 30 days afterwards.\n\nFor more Disability News, follow on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to the weekly podcast.", "The system can destroy incoming missiles at altitudes beyond the Earth's atmosphere\n\nThe US government has approved the sale to Saudi Arabia of its advanced Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) missile defence system.\n\nThe State Department said the $15bn (£11.5bn) deal furthered US national security and foreign policy interests.\n\nIt would boost Saudi and Gulf security against Iranian and other regional threats, the state department added.\n\nThe announcement comes a day after Saudi Arabia agreed to buy air defence systems from Russia.\n\nThe deal would not alter the military balance in the region, the Pentagon's Defense Security Co-operation Agency said.\n\nThaad systems are being deployed in South Korea to protect against a possible missile attack from North Korea.\n\nBut many South Koreans have objected, fearing it would become a target and endanger the lives of those who live near its launch sites.\n\nChina also voiced opposition to the system, saying it would affect the regional security balance.\n\nThe system destroys incoming missiles at altitudes beyond the Earth's atmosphere, making it especially useful in countering missiles that might carry a nuclear warhead.\n\nThe Thaad interceptor is produced by the US company Lockheed Martin.\n\nThis latest multi-billion-dollar deal will help satisfy the Trump administration's desire to be seen to be protecting and increasing jobs at home.\n\nDonald Trump has also made it abundantly clear that he is completely in tune with the Saudi view of Iran as the biggest threat in the region - which is a key rationale behind this new Saudi spending spree.\n\nHe may be less pleased, though about the arms deal the Saudis agreed with Russia during King Salman's visit to Moscow this week.\n\nIt showed perhaps how Riyadh is hedging its bets, as US influence has been diminishing in the Middle East.\n• None What impact could Thaad have in South Korea?", "\"Nothing has changed.\" Remember that?\n\nThere is, this morning, an operation being mounted by the government to try to show that nothing has changed in the Conservative Party in the last few days, that Theresa May's leadership remains on track and she is, to use another of her famous phrases, just, \"getting on with the job\".\n\nExcept, as happened the last time she proclaimed \"nothing has changed\", something rather fundamental has, after all.\n\nFor the doubts that have been building about her in the party for months are now out there in the wide open.\n\nYes, they have only been articulated by two former ministers, Grant Shapps and Ed Vaizey. Yes they were both close to David Cameron. Yes they were both Remainers too, which allows a conspiracy theory to take hold that the efforts to get rid of Theresa May are really a guise for stopping Brexit.\n\n(Having talked to those involved for some time, the doubts are about competence and authority, not Brexit and there is at least one senior Brexiteer among their number).\n\nAnd yes, most importantly of all, just as it was on the morning after the election, there is still no obvious successor to Theresa May, who commands broad support right across the Tory Party.\n\nIf there had been, it's likely that she would have gone then. That is really why those around Theresa May believe they have got the plot under control.\n\nBut the public, and now the prime minister's opponents across the table in the Brexit talks are aware that some of her colleagues simply don't think that she is up to the job.\n\nRemarks by Mr Vaizey and Mr Shapps can't be unsaid. The private questions are now out there in the ether and can't be taken back.\n\nEven if the plot has been killed off at birth, it's another crack in her authority, already so fractured after the election.\n\nIt doesn't mean she'll have to go now, or indeed anytime soon. Other leaders have survived countless attempts to shove them out.\n\nBut even many of Theresa May's supporters know that something is deeply wrong, however many times they tell themselves, \"nothing has changed\".", "Ex-EastEnders actor Joseph Shade admitted sex offences against three girls between 2012 and 2015\n\nA former EastEnders actor has been given a suspended prison sentence for sex offences against teenage girls.\n\nJoseph Shade, 24, from Sheringham in Norfolk, played Peter Beale as a child from 1998 until 2004.\n\nThe youth worker admitted causing or inciting a child under 18 to engage in sexual activity while in a position of trust and sexual activity with a child.\n\nVictims sitting in Norwich Crown Court shouted \"where is the justice for us?\" in response to his sentence.\n\nShade was given an 18-month prison sentence suspended for two years.\n\nThe offences were committed against three girls aged between 14 and 17, and happened between 2012 and 2015.\n\nShade was working as a youth worker at Norfolk at the time.\n\nShade played the character Peter Beale (being carried, above) between 1998 and 2004\n\nHe sent text messages to girls asking them to have sex or send him pictures of their breasts, and on a single occasion he touched one girl on the bottom, the court heard.\n\nSentencing him, Judge Maureen Bacon QC said: \"You sought to engage vulnerable teenage girls in sexual activity when you were in a position of trust.\"\n\nDuring mitigation, it was heard he was a \"young vulnerable individual\" who had been helped by the youth project himself.\n\nThe \"humiliation has been significant\" for Shade, the court heard.\n\nJoseph Shade had helped by the youth project himself, the court heard\n\nShade, of Cliff Road, Sheringham, admitted five counts of causing or inciting a child under 18 to engage in sexual activity while in a position of trust.\n\nHe admitted one count of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust.\n\nShade was given a five-year sexual harm prevention order, barring him from working with children and vulnerable adults, and ordered to complete 150 hours of unpaid work.\n\nHe must also sign the sex offenders register and complete a 60-day offender programme.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dunham (l) and Larson (r) are among those to comment either directly or obliquely\n\nLeading Hollywood figures have reacted to the New York Times' article on sexual harassment allegations made against film producer Harvey Weinstein.\n\nThe article reported he had reached at least eight settlements with women.\n\nGirls creator Lena Dunham thanked one of its writers \"for pushing past [a] flimsy but firm veil of secrecy\".\n\nWeinstein has disputed the newspaper report that claimed he harassed female employees over nearly three decades and is taking legal action.\n\nThe co-founder of Miramax and The Weinstein Company released a statement on Thursday in which he expressed \"regret [for] what happened\".\n\n\"I appreciate the way I've behaved with colleagues in the past has caused a lot of pain, and I sincerely apologise for it,\" he wrote.\n\nWeinstein, a married father of five, said he planned to take a leave of absence from his company and had hired therapists to deal with his issues.\n\nNicole Kidman is among the many stars with whom the producer has worked\n\nYet the producer of Shakespeare in Love, The King's Speech and other Oscar winners later said he was taking legal action against the paper for its \"reckless reporting\".\n\n\"This is a vendetta, and the next time I see [NYT executive editor] Dean Baquet it will be across a courtroom,\" he is quoted as saying by the Page Six website.\n\nThe 65-year-old has been married since 2007 to fashion designer Georgina Rose Chapman, with whom he has two children.\n\nOscar-winner Brie Larson responded to the allegations by saying she stood \"with the brave survivors of sexual assault and harassment... as always\".\n\n\"It's not your fault. I believe you,\" she wrote in a post that did not mention Weinstein by name.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Brie Larson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 woman who chose to speak about their experience of harassment by Harvey Weinstein deserve our awe,\" wrote Dunham in another post.\n\n\"It's not fun or easy. It's brave.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Stranger Things has been a hit for Netflix\n\nNetflix has raised prices in countries including the UK and US for the first time in two years.\n\nThe streaming video service will also increase subscription charges in some European countries, a spokeswoman said.\n\nA standard UK plan will rise 50p to £7.99 a month, while a premium subscription for four simultaneous users jumps £1 to £9.99 a month.\n\nThe standard US plan increases by $1 to $10.99 a month, with a $2 rise to $13.99 for the premium option.\n\nA basic subscription in the UK, which does not offer high definition viewing, remains at £5.99 a month.\n\nThe increases apply immediately for new customers, while existing users will be notified of the change 30 days in advance.\n\nGermany and France are among the other countries where prices will rise. Subscriptions were tweaked in Canada, Latin America and some Nordic countries earlier this year.\n\nNetflix said in July it has 104 million subscribers globally, while revenues rose 32% in the second quarter to $2.8bn.\n\nShares in Netflix closed 5.4% in New York, bringing the stock's gain this year to 56%.\n\nThe price rises come as Netflix faces growing competition from Amazon and other sites such as Hulu in the US.\n\nMary J. Blige (left) and director Dee Rees at the Toronto premiere of Mudbound\n\nThe company continues to spending heavily on original programming such as The Crown, Stranger Things and House of Cards.\n\nIt also promises 40 feature films this year ranging from \"big-budget popcorn films to grassroots independent cinema\".\n\nOne of those titles Mudbound, which Variety describes as \"an epic about race and poverty in the 1940s Mississippi Delta\", starring Mary J. Blige and Carey Mulligan.\n\nThe film, which premiered at the Toronto film festival last month, is available to stream from 17 November - the same day it opens in some US cinemas.\n\nSome critics say it is a contender for the Academy Awards and would be the first Netflix feature to be in the Oscars race.", "Mr Puigdemont is not the first Catalan leader forced to leave the region\n\nCatalonia's sacked President Carles Puigdemont has spearheaded the region's peaceful drive for independence from Spain.\n\nIn defiance of the law and Spain's constitution, he has pushed forward in the hope of international recognition.\n\nBut his zeal for secession has put him on a collision course with Spain's authorities, which outlawed the independence referendum held in Catalonia on 1 October.\n\nBut the result on 21 December was bad news for Madrid. The separatists won a slim majority, even though a pro-unity party came top.\n\n\"[Rajoy] has only demonstrated a greater mobilisation of Catalans, greater votes,\" Mr Puigdemont said, calling for negotiations with the Spanish PM.\n\nHe was speaking in Brussels, having fled there with four ministers after declaring independence.\n\nThe election result proved that his campaigning via videolink from Brussels had worked.\n\nBut the village baker's son from Girona faces the weight of Spanish law if he returns to Spain. The separatist leaders are accused of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds.\n\nBorn in Amer in 1962, Carles Puigdemont grew up under the dictatorship of Gen Francisco Franco and was taught in Spanish at a Church-run boarding school, but spoke Catalan at home like others of his generation.\n\nJoan Matamala, a few years his senior at the school, remembers the boy everyone got on with, even the older pupils.\n\nBookseller Joan Matamala went to school with Carles Puigdemont\n\nMr Matamala runs a bookshop, Les Voltes, that has been promoting Catalan language and culture in Girona for 50 years.\n\nThe young Mr Puigdemont did not come over as a natural leader at the time, but he was someone you did not forget, he says.\n\n\"Despite the difference in age, he was a role model for others,\" Mr Matamala remembers.\n\nAs a young man, Mr Puigdemont had a passion for his native tongue, going on to study Catalan philology at the local university and polishing colleagues' copy when he first found work at the city's newspapers.\n\nMiquel Riera worked with him, often late into the night, at the fiercely pro-independence paper now known as El Punt Avui.\n\nMiquel Riera worked with Carles Puigdemont at the pro-independence newspaper now known as El Punt Avui\n\n\"Right from the start he was very interested in new technology and the internet,\" says Mr Riera. This may have fed Mr Puigdemont's awareness of social media, which was crucial in promoting the referendum campaign.\n\n\"He's a man who makes friends easily and remembers them,\" says Mr Riera, whose 25-year-old son, he says, was bruised on the chest by a police rifle butt at a polling station at the 1 October referendum.\n\nMr Puigdemont served as mayor of Girona from 2011 until 2016 when he was elected regional president of Catalonia.\n\nThere is no denying his star appeal among his supporters, who clamour to take selfies with him at rallies and avidly follow his social media accounts, which he curates himself.\n\n\"Mr Puigdemont has been absolutely key to bringing Catalonia to where we are now,\" said Montse Daban, international chairperson of the Catalan National Assembly, a grassroots pro-independence movement.\n\n\"An absolute and positive surprise for Catalan citizens\" - Montse Daban describing the impact of Puigdemont\n\nBut in the eyes of Spain's government, the Catalan leader has ruthlessly created a crisis, burning all the bridges in order to make a unilateral declaration of independence.\n\n\"Democracy is not about voting - there are referenda in dictatorships too,\" a Madrid government source told the BBC. \"Only when you vote with guarantees according to the law is it a democracy.\"\n\nImages of violence at the polling stations in October's banned referendum caused an international outcry.\n\nBut the source said this was \"150% part of Puigdemont's plan\".\n\n\"It's unfortunate because it was a trap. There's no doubt it looks bad for the Spanish government.\"\n\nMr Puigdemont talks the language of independence in a way his more cautious predecessor, Artur Mas, did not during the dry-run referendum of 2014, which was also banned by Madrid.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC after the 1 October referendum, Mr Puigdemont said: \"I think we've won the right to be heard, but what I find harder to understand is this indifference - or absolute lack of interest - in understanding what is happening here. They've never wanted to listen to us.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police were filmed violently tackling voters and appearing to pull a woman by her hair\n\n\"How can we explain to the world that Europe is a paradise of democracy if we hit old women and people who've done nothing wrong? This is not acceptable. We haven't seen such a disproportionate and brutal use of force since the death of the dictator Franco.\"\n\nHe calls for mediation - something the Spanish government says is unacceptable.\n\nA Madrid source dismissed the idea, telling the BBC it would be \"mediation between the Spanish government and part of the Spanish state\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFrom Brussels, Mr Puigdemont has watched as his Catalan allies back home have been placed in Spanish custody to face trial.\n\nHe has been mocked by some for not going to Madrid along with them and placing himself in the hands of Spanish justice.\n\nOne cartoon apparently being circulated on the Whatsapp messaging app shows him, with his distinctive mop of hair and glasses, hiding out in a box of Belgian chocolates.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Pascal Hansens This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Mr Puigdemont told Belgian TV he was not hiding from \"real justice\" but from the \"clearly politicised\" Spanish legal system.\n\nLast year Spain issued then dropped European arrest warrants against him and his four colleagues in Belgium.\n\nBut he was arrested in Germany on 25 March while travelling back to Brussels from a conference in Finland. The European arrest warrant against him had been reissued two days earlier, apparently taking him by surprise.\n\nGermany must now decide whether to extradite him to Spain.\n\nMeanwhile, the man from Girona is keeping the cause he holds so dear, Catalan independence, squarely on the doorstep of the European Union.", "The 2017 Nobel season is still under way, with the prizes for peace, and economics yet to be announced.\n\nBut for the sciences, this year's work is done and many in the scientific community are noticing some similarities about the winners.\n\nIn the case of physics, the winning discovery had already been making global headlines.\n\nThe prize was shared by three researchers for the groundbreaking 2015 detection of gravitational waves.\n\nFor chemistry, the committee recognised the less publicised work of developing a new microscopy technique, which the Nobel committee said had \"moved biochemistry into a new era\".\n\nFor physiology or medicine, a team who uncovered a better understanding our body clocks was honoured.\n\nHowever, the science community was quick to notice that this year's laureates all had one thing in common.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Raychelle Burks This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBBC 100 Women names 100 influential and inspirational women around the world every year. In 2017, we're challenging them to tackle four of the biggest problems facing women today - the glass ceiling, female illiteracy, harassment in public spaces and sexism in sport.\n\nWith your help, they'll be coming up with real-life solutions and we want you to get involved with your ideas. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and use #100Women\n\nWith prizes often awarded years, or even decades, after the discoveries that merit them, it was an opportunity for celebration for the teams involved.\n\nThe Astronomer Royal, Sir Martin Rees, said the three physicists honoured by the Nobel Committee were \"outstanding individuals whose contributions were distinctive and complementary\".\n\nYet despite being excited by the wider recognition of this groundbreaking research, it is clear that many scientists feel a change is necessary.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Divya M. This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOnly 17 women have been awarded a Nobel prize in the three science categories since the awards' inception in 1901. There have been no black science laureates.\n\nOf the 206 physics laureates recognised, two have been women - Marie Curie (1903) and Maria Goeppert Mayer (1963).\n\nThere are more men named Robert on the list of previous chemistry winners than there are female laureates.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 7 by Alexis Verger This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome researchers on Twitter took issue with the current criteria for awarding the Nobel. Each prize cannot be shared by more than three people, laureates are not nominated posthumously, and nomination lists are kept confidential for 50 years.\n\nVera Rubin, Lise Meitner and Jocelyn Bell Burnell were all cited as worthy potential recipients of a prize in previous years.\n\nRubin's death in 2016 means that her work on dark matter, believed to occupy most of the mass in the universe, is now ineligible for recognition.\n\nMeitner's long-term collaborator Otto Hahn was awarded the chemistry prize for nuclear fission in 1944, which she did not share, despite being nominated in previous and subsequent years.\n\nBurnell and Chien-Shiung Wu, both physicists, also saw their colleagues win for research they had worked on, but were not included.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGiven the lifelong prestige of becoming a Nobel laureate, the prize is a significant boost to any researcher's career. The acclaim can legitimise a life's work, and yield international notoriety in a field where funding is highly competitive.\n\nYet for women in physics and chemistry, there are few forerunners to aspire to. Medicine does only slightly better, with 12 female laureates.\n\nOther prizes such as literature often fare better in terms of gender equality, with previous winners including Alice Munroe, Doris Lessing and Toni Morrison.\n\nThis year the literature prize has gone to a Japanese-British male author - Kazuo Ishiguro.\n\nWhile equality initiatives like Athena Swan and organisations like Stemettes work to promote and encourage women, the Nobels remain the most prominent glass ceiling in the world of science.\n\nAs part of this year's 100 Women Challenge, a team in Silicon Valley, where women hold just one in 10 senior positions, will be looking at ways to tackle the glass ceiling.\n\nThey reveal their results on Friday 6 October.", "Jade Carter has spent a lot of her life in hospital.\n\nRheumatoid arthritis causes the 20-year-old such intense pain she sometimes can't move. That's where music helps.\n\n\"I kind of enter this different world when I'm singing. I feel like I can just let go of the reality of life,\" she tells Newsbeat.\n\nNow Amy Winehouse's charity is helping her find her voice and launch a singing career.\n\n\"I was singing since I was six-years-old, when my mum would leave me in Great Ormond Street hospital,\" she says.\n\n\"I just wrote songs all the time because that's pretty much all I could do. I couldn't go to school a lot of the time.\"\n\nLast night Jade performed for some of the biggest names in UK music, including Emeli Sande, Naughty Boy and Trevor Nelson, at the Amy Winehouse Foundation Gala, an event in memory of the late singer.\n\nShe's one of a small group of musicians chosen for Amy's Yard, a 12-week project which gives them time in the late singer's studio, working with a producer on their own track.\n\n\"It was a really lovely experience,\" says Jade, \"Too much information, but I would sit on the toilet and be like 'Amy probably sat on this toilet,\" she laughs.\n\nJade, from London, was diagnosed with arthritis as a baby.\n\n\"I was on and off lots of trial drugs as well as arthritis drugs. Without those I think I would be in a wheelchair now.\n\n\"I can't bend my arm properly, sometimes I can't move my legs. I feel like I literally can't move my entire body.\"\n\nEmeli Sande performed at the event at The Dorchester hotel\n\nShe says she's spent years feeling ashamed of having the condition.\n\n\"People used to look at me and be like 'you're not disabled. You're just making it up'. I'd be scared to tell people I'm in pain.\"\n\nTaking part in Amy's Yard has taught her a lot about the music industry, she says.\n\n\"We had a lot of wellbeing talks, about staying healthy and positive while you're trying to become someone. That's part of the reason I'm now so confident talking about my illness.\n\n\"I want to use my disability to show people they shouldn't hide who they are. I want to do music, and tell people about my condition. Don't let anything stop you.\"\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "Sarah Vincent changed her daughter's school when the rules suddenly got very strict\n\n\"Everyone will sit up extra straight, eyes front, looking at the teacher. You will follow their instructions first time, every time.\"\n\nParents may well agree that this excerpt from Great Yarmouth Charter Academy's school rules is no bad thing.\n\nThe rules also require pupils to read with a ruler and to wait for teacher's instructions before picking up a pen or anything else.\n\nWhen they are not reading or writing they must sit up straight with their arms folded and they must \"track the teacher\" around the room.\n\n\"You never turn around - even if you hear a noise behind you. You don't look out of the window. You don't lose focus,\" the rules from new academy sponsors, Inspiration Trust, say.\n\nWell, a group of parents did not think so and responded by contacting newspapers with claims children had wet themselves in class because they were not allowed to go to the toilet.\n\nOne upset parent, Sarah Vincent, said: \"If we treated our children like that we would be reported to social services.\"\n\nHer daughter, Summer, had become \"withdrawn\" and \"miserable\" after being repeatedly pulled up for uniform infringements, she said.\n\nShe was then given a demerit because she did not have her arms folded as per the school rules, Sarah added.\n\nOthers complained pupils were being isolated for as little as dropping a pencil, and parents of at least 16 children have applied to move them to other schools.\n\nBut the school, which the new academy trust is trying to turn around after it was rated inadequate, insists it is simply trying to enforce new, high standards of behaviour where they had been lacking.\n\nChildren were in school to learn, not look out of the window, a trust spokesman said.\n\n\"Setting out clear expectations means everyone knows what is expected and lessons start promptly and run efficiently, so that every pupil gets the most of their time in school.\"\n\nPupils had been getting out of their chairs and sometimes leaving classrooms and it was necessary now to enforce order, he said.\n\n\"It's very early days,\" he added.\n\n\"And there's been a culture shock from where the school was previously.\"\n\nAnd some parents have been delighted with the change.\n\nParent Tanya McCormick said it had been \"so far so good\" for her daughter and that she thought parents might be \"pleasantly surprised\" by the effect of the new regime by the end of term.\n\nBut the case has certainly prompted parents, particularly those of children new to secondary school, to ask how strict is too strict.\n\nDavid, an 11-year-old who has just started a very popular London boys' state school, describes all the things for which you can get a detention.\n\n\"For talking too loudly in the playground, for talking while you are lining up...\n\n\"You can get one if you don't take your bag off within five seconds of going inside, if you take more than 10 minutes to eat your lunch, or if you have a sweet wrapper in your pocket.\n\n\"It just feels like you're only really behaving because you are scared you will get a detention,\" he says.\n\nChristopher, a pupil at another successful boys' state school, says about 80% of the boys in his class had been given a detention in the first week.\n\nHe says his best friend crosses himself every time a detention is dished out in class, like he has \"dodged a bullet\".\n\nBut are these boys enjoying their new schools?\n\nThe answer's yes - they love them. But both think teachers should stop handing out quite so many detentions.\n\nJarlath O'Brien, director of schools with the Eden Academy Trust, says every September a slew of stories about parents horrified at the strictness of their new schools hits the headlines.\n\n\"No teacher would say 'we don't really care about bullying or the lessons being disrupted',\" he says.\n\n\"My concern is when you have a set of rules which start to interfere with the flow of things.\"\n\nHe gives the example of a school allowing short or long-sleeved shirts in its uniform, but not allowing rolled-up sleeves.\n\n\"A child might inadvertently roll his sleeves up, and then the lesson is disrupted because the teacher has to pick the child up on it.\"\n\nOld school ties? Some schools specify how to tie them, as well as which to wear\n\nThere has been a tendency in recent times to equate smart uniform with high standards of behaviour, he says, but the two are not the same.\n\nBeing too strict can \"smack of professional insecurity\", he says, adding that this can backfire when \"kids find themselves getting into bother without even trying\".\n\nThe government's behaviour tsar Tom Bennett says people outside the UK \"marvel at our obsession with school uniform\".\n\nHe says the media pander to it by reporting examples of entire forms being sent home for wearing the wrong shoes or some such.\n\nBut it can used as a way of fostering a sense of belonging, he says, and letting pupils know: \"This is the way we do things around here.\"\n\nThe best behaviour policies balance a culture of discipline with lots of pastoral support, he says.\n\n\"You need to have the compassion within the school structure.\n\n\"If you have that, if you have the love as well as the discipline, then things can really sky-rocket.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Virtual waiters and waitresses, self-service checkouts and robot orchestra conductors: love it or hate it, automation, artificial intelligence and robotics are here to stay. But will these technological advances - be it in the office or the factory - affect the working life of men and women equally?\n\nWhile there is debate about the benefits of automation in the world of work, there is no escaping the fact that more robots and artificial intelligence means more jobs in science, technology, engineering and maths, known as the Stem group.\n\nIn the US, home to some of the world's largest technology firms, growth in computing is expected to yield half a million jobs within the next decade.\n\nBut the prospects for women and girls aren't looking good.\n\nIf current gender ratios remain the same until 2020, according to the World Economic Forum's study of more than a dozen advanced economies, for every twenty jobs lost to automation, men working in Stem will see five new jobs and women just one.\n\nThis research shows that at the current rate, women and girls risk missing out on the jobs of the future as more tasks at work become automated.\n\nExperts say that if there were more female computer scientists it would also ensure that women and men both have creative input and oversight of new technology.\n\n\"You get them [girls] interested in the power of technology. It's inspiring,\" says Aimee van Wynsberghe, the co-founder of Responsible Robotics, which specialises in ethics in new technologies such as robotics and automation.\n\nSo what do we know about whose jobs are likely to disappear because of automation?\n\nOn balance, the evidence shows that more men work in the jobs that are at risk from automation, says Dr Carl Frey, who co-authored a 2013 Oxford University study on American jobs that were susceptible to automation.\n\nTechnology has in many ways, he says, benefited women in employment over the past century.\n\nMachines have created jobs that require more cognitive skills such as memory and reading, proven to be beneficial for women, and have replaced physical tasks done mainly by men.\n\nThe World Economic Forum's 2016 Future of Jobs report indicated men and women would share the burden of jobs losses fairly equally.\n\nAnd PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in 2017 suggested a higher percentage of men in the UK, US, Germany and Japan worked in jobs at a high risk of automation.\n\nSheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, is one of the leading women in technology\n\nBut according to preliminary findings from the Institute for Spatial Economic Analysis (ISEA), in California, women are twice as likely to work in jobs with a high chance of being replaced by automation.\n\nMany of the jobs on the list of occupations that have a high chance of becoming automated were in the office and administrative sector, which employs more women than men.\n\n\"Public officials need to take a stand and prepare for the future,\" says Dr Jess Chen, from ISEA.\n\nThe pace of change will vary in different sectors and parts of the world; unpredictable economic events could make investment in robotics or AI less or more likely.\n\nThere will be jobs created in the future that don't exist now, and there will be demand for jobs that require tasks that can't be done by a robot.\n\nThere are ethical and social concerns too: does everyone find it socially acceptable to have robots caring for their ageing grandparents?\n\nBBC 100 Women names 100 influential and inspirational women around the world every year. In 2017, we're challenging them to tackle four of the biggest problems facing women today - the glass ceiling, female illiteracy, harassment in public spaces and sexism in sport.\n\nWith your help, they'll be coming up with real-life solutions and we want you to get involved with your ideas. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and use #100Women\n\nRead more: Who is on the 100 Women list?\n\nCalls to get more women and girls working in the Stem fields are about employment opportunities, but addressing the gender gap also protects against bias, experts say.\n\nBias can be manifested in a number of different ways, says Catherine Ashcraft, director of research at the National Centre for Women and Information Technology, ranging from hiring practices to interview techniques.\n\nAnd there are other instances of human bias about race and gender actually becoming part of a computer's decision-making process.\n\n\"Biases can also evolve even after technologies are created through machine learning - because they learn from the data we give them. This also ends up reflecting our biases,\" says Dr Ashcraft.\n\nMachine learning, a type of AI, can help humans perform tasks and take decisions by seeing patterns in large quantities of data.\n\nThis concern about bias has become especially relevant in the world of work because companies have started to screen applicants using artificial intelligence.\n\n\"Would artificial intelligence find a male applicant less fit for a nurse position? Or would this lead to women having lower chances to be called for a programming position?\" said Aylin Caliskan, an AI expert at Princeton University, in an interview with Science magazine.\n\nTherefore, it could make a difference if more women work in the professions overseeing this new technology.\n\n\"If we don't do something, bias will propagate and get worse,\" says Aimee Van Wynsberghe, the robotics expert.\n\nSearch for your job below to find out how susceptible it is to automation.", "House prices across the UK have jumped by an average of 4% in the year to September, according to Britain's largest lender, the Halifax.\n\nThe rate indicates a pick-up from August, when the Halifax said prices were rising at an annual pace of 2.6%.\n\nThe Halifax said the average price of a house or flat in the UK had now risen to a new high of £225,109.\n\nA shortage of properties for sale and growth in full-time employment was supporting prices, it said.\n\n\"However, increasing pressure on spending power and continuing affordability concerns may well dampen buyer demand,\" said Russell Galley, the managing director of Halifax Community Bank.\n\nRival lender Nationwide has said prices in the year to September rose by 2%.\n\nThe Halifax figures are not broken down by region, but other research has indicated that while house price growth is slowing in the south of England, it is rising in parts of the Midlands and the North.\n\nBetween August and September, prices rose by 0.8%, the Halifax said, compared to a monthly rise of 1.5% in the previous month.\n\nThe 4% annual rise in house prices is calculated by comparing the three months to September with the same three months last year.\n\nWhere can you afford to live? Try our housing calculator to see where you could rent or buy This interactive content requires an internet connection and a modern browser. Do you want to buy or rent? Use the buttons to increase or decrease the number of bedrooms: minimum one, maximum four. Alternatively, enter a number into the text input How much is your deposit? Enter your deposit below or adjust the deposit amount using the slider Return to 'How much is your deposit?' This calculator assumes you need a deposit of at least 5% of the value of the property to get a mortgage. The average deposit for UK first-time buyers is . How much can you pay monthly? Enter your monthly payment below or adjust the payment amount using the slider Return to 'How much can you pay monthly?' Your monthly payments are what you can afford to pay each month. Think about your monthly income and take off bills, council tax and living expenses. The average rent figure is for England and Wales. Amount of the that has housing you can Explore the map in detail below Search the UK for more details about a local area What does affordable mean? You have a big enough deposit and your monthly payments are high enough. The prices are based on the local market. If there are 100 properties of the right size in an area and they are placed in price order with the cheapest first, the “low-end” of the market will be the 25th property, \"mid-priced\" is the 50th and \"high-end” will be the 75th.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Speculation about the prime minister's future dominates most of Friday's front pages.\n\nUnder the headline All We Want For Christmas Is A New PM, the Daily Mirror quotes one MP as saying Theresa May is \"like a pet waiting to be put down\".\n\nA former Cabinet minister tells the i: 'It's not terminal yet, but she is in intensive care\", while former cabinet minister David Mellor tells The Daily Telegraph Mrs May is a \"dead woman walking\".\n\nHome Secretary Amber Rudd writes in the same paper that Mrs May should remain as leader at what she calls \"a turning point for the nation\". The Times says government whips will canvass Tory MPs over the weekend.\n\nThe Financial Times reports that Chancellor Philip Hammond is facing a \"bloodbath\" in the public finances in next month's Budget, because official growth forecasts have been too optimistic.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility is said to have overestimated productivity for the past seven years - meaning much of the £26bn set aside to help the economy through Brexit could be \"wiped out\".\n\nThe Sun seizes on the \"bloodbath\" theme, employing the headline \"Hamma Horror\". It says the warning \"will stoke fears the chancellor will be forced to push through stinging tax rises\".\n\nThe papers are divided in their opinion of the investigation into allegations against Sir Edward Heath.\n\nThe Guardian believes the police have a duty to examine any potential abuse of power and the Daily Express agrees that \"it can deliver closure for victims and help them access compensation\", even if the supposed perpetrator is dead.\n\nBut a leading criminologist brought on to the case last year writes in The Times that it was a shambles, based on \"a catalogue of fabrication\".\n\nThe paper's editorial says it's hard to argue with claims the Wiltshire force was \"appealing to fantasists and attention-seekers\".\n\nBoris Becker's financial woes are detailed on the front of The Times. It says the former tennis champion borrowed £2m from John Caudwell, the billionaire co-founder of Phones 4U, after he was warned that he could be jailed as his debts reached £50m.\n\nThe money, it says, \"enabled him to juggle the demands of banks, an ex-wife and lover and business partners while maintaining his jet-set lifestyle\".\n\nJamie Oliver's specially designed Land Rover has a host of cooking features including a slow-cooker, barbecue, and olive oil dispenser\n\nThe Daily Mail reveals how Jamie Oliver has paid £100,000 to turn his Land Rover into a mobile kitchen.\n\nThe custom-built car, it says, features a rotisserie, pasta maker, slow cooker, wheel-mounted butter and ice cream churners and a toaster wedged between the front seats.\n\nAnd the Sun features a landlord in Bristol who may have been inspired by Alan Bennett, by advertising for a tenant to live in a van parked on his street.\n\nThe vehicle is described as having \"all the facilities for winter living\" including a wood burner, oven and double bed - but the paper says it is untaxed and could be towed away.", "\"Having women on company boards leads to better financial performance\" came the headlines from report after report, highlighting a business statistic guaranteed to capture the imagination and prompt debate.\n\nWhat better way to encourage companies to focus on equality and diversity than to make them think of their bottom line?\n\nIn the UK, the 30% Club was set up in 2010 with the aim of having women make up at least 30% of the members on every board.\n\nIn the US, the Thirty Percent Coalition - a group of people who are chief executives and chairs of their companies - was created to achieve the same thing.\n\nOf course, there are many other - and some say better - reasons to argue for gender equality, but we wanted to look at whether this broadly accepted claim is true - does having more women on the board really mean the company makes more money?\n\nAcademics have warned against jumping to simple conclusions.\n\nA report published by Credit Suisse last year said companies with at least one woman director received a better return on their investments compared with companies with all-male boardrooms.\n\nThey say companies where women made up at least 15% of senior management were 50% more profitable than those where fewer than 10% of senior managers were female.\n\nBut Prof Alice Eagly, at Northwestern University in the US, says many of the studies commissioned by corporations are \"naive\" as they don't consider other variables.\n\nSome European countries have introduced quotas for female board members\n\nShe explains that more sophisticated pieces of analysis carried out by academics have shown very small positive correlations between female board members and financial success. But this is an average - in some companies the relationship was neutral and in some it was negative.\n\nAnd proving causation is far harder. It is difficult to say that it is having more women on boards that makes companies do better, rather than other factors - something corporate reports acknowledge.\n\nThis is because companies with more women on boards are different in other ways, too, according to Prof Eagly.\n\nFor example, firm size seems to be one of the most significant factors in determining profitability. And larger companies are likely to employ more women at every level.\n\nMore innovative companies were more likely to use their talent effectively, regardless of gender. And companies that were already more profitable may have been more able to focus efforts on diversity, she says.\n\nA study looking at the gender make-up of the top management of the US's biggest firms, not only their board members, found female representation in top management improves firm performance but only in companies that are \"focused on innovation\".\n\nAnd, interestingly, female board members appear to have more of a positive impact on their company's performance in countries where women have more equal rights and treatment overall.\n\nIt looks like there is a relationship between more successful companies and those with more women in senior positions in general, but it's not enough to simply \"add women and stir\", as Prof Robin Ely at Harvard Business School puts it.\n\nAnother study from a group of German, Dutch and Belgian researchers found \"the mere representation of females on corporate boards is not related to firm financial performance if other factors are not considered\". It relies on there being a good company culture too.\n\nIf women are in the minority in a room that is hostile to them, they are unlikely to be able to have a positive effect and that applies to other kinds of diversity too, the study suggests.\n\nFocusing on numbers without also addressing structural diversity issues is not enough, according to Prof Ely.\n\nIn the biggest US companies on the stock market, around 16% of board seats are held by women\n\nLooking at how many spaces on a board are filled by women doesn't tell you how influential the board is, and it doesn't tell us whether those women are being listened to and allowed to have an impact, Prof Ely points out, as \"not all spots on a board are created equal\".\n\nThere is some evidence that having three women on a board of 12 to 15 people is the tipping point for them to actually be heard and able to have an influence at all. So there are good arguments for the 30% rule - it just doesn't necessarily translate directly to profits.\n\nIn fact Corinne Post, a professor of organisation management at Lehigh University, says that board members don't have a direct influence on the bottom line of a company, but they do have a greater influence on corporate social responsibility.\n\nShe found that there was a five times stronger correlation between a company having female board members and stronger performance when it comes to ensuring they are environmentally friendly as a company, or involve themselves in philanthropy for example, than the correlation between female board members and profits.\n\nProfitability is highly complex and there's even evidence that chief executives might not have much of an influence on company profits.\n\n\"In companies with any women on their board at all, they tend to have between one and three - are you really saying the gender of three people on a board is going to have an impact on the bottom line?\" Prof Ely asks.\n\nFor Northwestern's Prof Eagly, the most pertinent question is why we would need evidence women bring in more money than men, before they are given equal status on boards.\n\n\"Why should you rule out 50% of the population from important jobs. It's about social justice not about profits.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: \"Look, I've had a cold this week\"\n\nTheresa May has said she has the \"full support of her cabinet\" after a former party chairman said there should be a Conservative leadership contest.\n\nThe PM insisted she was providing the \"calm leadership\" the country needed.\n\nGrant Shapps says about 30 Tory MPs back his call for a leadership contest in the wake of the general election results and conference mishaps.\n\nBut his claims prompted a backlash from loyal backbenchers, several of whom called on him to \"shut up\".\n\nThere has been leadership speculation since Mrs May's decision to call a snap general election backfired and the Conservatives lost their majority.\n\nThe Conservative conference this week was meant to be a chance to assert her authority over the party, but her big speech was plagued by a series of mishaps, as she struggled with a persistent cough, was interrupted by a prankster and some of the letters fell off the conference stage backdrop behind her.\n\nAsked about leadership speculation as she attended a charity event in her constituency, Mrs May said: \"What the country needs is calm leadership and that's what I am providing with the full support of my cabinet.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Tory party chairman Grant Shapps said Theresa May should face a leadership election\n\nShe said her recent speech in Florence had given \"real momentum\" to Brexit negotiations and she was intending to update MPs next week on her plans to help \"ordinary working families\" with a cap on energy bills.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove was among cabinet ministers and MPs publicly defending Mrs May on Friday morning, as the story broke that Mr Shapps was the senior Tory behind a bid to persuade her to go.\n\nMr Gove told BBC Radio 4 the prime minister was a \"fantastic\" leader, had widespread support, and should stay \"as long as she wants\".\n\nHe said that the \"overwhelming majority of MPs and the entirety of the cabinet\" backed the prime minister.\n\nHome Secretary Amber Rudd wrote an article in the Telegraph urging the prime minister to stay, while First Secretary of State Damian Green said on the BBC's Question Time the prime minister \"was determined as ever to get on with her job - she sees it as her duty to do so\".\n\nRuth Davidson, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, hit out at those plotting to oust Mrs May as prime minister.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Political Thinking podcast, she said: \"I have to say, I've not got much time for them...\n\n\"I really don't think that having a bit of a cold... when you are trying to make a speech changes the fundamentals of whether Theresa May is the right person to lead the country.\"\n\nThere is, this morning, an operation being mounted by the government to try to show that nothing has changed in the Conservative Party in the last few days.\n\nThat Theresa May's leadership remains on track and she is, to use another of her famous phrases, just, \"getting on with the job\".\n\nExcept, as happened the last time she proclaimed \"nothing has changed\", something rather fundamental has, after all.\n\nFor the doubts that have been building about her in the party for months are now out there in the wide open.\n\nTo trigger a vote of confidence in the party leader, 48 of the 316 Conservative MPs would need to write to the chairman of the backbench 1922 committee.\n\nA leadership contest would only be triggered if Mrs May lost that vote, or chose to quit.\n\nMr Shapps, who was co-chair of the party between 2012 and 2015, said no letter had been sent and said his intention had been to gather signatures privately and persuade Mrs May to stand down.\n\nBut he claimed party whips had taken the \"extraordinary\" step of making it public by naming him as the ringleader of a plot to oust the PM in a story in the Times.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"I think it's time we actually tackle this issue of leadership and so do many colleagues.\n\n\"We wanted to present that to Theresa May privately. Now I'm afraid it's being done a bit more publicly.\"\n\nHe added: \"The country needs leadership. It needs leadership at this time in particular. I think the conference and the lead-up through the summer has shown that that's not going to happen. I think it's time that we have a leadership election now, or at least let's set out that timetable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The \"overwhelming majority of MPs\" support the prime minister, says Environment Secretary Michael Gove\n\nBut Conservative MP Nigel Evans told the BBC's Daily Politics that if Grant Shapps \"can't get 48 signatures, he should just shut up: \"In my chats to MPs at Westminster nobody wants an early leadership election. We just simply don't want that.\"\n\nFellow MP James Cleverly tweeted: \"I've always liked Grant Shapps but he really is doing himself, the party and (most importantly) the country no favours at all. Just stop.\"\n\nAmong other MPs criticising Mr Shapps was Charles Walker, vice chairman of the Tory backbench 1922 committee, who suggested the plot was going to \"fizzle out\".\n\n\"No 10 must be delighted to learn that it's Grant Shapps leading this alleged coup,\" he said. \"Grant has many talents but one thing he doesn't have is a following in the party.\"\n\nFormer minister Ed Vaizey was the first MP to publicly suggest Mrs May should quit on Thursday, telling the BBC: \"I think there will be quite a few people who will now be pretty firmly of the view that she should resign.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV footage shows the alleged attack at the airport in February\n\nTwo women charged with killing Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korea's leader, are revisiting the crime scene in Malaysia.\n\nIndonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong were at Kuala Lumpur airport on Tuesday.\n\nThe pair are accused of rubbing the highly toxic VX nerve agent on Mr Kim's face as he waited for a flight.\n\nThey have pleaded not guilty to murder, saying it was a TV prank and they were tricked by North Korean agents.\n\nPyongyang has denied any involvement in the 13 February killing, but four men - believed to be North Koreans who fled Malaysia on the day of the murder - have also been charged in the case.\n\nKuala Lumpur International Airport was packed with journalists awaiting the women on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe women arrived at the airport soon afterwards, and were seen wearing bulletproof vests.\n\nPolicewomen held the arms of Doan Thu Huong (centre) as they walked into the terminal\n\nJournalists at the scene said Siti Aisyah (centre) looked overwhelmed at one point\n\nThey were escorted by dozens of armed police officers wearing body armour.\n\nHalfway during the visit, Ms Aisyah burst into tears while Ms Huong also appeared unwell, reported AFP news agency.\n\nThe women were given wheelchairs and officials pushed them around the terminal for the rest of the visit.\n\nThey were accompanied by their lawyers and the judge presiding over the trial. The visit was aimed at giving those involved in the case a better understanding of the events.\n\nThe group visited an airport cafe at one point during the visit.\n\nThey were also taken to the check-in hall where Mr Kim appeared to have been attacked, and the medical centre where he sought assistance.\n\nIf found guilty, the women face the death penalty. Their defence lawyers are likely to argue that the real culprits are North Korean agents who fled Malaysia.\n\nMr Kim, who was in his mid-40s, was the estranged older half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.\n\nAt the time of his death, he was believed to have been living in self-imposed exile in Macau and was thought to have had some links to China.", "The producer behind Paddington 2 says he wants to cut all ties with the Weinstein name.\n\nDavid Heyman told Deadline that The Weinstein Company had distribution rights but had nothing to do with the financing or making of the film.\n\nHeyman said his hopes are that, ultimately, \"The Weinstein Company name is nowhere near Paddington 2\".\n\nIt follows fresh allegations against Harvey Weinstein and claims his assistant was paid for her silence.\n\nDavid Heyman at the premiere of Paddington in 2014\n\nHeyman, who is also behind the Harry Potter movies, spoke about his unease at being involved with The Weinstein Company.\n\n\"It's very sad and deeply frustrating that Paddington, who's been around for more than 50 years, and is always looking for the good in people... could have any association\" with the ongoing scandal, he said.\n\nAfter Weinstein was sacked by his production company, younger brother Bob had said The Weinstein Company's involvement in Paddington 2 would continue.\n\nBut Heyman said he had received many calls from distributors offering to replace The Weinstein Company, saying: \"I'm sure all options will be explored.\"\n\nPaddington 2, which stars Hugh Bonneville, Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw, will be released in the UK on 10 November.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US astronaut Paul Weitz, who helped save a Nasa space station after it was damaged during launch, has died aged 85.\n\nMr Weitz, who died at a retirement home in Flagstaff, Arizona, also served as the first commander of the space shuttle Challenger.\n\nHe was a naval aviator before joining Nasa in 1966.\n\nHe was the pilot on the first mission to Skylab, the US space station which orbited Earth from 1973 to 1979.\n\nThe orbiting laboratory had been launched without crew on 14 May 1973. But a shield to protect the station from collisions with small meteorites had torn loose during lift-off.\n\nSkylab was America's first and only space station\n\nA replacement sunshield for Skylab is sewn together in Houston\n\nWeitz mans the control and display console of the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) on Skylab in 1973\n\nThe shield also protected Skylab against extremes of temperature, and without it, the station began to overheat.\n\nMr Weitz and his fellow crew members Pete Conrad and Joseph Kerwin were supposed to launch on 15 May. But Nasa delayed the flight so that the crew could practice repairs on the ground.\n\nThe astronauts eventually launched on 25 May and approached Skylab in their Apollo command module. Positioning their spacecraft near a jammed solar panel on Skylab, Weitz opened the Apollo module's airlock and extended a 3m (10ft)-long pole designed to free the component.\n\nHe tugged hard at the solar panel, while Joe Kerwin held him by the ankles.\n\n\"We thought maybe we'd just break it loose. So we got down near the end of the solar array and I got a hold of it with the shepherd's crook,\" Mr Weitz said in an interview with Nasa in 2000.\n\n\"But what we really hadn't thought about was, in heaving on it, trying to break the thing free, what I was doing, in effect, I was pulling the command module... in toward [Skylab].\"\n\n\"Also, surprising in a totally weightless environment, I was moving [Skylab] some, too, because we could see its thrusters firing to maintain its attitude... So it made for some dicey times.\"\n\nIt was clear that the array wasn't going to budge, so the astronauts went back inside the command module.\n\nThe crew of STS-6, the first Challenger shuttle flight, pose for a photo. Commander Paul Weitz is seated second from the left\n\nThe astronauts deployed a satellite from Challenger and carried out a spacewalk during the five-day mission\n\nAfter several failed attempts to dock with the command module, the astronauts finally entered Skylab and successfully deployed a replacement sunshade to lower temperatures inside the lab.\n\nWeitz's second flight was in April 1983 as the first commander of the space shuttle Challenger. He was then at the relatively advanced age (in those days) of 51.\n\nDuring their five-day mission, the four crew members successfully deployed a satellite from Challenger and carried out a spacewalk.\n\nJust three years later, the shuttle was destroyed in an accident on lift-off which killed all seven astronauts on board.\n\nIf the Apollo programme had not been cancelled in the early seventies, Mr Weitz might have flown to the Moon - possibly on Apollo 20.\n\nPaul J Weitz was born on 25 July 1932 in Erie, Pennsylvania.", "A faintly burned-in area, underneath the emergency text, is something only usually seen in older, worn out devices\n\nGoogle’s new flagship smartphones have been hit by complaints about the quality of the screens.\n\nTech reviewers, who have had the larger of the two devices for about a fortnight, noticed “burn in” on its display. Others noted “muddy” discolouration on the screen.\n\nGoogle said it was investigating the issue, which it took “very seriously”.\n\nGoogle’s new line, the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, are its attempt to take a bigger share of the smartphone market.\n\nLast year’s Pixel was well-received by reviewers, but sold poorly. It accounted for just 0.5% of the global market.\n\nThe Pixel 2 was made by HTC, while the Pixel 2 XL was made by LG.\n\nA Pixel 2 XL review unit provided to the BBC by Google suffered from mild burn-in - the term given to when a screen is permanently marked by images that have been on screen for an extended period of time.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBurn-in is typical of old screens, but should not happen on a new high-end smartphone.\n\nOn the Google device, the navigation bar that is often at the bottom of the screen could be seen faintly when it should not have been visible.\n\n“We take all reports of issues very seriously, and our engineers investigate quickly,” said Mario Queiroz, Google’s vice president for the Pixel range.\n\n“We will provide updates as soon as we have conclusive data.”\n\nThe worst case scenario for Google would be a halt to production of the Pixel - which has already seen shipping delays of up to a month - and potentially a recall for devices already shipped.\n\n\"Not a great start for sure,” said Carolina Milanesi, a Silicon Valley-based analyst for Creative Strategies.\n\n“This was Google's big step into really going for the devices market, broadening the breath of the products. It raises the question of whether they can actually take on this much.”\n\nThe news follows complaints over a separate Google product, the Google Home Mini voice assistant.\n\nIt was discovered to have been listening in to conversations without users’ knowledge because of a faulty button. Google has since disabled the feature.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Victoria, whose full name the BBC has chosen not to use, says her face was superimposed on pornographic images shared on social media\n\nA teenager claims internet trolls \"ruined her life\" by superimposing her face on pornographic messages that were shared on social media.\n\nVictoria, from Leeds, was told to \"go kill yourself\" on the Live.me streaming app and her home address was shared on Twitter as a \"house to burgle\".\n\nFigures obtained by BBC Yorkshire show reports of malicious communication have almost doubled to more than 200 a day.\n\nThere were 79,372 offences recorded in 2016, up from 42,910 the year before.\n\nPolice forces in England and Wales were asked to provide the data, with 38 out of 43 responding.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said investigations into Victoria's case were ongoing\n\nVictoria, 18, had open profiles on Live.me, Twitter and Instagram, where she had thousands of followers.\n\nShe said she was sent pornographic images that featured her face and had photographs of her house shared online, while another message to her simply said \"die\".\n\n\"I'm on anxiety tablets now. It's knocked my confidence. I don't even go out of the house that much,\" she said.\n\n\"There's still that thought in the back of my mind, where you never know if they are going to be there while you are out.\n\n\"At the end of the day, this has legit just ruined my life. I used to be an outgoing person. I'm just trying to get back to my old self.\"\n\nVictoria went to the police about the malicious communication - defined as sending a letter or electronic communication with intent to cause distress or anxiety - but no arrests were made.\n\nShe said: \"Sometimes I feel like it's my fault. But it's easier for people to get targeted because they're putting themselves out there on the internet, which I thought was just fun, to make new friends.\n\n\"I never thought it would turn out like this.\"\n\nSupt Mat Davison said West Yorkshire Police was investigating Victoria's case and new lines of inquiry would be acted on.\n\n\"Officers have been in regular contact with the victim and members of her family and provided them with updates on the progress of the investigation,\" he added.\n\nThe Times recently reported nine people are arrested each day for posting offensive material online, sparking criticism from human rights groups about \"over-policing\" of the internet.\n\nHowever, Essex Police Chief Constable Stephen Kavanagh said the rise in malicious communication was \"the tip of the iceberg\".\n\nTwitter plans to impose new restrictions on pornographic and hateful imagery to tackle abuse\n\nThe chairman of the Digital Policing Board, which deals with digital crime nationally, said social network providers should do more to protect online users.\n\n\"I think as policing and society changes in to the digital age this is only going to increase,\" Mr Kavanagh said.\n\n\"Providers, government, law enforcers and users all need to get ready how we protect people more effectively, and how we bring criminals to justice.\"\n\nDr Michelle Newberry, senior lecturer in forensic psychology at Sheffield Hallam University, said there was a correlation between how much we use social media and the increase in trolling.\n\nShe said: \"It is very unusual for people not to have their phone with them. We just have that instant access these days.\"\n\nTwitter previously said it planned to impose new restrictions on pornographic and hateful imagery to tackle abuse.\n\nA spokesperson for Live.me said: \"Our goal at Live.me is to create a safe and friendly environment for all of our users which is why it's always heartbreaking to hear stories of users being harassed or bullied.\n\n\"We have strict protocols for our moderators to address any community violations, and our automatic software detection and human moderators are on call 24-hours a day, seven days a week, working to combat cyber-bullying, indecent behaviour, or threats of self-harm.\"\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. Theresa May: We are in touching distance of a deal\n\nTheresa May has said \"important progress\" on Brexit was made at last week's EU summit - but Jeremy Corbyn said it sounded like \"Groundhog Day\".\n\nThe PM said she had a \"degree of confidence\" of making enough progress by December to begin trade talks.\n\nShe also said there would be no \"physical infrastructure\" on the border in Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the EU Commission president dismissed a German newspaper's account of his dinner with the PM.\n\n\"Nothing is true in all of this,\" Jean-Claude Juncker said, rejecting the article's claims Mrs May \"begged for help\" when they met and seemed tired and politically weak.\n\nAfter five rounds of UK-EU talks, there has been no breakthrough in the first phase of negotiations between the UK and the EU.\n\nAt the summit, the other 27 EU leaders decided progress on the Brexit separation issues had not been \"sufficient\" to open talks on future trade relations with the UK yet - but they did agree to discuss future arrangements amongst themselves, paving the way for talks with the UK to possibly begin in December.\n\nBusinesses are calling for urgent agreement in setting up temporary transition arrangements after the UK's departure date in March 2019.\n\nBut some pro-EU MPs expressed concern that the UK could leave without one in place, after Mrs May suggested it was dependent on details of the final \"partnership\" being clear.\n\n\"The point of the implementation period is to put in place the practical changes necessary to move to the future partnership,\" she said as she updated MPs on last week's summit.\n\n\"In order to have that, you need to know what the future partnership is going to be.\"\n\nMrs May also said the question of citizens' rights after Brexit remained her \"first priority\", with a deal within \"touching distance\", and pledged that EU nationals living in the UK would not face \"bureaucratic hurdles\" after March 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHer \"clear commitments\" on another sticking point, the UK's financial settlement, had helped moved talks forward, she said.\n\nIn response, Mr Corbyn compared Mrs May's updates to 1993 comedy Groundhog Day, where the lead character played by Bill Murray lives the same day over and over again.\n\n\"Well, here we are again after another round of talks,\" he said, saying it was \"no clearer\" when future talks would begin or what the UK had agreed to so far.\n\nTalks have reached an \"impasse\" with no progress abroad or at home, he said, adding that the citizens' rights issue \"could have been dealt with 16 months ago\".\n\nJust before the PM got to her feet in the Commons, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker denied leaking an unsourced account of his dinner with the PM published in German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Juncker: Theresa May was in good shape, she was not tired\n\nThe account, largely written from the perspective of EU officials, suggested Mrs May appeared \"anxious, despondent and disheartened\" and had spoken of her limited room for manoeuvre back at home.\n\n\"Everyone can see: the prime minister is marked by the struggle with her own party,\" the article stated, according to a translated version quoted by a number of British newspapers.\n\n\"She has deep rings under her eyes. She looks like someone who doesn't sleep at night.\"\n\nBut asked by the BBC if he had spoken to the German press, Mr Juncker said: \"No, never. I am really surprised - if not shocked - about what has been written in the German press.\n\n\"And of course repeated by the British press. Nothing is true in all of this.\n\n\"I had an excellent working dinner with Theresa May. She was in good shape, she was not tired, she was fighting, as is her duty, so everything for me was OK.\"\n\nIn the Commons, Tory MP Bernard Jenkin said anyone suggesting Mrs May was weak \"seriously underestimates\" the PM and the Conservative Party, urging her to \"stick to her guns\".\n\nThe apparent leak of what happened at the dinner follows a similar incident in April, when Mrs May accused some in the EU of \"meddling\" in the general election campaign after details of a dinner between her and Mr Juncker in Downing Street appeared in the German press.\n\nDowning Street said it had no comment on the latest reports and pointed out that both sides were of the view that the recent get-together had been \"constructive and friendly\".\n\nMartin Selmayr is a key figure in the European Commission\n\nEarlier Nick Timothy, who was the PM's chief of staff until he quit after the general election, suggested the disclosure had all the hallmarks of coming from the European Commission.\n\nIn a reference to EU official Martin Selmayr, he tweeted: \"After constructive Council meeting, Selmayr does this. Reminder that some in Brussels want no deal or a punitive one.\"\n\nBut Mr Selmayr said the claim was \"false\" and neither he nor Mr Juncker had any \"interest in weakening\" Mrs May.\n\nHe tweeted: \"I deny that 1: we leaked this; 2: Juncker ever said this; 3: we are punitive on Brexit. It's an attempt 2 frame EU side & 2 undermine talks.\"\n\nThe European Commission said it was working for a fair Brexit deal and had \"no time for gossip\".\n\n\"Some people like to point at us to serve their own political priorities,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We would appreciate if these people would leave us alone.\"", "An active FBI undercover agent has revealed details of his work infiltrating Islamic extremist groups.\n\nTamer El-Noury - one of the agent's many false identities - talked to the BBC about his covert attempts to gain the trust of those planning attacks.\n\nHe was instrumental in foiling the plot to derail the New York City to Toronto train route four years ago.\n\nHe has published a book about his work, saying he wants Americans to understand his work as a Muslim operative.\n\n\"The fact is that these jihadists - these radicals that are popping up - are lost souls,\" he told the BBC in an interview. \"They latch on to hatred, and an evil that seems to give them purpose.\"\n\n\"I am a Muslim and I am an American, and I am appalled at what these animals are doing to my country while desecrating my religion,\" he said.\n\nThe son of Egyptian immigrants to the US, Mr El-Noury joined the police in New Jersey, where he worked to break up drug distribution networks.\n\nLater, he was recruited by the FBI who realised they were desperately short of Arabic speakers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Tamer El-Noury\" spoke to the BBC's Frank Gardner about his undercover life\n\nOne of his undercover operations involved a plan to kill as many people as possible by derailing the New York - Toronto rail route.\n\nTunisian migrant Chiheb Esseghaier, one of the key figures in the plot, was befriended by Mr El-Noury in a \"chance encounter\" arranged by the FBI.\n\nHe was eventually recruited by Esseghaier, becoming a part of the plot.\n\nHe posed as a wealthy American of Arabic origin who held a deep personal grudge - a persona, he said, he tried to keep close to the truth.\n\n\"None of my legends - none of my cover stories - have ever really drifted far from reality,\" he said.\n\n\"When you're travelling the world with an ideological extremist individual, and you're spending days - weeks - along with them, your true colours eventually come out when you get exhausted.\"\n\nThe long weeks spent with extremists, acting as confidant and close friend, \"is the hardest part,\" he said.\n\nEl-Noury's book has been carefully vetted by the FBI\n\n\"My job is to put my arms around a bad guy. And of course, all these atrocities that we are planning are sickening to me.\"\n\n\"The only way that I can be good at my job and have it believable is I try to latch on to whatever part is human... how well he speaks to his mother, how well he financially takes care of his siblings.\"\n\nDuring a trip to New York Esseghaier began planning a future attack on Times Square in New York City on New Years' Eve, to take place after the train derailment, El-Noury told the CBS Sixty Minutes programme.\n\nDuring the same trip, the pair visited the site of the Twin Towers, where Esseghaier said the US \"needed another 9/11\". El-Noury told CBS he \"saw red\" and almost blew his cover over the remark.\n\nBut none of the schemes ever came to fruition - both Esseghaier and Raed Jaser, a Canadian resident of Palestinian descent, were arrested in 2013 and sentenced to life in prison in 2015 on the back of El-Noury's investigation.\n\nMr El-Noury's story offers an extraordinary insight into the dark and dangerous world of going undercover as an agent, says the BBC's Security Correspondent Frank Gardener.\n\nThe FBI initially insisted on listening in on the telephone interview to ensure its active agent was protected, he said.\n\nThe nature of the agent's work is deceptive - but he said that any accusation of being a traitor was something he considered a badge of honour.\n\n\"These traitors, these radicals are the ones desecrating my religion. I am proud to be a patriot, i am proud to be an American Muslim fighting the war on terror.\"\n\nHis account of life undercover - American Radical - is published on 23 October by Penguin Random House.", "The NHS is going to launch an awareness-raising campaign to reduce the level of incorrect fines\n\nMany fines incorrectly imposed after dental treatment are because of mistakes over patients' addresses, says a health watchdog.\n\nThe latest figures show 385,000 fines were issued in the last financial year - and dentists say tens of thousands of £100 fines have been wrongly applied.\n\nHealthwatch in Kirklees says problems with address records are a big factor.\n\nThe NHS accepts this accounts for some of the incorrect fines and says it is planning an information campaign.\n\nThe British Dental Association (BDA) last week called for urgent action to tackle a wave of £100 fines being wrongly applied to dental patients who had free treatment, with particular concerns about confusion among vulnerable people.\n\nThey had been fined following checks designed to stop people from fraudulently using free dental treatment when they should be paying.\n\nThe BDA's research claimed as many as nine in 10 fines that were challenged were subsequently overturned, suggesting that many penalties were being wrongly applied.\n\nFigures from a wider range of NHS fines suggest that the rate for withdrawing penalties after they were found to be incorrect is closer to 50%.\n\nHealthwatch, which represents people using health services, has been researching the reasons behind this problem and says many mistakes seem to be caused by how patients' addresses are recorded.\n\nDirector Rory Deighton says differences in spelling, variations in how addresses might be presented or mistakes in postcodes could be misinterpreted as being a different identity.\n\nWhen addresses do not match information held in databases used for checks, penalty fines could be triggered, he says.\n\nThe NHS Business Services Authority, which oversees the fining system, says there is also a difficulty with patients not updating their addresses, leading to discrepancies between their current addresses and addresses held in databases.\n\nThe agency says it will improve the information available to patients and make forms easier to complete, after concerns there was confusion about which benefits made people eligible for free treatment.\n\nA spokeswoman said the NHS wanted to make sure that patients and staff \"understand the rules around eligibility for free treatment and the consequences of claiming incorrectly\", but she admitted there is \"still a lot of confusion\".\n\nMr Deighton said: \"There is something intuitively wrong about an NHS organisation sending out incorrect penalty charge notices.\n\n\"Thousands of people every month receive these notices, increasing stress in households all over England.\n\n\"All we are asking for is a simple system, where eligibility for free treatment is clear to everyone. The current system is unclear and unfair on patients.\"\n\nMr Deighton suggested that where there were uncertainties about addresses, checks should be made before any fine was issued.\n\nIn response to growing concerns about the fines, the Dental Defence Union (DDU) has warned dentists to alert patients to rules about payment exemptions.\n\n\"Patients are often aggrieved by being fined when they believed they were exempt,\" a DDU spokesman said.\n\n\"A large number of complaints of this sort come from the fact that patients feel they were either given poor advice or misinformation when they were filling out the exemption form.\"\n\nAn online checking tool is available and there is more online information about eligibility for free dental treatment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe EU will be \"defeated\" in Brexit negotiations unless it maintains absolute unity, European Council president Donald Tusk has said.\n\nThe ex-Polish prime minister told the European Parliament the UK's departure was the EU's \"toughest stress test\" and it must not be divided at any costs.\n\n\"If we fail it then the negotiations will end in our defeat,\" he told MEPs.\n\nBut one German MEP said the EU's stance was \"illogical, dangerous and unfair\" and UKIP accused the EU of \"extortion\".\n\nThe UK is due to leave the European Union at the end of March 2019 and until Mr Tusk's comments both sides have sought to avoid talking about victory, defeat and winners and losers in the negotiations.\n\nIn an update following last week's Brussels summit where the Brexit process was discussed, Mr Tusk said he was \"obsessed\" with preserving the unity of the other 27 members.\n\nArticle 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty allows the UK and the EU to negotiate an orderly withdrawal, a transition period and the shape of the future relationship within a two-year window.\n\nMr Barnier plans to complete the withdrawal agreement by the autumn of 2018 so it can be ratified by the European Council and the European Parliament.\n\nSo we could know the outlines of the future relationship by then.\n\nBut under EU law, a trade deal would have to be signed when the UK became a so-called \"third country\" and it is this that would likely have to be ratified by Parliaments in the member states.\n\n\"We must keep our unity regardless of the direction of the talks,\" Mr Tusk said. \"The EU will be able to rise to every scenario as long as we are not divided.\"\n\n\"If we fail it then the negotiations will end in our defeat,\" he told MEPs.\n\nHe added: \"It is in fact up to London how this will end: with a good deal, no deal or no Brexit. But in each of these scenarios we will protect our common interest only by being together.\"\n\nResponding to suggestions that the UK might choose to stop its withdrawal, a Downing Street spokesman said: \"Brexit is not going to be reversed.\"\n\nSo far, the Brexit negotiations have focused on the three \"separation\" issues of how much the UK has to pay to \"settle its accounts\" when it leaves, what happens to EU citizens in the UK and Britons elsewhere in the EU after Brexit, plus what happens with the Northern Ireland border.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe EU says it will only move on to discuss the UK's future relations with the EU after \"sufficient progress\" has been made on these three issues.\n\nAt last week's summit EU leaders decided more work was needed on these items before trade talks could begin with the UK - although the remaining 27 EU members have agreed to talk about the future options among themselves. The UK wants the second phase to start as soon as possible.\n\nOn Monday, Theresa May told MPs she had a \"degree of confidence\" of making enough progress by December to begin trade talks.\n\nMeanwhile, the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier has suggested negotiations on a UK-EU trade deal could take three years if they begin in December.\n\nHe told the Belgian newspaper L'Echo that the process would not be \"without risks\" because national parliaments in all the 27 remaining states would \"have to give their approval\" to any deal.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Barnier confirmed the remarks but stressed anything was possible and it was not a definitive statement that a deal would be done by December 2020.\n\nSpeaking in Tuesday's debate, Conservative MEP Syed Kamall, who heads the European Conservatives and Reformists Group, called for more pragmatism and less idealism from the EU in their approach to the talks.\n\n\"There needs to be an understanding from the EU 27 where the British people are coming from,\" he said.\n\nAnd Hans-Olaf Henkel, a German MEP from the Conservatives and Reformists Group in the European Parliament, urged Mr Tusk and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to demonstrate more of the \"British values of fairness\" asking \"whether you would agree a price on something you don't know or what you buy for\".\n\nFor UKIP, MEP Ray Finch warned that the UK would \"remain subservient to the EU legally and financially\" if talks continued on their current trajectory.\n\nReferring to demands for the UK to pay a so-called divorce settlement, he said: \"This extortion will poison UK and EU relations for years to come,\" adding that the two sides should \"shake hands and walk away\" now.", "Melanie Owen will be seen in Albert Square in the new year\n\nTamzin Outhwaite is returning to EastEnders after more than 15 years away from the show.\n\nShe's returning to Albert Square in her role as Melanie Owen, having made her first appearance in 1998.\n\nAn EastEnders spokeswoman confirmed she was coming back to the soap as a regular character.\n\nOuthwaite, seen most recently in New Tricks, said: \"EastEnders is in my DNA and I always knew deep down that someday I would revisit Mel.\"\n\nHer first scenes will be broadcast in the new year.\n\nEastEnders creative director John Yorke promised an \"incredible storyline\" that will \"awaken a lot of old ghosts, some great memories, and a whole new series of adventures too\".\n\nOne of Mel Owen's storylines focused on her relationship with Ian Beale, played by Adam Woodyatt\n\nHe added: \"We're thrilled and flattered to have Tamzin back and we can't wait to reveal just where she's been, and just who Melanie Owen is now.\"\n\nOuthwaite said it was an \"honour\" to be asked back by Yorke, saying he \"created Mel's most memorable storylines\".\n\nShe added that her character is \"a strong independent woman with lots more stories to tell.\n\n\"To be stepping back into Mel's shoes nearly twenty years after I first started feels just perfect.\"\n\nViewers last saw Mel in April 2002 when she left Walford following the death of her husband Steve Owen - played by Martin Kemp. She faced a prison sentence but then fled the country after Phil Mitchell put up £30,000 bail money.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A man accused of taking two people hostage during a four-hour siege at a bowling alley has appeared in court.\n\nDavid Clarke, 53, was arrested on Sunday after the stand-off at MFA Bowl in Bermuda Park, Nuneaton.\n\nHe is charged a number of offences, including false imprisonment and being in possession of a samurai sword and a sawn-off shotgun.\n\nMr Clarke of Ryde Avenue, Nuneaton, was remanded into custody and will appear before Warwick Crown Court next month.\n\nThe 53-year-old has been charged with the following offences:\n\nAppearing at Warwickshire Justice Centre, Mr Clarke spoke only to confirm his name, age and address.\n\nAbout 40 or 50 people were said to be inside the leisure complex at the time of the incident.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The weak pound has made the UK one of the world's best-value travel destinations, according to publisher Lonely Planet.\n\nSterling has fallen sharply against the dollar and the euro since last year after ongoing Brexit uncertainty.\n\nLonely Planet, which is owned by US firm NC2 Media, is urging tourists to \"reap the benefits\" of a weak pound.\n\nIt also ranked Belfast and the Giant's Causeway coast as the world's number one region to visit in 2018.\n\nLonely Planet says the UK is seventh on its list of best value destinations, with Estonian capital Tallinn at the top, followed by Lanzarote in the Canary Islands and the US state of Arizona.\n\nPrices in the UK have become relatively cheaper for overseas visitors due to the pound's 11% fall against the dollar and 14% slide compared with the euro since June last year.\n\nJames Smart, Lonely Planet's Britain and Ireland destination editor, said the decline \"has been a great boost for people looking to visit the UK, and we expect this to continue next year\".\n\nInternational visitors can \"make the exchange rate work even harder by aiming for Devon, Cornwall, and big-ticket cities such as Bath, York and Edinburgh\", he added.\n\nIn July the number of overseas visitors to the UK topped four million for the first time, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nThe ONS does not have data about people's motivation to visit the UK, but speculates that the boost in visitor numbers could be linked to the exchange rate.\n\nTourism promotion agency VisitBritain has previously said that an increase in airline capacity, particularly for visitors from China and the US, has also boosted tourism numbers.\n\nThe agency's chief executive, Sally Balcombe, said: \"The UK is offering great value for visitors right now ... on every budget.\"\n\nIn the first seven months of the year, the number of overseas visits to the UK rose 8% to 23.1 million compared with the same period last year, VisitBritain said.\n\nIt forecasts that the total will hit 39.7 million by the end of 2017, with visitors spending about £25.7bn.\n\nFigures from ForwardKeys, which tracks flight booking data, indicates that international arrivals to the UK for October to December are 7% higher than last year.\n\nOlivier Jager, its chief executive, said long-haul bookings to the UK for the first three months of 2018 are 15% ahead of their level this time last year.\n\nBookings from Australia are 29% higher, 16% up from Brazil and 13% higher from the US.\n\nMeanwhile, Belfast and the coast around the Giant's Causeway was ranked by Lonely Planet the world's top region to visit in 2018.\n\n\"Dynamic Belfast has put its troubled past behind it and is a city transformed, its streets packed with buzzing bars and great stories, while the coastline beyond boasts spectacular scenery and plenty of great diversions,\" Mr Smart said.\n\n\"The region may be famous for Game of Thrones but its many scenic filming locations are just the start.\"", "Zimbabweans jokingly refer to the newly appointed cyber security tsar as the \"Minister of WhatsApp\"\n\nA spoof government notice hit social media as soon as President Robert Mugabe announced he had set up a new ministry responsible for Cyber Security, Threat Detection and Mitigation.\n\nZimbabweans reacted with customary humour to the letter, which faked the signature and letterhead of the newly appointed cyber minister - Patrick Chinamasa - and instructed all WhatsApp group members to register with the ministry by November.\n\nThe letter was signed \"By The Cyber Powers Vested In Me\".\n\nBut the jokes have since subsided, and Zimbabweans are now considering what the new ministry will mean for their civil liberties - especially freedom of speech.\n\nZimbabwe's government has been uneasy about social media after pastor Evan Mawararire spearheaded the #ThisFlag movement last year.\n\nUsing platforms like Twitter and Facebook it organised a stay-at-home demonstration, the biggest anti-government protest in a decade.\n\nPresident Robert Mugabe's spokesperson, George Charamba, says Mr Mugabe came up with the idea of a new ministry to deal with an \"emerging threat to the state... a threat founded on abuse and unlawful conduct\".\n\nSocial media is possibly the primary platform Zimbabweans use to communicate and receive news. It is thriving despite restrictive laws governing freedom of expression.\n\nOver the last 16 years, internet usage in the country has grown from 0.3% penetration to 46%, data from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) shows.\n\nSeveral TV stations and online publications, some operating from the diaspora, use the internet to disseminate news out of the reach of the government.\n\nWhen petrol stations ran out of fuel last month, there were dramatic scenes of long queues at supermarket as Zimbabweans stocked up, anticipating food shortages.\n\nWorried by these events, the government blamed social media messages for spreading panic.\n\n\"Social media was abused to create a sense of panic, thereby creating some sort of destabilising in the economy,\" says Mr Charamba.\n\nThe new cyber security minister, Mr Chinamasa, agrees. He commented at the time, before his appointment, that \"the cause basically was social media\".\n\n\"It means it's a security issue,\" he adds. \"It is also a political agenda, a regime change agenda. We are going to look at what exactly happened with a view to take corrective measures in the security arena.\"\n\nBut others say the government's stance is a threat to civil liberties.\n\nOne communications rights group, the Zimbabwe chapter of the Media Institute for Southern Africa (Misa), says this new scrutiny of social media goes against the spirit of the constitution and freedom of expression.\n\n\"These unfortunate threats have resulted in self-censorship by [individuals] when engaging on topical issues affecting the country,\" it said in a statement.\n\nIt also criticises censorship of Zimbabwe's media, \"who have on occasion been chastised for incorporating citizen opinion as expressed online in their reportage\".\n\nGoing a step further, Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) says the government's new cyber threat ministry is a means for government to spy on its people.\n\nMDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai also believes that the ministry has been created to curb free speech in time for the 2018 polls.\n\n\"Mugabe... will do whatever it takes to control and muzzle social media in order to suppress public discontent against his regime,\" he said.\n\n\"However the good news is that the regime has no capacity to suppress the use of social media.\"\n\nMany Zimbabweans have reacted wryly to the news of the creation of a cyber minister, referring to Mr Chinamasa as the \"Minister of WhatsApp\".\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\nZimbabwe already has several pieces of legislation which rights groups say curb freedom of expression.\n\nZimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights says that since 2010, it has assisted more than 100 people arrested under a law which makes it a jailable offence to \"insult the president\" and \"undermine his authority\".\n\nOrdinary people have been arrested and charged for calling the 93-year-old leader \"old\", \"a donkey\" and even for accusing him of ruining the country.\n\nThe Zimbabwean government has said new legislation will not stifle freedom of expression and will protect the public from new threats such as revenge pornography and cyber attacks.\n\nPresidential spokesperson Mr Charamba says Zimbabwe will look closely at how other nations have dealt with the threat of cybercrime - including Russia, China, and South Korea \"who have faced similar challenges\".\n\nWhile several countries around the world have anti-cyber crime departments and agencies, Zimbabwe is among the first to create an entire ministry.\n\nMeanwhile on social media, ominous warnings have begun circulating.\n\nOne is from a \"Mr Chaipa\", urging Zimbabweans only to share content on social media that they would be able to defend in court.\n\nMr Chaipa said it was easy for the government to monitor online messages, and gave a list of online activities that could be classified as criminal offences.\n\n\"In the coming months a lot of people will be arrested and used as examples to deter people from 'abusing' social media towards the elections,\" he warns. \"Don't be made an example.\"", "Tim Nguyen's team restores lighthouses all over the world\n\nFor more than 150 years, glassmakers in one of England's landlocked regions gave light to the seafarers all over the world. It has fallen to one man on the other side of the planet to preserve their legacy.\n\nShining a fresh light on the forgotten past of the Midlands-based Chance Brothers is Tim Nguyen, who has dedicated himself to restoring their work in 2,000 lighthouses across the globe.\n\nThe Australian's quest to restore their optics using original parts and methods is unmatched by anyone.\n\nHe has spent 20 years honing his craft and hopes he will soon find a skilled glassblower to complete the team in Melbourne and recreate the traditional techniques used by the original Black Country firm.\n\nChance Brothers Glassworks in Smethwick manufactured glass used in everything from glazing the Houses of Parliament and Crystal Palace to the production of novelty ashtrays.\n\n\"If it was made in glass then Chance Brothers made it,\" said Ray Drury, the firm's final chief engineer, on its 150th anniversary.\n\nWhen the company was founded in 1824, the world was changing rapidly. The booming shipping industry meant wrecks became a regular occurrence as more ships had to navigate treacherous coastlines, according to historian Malcolm Dick.\n\nIn response to this, Chance Brothers created optic lenses for lighthouses that were sent around the world, illuminating coasts and saving thousands of lives.\n\nBut since shutting its doors in 1981, the number of their lighthouses has dwindled and with it, the traditional skills needed to produce their hallmark glass.\n\nWorkers at the glass firm made prisms for the lighthouses\n\nThe Chance Brothers factory in Smethwick closed its doors in 1981\n\nMr Nguyen has no attachment to the original company, which employed 3,500 people at its height.\n\nBut his team, which adopted the name Chance Brothers Lighthouse Engineers, has dedicated itself to restoring and repairing lighthouses using traditional methods and original parts and has done so at more than 100 sites.\n\nTravelling the world, they gather broken parts and repair them and now have enough to be able to fix any lighthouse without replacing anything with modern technology.\n\nTim Nguyen says his team are the only people taking on the preservation work of lighthouses\n\nAlthough he repairs lighthouses around the world, including this one in the US, Mr Nguyen said the work made him feel closer to the West Midlands\n\nMr Nguyen said: \"We travel the world to assist in restoration and salvage parts.\n\n\"Basically, we're like a car-wrecker. That's how we work until one day when we team up with a glassblower who can make crown glass - then we can make anything.\"\n\nCrown glass is the original type of glass used in Chance Brothers' optics.\n\nBut new production methods mean that the colour and composition of modern glass would not match the original glass if it was added now.\n\nLighthouses made in the Midlands saved thousands from shipwrecks as the shipping industry boomed\n\nMr Nguyen has so far not been able to find anyone with the glassblowing skills in Australia to replicate the Chance Brothers' methods.\n\n\"We've looked everywhere and can't find anyone that can cast crown glass,\" he said.\n\n\"I believe some people in England can probably do it. If we have a chance of finding someone who can do it, it'll be there.\"\n\nThis lighthouse in south Wales also has an original foghorn made in Smethwick\n\nMr Nguyen said with a crown glassblower on the team, they would be able to recreate the Chance Brothers' original workshop and even return it to Smethwick.\n\n\"One day, when we have this operational workshop we would like to move it back to the Black Country,\" he said.\n\n\"We're trying to do this project on our own, which isn't easy - but I believe it will be done in my lifetime.\n\n\"The community over there, their jaws would drop if we brought it back.\"\n\nThere are about 2,300 lighthouses around the world with lenses that were made in the Black Country\n\nRegional heritage projects and plans to redevelop the factory site go some way to ensuring the past is not forgotten, but Mr Nguyen wants to go further.\n\n\"Archives preserve the documents, the restoration will preserve the buildings, but nobody is trying to preserve the techniques,\" he said.\n\n\"We are here to preserve and carry on the engineering side, because if we don't it'll be lost. After doing this work for 20 years, that knowledge is too valuable to be lost.\n\n\"Basically, we're the only ones doing this work.\"\n\nBut is Mr Nguyen vainly fighting the tide of modernisation?\n\nNash Point lighthouse switched to a more modern bulb in 1998\n\nLike many others, Nash Point lighthouse, near Marcross in south Wales, made the change to a new automated lens several years ago.\n\nAttendant Chris Williams said the new 150 watt lens has a \"much smaller bulb\" but is \"more reliable and stays brighter for longer\".\n\nThe original Chance Glass optic, which typically contained a 1,500 watt bulb, was left on display but out of use.\n\nThe original optics at Nash Point are no longer in use, but remain on display\n\n\"Generally speaking, traditional optics are being phased out because new technology is so much more efficient,\" according to David Taylor from the Association of Lighthouse Keepers.\n\n\"Restoring a glass optic is hugely expensive. Within 15-20 years there probably won't be any left.\"\n\nRegardless, Mr Nguyen persists, so keen is he to preserve this slice of history. But he's not the only one with an interest in keeping the tradition alive.\n\nThe small team based in Melbourne travel the world preserving lighthouse optics\n\nMark Davies founded Chance Glass Works Heritage Trust after stumbling across a Chance Brothers lighthouse, purely by happenstance, in Australia.\n\nThe group plans to regenerate the original factory site in Smethwick and build a 30m tall lighthouse to teach people about the area's industrial legacy, which Mr Davies says is \"our best-kept secret\".\n\n\"The story started at the top of a lighthouse in Australia. I saw the manufacturer's plate and it said 'Made in Smethwick' and it stunned me.\n\n\"I was born four miles away and I didn't know about it myself. Outside Sandwell, there aren't many people that know about Chance Brothers.\"\n\nThe Black Country's history of light, it seems, needs a spotlight itself.", "Labour says it is investigating allegations about the \"comments and behaviour\" of its MP Jared O'Mara.\n\nMr O'Mara has already apologised for homophobic and misogynistic remarks he made online in 2002 and 2004 and quit the Commons equalities committee.\n\nBut he denies subsequent allegations of offensive language to a constituent in March this year.\n\nLabour said it was investigating the more recent claims, which were made on BBC Two's Daily Politics.\n\n\"The party is investigating Jared O'Mara MP in relation to comments and behaviour which have been reported from earlier this year,\" it said.\n\nSophie Evans told the BBC's Daily Politics she had met Mr O'Mara on a dating app and there had been \"no hard feelings\" when things didn't work out between them.\n\nBut in an incident in March 2017 Mr O'Mara, who was DJing in a nightclub, made comments to her that \"aren't broadcastable\" and called her an \"ugly bitch\", she said.\n\nMr O'Mara, the MP for Sheffield Hallam, said this was \"categorically untrue\".\n\nRival parties have attempted to put pressure on the Labour leadership over Mr O'Mara, who unseated ex-Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg in June's general election.\n\nIn a letter to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Justine Greening, the Education Secretary and Equalities Minister, asked how Mr O'Mara had been selected as a candidate.\n\n\"Violent, sexist and homophobic language must have no place in our society, and parliamentarians of all parties have a duty to stamp out this sort of behaviour wherever we encounter it, and condemn it in the strongest possible terms,\" she wrote.\n\n\"It is time you step forward, as leader of the Labour Party, and send a message that this sort of behaviour will not be tolerated.\"\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable called for Mr O'Mara to have the whip removed and urged Labour to review its general election selection process.\n\nMr O'Mara's apology came after online posts from 2004 were published by the Guido Fawkes website. In them, he claimed singer Michelle McManus only won Pop Idol \"because she was fat\" and said it would be funny if jazz star Jamie Cullum was \"sodomised with his own piano\".\n\nMore comments, involving homophobic language, then emerged dating back to 2002.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sophie Evans on Jared O'Mara comments: \"I just thought wow, he is not a very nice man\"\n\nMr O'Mara apologised to Labour MPs for these remarks at a meeting at Westminster on Monday evening.\n\nHis speech, which was described by sources as \"emotional\" and \"heartfelt,\" was met with applause by Labour MPs.\n\nHe then told online magazine Huck he had been \"through a journey of education\".\n\nHe added: \"I've stood down from the Women and Equalities select committee too - I think it's the right thing to do. I don't think I can continue on that committee when I feel so deeply ashamed of the man I was 15 years ago.\"\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said: \"He has apologised for what we knew yesterday. He issued a profuse apology.\n\n\"Any language like that we know is unacceptable and I'm hoping he will apologise for that.\"", "The Claim: Kensington and Chelsea Council says it will spend more on the rehousing and recovery operation for the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire than the government has promised to spend on housing in one quarter (three months) in the whole of the UK.\n\nReality Check Verdict: The £235m that the council has set aside so far for Grenfell is less than the additional £250m allocated for affordable housing in England and Wales a quarter, so on these figures the council is wrong. The council predicts it will ultimately end up spending more on Grenfell but hasn't provided the figures. However the government is due to spend a total of £455m a quarter on affordable housing up to 2021.\n\nThe Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea says it has set aside £235m so far on what it calls the Grenfell \"recovery\" operation.\n\nThere's no doubt that all of this is going to cost a fortune - not least because the borough is one of the most expensive areas of the UK. But even taking into account the sky-high prices of west London land, the council's claim doesn't stack up.\n\nSo why did it get it wrong? It's not hard to understand why the council got into a muddle.\n\nIt all comes down to one of the biggest problems faced by anyone trying to get their head around government spending: knowing for sure when the cash is going to be spent.\n\nThe council told BBC Reality Check that it was comparing its spending with the government's Affordable Homes Programme.\n\nThis is the key scheme overseen by the Department for Communities and Local Government to funds new homes in the social sector.\n\nThe AHP was set up in 2010 and it runs until 2021. Up until the end of the summer, the Treasury had approved £7bn for the second five-year phase which we are now in. That works out at £350m a quarter. But that's not the figure to which the council is referring.\n\nGrenfell Tower is situated amongst some of the most expensive housing in London.\n\nInstead, it is referencing a new part of the affordable homes spending: an additional £2bn that the prime minister announced at October's Conservative Party Conference.\n\nIf that £2bn was spread over the five years to 2021, it would work out as £100m per quarter. That's lower than Kensington and Chelsea's Grenfell spending - so the council looks like it's right.\n\nBut in fact, that new money is an additional investment for only the final two years of the Affordable Homes Programme.\n\nThat works out at £250m per quarter. And that's more than the council has set aside so far for the Grenfell recovery bill. The council predicts it will ultimately end up spending more on Grenfell but hasn't provided the figures.\n\nBBC Reality Check likes to challenge itself by discovering new and complicated ways to push figures further.\n\nWe lumped all £9bn of the government's current affordable homes spending together, without worrying too much about which particular year it applied to. When you spread that total over the five years of the programme, the projected quarterly average was £455m - still more than the council has set aside so far.\n\nThis article was amended on 24 October to reflect new information from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.", "A Peace Festival was held in Mosul weeks after IS was ousted\n\nFor almost three years, while her home city of Mosul was under occupation by so-called Islamic State (IS), Tahani Salih kept a daily diary documenting their crimes.\n\nTahani, now 27, filled almost 500 pages with her experiences and those of her family and friends, as well as her hopes and dreams for the time when IS would be defeated.\n\n\"Just before our neighbourhood was liberated, IS began to harass people and force their way into their homes to carry out searches. One day I took out those hand-written pages and started to reread them, and I was shocked,\" she said.\n\n\"I realised that the content could put my life and my family at risk, as well as people I had mentioned in my diary. So I had no choice but to destroy those papers.\n\n\"I sat down, and started to burn one page at a time. Later, I blamed myself for not hiding my diary or burying it in our garden.\"\n\nAlthough the diary is gone, Tahani remembers every word of the plans she made. Now IS has been defeated, Tahani is throwing herself into putting them in place.\n\nThe young woman - who has been trained and supported by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) - is one of a new group of Mosulite activists who are determined to not only rebuild the city but also help rehabilitate fellow residents traumatised by the events of the last three years.\n\n\"There are about 40 of us - we're ambitious, educated, respectable young people who love their city and fellow human beings, and want to have a decent future,\" she said.\n\nTahani's own priority is to ensure that young women like herself can get involved.\n\n\"We live in a culture in which women think it's improper to speak up, or to work outside the home or lead a campaign, which is not true. I know girls who are very strong and motivated, but are scared of harassment or are being forced to stay at home by their families.\n\n\"People need to know that being a girl is not shameful,\" she continued, arguing that a culture of fear and repression was \"the very condition that helped IS come in\".\n\nTahani Salih (R) with Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai in Irbil in July\n\nSo when Tahani got involved with an ambitious scheme to restore Mosul university's library, which was destroyed by IS during the occupation, she delighted in encouraging other young women to defy gender stereotypes.\n\nHerself one of the first to enter the bombed-out library, she remembers seeing \"a boy approaching a girl carrying five or six heavy books.\n\n\"He said: 'No, you don't have to carry that much. It's too heavy for you, just carry what you can.' She said: 'Of course I can carry the books, I've come to do just that. Please do your work and carry books, and I'll carry mine.'\"\n\nTahani also put together a football tournament for the library project's volunteers, initially forming one for men and one for women, before deciding this looked too much like gender segregation. To her colleagues' astonishment, she mixed the teams together - an unprecedented move that proved successful.\n\n\"The next day, they brought the ball, and said: 'Let's play again.' So we did.\"\n\nTahani said that it was not just Mosul's physical fabric that needed rebuilding; it was crucial to harness young people's enthusiasm for freedom in the first few months of liberation.\n\nArt and other expressions of culture were banned under IS for three years\n\n\"So we started with cultural events - books, music, festivals, colours, painting, photography.\n\n\"We wanted to draw media attention to Mosul so that a young person could see his or her image on a global platform and admire themselves and realise their value.\"\n\nTahani organised the first concert in the city after IS' defeat, with live music played in front of the university campus.\n\nThe University of Mosul was heavily damaged in the fight against IS\n\n\"One of the girls took me by the hand and told me: 'Tahani, this is the first time I feel really alive,'\" she recalled.\n\nAnd together with some friends, Tahani set up a Facebook page called Women of Mosul, a place where they could air views and share ideas for projects.\n\nThe work by young Mosulites like Tahani seems to be gaining some traction. Last month, a day-long peace festival set up by other activists drew a crowd of 25,000 people to the city's main stadium.\n\nBut Tahani said there was much more to be done, arguing that true success would come when women felt totally free to walk on the street without wearing hijab, or when a bar selling alcohol could function freely in the centre of the city.\n\nTahani said people in Mosul \"need to know that being a girl is not shameful\"\n\n\"Only then will I be reassured that the city has begun to truly accept everyone, and accept the world.\"\n\nThat seems a long way away, given the conservative attitudes still dominant in the city.\n\nMany fear that former IS supporters remain in the city, trying to blend into the civilian population.\n\nTahani acknowledges that she has received threats over her activism, but refuses to be intimidated.\n\n\"If I get scared, then I'll have to return to just sitting at home, which I won't accept. There's no way I will go back to that and forget all my hopes and dreams, no matter the price.\"\n\nThe Institute for War and Peace Reporting is a non-profit organisation which supports local reporters, citizen journalists and civil society activists in three dozen countries in conflict, crisis and transition around the world.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "France used to have an official list of approved names for babies\n\nIs it acceptable to name your baby \"Jihad\" in France, which has suffered Europe's worst Islamist terror attacks in recent years?\n\nFrance's chief prosecutor now has to wrestle with that question after a couple's chosen name for their son was referred by authorities in Toulouse.\n\nIn turn, the French judge for family issues may have to rule on the case.\n\n\"Jihad\" in Arabic means \"effort\" or \"struggle\", not specifically \"holy war\".\n\nFrench law does not restrict parents' name choices for their children, provided a name does not harm the child's interests and is not opposed by other family members on reputational grounds.\n\nThe Toulouse boy called \"Jihad\" was born in August. Previously, other boys have been allowed to keep that name in France.\n\nThe term \"jihadists\" is commonly used to describe Islamist militants, such as those who carry out terror attacks in the name of so-called Islamic State (IS).\n\nSince the start of 2015, Islamist militants have killed more than 230 people in France, where a state of emergency remains in force.\n\nIn 2013 a mother in the French city of Nimes was given a one-month suspended jail term and a €2,000 (£1,783; $2,353) fine after sending her three-year-old boy called Jihad to school in a T-shirt bearing the words \"I am a bomb\" and \"Jihad, born on 11 September\".\n\nThe sentence was for the \"provocative\" T-shirt, which referenced the 9/11 terror attacks in the US, but not for the name \"Jihad\".\n\nIn 2015 a French court prevented a couple from naming their baby girl Nutella after the hazelnut spread, ruling that it would make her a laughing stock. The judge ordered that the child be called Ella instead.\n• None iWonder - could I name my child Adolf?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Morgan described the flight as \"magical\"\n\nA British adventurer has flown 25km (15.5 miles) across South Africa suspended from 100 helium balloons.\n\nTom Morgan, from Bristol, reached heights of 8,000ft (2,438m) while strapped to a camping chair, in scenes reminiscent of the Pixar smash Up.\n\nThe 38-year-old spent two days inflating balloons ahead of the flight, which he described as \"magical\".\n\nThe challenge moved to South Africa on Friday after several failed attempts in Botswana.\n\n\"The problem was finding a good weather window and it was difficult to protect the balloons as they kept bursting,\" Mr Morgan said.\n\nWith just enough helium left for one more attempt, the adventurer and his team moved their base to just north of Johannesburg.\n\nMr Morgan took two days to blow up the balloons\n\nDescribing the experience as \"unbelievably cool\", Mr Morgan also admitted feeling \"somewhere between terrified and elated\" as he rose in the air.\n\nAs the balloons drifted towards the inversion layer of the atmosphere - where the temperature rises - he said the flight started to accelerate very quickly.\n\n\"I had to keep my cool and start gradually cutting the balloons.\"\n\nThe flight had originally been due to take place in Botswana\n\nMr Morgan, who has lived in Bristol for 15 years and runs an adventure company, wants to eventually set up a competitive helium balloon race in Africa.\n\n\"We will have to avoid areas with lots of spiky bushes though,\" Mr Morgan said.\n\nMr Morgan's feat is reminiscent of the film Up, in which helium balloons are used to lift a house", "Netflix's Stranger Things has been one of the company's big hits\n\nNetflix is raising another $1.6bn (£1.2bn) from investors to finance new shows and possibly make acquisitions.\n\nThe video streaming service plans to spend up to $8bn on content next year to compete with fast-growing rivals.\n\nNetflix will issue bonds to investors, although the interest rate it will pay has yet to be decided, the company said in a statement.\n\nNetflix plans to release 80 films next year, but some analysts are wary about its cash burn and debt interest costs.\n\nThe company's latest debt fundraising is its largest so far, and the fourth time in three years it has raised more than $1bn by issuing bonds.\n\nEarlier this month, Netflix said it would raise prices in countries including the UK and US for the first time in two years.\n\nThe price rises come as Netflix faces growing competition from Amazon and other sites such as Hulu and Disney in the US.\n\nNetflix has spent heavily on original programming such as The Crown, Stranger Things and House of Cards.\n\nOne movie, Mudbound, was described by Variety as \"an epic about race and poverty in the 1940s Mississippi Delta\", and stars Mary J. Blige and Carey Mulligan.\n\nSome critics say it is a contender for the Academy Awards and would be the first Netflix feature to be in the Oscars race.\n\nNetflix's share price has risen more than 50% this year on the back of subscriber growth that has beat expectations. The company now has more than 109 million subscribers globally, adding 15.5 million so far this year.\n\nThe move to take on more corporate debt comes amid expectations that borrowing costs may increase in coming months. The US Federal Reserve is weighing another rate hike by the end of 2017.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is going to swap the despatch box for Gogglebox when he appears in a celebrity special.\n\nMr Corbyn will feature in the hit Channel 4 TV programme next week to help raise money for Stand up to Cancer.\n\nHe is expected to share a sofa with a mystery celebrity to chew over a selection of TV programmes.\n\nIt is not yet known which shows will be dissected by the Labour leader, who is not expected to be filmed at home.\n\nHowever, he has previously expressed a fondness for EastEnders - and also revealed he watched Casualty on the eve of this year's Labour Party conference in Brighton.\n\nThe show is being filmed this weekend.\n\nA Labour source added: \"He's really looking forward to it - it's a great programme for a great cause.\"", "Chris Heaton-Harris is facing calls to explain why he wanted the information\n\nA Eurosceptic Tory MP has been accused of compiling a \"hit list\" of university professors who teach Brexit courses.\n\nDowning Street has distanced itself from government whip Chris Heaton-Harris, who wrote to universities asking for the names of professors.\n\nLecturers reacted with fury to the letter, calling it a \"sinister\" attempt to censor them and accusing him of conducting a \"McCarthyite\" witch hunt.\n\nMr Heaton-Harris said he believed in \"open\" debate on Brexit.\n\nThe government whip tweeted: \"To be absolutely clear, I believe in free speech in our universities and in having an open and vigorous debate on Brexit.\"\n\nMr Heaton-Harris is a member of the pro-Brexit European Research Group of Conservative MPs.\n\nLabour accused the MP of seeking to draw up \"what looks like a register of Brexit heretics\" and branded the government response to it a \"shambles\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats said the letter was \"chilling\" and that Mr Heaton-Harris should stand down from the government, adding that ministers should reassure universities that they were not expected to comply with his demands.\n\nThe letter has been sent to universities across the UK\n\nDowning Street said Mr Heaton-Harris had written to universities in his capacity as an MP and not as a representative of government.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said Theresa May respected the freedom and independence of universities and the role they played in providing open and stimulating debate.\n\nCommons leader Andrea Leadsom insisted Mr Heaton-Harris had not sent a \"threatening letter\" to universities, although she could not say why he had sought the information.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's The World at One: \"It does seem to me to be a bit odd that universities should react in such a negative way to a fairly courteous request.\"\n\nSally Hunt, chairwoman of lecturers' union the University and College Union, said: \"Our society will suffer if politicians seek to police what universities can and cannot teach.\n\n\"This attempt by Chris Heaton-Harris to compile a hit list of professors has the acrid whiff of McCarthyism about it and (universities minister) Jo Johnson must disown it in the strongest terms.\"\n\nUniversity lecturers took to twitter to mock Mr Heaton-Harris and the government over the letter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nProfessor David Green, vice-chancellor at the University of Worcester, said: \"When I read this extraordinary letter on Parliamentary paper from a serving MP, I felt a chill down my spine. Was this the beginnings of a very British McCarthyism?\"\n\nHe said he feared he would be denounced in Parliament by Mr Heaton-Harris as an \"enemy of the people\" if he did not supply the list - something he said he had no intention of doing.\n\nHe added: \"I realised that his letter just asking for information appears so innocent but is really so, so dangerous.\n\n\"Here is the first step to the thought police, the political censor and Newspeak, naturally justified as 'the will of the British people'.\"\n\nThe Guardian revealed that Mr Heaton-Harris wrote to university vice-chancellors at the start of this month asking for the names of professors \"involved in the teaching of European affairs, with particular reference to Brexit\".\n\nThe MP's letter also asks for a \"copy of the syllabus\" and online links to lectures on Brexit.\n\nLord Patten, the chancellor of Oxford University, and former chairman of the BBC Trust, described Mr Heaton-Harris's letter as an \"extraordinary example of outrageous and foolish behaviour - offensive and idiotic Leninism\".\n\nLord Patten is sworn in as Oxford University chancellor\n\nThe peer, a longstanding supporter of Britain's membership of the EU, told BBC Radio 4's The World At One: \"I couldn't believe that it had come from a Conservative MP.\n\n\"I think he must be an agent of Mr Corbyn intent on further increasing the number of young people who want to vote Labour.\"\n\nHe said he was sure most university vice-chancellors would drop the letter \"in the waste-paper basket\" and he accused Mr Heaton-Harris of an affront to free speech and of treating UK universities like \"Chinese re-education camps\".\n\nMcCarthyism refers to US Senator Joseph McCarthy who led attempts to purge alleged Communists in public life the 1950s.", "The Times reports that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is furious about the alleged leak from a dinner in Brussels, which claimed Theresa May begged for help with Brexit.\n\nMrs Merkel is said to be concerned that further hostility from Brussels could lead the talks to collapse, which could in turn bring about the fall of Mrs May's government.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph believes the leak amounted to a character assassination. The Sun comments that every time Theresa May extends the hand of friendship to Brussels, they pull her close, only to stab her in the back.\n\nThe Daily Mirror says that whatever the truth over who said what, the prime minister isn't an inspiring leader in the most important negotiations to engulf the country for nearly half a century.\n\nIn other news, the Times claims that Catalan separatists are threatening mass civil disobedience if Madrid carries out its threat to depose their leaders.\n\nThe paper says civil servants, fire-fighters, teachers and students are preparing to resist direct rule. It also highlights a warning from a senior Spanish cabinet minister, who says Catalan police would be used to quell protests.\n\nThe Guardian warns that the Catalan crisis is getting more volatile and dangerous. The paper calls for an honest broker to help the two sides back from the brink.\n\nBuzzfeed News, meanwhile, says women are coming forward in increasing numbers to report sexual assaults on the London Underground.\n\nIt says data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act shows that transport police recorded more than 1,700 reported assaults in the past two-and-a-half years. That's more than in the previous four years put together. Police still estimate that 90% of incidents go unreported.\n\nNew pension freedoms are funding some retired workers alcohol and gambling addictions, according to the Financial Times\n\nThe Financial Times reports that some retired workers have used new \"pension freedoms\" to fund alcohol and gambling binges, and are then falling back on benefits.\n\nRather than manage their pension pots wisely, the paper says some have frittered away substantial amounts.\n\nA written submission to a Commons committee revealed that one man released £120,000 from his pension pot and spent every penny on drink, betting and a car.\n\nThe Daily Express uses its front page to launch a campaign for cuts in foreign aid, saying the money should go to help the health service and old people in the UK.\n\nThe paper says Whitehall sources believe International Development Secretary Priti Patel has worked hard to eliminate some of the more spurious schemes funded by taxpayers, but says critics believe the government should go further.\n\nHumans are hardwired to fear spiders, according to the Times\n\nFinally, scientists have found proof that humans are hardwired from birth to find spiders scary, according to the Times.\n\nThe researchers found that six-month-old babies who were shown pictures of spiders showed signs of stress by dilating their pupils. In contrast, other studies have suggested that fear of animals like rhinos and bears has to be learned, and babies don't associate images of them with fear.", "Xi Jinping is set to start a historic third term as China's president\n\nXi Jinping is set to embark on a historic third term at the 20th Communist Party congress later this month.\n\nIt paves the way for the party to reappoint him as president at the National People's Congress next year. China's leaders voted in 2018 to remove the two-term presidential limit that has been in place since the 1990s.\n\nUnder Mr Xi's rule since 2012, China has become more authoritarian at home, cracking down on dissent, critics and even influential billionaires and businesses. Some have described him as \"the most authoritarian leader since Chairman Mao\".\n\nUnder his rule, China has established \"re-education\" camps in Xinjiang that have been accused of human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other minority ethnic groups. It has tightened its grip on Hong Kong and vowed to \"reunite\" with Taiwan, by force if necessary.\n\nIn a clear sign of his influence, the Communist Party voted in 2017 to write his philosophy - called \"Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for the New Era\" - into its constitution. Only party founder Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, the leader who introduced economic reforms in the 1980s, have made it into the all-important fundamental law of the land.\n\nBorn in Beijing in 1953, Xi Jinping is the son of revolutionary veteran Xi Zhongxun, one of the Communist Party's founding fathers and a former vice-premier.\n\nBecause of his illustrious roots, Mr Xi is considered a \"princeling\" - a child of elite senior officials who has risen up the ranks.\n\nBut his family's fortunes took a dramatic turn when his father was imprisoned in 1962. A deeply suspicious Mao, fearing a rebellion in party ranks, ordered a purge of potential rivals. Then in 1966 came the so-called Cultural Revolution when millions were branded as enemies of Chinese culture, sparking violent attacks across the country.\n\nMr Xi's family suffered too. His half-sister - his father's first daughter through an earlier marriage - was persecuted to death, according to official accounts, though a historian familiar with the party elite said she had probably taken her own life under duress, according to a New York Times report.\n\nA young Xi was pulled out of a school attended by children of the political elite. Eventually, at 15, he left Beijing and was sent to the countryside for \"re-education\" and hard labour in the remote and poor north-eastern village of Liangjiahe for seven years.\n\nBut far from turning against the Communist Party, Mr Xi embraced it. He tried to join several times, but was rebuffed because of his father's standing.\n\nHe was finally accepted in 1974, starting out in Hebei province, then occupying ever more senior roles as he slowly made his way to the top.\n\nIn 1989, at the age of 35, he was party chief in the city of Ningde in southern Fujian province when protests demanding greater political freedom began in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.\n\nThe province was far from the capital but Mr Xi, along with other party officials, reportedly scrambled to contain local offshoots of the massive demonstrations under way in Beijing.\n\nThe protests - an echo of a rift within Communist Party ranks - and the bloody crackdown that ended them have effectively now been scrubbed from the country's history books and public record. China even lost the bid to host the 2000 Olympics because of the abuses in Tiananmen Square. Estimates of the number killed range from hundreds to many thousands.\n\nAlmost two decades later, however, Mr Xi was put in charge of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. China was keen to show it had moved on and was a worthy host - and it appeared to be working, with the Games symbolising China's rise as a growing power.\n\nAs for Mr Xi, his increasing profile in the party propelled him to its top decision-making body, the Politburo Standing Committee, and in 2012 he was picked as China's president.\n\nMr Xi's wife, Peng Liyuan (right), is a famous folk singer in China\n\nMr Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, a famous singer, have been heavily featured in state media as China's First Couple.\n\nThis is a contrast from previous presidential couples, where the first lady has traditionally kept a lower profile.\n\nThe couple have a daughter, Xi Mingze, but not much is known about her apart from the fact that she studied at Harvard University.\n\nOther family members and their overseas business dealings have been a subject of scrutiny in the international press.\n\nMr Xi has vigorously pursued what he has called a \"great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation\" with his China Dream vision.\n\nUnder him, the world's second largest economy has enacted reform to combat slowing growth, such as cutting down bloated state-owned industries and reducing pollution, as well as the multi-billion dollar One Belt One Road infrastructure project aimed at expanding China's global trade links.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What China's One Belt, One Road really means\n\nThe country has become more assertive on the global stage, from its growing forcefulness in the South China Sea, to its exercise of soft power by pumping billions of dollars into Asian and African investments.\n\nSome of this economic growth however, which in past decades has increased meteorically - has now slowed substantially, worsened by the Chinese leader's uncompromising \"zero-Covid\" strategy that has locked out the rest of the world since the pandemic.\n\nThe country's once-booming property market is in a deep slump and the outlook for the global economy has weakened sharply in recent months.\n\nA bitter and damaging trade war with the US shows no sign of ending.\n\nSince reaching top office, Mr Xi has overseen a wide-reaching corruption crackdown extending to the highest echelons of the party. Critics have portrayed it as a political purge.\n\nUnder his rule, China has also seen increasing clampdowns on freedoms.\n\nIn Xinjiang province, human rights groups believe the government has detained more than a million Muslim Uyghurs over the past few years in what the state defines as \"re-education\" camps. China denies accusations from the US and other that it is committing genocide there.\n\nBeijing's grip over Hong Kong, too, has grown under Mr Xi.\n\nThousands turned out in Hong Kong to take part in protests against a planned extradition law\n\nMr Xi put an end to pro-democracy protests in 2020 by signing the National Security Law, a sweeping edict that gives Beijing powers to reshape life in the former British colony, criminalising what it calls secession, subversion and collusion with foreign forces, with the maximum sentence of life in prison.\n\nThe law has led to mass arrests of prominent pro-democracy activists and politicians, as well as the closure of prominent news outlets including Apple Daily and Stand News.\n\nUnder Mr Xi's leadership, China has also intensified its focus on the self-ruled island of Taiwan, vowing \"reunification\" and threatening to use military force to prevent any move towards formal independence there.\n\nGiven China's power and influence, the world will be watching Mr Xi as he embarks on his third term as president. With no heir apparent, the 69-year-old is arguably the most powerful leader China has had since the death of Mao Zedong in the 1970s.\n• None BBC World Service - BBC Minute, BBC Minute- On who is Xi Jinping-", "George Michael is on course to top the UK album chart this Friday, 10 months after his death.\n\nListen Without Prejudice Vol 1 spent a week at number one when it was originally released in 1990.\n\nIt has now been reissued with a bonus disc including the singer's 1996 MTV Unplugged session.\n\nIt leads this week's album chart race, outselling Niall Horan's solo debut by almost 25,000 copies after three days, the Official Charts Company said.\n\nThe Listen Without Prejudice re-release coincides with the airing of a documentary about the ex-Wham! singer's career, which he had been working on before his death on Christmas Day last year.\n\nGeorge Michael: Freedom was shown on Channel 4 last week and focused on the period leading up to and following the original release of Listen Without Prejudice Vol 1.\n\nThe album, which includes hits like Freedom '90 and Praying For Time, is currently ahead of Niall Horan's debut album Flicker.\n\nThe One Direction singer announced his album release with a note about how \"proud\" he was of the record.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Niall Horan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 24-year-old told fans on Twitter he was \"really nervous\", particularly because he had written some of the songs as long as 18 months ago.\n\nLast week's number one, Beautiful Trauma by Pink, is currently ranked third.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Terry Richardson has also directed music videos for stars including Beyonce and Miley Cyrus\n\nFashion photographer Terry Richardson will no longer work with top magazines including Vogue and Glamour after being dropped by Conde Nast International.\n\nStaff at the media group were told the move takes place with immediate effect.\n\nRichardson has previously faced accusations about the treatment of models but always denied any exploitation or misconduct.\n\nConde Nast International confirmed the content of the email, first reported by The Daily Telegraph.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, a representative for Richardson said the photographer was known for his \"sexually explicit work\", adding that \"the subjects of his work participated consensually\".\n\n\"Terry is disappointed to hear about this email especially because he has previously addressed these old stories,\" it adds.\n\nRichardson, seen here with Kelly Osbourne, is often photographed with stars\n\nThe group's executive vice-president James Woolhouse sent the message instructing staff to drop Richardson on Monday.\n\nHe told \"country presidents\" of magazine titles that any photography shoots by Richardson that had already taken place, but not been published, should be replaced with other images.\n\nHe wrote: \"I am writing to you on an important matter. Conde Nast would like to no longer work with the photographer Terry Richardson.\n\n\"Any shoots that have been commission(ed) or any shoots that have been completed but not yet published, should be killed and substituted with other material.\n\n\"Please could you confirm that this policy will be actioned in your market effective immediately. Thank you for your support in this matter.\"\n\nRichardson is known for his sexually explicit photo shoots of stars including Kylie Jenner, who had a calendar shot by him.\n\nHe has also directed videos like Miley Cyrus's Wrecking Ball and Beyonce's XO.\n\nIn 2014, the 52-year-old wrote an article for The Huffington Post in response to the \"internet gossip and false accusations\" against him.\n\nHe wrote that sexual imagery formed a part of his photography, adding: \"I have never used an offer of work or a threat of rebuke to coerce someone into something that they did not want to do.\"\n\nRichardson also referred to a 2004 gallery show which \"depicted sexual situations\", saying he had \"collaborated with consenting adult women who were fully aware of the nature of the work\".\n\nNo new claims have been made about Richardson but previous allegations have resurfaced in a recent article in the Sunday Times.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The prosecution claims Emile Cilliers wanted to kill his wife and start a new life with his lover\n\nAn Army fitness instructor accused of attempting to murder his wife caused a gas leak at their home by loosening a nut on a valve, a court heard.\n\nEmile Cilliers, 37, is accused of trying to kill Victoria Cilliers, 40, by sabotaging her parachute.\n\nHe also faces a second attempted murder charge and a third charge of tampering with a gas fitting at their home in Amesbury, Wiltshire, on 30 March 2015.\n\nMr Cilliers has denied the charges at his trial at Winchester Crown Court.\n\nVictoria Cilliers suffered multiple injuries in a 4,000ft fall at Netheravon Airfield, Wiltshire, in April 2015.\n\nProsecutors allege Mr Cilliers, a sergeant with the Aldershot-based Royal Army Physical Training Corps, twisted the lines of her main parachute and sabotaged a reserve chute the day before she jumped.\n\nPolice evidence showed the kitchen cupboard where the gas leak occurred (large arrow)\n\nHe is also accused of damaging a gas valve at their home a few days earlier.\n\nThe court heard Mrs Cilliers reported smelling gas after her husband had spent the previous night at his barracks because he said he wanted to avoid Monday morning traffic.\n\nJurors were told an engineer called to check the leak found a loose nut on a gas isolation valve in a cupboard next to the oven. Dried blood was also found on the pipe, which the court has heard matched that of Mr Cilliers.\n\nThey were shown a set of pliers which prosecutors claim were used to loosen the nut. Emile Cillers said he used the pliers to tighten it but had been unable to do so because it was too tight.\n\nThe jury was shown the pliers found in Mr Cilliers' home, allegedly used to tamper with the gas valve\n\nForensic scientist Mark Kearsley said the markings from the pliers had been used in a \"loosening and not tightening motion\".\n\nHe said: \"The nut must have been in a tightened position to lead to the impression we had, if the nut was loose it would just have turned with the tool.\"\n\nGas engineer Michael Osborne said he was called to the Cilliers' home on 30 March to make the gas leak safe.\n\nHe said it was not unusual to find such a leak and explained that as well as a tool, the nut could have become loosened or \"relaxed\" by repeated changes in temperature or by being knocked by food tins being placed in the cupboard.\n\nMr Cilliers denies all three charges and the trial continues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Storm Ophelia and then Storm Brian broke the super pipe during the bad weather\n\nA two-mile \"superpipe\" being installed to improve Blackpool's bathing waters has been broken by Storm Brian.\n\nUnited Utilities confirmed that a 250-metre section of the pipe had been \"bent at a 90-degree angle\" after gale-force winds hit the UK coast on Monday.\n\nThe water company said a new section has been ordered from a factory in Norway.\n\nThe 20,000-tonne pipe is part of the firm's £200m plan to improve water quality in the Lancashire resort.\n\nThe pipe was first damaged by ex-Hurricane Ophelia last week that hit Ireland and the west coast.\n\nA United Utilities spokesman said the pipe \"almost snapped\" as a result of the storm damage.\n\n\"We wanted to send out boats to repair the damage but we were advised it was not safe enough.\"\n\nAdding: \"It's been bent at a 90-degree angle and will need replacing.\n\n\"We have ordered a new section but the Norway factory is the only place in the world that makes a pipe this big.\"\n\nThe massive outfall pipe arrived at Anchorsholme near Blackpool on 9 August after being towed in six sections from Norway to Lough Foyle in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt was then assembled into one long pipe ready to be installed in a huge trench under the sea.\n\nIt will be used during periods of heavy rain to pump storm water away from the sewer network.\n\nStorm Brian nearly snapped the last portion of the pipe miles out at sea\n\nThe aim is to prevent flooding and ensure the water mixes far out into the sea helping to protect bathing waters.\n\nWork on the pipe is expected to finish in 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A screengrab from the 90s hit Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)\n\nA Canadian man is contesting a C$149 ($118; £90) ticket for \"screaming in a public place\" after being caught singing in his car.\n\nThe tune that got him grooving - and in trouble - was C+C Music Factory's 90s smash hit Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now).\n\nTaoufik Moalla, 38, was driving near his suburban Montreal home on 27 September when police pulled him over.\n\nPolice asked him for identification and whether he had been screaming.\n\n\"I said, 'No, I was singing,'\" Mr Moalla told the Montreal Gazette. \"I was singing the refrain 'Everybody Dance Now,' but it wasn't loud enough to disturb anyone.\"\n\nThe Montreal man had been on his way to the grocery store to buy a bottle of water when the 90s dance track started playing in his CD player.\n\nPolice checked the inside of his car along with his licence and registration. They handed back his documents along with the fine.\n\nMr Moalla told CTV News that he was shocked by the ticket. He did not think his singing merited a fine.\n\n\"I understand if they are doing their job, they are allowed to check if everything's okay, if I kidnapped someone or if there's danger inside, but I would never expect they would give me a ticket for that,\" he told CTV.\n\nMontreal police said they do not comment on individual tickets handed out to the public.", "When Stacey wrote about her experience of not wanting to sleep with anyone, even her husband, dozens of readers sent emails saying that they too were asexual. Many described feeling isolated in a sexualised society. Here is a selection of their stories - and a response from an asexual activist about the importance of joining a community.\n\nI am in my sixties and have had two failed marriages, but I have never initiated or enjoyed sex with another person. As a teenager it was easy to refuse sex, it was expected of a \"good\" girl, but family pressure meant that I was married at 21 and suddenly had no more excuses. I loved my husband and wanted to please him, but I felt no sexual desire and hated the experience of a physical relationship. I never initiated sex with him, and was almost glad when he eventually had affairs because the pressure was no longer on me to satisfy his needs. I felt overwhelming guilt for being so cold and took all the blame for my first marriage ending. I couldn't understand how I could love someone so much but dislike being touched by them... I married an older man 10 years ago who had led me to believe that he also was past sexual desire. Unfortunately this wasn't the case and he took my reluctance to have sex with him very badly. He forced me to perform sexual acts and I ended up hating him for it. We are going through an acrimonious divorce. In hindsight I should never have married again. Gill, London\n\nI am a 35-year-old man, and have only just realised I am asexual. I have always been attracted to people, form romantic feelings very quickly and have always dated. I would fancy someone, enjoy the kissing and physical contact, but when it came to sex, my body would just switch off. I thought it could have been performance issues and I kept trying - it caused huge embarrassment and destroyed my confidence for years. I am desperate for a relationship and had completely resigned myself to being alone and childless forever. But recently I have seen a lot of articles about asexuality, and I can't begin to describe the relief that I am now able to label what it is about me that is different. I can even begin to dream about finding someone who could understand. Matt\n\nI only discovered that I am asexual a few months ago when a therapist suggested it to me. Until then I had no idea what to call myself. I became sexually active when I was 17 and in college, I had a steady boyfriend and was in love with him, but I never felt sexually attracted to him. At first I thought it was due to lack of experience, but as time went on nothing changed. After we broke up I began questioning my sexuality a lot more, considering if I was a lesbian, and if that led me to feel this way. I noticed my body could become aroused, but it's like my mind isn't connected to it any more, it doesn't feel anything. Sex isn't painful for me, it doesn't repulse me, I just don't get pleasure from it. I discovered the Asexual ACES group and page on Facebook and am pleased to have found people who feel the same - or similar - ways as me. But I do worry that I'll never have a romantic partner. I am open to the idea of sex to please the other person, but the fact that I do not enjoy it seems to be a huge barrier for people. I feel very much like I will be alone for my whole life. Devi, Kent\n\nBeing asexual I feel irrelevant to a culture which is all about coupling: how much of daily life (fashion, recreation, entertainment) is about attracting or pleasing a partner? I'm not averse to having a partner, but feel excluded from the possibility, because who would invest time and effort into a relationship that isn't going to get them any sex? In a way, passing through the world as a sort of invisible extra is a privilege - you get more of an objective view of human relations when out of the throng yourself - but too much reflection and you start to see how you're surplus to requirements. Maybe someday I'll accept that, but I haven't got there yet. Sarah, Cambridge\n\nIt's possible to feel all alone, to feel like, \"I'm too weird to get a partner,\" or \"I'm not normal.\" But asexuality is just a sexual orientation, it's part of the normal spectrum of human sexuality, there's nothing pathological about it - and that goes a long way to helping people understand themselves as asexual.\n\nPeople who think they identify as asexual who are feeling isolated or lonely should join an asexual community - whether online or offline (see examples at the bottom of the page). Having a label really helps and finding a community definitely helps.\n\nThe internet has really given asexuality its impetus as a movement. Of course, there were always asexual people around but it was very hard for them to find each other - it's not something that easily comes up in conversation and there was no obvious way for people to come together.\n\nAsexuality still isn't really an option that's talked about. People think if you're not straight you're probably gay or you might be bi. So even though there has been more awareness of asexuality in recent years it is still a relatively young movement, and there is still a long way to go.\n\nI've known that I wasn't like everybody else since I was 13. I tried to pretend and even went out with a few mates just to see I was just being a bit slow on the uptake. It wasn't until I was 15 that I came across the term asexual and knew then that was what I am. I would never tell my parents or family. They wouldn't understand. There is a huge generation gap of knowledge between us and none of them would have heard about it or understand it. These issues are not a new thing, they have been around for a very long time but many older people are saying that it's a new fad. They are just hearing about it for the first time because of the wonders of the internet. But the fact that you can now find a community of people online who feel like you, and who can help you come to terms with the fact that you are not a broken person, is so important. Tabitha, Bristol\n\nI am a 52-year-old guy who has been repulsed by sex for as long as I can remember. In my younger days I was always sexually active, but I never got any satisfaction from it. Other than seeing my partner receiving pleasure, I pretty much hated it. I have been in a few strong, loving relationships through my life, and even happily married once, but they all failed as a result of one thing, my total disinterest in sex. While I was still in love, and very happy to be cuddled up in bed or on the sofa, I always found the thought of sex repulsive and this eventually ended the relationships. I've now been single for 11 years and, although I don't particularly enjoy being so, it is far easier than trying to find one of the other 1-3% of people who are the same as me. I just hope that more young people become aware of and open about their asexuality so they can find a similar person and enjoy a normal, loving, non-sexual relationship. Jon, Runcorn\n\nAt 28 years old, even having known about asexuality for about five years and knowing that is what I am, I am still struggling to come to terms with it. This is partly due to the overwhelmingly negative and dismissive attitude that people have demonstrated when I have tried to tell them that I am Ace. They always tell me, \"Oh, you just haven't met the right person yet,\" or \"You're a prude then.\" This has damaged my self-image, and undermined my confidence in being asexual in a modern world which revolves almost exclusively around sex. Living as part of a generation who has been constantly bombarded with sex from the media has left me feeling extremely isolated and backwards. I honestly live in fear of dying alone because I am unable to have sex. I am happy with what I am, but the world around me is not, and as such I am increasingly becoming a social hermit, because it easier than living with the disdain of an over sexualised world. Lucy, Cornwall\n\nI'm a 42-year-old man, and it's only recently I've realised what asexuality is and how well I slot into the concept. I used to keep diaries as a teenager, full of the usual angst, but it was interesting that all my feelings and thoughts towards (exclusively) girls were almost entirely romantic, bordering on platonic, rather than the horny, sex-laden fantasies that teenage boys are stereotypically supposed to have. I never really enjoyed my first sexual encounters, though they were interesting as a kind of fact-finding mission. Pretty much every encounter since, regardless of my relationship with the person in question, has been unsatisfying to the point of unfulfilling. I tend to only get even slightly aroused in positions where I'm completely passive, where I'm not in control. I've tried most positions, largely to experiment, and most of them don't work for me, I don't enjoy them and consequently nor does the person I'm with at the time. I do have a long-term partner at the moment. I call her my partner because it doesn't really feel right describing her as a \"lover\" or \"girlfriend\" as we're not, by normal standards. Although we regularly share a bed we don't even kiss never mind do more intimate stuff. I don't think she's ever quite got to grips with my lack of sexuality and tends to assume I'm gay. Ian, Nottinghamshire\n\nThe Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN) hosts the world's largest online asexual community as well as a large archive of resources on asexuality\n\nMy Umbrella is a volunteer-led support group for the lesser known LGBT+ identities\n\nFor more information on sex and relationships visit BBC Advice\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.\n• None Why don't I want to have sex with the man I love?", "The Guardian leads on Wednesday with a scathing indictment of the Brexit vote by the former mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg.\n\nHe has launched a new headquarters for his eponymous financial media firm in London and described the decision as the \"single stupidest thing any country has ever done\" - one only \"Trumped\" by the US election result.\n\nHe adds that he may not have invested in his \"two big, expensive buildings\" had he known the British people would choose to \"drop out\" of the EU.\n\nHuffpost UK, meanwhile, carries a warning from the Food and Drink Federation that a Brexit-induced labour shortage is affecting crisp production.\n\nThe trade body's chief executive, Ian Wright, tells the website that fewer EU migrants are travelling to the UK for work, and calls on the government to do more to reassure them that they're welcome.\n\nThe Washington Post reveals that Hillary Clinton's supporters and the Democratic National Committee helped fund research that resulted in a dossier that made allegations about Russian links to Trump's election campaign.\n\nIt says a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC retained the Washington firm, Fusion GPS, to conduct the research, which, in turn, hired the report's author, a former British intelligence officer. None of the parties involved has commented on the story.\n\nSeveral papers feature a study which has concluded that blood thinners could cut the risk of developing dementia by almost half.\n\nIt's the lead in the Daily Express, which hails the finding as a \"breakthrough\" that \"has given fresh hope that a disease-modifying therapy is now in sight\".\n\nSeparately, the Times reports that brain changes linked to Alzheimer's disease have been found in dolphins, the first time the condition has been discovered in a wild animal. Researchers say the findings could have profound implications for the study of dementia in humans.\n\nThere's a heart-warming tale in the Daily Mirror of a surrogate mother who is having a second baby for a gay couple, and has refused to take any payment.\n\nBecky Harris, who gave the men a daughter six years ago, tells the paper she is waiving the expenses she could legally claim because \"they're such great dads\". She says they joke that this is their buy-one-get-one-free baby.\n\nFinally, revealing letters from the author Harper Lee, which are due to be auctioned, are uncovered by the Guardian.\n\nIn one communication, written on the day of Barack Obama's inauguration, she discloses that President Lyndon B Johnson hoped there would one day be a black, female leader of the free world. She recalls how he was asked by the actor Gregory Peck if they would see a black president in their lifetime.\n\n\"No,\" came the reply, \"but I wish her well.\"", "The two notes sold for $1.56m and $240,000 - way higher than their estimates\n\nA note written by Albert Einstein containing advice on happy living has sold at an auction house in Jerusalem for $1.56m (£1.19m).\n\nEinstein gave the note to a courier in Tokyo in 1922 instead of a tip.\n\nHe had just heard that he had won the coveted Nobel prize for physics and told the messenger that, if he was lucky, the notes would become valuable.\n\nEinstein suggested in the note that achieving a long-dreamt goal did not necessarily guarantee happiness.\n\nThe German-born physicist had won the Nobel and was in Japan on a lecture tour.\n\nWhen the courier came to his room to make a delivery, he did not have any money to reward him.\n\nEinstein (seen here in 1950) wrote the hotel notes shortly after winning the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics\n\nInstead, he handed the messenger a signed note - using stationery of the Imperial Hotel Tokyo - with one sentence, written in German: \"A calm and humble life will bring more happiness than the pursuit of success and the constant restlessness that comes with it.\"\n\nA second note written at the same time simply reads: \"Where there's a will, there's a way.\" It sold for $240,000, Winner's auction house said.\n\nThe winning bids for both notes were far higher than the pre-auction estimated price, the auctioneers said.\n\nIt said the buyer of one of the notes was a European who wished to remain anonymous.\n\nThe seller is reported to be the nephew of the messenger.\n\nWe cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them\n\nThe true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination\n\nWe still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us\n\nWhen you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emily Warburton-Adams (r) tells of being harassed and Zoe Strimpel on #MeToo\n\nHalf of British women and a fifth of men have been sexually harassed at work or a place of study, a BBC survey says.\n\nOf the women who said they had been harassed, 63% said they didn't report it to anyone, and 79% of the male victims kept it to themselves.\n\nThe ComRes poll for BBC Radio 5 live spoke to more than 2,000 people.\n\nThe survey was commissioned after sexual assault claims against Harvey Weinstein resulted in widespread sharing of sexual harassment stories.\n\nWomen and men who have been sexually harassed have been revealing their experiences on social media using the hashtag \"me too\" to show the magnitude of the problem worldwide.\n\nThat followed allegations, including rape and sexual assault, against Mr Weinstein from more than two dozen women - among them actresses Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Rose McGowan.\n\nThe Hollywood producer insists sexual relations he had were consensual.\n\nThe Radio 5 live survey, of 2,031 British adults, found that 37% of all those asked - 53% of women and 20% of men - said they had experienced sexual harassment, ranging from inappropriate comments to actual sexual assaults, at work or a place of study.\n\nMore than a quarter of people surveyed had suffered harassment in the form of inappropriate jokes or \"banter\" and nearly one in seven had suffered inappropriate touching.\n\nOf those who had been harassed, 5 live's survey suggests one in 10 women had been sexually assaulted.\n\nMore women than men were targeted by a boss or senior manager - 30% compared with 12% - and one in 10 women who had experienced harassment said it led to them leaving their job or place of study.\n\nSarah was assaulted by a teacher and a professor during her education\n\nSarah Killcoyne, from Cambridge, told BBC News she was sexually assaulted when she was still in education by two different men - a school teacher when she was a teenager and later by a college professor.\n\nShe said: \"I would very much like to see the people around the predators - we know there's only a few of them - to stop enabling them.\"\n\nOne man, who did not want to be identified, said he had been harassed by his female boss.\n\nHe said: “She made constant comments about my appearance and how I dressed - comments asking about my hairy chest and what I liked in a woman.\n\n\"[It was] all laughed off by other mainly female office staff, but it left me feeling dirty and uncomfortable.\n\n\"I ended up with depression and confidence issues and had time off with anxiety as a result.”\n\nSince the allegations about Mr Weinstein surfaced, many high profile names have used social media to highlight the problem of sexual assault, some also detailing the harassment they have endured.\n\nJess Phillips and Mary Creagh were among the MPs to reveal their accounts as they wanted to encourage victims of abuse to speak out.\n\nLabour's Ms Phillips told the London Evening Standard how she had been left \"paralysed by fear\" when she woke up at a party to find her boss undoing her belt and trying to get into her trousers.\n\nFellow Labour MP Ms Creagh said she was just seven when she was sexually assaulted by about 12 boys during a school playground game of kiss-chase.\n\nThe results of the BBC survey follow research published last year by the TUC which also suggested more than half of women say they have been sexually harassed at work - and most had not reported it.\n\nPeople often fail to report sexual harassment for a range of reasons, Manuela Barreto , the University of Exeter's professor of social and organisational psychology, told the BBC.\n\nThey might feel the harassment took place in a \"subtle\" way, or was couched in humour.\n\nWhen one case is exposed in the media, however, those effects change. \"It facilitates understanding, and therefore detection, of what qualifies as sexual harassment,\" she says.\n\n\"It gives the message that it's a serious matter and that there are many out there who support the perception that this is a problem.\"\n\nActivist Tarana Burke is the founder of the original Me Too campaign - launched 10 years ago in the United States to provide \"empowerment through empathy\" to survivors of sexual abuse, assault, exploitation, and harassment in underprivileged communities.\n\nShe told 5 Live she feels there is now momentum behind a genuine change in the way sexual harassment is handled.\n\n\"From what I'm seeing and hearing, and from the groundswell of support for this, it doesn't feel like it's stopping,\" she said.\n\n\"My ultimate goal is to make sure this is not just a moment, that this is a movement, and we will continue to raise our voices, we will continue to disrupt, we will continue to tell our stories until we are heard and until we move the needle.\"", "Labour MP Jared O'Mara has quit the Commons equality committee over online homophobic comments he made before being elected to parliament.\n\nMr O'Mara also made misogynistic remarks, joked about having an orgy with members of Girls Aloud and posted degrading comments about fat people.\n\nThe Sheffield Hallam MP, 36, was elected in June, unseating ex-deputy prime minister Nick Clegg.\n\nMr O'Mara resigned from the Women and Equalities Committee after apologising.\n\nIn posts made on the Drowned in Sound music website in 2004, Mr O'Mara claimed singer Michelle McManus only won Pop Idol \"because she was fat\" and said it would be funny if jazz star Jamie Cullum was \"sodomised with his own piano\".\n\nThe posts were first reported by the Guido Fawkes website, which has since revealed that two years earlier Mr O'Mara made homophobic remarks on an internet forum.\n\nThe MP has also apologised for these comments and said he was \"deeply ashamed\" of his actions.\n\nThe Labour leadership described Mr O'Mara's online remarks as \"horrendous\" and \"vile\" but sources said he would not be suspended from the parliamentary party, BBC political correspondent Chris Mason reported.\n\nMr Mason said he understood Mr O'Mara addressed his colleagues at a meeting of Labour MPs and made \"a full and very personal apology\" for his remarks.\n\nThe @LGBTLabour group tweeted that it was \"deeply concerned\" by the MP's comments.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 LGBT Labour This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLib Dem peer Lord Scriven, former leader of Sheffield Council, said: \"It seems like a nasty pattern of sexist language and misogyny is developing from the Labour MP for Sheffield Hallam.\n\n\"He clearly isn't fit to sit on the Women and Equalities Committee. He must stand down from that committee immediately and if he doesn't, Jeremy Corbyn must take action to remove him.\"\n\nStella Creasy, Labour MP for Walthamstow, added she had asked for a meeting with Mr O'Mara to discuss his comments.\n\nHowever Wes Streeting, Labour MP for Ilford North, who was at the meeting earlier, said: \"He offered what seemed to be a heartfelt and genuine apology and admitted that these are views he once held, which took guts.\n\n\"The battle for equality is a battle for hearts and minds and that must surely mean that people are allowed to change their views and therefore must also be offered a second chance.\n\n\"I hope I don't end up eating my words and that he demonstrates his commitment to equality as a new MP. I think we owe him that chance.\"\n\nGirls Aloud were the subject of one of Mr O'Mara's online comments\n\nIn a statement, Mr O'Mara said he had been \"wrong to make\" the comments.\n\n\"I understand why they are offensive and deeply apologise for my use of such unacceptable language.\"\n\n\"I made the comments as a young man, at a particularly difficult time in my life, but that is no excuse.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jared O'Mara Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBefore his resignation from the committee, LGBT Labour said: \"Whilst we recognise that these comments were made some time ago, that doesn't excuse such ignorance and bigotry.\n\n\"We expect a full and public apology from Mr O'Mara and ask that he meets with members of the LGBT Labour committee in order to understand the inequality many LGBT people face.\"\n• None The only MP who wears a T-shirt in Parliament", "Two other ransomware outbreaks have made headlines this year - WannaCry and Petya\n\nA new strain of ransomware nicknamed \"Bad Rabbit\" has been found spreading in Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere.\n\nThe malware has affected systems at three Russian websites, an airport in Ukraine and an underground railway in the capital city, Kiev.\n\nThe cyber-police chief in Ukraine confirmed to the Reuters news agency that Bad Rabbit was the ransomware in question.\n\nIt bears similarities to the WannaCry and Petya outbreaks earlier this year.\n\nHowever, it is not yet known how far this new malware will be able to spread.\n\n\"In some of the companies, the work has been completely paralysed - servers and workstations are encrypted,\" head of Russian cyber-security firm Group-IB, Ilya Sachkov, told the TASS news agency.\n\nTwo of the affected sites are Interfax and Fontanka.ru.\n\nMeanwhile, US officials said they had \"received multiple reports of Bad Rabbit ransomware infections in many countries around the world\".\n\nThe US computer emergency readiness team said it \"discourages individuals and organisations from paying the ransom, as this does not guarantee that access will be restored\".\n\nInitial news reports mentioned Russian media websites, such as St Petersburg-based Fontanka.ru, as well as an airport in Ukraine's Odessa and a subway system in Kiev.\n\nPrivately-owned Russian news agency Interfax was hit particularly hard, to the extent that 24 hours later its website still displayed a message reading \"our service is temporary unavailable\".\n\nOn the morning of 25 October, it transpired that Russian banks had also been targeted but, luckily, were not compromised.\n\nThe Russian Central Bank said in a statement that it had recorded a BadRabbit attack on Russian financial institutions, but that none of them had been compromised, as reported by RNS news agency on 25 October.\n\nOtkrytiye, formerly Russia's biggest privately-owned bank, was one of the Russian financial institutions that repelled the attack, according to RNS.\n\nProminent Russian IT security firm Group-IB reported that BadRabbit had targeted several of the top 20 Russian banks but failed to penetrate their networks.\n\n\"According to our data, most of the victims targeted by these attacks are located in Russia,\" said Vyacheslav Zakorzhevsky at Kaspersky Lab.\n\n\"We have also seen similar but fewer attacks in Ukraine, Turkey and Germany.\"\n\nBad Rabbit encrypts the contents of a computer and asks for a payment - in this case 0.05 bitcoins, or about $280 (£213).\n\nCyber-security firms, including Russia-based Kaspersky, have said they are monitoring the attack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe malware is still undetected by the majority of anti-virus programs, according to analysis by virus checking site Virus Total.\n\nOne security firm, Eset, has said that the malware was distributed via a bogus Adobe Flash update.\n\nResearcher Kevin Beaumont has posted a screenshot that shows Bad Rabbit creating tasks in Windows named after the dragons Drogon and Rhaegal in TV series Game of Thrones.\n\nThe outbreak bears similarities to the WannaCry and Petya ransomware outbreaks that spread around the world causing widespread disruption earlier this year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why has Gina Miller been named as the country’s most influential black person?\n\nBusinesswoman Gina Miller has been named as Britain's most influential black person.\n\nThe 52-year-old led the successful Brexit legal challenge which ruled parliament had to vote on whether Theresa May could trigger Article 50.\n\nMs Miller topped the 2018 Powerlist of 100 people, which recognises those of African and African Caribbean heritage.\n\nBritish Vogue editor Edward Enninful and grime artist Stormzy have also been included in this year's list.\n\nThose named were decided by an independent panel - including former High Court judge Dame Linda Dobbs and former Apprentice winner Tim Campbell. They rated nominees on their \"ability to change lives and alter events\".\n\nPrevious number ones in the Powerlist include former children's laureate Malorie Blackman, philanthropist Mo Ibrahim, architect David Adjaye and Baronesses Scotland and Amos.\n\nNearly half of the list for 2018 were women - headed by Ms Miller, the founder of wealth management company SCM.\n\nShe came to prominence in the past year when she argued that starting talks to leave the EU without a parliamentary vote was \"undemocratic\" because it involved a change in law.\n\nBoxer Anthony Joshua, film director Amma Asante, TV presenter Ade Adepitan, and lawyer Grace Ononiwu (pictured clockwise from top left) are recognised in the list\n\nIn January, the Supreme Court upheld her challenge ruling Prime Minister Theresa May could not start the process of leaving the EU until MPs and peers gave their backing.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU in March 2019.\n\nAfter the ruling, Ms Miller said she had received death threats and \"offensive, racist and hateful\" abuse.\n\nOn receiving her title, she said: \"It's amazing to get an accolade when what I've done has solicited a huge amount of abuse.\n\n\"To have somebody acknowledge me is extraordinarily kind and counters a lot of what I still get on a daily basis.\"\n\nPowerlist 2018 publisher Michael Eboda said he was \"proud\" about the number of women on this year's list.\n\nHe added: \"Gina was a shoo-in this year for number one, Brexit is the most important political event to happen this century.\n\n\"Gina's role in ensuring a sovereignty of parliament was recognised by the courts has been monumental and has set a precedent that will last hundreds of years.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rent-to-own retailer BrightHouse has been told to pay £14.8m to 249,000 customers by the financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).\n\nBrightHouse will compensate customers who had cancelled agreements after one downpayment but had not been refunded.\n\nIt will also make payments to those who signed up to lending agreements that \"may not have been affordable\".\n\nThe FCA said BrightHouse had not acted as a \"responsible lender\".\n\nThe firm, which lets customers pay for household items such as washing machines and televisions on a weekly basis, has been criticised for its business model.\n\nIn 2016 a BBC investigation conducted by Ed Miliband, the former Labour leader, highlighted the example of a £358 washing machine that ended up costing more than £1,000.\n\nBrightHouse has apologised to customers about failing to refund them.\n\nThere is no need for customers affected to contact BrightHouse. It will write to 213,000 current and former customers by the end of the year, explaining what they are due.\n\nSasha Rhodes of Sheffield bought a king-size bed from BrightHouse on a two-year contract.\n\n\"I don't think they ran enough checks to ensure I was able to make the payments - all they were interested in was my money,\" she says.\n\n\"I did not realise how high interest payments were. I stopped payments after 16 months. I think I paid them around £800 in total for what must have been a £400 bed.\"\n\nCustomers whose deposits BrightHouse failed to refund signed up between April 2010 and April 2017. These customers will receive an average payment of £27.\n\nThe second group includes those who took out an agreement between April 2014 and September 2016. They will get an average of £147.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the case of customers who were not assessed properly at the start of the loan who may have had difficulty making payments, BrightHouse will pay back interest and fees along with compensatory interest of 8% - if they return the goods.\n\nThose who kept the goods will have their balances written off.\n\nFCA chief executive Andrew Bailey told Radio 5 Live the move set a \"very important precedent... BrightHouse did not behave as responsible lenders and they failed to meet our expectations\".\n\nLois Grant, from York, worked for BrightHouse from 2012 to 2016 as a branch manager in Yorkshire and London but left because of \"unacceptable\" high-pressure sales techniques.\n\n\"In the early days, we did not ask people about their expenditure at all. We just checked what their income was. They changed that policy because the FCA came to investigate, asking for more stringent checks.\n\n\"I can't remember ever giving any money back to any customer. This is despite one of their policies that said if you cancel within 14 days you would get a refund. I know from several experiences that rarely happened, if ever.\"\n\nCitizens Advice said it had helped more than 13,000 people with rent-to-own issues over the past 12 months, many of whom were struggling to make payments on essential goods such as fridges and washing machines.\n\n\"We're pleased to see that the FCA are taking action against BrightHouse whose loose lending practices have pushed the very people who can least afford it further into financial difficulty,\" said its chief executive, Gillian Guy.\n\nCharities and MPs said some people have struggled to keep up with BrightHouse repayments\n\nThe charity said it had found one in five rent-to-own customers spent 20% or more of their income on payments, and more than half had to take on other debts to cover the costs.\n\nIt is asking that the same conditions apply to all forms of high-cost credit as the payday loans cap - meaning that no one would pay more than what they borrowed in interest and charges.\n\nSeparate criticism came from the Financial Inclusion Centre, a think tank that compiled a report into the company last year.\n\nGareth Evans, a co-director of the think tank, said BrightHouse had made profits at a personal cost for some customers, with some having to prioritise repayments over food or heating.\n\nBrightHouse chief executive Hamish Paton sincerely apologised to those affected: \"We're absolutely determined that this doesn't happen again and have made significant improvements over the last 18 months.\"\n\nThe firm said it had overhauled its application process to ensure future loans were affordable and that customers were treated fairly during the collections process.\n\nBrightHouse was founded in 1994 as Crazy George and rebranded as BrightHouse in 2002. It is owned by private equity firm Vision Capital and has about 280 stores.\n• None Debtors to be given 'breathing space'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actress and writer Brit Marling has described an encounter with Harvey Weinstein in which she claims the movie mogul suggested they shower together.\n\nThe co-creator of paranormal Netflix drama The OA is the latest to accuse the producer of sexual harassment.\n\nWeinstein has \"unequivocally denied\" any allegations of non-consensual sex.\n\nMany details of the 2014 incident she recounts, in an essay for The Atlantic, are similar to those alleged by other women.\n\nShe tweeted that she wanted the article, about gender politics and the issue of consent, to \"give myself and others solace, strength and context\".\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\nMarling, who also starred in and produced The OA, a television series first aired last year, wrote in the piece that she agreed to meet Weinstein and went to the hotel \"thinking that perhaps my entire life was about to change for the better\".\n\nShe said she, like others have claimed, was asked to meet him in a bar before a female assistant said the meeting had been moved to his suite.\n\nMarling said her guard went up but she was reassured by the presence of another woman - then feeling \"terror in the pit of my stomach\" when she was left alone with him.\n\n\"I, too, was asked if I wanted a massage, champagne, strawberries,\" she wrote. \"I, too, sat in that chair paralyzed by mounting fear when he suggested we shower together. What could I do? How not to offend this man, this gatekeeper, who could anoint or destroy me?\n\n\"It was clear that there was only one direction he wanted this encounter to go in, and that was sex or some version of an erotic exchange. I was able to gather myself together - a bundle of firing nerves, hands trembling, voice lost in my throat - and leave the room.\n\n\"I later sat in my hotel room alone and wept. I wept because I had gone up the elevator when I knew better. I wept because I had let him touch my shoulders. I wept because at other times in my life, under other circumstances, I had not been able to leave.\"\n\nAllegations against Weinstein are subject to criminal investigations in three cities\n\nShe praised all of the \"courageous\" women who have come forward to speak out against Weinstein in recent weeks.\n\nMarling said she believes it was the writer in her who left the room, adding: \"The writer knew that even if this very powerful man never gave her a job in any of his films, even if he blacklisted her from other films, she could make her own work on her own terms and thus keep a roof over her head.\"\n\nOn the issue of consent, she said Weinstein could give actresses a career and fame, \"which is one of few ways for women to gain some semblance of power and voice inside a patriarchal world\".\n\nShe added: \"Weinstein could also ensure that these women would never work again if they humiliated him. That's not just artistic or emotional exile—that's also economic exile.\"\n\nMarling, who has co-written, co-produced and starred in films Another Earth and Sound of My Voice, wrote: \"Consent is a function of power. You have to have a modicum of power to give it.\"\n\nAllegations against 65-year-old Weinstein are subject to criminal investigations in London, Los Angeles and New York. He is also under civil rights investigation in New York state.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Comedian and actor Eddie Izzard has said he will try for a second time to become a member of the Labour Party's national executive committee.\n\nThe LGBT rights campaigner, who failed to get an NEC seat in 2016, announced his candidacy in the Guardian.\n\nHe said he wanted to stand for the executive to \"break down barriers\" and make the party more welcoming to groups who feel \"isolated or excluded\".\n\nThe NEC governs Labour and helps steer its political direction.\n\nIt consists of the Labour leader, deputy leader, frontbenchers, trade union representatives, constituency party representatives, councillors and members of the Parliamentary Labour Party.\n\nIzzard's open letter of intent comes after it was announced there would be three new seats on the committee.\n\nHe said: \"I've tried to give a voice to those who don't have one and to be an activist for the political party I believe has the best and strongest values, which will mean we can end poverty and move forward positively as a society and a country.\n\n\"Now I want to stand for Labour's national executive committee so that I can break down barriers.\"\n\nEddie Izzard has campaigned for Labour in the last four general elections\n\nHe added that he wanted to help represent the LGBT community, people from disabled and minority backgrounds, and those who have suffered from mental health issues.\n\nThe comedian is a prominent supporter of Labour, and has campaigned in 100 constituency seats for the party in the last four general elections.\n\nIn Izzard's article in the Guardian, he says he wants \"to help Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party take the fight to the Tories\", but adds that he is not standing for a particular section of the party.\n\nIt is expected that at least two of the three available seats will go to supporters of Mr Corbyn.\n\nBefore party elections in 2016, the Labour leader's relationship with the NEC was fractious, but then six members of Corbyn-supporting groups gained seats.\n\nIn 2016, Izzard came eighth in the ballot, gaining 71,000 votes. He said he was disappointed but was \"in this for the long haul\".\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. Jenny Sealey says she will not be able to work full time when her grant is capped\n\nDisabled people are \"losing out\" on jobs because of a government support scheme that is \"no longer fit for purpose\", campaigners say.\n\nAccess to Work - which gives workplace support to disabled people - is beset by errors, with many having support cut, charity Inclusion London said.\n\nOne deaf, leading artistic director said having her funds capped would mean she could no longer work full time.\n\nThe government said it was \"committed to supporting disabled people\" in work.\n\nAccess to Work is a government programme aimed at helping disabled people and those with physical and mental health conditions that make it difficult to work.\n\nBy providing grants - such as to help people with learning disabilities understand written information, or transport for those with physical impairments to attend meetings - it aims to enable people to find or stay in employment.\n\nAccording to government figures, £103.9m was spent on the scheme in 2016-17, helping about 25,000 people across England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nJenny Sealey, chief executive at Graeae Theatre and co-artistic director of the London Paralympics opening ceremony, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme she had relied on the support - which enabled her to pay for sign language interpreters - to get to the top of her field.\n\n\"Because I've had Access to Work I've become professional, I've learnt my trade, I've learnt how to cope in big meetings,\" she said.\n\n\"It gave me the confidence to say, 'I want to be co-artistic director at the Paralympics opening ceremony'.\"\n\nA 2004 government review suggested for every £1 of money spent on Access to Work, £1.48 was generated for the Treasury.\n\nBut since 2015, new claimants have had the money they can receive each year capped at 1.5 times the average salary - around £41,000.\n\nFrom April 2018, this will affect existing claimants too.\n\nThe report estimates 90% of those affected by the cap will be deaf people.\n\nMs Sealey said having her support capped will mean no longer being able to work full time.\n\n\"[At] the thought of having to cut my hours, I can feel me - Jenny - shrinking, becoming this small person, feeling quite terrified of what my future is.\n\n\"I can't believe this is going to happen, it makes me feel quite sick.\"\n\nThe government says by capping the amount a claimant can receive, the scheme can reach as many people as possible.\n\nDisability rights campaigner Ellen Clifford said deaf people were being particularly affected\n\nEllen Clifford, the author of a new report into the scheme for Inclusion London, said the scheme had enabled disabled people to \"not only get jobs, but to have a choice of jobs - to go into the same range of professions as non-disabled people\".\n\nOne sign language interpreter said it had allowed deaf and disabled people to \"smash the glass ceiling\".\n\nBut Ms Clifford said in recent years that they needed to reduce the amount of support they were getting.\n\n\"There was a noticeable increase in hostile attitudes from advisers - accusations that people were a burden on the taxpayer.\"\n\nMs Clifford said there was also a \"disproportionate impact on deaf customers\", with call centres \"ill-equipped to deal with non-hearing customers\".\n\nShe added that the level of administrative errors being made was \"making the scheme unworkable for people\".\n\nOne deaf woman who spoke to the programme, Geraldine O'Halloran, said her budget had been cut twice in 2017 because of administrative errors.\n\nA spokeswoman from the Department for Work and Pensions said it was \"committed to supporting disabled people to get into employment or keep their jobs.\n\n\"Last year 25,000 people had their request approved by Access to Work, an increase of 8% from 2015-16.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.", "Tribal tattoo master Whang-Od was in Manila to showcase her craft\n\nExcitement and fervour at a colourful tattoo show in the Philippines turned into outrage after a celebrated tribal artist's appearance was criticised for being \"blatantly exploitive\". But is it all so simple?\n\nLegendary tattoo master Whang-Od was transported from her tribal village of Buscalan to the capital for the Manila FAME trade show, with the help of the Philippine Army and Air Force.\n\nThe centenarian, believed to be the country's oldest traditional tattoo artist, performed her ancient craft of hand-tapped Filipino tattoos at the weekend event.\n\nWhang-Od hails from a remote mountain tribe in the hills of northern Kalinga province.\n\nHer artistry has seen her credited with \"single-handedly keeping an ancient tradition alive\". Using just a few simple tools (thorns from a pomelo tree, bamboo sticks and coal), she has spent the past eight decades inking not only headhunting warriors and women of her tribe but a new wave of \"tattoo tourists\" like Carlo Mangoba, 34.\n\n\"My tattoo (of a serpent eagle) is a sign of honour and the mark of someone willing to make the difficult trip up north to meet the great master Whang-Od,\" he shared with BBC News.\n\n\"After all, she is already widely regarded as a great Filipina artist and icon.\"\n\nTo many Filipinos, the elderly Whang-Od symbolises a dying ancient tradition\n\nWith a focus on \"celebrating the rich cultural heritage of the Philippines\", organising director Clayton Tugonon said that the institution wanted to support her uniquely traditional art.\n\n\"She symbolises the pure talent of Filipinos,\" he said in a statement to the BBC, adding that her invitation was \"sought through proper channels\", which included village elders and indigenous committees.\n\nBearing in mind her health and age, a \"dedicated medical team\" certified that she was fit to travel. Ambulances were also placed on standby throughout the two-day event, Mr Tugonon added.\n\nBut was flying this tattoo legend out to Manila more beneficial to her art or the organisers?\n\nThe issues at play are difficult. While organisers have insisted that all money will go to her tribe, many netizens felt having the famed tribal tattoo master work at the trade show was \"a blatant act of exploitation\".\n\nIn a photo that swiftly went viral on Facebook, Whang-Od was photographed sleeping at a panel conference at the event.\n\nIt drew tens of thousands of angry reactions from Filipinos on the site, who speculated that she was being ill treated and \"exploited\" for her craft.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Francesca Litton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"Whang Od is 100, a national treasure. And you made her go to Manila to tattoo 200 people for profit? This is sick and inhumane,\" said one netizen.\n\nMedical care organised by the show was on hand should she need it, but many are also accusing the event of degrading a complex art.\n\n\"I've always wanted to get a tattoo from Whang Od but there was a part of me that said no. I hope Filipinos understand that this act distorts certain cultural norms and traditions,\" student RJ Barrete‏ said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by ALCADEV Inc This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 2 by ALCADEV Inc\n\nTo tattoo artist Richard Tat, traditional tattoos like the ones perfected by Whang-Od take \"a huge amount of time\" and could prove tiring during a trade show.\n\n\"Traditional tattoos are done with different tools and they take impressive skills to learn and master. It sounds like she was exploited, from inking a few people to 200 to 300 in one day.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 paulyn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 photojournalist Miguel Guzman was at the event to capture the excitement around the celebrated centenarian and he says it was not her lack of energy that was a concern.\n\n\"It was her first time in Manila. There were a lot of people who were excited to see her and to get tattoos from her and she was definitely happy. But I wouldn't say she was exploited. Organisers did take good care of her to ensure she was in good health,\" Mr Guzman explained.\n\n\"I saw her myself and I wouldn't say she was tired. The problem I felt going on was the lack of translation and communication. A lot of people around her were speaking in English and Tagalog and where she's from, she can't understand that, she would only know her local dialect,\" he added.\n\nMany might argue that such shows are one way of ensuring the tradition gets the attention it deserves to ensure its survival as a core part of the Philippine national heritage.\n\nMany who saw her in Manila were charmed by her presence and her legendary tattoo skills\n\nBut for purists the value of the craft remains its exclusivity, a celebration of why it is just so hard to get. Carlos Mangoba had this to say:\n\n\"I feel sad for those in Manila who got tattooed by her during the event instead of making pilgrimage to see Apo Whang-od in her home village like I did. They clearly missed out on a full experience from such a master.\n\n\"After all, she is already widely regarded as a great artist and icon even before this trade show. In this sense, I think the Manila tattoo show needed her more than she needed them.\"", "Facebook is experimenting with making its main news feed focus on posts from its users' friends and families\n\nIt used to be a tweak in the Google search algorithm that sent a shudder through newsrooms trying to adapt to the online era. Now it is any change in the design of Facebook.\n\nSo, an experiment under way in a few countries, where the social media giant appears to be making it harder for users to see news stories, has caused something akin to panic.\n\nThe new feature Facebook is trying out is called Explore. It offers all sorts of stories it thinks might interest you, a separate news feed encouraging you to look further afield than just at what your friends are sharing.\n\nMeanwhile, for most people, the standard News Feed remains the usual mixture of baby photos and posts from companies or media organisations whose pages you have liked.\n\nSounds fine, doesn't it? Except that in six countries - Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Slovakia, Serbia, Guatemala, and Cambodia - the experiment went further.\n\nFor users there, the main News Feed was cleared of everything but the usual stuff from your friends and sponsored posts - in other words, if you wanted to have your material seen in the place most users spend their time you had to pay for the privilege.\n\nIn a Medium post entitled \"Biggest drop in organic reach we've ever seen\", a Slovakian journalist Filip Struharik documented the impact. Publishers in his country were seeing just a quarter of the interactions they used to get before the change, he said. What had become a vital and vibrant platform for them was emptying out fast.\n\nOther journalists around the world have looked into the future and hate what they see. Their organisations have become addicted to Facebook as the one true way of reaching audiences and going cold turkey would be very painful.\n\nFacebook is of course a business - and a hugely successful one - that makes its money from advertising. So, why would it not want publishers to pay to reach its gigantic audience?\n\nIn six countries, publishers and businesses have had their posts restricted to the Explore Feed unless they pay a fee\n\nBut Peter Kafka, a journalist from Recode, tweeted an even more depressing thought: \"Conspiracy angle: fb wants more $ from publishers! More accurate, and dispiriting angle (for publishers): fb doesn't care about publishers.\"\n\nFacebook responded as it often does by saying calm down, dears, it was just a bit of fun.\n\nAs the wave of panic rolled around the news media world, the social network's head of newsfeed Adam Mosseri put up a post with the title Clarifying Recent Tests.\n\nIt explained that the experiment is aimed at understanding whether people prefer to have separate places for personal and public content.\n\n\"We currently have no plans to roll this test out further,\" he added.\n\nThis has not helped much - that word \"currently\" seems to stick out ominously.\n\nBut at least Facebook has done publishers big and small a service. They knew the risks involved in innovations such as Instant Articles - where their works live on the social network - or Facebook Live - where a broadcaster's brand might be less visible to many users.\n\nNow they know that Facebook is at least thinking about a future where news plays a smaller role in the social media experience.\n\nGiven Facebook's role in last year's US elections, some may think that's a good thing. But for thousands of struggling media organisations that thought they had found a route forward, it is a chilling prospect.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jac Holmes told the BBC why he went to fight IS, in an interview recorded weeks before he was killed\n\nA British man who has been fighting so-called Islamic State in Syria has been killed while clearing landmines in Raqqa, the BBC understands.\n\nJac Holmes had been fighting with Kurdish militia the YPG since 2015.\n\nKurdish representatives in the UK said they had been told by YPG officials the former IT worker from Bournemouth was killed while he was clearing an area to make it safe for civilians.\n\nHis mother, Angie Blannin, said the 24-year-old was a \"hero in my eyes\".\n\nShe told the BBC: \"He loved what he was doing there, he loved being a soldier. He had the courage of his convictions.\n\n\"He was just a boy when he left the UK, a little bit lost. He told me he didn't know what he wanted to do with his life. But by going out there, he found something that he was good at and that he loved.\"\n\nMs Blannin, from Dover, Kent, said she had not seen Jac for over a year, but that they regularly kept in touch online and had been making plans for him coming home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking in 2015, Jac Holmes' mother, Angie Blannin, said her son was a \"grown man who makes his own decisions\"\n\n\"He stuck by his convictions because he wanted to be there and he wanted to see the end of Raqqa and to see the end of the caliphate. That was a moment in history, and he wanted to be part of it.\"\n\n\"We thought with any luck he'd be home for Christmas. It had been so tough since he had been away but I was always 100% behind him.\"\n\n\"After all this, he had said he might go into politics, or perhaps into close protection security. He'd seen so much for a boy of his age.\"\n\nOzkan Ozdil, who also fought with Mr Holmes in Syria, told the BBC his friend had become well-known and respected among Kurdish fighting units.\n\nHe said: \"Everybody knew Jac. By his third tour out there his Kurdish was fluent. We had a bit of a laugh that he was my Kurdish translator.\n\n\"He spoke so fondly about Rojava [the name given to the Kurdish region of north east Syria]. He was the reason that made me want to go.\"\n\nDuring the battle for the IS stronghold of Raqqa, Mr Holmes became part of a four-man sniper unit\n\nMr Holmes also was known by his Kurdish nom de guerre Sores Amanos - \"sores\" meaning \"revolution\".\n\nHe was one of a number of British volunteers who travelled out to fight against IS with the Kurds during the Syrian conflict.\n\nAs a former IT worker, Mr Holmes had no prior military training, but he became one of the longest-serving foreign volunteers in the conflict.\n\nSince 2015, he had travelled to fight with the Kurds three times, and spent more than a year there on his third trip.\n\n\"He loved being out there, he loved the people around him. He had a purpose and he was happy,\" said Mr Ozdil.\n\nMr Holmes (far left) had been sharing pictures and videos of his experiences in Syria on Facebook\n\nMr Holmes fought in operations to push IS out of key towns and villages including Tel Hamis, Manbij, Tabqa and Raqqa.\n\nHe always knew he could face arrest from UK authorities for fighting abroad, but had previously told the BBC \"you just have to hope that our justice system works in the correct way\".\n\nDuring the battle for the IS stronghold of Raqqa, he became part of a four-man sniper unit made up of international fighters who, like him, had joined the conflict voluntarily.\n\nIn the \"223 YPG Sniper Unit\" Mr Holmes fought alongside three others from Spain, the US and Germany.\n\nAs the fighting for Raqqa intensified, the unit had some narrow escapes.\n\nHe described on Facebook how they had survived coming close to IS car bombs and being ambushed by jihadist fighters.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Holmes posted video of himself on Facebook walking into Raqqa's central sports stadium for the first time since the battle for the city ended.\n\nHe wrote: \"We spent weeks seeing this place from hundreds of metres away. It was strange walking the streets and finally going inside.\"\n\nMr Holmes was photographed guarding a post in north west Syria with the YPG\n\nDuring his time in Syria, he conducted many interviews with various media outlets, even appearing on Kurdish television outlets giving interviews in Kurdish.\n\nThrough his media appearances and the amount of interest in the exploits of this young man from Bournemouth, Mr Holmes drew wider attention to the role the Kurds were playing in the conflict.\n\nAnother friend from London, Alan Sahin, told the BBC: \"We could see how much he grew up while he was out there. He found his purpose there. He turned from a young lad into a man.\"\n\nHe described how a close circle had had the news of his death relayed to them from Syria just as they were attending Parliament on Monday evening for a Kurdish event.\n\n\"It's gut-wrenching, as Raqqa had just finished,\" said Mr Sahin. \"Jac would have gone on to do good things.\"\n\nThe Home Office has warned against all travel to Syria.\n\nOther former British YPG fighters, along with others who knew Mr Holmes, gathered at the Kurdish Community Centre on Monday evening to pay tribute to their friend and comrade.\n\nMr Sahin said \"At his age, to go into a war zone with no experience, ask anyone else in Britain and they'd say you're insane. But there he was, he went out there and was doing it. Even though he knew the danger, you couldn't help but feel he was brave. I had respect for him, admiration even.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. George Clooney and Matt Damon spoke out over the Harvey Weinstein accusations\n\nA British former assistant of Harvey Weinstein says she was paid £125,000 ($165,200) to keep quiet after accusing the movie mogul of sexual harassment.\n\nZelda Perkins told the Financial Times she signed a non-disclosure agreement in 1998 after making the accusations.\n\nShe said he asked her to give him massages and tried to pull her into bed, but she \"was made to feel ashamed for disclosing his behaviour\".\n\nWeinstein has denied any allegations of non-consensual sex \"unequivocally\".\n\nThe former assistant said she reported her allegations after a female colleague told her she had also been sexually harassed by the film producer.\n\nThe two women subsequently sought damages and were awarded a sum of £250,000 ($330,500), split equally, but also signed a non-disclosure agreement, prohibiting them from discussing the allegations.\n\nBy breaking the agreement, Ms Perkins could be liable to repay the settlement, and potentially pay damages and other legal fees stipulated in the contract.\n\nHowever, she told the Financial Times: \"I want to publicly break my non-disclosure agreement.\n\n\"Unless somebody does this there won't be a debate about how egregious these agreements are and the amount of duress that victims are put under.\"\n\nShe claims that the film executive would ask her to massage him while he was in his underwear, when they were alone in hotel rooms.\n\nHer testimony is similar to that of a number of Hollywood actresses - Lupita Nyong'o and Gwyneth Paltrow both claimed Weinstein suggested a massage in his bedroom and hotel room respectively.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It was an open secret\" a producer tells the BBC\n\nMs Perkins added that she often had to wake him up in the morning and \"he would try to pull me into bed\".\n\nWeinstein has apologised for the way he has \"behaved with colleagues in the past\" and acknowledged that his actions have \"caused a lot of pain\".\n\nHowever, he has said many of the accusations against him are \"patently false\", and in a statement to the FT, said he had \"confirmed that there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances\".\n\nMs Perkins is one of scores of accusers who have come forward after a New York Times investigation into Weinstein's conduct.\n\nActress Rose McGowan claimed that she reached a $100,000 (£84,000) settlement with Weinstein in 1997 after an alleged incident in a hotel room at the Sundance Film Festival.\n\nThe New York Times said a legal document confirming the settlement stipulated it was \"not to be construed as an admission\", but intended to \"avoid litigation and buy peace\".\n\nAllegations against the 65-year-old are subject to criminal investigations in London, Los Angeles and New York.\n\nHe is also under civil rights investigation in New York state.", "The blue Pagani Zonda crashed on the A27 at Tangmere\n\nAn extremely rare £1.5m supercar was badly damaged after it smashed into a crash barrier in West Sussex.\n\nThe Pagani Zonda, which has a top speed of more than 200mph (322kmph), crashed on the A27 at Tangmere on Saturday shortly after 07:30 BST.\n\nSussex Police said the driver was not injured but the \"one-off\" Italian-made car was left with \"significant damage\".\n\nIt is thought the car was travelling in a convoy of sports cars at the time and police have appealed for witnesses.\n\n\"We are hoping someone would remember as it is so distinctive,\" PC Peter De Silvo said.\n\nPolice believe it was travelling from Worthing to Chichester with several other sports cars\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of people switching their current account to another provider has fallen to a new low, according to industry figures.\n\nJust 57,779 used the seven day switching service to move accounts in September, the lowest number since the scheme was launched four years ago.\n\nThe drop came in spite of an advertising campaign during the month, designed to raise awareness.\n\nAdverts were placed on TV, radio, in national newspapers and online.\n\nThe reluctance to move also comes in spite of the potential savings on offer, and financial incentives being offered by the banks.\n\nThe Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks are currently offering account holders £250, for example, while HSBC is offering £200 if people move and stay loyal for a year.\n\nThe number of people switching in September was half the number it was in March last year, when 120,774 moved account.\n\nAdvertising campaigns have consistently failed to persuade people to switch\n\nBACS - which runs the Current Account Switching Service - already promised to improve the scheme in January this year.\n\nIt told the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that it would extend the period in which money is redirected from a customer's old account to the new one.\n\nThe idea was to give consumers extra confidence that their money would not go astray.\n\nBut account holders do not appear to have been convinced that switching is worthwhile.\n\nThat is despite the fact that, after a two-year inquiry, the CMA said consumers could save up to £92 a year if they moved their account.\n\nThe news will also be a blow to the Treasury, which originally said it would rely on the scheme to improve competition in the banking sector.\n\nBACS said that over four million customers had moved their accounts since 2013.\n\nThe banks that are gaining the most account-holders are Nationwide, TSB and HSBC. The ones losing the most are Barclays, Clydesdale and NatWest.\n• None The Current Account Switch Service - your guarantee to a successful switch The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nigel Farage (right), then leader of UKIP, at a press conference with Arron Banks in October 2014\n\nEx-UKIP donor Arron Banks paid for 20 of his employees to ferry party voters to the polls at the Rochester 2014 by-election, BBC Newsnight understands.\n\nThe expenditure was not registered by UKIP, which could breach electoral law.\n\nUKIP's victory in Rochester ensured the party received more coverage by the BBC and other broadcasters the following year, at the 2015 general election.\n\nMr Banks denies any wrongdoing and said all expenditure at the by-election was expensed in full and notified to UKIP.\n\nMr Banks is the bad boy of Brexit, a car insurance mogul and a failed sexual potency pill entrepreneur - but far from hiding his naughtiness, he flaunts it.\n\nHollywood is thinking about making a TV drama series about him.\n\nOne thing he hasn't flaunted though is paying for around 20 of his car insurance salespeople to help bring out the vote for UKIP in the Rochester by-election in 2014.\n\nConservative defector Mark Reckless won the by-election for UKIP, meaning that at the 2015 general election, broadcasters - including the BBC - gave UKIP a bigger platform than before.\n\nNewsnight's evidence suggests that at least some of the political energy running up to Brexit appears to have been paid for unlawfully.\n\nMark Reckless campaigning in Rochester ahead of the 2014 by-election poll\n\nIn his ghost-written book, The Bad Boys of Brexit, Mr Banks tells how when the polls closed in Rochester \"I put £7,000 behind the bar and soon the place was heaving\".\n\nBut his book did not mention that about 20 car insurance salespeople employed by Mr Banks at Catbrain Lane, Bristol - the hub of his Eldon vehicle insurance empire - were paid to travel to Rochester, in Kent.\n\nThey then drove elderly UKIP voters to the polls, before staying the night at a Premier Inn and making the return journey the following day.\n\nOne ex-employee of Mr Banks' brokerage, Eldon, whose brands include Go Skippy car insurance and Footprint van insurance, told Newsnight: \"I was paid to do my job.\"\n\nHe said: \"I wasn't specifically paid for doing that [ferrying voters to the polls], but I wasn't deducted any pay for being out of the office.\n\n\"I got there early in the morning, whole day there, went out in the evening.\"\n\nOne estimate for taxi services by 15 drivers for a day in Rochester is £9,000 - a figure which would have put UKIP above the legal spending limit.\n\nAny election expense should be registered by the candidate and his or her agent to the returning officer, but not a penny of these expenses was.\n\nMr Reckless told Newsnight: \"Neither I nor my agent authorised spending except as was appropriately declared.\"\n\nMr Banks told us all expenditure incurred during the by-election was properly expensed in full and notified to UKIP at the time.\n\nBut the party's \"record-keeping\", he said, left something to be desired.\n\nNewsnight asked Gavin Millar QC, an expert in election law, whether this was lawful.\n\nHe said: \"It's only lawful if you stay within the regulated procedures for spending money for the purposes of the election of a candidate.\n\n\"If you go outside of them, it's unlawful.\"\n\nBut if Mr Banks did not have the authority to spend what he did - what does that mean for him?\n\nMr Millar said: \"It was unlawful on the part of the third party who organised the concerted assistance; Mr Banks in this case.\n\n\"If they did it and incurred those costs without the authority of the agent, as it appears they may have done, that's called an illegal practice and it's a criminal offence.\"\n\nWhat happened in Rochester appears to be similar to bigger troubles the Conservative Party has had with unregistered election expenses.\n\nIt is very unlikely that any action will be taken against UKIP, Mr Reckless, his agent or Mr Banks because a criminal investigation must start within a year of any possible offence.\n\nAnd the story may yet have political ramifications.\n\nA few months before the Rochester by-election in 2014, Mr Banks made one of the biggest political donations in British political history.\n\nHe donated £1m to UKIP in a press conference outside his Old Down mansion, near Bristol.\n\nHandsome backdrop though it is, he does not live there - but in a smaller farmhouse down the lane, bought for £890,000 in 2013 and with £500,000 outstanding on the mortgage.\n\nHe hopes to float the Eldon group for £250m - a valuation that got him on the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nMr Banks claims his Eldon group will make £24m profit this year, up from only £300,000 last year.\n\nHe says new AI - artificial intelligence - technology is giving Eldon a boost.\n\nArif Khurshed, professor of finance at Manchester Business School, said: \"With a group turnover of £47m and an operating profit of £300,000, an IPO of this size looks highly ambitious.\"\n\nThere's been trouble with Eldon's numbers in the past.\n\nIn 2013, its auditors, Baker Tilly, resigned, stating \"a breakdown in the relationship has occurred because, by failing to supply accurate information, management is imposing a limitation of scope on our work.\"\n\nMr Banks says the auditors resigned because of a conflict of interest.\n\nSome of his other businesses have hit choppy waters.\n\nMr Banks was, until this month, managing director of African Compass Trading, which sold the Star 150 sexual enhancement pill, a kind of herbal Viagra.\n\nIts slogan was \"naturally, every man wants to be a superman in the bedroom.\"\n\nThe MHRA, the medicines regulator, said that in 2014, as part of a criminal investigation, it seized Star 150 pills worth around £50,000 from an address in Bristol.\n\nThey told us their investigation is closed and, to the best of Newsnight's knowledge, it has not resulted in any criminal charges.\n\nMr Banks told us he did invest £100,000 in the business but that operations were discontinued within a year due to \"stiff competition\".\n\nEntirely in keeping with his image, Mr Banks provided a fiery response to Newsnight: \"Since the referendum result and my support for Donald Trump, I have been the subject of politically-motivated attacks by the 'mainstream media' and Remain-supporting institutions.\n\n\"It comes as no surprise that Newsnight would join the party at this late stage with their own particular type of trashy 'News of the World' journalism.\"\n\nHe concluded that after allegations by some of him being a \"Russian spy… part of a worldwide conspiracy to subvert democracy… the only surprise is how long it's taken Newsnight to have a pop at me!\n\n\"BBC Fake news is alive and well!\"\n\nThe Bad Boy of Brexit airs on Newsnight at 22.30 on BBC Two.", "Tatyana Felgengauer is seen here posing in a team photo of Ekho Moskvy presenters\n\nOne of Russia's top radio presenters has had surgery after being stabbed in the neck by a man who broke into her newsroom at broadcaster Ekho Moskvy.\n\nTatyana Felgengauer is in a medically-induced coma in a Moscow hospital but her life is not said to be in danger.\n\nA male suspect is under arrest. His motive is not clear, though police say it appears to be a personal grudge.\n\nEkho Moskvy, an independent station, often broadcasts views critical of the Kremlin.\n\nThe knifeman reportedly sprayed a gas into the face of a security guard as he broke in.\n\nAccording to Ekho Moskvy, the alleged attacker's name is Boris Grits. It describes the attacker as an Israeli, citing \"informed sources\".\n\nRussian police described him as a 48-year-old foreigner. \"Initial findings show that personal dislike was the motivation,\" police told Interfax news agency.\n\nThe Moscow police have released a video clip of the suspect under arrest, in which he claims that Felgengauer had \"sexually harassed me through telepathy\".\n\nA blog apparently published by Boris Grits also contains posts vilifying Felgengauer.\n\nBlood was spattered on the floor as police tackled the intruder\n\nA Russian state TV channel recently accused Ekho Moskvy (\"Moscow Echo\" in English) of working with the West to produce anti-Russian propaganda, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford reports from Moscow.\n\nJust last month, another of its journalists, Yulia Latynina, left the country after she was sprayed with faeces and her car was set on fire.\n\nThis photo of the suspect was published by Ekho Moskvy after the attack\n\nStaff at the radio station say the man did not shout anything before he stabbed Tatyana Felgengauer on the building's 14th floor.\n\nShe is deputy chief editor at Ekho Moskvy and has worked there for more than 10 years. She is the daughter of Pavel Felgengauer, a prominent journalist with military expertise.\n\nA photo of the suspect was published by the radio station's website editor, Vitaly Ruvinsky, on Facebook.\n\nOne of the broadcaster's security guards was injured as the knifeman was being overpowered.\n\nEkho Moskvy is a major broadcaster, respected for its independent stance\n\nMost Russians rely on TV for their news and the main channels are either directly state-controlled or run by companies with close links to the Kremlin.\n\nThere have been many attacks on investigative reporters and other journalists who have challenged Russia's powerful vested interests.", "The London clinic says it is still determining what data was stolen\n\nA high-profile plastic surgery clinic has said it is \"horrified\" after hackers allegedly stole data during a cyber-attack.\n\nLondon Bridge Plastic Surgery (LBPS) said its IT experts and police found evidence of the breach.\n\nA group claiming to be behind the breach said it had \"terabytes\" of data, the Daily Beast news site reported.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is investigating the attack.\n\nThe alleged hackers, using the pseudonym The Dark Overlord, said they had obtained photos showing various body parts of clients, including genitals.\n\nSome of these images have been sent to the Daily Beast.\n\nThe hackers also claimed that the data contained information on \"royal families\" and added that they planned to distribute the patient list and corresponding photos online.\n\n\"We are still working to establish exactly what data has been compromised,\" LBPS said in a statement.\n\n\"We are horrified that they have now targeted our patients.\"\n\nOne of the clinic's recent clients is model and TV presenter Katie Price\n\nA spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Police said it was notified of a suspected breach on 17 October.\n\nShe added that there had been no arrests and that enquiries by the Organised Crime Command were continuing.\n\nLBPS is known to have high-profile clients, including model and TV presenter Katie Price, who recently used her Instagram account to thank the clinic for her facelift.\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office said, \"We are aware of this incident and are looking into the details.\n\n\"All organisations are required under data protection law to keep people's personal data safe and secure.\"\n\nThe Dark Overlord has claimed to be behind high-profile data breaches before, including one at US media firm Netflix earlier this year.\n\nIn April, 10 episodes of the new series of TV show Orange is the New Black were released online after Netflix refused to pay a ransom.", "The instrument was once used by mariners to measure the altitude of the Sun during their voyages\n\nAn artefact excavated from a shipwreck off the coast of Oman has been found to be the oldest known example of a type of navigational tool.\n\nMarine archaeologists say the object is an astrolabe, an instrument once used by mariners to measure the altitude of the Sun during their voyages.\n\nIt is believed to date from between 1495 and 1500.\n\nThe item was recovered from a Portuguese explorer which sank during a storm in the Indian Ocean in 1503.\n\nThe boat was called the Esmeralda and was part of a fleet led by Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, the first person to sail directly from Europe to India.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDavid Mearns, from Blue Water Recovery, who led the excavation and is the author of The Shipwreck Hunter, told the BBC: \"It's a great privilege to find something so rare, something so historically important, something that will be studied by the archaeological community and fills in a gap.\"\n\nThe astrolabe was discovered by Mr Mearns in 2014, and was one of nearly 3,000 artefacts recovered during a series of dives.\n\nThe bronze disc measures 17.5cm in diameter and is less than 2mm thick.\n\n\"It was like nothing else we had seen and I immediately knew it was something very important because you could see it had these two emblems on it,\" said Mr Mearns.\n\n\"One I recognised immediately as a Portuguese coat of arms... and another which we later discovered was the personal emblem of Don Manuel I, the King of Portugal at the time.\"\n\nThe excavation team believed the object was an astrolabe, but they could not see any navigational markings on it.\n\nHowever, a later analysis uncovered its hidden details.\n\nLaser scanning work carried out by scientists at the University of Warwick revealed etches around the edge of the disc, each separated by five degrees.\n\nThe University of Warwick used laser scans to uncover etches on the astrolabe, which helped navigators work out the height of the sun\n\nThis would have allowed mariners to measure the height of the sun above the horizon at noon to determine their location so they could find their way on the high seas.\n\nMariners' astrolabes are relatively rare, and this is only the 108th to be confirmed catalogued. It is also the earliest known example by several decades.\n\nMr Mearns said: \"We know it had to have been made before 1502, because that's when the ship left Lisbon and Dom Manuel didn't become King until 1495, and this astrolabe wouldn't have carried the emblem of the King unless he was King.\n\n\"I believe it's probably fair to say it dates roughly to between 1495 to 1500. Exactly what year we don't know - but it is in that narrow period.\"\n\nHe added: \"It rolls back this history by at least 30 years - it adds to evolution, it adds to the history, and hopefully astrolabes from this period can be found.\"\n• None Were medieval monks the old Weather Watchers?", "Money and drugs found by police in a property which had been taken over by a dangerous drug network\n\nAbout 4,000 teenagers from London are being exploited and trafficked every year to sell drugs in rural towns and cities, a leading youth charity says.\n\nKnown as \"county lines\", gangs use children as young as 12 to traffic drugs, using dedicated mobile phones or \"lines\".\n\nAnti-Slavery Commissioner Kevin Hyland said the figures were \"shocking\" and the exploitation was only slowly being recognised.\n\nIt comes as the Home Office announced it was putting £300,000 into a new pilot project to help young victims.\n\nFile on 4 spoke to one teenager about what it is like to be involved in a county lines gang.\n\nMichael* was 13 years old when a friend at his school approached him about selling drugs.\n\nLured in by the prospect of making money, he began selling in his local area, but things escalated quickly.\n\nThe gang was soon sending him on jobs out of London with the promise he could make around £500 a week.\n\nHe was sent to the house of a vulnerable drug user that the gang had taken over in the Midlands, a practice known as cuckooing.\n\nUsing this as his base, he was out on the street selling heroin and crack cocaine, day and night.\n\n\"I was a bit shaky, I was actually scared,\" he says.\n\n\"But from the time you see the money, you're just thinking, 'OK, I can just bear a bit more.'\"\n\nMichael describes having a normal upbringing and a close relationship with his family.\n\nFrantic about his long absences, he says, they would try to stop him by taking away his mobile phone - but as soon as he left his house, the gang would start hassling him again.\n\nThey would take him to a house where they ran a kind of breakfast club.\n\n\"Before you go to school you have breakfast there. I'd probably have a quick ride to school and then after school they come and pick you up as well,\" he says.\n\nDespite living with a group of drug users, Michael says he \"didn't really recognise the risks\" or see how easily he could be attacked.\n\nHe describes how he once ended up staying in a graveyard after being left stranded hundreds of miles from home with nowhere to stay.\n\n\"They [drug users] could have found another drug dealer and told him 'listen, this guy is in a graveyard and he's got drugs'... anything could have happened, that experience was crazy.\"\n\nAfter being arrested for possession of drugs, Michael decided to stop selling, but says it was not easy to leave the gang behind.\n\n\"They were trying to get at me but I moved away from the area, so I think that helped me a lot.\n\n\"I started to gain different knowledge and actually make my life something else and not just be another number.\"\n\nThe charity Safer London has dealt with many teenagers like Michael, who are exploited to sell drugs for older gang members.\n\nThe charity's chief executive, Claire Hubberstey, said a frightening number of young people were at risk of being involved in county lines dealing.\n\n\"We have started recording when we've got concerns,\" she says.\n\nBased on the number of young people they see, they estimate at least 4,000 young people are at risk every year.\n\nShe compares it to the way children are lured in to sexual grooming, saying initial promises soon turn into threats.\n\n\"Young people often talk about being physically locked in premises so they're not able to actually get out.\n\n\"Threats of coercion or violence mean they can be too scared to try to make their own way back - even if they have the means to do so.\"\n\nShe wants all of these young people placed on the National Referral Mechanism - meaning they would be treated as victims of trafficking and modern slavery, rather than being treated as criminals.\n\n\"They are exploited children, and they are being manipulated and exploited. Even if they don't see it, that doesn't mean that it's not happening\", she says.\n\nAnti-Slavery Commissioner Kevin Hyland said the extent of county lines exploitation was only slowly being recognised.\n\n\"We're waking up to it. Are we fully awake to it yet? Probably not, but we are starting to.\"\n\nHe says tackling it will require a change in the psyche of the police and other authorities to see young drugs traffickers as victims not criminals.\n\n\"It makes an enormous difference. You get it right, the whole process changes because you don't have that person in the dock, you start looking for someone else to put in the dock.\"\n\nSarah Newton, minister for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability, said as well as new funding, the government had also taken measures including passing legislation to allow police to shut down the phone lines used to market drugs.\n\n\"It sends a very clear message that we will not tolerate this criminal activity.\"\n\n*Michael's name has been changed to protect his identity.\n\nListen to more on this story on File on 4, on Tuesday 24th October at 20:00 BST on BBC Radio 4.\n• None 'My son was groomed to sell drugs'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Daryll Rowe met his partners on dating app Grindr, jurors at Lewes Crown Court were told\n\nA hairdresser accused of deliberately infecting other men with HIV told one victim he was \"riddled\" with the virus after they had sex, a court heard.\n\nDaryll Rowe, 26, denies infecting five Brighton-based men, and attempting to infect a further five.\n\nGiving evidence at Lewes Crown Court, a 22-year-old student said he met Mr Rowe via a dating app in January 2016.\n\nHe said he started \"freaking out\" when he found a broken condom in the bathroom after they had sex.\n\nIn a video recording of a police interview shown to the jury, the man said he was in pain after having sex with Mr Rowe and was later given anti-viral drugs to prevent him contracting HIV as well as treatment for genital herpes.\n\nDuring the interview, the man said: \"I remember not really enjoying it. There were moments when I was like, I want to get up and go.\n\n\"Afterwards I went to the toilet and the condom was on the sink and I noticed that it... was completely broken. Like the whole top of it was off.\"\n\nA series of text messages read to the court, the university student repeatedly asked Mr Rowe whether he had HIV.\n\nIn response Mr Rowe is alleged to have said: \"Yes, I'm riddled by the way\".\n\nLater, Mr Rowe branded the man a \"paranoid, overdramatic fool\", before saying he would be blocking the number, the court heard.\n\nThe student, who cannot be named for legal reasons, contacted police after seeing a witness appeal for information about a man he thought was Mr Rowe.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A chance meeting between two childhood friends helped one begin a journey back from drug addiction after many years living on the street.\n\nIt was early October and Wanja Mwaura, 32, was on her way to the market in Lower Kabaete, not far from Nairobi, when she heard someone shout out her name.\n\nShe looked up and was surprised to see a tall man with bulging eyes, an emaciated frame, dirtied black overalls and an equally stained thick woollen hat, sitting on the side of the road. She did not recognise him.\n\nBut when Patrick \"Hinga\" Wanjiru, 34, introduced himself, Wanja says she found herself in shock. Standing before her was a friend she had known since she was seven years old.\n\n\"Patrick, or Hinga as we called him, and I had met at primary school in 1992,\" says Wanja, who is a nurse from Kiambu County, just outside the Kenyan capital.\n\n\"Hinga used to be a great soccer player all throughout school. We nicknamed him 'Pele'.\"\n\nHinga was estranged from his parents and lived with his grandmother in a squat. When she couldn't afford to pay his school fees, he was forced to skip classes. Eventually they were evicted even from the squat. But against all the odds, Hinga did well in his exams, until his grandmother died - then he dropped out of school and his life began to take a downward trajectory.\n\nHinga started abusing drugs, first marijuana and then heroin. He spent hours sifting through garbage to find things he could sell on the streets.\n\nWhen they met again, more than 15 years later, Hinga had been homeless for more than a decade. He looked nothing like the childhood friend who had once been known as \"Pele\".\n\nSensing Wanja's dismay, Hinga reassured her that he had only wanted to say hello. She asked him if she could buy him lunch. At a local cafe, she ordered the dish she remembered had been his favourite years earlier - pork ribs and mashed potatoes. She said he appeared distracted, unable to finish sentences.\n\n\"I gave him my mobile telephone number and told him to call me if he needed anything,\" Wanja says.\n\nOver the next couple of days, Hinga borrowed phones and would regularly call his childhood friend, often just to hear her voice for a chat. He told her that he was committed to getting clean from drugs.\n\n\"I decided then, that something needed to be done to help him,\" Wanja says.\n\nTaking to social media, Wanja appealed to her friends to see if she could raise funds for drug rehabilitation.\n\n\"Rehab here is very expensive and I had no ways of raising funds on my own,\" she says.\n\n\"We set up a crowdfunding page, but we only managed to raise around 41,000 Kenyan shillings (£300) initially. However the cost of nine days rehabilitation at Chiromo Lane Medical Center in Nairobi was more than 100,000 KES.\n\n\"I wasn't sure how we would be able to cover this.\"\n\nBut Wanja had promised to help Hinga, so she took him to the centre anyway, unsure how they would cover the cost.\n\nA spokesperson for the rehab programme says Hinga was a dedicated patient, who committed fully to the nine-day detox.\n\nWithin days Hinga had gained weight and his concentration improved. Wanja took to Facebook to speak about her pride at her friend's transformation in such a short period of time.\n\n\"A week ago Hinga and I couldn't hold a normal conversation without me trying to hold his head up with my hand in order for him to concentrate. Today we can have a normal conversation with him confidently looking at me,\" she wrote.\n\nMombasa businessman Fauz Khalid spotted Wanja's public post on Facebook and said he wanted to share the story on a wider platform. He posted the photos on Twitter and his post has now been shared more than 50,000 times.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 FK This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 that, the Kenyan media began to cover the story and Chiromo Lane Medical Center agreed to waive the entire fee for Hinga's treatment.\n\nWanja says this was \"a blessing\", but she was keen for her friend to undergo a more sustained recovery, and is now raising funds for him to follow a 90-day programme at The Retreat Rehabilitation Centre, where he is currently staying.\n\n\"Unfortunately, there is still great stigma around drug abuse in Kenya,\" Wanja says. This may be one reason why the government doesn't provide free drug rehab treatment.\n\n\"Rehabs are expensive and out of reach for many people, not only in Kenya but also the greater part of Africa. I am committed to crowdsourcing so I can support my friend at this time,\" says Wanja.\n\n\"Wanja is an angel sent from God. I owe her my life. She has stuck with me more closely than a brother or a sister,\" Hinga tells the BBC.\n\nOn Twitter several users echoed this sentiment. Abraham Wilbourne‏, a financial analyst from Nairobi, told Wanja \"You have a seat in heaven!\" Many called her a \"mashujaa\", which means \"hero\" in Swahili.\n\n\"People say I changed Hinga's life, but he changed mine too.\" says Wanja. \"I realise now that a small act can change a person's life.\"\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lashing out: What Bob Corker really thinks of President Trump\n\nInfluential Republican Senator Bob Corker has unleashed a blistering attack on US President Donald Trump, calling him \"utterly untruthful\".\n\nIn a series of television interviews, Mr Corker accused the president of lying, adding that he debased the US and weakened its global standing.\n\nMr Trump fired back on Twitter, calling the Tennessee senator a \"lightweight\" who \"couldn't get re-elected\".\n\nThe pair met at a Senate lunch on Tuesday to discuss tax reform.\n\n\"He is purposely breaking down relationships we have around the world that had been useful to our nation,\" Mr Corker said on CNN after the Republican president criticised him on Twitter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Trump is treason!\" shouted a protester who threw Russian flags at the president as he arrived at Capitol Hill\n\n\"I think the debasement of our nation is what he'll be remembered most for,\" he said.\n\nThe Foreign Relations Committee chairman, who was an early supporter of Mr Trump, added that the president has \"great difficulty with truth\".\n\nThe good news for Donald Trump is he's managed to push his feud with a grieving war widow out of the headlines. The bad news is he's done it by pushing a stake through Republican unity at a time when the party needs to come together to pass big-ticket tax reform through Congress.\n\nThe latest blistering exchange between Republican Senator Bob Corker and the president has all the hallmarks of one of Mr Trump's classic intra-party campaign spats.\n\nThere's the quick Twitter trigger finger, the derogatory nicknames (\"liddle\" Bob Corker), the over-the-top hyperbole (\"he couldn't get elected dog catcher\").\n\nRepublicans - including those who bore the brunt of Mr Trump's vitriolic attacks - largely shrugged off those earlier rows as primary-season posturing and unified behind their unlikely standard-bearer in the autumn general election.\n\nMr Corker, on the verge of Senate retirement, isn't backing down, however. And the president is once again raising the voltage.\n\nThe party is learning the hard way that there's only one Donald Trump - whether he's a real-estate mogul, a reality TV star, a candidate or a president.\n\nIf you question his leadership, his views or his attitude, he'll unleash the whirlwind, no matter the consequences.\n\nWhen asked if he regretted supporting Mr Trump during the 2016 election, the senator said: \"Let's just put it this way, I would not do that again.\"\n\nHis comments came after Mr Trump lashed out at the Republican in a series of tweets.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLast month Mr Corker announced that he would not seek re-election at next year's mid-term elections.\n\nMr Corker had voted against the 2015 agreement to curb Iran's development of nuclear weapons, calling it \"flawed\", but later said Mr Trump should not \"tear up\" the pact.\n\nMr Trump's tweets on Tuesday appeared to be in response to Mr Corker's comments on ABC News' Good Morning America, in which he suggested the president should stop interfering in the debate on tax legislation.\n\nThe president went to Capitol Hill on Tuesday in an attempt to rally Senate Republicans around a White House-backed tax reform plan.\n\nA protester was detained by police after he hurled Russian flags at Mr Trump as he walked through the building with top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell.\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\n\"Trump is treason!\" shouted the demonstrator, who identified himself as Ryan Clayton from Americans Take Action, a campaign group calling for Mr Trump's impeachment.\n\n\"This president conspired with agents of the Russian government to steal an election!\" he cried. \"We should be talking about treason in congress, not about tax cuts!\"\n\nMr Corker's support for the tax plan could be crucial as Republicans seek to pass the legislation in the upper chamber.\n\nThe lawmaker also raised concern with the president's behaviour toward North Korea, saying Mr Trump \"continues to kneecap his diplomatic representative, the secretary of state\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How one phone call has sparked uproar\n\nHe added that when it comes to diplomacy with Pyongyang, Mr Trump should \"leave it to the professionals for a while\".\n\nThe spat reignites an ongoing feud between the two men, which blew up earlier this month when Mr Corker responded to an attack from Mr Trump saying: \"It's a shame the White House has become an adult day care center.\n\n\"Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Senator Thom Tillis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It was an open secret\" a producer tells the BBC\n\nWhen actor Seth MacFarlane announced the Oscar nominations for best supporting actress in 2013, he cracked a now infamous joke: \"Congratulations, you five ladies no longer have to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein.\"\n\nAt the time, it was a rare public reference to what has since become a very public scandal.\n\nAnd it is a telling sign that Weinstein's alleged behaviour was - as it's been repeatedly described in the past week - Hollywood's \"open secret\".\n\nBut how many people knew what was going on, and why wasn't it reported sooner?\n\nMacFarlane has explained that he made the quip after his Ted co-star Jessica Barth told him about Weinstein's attempted advances two years earlier.\n\nThe actress told The New Yorker the mogul tried to persuade her to give him a naked massage in bed. She walked out.\n\nActress Lea Seydoux, writing in The Guardian about how Weinstein \"suddenly jumped on me\" in his hotel room, also recalled how she had seen him \"hitting on\" other young women and trying to convince them to sleep with him at parties.\n\nLea Seydoux: \"It's unbelievable that he's been able to act like this for decades\"\n\n\"Everyone could see what he was doing,\" she wrote. \"That's the most disgusting thing. Everyone knew what Harvey was up to and no one did anything.\n\n\"It's unbelievable that he's been able to act like this for decades and still keep his career. That's only possible because he has a huge amount of power.\"\n\nWeinstein has denied any non-consensual sexual contact with any women.\n\nBut allegations of improper behaviour were common knowledge among some who worked for him, according to the New York Times.\n\nWhen the paper broke the story, it reported that dozens of his former and current employees, from assistants to top executives, \"said they knew of inappropriate conduct while they worked for him\".\n\n\"It wasn't a secret to the inner circle,\" Kathy DeClesis, a former assistant to Weinstein's brother and business partner Bob, told the paper.\n\nOne of the common themes of the accounts that have emerged is that Weinstein employees would set up meetings with young women and often accompany them to hotel rooms before disappearing and leaving the women and the producer alone.\n\nHarvey Weinstein on the red carpet in 2012\n\nThe New York Times related how a young female employee quit after complaining of being forced to arrange what she believed to be assignations for him. She said she couldn't comment because she had signed a non-disclosure agreement.\n\nMany people have suggested such employees could have gone public. But Weinstein was one of the most powerful men in Hollywood and his domineering persona - aside from any sexual harassment - was legendary.\n\nIn a memo quoted by the paper, another former employee, Lauren O'Connor, described the experiences of women at the company, including herself. She wrote: \"The balance of power is me: 0, Harvey Weinstein: 10.\"\n\nWhat about those in Hollywood and New York beyond Weinstein's own companies? Stories of his sexual advances spread among actors, agents and others in the film industry.\n\nAlison Owen didn't know her own sister-in-law had been preyed upon\n\nMany celebrities who have commented in recent days have said they didn't know what was going on, even if they knew he had a sleazy reputation.\n\nOscar-nominated actress Annette Bening told BBC Radio 4's Front Row she knew he was \"boorish\" - but wasn't aware of what went on behind closed doors.\n\nBritish producer Alison Owen, who has worked on films like Saving Mr Banks and Suffragette, told BBC News his behaviour was \"an open secret\".\n\n\"Everyone had heard the stories about Harvey,\" she said. \"If you were in the film industry, there was no way you could not have heard those stories about Harvey.\n\n\"I never heard a story from the horse's mouth. But there were always stories about, 'Oh an actress told me', or 'Someone working at Harvey's company told me', or 'Did you hear about that intern who worked for Harvey?'\n\n\"So they were always second-hand but they were many and multifarious.\"\n\nSuch was the level of chatter that Owen said she wouldn't let young women meet Weinstein alone. Those who were preyed upon had nowhere to turn, she says.\n\n\"If you had been an actress and Harvey had groped your breasts while you were supposed to be auditioning for him, what are you going to do?\n\n\"You're not going to go to the police. They're not going to take that seriously. You're not going to call a journalist because at that point Harvey had the whole media world in his pocket and no-one was going to go up against Harvey Weinstein.\n\n\"There was only a downside to reporting it... Harvey's going to destroy your career.\"\n\nWeinstein with his estranged wife Georgina Chapman in 2015\n\nOwen's sister-in-law Laura Madden worked for Weinstein - but never told Owen about his overtures towards her. The producer only found out about them when she read the New York Times.\n\n\"Such is the strength of shame, I think,\" Owen told BBC Radio 4's PM. \"That's another reason people don't come out.\"\n\nThe revelations have surfaced now, Owen believes, because \"the prevailing culture has changed\".\n\n\"The winds have shifted to the opposite direction [and] people have now been prepared to go on record.\"\n\nBut shouldn't the media have reported the allegations before?\n\nA string of journalists have said in recent days that they tried. But the difficulties of persuading his accusers to go on the record, coupled with the force of Weinstein's legal threats, meant none were able to publish.\n\nSharon Waxman, a former New York Times reporter who went on to set up film site The Wrap, told BBC Newsnight how she chased the story in 2004 and tracked down a woman who had reached a settlement with Weinstein.\n\n\"I did manage to meet with the woman who had taken a payoff in London, but she literally wouldn't say anything,\" Waxman said.\n\n\"She actually just met with me and didn't speak. A very frustrating conversation. She was terrified that she was violating her non-disclosure.\"\n\nIf they wanted to publish, media outlets had to ensure their stories were watertight in case Weinstein sued.\n\n\"Any negative story that was going to be printed about him, he would go full-on aggressive,\" Waxman recalled.\n\n\"Any card he could play, any tool he could use to get that story not to appear in print… I was told that he had visited the newsroom personally to speak to my superiors. I don't know what he said. I don't know what threats were issued.\"\n\nOthers tried to pursue Weinstein too. The Hollywood Reporter editor-at-large Kim Masters and New York Times media columnist David Carr came close to finalising stories - but their sources backed out at the last minute, The New York Times said.\n\nVanity Fair special correspondent Gabriel Sherman, who helped uncover sexual harassment by late Fox News boss Roger Ailes, said one crucial piece of evidence in the New York Times story was the internal memo in which Lauren O'Connor raised concerns against Weinstein.\n\n\"That piece of printed material became one of the foundations of the New York Times report,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Media Show.\n\nRebecca Traister wrote on New York magazine's The Cut website that she first heard the allegations in 2000 - but that Weinstein \"could spin - or suppress - anything\".\n\nShe continued: \"For decades, the reporters who tried to tell the story of Harvey Weinstein butted up against the same wall of sheer force and immovable power that was leveraged against those ambitious actors, the vulnerable assistants, the executives whose careers, salaries, and reputations were in his hands.\"\n\nSo for years, people who did know could only talk in whispers or, like Seth MacFarlane, under the guise of jokes that were funny only because they rang true.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Michelle Keegan has returned for the third series of Our Girl\n\nThe first episode of the new series of Our Girl has been criticised by viewers who thought Michelle Keegan looked too glamorous to play an army medic.\n\nEd Power in The Telegraph wrote that Keegan, as Georgie Lane, had a \"straight-from-the-beauty salon complexion\" - but added that she put in a \"solid\" performance.\n\nViewers had mixed views on the return of the BBC drama.\n\nAnd some were unimpressed with a simulated earthquake in the episode.\n\nThe Mirror praised Keegan for her acting prowess\n\n\"On paper, there's nothing wrong with the Nepalese earthquake storyline,\" wrote Ian Hyland in The Mirror.\n\n\"But, sadly, Our Girl clearly lacks the budget to do it justice.\n\n\"As Lane's colleagues rolled off their camp beds during an aftershock, it was like William Shatner and the Starship Enterprise gang throwing themselves around the set of Star Trek in the 1960s.\"\n\nSome Twitter users agreed, with one also comparing the camerawork to that of the 1960s.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Merlin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother said it was \"embarrassing\" and \"unrealistic\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Timmo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMilan and Georgie were caught up in an earthquake in Nepal in the episode\n\nMany were just happy to see the series back on the screen however.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Paul McHugh #Bionics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 molls This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOthers were surprised at how perfect Keegan's make-up was while she was playing a Lance Corporal in a combat zone.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Amy Hutson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother viewer concurred, remarking on how her \"hair and makeup remains untouched throughout the whole episode, even after an earthquake\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Nat This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTuesday night's episode was the highest series opener of Our Girl with four million viewers, according to overnight figures.\n\nThe first series starred former EastEnders actress Lacey Turner in the first series in 2014.\n\nThe Times gave the episode two stars, bemoaning its \"army banter\" and accusing it of firing blanks.\n\nThe Telegraph gave it three stars, with Power saying Keegan played \"plucky Georgie\" with \"real zing\".\n\nHyland wrote in The Mirror that the first episode's issues were \"no reflection on Keegan\", adding: \"She does her best. There simply isn't that much for her to get her teeth into on this second time around\".\n\nAnd in the Daily Mail, Christopher Stevens said it seemed a bit too \"peaceful and idyllic\" for a disaster zone - but noted the episode was \"romantic enough\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The family-owned pub is on the edge of the North York Moors\n\nA village pub has been named the best restaurant in the world in an international poll based on customer reviews.\n\nThe Black Swan in Oldstead, North Yorkshire, beat Heston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck and Raymond Blanc's Le Manoir.\n\nTripAdvisor said it was the first time a British restaurant had won the title since the awards began in 2012.\n\nBlanc's Belmond Le Manoir Aux Quat'Saisons in Great Milton, Oxfordshire, came second.\n\nThe travel website said the winner was selected based on the millions of reviews and opinions collected on the site over a 12-month period.\n\nTommy Banks became the UK's youngest chef to win a Michelin star at the age of 24\n\nThe Black Swan, which has a Michelin star and 4 AA Rosettes, is a family-owned pub on the edge of the North York Moors, near Thirsk.\n\nIt is run by the UK's youngest Michelin-starred chef Tommy Banks, who won the accolade four years ago at the age of 24, and his brother James.\n\nHead chef Tommy said: \"It's a huge honour to win this award, but what makes it really special is that it's been awarded because of feedback from our customers.\"\n\nMartín Berasategui in Spain has held the title since 2015.\n\nHeston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck came 12th in the website's Travellers' Choice Favourite Fine Dining Restaurants Worldwide poll.\n\nTripAdvisor said the awards differed from others as they were based on feedback from guests and \"not based on a small judging panel\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A police vehicle was stationed outside the flat complex on Thursday morning\n\nThe body of a woman who is believed to have been murdered may have lain undiscovered for more than two years, police have said.\n\nMarie Conlon, 68, was discovered dead in bed in a flat at Larkspur Rise in west Belfast last Friday.\n\nA 23-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday and remains in custody.\n\nDetectives have established that the last known sighting of Ms Conlon was in January 2015.\n\n\"It is our belief, supported by the medical evidence, that her death may have occurred at around this time,\" said Ch Insp Alan Dickson.\n\n\"We have launched a murder investigation and a 23-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of a number of offences including murder.\n\n\"He was detained in the west Belfast area yesterday and remains in custody.\"\n\nPolice forced their way into the flat and found the woman's body in a bed\n\nCh Insp Dickson said authorities were alerted on Friday after concerns were raised about Ms Conlon's welfare.\n\n\"Officers forced entry to her Larkspur Rise home and discovered her deceased in bed,\" he said. \"It was apparent that she had lain undiscovered for some time.\"\n\nResults from a post-mortem examination suggest the death may have been suspicious, said Ch Insp Dickson, adding that further tests were due to take place.\n\nMarie Conlon's family issued a statement on Thursday night, it said: \"We are shocked and heartbroken to learn about the loss of our beloved sister.\n\n\"The tragic circumstances of her death make it all the more difficult to comprehend and accept.\n\n\"Marie was very much loved by her family and will be mourned greatly. She was a very independent person.\n\n\"Numerous attempts had been made to contact her in person, and by other means, over the course of the past two years but at no point were suspicions raised that she had been deceased.\n\n\"It is only with hindsight that the unimaginable now seems possible,\" the statement added.\n\nSinn Féin councillor Séanna Walsh said: \"One of the tragedies, I suppose, of modern living is that in areas like this you don't have the same sense of connectedness that you would have had if she had have lived in a house further into the estate.\"\n\n\"This type of accommodation is very transitory, there's people coming and going all the time. I just find it tragic, the whole episode.\"\n\nSinn Féin councillor Seanna Walsh said the incident was tragic\n\nSDLP councillor Brian Heading said it was concerning that someone could have lain undiscovered for so long.\n\n\"This is something that people need to think about, that if you don't see your neighbour knock on the door,\" he said.\n\n\"We don't know all the circumstances yet, but by keeping in communication with someone there could have been a different outcome in this case.\"", "\"Deadlock!\". \"L'impasse\". \"Quelle Horreur\". You can hear the cries from across the Channel, and the cages of the City rattling in fear, as Michel Barnier's language took a dramatic turn at this morning's press conference, painting the Brexit talks as at a brick wall.\n\nTrue, not even Brexit's biggest cheerleader could claim the discussions in Brussels have been going well. And there are visible frustrations on both sides.\n\nBut before claiming this morning's drama means the whole thing is doomed there are a few things worth remembering.\n\nAt the very start of this whole process, the hope was that in October, the EU would agree to move on to the next phase of the talks, to talk about our future relationship. But for months it has been clear that the chances of that were essentially zero.\n\nIt is not, therefore, a surprise to hear Mr Barnier saying right now, he doesn't feel able to press the button on phase 2, however much he enjoyed the drama of saying so today.\n\nSecond, behind the scenes, although it has been slow, there has been some progress in the talks but officials in some areas have reached the end of the line until their political masters give them permission to move on.\n\nForgive what comes next as nerdy detail, but it hopefully helps make this clear.\n\nFor example, the UK side is unwilling to move on to talking in more detail about the money, until the EU side is willing to talk about transition (the idea is, until we know what we might get in future, whether access to certain agencies, or EU programmes, how can we assess what we might be prepared to pay).\n\nMr Barnier is understood to have asked the EU 27 last Friday if he can start exploring transition for that reason, but Germany is resisting. So in this area, it is a possible, and would be a positive outcome for the UK, if at next week's political summit, Barnier asks the 27 for formal permission to talk transition.\n\nIt would not be as big a step as moving on to phase 2, but it is the next political decision that could ease the deadlock in this area. And there was a clue from Mr Barnier in his remarks this morning that this is what he will continue to pursue.\n\nAnd third, if you had been writing the script of these negotiations before they even began, there's no question that at some point in the plot, there would have been a declaration of digging in, a cry that it's all impossible, it is almost the end of the road, all is lost!\n\nThen, at the last moment in a late night summit, emerges the one side of A4 in the clammy hand of an official. On it, not many details, but a few lines that sketch out agreement, show some progress. Finally, the heroic politicians have snatched victory from the jaws of defeat! (Leaving officials in a quiet way to work out the boring details for the next ten years)\n\nThat is not to say for a second that all is well or indeed to minimise the real and possibly very serious consequences of the talks genuinely breaking down.\n\nAnd whether it is all pantomime or real politics, the remarks will of course stir the pot in Westminster too, likely adding to the drum beat among some Brexiteers that a swifter exit with no deal is better than this drawn out agony - and Remainers' deep anxiety and uncertainty for business about whether a deal can really be done.\n\nBut both on the UK side and the EU side, to translate this morning's remarks into certain Armageddon for the deal would be to misunderstand.", "Chester Bennington (front right) in Apple Music's Carpool Karaoke days before his death in July\n\nAn episode of Carpool Karaoke starring Linkin Park - recorded less than a week before lead singer Chester Bennington killed himself - has been released.\n\nThe 23-minute episode is being streamed for free on Facebook with the permission of Bennington's family.\n\nIt was filmed for Apple Music on 14 July this year - six days before his body was found at a private home in LA County on 20 July.\n\nThe coroner ruled that Bennington, 41, had apparently hanged himself.\n\nThe episode sees Bennington, along with band mates Mike Shinoda and Joe Hahn, driving around Los Angeles with US comedian Ken Jeong and singing along to their hits, including Numb, In The End and Talking To Myself.\n\nBennington was found hanged at a private home in LA on 20 July this year\n\nIt also sees a smiling Bennington join in with renditions of songs by Aerosmith, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Lynyrd Skynyrd.\n\nThe singer jokes with Jeong that the comedian should \"join the band\", saying: \"Finally we have some leadership!\"\n\nHe also revealed a love for Dungeons and Dragons, and that his trademark scream was created early on in the band's career.\n\n\"It's a funny thing,\" he said. \"We were in the studio and working on a song and Mike was just like, 'Do you think you could scream this thing?' Then he was like, can you just do that all the time, forever, on every song?\n\nAt the start of the episode, a screen reads: \"With the blessing of Chester's family and his bandmates, we share this episode and dedicate it to the memory of Chester.\"\n\nEarlier this month, the band revealed they were back in rehearsals for the first time since Bennington's death.\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 phoenixlp 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\nBass player Dave 'Phoenix' Farrell posted a picture on Instagram, adding: \"Home from the #dunhilllinks and back to \"work!\" Good to be back with the guys.\"\n\nThe band were practising ahead of a special tribute gig to Bennington at LA's Hollywood Bowl on 27 October, where they will be joined by the likes of Blink 182 and Korn.\n\nThe full episode of Carpool Karaoke can be streamed on Linkin Park's Facebook page.\n\nIf you are affected by the topics in this article, the Samaritans can be contacted free on 116 123 (in the UK) or by email on jo@samaritans.org. If you are in the US, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 1-800-273-8255.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Paul Pugh was in the most critical meeting of his life. He was being told what his future would be like after receiving a brain injury in a brutal assault. He laughed the whole way through the discussion but, to him, it felt like he was sobbing. He would later be diagnosed with pathological laughter.\n\nPugh, now 38, had been on a night out with his Cwmaman Football Club teammates in January 2007 when he was targeted in an unprovoked attack on a cold January night.\n\nAs he left a pub in his home town of Ammanford in Carmarthenshire, west Wales, four men he didn't know rounded on him and repeatedly punched and kicked him.\n\nPugh's skull was fractured and he fell into a coma for more than two months. A blood clot which measured 10cm x 4cm formed on his brain and he was left with slurred speech, chronic fatigue and mobility difficulties which resulted in him having to use a wheelchair.\n\n\"I've had to learn to walk and talk again and come to terms with the fact that I will never fully recover,\" he says. \"Life has been a struggle for me and my family, but we're ploughing through it.\"\n\nPugh spent 13 months in hospital, but it wasn't until month four that he had his first laughing fit.\n\n\"It was a serious meeting with my consultant, rehabilitation therapists and my family to discuss what my life and future was going to be like,\" he says.\n\n\"When they started talking about me, I was frightened and it triggered something off in my brain and I laughed right through the meeting.\n\n\"I was actually crying my eyes out, but it came out on the surface as laughter.\"\n\nAt first, no one understood his behaviour, his family even thought he was \"making a scene in public, pleading for attention\".\n\nIt took several years before Pugh's fits of \"full on laughter\" were diagnosed as pathological laughter or the Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA).\n\nThe condition arises when there is a disconnect between the frontal lobe of the brain - which keeps emotions in check - and the cerebellum and brain stem - which regulate the expression of emotion. It's a real crossed-wires moment.\n\nPBA can affect those with neurological conditions or injuries such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, or Alzheimer's disease.\n\nAndy Tyerman, consultant clinical neuropsychologist of brain injury charity Headway, says: \"The term refers to uncontrolled expression of emotion that is disproportionate or inappropriate to the social context and may be inconsistent with what the person is actually feeling.\n\n\"A person might also appear very distressed about something that would previously have been only slightly upsetting.\"\n\nIn Pugh's case, he laughed when he thought he was crying.\n\n\"I know when I'm laughing or crying, but other people don't,\" he says. \"Some have been upset and reacted by being sarcastic with me or even aggressive and try to hurt my feelings because they think I'm laughing at them.\n\n\"It's amazing how important laughing is. You take it for granted but it has a really powerful effect, if you share a joke with someone it's special.\"\n\nPugh says his family are very understanding. His mum has become his full-time carer to help with his mobility issues, his dad, aged 72, still works and his brothers - Simon and Matthew - have both had a hand in helping him over the past decade.\n\nHe says the diagnosis \"hit me hard\" and sometimes attracts unwanted attention but he can now sense when an episode is imminent.\n\n\"I feel a laugh coming a few seconds before it happens - sometimes I can control it but a blip can happen. The laugh doesn't last long, a minute at the most, but it can cause a lot of problems if people don't understand.\"\n\nPugh has developed his own method to avert an episode by \"thinking of something or someone bad without giving it feeling\" and estimates he can control nine out of 10 laughing fits.\n\nIt's been an \"extremely tough 10 years\" since the assault, he says.\n\nHe had to give up work as an electrician and now spends his time in therapy or visiting the charity Headway Carmarthenshire which, he says, gave him an \"insight of being with people with brain injury\" and reassurance he wasn't on his own.\n\n\"Since the incident we've met the most incredible people you'll ever meet, all wanting to help me,\" he says. \"On the other side of the dice, I feel like I'm under house arrest because the injury affected my mobility and balance, therefore I need assistance whenever I go outdoors.\"\n\nIn 2014, Pugh started Paul's Pledge - a campaign to educate people about alcohol-fuelled violence which Dyfed-Powys Police is also involved in.\n\nHe makes visits to schools, colleges and youth clubs and has had an \"absolutely fantastic\" response because \"they can see that it's real and not theatrical\".\n\n\"This is my life now - I've moved on from what happened,\" he says. \"There are many things I can't do - but this [campaign] I can do. I think it sends a powerful message to the world. I don't want to see anyone, nobody in the situation it left me and my family in.\"\n\nThe four men responsible for Pugh's attack were jailed for between nine months and four years.\n\nPugh says: \"The one that kicked me in the head with full force from point blank range, almost killing me, was let out. What about me? Ten years later, I'm still serving my sentence.\"\n\nFor more Disability News, follow on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to the weekly podcast.\n• None 'Powerful message' to tell says victim\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dozens of films produced by Harvey Weinstein have won Academy Awards\n\nThe hosts of the Oscars are to hold emergency talks to consider the future role of film mogul Harvey Weinstein following claims of sexual misconduct.\n\nThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said the allegations of sexual assault against Weinstein were \"repugnant\".\n\nBafta, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, has already suspended his membership.\n\nWeinstein strongly denies the allegations against him.\n\nIn another development, police in New York told the BBC they were looking to speak to an individual regarding an allegation against Weinstein dating from 2004. The NYPD did not provide further details.\n\nThe US academy, which has handed out 81 Oscars to films produced by Weinstein's Miramax studio and the Weinstein Company, said it would meet on Saturday to \"discuss the allegations against Weinstein and any actions warranted by the academy\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It was \"an open secret\" a producer tells the BBC\n\nA statement has also been issued by Cannes Film Festival, which Weinstein has attended many times.\n\nPresident Pierre Lescure said they have been \"dismayed to learn of the accusations\".\n\n\"These actions point to a pattern of behaviour that merits only the clearest and most unequivocal condemnation.\n\n\"Our thoughts go out to the victims, to those who have had the courage to testify and to all the others. May this case help us once again to denounce all such serious and unacceptable practices.\"\n\nHarvey Weinstein attended Cannes Film Festival at times with his wife Georgina Chapman, who has now left him\n\nMeanwhile, former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told CNN she felt \"sick\" about the allegations surrounding Weinstein, pledging to donate money he had raised for her campaigns to charity.\n\nWeinstein reportedly raised more than $1.4m (£1.05m) for Democratic groups, and Republicans have accused Democrats of not doing enough to distance themselves from him.\n\nA string of high-profile actresses, including Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie, have come forward to accuse the movie producer of sexual harassment or assault.\n\nBritish actress and model Cara Delevingne is one of the latest to accuse him of inappropriate behaviour. In a statement, she said he tried to kiss her as she tried to leave a hotel room.\n\n\"I felt very powerless and scared,\" she said.\n\nThe French actress Léa Seydoux has written an article detailing her experience with Weinstein who she met at a fashion show.\n\nShe wrote in The Guardian about how he invited her to come to his hotel room for a drink.\n\n\"We were talking on the sofa when he suddenly jumped on me and tried to kiss me. I had to defend myself. He's big and fat, so I had to be forceful to resist him. I left his room, thoroughly disgusted.\n\n\"I wasn't afraid of him, though. Because I knew what kind of man he was all along.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Weinstein denied allegations of rape made in The New Yorker magazine. On the same day, his wife Georgina Chapman said she was leaving him.\n\nOscar-nominated actress Annette Bening said Weinstein was well known in Hollywood for being \"boorish\", but that she had not known the extent of his alleged behaviour.\n\n\"I certainly didn't know that this was going on to the degree that it was,\" she told BBC News. \"It's terrible. And it's great that these women have come forward. I really respect them. Maybe it's a tipping point. Maybe culturally this means that things will change.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Wednesday, US prosecutors defended their decision not to take action against Weinstein after a woman complained about his behaviour in 2015.\n\nThe Manhattan district attorney's office said undercover audio of the complainant and Weinstein was \"insufficient to prove a crime\".\n\nItalian model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, 22, had gone to police to accuse Weinstein of touching her inappropriately. She then agreed to meet the producer again while wearing a hidden microphone.\n\nThe district attorney's office said police arranged the meeting without informing them.\n\n\"Prosecutors were not afforded the opportunity before the meeting to counsel investigators on what was necessary to capture in order to prove a misdemeanour sex crime,\" they said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The New Yorker released audio of an alleged undercover sting operation by New York Police (UK users only)\n\nThey said the \"horrifying\" audio \"was insufficient to prove a crime under New York law\" which left prosecutors with \"no choice but to conclude the criminal investigation without charges\".\n\nIn the recording, Weinstein can be heard asking Ms Gutierrez to come into his hotel room. The model asks the producer \"why yesterday you touched my breast?\" He apologises, saying he \"won't do it again\".\n\nWeinstein's spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister said: \"Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr Weinstein. Mr Weinstein has further confirmed that there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances.\n\n\"Mr Weinstein obviously can't speak to anonymous allegations, but with respect to any women who have made allegations on the record, Mr Weinstein believes that all of these relationships were consensual.\n\n\"Mr Weinstein has begun counselling, has listened to the community and is pursuing a better path.\"\n\nOn Wednesday she declined to comment on reports that Weinstein was intending to travel to Europe to enter a rehabilitation facility.", "It is traditionally the job of a chancellor to look after the nation's money, not to be flash with taxpayers' cash, to balance the books, and not to go around making promises that can't be paid for.\n\nAnd in normal times under Conservative governments there is usually customary support from the backbenches for them to err on the side of caution when it comes to controlling the purse strings.\n\nBut there is very visible anger from some Tory quarters today about Philip Hammond's approach to spending when it comes to making preparations for life outside the EU. Why?\n\nWell, how much to spend on preparing for leaving the EU without a deal, and when to spend it, has become the new faultline in the Tories' never ending divisions over Brexit.\n\nThe chancellor wrote in the Times this morning that he'd only be prepared to spend money when it was necessary and not in next month's Budget.\n\nAnd he went even further in front of MPs this morning, saying that he wouldn't spend until the \"very last moment\".\n\nThat is a direct challenge to some Brexiteers who have been pushing for billions to be spent now, yes, to be ready just in case, but also in order to demonstrate to Brussels that the threat to walk away is a real one.\n\nAnd two different cabinet sources say his comments today come on top of a row at cabinet yesterday over precisely this issue, an exchange described as \"robust\".\n\nNumber 10 acknowledges that there was a brief discussion of the preparation for the \"no deal\" scenario, although they deny (as they would) that there was anything like a ding-dong.\n\nBut one of the cabinet sources suggests Mr Hammond's behaviour is either \"deliberate and divisive or politically stupid\".\n\nBut it led today to what Brexiteers are claiming was a \"deliberate slapdown\" of the chancellor by Theresa May at Prime Minister's Questions, when she made plain that money would be forthcoming for \"no deal\" planning as and when it was necessary, striking a rather different tone to the chancellor's \"very last moment\", comments.\n\nAs Numbers 10 and 11 point out, the Treasury has already allocated more than half a billion to specific contingency planning and held back billions in last year's spending round to provide headroom if Brexit goes awry.\n\nBut right now, the Treasury is clearly not willing to give in to some of his colleagues' demands to write big cheques for the \"what if\".\n\nFor Mr Hammond's team it makes no sense to be spending money when there's hardly any around, unnecessarily, and certainly not to send political signals to Brussels.\n\nBut for those in the Tory party who already resent and disagree with his attitude, it's another reason to have a pop.\n\nFor those of us watching on, it's another sign of how the Tories are consumed with fighting each other over Brexit, rather than the opposition.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michel Barnier: 'We've reached a state of deadlock which is very disturbing'\n\nThe EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier says there has not been enough progress to move to the next stage of Brexit talks as the UK wants.\n\nHe said there was \"new momentum\" in the process but there was still \"deadlock\" over how much the UK pays when it leaves, which he called \"disturbing\".\n\nBrexit Secretary David Davis said he still hoped for the go-ahead for trade talks when EU leaders meet next week.\n\nThe pair were speaking after the fifth round of Brexit talks in Brussels.\n\nMr Barnier said: \"I am not able in the current circumstances to propose next week to the European Council that we should start discussions on the future relationship.\"\n\nThe UK's Brexit Secretary David Davis urged EU leaders at the summit, on 19 and 20 October, to give Mr Barnier a mandate to start trade talks and to \"build on the spirit of co-operation we now have\".\n\nHe said there had been progress on the area of citizens' rights that had moved the two sides \"even closer to a deal\".\n\nThe EU chief negotiator told reporters at the joint press conference he hoped for \"decisive progress\" by the time of the December summit of the European Council.\n\nHe said Theresa May's announcement that Britain would honour financial commitments entered into as an EU member was \"important\".\n\nBut he said there had been no negotiations on the issue this week because the UK was not ready to spell out what it would pay.\n\n\"On this question we have reached a state of deadlock which is very disturbing for thousands of project promoters in Europe and it's disturbing also for taxpayers.\"\n\nNot even Brexit's biggest cheerleader could claim the discussions in Brussels have been going well. And there are visible frustrations on both sides.\n\nBut before claiming this morning's drama means the whole thing is doomed there are a few things worth remembering.\n\nAt the very start of this whole process, the hope was that in October, the EU would agree to move on to the next phase of the talks, to talk about our future relationship. But for months it has been clear that the chances of that were essentially zero.\n\nIt is not, therefore, a surprise to hear Mr Barnier saying right now, he doesn't feel able to press the button on phase 2, however much he enjoyed the drama of saying so today.\n\nSecond, behind the scenes, although it has been slow, there has been some progress in the talks but officials in some areas have reached the end of the line until their political masters give them permission to move on.\n\nThe so-called divorce bill covers things like the pensions of former EU staff in the UK, the cost of relocating EU agencies based in the UK and outstanding commitments to EU programmes. The UK has said it will meet its legal requirements and there has been speculation the bill could be anywhere between £50bn and £100bn, spread over a number of years.\n\nBBC Europe Correspondent Kevin Connolly said the UK sees its total financial commitment \"as its best negotiating card to be played somewhere near the end of the talks - the EU wants that card to be shown now at a point which is still relatively early in a two-year game\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: Time to put 'tiger in tank' on Brexit talks\n\nThe UK has also offered to keep paying into the EU budget during a proposed two-year transition period.\n\nThe EU had two other issues on which it would not make any \"concessions\", said Mr Barnier - citizens' rights and the Northern Ireland border.\n\nOn the status of the border, Mr Barnier said negotiations had \"advanced\" during this week's discussions.\n\nBut he said there was \"more work to do in order to build a full picture of the challenges to North-South co-operation resulting from the UK - and therefore Northern Ireland - leaving the EU legal framework\".\n\nAsked about speculation that the UK could exit the EU in March 2019 without a trade deal, Mr Barnier said the EU was ready for \"any eventualities\" but added: \"No deal will be a very bad deal.\"\n\nMr Davis said: \"It's not what we seek, we want to see a good deal, but we are planning for everything.\"\n\nBoth men said progress had been made on citizens' rights, with Mr Davis saying there would be an agreement \"soon\" to ensure EU nationals in the UK would be able to enforce their rights through the UK courts.\n\nHe said EU citizens would still have to register with the UK authorities but the process would be streamlined to make it as simple and cheap as possible.\n\nAccording to Mr Davis, the remaining sticking points include:\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"I think it's quite shocking. We're now 15 months on since the referendum and the government seems to have reached deadlock at every stage.\"\n\nHe said \"falling out\" of the EU without a trade deal would threaten \"a lot of jobs all across Britain\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Starmer: \"We need to grasp the urgency.\"\n\nLabour is calling for \"emergency\" talks between Mr Davis and the EU early next week, to try to break the deadlock ahead of the EU summit.\n\nEarlier this week, European Council President Donald Tusk suggested that the green light to begin talks about a post-Brexit trade deal would not come until December at the earliest.\n\nMeanwhile, draft conclusions for next week's summit of EU leaders - which could yet change - call for internal work to begin on possible transitional arrangements and trade talks with the UK.\n\nThat would mean they could move ahead with negotiations on a future relationship, if \"sufficient progress has been achieved\" in talks.\n\nBut the draft conclusions seen by the BBC, if adopted, suggest EU leaders are not yet ready to begin talks with the UK about a post-Brexit transition deal.\n\nLast month Prime Minister Theresa May used a speech in Florence to set out proposals for a two-year transition period after the UK leaves the EU in March 2019, in a bid to ease the deadlock.", "Stamp duty in England may be changed to encourage people to make their homes more energy efficient.\n\nEnergy minister Claire Perry told the BBC householders would face \"carrots and sticks\" to prompt them into saving on heating bills and carbon emissions.\n\nIt may form part of a plan by ministers to get about a million homes a year renovated during the next two decades.\n\nThe government will fail to meet its climate change laws unless it can cut emissions from household heating.\n\nThe proposals are part of the government's long-delayed Clean Growth Plan, being published on Thursday, which defines how it aims to reduce carbon emissions across the whole economy.\n\nAs part of the the Climate Change Act, the government needs to cut CO2 emissions by 57% from 1990 levels by 2050.\n\nA recent report called for radical policies to incentivise homeowners - such as fining people who sell cold, draughty homes, or introducing a variable stamp duty to reward those who have insulated their homes and punish those who have not.\n\nThe point of sale of a house is seen as the best time to undertake improvements that many people find costly and disruptive.\n\nMs Perry told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme she was \"interested\" in the idea of lowering stamp duty on properties that have been made energy efficient.\n\nShe described the idea as potentially \"one of the incentives\" to encourage homeowners into implementing energy-saving measures on their houses.\n\nShe added: \"It's more likely that a home where insulation has been put in would attract a higher value, because the running cost of that home over the lifetime of ownership would be lower.\"\n\nThe application of stamp duty is devolved around the UK, so this would only apply to energy efficient homes in England.\n\nHomes now account for 13% of the UK's emissions, and this rises to 22% once electricity use is taken into account.\n\nEd Matthew, from the climate change think tank E3G, has welcomed the plan but says there needs to be a clear strategy.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"The government is trying to triple the rate at which homes are being insulated. This policy is really ambitious but it needs money - and the Treasury has to stump up.\"\n\nThe UK has led the developed world by boosting its economy 60% whilst cutting carbon emissions 42% since 1990. But most of the carbon saving has come through cutting down on burning coal for power.\n\nAdvisors warn that the government's future policies will lead them to miss carbon targets by a long distance. They say emissions from transport and housing have recently been going up.\n\nMs Perry said the plan would cover all parts of the economy, including cars and industrial emissions.\n\nBut energy campaigners fear the plan will not contain the measures necessary to meet the government's own laws on cutting carbon.\n\nJonathan Church, a spokesman for the environmental lawyers ClientEarth, said the strategy didn't go far enough.\n\nHe said: \"We need a firm commitment to say how the UK will decarbonise. Ministers do seem to be trying to make up lost ground with their new strategy, but they have not done enough.\"", "The claim: Nicola Sturgeon told her party conference that the Scottish government's commitment to early years education and childcare was \"unmatched anywhere else in the UK\" as she fleshed out plans to expand childcare provision.\n\nReality Check verdict: Overall, Scotland's planned childcare provision would be the most generous in the UK, as it plans to offer 1,140 hours a year, regardless of whether parents are in work. However, a pilot scheme under way in Wales is better for working parents as it offers 1,440 hours a year.\n\nWhen Nicola Sturgeon took to the stage at the SNP conference, she said she was committed to giving children in Scotland \"the best possible start in life\".\n\nShe confirmed that the Scottish government would increase its offer of free childcare from 16 hours a week to 30 hours for three- and four-year-olds, as well as vulnerable two-year-olds, by 2020.\n\nAnd she pledged to double investment in early years education and childcare, from £420m to £840m a year, by the end of the current parliament.\n\n\"This is a commitment unmatched anywhere else in the UK,\" she said. \"And it's the best investment we can make in Scotland's future.\"\n\nThe first minister's office confirmed that what she meant was that the universality of care offered to children north of the border would be better than that provided in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nReality Check has looked into the claims.\n\nParents of three- and four-year-olds and vulnerable two-year-olds in Scotland are currently offered 600 hours of free childcare a year.\n\nIt works out at roughly 16 hours a week over 38 weeks of the year but families can choose to spread the hours over a longer period.\n\nThe Scottish government wants to increase annual childcare provision to 1,140 hours by 2020.\n\nFunded childcare is currently offered to all families in Scotland - regardless of the employment status of their parents.\n\nThat is where Nicola Sturgeon's plans differ from those in practice across the rest of the UK.\n\nAll families in England are currently offered 570 free hours a year.\n\nHowever, where both parents (or one in single-parent families) work more than 16 hours a week, they are entitled to 1,140 hours a year.\n\nIn Wales, a pilot scheme is under way where working families in seven authorities are offered 1,440 hours of childcare a year.\n\nThat works out at 30 hours a week over 48 weeks.\n\nAs in England, it is available only to families where both parents (or one in a single-parent family) work more than 16 hours a week.\n\nEvery child in Wales is eligible for 10 hours of early years education a week, from the term after their third birthday. That is incorporated into the 30 free hours in the pilot areas.\n\nFamilies in Northern Ireland can access between 12.5 and 22.5 hours of funded pre-school education a week over 38 weeks for all three- and four-year-olds.\n\nOne of the key actions of the NI executive's draft programme for government was to \"extend responsive, high-quality provision in early childhood education and care\" for families with young children.\n\nHowever, Northern Ireland has been without an executive for 10 months, following a row between the DUP and Sinn Fein. The parties are in discussions to restore the government.", "The US embassy owes the most in congestion charges\n\nForeign diplomats owe more than £105m in congestion charges in London, the foreign secretary has said.\n\nThe US embassy owes the highest amount - £11.5m - in congestion zone fees, which were incurred between the charge's introduction in 2003 and December 2016.\n\nIn 2016, 4,311 parking fines had been issued to embassies, totalling at least £430,126, the Foreign Office said.\n\nAfter payments and some amounts that were waived, £327,962 remains unpaid.\n\nIn a written ministerial statement, Boris Johnson said the Foreign Office had held meetings with \"a number of missions\" about the outstanding debts.\n\nThere has been a longstanding dispute over the US embassy's bill because the Americans treat the congestion charge as a tax, so diplomats need not pay it.\n\nMr Johnson said the issue of unpaid fines was raised in introductory meeting with all new ambassadors and high commissioners and officials also pressed the matter.\n\nHe said: \"In April this year, Protocol Directorate wrote to diplomatic missions and international organisations concerned giving them the opportunity to either pay their outstanding debts, or appeal against specific fines if they considered that they had been issued incorrectly.\"\n\nIt was also revealed that, in 2016, 12 \"serious and significant offences\" had allegedly been committed by people entitled to diplomatic immunity.\n\nThese were defined as crimes that could carry at least a 12-month prison sentence.\n\nEight of the 12 offences were driving related, including drinking and driving and driving without insurance.\n\nThree offences - actual bodily harm, possession of a class-B drug with intent to supply, and possession of an offensive weapon - were allegedly committed by a Libyan diplomat.\n\nAn offence of sexual assault had been recorded against someone employed by the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, the ministerial statement said.\n\nThe government said most of the 22,500 people entitled to diplomatic immunity in the UK abided by the law.\n\n\"The number of alleged serious crimes committed by members of the diplomatic community in the UK is proportionately low,\" Mr Johnson said.", "Philip Hammond's role as chancellor is challenged by some of the papers\n\nThe Daily Telegraph says the prime minister has been forced to put her Brexit plans on hold because of what it calls a \"potentially disastrous\" Tory rebellion.\n\nAccording to the paper, the government has delayed parliamentary scrutiny of the EU Withdrawal Bill because it faces defeat on more than a dozen hostile amendments.\n\nThe Guardian says Theresa May's government is \"struggling to respond\" to the \"deluge\" of amendments which now amount to about 300. The paper says the growing scale of the discontent in Parliament just underlines the challenge facing Mrs May over Brexit.\n\nMeanwhile, the Financial Times reports that Whitehall is planning to hire 2,000 extra staff to deal with Brexit in a sign, it says, of how its resources are increasingly being diverted towards the challenges of leaving the EU.\n\nThe Times focuses on the intervention of the former Conservative Chancellor, Lord Lawson, who has called on the current incumbent, Philip Hammond, to be sacked.\n\nHe says Mr Hammond's unwillingness to prepare properly for the eventuality of no deal being struck at the end of the Brexit talks is close to sabotage and should lead to his dismissal.\n\nNigel Lawson's demand is also the lead for the Daily Mail which carries the simple headline: \"sack 'saboteur' Hammond\".\n\nThe Sun claims an exclusive with its report that the disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein propositioned the singer and TV presenter Myleene Klass with what it calls a \"sex contract\".\n\nThe paper says she declined the offer which was apparently made over lunch in 2010.\n\nAccording to the LA Times, Hollywood is already starting to, in its phrase, \"kick the tires\" of the Weinstein Company.\n\nIt says studios, production companies, distributors and other investors have been calling bankers to assess whether to bid for pieces of the company if the firm is unable to stay afloat amid the scandal.\n\nA number of papers carry a photograph of a Western family who have been rescued after being held by militants in Pakistan for nearly five years.\n\nThe Times reports that Caitlan Coleman, her Canadian husband Josh Boyle and their three children, had survived death threats during their captivity.\n\nJosh Boyle told the Ontario Star that he and his family had been in the boot of their kidnappers' car when the rescue operation took place and five of their captors were shot dead by Pakistani security forces.\n\nThe Daily Mail is among a number of papers to tell the extraordinary story of a Dorset fisherman.\n\nThe unnamed 28-year-old had just caught a small Dover Sole which he was holding up near his face when the fish slipped out of his hands and down his throat, blocking his airways and provoking a heart attack.\n\nHis friends gave him CPR until help arrived, the fish was extracted and his pulse returned to normal.\n\nA paramedic who treated him at the scene said: \"I have never attended a more bizarre incident and I don't think I ever will.\"\n\nAnd the Daily Telegraph recounts the distressing ordeal of Keith Boleat - a veteran of the Jersey Petanque Association.\n\nMr Boleat and his playing partners were on their way to an international competition in Denmark when the suitcase carrying his three steel boules was confiscated by airport authorities because they suspected they were bombs.\n\nThe 62-year-old had to make do with a borrowed set and the team duly lost - to Germany.", "Royal Mail has won an injunction in London's High Court preventing next week's 48-hour strike.\n\nThe postal firm's workers had been set to walk out from 19 October in protest over pensions, wages and jobs.\n\nBut the company said the strike would be \"unlawful\" if the Communication Workers Union (CWU) did not follow dispute resolution procedures.\n\nA strike ballot of the CWU's 110,000 members had produced an 89.1% vote in favour on a 73.7% turnout.\n\nIt would have been the first national strike since Royal Mail was privatised four years ago.\n\nThe CWU said it was \"extremely disappointed\" at the ruling and described it as \"a desperate delaying tactic from a board who are increasingly out of touch with the views of its workforce\".\n\nRoyal Mail said in a statement: \"We will now make contact with the CWU as a matter of urgency to begin the process of external mediation.\n\nThe firm said it expected the process to take until Christmas and added: \"We are very committed to working closely with the CWU in order to reach agreement as a matter of priority.\"\n\nMr Justice Supperstone, who granted the injunction, said: \"I consider the strike call to be unlawful and the defendant is obliged to withdraw its strike call until the external mediation process has been exhausted.\"\n\nThe CWU has said that Royal Mail's move to reform workers' pensions means that its members will lose up to a third of their retirement entitlements.\n\nThe company said pension scheme members would indeed build up smaller benefits in future, but that was because the plan in its current form was unaffordable.\n\nEarlier this year, the Royal Mail announced that it would close its current defined benefit scheme in March 2018.\n\nAlthough the pension fund is in surplus, Royal Mail, which was privatised in 2013, claims that its current annual contribution of £400m a year would swell to £1.26bn.\n\nThe company also said it was one of the few firms offering to replace one defined-benefit scheme with another.\n\nCWU general secretary Dave Ward said: \"The company are deluded if they believe their courtroom politics will resolve this dispute. Instead, the company's actions will have the complete opposite effect.\n\n\"Postal workers' attitude towards the company will harden and it makes us more determined than ever to defend our members' pensions, jobs, service and achieve our objectives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. George Osborne was one of the gang's 103 victims\n\nA moped gang that robbed more than 100 people, including an attempted robbery on former chancellor George Osborne, has been jailed.\n\nClaude Parkinson, 18, and two boys aged 16 and 15, carried out the robberies over a five-day spree that \"spiralled out of control\".\n\nAll three had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery.\n\nA fourth unknown member used a hammer to intimidate victims in Camden, Westminster, Islington and Chelsea.\n\nThe gang were sentenced at Southwark Crown Court.\n\nAfter they were arrested in May, police reported a 40% drop in moped-related robberies in Westminster.\n\nShamsul Chowdhury, 40, and Claude Parkinson, 18, were both jailed for their part in the spree\n\nThe gang rode the streets of London snatching items of value out of victims' hands before driving away.\n\nMr Osborne was one of an estimated 103 victims of the gang when an attempt was made to snatch his mobile phone outside the BBC in May.\n\nIn a victim impact statement previously read out to the court, Mr Osborne said he had felt \"shocked and stunned\" after the attempted robbery.\n\nCCTV footage from near Broadcasting House showed a passenger on the moped trying to grab the phone out of his hand, before fleeing empty-handed.\n\nIn sentencing, Judge David Tomlinson said: \"With or without weapons, throughout this course of conduct there was a risk to the safety and wellbeing of members of our community.\n\n\"Your willingness to use weapons to threaten violence showed that your offending had spiralled out of control.\"\n\nThe gang was paid £55 to £200 for the stolen handsets, the court heard.\n\nA fifth member of the gang Shamsul Chowdhury, 40, of Bethnal Green, would traffic the phones to Bangladesh.\n\nChowdhury was sentenced to four years and 10 months after admitting handling stolen goods.\n\nParkinson, from Islington, was sentenced to five years and three months for robbery.\n\nThe 16 and 15-year-olds - who cannot be named for legal reasons - were both jailed for four years and two months.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "All the indications are that President Trump will refuse to recertify the present Iran nuclear deal some time before the due date of 15 October. This would light a fuse that could potentially explode the agreement. It raises questions about how Iran will respond. And it creates huge diplomatic difficulties between the US and many of its key European allies who wholeheartedly back the deal.\n\nThe agreement, negotiated with Iran by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council together with Germany and the European Union, was reached in July 2015. Its aim was to ensure that Iran's nuclear programme was entirely peaceful.\n\nThe deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), began to be implemented in January 2016. In return for the progressive lifting of a range of economic sanctions, Iran halted some of its activities and reduced others within strict limits, all open to verification by international inspectors.\n\nThere are four crucial things to remember about the deal.\n\nForcing Iran to halt its nuclear activities altogether was not feasible. Many of the restrictions imposed by the JCPOA contain \"sunset clauses\", which run out after a number of years. What happens then is a valid question, but it was felt by all the parties that constraining Iran's nuclear programme for the immediate future was a deal worth taking.\n\nIt is easy to forget that there was a real concern at the time the deal was being negotiated that without an agreement there could be a military conflict.\n\nDonald Trump spoke at rallies criticising the Iran nuclear deal, during the presidential campaign\n\nIsrael was pressing for military action. Many of Iran's Arab enemies in the Gulf quietly backed such a step and there were questions as to whether the US itself might have to use force to prevent Iran developing the capability to manufacture and deliver a nuclear weapon.\n\nSound familiar? It is much like the position that the US is in today with North Korea. The JCPOA was intended to manage Iran's nuclear activities, avoiding a recourse to war.\n\nThe JCPOA was about Iran's nuclear programme and nothing else. Iran does many things that the US, and its European and Middle Eastern allies, believe are damaging to security in the region.\n\nThat is an important but a different matter, one that I will come back to in a moment. The JCPOA was and is a nuclear deal, pure and simple.\n\nAnd that brings me to perhaps the most fundamental point of all.\n\nEveryone - and that includes the UN's nuclear watchdog and all of the signatories (including senior figures in the Trump administration) - believes that Iran is abiding by the agreement to the letter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A timeline of what Trump's said about the Iran deal\n\nIt wanted to have some oversight over the application of the JCPOA and brought in legislation, the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act (INARA), which requires the US president to certify every 90 days not just that Iran is complying with the deal, but that the continued suspension of nuclear-related US economic sanctions remains vital to the national security interests of the United States.\n\nSo far - despite criticising the Iran nuclear deal at every opportunity - President Trump has grudgingly recertified the JCPOA under this legislation. But now he looks set to change his mind.\n\nAssuming he does now refuse to recertify the deal, insisting that it is no longer in US interests to do so, what then? What does it mean? And what happens next?\n\nThe crucial point to grasp is that the Iran deal (JCPOA) and the US legislation (INARA) are two totally different things.\n\nBy decertifying the Iran deal, Mr Trump would not be withdrawing from it. He would certainly be making a fundamental point about his view of its utility. He would be opening up a path under which Congress could effectively cease US compliance with the deal.\n\nBut in practical terms, this is a multinational agreement that is being adhered to and thus it would remain active with or without a certification from Mr Trump.\n\nOf course, having decertified the deal, the president could simply reimpose some or all of the economic sanctions that have been waived under the JCPOA, and this would certainly mean that the US was no longer complying with its terms of the deal.\n\nBut the more likely scenario would be that - under the US INARA legislation - the whole issue would go to Capitol Hill for the US Congress to decide.\n\nOpinion there is divided. There is clearly no warmth felt towards Tehran, but at this stage it is not clear what Congress might do.\n\nThe Iran nuclear deal was announced in Vienna, Austria, in July 2015\n\nWould it reimpose some or all sanctions - thus pulling the US out of the deal - or decide to bide its time? There are indications that some of those on Capitol Hill most critical of the deal at the time are now reluctant to tear it up.\n\nNow we come to another crucial aspect of this whole business: the ostensible reason why Mr Trump may decertify the agreement in the first place.\n\nIran is seen by the West and its allies as a major problem in the region. Paradoxically, the US itself helped to facilitate Iran's rise as a regional player through its destruction of the Saddam Hussein government in Iraq.\n\nIran has an important say with the Shia-dominated government in Baghdad. It - along with its proxy militias - is a major player in Syria. And it has a hand in the conflict in Yemen, though there is debate about the scale of its activities there.\n\nAdd in worries about its missile programmes and its alleged support for terrorism, and there are good reasons for concern about its growing regional influence.\n\nThe JCPOA agreement has not changed Iran's wider behaviour.\n\nUnder the deal, Iran's uranium stockpile will be reduced by 98% to 300kg (0.3 tonnes) for 15 years\n\nThe activities of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps and its missile-research effort have continued.\n\nThe JCPOA was never intended to tackle these wider issues. But in some basic sense, Mr Trump looks set to contend that Iran is not living up to the \"spirit\" of the deal - it's not playing nice - and that is why he will choose to decertify it.\n\nThe Trump administration wants to get tough with Tehran.\n\nThe president is likely to set his decertification of the JCPOA as part of a wider set of policies intended to punish Iran, as he would see it, for its bad behaviour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAll sorts of new sanctions could be on the table. Remember, there is still a whole battery of sanctions in place both from the US and the EU for a variety of other things - separate from the nuclear programme - such as terrorism or human rights violations.\n\nOne suggestion is that the Trump administration might decide to brand the whole of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity.\n\nThis body - part security force, part military, part ideological vanguard - also controls a significant part of the Iranian economy. More sanctions here could cause problems not just for Iran, but between the US and those of its allies who want to open up trade with Tehran.\n\nSo if, as expected, Mr Trump does decertify the Iran nuclear deal, it is not necessarily the end of the agreement.\n\nIranian President Hassan Rouhani said the US would damage its own reputation if it violates the nuclear deal\n\nAmerica's allies are lining up to encourage both the White House and Congress to stick with the deal.\n\nEven if Congress chooses not to reapply sanctions for now, the next problem becomes the scope and impact of the Trump administration's wider policy towards Tehran.\n\nIran for now is likely to do nothing. It will see decertification as an internal legal US matter, and is likely to continue to adhere to the agreement. Indeed, it may well relish the widening split between Washington and its key European allies.\n\nBut the way Tehran responds to any other US steps may well decide the fate of the nuclear deal.\n\nRemember, this is a US administration dominated by military figures, many of whom have been up against Iranian-backed forces in the field.\n\nThey may back the nuclear deal, but also want to see Tehran held to account for its actions.\n\nInsulating the JCPOA from team Trump's wider Iran policy is not going to be easy, and over time, it may well influence thinking towards the utility of the agreement in Iran itself.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It was \"an open secret\" a producer tells the BBC\n\nProsecutors have defended their decision not to take action against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein after a woman complained about his behaviour in 2015.\n\nThe Manhattan district attorney's office says undercover audio of the complainant and Weinstein was \"insufficient to prove a crime\".\n\nBut they said the Oscar winner had a \"pattern of mistreating women\".\n\nWeinstein says many of the accusations against him are false.\n\nIn a statement, Chief Assistant District Attorney Karen Friedman-Agnifilo said: \"If we could have prosecuted Harvey Weinstein for the conduct that occurred in 2015, we would have.\n\n\"Mr Weinstein's pattern of mistreating women, as recounted in recent reports, is disgraceful and shocks the conscience.\"\n\nItalian model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, 22, had gone to police to accuse Weinstein of touching her inappropriately. She then agreed to meet the producer again while wearing a hidden microphone.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The New Yorker released audio of an alleged undercover sting operation by New York Police (UK users only)\n\nThe district attorney's office say police arranged the meeting without informing them. \"Prosecutors were not afforded the opportunity before the meeting to counsel investigators on what was necessary to capture in order to prove a misdemeanour sex crime,\" they said.\n\nThey say the \"horrifying\" audio \"was insufficient to prove a crime under New York law\" which left prosecutors with \"no choice but to conclude the criminal investigation without charges\".\n\nIn the recording, Weinstein can be heard asking Ms Gutierrez to come into his hotel room. The model asks the producer \"why yesterday you touched my breast?\" He apologises, saying he \"won't do it again\".\n\nCara Delevingne is the latest actress to accuse Mr Weinstein of inappropriate behaviour\n\nA string of high-profile actresses, including Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie, have come forward to accuse the movie mogul of sexual harassment or assault.\n\nThe British actress and model Cara Delevingne is the latest to accuse Weinstein of inappropriate behaviour. In a statement, she said he tried to kiss her as she attempted to leave a hotel room.\n\n\"I felt very powerless and scared,\" she said.\n\nOn Tuesday, Weinstein denied allegations of rape made in The New Yorker magazine. On the same day, his wife Georgina Chapman said she was leaving him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This is what you will be remembered for\" - Playwright's message to Harvey Weinstein\n\nWeinstein's spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister said: \"Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr Weinstein. Mr Weinstein has further confirmed that there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances.\n\n\"Mr Weinstein obviously can't speak to anonymous allegations, but with respect to any women who have made allegations on the record, Mr Weinstein believes that all of these relationships were consensual.\n\n\"Mr Weinstein has begun counselling, has listened to the community and is pursuing a better path.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Model Zoe Brock tells Radio 4's Today that she was one of Harvey Weinstein's victims\n\nThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which hosts the Oscars, branded the allegations against Mr Weinstein \"abhorrent\" and said it will hold a meeting on Saturday to discuss further action.\n\nIt comes after Bafta, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts suspended his membership of the organisation.", "The prime minister said she wanted a deal and believed one was achievable\n\nThe government will spend whatever is necessary to make sure the UK is ready for Brexit, Downing Street has said.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said £250m of new money had been allocated this year to prepare for leaving the EU, \"including the possibility of a no-deal scenario\".\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Theresa May said \"where money needs to be spent it will be spent\".\n\nEarlier, Chancellor Philip Hammond said funding for a no-deal plan would not happen \"until the very last moment\".\n\nHe suggested it was not wise to spend money - which could alternatively go to the NHS or schools - at this stage on an outcome which may or may not happen, merely to \"send a message\" to the EU.\n\nIn response, several Tory MPs have criticised the Treasury, one accusing it of \"incompetence\" and another suggesting the EU would not listen to the UK unless it was sure it was seriously preparing for the possibility of leaving in March 2019 without a negotiated agreement.\n\nThe BBC understands a row broke out at Tuesday's Cabinet meeting over the issue of contingency funding in the event of a \"no deal\" scenario in the Brexit negotiations.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said two different cabinet sources confirmed there was a \"robust\" exchange. Downing Street denied there was a row but acknowledged there had been a brief discussion.\n\nShe added that how much to spend on preparations for leaving the EU without a deal, and when to spend it, had become a new faultline in the Tories' divisions over Brexit.\n\nMrs May announced the £250m Brexit contingency funding in response to a question from ex-leader Iain Duncan Smith, who sought assurances \"all necessary monies\" would be spent in case of a no-deal outcome.\n\n\"We are preparing for every eventuality,\" she told MPs. \"We are committing money to prepare for Brexit including a 'no deal' scenario.\n\n\"The Treasury has committed over £250m of new money to departments like DEFRA, the Home Office, HMRC and DfT in this financial year for Brexit preparations and in some cases, departments will need to spend money before the relevant legislation has gone through the House.\"\n\nMrs May said the UK was striving for a good deal with the EU and rejected claims from a Labour MP that she was \"running scared\" of her backbenchers and \"ramping up\" talk about the odds of there being no deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hammond: Not time yet for 'no deal' spending\n\nTwo hours earlier, the chancellor - who has been accused of being too pessimistic about Brexit - told the Treasury committee of MPs that he was \"committed\" to supporting departments prepare for Brexit but said it would be premature to spend money now on the assumption there would be no deal between the UK and EU.\n\n\"We are prepared to spend when we need to spend against the contingency of a 'no deal' outcome,\" he said.\n\n\"I am clear we have to be prepared for a 'no deal' scenario unless and until we have clear evidence that this is not where we will end up.\"\n\n\"What I am not prepared to do is allocate funds to departments in advance of the need to spend,\" he added.\n\n\"Every pound we spend on contingency planning on a hard customs border is a pound we can't spend on the NHS, social care or education. I don't believe we should be in the business of making potentially nugatory expenditure until the very last moment when we need to do so.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Heidi Alexander says the British people \"deserve better than a prime minister simply running scared\"\n\nIllustrating what he said was one worst case scenario for a \"no deal\", he said there could be no air travel taking place between the UK and the EU on Brexit day - 29 March 2019 - but added that he did not see that as likely to happen, even if the UK/EU talks failed to reach agreement.\n\nThe current state of Brexit negotiations were a \"cloud of uncertainty\" hanging over the UK economy, he said, which could only removed by progress and the EU agreeing to begin talks on its future relations with the UK.\n\nOne ex-minister, David Jones, has said billions should be set aside in November's Budget for a \"no deal\" scenario, arguing that if this did not happen it would be seen as a \"a sign of weakness\" by EU leaders.\n\nAnd Jacob Rees-Mogg said the Treasury's conduct with regard to Brexit had been \"incompetent bordering on the dishonest\" and planning for all possible outcomes was a necessary \"insurance policy\".\n\n\"If you think the EU is claiming 100bn euros from us, to have credibility for the no deal scenario we have to show that it's real and it can happen,\" he said.\n\n\"And most of the money that would be spent for no deal would be money that's needed for the end result anyway.\n\n\"So, changes to the borders, changes to customs and excise, will need to take place regardless of whether there is a deal or not. So it's not wasted money, it will be money that's very well spent.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carly (right) walking down the aisle just moments before her collapse\n\nAbout 10,000 people die each year because bystanders do not know how to do CPR if they see someone in cardiac arrest, the British Heart Foundation says. One woman says she owes her life to people who acted quickly when she collapsed.\n\nThe photos capture Carly Williams smiling as she walks up the flower-lined aisle as maid of honour at her sister's wedding.\n\nBut moments later she collapsed without warning and had a cardiac arrest in front of her family, friends and two young sons.\n\nHer heart had gone into a dangerously irregular rhythm and stopped beating.\n\nCarly, 34, has no memory of her collapse but says she felt totally normal in the lead-up to the ceremony at a central London hotel in July.\n\n\"Apparently I said I was dizzy and I thought I might faint. I actually collapsed as soon as I sat down with my head in the other bridesmaid's lap,\" she tells the Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\n\"People realised there was something wrong as I didn't stand for the bride and I started breathing in an irregular way.\"\n\nJodie, centre, pictured with Carly to her left and the rest of her bridal party.\n\nThere were calls for a first aider and ambulance. One of the guests was a childminder who realised Carly's heart had stopped and started performing CPR, helped by her two cousins who had completed a first aid course two weeks earlier.\n\n\"The hotel had a defibrillator but the staff had no idea how to use it. My cousins learned how to use it on the course. They shocked me and it worked - I had a pulse but still wasn't conscious,\" she says.\n\nMeanwhile, her sister Jodie - who had been planning her £70,000 wedding for a year - had been taken out of the room along with the other guests.\n\n\"It was so surreal, like a nightmare,\" she says on looking back and seeing her sister undergo CPR.\n\nCarly, pictured holding her daughter Matilda, says she felt totally normal before the ceremony.\n\nJodie believes it was lucky that she had chosen the hotel for the venue, just minutes away from St Thomas', a specialist heart hospital. She describes it as \"the best decision I have ever made\".\n\n\"I had been feeling very guilty worrying that this was Carly worrying about the wedding that had brought this on. My dad told me my wedding had saved her life,\" she says.\n\nAnother decision was also crucial. Carly had wanted to return to their hotel room to collect the corsages, but her dad said to leave them. \"It was lucky I didn't go, as my heart might have stopped when I was alone in the room,\" she says.\n\nCarly was taken to hospital where she was put in an induced coma. Jodie said all she wanted to do was get out of her gown and see her - so they called off the wedding, sending the 115 guests home.\n\n\"I expected it to be the best day of my life but it was the worst. I felt like I was about to fall off the edge of the world.\"\n\nCarly emerged from the coma within 24 hours. A few days later she asked if the wedding had gone ahead and felt \"really bad\" when Jodie explained what had happened.\n\nCarly has been fitted with a defibrillator called an S-ICD in case her heart fails again.\n\n\"We were so excited about the wedding - but she didn't mind at all. The chances of this happening in a room with three first aid-trained people and a defibrillator are so slim that actually I was lucky that it did,\" she says.\n\nCarly has had a device fitted called an S-ICD, a defibrillator that she describes as \"insurance\" in case it happens again. \"My heart is now doing its normal thing - but they don't know why it happened,\" she says.\n\nThe sisters are campaigning with the British Heart Foundation for more people to learn how to do CPR and use defibrillators as part of its Restart a Heart campaign - which will see 150,000 people learn CPR on 16 October.\n\nAnd Jodie says she still wants to get married, once Carly is well enough.\n\n\"I still feel traumatised and get upset by it,\" she says. \"My big worry on the day was the kids not walking down the aisle on their own. It's hard to believe that worried me now - health is all that matters,\" she says.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "Young first-time buyers are increasing their overall mortgage debt in order to tackle short-term financial pressures.\n\nThe average mortgage term is lengthening from the traditional 25 years, according to figures from broker L&C Mortgages.\n\nIts figures show the proportion of new buyers taking out 31 to 35-year mortgages has doubled in 10 years.\n\nThat means lower monthly repayments, but a bigger overall bill owing to the extra interest incurred.\n\nThe extra total cost can be tens of thousands of pounds.\n\nWhere can you afford to live? Try our housing calculator to see where you could rent or buy This interactive content requires an internet connection and a modern browser. Do you want to buy or rent? Use the buttons to increase or decrease the number of bedrooms: minimum one, maximum four. Alternatively, enter a number into the text input How much is your deposit? Enter your deposit below or adjust the deposit amount using the slider Return to 'How much is your deposit?' This calculator assumes you need a deposit of at least 5% of the value of the property to get a mortgage. The average deposit for UK first-time buyers is . How much can you pay monthly? Enter your monthly payment below or adjust the payment amount using the slider Return to 'How much can you pay monthly?' Your monthly payments are what you can afford to pay each month. Think about your monthly income and take off bills, council tax and living expenses. The average rent figure is for England and Wales. Amount of the that has housing you can Explore the map in detail below Search the UK for more details about a local area What does affordable mean? You have a big enough deposit and your monthly payments are high enough. The prices are based on the local market. If there are 100 properties of the right size in an area and they are placed in price order with the cheapest first, the “low-end” of the market will be the 25th property, \"mid-priced\" is the 50th and \"high-end” will be the 75th.\n\nThe average term for a mortgage taken by a first-time buyer has risen slowly but steadily to more than 27 years, according to the L&C figures drawn from its customer data.\n\nMore detailed data shows that in 2007, there were 59% of first-time buyers who had mortgage terms of 21 to 25 years. That proportion dropped to 39% this year.\n\nIn contrast, mortgage terms of 31 to 35 years have been chosen by 22% of first-time buyers this year, compared with 11% in 2007.\n\nThe total cost of a £150,000 mortgage with an interest rate of 2.5% would be more than £23,000 higher by choosing a 35-year mortgage term rather than a 25-year term.\n\nThe gain for the borrower would be monthly repayments of £536, rather than £673.\n\nDavid Hollingworth, of L&C Mortgages, said that interest-only mortgages were far less of an option for first-time buyers than a decade ago, and many needed to find a large deposit.\n\nThe income squeeze also meant that many \"needed some slack in the monthly budget\", so were choosing the longer-term mortgages.\n\nLenders have been offering longer mortgage terms, of up to 40 years, to reflect longer working lives and life expectancy.\n\nHe suggested that borrowers regularly reviewed their deals.\n\n\"Ideally, if you keep the term shorter, it will save you money in the long run,\" he said.\n\nFirst-time buyers in some parts of the country have seen prices rising very slowly since the financial crisis, assisting affordability, despite stricter checks by lenders.\n\nThe latest survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) showed that more of its members expected house price falls than those expecting rises in the next three months.\n\nPrice falls have been most marked in London and South East England in September, they said, with falls also recorded in East Anglia and North East England.\n\nOn a national level, demand from new buyers and sales also fell in September, the survey suggested.", "Louisiana police have announced arrest warrants for 10 people accused of a role in forcing a university student to drink himself to death last month.\n\nAll the suspects are affiliated with the social club that police say 18-year-old Maxwell Gruver was attempting to join when he died.\n\nOne Louisiana State University student is charged with negligent homicide and nine others are charged with hazing.\n\nAccording to a police affidavit, on the night of 13 September, Gruver had been forced to drink during a Phi Delta Theta initiation each time he incorrectly answered questions about the university's all-male club.\n\nGruver died of \"acute alcohol intoxication with aspiration\", according to a post-mortem examination by the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner.\n\nThe Georgia-native had a blood alcohol level that was over six times the legal limit for driving.\n\n\"Today's arrests underscore that the ramifications of hazing can be devastating,\" said university president F King Alexander on Wednesday.\n\n\"Maxwell Gruver's family will mourn his loss for the rest of their lives, and several other students are now facing serious consequences - all due to a series of poor decisions,\" he continued.\n\nOne suspect, Matthew Naquin, is charged with negligent homicide, which could carry a five-year prison sentence.\n\nThe others face charges of hazing, which carry a 10-30 day jail sentence:\n\nAll 10 suspects are affiliated with the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, but two are not currently enrolled at the school.\n\nThe charges now go to a grand jury, which will determine if there is enough evidence to warrant a criminal trial.\n\nIn September, a judge in Pennsylvania dismissed all the serious charges that had been filed against Pennsylvania State University fraternity members after a student there died during an initiation event.", "A hotel worker has said he alerted staff to report a gunman had opened fire before the suspect shot dead 58 people at a Las Vegas music festival.\n\nStephen Schuck said he was responding to a jammed fire door on the 32nd floor when he heard gunfire and spotted a colleague who had been shot.\n\nHe called dispatchers and told them to call police as the gunman sprayed bullets down the hallway, he said.\n\nHis account has intensified questions about why the gunman was not stopped.\n\n\"As soon as I started to go to a door to my left the rounds started coming down the hallway,\" Mr Schuck said on Wednesday.\n\n\"I could feel them pass right behind my head.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police officers who entered the Las Vegas gunman's hotel room describe what they saw.\n\nMr Schuck said he encountered hotel security guard Jesus Campos, who had been shot in the leg by gunman Stephen Paddock.\n\nMr Campos told the maintenance man to take cover.\n\n\"It was kind of relentless so I called over the radio what was going on,\" said Mr Schuck.\n\n\"As soon as the shooting stopped we made our way down the hallway and took cover again and then the shooting started again.\"\n\nSoon afterwards, Paddock, 64, sprayed bullets upon a nearby crowd at the Route 91 country music festival, perched above in his suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel.\n\nPaddock apparently took his own life after the attack, the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, leaving 58 dead and 500 wounded.\n\nAccording to CBS News, gunfire could be heard as Mr Schuck told a dispatcher on his radio: \"Call the police, someone's firing a gun up here. Someone's firing a rifle on the 32nd floor down the hallway.\"\n\nThe BBC has asked the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department for comment.\n\nMr Schuck's account adds more questions about why police were unaware of the shooting on the 32nd floor before Paddock opened fire on concert-goers below.\n\nPolice initially said Mr Campos, the injured security guard, interrupted the gunman as he was firing upon the crowd from his hotel suite.\n\nBut on Monday police revised the timeline to clarify that Mr Campos was actually shot in the leg and wounded six minutes before Paddock began shooting at the music festival.\n\nHowever the 3,200-room Mandalay Bay hotel disputed the police chronology, telling the BBC that the official police timeline is based on an erroneous initial report compiled by hotel staff.\n\n\"We are now confident that the time stated in this report is not accurate,\" a spokesperson for the hotel said in a statement.\n\n\"We know that shots were being fired at the festival lot at the same time as, or within 40 seconds after, the time Jesus Campos first reported that shots were fired over the radio.\"\n\n\"Metro officers were together with armed Mandalay Bay security officers in the building when Campos first reported that shots were fired over the radio,\" the statement continued, adding that the police and armed hotel security guards \"immediately responded to the 32nd floor\".\n\nPolice said Paddock, who had placed security cameras outside his room, shot Mr Campos through the door of his suite, firing 200 rounds into the hallway.\n\n21:59 Paddock shoots security guard Jesus Campos outside his 32nd floor room. The hotel says they are \"confident\" this is not the accurate time.\n\n22:05 Paddock opens fire on concert-goers below after smashing his window with a hammer\n\n22:17 The first police arrive on the scene and find the wounded security guard near Paddock's room a minute later\n\n23:20 Swat team breaks into Paddock's room and finds him dead from a suspected self-inflicted gunshot", "Newly-qualified GPs are to be offered a one-off payment of £20,000 if they start their careers in areas that struggle to attract family doctors.\n\nThe £4m scheme, to be announced by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, aims to boost the numbers of doctors in rural and coastal areas of England.\n\nMr Hunt said it will help \"reduce the pressure\" on practices in those areas.\n\nThe Royal College of GPs backed the plan, saying there was a \"serious shortage\" of family doctors.\n\nThe one-off payment will be offered to 200 GPs from 2018.\n\nAs of September 2016, there were 41,985 GPs in England.\n\nMr Hunt told the BBC: \"What we're looking to do is to reduce the pressure on those GP practices which are doing a very, very valiant job but can't look after patients as well as they want to, because they're finding it hard to recruit.\"\n\nThe health secretary is due to speak at the Royal College of GPs' annual conference in Liverpool, where he will offer something for those already in the profession too, by announcing plans for flexible working for older doctors - to encourage them to put off retirement.\n\nHe will also confirm plans for an overseas recruitment office which will aim to attract GPs from countries outside Europe to work in England.\n\n\"By introducing targeted support for vulnerable areas and tackling head-on critical issues such as higher indemnity fees and the recruitment and retention of more doctors, we can strengthen and secure general practice for the future,\" he will say.\n\nThe Royal College of GPs said the package must be delivered in full and welcomed the commitment to incentivise working in remote and rural areas.\n\nNHS England has already pledged an extra £2.4bn a year for general practice in England - part of which will fund plans for 5,000 extra GPs by 2020.\n\nBut Dr Richard Vautrey, chairman of the British Medical Association's GP committee, said the government was not on course to reach that target.\n\n\"General practice is facing unprecedented pressure from rising workload, stagnating budgets and a workforce crisis,\" he said.\n\n\"'Golden hellos' are not a new idea and unlikely to solve the overall workforce crisis given we are failing badly to train enough GPs to meet current demands.\"\n\nIn 2016, the BBC learned that there were some practices in England offering a bonus of up to £10,000 to attract new doctors.\n\nBut The Nuffield Trust think tank said recruitment was \"only half the battle\".\n\n\"The NHS is struggling to hang on to qualified GPs, with surveys showing 56% plan to retire or leave practice early. Many trainees also drop out when they finish,\" said senior policy fellow Rebecca Rosen.", "Connor Wood makes its bike frames from white ash or black walnut\n\nThe forerunner of the bicycle - the laufmaschine or running machine - bears only a passing resemblance to the pedal-bikes we know today.\n\nInvented in 1817, it had no chain and was powered by the rider pushing his feet along the ground in a walking or running motion.\n\nEven more unusually, its frame was made from wood.\n\nJump forward to 2017, and a crop of bike makers is turning back the clock - at least in terms of using wood as a core material.\n\nThese firms make their bicycles in part, and occasionally wholly, from woods such as ash, oak and walnut.\n\nThey are driven by a love of craft and design, the desire to use natural materials, and a passion for cycling itself.\n\nChris Connor decided to combine his long held passions for woodwork and cycling\n\nAnd they have attracted a small but growing base of enthusiastic customers, willing to pay high prices for their lovingly crafted creations.\n\n\"People like having something unique, something different,\" says Chris Connor, the founder of Connor Wood Bicycles.\n\n\"They also appreciate the craftsmanship. Not a lot of things are built by hand these days.\"\n\nThe company was born in 2012, after the 48-year-old American decided to combine his long held passions for woodwork and cycling.\n\nAll his bikes all have wooden frames; the other parts, such as the gears and wheels, are made from steel, carbon or rubber.\n\nSales have gradually been increasing, but it hasn't been easy, says Mr Connor. That's because of a perception among some cyclists that wooden bikes may break or be unsafe.\n\nWoodster Bikes makes its frames from beech and bog oak\n\nIn fact, Mr Connor says wood is very durable, which is why it's used to make tool handles, skis, boats, even light aircraft.\n\nIt also absorbs vibrations well, making cycling on bumpy roads smoother, less tiring and quieter.\n\n\"And of course, these bikes look great,\" says Mr Connor, who makes his frames made from \"strong but flexible\" white ash or \"eye candy\" black walnut.\n\nA recently published book called \"The Wooden Bicycle: Around the World\" features 111 companies that make bikes from wood or bamboo.\n\nOnly one, Splinterbike in the UK, sells 100% wooden models with its bikes featuring wooden gears, chains and wheels.\n\nHowever, most limit their use of wood to the frame, and occasionally parts such as the handlebars and forks. Other parts will be made from materials typically associated with bikes, such as aluminium.\n\nIt is the unique design of wooden bikes, and their bespoke craftsmanship, that underpins their appeal, says Gregor Cuzak.\n\nThe Slovenian co-founded Woodster Bikes after meeting woodworker Iztok Mohoric, who had recently designed a bike with a wooden frame.\n\n\"I wasn't interested at first, but after I saw it and took a ride, I was immediately convinced,\" Mr Cuzak says. \"People were watching me as if I was driving a wild sports car.\"\n\nPiet Brandjes, right, co-founder of Bough Bikes with his son Bob\n\nLike other firms in the space, Woodster is targeting customers who appreciate the finer things in life. Its bike frames are made of woods such as beech and bog oak, and prices range from 2,500 euros (£2,190) up to 17,000 euros.\n\nIn addition, every customer gets a book with a story about how their individual bike was made.\n\n\"We even plant a new tree at the same location where we cut one for your bike,\" Mr Cuzak adds.\n\nFor that reason, firms in the Netherlands such as Novotel and Rabobank have bought Bough Bikes for their guests and employees to use.\n\nMore stories from the BBC's Business Brain series looking at interesting business topics from around the world:\n\nThe bikes are also used in a shared bike scheme at Schiphol Airport business park, in Amsterdam, so workers can give them a spin.\n\nMr Brandjes says all his models have French oak frames, handlebars and front forks. However, customers don't need to worry about them getting wet in the rain.\n\n\"The bikes in the shared scheme have been outside for three years and they still look good,\" he says.\n\n\"As long as wet wood dries again, it's fine. You just need to polish it once a season.\"\n\nEveryone I spoke to reported feeling frustrated by assumptions that wooden bikes were less safe and sturdy than other bikes.\n\nMr Connor tells me that by using the right woods and construction techniques, his bikes are perfectly durable.\n\n\"A strong seasoned wood, laminated to itself in strips with reversing grain directions, bonded with aerospace adhesives is incredibly tough.\n\n\"Add in interspersed layers of carbon fibre and Kevlar, like in my bikes, and the strength far exceeds the requirements for making a reasonably lightweight performance bicycle frame.\"\n\nAs for how they function, Mr Brandjes points out that all of his bikes have been tested by TUV Rheinland, a renowned German organisation that certifies products.\n\nHowever, other obstacles may hinder firms in the space.\n\nFor one thing, wooden bikes tend to be heavier than many road bikes. The various models of the three companies I spoke to weigh between 9.9kg and 25kg.\n\n\"You can't make them as light as carbon bikes,\" says Mr Connor, \"but I don't think a pound or two more or less matters.\"\n\nThe people who buy them are not competitive riders, he adds.\n\nAnother issue is that wooden bikes tend to cost a lot, which may be preventing higher volumes of sales.\n\nAmerican firm Renovo, whose bikes start at $3,995, is probably the number one producer of wooden bikes worldwide. And yet it told the BBC it had only sold 1,000 models since it was founded in 2007.\n\n\"If someone manages to create a wooden bike for under 1,000 euros (£914), sales might rise,\" Mr Cuzak says.\n\nHe has only sold 10 bikes since he started in 2015, meaning that he and his partner still have to work on the company in their spare time.\n\nHowever, Mr Connor runs his business full time, having sold around 65 pieces to date. And Bough Bikes has shifted about 600 bikes since it was founded in 2012.\n\nSumming up what many in the wooden bike industry believe, Mr Cuzak says, \"this is not a regular business, but a slow business\".\n\nHowever, he adds: \"We've planted the seed and are now waiting for the tree to grow. I believe it will, eventually.\"", "The theft included details about Australia's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter programme, authorities said\n\nSensitive information about Australia's defence programmes has been stolen in an \"extensive\" cyber hack.\n\nAbout 30GB of data was compromised in the hack on a government contractor, including details about new fighter planes and navy vessels.\n\nThe data was commercially sensitive but not classified, the government said. It did not know if a state was involved.\n\nAustralian cyber security officials dubbed the mystery hacker \"Alf\", after a character on TV soap Home and Away.\n\nThe breach began in July last year, but the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) was not alerted until November. The hacker's identity is not known.\n\n\"It could be one of a number of different actors,\" Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne told the Australian Broadcasting Corp on Thursday.\n\n\"It could be a state actor, [or] a non-state actor. It could be someone who was working for another company.\"\n\nMr Pyne said he had been assured the theft was not a risk to national security.\n\nThe hack was described as \"extensive and extreme\" by ASD incident response manager Mitchell Clarke.\n\nIt included information about Australia's new A$17bn (£10bn; $13bn) F-35 Joint Strike Fighter programme, C130 transport plane and P-8 Poseidon surveillance aircraft, as well as \"a few\" naval vessels, he said.\n\nMr Clarke told a Sydney security conference that the hacker had exploited a weakness in software being used by the government contractor. The software had not been updated for 12 months.\n\nThe aerospace engineering firm was also using default passwords, he said.\n\nA report by ZDNet said officials referred to the months before ASD intervention as \"Alf's mystery happy fun time\".\n\n\"For those visitors overseas to Australia, Alf is Alf Stewart from an horrific Australia soap opera called Home and Away. It's just a thing we do,\" Mr Clarke told his audience, according to BuzzFeed.\n\nThe government distanced itself from the Adelaide-based firm, saying it had most likely been employed by another contractor.\n\n\"I don't think you can try and sheet blame for a small enterprise having lax cyber security back to the federal government. That is a stretch,\" Mr Pyne said.\n\n\"Fortunately, the data that was taken was commercial data, not military data, but it is still very serious and we will get to the bottom of it.\"\n\nHowever, he said \"we don't necessarily let the public know\" about the identities of hackers, because such investigations often involve confidential information.\n\nThe incident was a \"salutary reminder\" about cyber security, he added.\n\nLast year, Australia announced a surge in defence spending, a move that reflects concern over military expansion in the region.\n\nMilitary spending would grow by A$29.9bn over 10 years, including plans to buy 72 Joint Strike Fighters, the 2016 Defence White Paper outlined.", "Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Cara Delevingne have all spoken out\n\nSalma Hayek, Rose McGowan and Gwyneth Paltrow are among dozens of women who have come forward with allegations ranging from rape to sexual harassment by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.\n\nHe is currently facing five charges relating to two women in New York.\n\nHe has previously admitted his behaviour has \"caused a lot of pain\" but has described many of the allegations against him as \"patently false\".\n\nHis spokesperson has said \"any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied\" and there were \"never any acts of retaliation\" against women who turned him down.\n\nHere are some of those who have made allegations against him.\n\nThe actress has accused Weinstein of raping her by performing oral sex in a hotel at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997, when she was 23 and had just appeared in Scream.\n\nShe later reached a $100,000 settlement with him - and says he offered her $1m for a further non-disclosure deal to stay silent. She declined and has been one of his most vocal accusers.\n\nThe Emmy-nominated former Sopranos actress has alleged that Weinstein forced himself into her apartment in New York in 1992 and raped her.\n\n\"I was so ashamed of what happened,\" Sciorra told the New Yorker. \"And I fought. I fought. But still I was like, Why did I open that door?\"\n\nThe actress says Weinstein asked her to go to his hotel room under the guise of a business meeting, but appeared in a bathrobe and asked if he could give her a massage or if she could watch him shower.\n\nShe refused, and says he got revenge by seeking to damage her career. Director Peter Jackson has come forward to say he removed her from a casting list \"as a direct result\" of what he now thinks was \"false information\" provided by Weinstein.\n\nIn May 2018 Judd sued Weinstein claiming he damaged her career in retaliation for her rejecting his sexual advances but a Los Angeles court later dismissed her sexual harassment suit.\n\nHer defamation claim may still proceed, the judge said.\n\nMira Sorvino was photographed at a Weinstein Company party in January 2017\n\nThe Mighty Aphrodite star says he harassed her in a hotel room in 1995. \"He started massaging my shoulders, which made me very uncomfortable, and then tried to get more physical, sort of chasing me around,\" she said.\n\nLike with Ashley Judd, Peter Jackson said Weinstein warned him off casting her.\n\nHayek said Weinstein threatened to kill her\n\nThe Frida actress says she turned down repeated sexual advances from Weinstein while making the 2002 film Frida.\n\nAnd she says his persuasion tactics included threats. Hayek said Weinstein once told her: \"I will kill you, don't think I can't.\"\n\nThe Italian actress and director Asia Argento says she reluctantly agreed to give him a massage in a hotel room on the French Riviera, but he then raped her.\n\nWeinstein \"terrified me, and he was so big\", she said. \"It wouldn't stop. It was a nightmare.\"\n\nLucia Evans - nee Stoller - encountered Weinstein in 2004 in a New York club when she was an aspiring actress. She says she was forced to perform oral sex by the producer after going to his office for what she thought was a casting meeting.\n\n\"The type of control he exerted, it was very real,\" she told The New Yorker. \"Even just his presence was intimidating.\"\n\nThe Boardwalk Empire star has accused Weinstein of raping her twice in New York in 2010.\n\nThe first time was after he offered her a ride home, and the second was when he turned up uninvited at her apartment. \"I did say no, and when he was on top of me I said, 'I don't want to do this',\" she said.\n\nPaltrow says Weinstein asked her to give him a massage in his hotel suite after casting her in the leading role of 1996's Emma when she was 22.\n\nShe refused. \"He screamed at me for a long time. It was brutal,\" she said. She told then boyfriend Brad Pitt - who threatened to kill the producer if he did anything like that to Paltrow again.\n\nFormer production worker Mimi Haleyi alleges that she was raped by Weinstein when he forcibly performed oral sex on her in 2006 in his New York apartment.\n\n\"I told him 'no, no, no'. But he insisted,\" Ms Haleyi told a press conference in New York.\n\nThe actress also alleges she was raped by Weinstein when he performed oral sex on her without her consent. She says he lured her to a hotel room in 2010 under the guise of helping her procure future TV and film roles.\n\n\"I didn't know how to say no to someone like him at the time, which I regret,\" she said.\n\nThe Norwegian actress accuses Weinstein of raping her in a London hotel after the 2008 Bafta Awards ceremony.\n\nShe also alleges that he then asked her to engage in a threesome with him and another woman when back in Los Angeles following the Baftas.\n\nBritish actress Lysette Anthony says he carried out a \"pathetic, revolting\" attack at her London home in the late 1980s, which left her \"disgusted and embarrassed\".\n\nLysette Anthony told The Sunday Times she had reported an attack by Weinstein to the Metropolitan Police in London.\n\nIn an Instagram post, Delevingne writes how uncomfortable she felt during an encounter with Weinstein in a hotel room and describes what allegedly happened when she told him she wanted to leave.\n\n\"He walked me to the door and stood in front of it and tried to kiss me on the lips. I stopped him and managed to get out of the room,\" she says.\n\nThe French actress has written about how he invited her to come to his hotel room for a drink.\n\n\"We were talking on the sofa when he suddenly jumped on me and tried to kiss me,\" she wrote in The Guardian. \"I had to defend myself. He's big and fat, so I had to be forceful to resist him.\"\n\nAngelina Jolie with Gillian Anderson at the premiere of Playing by Heart in 1998\n\nJolie says she was propositioned by Weinstein in a hotel room in 1998.\n\n\"I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did,\" she said.\n\nThe Pulp Fiction actress says Weinstein pushed her down and \"tried to expose himself\" at the producer's hotel room in London during the 1990s.\n\n\"He tried to shove himself on me... He did all kinds of unpleasant things,\" Thurman said. \"But he didn't actually put his back into it and force me. You're like an animal wriggling away, like a lizard.\"\n\nHarvey Weinstein and Heather Graham at a film party in 1999\n\nThe Boogie Nights actress told Variety she was once propositioned by Weinstein in the early 2000s when she met him to discuss being cast in one of his movies.\n\nShe alleges he implied she had to sleep with him to get a film role, telling her that his wife would have been fine with it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Model Zoe Brock tells Radio 4's Today that she was one of Harvey Weinstein's victims\n\nThe model and actress says he asked for a massage in the south of France in 1997. She said: \"I didn't know what to do and I felt that letting him maybe touch me a little bit might placate him enough to get me out of there somehow.\"\n\nBefore long, she \"bolted\" into the bathroom. He banged on the door with his fists before eventually retreating, putting on a dressing gown and starting to cry.\n\nThe actress and producer says she was attacked by Weinstein when he invited her to his office in a hotel for a meeting about a script she had written at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008.\n\nHe insisted on listening to her pitch in his hot tub, then asked her to watch him masturbate, she says - and told her he could green-light her script if she did so. She left.\n\nThe Splash actress says she repeatedly turned down Weinstein's advances during promotion for Kill Bill and its sequel. He tried, she says, to get into her hotel room on multiple occasions, once getting a key and \"burst[ing] in like a raging bull.\"\n\nHe asked to grope her breasts and then asked her to expose herself to him, she alleges. She suffered physical repercussions as her flights were cancelled and she was left stranded after she turned him down on one occasion, she adds.\n\nThe actress says she rejected Weinstein's advances and that she believes her acting career suffered as a result.\n\nShe told the New York Times in the early 1990s she was directed to his hotel room, where he was in a bathrobe and asked her for a massage. When she refused she says he grabbed her hand and pulled it toward his crotch.\n\nModel Ambra Battilana Gutierrez has said she was groped by Weinstein and later went to New York police in 2015, saying the producer assaulted her. She then met Weinstein wearing a hidden microphone. But prosecutors took no action.\n\nOther stars to have detailed how he made advances in his home or hotel rooms include Brit Marling, Lupita Nyong'O, Lena Headey and Kate Beckinsale.\n\nOther women who have come forward since then with their stories include French actresses Florence Darel, Judith Godreche and Emma de Caunes.\n\nBritish model Kadian Noble, US actresses Jessica Barth, Katherine Kendall and aspiring actresses Dawn Denning, who is now a costume designer, Tomi-Ann Roberts, who is now a psychology professor, have also gone on the record.\n\nTV anchor Lauren Sivan alleges Weinstein cornered her in an empty basement area of a New York restaurant in 2007 and masturbated in front of her.\n\nAnd other workers at the Weinstein film company told the New Yorker about their experiences, including Emily Nestor, who was a temporary front desk assistant who said she had had to refuse his advances \"at least a dozen times\".\n\nActress Claire Forlani has said \"nothing happened\" between her and Weinstein - but only because she \"escaped five times\".\n\nIn an interview with Canadian TV, actress Lauren Holly said the producer approached her naked and requested a massage, at which point she \"pushed him and ran\".\n\nZelda Perkins, a British former assistant of Harvey Weinstein, says she resigned after a colleague accused him of trying to rape her.\n\nWeinstein's spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister issued a statement on 10 October in response to the allegations of sexual harassment and assault.\n\n\"Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr Weinstein,\" she said. \"Mr Weinstein has further confirmed that there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances.\n\n\"Mr Weinstein obviously can't speak to anonymous allegations, but with respect to any women who have made allegations on the record, Mr Weinstein believes that all of these relationships were consensual. Mr Weinstein has begun counselling, has listened to the community and is pursuing a better path.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "British model and actress Cara Delevingne says Mr Weinstein tried to kiss her in a hotel room\n\nHollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is pictured on several of the front pages once again, as are some of the growing list of women who have alleged that he sexually harassed them.\n\nThe Daily Mirror leads on one such account by the British actress Cara Delevingne.\n\nAnd the Sun claims Mr Weinstein \"became obsessed\" with Prince Harry's ex-girlfriend Cressida Bonas.\n\nIn a column, the paper's showbiz editor Dan Wootton condemns what he calls a \"disgusting conspiracy of silence\" engineered to protect Mr Weinstein over the years.\n\nMr Weinstein strongly denies the allegations against him.\n\n\"Daggers Drawn\" is the headline for the Daily Mail - which says Theresa May has slapped down the \"treacherous\" Chancellor Phillip Hammond for undermining her Brexit strategy.\n\nIt says their contrasting remarks about how the UK is preparing for a no-deal Brexit is a sign that relations between the two have plunged into a \"deep freeze\".\n\nIn an editorial, the paper calls on the prime minister to issue an ultimatum to Mr Hammond - stop talking Britain down, or else!\n\nThe Daily Express goes further and says if the chancellor cannot accept the referendum result, he really should go.\n\nUS President Donald Trump is set to meet the Queen next year during an official visit to the UK, says the Times.\n\nThe paper reports that diplomats are planning to downgrade the trip from a full-blown state visit, but an audience with the Queen is apparently in the works to mollify Mr Trump, who's said to have asked for a carriage ride down the Mall.\n\nOfficially, both Washington and London tell the paper the state visit will go ahead as planned, at some point.\n\nThe Mirror believes the only people who will be disappointed by the low-key approach are the sellers of eggs and tomatoes.\n\nThe Guardian reports that the Home Office's refusal to issue gender-neutral passports is to be subject to a judicial review.\n\nIt is the result of a successful legal challenge by Christie Elan-Cane, who the paper says has campaigned for passports to feature a third option apart from male or female - called X, or unknown - for 25 years.\n\nThe Sun leads with a report that Sally Jones - the British Islamic State recruiter nicknamed \"the White Widow\" - has been killed in a drone strike.\n\nThe paper reports that CIA officials told their UK counterparts she was targeted in June, after fleeing the Syrian city of Raqqa.\n\nThe Sun says her death has been kept quiet until now because of fears her 12-year-old son also died in the strike.\n\nAnd the Daily Telegraph reports that U-shaped seats are being introduced by a bus company in Dorset in an attempt to make passengers speak to each other.\n\nThe firm's managing director says while he does not believe he can undo the smart-phone revolution - getting people to look up from their screens and have a chat can only be a good thing.\n\nBut the Telegraph is not so sure. The paper believes British travellers instinctively look to the panic alarm if someone sits next to them on a half-empty bus.", "Many young first-time buyers are opting for up to 40-year mortgages rather than traditional 25-year terms.\n\nSome people explain why and talk about their experience of the property market.\n\nJames Lowrey-English, 26, bought a house with his wife Jessica in Bracknell in 2015.\n\n\"When we were offered the 40-year term we were overjoyed and elated to be offered anything at all.\"\n\nIt had been \"heartbreaking\" to think they might not be able to secure a mortgage, he explains.\n\n\"We now have two children and are happy with where we live. I have no regrets about taking out the mortgage.\n\n\"Our total outgoings are £1,200 a month, which is manageable.\"\n\nHe adds: \"It's just about getting onto the ladder, we just needed to cross the line and actually secure a mortgage.\"\n\nCharlie Crompton, 26, bought her first house in Burnley last year with her boyfriend Craig. They chose a 35-year mortgage term.\n\nCharlie says she is happy with her \"manageable\" monthly payments of £480.\n\n\"It means we can afford to do nice things. We are flying to Portugal next week, which we wouldn't have been able to afford if the payments were higher.\n\n\"I also really like feeling stable. We have a house rabbit that is a bit destructive, and I was always worried she would chew things in our rented place. Now we own a house she has free run.\"\n\nHer brother has a 25-year mortgage \"and couldn't believe that we'd taken a 35 year one\"\n\n\"I had no idea that 35 years was considered long-term,\" she says.\n\n\"I don't want to have a mortgage in 35 years; the sooner you're mortgage free, the sooner you can retire.\"\n\nConor Doherty, 26, is just about to complete on a one-bedroom flat in central Glasgow, with a 30-year mortgage term.\n\nConor and Robyn are both first-time buyers with monthly mortgage payments of £550.\n\nConor says he resented renting, and a longer-term mortgage was a useful way to get a foot on the housing ladder.\n\n\"I would have happily taken a 40 or 50-year mortgage to get out of the rented sector.\"\n\n\"I hated just throwing money away on rent. You have to do anything you can to get on the housing ladder.\"\n\n\"Obviously, I am slightly nervous about taking on so much debt but young people are used to being in huge debt because of the cost of being a student.\"\n\nCasper Holm, 29, went for a 35-year term mortgage when he bought a three-bedroom house in Cardiff in 2016, with his fiancé Cara.\n\nHe says he wanted the mortgage term to be \"as long as possible\".\n\n\"The rationale was we would have the flexibility of lower monthly payments, and the option to overpay.\"\n\n\"The reality is it is hard to make yourself overpay, and we haven't.\"\n\n\"I understand that we will end up paying more, but I don't mind paying to have the flexibility of affordable repayments. It's worth it.\"\n\n\"We pay around £850 a month, and I see it as a good investment. It's not like we've racked up debt on credit cards.\"", "Signs warning about the instability of the cliffs are in place approaching the area\n\nA student fell to her death while posing for a photograph on cliffs at Seven Sisters, an inquest heard.\n\nHyewon Kim, 23, came to the UK to study English and on 22 June took a trip to Cuckmere Haven, East Sussex, alone.\n\nShe asked a stranger to take her picture, but as she jumped in the air for the shot she lost her footing and fell 200ft (60m).\n\nThe court heard Ms Kim, from South Korea, suffered catastrophic injuries in the fall.\n\nSpeaking after the inquest, Mark Webb from East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service, said: \"This was an incredibly sad incident leading to the unnecessary loss of a very young life.\n\n\"What we would say is to urge people to stay well away from cliff edges.\n\n\"The day before this incident we had a very severe rock fall in the same sort of area, so it's clear some of these cliff edges can be very unstable.\"\n\nSeveral large sections of the cliffs have crumbled into the sea in recent months\n\nSigns warning about the instability of the cliffs are in place approaching the area.\n\nAn option for more signs in foreign languages was considered by Seaford Town Council in July 2017 but was rejected.\n\nCraig Williams, from the town council, said it was a unanimous decision from representatives of East Sussex County Council, Lewes District Council, the coastguard and South Downs National Park Authority.\n\n\"We've decided to keep the signs as they are; we felt more would just confuse matters. Instead we've tackled this at source.\n\n\"We've been approaching coach companies and tour operators who run trips to the area and take people up on the cliffs to discuss having plans in place to warn people.\"\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. Emergency crews were seen arriving at the prison\n\nStaff were attacked with pool balls during a disturbance at a high-security prison, the BBC understands.\n\nA total of 81 inmates at HMP Long Lartin in Worcestershire became violent, forcing staff to retreat, a source said.\n\nBy 04:30 BST the disturbance was resolved with no injuries.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said he understood about 10 \"Tornado teams\" of riot officers had been sent to the prison on Wednesday.\n\nEighteen prisoners have since been moved to other jails.\n\nJames Treadwell, professor of criminology at Staffordshire University, said he understood there had been violence at the prison in the lead up to the disturbance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 James Treadwell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 disturbance at the maximum security jail should be \"ringing alarm bells at the most senior level\", the Prison Governors Association [PGA] said.\n\nJohn Attard, national officer for the group, said the trouble was symptomatic of cutbacks and changes in the Prison Service management structure.\n\n\"Last year the PGA called for an independent public inquiry into the state of our prisons due to cuts... It fell on deaf ears. That call has not gone away,\" he said.\n\n\"I think we've dodged a bullet on this. They brought this under control very quickly and it's fantastic that they've dealt with it.\"\n\nOur correspondent said staff on E wing had retreated, after inmates started throwing pool balls, but it had been secured so the troublemakers could not go elsewhere.\n\nThere were also reports of a separate protest elsewhere in the jail, our correspondent said.\n\nThe disturbance followed riots at prisons including Lewes, Bedford, Birmingham and Swaleside.\n\nFive inmates who started a 15-hour riot that caused more than £6m damage at HMP Birmingham in December were sentenced earlier this month.\n\nAlso in December, part of a prison wing was taken over by about 60 inmates at HMP Swaleside on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent.\n\nLong Lartin has housed a number of high-profile inmates, including radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza and murderer Christopher Halliwell.\n\nI understand the trouble at Long Lartin prison has been brewing for several months.\n\nA source with good connections to the prison said there was anger among prisoners over changes introduced by the new Governor, Claire Pearson, who'd previously been in charge at Belmarsh Prison.\n\nAmong the changes were tighter restrictions on the clothes prisoners were allowed to wear, tougher rules on family visits and family photographs, more rigorous security clearance procedures for visitors which meant some inmates waiting longer for visits, and more time spent by prisoners in their cells during the afternoons and evenings. In addition a smoking ban was introduced.\n\nThe source said the former legal high, Spice, was also prevalent in the jail, as it is in many others.\n\nA Prison Service spokeswoman said: \"Specially trained prison staff successfully resolved an incident at HMP Long Lartin on 12 October. There were no injuries to staff or prisoners.\n\n\"We do not tolerate violence in our prisons, and are clear that those responsible will be referred to the police and could spend longer behind bars.\"\n\nLong Lartin is one of the highest-security prisons in England and Wales, with two-thirds of the inmates serving life sentences, BBC home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said.\n\nHe said the prison had suffered cuts and lost a fifth of its staff.\n\nFour prisoners have been killed at the site - which holds up to 622 male inmates - in the last four years.\n\nChild murderer Subhan Anwar was strangled in 2013, while killer John York was beaten to death in his cell in 2015.\n\nIn June 2016, Sidonio Eugenio Teixeira was killed using a rock wrapped in a pair of socks.\n\nTwo inmates who murdered a fellow prisoner were jailed for life last month.\n\nAn inspection report published in 2014 described a \"calm, well controlled prison\".\n\n\"But, while violence and bullying were few, there continued to be some very serious incidents,\" it added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The incident happened when Ben Affleck appeared on MTV's TRL\n\nActor Ben Affleck has apologised after being criticised for groping an MTV presenter on air in 2003.\n\nThe incident surfaced after he posted condemnation of Harvey Weinstein, who is facing sexual assault allegations.\n\nOne Twitter user remembered how Affleck \"grabbed Hilarie Burton's breasts on TRL once\" but \"everyone forgot though\". Burton replied: \"I didn't forget.\"\n\nAffleck later wrote on Twitter: \"I acted inappropriately toward Ms Burton and I sincerely apologise.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ben Affleck This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 clip of the moment from TRL Uncensored was recirculated, including a clip of Burton recalling how Affleck had put his arm around her and proceeded to \"tweak my left boob\".\n\n\"Some girls like a good tweakage here and there,\" she said on the programme. \"I'd rather have a high five.\"\n\nOn Twitter, after being reminded, she said she was \"a kid\" at the time and \"had to laugh back then so I wouldn't cry\".\n\nBen Affleck with hosts Hilarie Burton (left) and La La on TRL in 2003\n\nAffleck made his apology a day after posting a message giving his views on Hollywood producer Weinstein's alleged sexual harassment and assaults.\n\n\"I am saddened and angry that a man who I worked with used his position of power to intimidate, sexually harass and manipulate many women over decades,\" he said.\n\n\"The additional allegations of assault that I read this morning made me sick.\n\n\"This is completely unacceptable, and I find myself asking what I can do to make sure this doesn't happen to others. We need to do better at protecting our sisters, friends, co-workers and daughters.\n\n\"We must support those who come forward, condemn this type of behaviour when we see it and help ensure there are more women in positions of power.\"\n\nWeinstein is currently facing a number of allegations involving sexual harassment and assault.\n\nHis spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister said any allegations of non-consensual sex were \"unequivocally denied\" and that \"there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances\".\n\n\"Mr Weinstein obviously can't speak to anonymous allegations, but with respect to any women who have made allegations on the record, Mr Weinstein believes that all of these relationships were consensual,\" the statement added.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Mia Violet says its important everybody is recognised\n\nUK passports currently have \"M\" or a \"F\" for people to specify their gender - but what about \"X\"?\n\nA campaigner has today been given the go-ahead to challenge the government over gender-neutral passports.\n\nChristie Elan-Cane wants there to be an \"X\" - which stands for unspecified - for people who don't identify as male or female.\n\nTransgender blogger Mia Violet, who backs the call, says it would be a sign of \"respect\" to trans people.\n\nShe says it's fantastic the campaign has taken its next step and describes it as a \"sign of progress\".\n\n\"Trans rights do feel as though they've stagnated in the UK and I do hope this pushes forward more changes.\n\n\"We need to ensure everybody is recognised. For trans people to be seen, I think that's going to be incredibly important to them because so often they are overlooked.\"\n\nMia says gender-neutral passports would be an important step\n\nMia, 28, from Dorset, came out as transgender around two years ago.\n\nShe told Newsbeat: \"Initially, I identified as non-binary. I didn't see myself as fully female or fully male, I was kind of in the middle.\n\n\"Over time, I've become more comfortable with using female to describe myself. But it was very awkward and uncomfortable in that time because there was basically no way to select a gender that felt like mine.\"\n\nMia says gender-neutral passports in the UK would be an important step because \"it's recognition and it's respect\".\n\n\"When I changed my passport gender to female, I had to get a letter from my doctor that basically said 'OK Mia is trans. This transition is permanent. She is now considered female, please change it'. It wasn't enough for just my permission to do it.\n\n\"It's almost like the government is looking the other way and not really thinking about trans issues but at the same time we have thousands of thousands of trans people in this country who are having to deal with systems that are just not set up to recognise them.\"\n\nChristie Elan-Cane took the fight for gender-neutral passports to the High Court\n\nChristie launched a High Court fight for the right to have \"X\" passports in the UK. The campaigner has now been given permission to challenge the government in a judicial review.\n\nChristie believes it's wrong to force people to choose either M or F on their passports if they define as neither.\n\nGender-neutral passports are already available in Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Germany, Malta, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Ireland and Canada.\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "Scientists say the asteroid, shown in this illustration, will safely pass by the Earth\n\nAn asteroid the size of a house is passing close to Earth.\n\nThe space rock will hurtle past our planet at a distance of about 42,000km (26,000 miles), bringing it within the Moon's orbit and just above the altitude of communication satellites.\n\nNasa scientists say there is no risk of an impact, but the flyby does provide them with the opportunity to test their asteroid-warning systems.\n\nA global network of telescopes will be closely monitoring the object.\n\nPaul Chodas, manager of Nasa's Centre for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, told BBC News: \"We are going to use this asteroid to practise the system that would observe an asteroid, characterise it and compute how close it is going to come, in case some day we have one that is on the way inbound and might hit.\"\n\nThe asteroid, called 2012 TC4, was first spotted five years ago.\n\nIt is estimated to be between 15m and 30m (50-100ft) in size, which is relatively small.\n\nHowever, even space rocks on this scale are dangerous if they strike.\n\nWhen a 20m-wide asteroid exploded over Chelyabinsk in central Russia in 2013, it hit the atmosphere with energy estimated to be equivalent to 500,000 tonnes of TNT, causing a shockwave that damaged buildings and injured more than a thousand people.\n\nNasa scientists who have spent the last two months tracking this new rocky visitor say their calculations show that it will safely clear the Earth and poses no threat.\n\nInstead, they will use this close approach to rehearse for future potential strikes.\n\nMore than a dozen observatories, universities and labs around the world will be watching 2012 TC4 as it flies past.\n\nThis will help them to refine how asteroids are tracked and provide a chance to test international communication systems.\n\nDr Chodas said that while the risk of an asteroid hit was small, it was prudent to plan ahead.\n\n\"Nasa search programmes are getting better and better at finding asteroids,\" he explained.\n\n\"It's been a priority to find the large asteroids first. So far the Nasa surveys have found 95% of the asteroids that are one kilometre and larger - these are the ones that could cause a global catastrophe.\n\n\"Now we are working our way down to the smaller ones - 130m in size and larger - and we are around 30% on that.\n\n\"This little one - we are not trying to find all of the ones of this size. It is just a convenient asteroid coming by that we can practise our tracking techniques on.\"\n\nHe added that if an asteroid was discovered to be heading for the Earth, scientists were looking at different techniques to avert a disaster.\n\n\"If we had enough warning time - five or 10 years - then we could do something about it, especially if it's on the small side.\n\n\"We could go up and move it, change its velocity years ahead, and that would be enough to move it away from a collision course.\"\n\nAsteroid TC4's closest approach to Earth on Thursday will be over Antarctica at 05:42 GMT (06:42 BST; 01:42 EDT).\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The six-inch (14cm) Dover sole (not pictured) wriggled out of the man's hand and jumped into his mouth\n\nAn angler had to be resuscitated after accidentally swallowing a fish he had just caught.\n\nThe man was kissing the Dover sole in celebration of his catch when the six-inch (14cm) fish wriggled out of his hand and jumped into his mouth, a friend said.\n\nThe 28-year-old stopped breathing and suffered a cardiac arrest at the scene on Boscombe Pier, Bournemouth.\n\nParamedics managed to remove the fish with forceps in an ambulance.\n\nThe man had been fishing at Boscombe Pier, Bournemouth\n\nAmbulance worker Matt Harrison said: \"It was clear that we needed to get the fish out or this patient was not going to survive the short journey to Royal Bournemouth Hospital.\n\n\"I was acutely aware that I only had one attempt at getting this right as if I lost grip or a piece broke off and it slid further out of sight then there was nothing more that we could have done to retrieve the obstruction.\"\n\nMr Harrison said the fish's barbs and gills became stuck but he eventually succeeded in extracting it in one piece.\n\nHe said it was the \"most bizarre\" call-out he had ever attended.\n\nMembers of Boscombe Pier Sea Anglers performed CPR on their friend before the arrival of emergency crews at about 23:00 BST on 5 October.\n\nIan Cowie from the group said: \"He was kissing the fish when it jumped down his throat. It's a tradition to kiss your first catch.\"\n\nParamedics managed to restart the unnamed man's heart at the pier after working on him for three minutes.\n\nMr Harrison said: \"We're all so glad the patient has no lasting effects from his cardiac arrest, which could so easily have had such a tragic and devastating outcome.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ninety children are being taken into care every day in England and Wales and it's claimed social workers are \"firefighting\" the most serious cases late into the night.\n\nProf Ray Jones, who works in social services improvement, says staff fear children slip through the net as they try to keep up with rising pressures.\n\nLatest government figures show 32,810 children were taken into care in 2017.\n\nMinisters said extra money was being targeted towards improving services.\n\nThe total number of children in care is a record 72,670 - up 3% on 2016.\n\nCouncil bosses, who are responsible for child protection services, say it's the biggest rise in seven years.\n\nThe Local Government Association, which is taking part in a conference on care services in Bournemouth, says it comes as children's services face a £2bn a year funding gap by 2020.\n\nProf Jones said: \"What I am hearing from social workers is that they are having to spend most of the time 'firefighting' with the most serious concerns that get presented to them.\n\n\"They are spending a lot of time, including late into the night and at weekends, preparing for court proceedings.\n\n\"They are also having to close down work very quickly where the child is not an immediate concern.\n\n\"The consequence of that is the considerable stress they feel over concerns that they may be missing something.\"\n\nHe added: \"Secondly, something that social workers are telling me is that they are closing down cases very quickly or even turning them away.\n\n\"And they are not able to work through potential cases where children are unhappy and distressed, because they are having to concentrate on cases where there is an immediate danger.\"\n\nBut the figures continue a longer trend of rising numbers of children facing severe need in terms of child protection.\n\nRichard Watts, chairman of the LGA's children and young people board, said: \"Children's services are at a tipping point with growing demand for support combining with ongoing council funding pressures to become unsustainable.\n\n\"Last year saw the biggest rise in the number of children in care for seven years.\n\n\"With 90 children coming into care every day, our calls for urgent funding to support these children and invest in children and their families are becoming increasingly urgent.\"\n\nRobert Goodwill, Minister for Children and Families, said councils would receive more than £200bn for local services, including children's social care, up to 2020.\n\n\"This is part of a historic four-year settlement, which means councils can plan ahead with certainty.\n\n\"All children deserve the best possible support. And while some councils are doing excellent work, we want to help ensure more local authorities provide good and outstanding services.\"\n• None Adoptions fall as more children in care", "Hyperloop One claims its pod-based system is more \"sustainable\" than current transport options\n\nThe Virgin investment group has taken an undisclosed stake in Hyperloop One, one of several companies trying to create a pod-based transport system.\n\nThe terms of the deal have not been disclosed.\n\nVirgin's founder, Sir Richard Branson, is joining the Los Angeles-based firm's board as part of the deal, and it is rebranding itself as Virgin Hyperloop One.\n\nOne expert suggested the tie-up would help raise the company's profile.\n\n\"This is unproven technology and there's a long way to go before it ever finds itself in use in the real world,\" commented Prof David Bailey from Aston Business School.\n\n\"But this deal will certainly help in terms of marketing and potentially attract further investors to come into the operation.\"\n\nHyperloop One recently tested a prototype pod in the Nevada desert, which reached a speed of 310km/h (192mph) within a 500m (1,600ft) low air-pressured tube.\n\nIts eventual goal is to reach 1,046km/h (650mph).\n\nThe system uses magnetic levitation and electric propulsion to cause pods to glide, and is pitched as a more eco-friendly mode of transportation than many of today's alternatives.\n\nThe firm says it is working on several projects to bring the technology to the Middle East, Europe, India, Canada and the US.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a press release, Virgin suggested the system could eventually cut journey times from Edinburgh to London to 50 minutes.\n\nHyperloop's inventor, Elon Musk, has previously signalled his intention to build a separate Hyperloop system via his tunnel-digging Boring Company.\n\nHyperloop Transportation Technologies, TransPod Hyperloop and Dinclix GroundWorks are among other companies to have announced rival projects.\n\n\"The combination of our proven technology and Virgin's expertise in transportation, operations, safety and passenger experience will accelerate the commercialisation phase of our company's development,\" said Hyperloop One's co-founder Josh Giegel in a written statement.\n\nVirgin already has investments in rail companies, cruise liners, airlines and a nascent space tourism operation.\n\n\"I remain sceptical about using Hyperloop technology in places where there are high land values or dense population,\" he explained.\n\n\"But it may be more appropriate in places like the United Arab Emirates.\n\n\"It's a complicated technology and there's a long way to go.\"", "It will be the first time the Queen has not laid the wreath since 1999\n\nThe Queen will not lay a wreath at the Cenotaph this year as part of the annual Remembrance Sunday ceremony.\n\nShe will watch the event on 12 November in Whitehall from the balcony of the Foreign Office with Prince Philip.\n\nPrince Charles will take her place in laying the floral tribute on behalf of the nation, along with the Duke of Edinburgh's equerry.\n\nThe Queen has not laid wreaths in six previous ceremonies since her coronation.\n\nTwo were during her pregnancies with Prince Andrew, in 1959, and Prince Edward, in 1963.\n\nThe other four occasions were when she was on visits abroad - in 1961, when she was in Ghana, in 1968, when in Brazil, in 1983, when in Kenya and in 1999, when in South Africa.\n\nIt will be the first time, as head of state, that the Queen will observe the ceremony from a nearby balcony.\n\nThe Queen traditionally lays the wreath at the Cenotaph on behalf of the nation\n\nRoyal officials told the BBC that the Queen chose to ask her eldest son and heir to carry out the royal duty.\n\nIt will be the second time the Prince of Wales has laid the wreath, after standing in for the Queen when she was on a trip to Kenya 34 years ago.\n\nA Buckingham Palace spokeswoman added: \"The Queen wishes to be alongside the Duke of Edinburgh and he will be in the balcony.\"\n\nBBC Royal correspondent Peter Hunt said the change was \"another sign of the Royal Family in transition\", as well as \"an acknowledgment of the fact the Queen is 91.\"\n\nEarlier this year Prince Philip retired from his public duties, but he has continued to join the Queen at some of her official engagements.\n\nIn 2015, the ceremony was made shorter to limit the amount of time the Queen, Prince Philip and the veterans in attendance would have to stand. This move included making some members of the Royal Family lay wreaths together, rather than separately.\n\nHowever, plans for the prime minister to lay one wreath on behalf of all the political parties were scrapped, with opposition leaders still being allowed to place individual wreaths.", "The majority of most people's contact with the NHS is with GPs\n\nAddressing a room full of doctors, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt reminded the audience of his promise in 2015 that there would be 5,000 more general practitioners working in the NHS in England by 2020.\n\nWe're halfway to Mr Hunt's deadline - so how is the government doing at meeting this target?\n\nIn 2015, there were about 34,500 GPs working in the NHS in England. The government wants there to be about 39,500 by 2020.\n\nBut the latest figures published by the NHS show that there are actually about 350 fewer GPs now than there were in 2015, when the target was announced.\n\nThese numbers include registrars - trainee GPs who are qualified doctors but have not yet completed their specialist training.\n\nAfter two foundation years, medical school graduates pick a specialism. It then takes another three years to become a fully fledged GP.\n\nSo far, then, it doesn't look like they're on track.\n\nHow do you get more GPs into the NHS?\n\nThe NHS is trying all three.\n\nAnd the last of these appears to be proving a particular problem.\n\nMr Hunt told the Royal College of GPs' annual conference that the NHS was doing \"pretty well\" at getting more medical graduates into general practice.\n\nHealth Education England, the part of the NHS responsible for making sure enough people with the right skills are trained and recruited into the health service, said it would make sure a minimum of 3,250 trainees per year were recruited to GP training programmes by 2016.\n\nThe number is up 9% since 2015 but is still slightly behind the target.\n\nThe National Audit Office, which scrutinises public spending , said in January that 3,019 places had been filled, or 93% of the target.\n\nSo, the number of medical graduates being recruited into the GP specialism is going up.\n\nBut it's not yet having an impact on the overall numbers because more doctors are retiring or leaving the profession.\n\nBetween 2005 and 2014, the proportion of GPs aged 55 to 64 leaving the profession doubled, according to health think tank the King's Fund.\n\nThe NHS has launched a range of initiatives to encourage GPs to stay in the profession, for example offering more flexibility, training and financial support, but it's too soon to know how well they are working.\n\nIn July, the NHS also announced it would recruit more GPs from overseas by 2020-21 to meet its staffing targets. It's too soon to say how effective this recruitment drive has been.\n\nAnd on Thursday the Health Secretary announced newly qualified GPs would receive a one-off payment of £20,000 if they started their careers in parts of the country that struggled to attract family doctors.\n\nEfforts are clearly being made, but progress has been slow.\n\nThe King's Fund says that \"the actions taken to deliver 5,000 more GPs by 2020 will need to be significantly more successful in the next few years for this pledge to be met\".", "President Trump criticised NBC's report as he welcomed Canada's prime minister to the White House\n\nUS President Donald Trump has raised the prospect of challenging media licences for NBC News and other news networks after unfavourable reports.\n\nHe took aim at NBC, which made him a star on The Apprentice, after it reported he wanted to boost America's nuclear arsenal almost tenfold.\n\nNBC also angered the White House last week when it said the secretary of state had called Mr Trump \"a moron\".\n\nMr Trump tweeted on Wednesday morning: \"With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country!\"\n\nWelcoming Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Washington later in the day, the US president denied the NBC story.\n\n\"It is frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write, and people should look into it,\" he said at the White House.\n\nWhen asked if he wanted to increase the country's arsenal, Mr Trump said he only ever discussed keeping it in \"perfect condition\".\n\n\"No, I want to have absolutely perfectly maintained - which we are in the process of doing - nuclear force.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"But when they said I want 10 times what we have right now, it's totally unnecessary, believe me.\"\n\nHe added: \"I want modernisation and I want total rehabilitation. It's got to be in tip-top shape.\"\n\n\"Recent reports that the President called for an increase in the US nuclear arsenal are absolutely false,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"This kind of erroneous reporting is irresponsible.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 CPJ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 president's tweet about US broadcast networks provoked a free-speech uproar.\n\nRepublican Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, a frequent Trump critic, tweeted: \"Mr President: Are you recanting of the Oath you took on Jan 20 to preserve, protect, and defend the 1st Amendment?\"\n\nWalter Shaub, who led the US Office of Government Ethics under President Barack Obama, said it could lead to \"the point when we cease to be a democracy\".\n\nThe Committee to Protect Journalists said the US president's comment was a poor example for other world leaders.\n\nAccording to NBC News, Mr Trump told a top-level meeting at the Pentagon in July that he wanted to dramatically boost the American stockpile of atomic missiles.\n\nHe reportedly made the request after seeing a downward-sloping curve on a briefing slide charting the gradual decrease in US nuclear weapons since the 1960s.\n\nAttributing its report to three officials in the room, NBC said Mr Trump's request surprised those present, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rex Tillerson reacts to a report he called the president a moron.\n\nThe network reported that Mr Trump had also called for additional US troops and military equipment.\n\nThe US has 7,100 nuclear weapons and Russia has 7,300, according to the US non-partisan Arms Control Association.\n\nMedia commentators say the president would struggle to remove broadcasters' licences if he wished to do so.\n\nThe Federal Communications Commission, which regulates US broadcasters, issues licences not to networks as a whole, but to local stations.\n\nIt would be difficult to challenge a licence on the basis that coverage is unfair, say pundits.\n\nLast week, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders assured reporters that Donald Trump was an \"incredible advocate\" of constitutional free-press protections. This week, the president is contemplating whether a broadcaster could be forced off the airwaves because he doesn't approve of its news coverage.\n\nNever mind that the federal government licenses local televisions stations, only some of which are owned by national broadcasters like NBC.\n\nJust because a threat is unworkable in the extreme doesn't mean the president won't make it.\n\nMedia-bashing is one of Mr Trump's favourite pastimes - a means of venting frustration, apportioning blame and, perhaps, distracting reporters who always enjoy a bit of journalistic navel-gazing.\n\nAs with the NFL anthem-kneeling controversy, the cultural battle lines form quickly when it comes to questions of media bias. The president knows this and uses it to his advantage.\n\nTaking pot-shots at journalists is one thing, of course. Contemplating the use of government coercion to stifle a broadcaster because of its news content is another.\n\nEven if such an outcome is unthinkable in the US at the moment, there are places in the world where press freedoms aren't as deeply entrenched. Their leaders are watching the president, too.", "This image of a rope bridge was shown in court, but does not feature the girl involved\n\nA YMCA activity centre has been found guilty of failing to ensure the safety of a girl who was left hanging by her neck from a rope bridge during a school trip.\n\nThe then 11-year-old slipped on the bridge at the YMCA Fairthorne Manor activity centre near Botley in 2012.\n\nPortsmouth Crown Court heard she was left hanging for several minutes by a safety lanyard looped around her neck.\n\nThe unconscious girl was cut free by instructors and later recovered.\n\nThe girl, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was taken to hospital by air ambulance and made a full recovery.\n\nThe YMCA Fairthorne Group had denied two charges brought by Winchester City Council over the incident on the so-called Burma Bridge rope bridge activity.\n\nShe was among a group of 40 pupils from a school in Chandler's Ford who were on a trip to celebrate the end of the school year in July 2012.\n\nDuring the trial, prosecutors said the rescue was \"pretty shambolic\" and it was \"a matter of luck more than judgement she wasn't seriously hurt\".\n\nIn the end a cable was severed and the girl dropped into the water under the bridge, along with one of two instructors trying to support her.\n\nThe company was found guilty of \"failing to discharge a duty in the conduct of an undertaking, to ensure the safety of persons not in their employment\".\n\nThe jury was unable to reach a verdict on a second charge against the YMCA Fairthorne Group of failing to ensure that employees were adequately trained.\n\nThe group said it was \"disappointed\" with the verdict and described the incident as an \"unfortunate isolated event\".\n\n\"The YMCA Fairthorne Group has a first-class safety record and takes the issue extremely seriously,\" it added.\n\nSentencing is due to take place on 3 November.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marilyn Manson has discussed for the first time the \"excruciating\" stage accident that resulted in a leg injury and nine postponed tour dates.\n\nThe singer was crushed when a giant prop gun collapsed on him during a concert in New York on 30 September.\n\n\"It was terrifying,\" said the rock star, who needed a plate and 10 screws in his fibula after the accident.\n\nHe told Yahoo news that, contrary to media reports, he was not responsible for the prop toppling over.\n\n\"I wasn't trying to climb it,\" said the 48-year-old.\n\n\"It started to fall and I tried to push back and I didn't get out the way in time.\n\n\"I'm not sure what I hit my head on, but it did fall on to my leg and break the fibula in two places. The pain was excruciating.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eyewitness Anthony Biscardi recalls the moment a prop collapsed on US rockstar Manson\n\nIt took several minutes for the stage crew to free Manson, who appeared limp and unconscious.\n\nAs well as the injury to his lower leg, the star required a screw through his ankle bone. He has spent the last two weeks recovering at home in Los Angeles.\n\nManson said he regretted that his tour \"got cut off right\" just as he \"was about to put it into second gear\".\n\nBut he added, \"I'll be back there really shortly, and it's going to be as exciting as it was starting out.\"\n\nThe star has rescheduled several US tour dates for January and February 2018. He is due to play seven UK dates in December.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA wave of wildfires in central and north Portugal which started at the weekend has killed at least 31 people, civil defence authorities say.\n\nDozens of the 145 fires still raging are considered serious, a spokeswoman said.\n\nTo the north, fires which broke out across the border in Spain's Galicia region claimed at least three lives.\n\nThousands of firefighters are battling the flames, which erupted after a hot dry summer.\n\nConditions were worsened by Hurricane Ophelia, as it approached Europe's western coast, bringing strong winds to fan and spread the flames.\n\nMore than 50 people have also been injured in Portugal; 15 are reported to be in a serious condition. Local media say several people are still missing there, including a month-old baby.\n\nIn Spain, two of the victims were found in a burned-out car by the side of the road.\n\nRain is forecast for the affected regions late on Monday.\n\nThe latest fires in Portugal come just four months after the deadliest wildfire in its history\n\nSome 30 \"major\" fires were reported to still be raging in Portugal on Monday\n\nIn addition to the human casualties, huge damage has been done by the fires\n\nA state of emergency has been declared in Portugal north of the Tagus river - about half of the country's land area. More than 6,000 firefighters in 1,800 vehicles were deployed by early Monday morning.\n\nAs a result of the fires, at least a dozen roads were closed, as well as schools in some places.\n\nThe Portuguese deaths were in the Coimbra, Guarda, Castelo Branca and Viseu areas.\n\n\"We went through absolute hell. It was horrible. There was fire everywhere,\" a resident of Penacova, near Coimbra, was quoted as telling Portuguese RTP radio and TV.\n\nFabio Ventura, who lives in Marinha Grande, in Leria district, told the BBC that some of his friends in villages in the nearby forest had lost their homes.\n\n\"Currently, we don't have water in our homes because the pipes were damaged by the fire. We are avoiding taking showers to save water. The mobile network is going down several times and there is a huge cloud of smoke and ashes above my city.\n\n\"Schools were closed, public services are closed, some roads are also closed. I have friends that lost their homes, but everyone is OK in my area.\"\n\nSpain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy travelled to the Pontevedra area of Galicia and met emergency workers on Monday afternoon.\n\n\"What we are dealing with here is something that is not caused by accident. It has been provoked,\" Mr Rajoy said.\n\n\"We are here in Pazos de Borden where there has been a big fire which began at 01:30 (22:00 GMT) in the morning at five different points. So as you can see it's impossible for this to be triggered under natural circumstances.\"\n\nConditions are making it difficult to contain the fires, the Galicia regional government head says\n\nOver the border in Spain, authorities are also dealing with multiple fires\n\nThe Spanish prime minister, who is from Galicia, visited the region on Monday\n\nGalician leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo has claimed the fires were deliberately set by arsonists, in what he called \"terrorist acts\".\n\nEarlier, Spain's Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido said several people had already been identified in connection with the fires, and appealed for anyone with further information to share it with the national protection service.\n\nThe wildfires follow a massive forest blaze in Portugal in June which killed 64 people and injured more than 130. Firefighters tackling that blaze also alleged it had been started by a \"criminal hand\".\n\nBut in the aftermath, questions were raised about the speed of the response and the readiness to tackle such a fire. It also emerged that the country's rescue network, a public-private partnership, failed to connect several emergency calls to firefighters.", "A flight to Hamburg was in the air for 20 minutes before it returned to Manchester Airport\n\nA number of flights to UK airports have been forced to land or divert following reports of \"smoke smells\".\n\nPrecautionary landings were reported from flights travelling to and from Dublin, Manchester, Liverpool and Jersey.\n\nLiverpool John Lennon Airport said the smells appeared to be connected with \"atmospheric conditions\".\n\nBritish Airways, Easyjet and Aurigny confirmed reports of smells on flights were linked to weather conditions.\n\nA spokesman for John Lennon Airport said there were three \"precautionary landings\" following reports of smells in the cockpit of the planes.\n\nMerseyside Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to the airport at about 07:39 BST and supported airport fire personnel, who boarded a passenger jet.\n\nSteph Whitehead, from Liverpool, was on Easyjet flight EZY1841 which was due to travel from Manchester Airport to Hamburg at 12:25 BST.\n\nShe said the flight was airborne for about 20 minutes when the captain said there was \"smoke in the cockpit\", and returned the plane to Manchester.\n\nMs Whitehead said passengers in the cabin also caught a whiff of the smoke, which \"smelled like a firework\", adding people were \"a bit worried at first\" about it.\n\nPassengers were escorted away from the plane by fire crews, before being put back on the same plane for departure.\n\nNATS, a company that provides air traffic control services in the UK, said it had facilitated \"a number\" of diversions from aircraft reporting fumes being detected in the cockpit.\n\nAll of these flights had landed safely, a spokesman added.\n\nIt comes following reports of an \"unusual\" reddish sky across parts of England, which experts are attributing to the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia dragging in tropical air and dust from the Sahara, as well as debris from forest fires in Portugal and Spain.\n\nThe Met Office said: \"The same southerly winds that have brought us the current warmth have also drawn dust from the Sahara and smoke from wildfires occurring over northern Iberia (Spain/Portugal) to our latitudes.\"", "Nev Cartwright has been left with complications including chronic infections and emphysema.\n\nEvery month 60,000 ill and disabled people have their needs assessed for benefits. Some are so worried about the process that they are using mobile phones to secretly record those interviews, critics say. But using that evidence to overturn a decision is not straightforward.\n\nIn 2015, Nev Cartwright sat down with his specialist at a hospital in Leeds. He was told his hacking cough and breathing difficulties were caused by a tumour in his left lung. He was 45.\n\nSince then he has had three operations and a lung removed. Nev was awarded the highest rate of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) - a benefit meant to pay for the extra costs of his condition.\n\nBut a year later he received a letter saying the DLA was being replaced by a new benefit, the Personal Independence Payment, and his needs would have to be reassessed by a private company.\n\nThe night before his assessment he watched a documentary which questioned how they were being conducted.\n\n\"I was really nervous about it and made the decision to audio record the interview covertly. It was a safeguard, an accurate record of what had taken place,\" he says.\n\nThe face-to-face assessment is typically an interview with a health professional, such as a nurse or paramedic, lasting between 30 and 90 minutes. It can also include basic medical tests and a physical examination.\n\nThe claimant is assessed depending on their ability to complete day-to-day tasks. That report is sent to an official at the DWP who will then decide the final level of disability benefit that person is awarded.\n\nBut things did not go as planned. Nev says he had misgivings from the start but it was only later, when he saw the assessor's final report, that he realised something was seriously wrong.\n\n\"Some details discussed in the interview were not in the report and others were completely altered,\" he says.\n\n\"She said she'd done a physical examination of my mobility. It was very evident on the audio recording, that she never did that at all.\"\n\nOn his phone recording you can clearly hear the assessor carrying out a peak test to measure his lung function, and reading out the data.\n\nBut in the final report, his last reading appears to have doubled from 150 L/min to 300 L/min, making him seem better than he actually was.\n\n\"I totally agree that anyone entitled to benefits should have their needs assessed,\" he says. \"But everyone deserves just and fair treatment.\"\n\nAfter his interview Nev had his disability payments cut and had to return the car paid for by the mobility element of his benefits.\n\nHe wrote to the DWP and told them about his recording, sending them a written transcript put together by an independent firm.\n\nClaimants can record their assessments but only if they provide tamper-proof equipment like this, which can cost £1,500.\n\nUnder government rules, secret or covert recording like this is banned. If it is spotted, the claimant is told to stop. If they refuse it is likely that their benefit application will be rejected.\n\nThe government tried to get his recording thrown out before his appeal at tribunal.\n\nBut exceptionally, in his case the judge agreed a transcript could be entered into evidence. He went on to win his case and his car was eventually returned.\n\n\"I've wasted 12 months of my life in an unfair fight with a government department and the people who work for it,\" he said.\n\nThe private company which carried out his assessment says its \"high standards were not met on this occasion\" and it has now changed the way it gathers evidence in cases like this.\n\nCritics of the assessment process say formal audio recording of all PIP interviews should be mandatory and available to both sides.\n\n\"It would remove the distrust and give so much transparency to everyone,\" said Tony Lea, lead welfare rights officer at Benefit Resolutions, a disability advocacy service which has been campaigning for a rule change.\n\nAs things stand the official rules are complex.\n\nA claimant does have the right to ask for a PIP interview to be formally taped and used as evidence, but unlike other disability benefits like ESA, they have to provide their own equipment.\n\nThis must be a secure, tamper-proof double recorder which can cost as much as £1,500. A mobile phone, digital recorder or dictaphone does not meet the requirements.\n\nIn March, a major independent review of the PIP system commissioned by the government recommended switching to compulsory audio recordings with an opt-out for people who do not want it.\n\nThe government says it is \"considering the results\" of a pilot of recording in the West Midlands.\n\nA spokesman for the DWP said: \"Anyone is free to record their face-to-face consultation, but it must be done in a way that best protects both claimants and assessors.\"\n\nNev says his experience shows that some vulnerable people need more protection.\n\n\"I should probably be more diplomatic but I think the whole system is a mess,\" he adds.\n\n\"The importance for me of getting that audio recording into evidence was the potential to help other people in the future.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The first of the new GWR trains was more than 20 minutes late with leaking air-con\n\nBroken air conditioning and a 41-minute delay have overshadowed the launch of the UK's new fleet of high-speed trains.\n\nThe Hitachi 800 engine will be faster and carry more passengers and will run on GWR for the next 27 years.\n\nBut passengers on the first Bristol to London service arrived late and some had to dodge drips as water leaked from an air conditioning unit.\n\nHitachi said the delay was due to a \"minor technical issue\".\n\nKaren Boswell, the managing director of Hitachi Rail Europe, said \"an air conditioning issue\" had resulted in water entering the carriage rather than being discharged outside.\n\n\"I want to say to passengers that we are really sorry that the first service from Bristol didn't go as planned today,\" she said.\n\n\"I was actually on the train and the delay and water leak meant that it was not the standard of service we expect and are known for. We can and will do better.\"\n\nThe fleet of intercity trains was designed to be electric, but due to delays in electrification of the line engines will also be fitted with diesel power.\n\nThe service was supposed to leave Bristol Temple Meads at 06:00 BST but got under way at 06:25 and finally arrived at Paddington 41 minutes late.\n\nThe air conditioning had to be turned off after the leak was spotted.\n\nA Hitachi Rail Europe spokesman said: \"There was a minor technical issue just before the train left the depot which engineers were able to fix, but meant the train was late leaving Bristol.\"\n\nHe said the air conditioning was a separate issue and the train had been taken to the London depot to be fixed.\n\nGreat Western Railway and Network Rail have installed overhead cables for the electric trains, that will eventually replace Intercity 125s completely.\n\nDue to budget cuts and delays, electrification has fallen short of the Bristol rail section so far.\n\nIt means the trains will run on diesel from Maidenhead to Bristol.\n\nThe problems prompted complaints on social media by passengers.\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 for Transport says the new trains will cut journey times, increase the number of seats and services, and be more comfortable.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling, who was on the first service, says the new trains will be \"transformational\" for people from Bristol.\n\nHe said: \"These are the smartest trains in the country, probably the best we have ever had in the country.\n\n\"This going to be a fantastic service, really regular trains and far more capacity.\"\n\nHitachi said the longer carriages provided much more space and comfort for passengers.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Neither synonymous with glamour nor a byword for luxury, England's best motorway service stations have been unveiled after a comprehensive survey... but the services from hell are named and shamed too.\n\nIn compiling the list, the travel watchdog questioned 8,700 customers on key factors including staffing, food and the all-important lavatories.\n\nPerhaps surprisingly, the same company. Moto, operates service stations at both extremes of the ranking.\n\nThe M4's Reading Services Westbound takes the crown for the country's best stop-off - with a customer satisfaction score of 100%.\n\nBut bottom of the pile came Heston Services Eastbound, with a rating of 62%.\n\nThe west London respite - which turns 50 next year - is the subject of scathing Google reviews.\n\nOne described it as \"dirty, old and tired\", while another said it was the \"worst motorway services I've ever been to\".\n\nToilets are condemned as \"pretty rank\", while another reviewer advised: \"Keep going, you are nearly in London.\"\n\nA spokesman for Moto, which operates Heston and Reading services, said: \"We're disappointed that the visit to Heston East was done in the middle of building works, although we recognise that in this instance we haven't done as well as we should have done.\n\n\"It's only fair to point out that Heston East is one of the smallest service areas on the motorway network and so is unable to provide many of the facilities we have at our larger sites.\"\n\nAA president Edmund King said: \"British drivers have a love/hate relationship with service areas.\n\n\"For some people, being able to get a decent, discounted coffee is all they ask for - and that might just enhance their safety.\"\n\nHeston Services Eastbound were rated the worst service station in England\n\nTransport Focus chief executive Anthony Smith said: \"Our research shows that up and down the country motorway services are providing customers with a good experience and are playing a positive role.\n\n\"They tell us they feel less stressed and are more awake after a good break.\n\n\"Motorway service operators must not rest on their laurels, however.\"\n\nTransport Minister John Hayes said: \"Motorways services can and should be lovely places for drivers to enjoy - not just places they have to stop.\n\n\"Congratulations to those scoring the most highly. They show what can be done.\"\n\nWhich motorway service stations do you love or hate and why? Share your views and experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As drones become more popular, countries will need to consider regulations to restrict usage\n\nA drone has collided with a commercial aircraft in Canada, the first such incident in the country, according to the Transport Ministry.\n\nThe drone struck one of the plane's wings, while six passengers and two crew members were aboard.\n\nThe aircraft sustained only minor damage and was able to land safely, the Canadian transport minister said.\n\nEarlier this year, Canada announced that it was making it illegal to fly recreational drones near airports.\n\nThe law prohibited airborne drones within 5.5km (3.5 miles) of an airport and restricted the height of a drone's flight to 90 metres (300ft).\n\nThose breaking the restrictions could face fines of up to 25,000 Canadian dollars ($20,000, £15,000).\n\nThe Skyjet flight was heading to Quebec City's Jean Lesage International Airport when the drone hit it on 12 October.\n\nIn a statement, transport minister Marc Garneau said: \"Although the vast majority of drone operators fly responsibly, it was our concern for incidents like this that prompted me to take action and issue interim safety measures restricting where recreational drones could be flown.\n\n\"I would like to remind drone operators that endangering the safety of an aircraft is extremely dangerous and a serious offence.\"\n\nAccording to a UK Airprox Board report, a drone passed directly over the wing of an aircraft approaching Gatwick Airport this summer.\n\nThe drone was \"flown into conflict\" with the Airbus 319, with a high risk of collision, read the report.", "A man said to be among the UK's worst paedophiles blackmailed people online into carrying out \"degrading\" sexual acts, a court heard.\n\nCambridge graduate Matthew Falder, 28, admitted more than 100 offences, including encouraging a teenager to rape a four-year-old boy.\n\nFalder contacted 50 victims online over seven years, posing as a female artist, and sharing images on the dark web.\n\nIt took about 30 minutes to list the offences at Birmingham Crown Court.\n\nFalder, of Edgbaston, Birmingham, a former geophysicist researcher at Birmingham University, admitted 137 charges, and denied another 51 which will remain on file after his not guilty pleas were accepted by the prosecution.\n\nThe number of offences makes him one of the country's most prolific paedophiles, BBC Home Affairs Correspondent Danny Shaw said.\n\nFalder's case is said to be the National Crime Agency's first successful so-called \"hurtcore\" prosecution. Hurtcore relates to hidden forums on the dark web dedicated to sharing images and videos of rape, murder, sadism, torture, paedophilia, blackmail, humiliation and degradation.\n\nHis victims were offered money in return for sending him naked photos, the court heard.\n\nFalder used the online names \"666devil\" and \"evilmind\" on websites such as Gumtree. He then blackmailed his victims into sending increasingly obscene images.\n\nHe also admitted charges of causing the sexual exploitation of a child, encouraging the rape of a four-year-old, making and distributing indecent images of children and voyeurism.\n\nIt took 30 minutes to read out all the charges against Matthew Falder\n\nImages that Falder shared included photographs showing children and babies being tortured, the court was told.\n\nRuona Iguyovwe, of the Crown Prosecution Service described Falder as \"highly manipulative\".\n\n\"He clearly enjoyed humiliating his victims and the impact of his offending, which carried on over several years, has been significant,\" he said.\n\nMatthew Long, head of operations at the NCA, thanked the victims for their bravery in coming forward.\n\nFalder is expected to be sentenced on 7 and 8 December.\n\nA spokesman for the University of Birmingham said: \"The university is shocked to hear of the abhorrent crimes committed by a former post-doctoral researcher.\n\n\"We have no reason to believe that the offences are in any way connected with the university.\"\n\nA University of Cambridge spokesperson said Falder was a student there between 2007 and 2016.\n\n\"We continue to offer support to anyone who has concerns about the case,\" they added.\n\n\"The university is deeply shocked and saddened by this case.\"\n\nGumtree, which was named in the court case, said it was pleased that Falder had been brought to justice.\n\n\"Gumtree simply does not tolerate the exploitation of users or the illegal misuse of our platform,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"… Our dedicated safety team has lent its full support and co-operation to the NCA in their investigation of this case, which has been active for several years. Gumtree takes the safety of its users extremely seriously and we are committed to making the site as safe as possible.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Keiran Esquierdo died at the scene of the accident in Kelloholm\n\nA 12-year-old boy who was crushed to death by a heavy wooden pole as he played with friends has been named by police.\n\nKeiran Esquierdo died at the scene of the accident in his home village of Kelloholm, in Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nEmergency services were called to open ground near to the medical centre on Corserig Crescent on Sunday afternoon.\n\nDet Insp Bryan Lee said investigations were continuing and the procurator fiscal had been informed.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said they found the boy trapped under the pole but, despite efforts to free him, he could not be saved.\n\nInsp Rory Caldow told BBC Scotland that initial indications suggested he had been playing with friends when the accident happened.\n\nFirefighters and paramedics were also called to the accident after the alarm was raised\n\nInsp Rory Caldow said the accident was a \"real tragedy\"\n\nHe said the incident would have a big impact on the community.\n\n\"You can appreciate this has really been a tragedy,\" he added.\n\n\"The kids raised the alarm at a nearby neighbours and they were really, really upset by what had happened.\n\n\"It's devastating to the family and to the community as a whole.\n\n\"The kids are off the school at the moment and I'm sure the victim will be well known to everyone in this small community town of Kelloholm.\"\n\nHe added that an investigation into the incident is continuing.\n\nOfficers described the object as \"similar to a telegraph pole\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAll schools in Northern Ireland are to close on Monday due to risks posed by gusts resulting from Hurricane Ophelia.\n\nThe announcement was made by Stormont officials late on Sunday night after severe weather warnings were issued for Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Met Office is forecasting winds of up to 65mph (105km/h) across the region on Monday.\n\nThe Department of Education said its decision on school closures was \"entirely precautionary\".\n\n\"However, given the weather warnings and the fact that the most severe weather is forecast for when pupils are due to be leaving school, the department believes that this is an appropriate response,\" it 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\nUlster University announced that its four campuses will be shut for the day, while some colleges announced that they would be cancelling all classes.\n\nHurricane Ophelia will be a storm when it hits Ireland and the UK as it weakens on its path across the Atlantic Ocean.\n\nBut it could still cause major damage, according to weather forecasters.\n\nThe Met Office said that a spell of \"very windy weather\" on Monday afternoon and evening has the \"potential for injuries and danger to life\".\n\nIssuing an amber warning - its second most severe - it said there is a good chance that some areas could suffer power cuts.\n\nAll parts of Northern Ireland are expected to be hit by winds of up to 65mph (105km/h) but gusts could reach speeds of 80mph (129km/h) in the far south-east.\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\nPublic transport operator Translink said its services could be disrupted by the weather on Monday - it will issue updates from 07:00.\n\nSome flights from Belfast City Airport have been cancelled due to the strong winds.\n\nAll Aer Lingus departures from the airport on Monday have been grounded, and other airlines are affected.\n\nSenior civil servants in Northern Ireland met on Sunday night to discuss \"a co-ordinated approach in light of the latest Met Office assessment\".\n\nThe Department of Education came in for criticism from parents on social media for the timing of its announcement on school closure.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jayne Knox This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSDLP MLA Colin McGrath said the decision should have been made earlier on Sunday, adding that parents with work or other commitments would struggle to arrange childcare.\n\n\"Principals and teachers will also be under huge strain to communicate with parents and staff about the closure,\" he said.\n\n\"However, the priority is to ensure that all children are kept safe.\"\n\nSchools and colleges in the Republic of Ireland are also to close on Monday after a red warning - the most severe - was issued across the country.\n\nThe Irish national weather agency Met Éireann is forecasting \"violent and disruptive gusts\" and is warning that \"all areas are at risk\".", "A 19-year-old man has died after \"large-scale disorder\" broke out at a boxing event.\n\nPolice have launched a murder inquiry after the brawl at Walsall Town Hall on Saturday, where it is believed the man was stabbed in the neck.\n\nThe scene remained cordoned off on Sunday, as police searched for discarded weapons.\n\nThe venue was hosting an IBF Youth Lightweight title fight between Luke Paddock and Myron Mills.\n\nA witness said the scene inside the town hall as violence flared was \"like a riot\"\n\nPolice said violence spilled on to the street at about 23:00 BST.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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She said people were searched before entering the venue.\n\nMrs Ellis, from Netherton, Dudley, said tension had been building between rival supporters during the evening and violence flared between about 50 people when a plastic cup full of liquid was thrown.\n\n\"There was food flying and then they were picking up chairs, turning tables over and just ploughing into each other.\n\n\"It was horrendous, it was like a riot.\"\n\nBlack Country Boxing said: \"Our thoughts are with the victims and we will be liaising fully with the police and venue.\"\n\nChairs were thrown during the disorder\n\nDet Insp Ian Wilkins from West Midlands Police, said: \"We have widened our cordon following an initial examination to search for potentially discarded weapons and any other evidence which can lead us to those involved.\n\nWalsall Council, which runs the town hall, tweeted to say it was supporting the police investigation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe bout was won by Myron Mills, from Derby, following a split decision.\n\nWriting on Facebook following the disorder, Luke Paddock, from Walsall, said: \"It's just a shame about the violence outside the ring at the end of the show.\"\n\nSeveral roads remained closed on Sunday. Walsall Library was shut as it falls within the cordon.\n\nA second event planned for Sunday was cancelled.\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. Jessica Malolepszy tells the BBC how her debt problems began with a holiday loan\n\nThe chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority has warned of a \"pronounced\" build up of debt among young people.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Andrew Bailey said the young were having to borrow for basic living costs.\n\nThe regulator also said he \"did not like\" some high-cost lending schemes.\n\nHe said consumers, and institutions that lend to them, should be aware that interest rates may rise in the future and that credit should be \"affordable\".\n\nThe head of the FCA was talking to the BBC as part of its 'Money Matters' coverage, looking at the issues of credit and debt in the UK.\n\nMr Bailey said action was being taken to curb long-term credit card debt and high-cost pay-day loans.\n\nThe regulator is also looking at charges in the rent-to-own sector which can leave people paying high levels of interest for buying white goods such as washing machines, he added.\n\n\"There is a pronounced build up of indebtedness amongst the younger age group,\" Mr Bailey said.\n\n\"We should not think this is reckless borrowing, this is directed at essential living costs. It is not credit in the classic sense, it is [about] the affordability of basic living in many cases.\"\n\nAlthough Mr Bailey said that high levels of consumer debt was not a crisis \"in the macro-economic sense\", it did matter to struggling individuals whose stories he had listened to during visits to debt management charities.\n\n\"There are particular concentrations [of debt] in society, and those concentrations are particularly exposed to some of the forms and practices of high cost debt which we are currently looking at very closely because there are things in there that we don't like,\" Mr Bailey said.\n\n\"There has been a clear shift in the generational pattern of wealth and income, and that translates into a greater indebtedness at a younger age.\n\n\"That reflects lower levels of real income, lower levels of asset ownership. There are quite different generational experiences,\" he said.\n\nMr Bailey says more people have \"erratic\" money flows because of the changing workplace\n\nMr Bailey was speaking as research shows young people in particular are concerned about the amount of debt they are carrying and their ability to repay that debt\n\nHe said the high price of renting and lack of income growth meant that more people had to use credit to make ends meet.\n\nRecent Bank of England figures show that consumer debt, excluding mortgages, now totals over £200bn and is approaching levels not seen since the financial crisis.\n\nThe increase in what is known as \"unsecured lending\" on credit cards, car loan schemes, personal loans and overdrafts is running at 10% a year.\n\nPeople are also saving less as ultra low interest rates eat into returns.\n\n\"Obviously we all question how long this can that go on for,\" Mr Bailey said. \"But in aggregate it isn't on its own something that we should be describing as a crisis.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am not of the school of thought that credit should not be available to this section of society because credit should be there to smooth income in the classic sense, and we know there are more people with erratic income flows, that is one of the features of the so-called gig-economy.\"\n\nMr Bailey said that \"sustainable credit is a necessary part of society\".\n• None How a holiday loan spiralled out of control. Video, 00:00:51How a holiday loan spiralled out of control", "Children play on the street in Moss Side in 1972\n\nMoss Side has long been associated with drugs, gangs and violence. But a collection of rarely seen images paint a very different picture of one of Manchester's most notorious neighbourhoods.\n\nWhen Daniel Meadows moved to the city in 1970, he had a less than complimentary view of it.\n\n\"It was a big dark city, it was very dirty, it was damp, it rained all the time.\n\n\"But it was full of the most wonderful mix of people.\"\n\nA family poses for a portrait in the street\n\nIt was a sharp awakening for the aspiring photographer, who recalls having a \"protected, sheltered childhood\" in Gloucestershire.\n\n\"By the time I was 18, I was exploding with curiosity about the world and I found myself in Manchester - I might as well have landed on the moon really.\"\n\nHe based himself in Moss Side \"because it was cheap\" and close to his art school at the former Manchester Polytechnic.\n\n\"I found myself living in the middle of this place where something epic was happening - they were completely bulldozing the place.\"\n\nA couple in cowboy hats are captured while watching a local parade\n\nDemolition in Moss Side was part of a nationwide slum clearance of Victorian terraces, where the houses were described by the area's former Conservative MP, James Watts, as \"unfit for human habitation\".\n\nIt made way for new accommodation and while some residents remained, many were relocated to other parts of the city or chose to move.\n\nProf Gus John joined other local figures in campaigning against the destruction while working at the University of Manchester.\n\n\"The houses were very sturdily built and could have been renovated with some help from government… the area could have been spruced up.\n\n\"What they were doing was not just demolishing old houses, they were demolishing communities - there never was that sense of integrated community identity [again].\"\n\nTwo young friends smile shyly for their photograph\n\nThe make-up of the neighbourhood included families of Irish, Polish, Asian and African-Caribbean origin - a \"good spread\" with a \"high level of integration\", Prof John said.\n\n\"The sense of mutual collaboration on all kind of issues... was absolutely fantastic.\n\n\"There were, and still are, people of all dispositions living in Moss Side, people who propped up the health service, people who propped up the industries in Trafford Park.\"\n\nThe portraits were taken in a studio in a disused shop\n\nKeen to document life in Moss Side, Mr Meadows rented a disused barber's shop in 1972 and set up a studio where residents could get their picture taken for free.\n\nHe also took snaps on the streets, with curious children edging into shot and people, both young and old, neatly turned out despite the deprivation.\n\nMany women were seamstresses and tailored stylish outfits for their daughters.\n\nChildren look at the images in the studio's front window\n\nThree girls edge into a shot in the street\n\nMany of the girls had stylish, tailored outfits\n\n\"Most of the parents had high aspirations for the young people,\" said Prof John, adding that there were several youth clubs and active churches.\n\n\"They had a thriving community... and a much greater level of economic activity among that population than you would find now.\"\n\nMr Meadows' subjects included local characters and a woman with her foster children\n\nFormer resident Christine Henry said: \"It was more friendly… if you were going out you would ask a neighbour to take a child in, or they would come to your house.\n\n\"I've still got friends [from then] - their kids call me auntie, my children call them auntie, we look at each other as family… we look at each other as sisters.\"\n\nAn elderly gentleman joins two girls to peer at the pictures in the studio's window\n\nLocal families struggled financially but affordable housing in Moss Side provided a rare opportunity to own a home.\n\nFormer resident Freddie Crooks recalled the demolition as a \"heartbreaking\" experience.\n\n\"The thing is [our home] was a beautiful house… with enough space for a couple and six children.\"\n\nProf John believes the destruction of the houses and by extension, the communities, contributed to the headline-grabbing crime of the 1980s onwards.\n\n\"There was something quite toxic about the way in which people were expected to live on those [new] estates - it was like herding people.\n\n\"You had to walk miles to a shop, there were no facilities for integrating people - no community centres, for example.\n\n\"The decision-makers thought that by simply renewing the physical infrastructure, they would actually be improving communities, but quite the opposite happened.\"\n\nDaniel Meadows, pictured at the back, poses with locals outside his studio\n\nMr Meadow's first exhibition was at the Manchester Caribbean Carnival\n\nMr Meadows held his first exhibition of photos showing life in Moss Side at the inaugural Manchester Caribbean Festival in 1972, nailing his pictures to a tree at Alexandra Park.\n\nHe continued to document everyday life, taking pictures as he toured England in a bus, which were later exhibited at Tate Britain.\n\nOver the summer, he returned to the festival to meet some of the subjects he photographed 45 years ago.\n\n\"Sometimes it got too much negative press,\" he said, reflecting on the escalation of crime in Moss Side after he left.\n\n\"Things happen elsewhere as well but they just concentrated too much on this part of it,\" he said.\n\n\"But I'd like to think that's the past.\"\n\nSee the full report on BBC Inside Out North West on BBC One at 19:30 BST 16 October.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "About 400,000 Mercedes-Benz cars are being recalled by Daimler in the UK over a potential airbag safety issue.\n\nThe firm's safety recall covers more than a million vehicles worldwide, including 495,000 in the US.\n\nThe recall is not related to the exploding Takata airbag scandal, and there have been no fatalities.\n\nThe problem affects certain A, B, C, and E-Class models, together with CLA, GLA and GLC vehicles, built between November 2011 and July 2017.\n\nThe fix for the airbag issue takes only an hour to perform.\n\nA Mercedes-Benz spokesperson told the BBC that the airbag issue only affected certain vehicles in \"rare circumstances\".\n\n\"If the steering column module clock spring is broken and the wiring components are not sufficiently earthed, this could lead to an electrostatic discharge which could inadvertently deploy the driver's airbag,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nThe cars are safe to drive under normal operating conditions, but if the driver airbag warning light comes on, customers should call roadside assistance or contact their nearest retailer.\n\nMercedes-Benz will contact all customers whose cars may be affected by the airbag problem, and ask them to bring their vehicle in.\n\nThe work is performed free of charge and only takes an hour, after which the car is safe to drive as normal.", "Keep up to date at bbc.co.uk/newsni\n\nThat's brings to an end our live coverage of Hurricane Ophelia - we'll keep you up to date with any further developments on our BBC News NI website. You can keep across the latest on road closures on the TrafficwatchNI website.", "Central London was one of many parts to witness the phenomenon\n\nAn \"unusual\" reddish sky and red-looking sun have been reported across many parts of England.\n\nThe phenomenon was initially seen in the west of England and Wales before spreading to other areas.\n\nBBC weather presenter Simon King said it was due to the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia dragging in tropical air and dust from the Sahara.\n\nHe added that debris from forest fires in Portugal and Spain was also playing a part.\n\nThe dust has caused shorter wavelength blue light to be scattered, making it appear red.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Weather presenter Charlie Slater explains why the sun looks red\n\nThe red-looking sun was seen in Bristol city centre\n\nHe said: \"Ophelia originated in the Azores where it was a hurricane and as it tracked its way northwards it dragged in tropical air from the Sahara.\"\n\nThis meant dust from the Sahara was brought with it, he said.\n\n\"The dust gets picked up into the air and goes high up into the atmosphere, and that dust has been dragged high up in the atmosphere above the UK,\" Mr King explained.\n\nThe particles in the air cause blue light to scatter, leaving longer-wavelength red light to shine through.\n\nThe Met Office said the \"vast majority\" of the dust was as a result of forest fires in Iberia, which have sent debris into the air and that has been dragged north by Ophelia.\n\nAn orange sky was visible in Bransford in Worcestershire\n\nA red sun was spotted in the sky over Bromsgrove in Worcestershire\n\nThis was the scene in Ludlow, Shropshire\n\nMeanwhile, hundreds took to Twitter to share their theories and snaps of the unusual red sun and yellow skies.\n\nUsing the hashtags #redsun and #ophelia, pictures were posted with earnest tags insisting that: \"There is NO colour correction on this image\".\n\nAs the skies turned beige over London, Hugh Bennett‏ wondered if: \"This is what it must have been like living in the olden days when everything was sepia\", while James McNicholas‏ blamed \"the hipsters\" for putting \"an Instagram filter\" on the city.\n\nBut trending alongside #redsun, #yellowsky and #orangesky was the hashtag #apocalypse.\n\nLike many Ben Shephard posted that: \"Not messing around this light is really freaking us out!\", while Henry Tudor, said: \"This weird light is very disturbing. I keep expecting four blokes on horses to home galloping out of the sky.\"\n\nElliot Wagland said: \"I just looked out of the window and it appears the world is about to end\", and Archer Hampson‏ said: \"Somebody said we should head outside because the world was ending. We thought we'd take our cameras.\"\n\nLouise Lucas, meanwhile, wanted to know if she had missed the memo \"about going home early due to #apocalypse?!\" and Anthony Court posted that‏: \"If the world does end -please could it be before 10pm tonight when I start my nightshift.\"\n\nThis was the view from Gloucester Docks\n\nThe \"strange-coloured sun\" was photographed over Elkesley in Nottinghamshire\n\nBut not everyone was spooked, some were inspired to write poetry like @Scott_W88, who wrote: \"Ophelia, you're breaking the sun, You're shaking my garden fence daily\".\n\nWhile Helen Glew, said simply: \"The most amazing thing is just how much of the UK is actually seeing the sun on a single October morning.\"\n\nThis was the scene at midday in Cliburn near Penrith, Cumbria\n• None Why does the sun look red? Video, 00:00:26Why does the sun look red?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hear the 'sound' of two dead stars colliding\n\nScientists have detected the warping of space generated by the collision of two dead stars, or neutron stars.\n\nThey have confirmed that such mergers lead to the production of the gold and platinum that exists in the Universe.\n\nThe measurement of the gravitational waves given off by this cataclysmic event was made on 17 August by the LIGO-VIRGO Collaboration.\n\nThe discovery enabled telescopes all over the world to capture details of the merger as it unfolded.\n\nDavid Reitze, executive director of the LIGO Laboratory at Caltech in Pasadena, California, said: \"This is the one we've all been waiting for.\"\n\nThe outburst took place in a galaxy called NGC 4993, located roughly a thousand billion, billion km away in the Constellation Hydra.\n\nIt happened 130 million years ago - when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. It was so far away that the light and gravitational waves have only just reached us.\n\nThe stars themselves had masses 10-20% greater than our Sun - but they were no larger than 30km across.\n\nThey were the crushed leftover cores of massive stars that long ago exploded as supernovas.\n\nThey are called neutron stars because the process of crushing the star makes the charged protons and electrons in the atoms of the star combine - to form an object made entirely of neutrons.\n\nSuch remnants are incredibly dense - a teaspoonful would weigh a billion tonnes.\n\nIn the landscaped campus of one of the laboratories that made the detection, a fountain sprays jets of water skyward which are then pulled back down by gravity, sending ripples across the crystal clear pond.\n\nThe LIGO detector, sitting incongruously in the vast woodland of Livingston in Louisiana, was designed to detect the gravitational ripples across the Universe created by cataclysmic cosmic events.\n\nSince it was upgraded two years ago, it has four times sensed the collisions of black holes.\n\nGravitational waves caused by violent events send ripples through space-time that stretch and squeeze everything they pass through by a tiny amount - less than the width of an atom.\n\nThe LIGO lab at Livingston consists of a small building with two, two-and-a-half-mile pipelines stretching out at right angles. Inside each pipe is a powerful laser accurately measuring any change in its length.\n\nI walk along one of the pipes with Prof Norna Robertson, a Scot who used to work at Glasgow University - and more recently helped to design the instrument's detection system.\n\nProf Robertson's work has helped the LIGO-VIRGO Scientific Collaboration to make the first ever detection of the gravitational waves given off by the collision of two neutron stars.\n\n\"I'm really thrilled about what we have done. I started off as a student in Glasgow 40 years ago working on gravitational waves. It's been a long long road; there have been some ups and downs but now it's all come together,\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"These last couple of years, first of all with the detection of black holes mergers and now a neutron star merger, I really feel we are opening up a new field, and that's what I wanted to do and now we've done it.\"\n\nThe detection enabled 70 telescopes to obtain the first ever detailed pictures of such an event.\n\nThese show an explosion 1,000 times more powerful than a nova - a burst called a kilonova.\n\nGravitational waves - Ripples in the fabric of space-time\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A visualisation shows the coalescence of two orbiting neutron stars\n\nResearchers had suspected that this huge release of energy leads to the creation of rare elements, such as gold and platinum.\n\nDr Kate Maguire, from Queen's University Belfast, who analysed the collision's burst of light, said that the theory was now proven.\n\n\"Using some of the world's best telescopes, we have discovered that this neutron star merger scattered heavy chemical elements, such as gold and platinum, out into space at high speeds.\n\n\"These new results have significantly contributed to solving the long-debated mystery of the origin of elements heavier than iron in the periodic table.\"\n\nDr Joe Lyman, of the University of Warwick said described the observations as \"exquisite\".\n\n\"They tell us that the heavy elements, like the gold or platinum in jewellery are the cinders, forged in the billion degree remnants of a merging neutron star.\"\n\nIt was also direct confirmation that short bursts of gamma-ray radiation are linked to colliding neutron stars.\n\nBy combining information from gravitational waves and the light collected by telescopes, researchers also used a new technique to measure the expansion rate of the Universe. This technique was first proposed in 1986 by the University of Cardiff's Prof Bernard Schutz.\n\nProf Stephen Hawking of Cambridge University told BBC News that this was \"the first rung of a ladder\" for a new method of measuring distances in the Universe.\n\n\"A new observational window on the Universe typically leads to surprises that cannot yet be foreseen. We are still rubbing our eyes, or rather ears, as we have just woken up to the sound of gravitational waves,\" he said.\n\nThe LIGO Louisiana lab has 4km-long pipes running out from its control centre\n\nProf Nial Tanvir, from Leicester University, uses the VISTA telescope in Chile.\n\nHe and his colleagues started searching for the neutron star collision as soon as they heard of the gravitational wave detection.\n\n\"We were really excited when we first got notification that a neutron star merger had been detected by LIGO,\" he said. \"We stayed up all night analysing the images as they came in, and it was remarkable how well the observations matched the theoretical predictions that had been made.\"\n\nLIGO is now being upgraded. In a year's time it will be twice as sensitive - and so will be able to scan eight times the volume of the space.\n\nThe researchers believe that detections of black holes and neutron stars will become common place. And they hope that they will begin to detect objects that they currently cannot even imagine and so usher in a new era of astronomy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe wi-fi connections of businesses and homes around the world are at risk, according to researchers who have revealed a major flaw dubbed Krack.\n\nIt concerns an authentication system which is widely used to secure wireless connections.\n\nExperts said it could leave \"the majority\" of connections at risk until they are patched.\n\nThe researchers added the attack method was \"exceptionally devastating\" for Android 6.0 or above and Linux.\n\nA Google spokesperson said: \"We're aware of the issue, and we will be patching any affected devices in the coming weeks.\"\n\nThe US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (Cert) has issued a warning on the flaw.\n\n\"US-Cert has become aware of several key management vulnerabilities in the four-way handshake of wi-fi protected access II (WPA2) security protocol,\" it said.\n\n\"Most or all correct implementations of the standard will be affected.\"\n\nMost wi-fi devices could be at risk\n\nComputer security expert from the University of Surrey Prof Alan Woodward said: \"This is a flaw in the standard, so potentially there is a high risk to every single wi-fi connection out there, corporate and domestic.\n\n\"The risk will depend on a number of factors including the time it takes to launch an attack and whether you need to be connected to the network to launch one, but the paper suggests that an attack is relatively easy to launch.\n\n\"It will leave the majority of wi-fi connections at risk until vendors of routers can issue patches.\"\n\nIndustry body the Wi-Fi Alliance said that it was working with providers to issue software updates to patch the flaw.\n\n\"This issue can be resolved through straightforward software updates and the wi-fi industry, including major platform providers, has already started deploying patches to wi-fi users.\n\n\"Users can expect all their wi-fi devices, whether patched or unpatched, to continue working well together.\"\n\nIt added that there was \"no evidence\" that the vulnerability had been exploited maliciously.\n\nTech giant Microsoft said that it had already released a security update.\n\nThe vulnerability was discovered by researchers led by Mathy Vanhoef, from Belgian university, KU Leuven.\n\nAccording to his paper, the issue centres around a system of random number generation known as nonce (a number that can only be used once), which can in fact be reused to allow an attacker to enter a network and snoop on the data being sent in it.\n\n\"All protected wi-fi networks use the four-way handshake to generate a fresh session key and so far this 14-year-old handshake has remained free from attacks, he writes in the paper describing Krack (key reinstallation attacks).\n\n\"Every wi-fi device is vulnerable to some variants of our attacks. Our attack is exceptionally devastating against Android 6.0: it forces the client into using a predictable all-zero encryption key.\"\n\nDr Steven Murdoch from University College, London said there were two mitigating factors to what he agreed was a \"huge vulnerability\".\n\n\"The attacker has to be physically nearby and if there is encryption on the web browser, it is harder to exploit.\"\n\nMore details can be found at this website.\n\nProf Alan Woodward explained the issue to the BBC.\n\nWhen any device uses wi-fi to connect to, say, a router it does what is known as a \"handshake\": it goes through a four-step dialogue, whereby the two devices agree a key to use to secure the data being passed (a \"session key\").\n\nThis attack begins by tricking a victim into reinstalling the live key by replaying a modified version of the original handshake. In doing this a number of important set-up values can be reset which can, for example, render certain elements of the encryption much weaker.\n\nThis attacks appears to work on all wi-fis tested - prior to the patches currently being issued.\n\nIn some it is possible to decrypt and inject data, enabling an attacker to hijack a connection. In others it is even worse as it is possible to forge a connection, which, as the researchers note, is \"catastrophic\".\n\nNot all routers will be affected but the people this could be most problematic for are the internet service providers who have millions of routers in customers' homes. How will they make sure all of them are secure?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The death toll continues to rise after the deadly blast\n\nA massive bomb attack in a busy area of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday is now known to have killed at least 230 people, police say.\n\nHundreds more were wounded when a lorry packed with explosives detonated near the entrance of a hotel.\n\nIt is the deadliest terror attack in Somalia since the Islamist al-Shabab group launched its insurgency in 2007.\n\nPresident Mohamed Abdullahi \"Farmajo\" Mohamed blamed the attack on them, calling it a \"heinous act\".\n\nNo group has yet said it was behind the bombing.\n\n\"Brothers, this cruel act was targeted at civilians who were going about their business,\" the president said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The aftermath of the explosion in Mogadishu\n\nHe has declared three days of mourning for the victims of the blast.\n\nLocal media reported families gathering in the area on Sunday morning, looking for missing loved ones amid the ruins of one of the largest bombs ever to strike the city.\n\nThere are fears people are trapped under the rubble\n\nPolice official Ibrahim Mohamed told AFP news agency the death toll was likely to rise. \"There are more than 300 wounded, some of them seriously,\" he said.\n\nOfficials also confirmed that two people were killed in a second bomb attack in the Madina district of the city.\n\nMogadishu's Mayor Thabit Abdi called for unity while addressing a crowd of people who had gathered to protest.\n\n\"Oh, people of Mogadishu, Mogadishu shouldn't be a graveyard for burnt dead bodies,\" he said.\n\n\"Mogadishu is a place of respect, and if we remain united like we are today, moving ahead, we will surely defeat the enemy, Allah willing.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA BBC Somali reporter at the scene of the main blast said the Safari Hotel had collapsed, with people trapped under the rubble.\n\nAn eyewitness, local resident Muhidin Ali, told AFP it was \"the biggest blast I have ever witnessed, it destroyed the whole area\".\n\nMeanwhile, the director of the Madina Hospital, Mohamed Yusuf Hassan, said he was shocked by the scale of the attack.\n\n\"Seventy-two wounded people were admitted to the hospital and 25 of them are in very serious condition. Others lost their hands and legs at the scene.\n\n\"What happened yesterday was incredible, I have never seen such a thing before, and countless people lost their lives. Corpses were burned beyond recognition.\"\n\nProtesters gathered, wearing red headbands to show their anger at the blast\n\nThe international community has been quick to condemn the attack:", "California firefighters have struggled to contain the deadly blazes raging across the state\n\nThe wildfires raging across northern California are already the most fatal in the state's history; at least 40 people are dead and thousands of homes have been razed.\n\nWildfires are a common occurrence in California towards the tail end of the state's long, hot, dry summers, but this year a combination of extremely high temperatures, strong winds, a long drought, and population growth have produced lethal, fast-moving blazes.\n\nThe fires are burning in one of the world's most developed countries though. Arrayed against the flames are more than 10,000 firefighters, 880 fire engines, 134 bulldozers, 14 helicopters, and more. So why is this blaze so difficult to control, and the death toll so high?\n\nThe late summer winds that blow into California from the Great Basin region, east of the state - the so-called \"Diablo winds\" - drop elevation as they move out towards sea level. That has a few knock-on effects. As the pressure increases at lower altitudes, the air gets warmer, the wind speed increases, and the humidity level drops.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Why the California wildfires are deadly\n\nThat produces ideal conditions for a fast-moving wildfire. Northern California recorded gusting wind speeds of up to 70 mph this week, spreading the flames faster than firefighters could tackle them, and faster than some people could escape.\n\nThe high winds also overwhelm man-made and natural firebreaks, such as protection zones and wide highways, carrying embers across gaps in the brush that might otherwise contain the blaze. Hillsides compound the spread, as heat rises quickly up the steep terrain.\n\nCalifornia has just experienced its hottest summer on record, with less than 25% average rainfall. The heat dries out vegetation, making it all the more combustible if a spark ignites in the wrong place.\n\nThe state is also still feeling the effects of a five-year drought that parched its forests, leaving tens of millions of dead trees in its wake - more fuel for the fire.\n\nAnd counter-intuitively, California's extremely wet 2016-2017 winter may have also contributed to the spread of the blaze. The large amounts of vegetation that grew in the rain then dried out in the extremely hot summer that followed, providing even more fuel.\n\nCalifornia's population is growing, and with it the number of homes built in high-risk fire areas. A 2014 study of residential growth in the state predicted that by 2050 there will be 645,000 homes built in \"very high severity\" zones.\n\nHomes and other structures are increasingly being built adjacent to combustible areas of woodland. California law requires any structures in such a position to create 100 ft of \"defensible space\" - or firebreak - in every direction.\n\nBut the law is not aggressively enforced, it is left largely up to homeowners to police their own safety measures. And with a conflagration moving as fast as this one, in high winds, even a properly maintained firebreak might prove useless.\n\nFirefighters try to extinguish a house fire near Calistoga, California\n\nStory after story is emerging from California of people surrounded by fire in the middle of the night before they had a chance to escape, or of slight hesitations and delays that led to tragedy.\n\n\"This is what was so extraordinary about this event,\" Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, told Inside Climate News. \"Essentially it was a forest fire, a wildfire, that moved into an urban area. At some point it was jumping from house to house, not tree to tree.\"\n\nEven in the world's most developed country, there is no high-tech solution to a wildfire of this size. Firefighters rely on relatively old-fashioned tactics to starve the massive conflagrations.\n\nA fleet of planes and helicopters - including DC-10 airliners - is dumping water and fire-retardant on the blazes in an attempt to cool the air temperature and deprive the fires of oxygen.\n\nFirefighters are also creating so-called containment lines, purposefully burning vegetation in the path of the blaze to deprive it of fuel. In recent years, a steep increase in the number of dead trees - from disease and drought - has made it too dangerous for fire crews to enter certain areas, as the trees are more susceptible to sudden collapse.\n\nThat means containment lines have to be created further back from the blaze itself, allowing more woodland to burn before the fire can be deprived of fuel.\n\nOne key way to save lives is to warn people early, but questions have been raised about the warning system in this case. Text alert warnings were issued last Saturday night, as the blaze began to spread, but only to those who had signed up to receive them.\n\nThe emergency \"amber\" alert system, which pings every phone in a region, was not activated by authorities. \"There wasn't time to map out anything. There wasn't time to make a plan,\" Sergeant Spencer Crum of the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office, told the New York Times.\n\nBeyond evacuation plans and firefighting tactics, California may need some help from above. A sustained, end-of-season rainfall would soak the vegetation and lower the air temperature. But it's a waiting game.", "One of the world's most popular sports is barely known in the US. But, driven by a new generation of immigrants, could cricket finally take off?\n\nIt is a hot, sunny day in Hyattsville, Maryland.\n\nYoung men play basketball in the park. Barbecue smoke hangs in the hazy, late-summer air.\n\nA cyclist rides past with the Stars and Stripes on his trailer. And then, through the trees, comes a most un-American sound.\n\nImran Awan was 17 when he moved from Pakistan to the US in 1997. He didn't think Americans played cricket but he brought his equipment, just in case.\n\nA day after arriving, Imran played his first game on American soil, for a family friend's team. Within two years he was picked for the US national side.\n\nImran represented his new country in matches around the world - from Abu Dhabi to Nepal - and, aged 38, still plays locally. On this hot day in Hyattsville, he's captain of the Washington Tigers.\n\nThe Tigers are in the final of the Washington Cricket League Twenty 20 tournament, premier division. With the first and second division finals also taking place, it's a big day.\n\nBanners hang from the bleachers. Supporters gather in the shade. Two commentators sit behind a camera, broadcasting the games live across the internet.\n\nImran is a bowler and his side is batting, so he stands on the sideline, waiting for his chance. In his youth, he bowled at 90 miles per hour. Has he still got it?\n\n\"I try,\" he says, smiling. \"I try.\"\n\nThe Washington Cricket League is thriving. There are 42 teams in total, and new applicants are turned away each year because of a lack of pitches.\n\nAnother local league, the Washington Metropolitan Cricket Board, has 18 clubs. For an area with barely any \"real\" pitches, it's astonishing.\n\nMost grounds are hired from schools or counties. Today's game is played on a matting wicket: when the game finishes, the matting is pulled up, and the field reverts to more \"American\" sports.\n\nAnand Patel is a 31-year-old engineering professor at Cecil College in Maryland. He moved from Gujarat in India to study at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, in 2007.\n\nHe started playing for his college side - \"the cricket team was actually one of the reasons I picked the school,\" he says - and now plays for 22 Yards, Washington Tigers' opponents in the final.\n\n\"When I arrived, it was hard to get cricket equipment,\" he says. \"We were buying online, importing from India, or going to New York where they might have a vendor.\n\n\"Now, just in the state of Maryland you have at least five or six vendors.\"\n\nThe increase in cricket's popularity has followed a rise in immigration from the sub-continent.\n\nIn 2000, the Indian immigrant population in the US was just over one million, according to the Migration Policy Institute. By 2015, it was 2.4 million.\n\nThat sub-continental influence is clear in the Washington Cricket League. Ram Ragoo, 73 and from Trinidad, has been involved since the league began in the 1960s.\n\nBack then - aside from the embassy teams - \"most of the league was West Indian\", he says. Among them was Keith Mitchell, who studied in Washington and is now the prime minister of Grenada.\n\n\"Keith was the president of the league in 1981,\" says Ram, smiling. \"Really nice guy. But Reagan sent him to Grenada after the overthrow (in 1983).\"\n\nRam, who brims with Caribbean charisma, says the league reflects the changing face of immigration.\n\n\"The Indians came in, Pakistanis came in, the Sri Lankans started coming in, and the West Indians started to go out,\" he says.\n\n\"The young West Indians didn't want to play cricket. They got 400 or 500 dollars to go and play a soccer game.\"\n\nIn the premier division final, most players have a sub-continental background, but other cricket-playing nations are represented.\n\nDerick Narine, the Tigers' left-handed opener, is from Guyana, as is teammate Christopher Vantull. For 22 Yards, Johan de Wet is a South African who moved to the US this summer to be with his wife.\n\n\"I arrived just before the 4 July weekend,\" he says. \"That weekend there was a big Twenty 20 tournament, I saw 22 Yards had organised it, so I gave the guys a call.\n\n\"I played my first game probably within two weeks.\"\n\nWhat did the wife make of it?\n\n\"She is Indian so she gets it,\" says Johan, laughing.\n\nIn a further example of cricket's global reach, WCL side Vikings recently renamed itself. It is now the Afghan Cricket Club of USA.\n\nWhile the Washington Cricket League is certainly cosmopolitan, one thing is missing: Americans from non-cricket backgrounds.\n\n\"When we were in school, once in a while you would get an American guy showing up for practice,\" says Anand Patel.\n\n\"But it's hard to get used to cricket. For them to learn how to bowl or bat is difficult, even if they've played baseball. In baseball you don't bounce the ball - here you bounce the ball.\"\n\nRam Ragoo agrees. \"I only know one or two born Americans who play the game,\" he says.\n\n\"The ICC (International Cricket Council) is trying to create (university) scholarships to get American kids involved.\"\n\nFor now, though, American cricket remains an immigrant-driven sport. As the big-hitting Narine scores another six, bhangra blasts out across this small corner of Maryland.\n\nHelped by Narine's 71 in 39 balls, the Tigers are impressive, reaching 163-8 in their 20 overs. In reply, 22 Yards start well - nine runs from the first five deliveries - before a certain 38-year-old gets involved.\n\nImran Awan - the Tigers captain who moved to America aged 17 - dismissed Shahid Hanif for 8. He takes another wicket in his next over and 22 Yards end up 80 all out.\n\nImran, certainly, has still got it.\n\nThe Tigers take the title, the trophy is lifted, and another cricket memory is made in this most unlikely place. It won't be the last.\n• None Could America take to cricket?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "OK, in theory, if I am driving a car at four miles per hour and I speed up to eight miles per hour, technically I am accelerating.\n\nI may still be basically crawling along. I still may be late - very, very late - for my eventual destination. But, by the very action of pressing the pedal and going faster, I am actually speeding up.\n\nIf anyone accuses me of going nowhere, or slowing down - well, look at my speedometer. I am going faster and I have evidence that you are wrong!\n\nThat is why, in the next few days, don't be surprised if every Tory politician you see, hear, or read about is using that word (at least those loyal to the government) to claim that there is progress in the Brexit talks, just days after the chief negotiator on the EU side declared a deadlock.\n\nAs we've talked about before, Michel Barnier's choice of language last week didn't mean that nothing had happened or that there's been no movement at all.\n\nBut it made headlines, and all political negotiations of this ilk are in a sense a fight over words, too.\n\nSo tonight, the government, beset by its own rows about preparing for a deal, preparing for no deal, preparing to look like they know what they are doing, have a word - one word - that they can use as evidence that they are getting somewhere.\n\nLook, even the arch Eurocrat Jean-Claude Juncker agreed to \"accelerate\" the talks, you can almost hear them say. Give the news cycle another 12 hours and I'd bet a fiver that will have happened.\n\nBut what Number 10 is really hoping for is an agreement on Friday at the summit that points to the way ahead - not just a speeding up, but a commitment to the next junction - to allow the talks to start moving onto the transition.\n\nDespite the promise of acceleration, there is no sign yet tonight that either side is willing to budge far enough to inject some real vigour into the process.\n\nThere's no sign the UK is willing to put more cash on the table, yet. There's no sign that a majority of the other side are willing to expand the talks without that promise of more cash, yet.\n\nThe talks can accelerate all they like, but without one of the two sides being willing to budge to reach an accommodation, they could be going nowhere fast.\n\nPS: There is precious little detail so far of what actually was discussed at the dinner, and no sign yet of the huge leak of info from the last dinner between this group.", "The Islington pub where Bolsheviks and Mensheviks argued fiercely during the 1903 party congress\n\nIn August 1903, a small band of dedicated but argumentative political activists held a fractious conference in London.\n\nIt consisted of Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and about 50 other committed agitators who wanted to overthrow the autocratic rule of the Russian Tsar. Their quarrels might have seemed minor at the time, but they have rippled out across history.\n\nThis was when the Russian revolutionary movement divided into the two rival factions of Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. And a key vote happened in a pub in Islington.\n\nThe Bolsheviks, described as the 'hards' and led by Lenin, wanted a tightly centralised and disciplined political party; the Mensheviks or 'softs' favoured a looser, broader-based alliance with sympathetic forces. Over the following years, as issues and affiliations shifted, their differences fluctuated but were to become deeper.\n\nFourteen years later, in the second (October) revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks took power, sidelining and defeating the Mensheviks, and went on to form the Soviet Union.\n\nAt the 1903 congress in London, where the split emerged, Lenin's faction narrowly lost the vote on the nature of party membership.\n\nBut then seven anti-Lenin delegates walked out over other disagreements, and with his opponents depleted, his side then won a crucial vote on the editorial board for the party's journal.\n\nThis outcome enabled Lenin to call his group the Bolsheviks, meaning 'majority' in Russian, while his rivals became the Mensheviks or 'minority'.\n\nThe bitter dispute prompted uproar in the meeting. According to Richard Mullin, a researcher into early Russian Marxism, Lenin's notes indicate that the tumultuous session took place in the Three Johns pub in Islington.\n\nThe Whitechapel building where Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky and others arrived for the 1907 congress\n\n\"The 1903 London congress is regarded as decisive in the development of Bolshevism - it's hugely significant\", says Neil Faulkner, author of A People's History of the Russian Revolution.\n\nBut of course its significance is seen differently according to different political viewpoints.\n\n\"Most people on the revolutionary left would say this is the decisive break between revolution and reform,\" explains Dr Faulkner.\n\n\"A lot of liberal commentators would see it as the tiny seed from which ultimately grows the gulags and the labour camps of the 1930s.\"\n\nTo avoid being monitored during their conference, the Russians moved from venue to venue over a fortnight, often using meeting rooms in pubs recommended by friendly British trade unionists.\n\nLeon Trotsky met Lenin for the first time in London\n\nThe first session in London occurred in a club in Charlotte Street in central London. Otherwise most of these locations are unknown today.\n\nThe 1903 congress had actually started in Brussels, but after harassment from the Belgian police it moved to London. The British authorities showed more acceptance of exiled Russian revolutionary activities than did many other European countries.\n\nThis comparative tolerance meant that some other key events in the history of the Russian revolutionary movement also happened in Britain.\n\nThe 1907 party congress moved to London after being banned in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. This was a much bigger affair of more than 300 delegates, following an outbreak of major social unrest against the Tsar in Russia in 1905.\n\nThe congress took place in the Brotherhood Church in Hackney, which has since been knocked down and replaced by a housing development.\n\nThose present included almost all the future leaders of the Bolshevik revolution, including Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin (a minor figure at the time), Zinoviev, Kamenev and Litvinov, as well as the prominent Russian writer Maxim Gorky. This was the last full congress of the party until after the revolution.\n\nLenin briefly lived in Tavistock Place in Bloomsbury, central London in 1908\n\nThe participants first registered for the conference at a building in Fulbourne Street, Whitechapel, which still stands today. At the time it was a Jewish socialist club.\n\nStalin and Maxim Litvinov (who later became Soviet foreign minister) stayed in a doss house nearby in Fieldgate Street, which has since been converted into a somewhat more salubrious block of flats.\n\nThe conference saw further disputes between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. One issue for discussion was whether to approve the use of bank robberies to help fund revolutionary activities.\n\nMost delegates could only afford the trip back to Russia when the impoverished party secured a loan from an eccentric soap manufacturing London businessman who was inspired by watching conference proceedings.\n\nA few years earlier Lenin had spent 12 months in London, in 1902-3. He mainly divided his time between researching and writing at the British Museum reading room, and editing a revolutionary journal, Iskra (\"The Spark\").\n\nIn the reading room he studied works on economics and on the Russian peasantry.\n\nLenin was able to obtain books which would have been confiscated in Russia, and was rather impressed by the British state's commitment to the library, telling a friend: \"The British bourgeoisie do not spare any money as far as this institution is concerned, and that is as it should be.\"\n\nOn his various visits to London, Lenin generally stayed around the Bloomsbury area, so that he had easy access to the museum.\n\nIn 1902 Iskra was produced in London and smuggled across Europe into Russia. Lenin was provided with an office and printing facilities by a supportive left-wing publishing company.\n\nThe 'Lenin room' in the Marx Memorial Library\n\nThis building is now the Marx Memorial Library in Clerkenwell. They have preserved what they call 'the Lenin room' with busts of him, old editions of the journal, and copies of Lenin's voluminous collected works.\n\nA map on the wall outside shows the smuggling routes used. For Lenin, the journal was crucial both for building up a network of revolutionary activists and also for spreading the political analysis he favoured.\n\nIt was in London, in October 1902, that Lenin and Trotsky met for the first time. The pair discussed the political circumstances of Russia, but Lenin also showed Trotsky the sights of London.\n\nWhen they went past the Houses of Parliament, Lenin said to his companion \"that is their famous Westminster\".\n\nTrotsky later wrote it was obvious that by \"their\", Lenin didn't mean it was the British parliament, he meant it was the ruling class's parliament.\n\nYet it was that parliament, and the system it represented, which gave Lenin, Trotsky and their comrades the political freedom to pursue their goals.\n\nMartin Rosenbaum is the presenter of The British Road to Bolshevism on BBC Radio 4 at 20:00 on Monday, 16 October 2017. You can follow Martin Rosenbaum on Twitter as @rosenbaum6", "In the five years since President Xi Jinping moved to the helm, China has become richer and more powerful. But what has this growth meant for the fate and fortunes of the ordinary Chinese family?\n\nAs China's most powerful decision-makers meet to set the course of the nation for the next five years and a new generation of leaders emerges, we look at data from Chinese authorities and major surveys, to get some clues about how China's family life and society is changing.\n\nIn 2015, the government threw out its notorious one child policy which had been intended to keep population figures low but had led to a crippling gender imbalance.\n\nSo while now the door is open for more kids and bigger families, a look at marriage and divorce rates increasingly shows the same trend as the rest of the developed world: Marriage rates are falling while more and more people end up divorced.\n\nYet this first impression might be misleading.\n\n\"China has always had and is still having a much lower divorce rate than US and western European countries,\" Xuan Li, assistant professor of psychology at New York University Shanghai, explains.\n\n\"A much higher percentage of mainland Chinese people marry eventually, in comparison to those in neighbouring areas and countries. So the idea that the Chinese families (and ergo, the society and nation) are falling apart is statistically ungrounded.\"\n\nChina might have overturned its one-child policy in 2015 yet its legacy will continue to be a problem for years to come. There is even a term for unmarried men over 30: Shengnan, meaning \"leftover men\".\n\nIn 2015, a Chinese businessman in his 40s reportedly sued a Shanghai-based introductions agency for failing to find him a wife, having paid the company 7m yuan ($1m, £780,000) to conduct an extensive search.\n\n\"China's one-child policy advanced and amplified a demographic transition,\" explains Louis Kuijs of Oxford Economics. \"Falling birth rates and an aging population have been exerting downward pressure on the labour force and thus on economic growth.\"\n\n\"Although the one-child policy was changed in January 2016 into a two-child policy, higher birth rates now will only show up in the labour force in around two decades,\" he estimates.\n\nBut higher standards of living are slowly affecting traditional gender perceptions and that in turn will have a positive effect on the gender imbalance.\n\n\"The gender imbalance is already changing,\" Mu Zheng of the Centre for Family and Population Research at National University of Singapore told the BBC.\n\n\"That's because of the relaxed fertility policy, changing attitudes, women's advanced profiles in both education and work, and with a more established social security system,\"\n\nBut for now, the current gender imbalance does make it hard for men to find wives.\n\nAmid the constant talk about China's housing bubble about to burst, here's a detail that stands out: Among millennials, China has a towering percentage of homeowners, a different league it seems from European countries or the US.\n\nWhile the above data from HSBC largely covers urban China, it still illustrates a crucial point: parents are trying whatever they can to equip their sons with some added extras to woo women into wedlock.\n\n\"It is the custom that husbands will provide a home,\" Dr Jieyu Liu, deputy director of the SOAS China Institute, told the BBC in April when HSBC released the data.\n\n\"Many love stories fail to turn to marriage if the men fail to provide a marital house.\"\n\nSo once charm, luck or a property have helped China's singles get hitched - what is life like for families?\n\nChina's average income has seen a steady rise, both in rural and in urban areas. While the relative expenses on food have dropped significantly over the past decade, the money spent on things like health, clothes or transport has gone up. The same goes for communications. The surge in mobile phones illustrates that point.\n\nSmartphones are not just another communications expense - the WeChat app for instance is so woven into everyday routines that life without a phone is virtually unthinkable.\n\n\"WeChat is designed as an app that is like a toolkit for life, sort of a digital Swiss Army knife,\" Beijing-based tech analyst Duncan Clark of ABI Research explains.\n\nHe says consumers have been embracing the convenience of it covering everything from paying utility bills, cashless payments in shops, taxis and bike rentals, money transfers and of course - communication.\n\nHigher incomes translate into more money spent on children's education and recent years have shown a steady rise in parents sending their children overseas to study. What's more, they are coming back.\n\n\"A large proportion of these students are returning to China, with 433,000 having returned in 2016,\" explains Rajiv Biswas, APAC chief economist at analytics firm IHS Markit.\n\nThis rapidly growing pool of Chinese graduates with international degrees and experience of living abroad will make the next generation of Chinese business and government leaders \"very international in their thinking and understanding of other cultures, which will be increasingly important as China assumes the mantle of the world's largest economy in about a decade\".\n\nAnd while a degree from a European or US university is likely to boost your chances on the job market - it might also drive up your chances of bagging the right partner.", "Seaside towns in England and Wales - and the young families living in them - are suffering the worst levels of debt in the country, new figures reveal.\n\nThe Isle of Wight has the highest level of insolvencies amongst young adults, according to the Insolvency Service, followed by Torbay and Scarborough.\n\nOverall the number of 18 to 34 year-olds becoming insolvent rose by 31.3% between 2015 and 2016.\n\nIt comes ahead of a possible rise in interest rates as soon as next month.\n\nAny increase would be the first in the UK for over ten years - and would inevitably make borrowing more expensive.\n\nCoastal communities tend to be the worst affected because much of the work is low-paid and seasonal.\n\nDaniel and his wife Laura - who live on the Isle of Wight - have joint debts of around £30,000.\n\nHe works full time in construction, while she looks after their two-year old son. They're both 28 years old.\n\nUnable to pay for food, they built up debts of £7,000 on a credit card. They also owed £3,000 in council tax.\n\n\"At one point, to survive, we had chickens. We were living off eggs. Just eggs, bread and milk, because that's all we could afford,\" says Daniel.\n\nBut things got even more serious than that.\n\n\"I couldn't have been in a worse place,\" says Laura. \" I had depression and anxiety, and I was pregnant. At times I even felt suicidal.\n\n\"And that's the worst thing, because I look back and think If I'd ever gone through with that then my son wouldn't be here. I didn't want to exist.\"\n\nDaniel is in the process of declaring himself bankrupt, while Laura has applied for a Debt Relief Order (DRO), a separate form of insolvency.\n\nTorbay in Devon has the highest overall rate of insolvencies in England and Wales, with 43 per 10,000 residents in 2016. Stoke on Trent has the second highest rate, with the Isle of Wight and Scarborough in joint third.\n\nGreat Yarmouth and Ipswich also have high insolvency rates.\n\nSandra Snell, who works as a debt counsellor for Christians Against Poverty on the Isle of Wight, believes there are particular pressures on seaside communities.\n\nUnemployment is high, and much of the work is seasonal.\n\n'People are expected to live on nothing', says Sandra Snell\n\n\"In the season there'll be more work because of the tourist trade,\" she says.\n\n\"Some people will slot into jobs, whether it's cleaning the chalets or waiting on tables; then when the season comes to an end, they're back to square one, and they've got no work.\"\n\nWhen people transfer onto benefits in the winter months, there can be delays before their money comes through.\n\n\"People are waiting at least 12 weeks. There's no money coming in and they're expected to live on nothing.\"\n\nThe cost of living can also be much higher than elsewhere. Petrol is on sale on the Isle of Wight for up to 130 pence a litre - around 10% higher than the national average.\n\nA survey for the accountancy firm PwC suggests that 28% of those in the 25 to 34 year-old age group are worried about making repayments on their debt.\n\nAnd 20% of young adults have used credit cards to pay for essential items like food.\n\nOfficial figures show that insolvency rates are now rising for the first time since 2009. However they are a long way from the peak of insolvencies, seen in 2009.\n\nSimilarly, the total amount of consumer credit - the measure of borrowing used by the Bank of England - may have reached £203bn in August, but that is lower than in 2008.\n\nConsumer credit is currently growing at 9.8% a year - down from a 10.9% peak last November, and way below the 15.8% growth seen in September 2002.\n\nMeanwhile Daniel and Laura say the debt help they received from CAP has transformed their outlook.\n\n\"They possibly saved my life,\" says Laura.\n\n\"My wife wouldn't be here without them,\" adds Daniel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kim Jong-un's officials described Opposite Number as being \"slanderous\"\n\nNorth Korean hackers targeted a British television company making a drama about the country, it has emerged.\n\nThe series - due to be written by an Oscar-nominated screenwriter - has been shelved.\n\nIn August 2014, Channel 4 announced what it said would be a new \"bold and provocative\" drama series.\n\nTitled Opposite Number, the programme's plot involved a British nuclear scientist taken prisoner in North Korea.\n\nThe production firm involved - Mammoth Screen - subsequently had its computers attacked.\n\nThe project has not moved forward because of a failure to secure funding, the company says.\n\nNorth Korean officials had responded in anger when details of the TV series were first revealed. Pyongyang described the plot as a \"slanderous farce\" as it called on the British government to pull the series in order to avoid damaging relations.\n\nThe North Koreans did more than protest though - they hacked into the computer networks of the company behind the show.\n\nThe incident was first reported by the New York Times, which cited Channel 4 as the main target. However, the BBC understands that it was actually Mammoth Screen that was hit by hackers.\n\nOpposite Number's screenwriter Matt Charman was nominated for an Oscar for the 2015 Spielberg movie Bridge of Spies\n\nThe attack did not inflict any damage but the presence of North Korean hackers on the system caused widespread alarm over what they might do.\n\n\"They were running around with their hair on fire,\" a TV executive from another company told the BBC, describing the level of concern.\n\nBritish intelligence was also aware of the attack.\n\nThe concern was compounded because Sony Pictures experienced a significant cyber-attack in November 2014. A group called the Guardians of Peace claimed it was behind it but US officials said they believed North Korea was responsible.\n\nThat attack was also in retaliation for a drama - in this case the planned release of the film The Interview, a comedy in which the North Korean leader was assassinated.\n\nThe studio had its emails stolen and publicly released but also had a significant portion of its computer network destroyed by the attackers. The film was eventually released online amid concerns that cinemas would not show it because of threats.\n\nSony pulled The Interview from US cinemas after it was hacked\n\nIt also led to a strong reaction from the Obama White House, including the imposition of sanctions. There was no commensurate complaint from the British government, despite officials knowing that a UK company had also been targeted - although not affected in the same way as Sony Pictures.\n\nIn the UK, Opposite Number has been shelved. The drama was due to be the second commission to come out of Channel 4's newly formed international drama division.\n\nAt the time, Mammoth Screen and its distribution partner, ITV Studios Global Entertainment, said they were seeking an international partner. But a spokeswoman for ITV Studios - which purchased Mammoth Screen in 2015 - told the BBC in February that \"the co-production hasn't progressed because third-party funding has not been secured\".\n\nThose involved will not comment on whether the failure to attract funding and move forward with the production was in any way linked to the cyber-attack.\n\nMammoth Screen went on to make the ITV/PBS series Victoria\n\nThe cyber-threats from North Korea have not stopped. Its hackers have proved increasingly aggressive and adept, targeting banks to steal money and media in South Korea.\n\nBritish officials also believe North Korea was behind the Wannacry ransomware that struck around the world in May, with significant parts of the NHS affected, although there has been no official response from the UK government to this incident.\n\nBut the revelations about an attack on a TV production company may raise further concerns about what North Korea is capable of and how companies in the UK - and the British government - react when it happens.", "South Korean forces have been holding exercises along the border with the North\n\nUS Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has insisted President Donald Trump wants to resolve the confrontation with North Korea through diplomacy.\n\nIt will continue until \"the first bomb drops\", he told CNN.\n\nSanctions and diplomacy, he said, had brought unprecedented international unity against North Korea's nuclear weapons programme.\n\nLast month, Mr Trump told Mr Tillerson not to waste time seeking talks with Kim Jong-un.\n\nMr Tillerson's remarks come as the US and South Korea begin their latest joint military exercise in waters surrounding the Korean peninsula, involving fighter jets, destroyers and aircraft carriers.\n\nThe drills regularly anger the North, and Pyongyang has in the past denounced them as a \"rehearsal for war\".\n\nIn Sunday's interview, Mr Tillerson again refused to comment on whether he had referred to Mr Trump as a moron after a July meeting at the Pentagon.\n\n\"I'm not going to deal with that petty stuff,\" he replied, saying he would not dignify the question with an answer.\n\nThe president responded by challenging the secretary of state to an IQ test but a spokeswoman said later it had been a joke.\n\nIn recent months, North Korea has defied international opinion by conducting its sixth nuclear test and launching two missiles over Japan.\n\nAnalysts say the secretive communist state is clearly set on developing a nuclear-capable missile, able to threaten the continental US, despite UN sanctions.\n\nAt the end of last month, Mr Tillerson disclosed that the US was in \"direct contact\" with the North and looking at the possibility of talks.\n\nAfter months of heated rhetoric, it came as a surprise to some that the two countries had lines of communication.\n\nHowever, the next day Mr Trump tweeted Mr Tillerson to say: \"Save your energy Rex, we'll do what has to be done!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The plane (not pictured) experienced problems about 25 minutes after take-off\n\nAn AirAsia Indonesia flight has been forced to turn back to Australia after pilots were alerted to a possible loss of cabin pressure, airport officials say.\n\nFlight QZ535, bound for the Indonesian island of Bali, changed course about 25 minutes after take-off on Sunday.\n\nAirAsia said the flight experienced a \"technical issue\". Australian media said it had appeared to lose altitude.\n\n\"We were all pretty much saying goodbye to each other. It was really upsetting,\" one passenger told the local Nine network.\n\nA video taken on the plane, broadcast by local media, shows oxygen masks hanging from the ceiling and one person shouting \"passengers get down, passengers get down\".\n\nAnother passenger, Claire Askew, told the Seven network that \"panic was escalated\" by airline staff who were screaming and appeared to be in tears.\n\nIn a statement, AirAsia said it was \"fully committed\" to the safety of passengers. It did not elaborate on the problem.\n\n\"AirAsia apologises to passengers for any inconvenience caused,\" the statement said.\n\nIn June, an AirAsia X flight on its way to Bali was also forced to turn back to Perth after an engine problem left it \"shaking like a washing machine\".\n\nIn December 2014, an AirAsia plane crashed into the Java Sea, killing all 162 people on board after the aircraft's rudder control system malfunctioned during the flight.", "Becky (aged 11) meeting Thomas Sankara in Ouagadougou in 1987, shortly before his assassination\n\nOne picture brings it all back home to me again: Me, an 11-year-old London school pupil, gazing up smiling into the eyes of Thomas Sankara, then president of Burkina Faso.\n\nThe picture is too dark; it isn't particularly well composed - the sound engineer is in the way, getting my fellow interviewer, 14-year-old Dan Meigh, ready to film our encounter.\n\nBut it's the kindly warmth in Capt Sankara's eyes as he looks back at me that takes me back; the sense of calm composure, of someone at ease with himself, and at ease with his young, potentially unpredictable young interlocutors.\n\nIt's the simple furniture, the lack of opulence, the lack of Western power-dressing in favour of African fabrics and bare arms.\n\nLittle did we realise at the time that we would become the last non-Africans to interview the Burkina Faso leader.\n\nOn 15 October 1987, he was assassinated in a coup led by his erstwhile brother-in-arms and best friend Blaise Campaoré - who went on to lead the country for the next 27 years.\n\nWe had been in Burkina Faso as winners of a competition run by the BBC news programme for children, Newsround - sent to look at projects run by Sport Aid, a famine-relief fundraising campaign.\n\nThe interview took place in the spartan presidential palace\n\nHearing the news of Capt Sankara's death back home in London, as editing of our programme was still under way, I was saddened and shocked, but the shock was soon superseded by the interview requests that came flooding in from prime-time chat shows, where I was jokily quizzed about bagging a \"scoop\" at such a young age.\n\nIt was only as I grew older that I began to appreciate the legendary status of the man I had interviewed - despite some criticism of his rule, his admirers remain numerous and ardent - and of the symbolism of his murder in the political context of post-colonial Africa.\n\nFor Capt Sankara was pursuing a political project described as revolutionary in scope. And unlike many other African icons, such as South Africa's Steve Biko, he did - at least for a time - have the power to begin trying to make his vision a reality.\n\nI witnessed some of it for myself when I was there.\n\nAs I have said, he did away with the ornaments enjoyed by many leaders.\n\nWe saw few guards at the presidential residence, something Capt Sankara may have come to regret.\n\nOutside there were no luxury cars - we heard he had given them to the national lottery as prizes, replacing the fleet with cheap Renaults.\n\nOne of Capt Sankara's priorities was fighting the desertification of his country.\n\nHe told us he wanted to make it a commonplace that everyone should plant a tree on their birthday - we planted our own.\n\nHe had sent 200,000 people to plant trees and cordon off land, preventing nomadic animals from stripping the land of vegetation.\n\nWe saw home-grown solutions being implemented to problems of malnutrition and poverty - for instance, people building \"diguettes\", stone walls which stop fertile topsoil running off arid agricultural land when it rains, permitting more abundant crops to be grown.\n\nStatistics suggest that the policies Capt Sankara implemented during his short four years in office yielded some startling results.\n\nMany more children went to school under Thomas Sankara's rule\n\nSchool attendance went from 6% to 22%, millions of children were vaccinated and 10 million trees were planted. The number of women in government soared, female genital mutilation was banned, and contraception was promoted.\n\nLike me, Lamine Konkobo, a Burkinabé journalist with BBC Afrique, was only a child when Capt Sankara was killed - and, like me, he only came to fully understand his political importance as he grew up.\n\n\"I was growing up in a village where Sankara was seen as a challenging figure in terms of the ideas he promoted, in terms of women's independence and empowerment, for instance,\" he told me.\n\n\"That did not sit well in the countryside.\"\n\nCapt Sankara had challenged the old centres of power in Burkina Faso: Traditional leaders and big business.\n\nSo among them there was a sense of relief when his rule was over, a relief shared by Lamine's father.\n\nMost young people supported Capt Sankara, but misgivings about his rule even extended to progressive figures, including some intellectuals, who felt his quest to develop the country had an overly paternalistic, authoritarian edge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at former Burkina Faso President Thomas Sankara's time in power\n\nPresident Sankara made physical exercise mandatory, for example, so he could harness the powers of the population for his projects and do it without relying on external aid.\n\nWorkers accused of not pulling their weight were sometimes tried in \"revolutionary tribunals\", which were supposed to target corruption.\n\nBut the perceptions of Capt Sankara changed after Mr Campaoré came to power.\n\nUnder President Campaoré's programme of \"rectification\", power was restored to traditional leaders and businessmen.\n\n\"Justice for Sankara\" became a rallying cry decades after his demise\n\nOpponents were assassinated and a market economy was implemented that many blamed for impoverishing the majority and enriching a tiny elite, including Mr Campaoré and his own family.\n\nThese changes brought about a reappraisal of Capt Sankara's achievements among many - including Lamine's father.\n\n\"After [Sankara] died, we discussed his integrity, his public service, and my dad said everyone had been defending their own interests and had not been not open enough to hear him. 'Now I understand he was much better than what we have now,' my dad said. He died a repentant man.\"\n\nAlthough Mr Campaoré, who was overthrown in 2014, erased Capt Sankara's project, ultimately he failed in his aim to erase his vision, Lamine believes.\n\n\"This is the real legacy of Thomas Sankara. The ideas he tried to promote remain despite all the efforts of Blaise Campaoré to get people to forget.\n\n\"Ultimately those ideas were what spurred people to rise up in 2014 against Blaise Campaoré: They confronted armed police officers and soldiers and they made their point.\n\n\"The uprising would not have been possible without young people being driven by this powerful belief within them - the belief that they were pursuing a vindication, that the regime that killed their hopes would go.\"", "HSE in Ireland back to normal in 'a few days'\n\nIreland's health service says to expect delays while its clinics catch up on a backlog of cancelled appointments. HSE cancelled all appointments on Monday due to the storm but hopes to \"gradually return to normal services over the next few days\". For more details and the latest hospital news, follow its website.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What can and can't you say in China?\n\nIf you control public communication you can control the way people think and how they behave. That's what Xi Jinping's government is counting on.\n\nAnd it is never more true than at the time of major political gatherings.\n\nThe Communist Party Congress, held every five years, is set to begin next week: an event which will culminate in the revelation of the new leadership team behind General Secretary Xi.\n\nSo the censors here are poised to restrict with one hand and disseminate with the other.\n\nWhat they're looking out for are key words and expressions popping up in social media. Anything signalling an intention to protest or ridiculing the country's senior political figures will be blocked and potentially see a user reported to the authorities.\n\nFor example, a message featuring the name of this country's ever-more powerful leader and his sometimes-used nickname \"Winnie the Pooh\" (小熊维尼) will simply not go through to group discussions on the messaging app WeChat.\n\nFunny stickers featuring Mr Xi or previous Chinese leaders also can't be sent to chat groups.\n\nThis meme comparing Xi Jinping and former US President Barack Obama to Winnie the Pooh and Tigger has been censored in China\n\nChina has all the appearances of an increasingly open society: flashy new cities with Hollywood movies advertised on bus stops; digital currency taken up like nowhere else; cool kids getting around on hire bikes zooming through a gleaming modern existence.\n\nAnd yet, since Mr Xi came to power five years ago, public discourse has been increasingly censored to try and control everything from political thought to sexual activity.\n\nIn the lead up to the Olympic Games in 2008, it felt as if freedom of expression was ever on the rise here.\n\nNew laws allowed foreign reporters to travel around the country without specific permission from local governments.\n\nIt's hard to believe it, but Google searches were not blocked then.\n\nInvestigative journalism from local Chinese publications - like the Southern Weekend newspaper and Caijing magazine - was becoming as good as anywhere in the world.\n\nI remember being at a function where a group of journalists were speaking to one of the foreign affairs ministry spokespeople. We had some concern or other, and he was reassuring us that everything would be all right.\n\n\"Don't worry,\" he said, smiling as he pushed an imaginary truck gear into position. \"In China we only have one gear, and it's forward.\"\n\nIt sometimes doesn't feel like that now.\n\nJust as China has its Great Wall, so does it also have a powerful internet firewall to block \"undesirable\" sites\n\n\"You can't control the internet,\" is something people would say in those years - part mantra, part celebration of a new global reality.\n\nBut Chinese officials have worked out that actually, you can.\n\nRather than connecting to the internet, this country has something more like an intranet within the boundaries of the Great Firewall of China.\n\nSites like Amnesty International, Facebook, and Twitter are unreachable for most Chinese, unless they have use of a virtual private network (VPN), which effectively punts their computer over the Great Firewall.\n\nSo, with the congress approaching, there's been an assault on VPN use. The government has ordered Apple to remove all VPNs from its Chinese app store.\n\nThe company has decided in favour of not being kicked out of this enormous market and is doing what Beijing wants.\n\nYears ago Google was given a similar ultimatum: allow Chinese officials to censor search results or you're gone. Google didn't cave in, and was blocked.\n\nWeChat is widely used in China\n\nChina's most effective censorship tool is also the country's most widespread method of communication.\n\nPretty much everybody here uses the phone app WeChat. It has text messaging, group chats, photo sharing, location searching and electronic payments.\n\nDuring periods of political sensitivity - like now - key words will trigger the blocking or monitoring of a post. If sensitive enough, they could even lead to state security knocking on your door.\n\nNew regulations also make a person who sets up a group chat responsible for what's said amongst the group.\n\nAs you can imagine, the administrators of football team chats might be feeling a little nervous about the content of late night posts from drunken players.\n\nSome will wonder how this is all possible as the app is not owned by the government but run by the hugely-powerful Chinese company Tencent.\n\nWell, under new regulations from the Cyber Administration of China, private entities which run these platforms are required to not only enforce content restrictions but also report those who violate them to the \"relevant authorities\".\n\nFor many Chinese people - even those overseas - WeChat has also become their main news feed. If you restrict this content you can close out certain news coverage.\n\nPotential challengers to WeChat's virtual monopoly are also being reined in. WhatsApp is not 100% within the domain of the Chinese state.\n\nSo, at times in recent weeks, its use has been impossible to reach without a VPN.\n\nIt is not clear whether the disruption of WhatsApp is a temporary measure to coincide with the congress or yet another restriction that's here to stay.\n\nIt is no secret that every Chinese newspaper and television station is under the complete control of the Communist Party.\n\nAnd yet last year, when Mr Xi visited the People's Daily newspaper, Xinhua wire service and state broadcaster CCTV, he still demanded the absolute loyalty of reporters who should follow the Party's leadership in \"politics, thought and action\".\n\nBut, just in case some journalists didn't get the memo, a set of rules have been sent around governing coverage of this year's congress, requiring all interviews with experts or scholars to be approved by the outlet's \"work unit leadership\" and the central propaganda department.\n\nHowever, China's censorship and propaganda model is also going beyond sensitive political matters.\n\nOnline bookstores must now work under a rating system from the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television which includes the promotion of \"moral values\".\n\nPopular blogs focusing on celebrity scandals and the intrigues of the rich and famous have been forced to close.\n\nTo talk about such matters has been deemed to be not in keeping with \"core socialist values\".\n\nFor a time, cheap online video dramas were pushing out the boundaries of what could be viewed here. There was a gay sitcom, for example.\n\nBut digital platforms have been ordered to stop showing hundreds of foreign shows, and their locally produced material is expected to follow the same restrictions as television.\n\nAs it is, on Chinese TV you rarely see anything approaching a passionate kiss.\n\nTwo years ago a TV drama was forced to reframe and zoom in on its shots so as to crop out the generous cleavage of its 7th Century maidens, in order to remain on air.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Many in China feel the authorities have gone too far in censoring The Empress of China, as John Sudworth reports\n\nThus goes the creeping imposition of a state-sanctioned morality under Mr Xi's administration.\n\nLast month, TV dramas were given notice of a new set of rules governing their content. They should \"enhance people's cultural taste\" and \"strengthen spiritual civilisation\".\n\nDirectors are supposed to come up with engaging characters beyond the realms of lewd behaviour, extra-marital affairs, gambling, drugs, homosexuality and other forms of \"immoral\" behaviour.\n\nThe notice suggested eulogising the Communist Party of China, the country, the people and also national heroes. And one figure is emerging via the propaganda machine to stand head and shoulders above all others.\n\nAs the censors shut down dissent, the party is urging a way of thinking about all that's good in China and tracing it back to a single source - Xi Jinping.\n\nAn exhibition focusing on the recent achievements of the Chinese government has opened in Beijing.\n\nVast rooms are dedicated to science, transport, the military, the economy, sport, ethnic minorities, and they are all dominated by massive photos of Xi Jinping. There must be hundreds of them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Songs have been written celebrating Chinese President Xi Jinping, one even has an accompanying dance routine\n\nThe English language newspaper China Daily has been rolling out a series of front page stories - one every day - about the \"impact of\" a visit from Mr Xi on various villages, towns and cities after the General Secretary passed on his advice.\n\n\"He asked people to protect the lake\", \"President Xi proposed moving people in the villages to the new settlement\", \"Xi emphasised the importance of afforestation\", et cetera.\n\nSome here are joking that this type of reporting is not all that far from what you might expect in the North Korean press describing its own god-like leaders.\n\nWhen Chinese officials make speeches now, they refer to this or that aspect of what they're up to \"with Xi Jinping at the core\".\n\nIt goes without saying that you cannot question \"the core\" without this nation's considerable censorship apparatus crashing down upon you.\n\nBut, short of such an obvious breach, the rules regarding what can and can't be said, broadcast, forwarded, analysed are thought to be kept deliberately vague.\n\nIn this way, everyone is on their toes and the authorities can shut down what they like at any time without having to give a reason.\n\nEditors, cartoonists, reporters, directors, bloggers, comedians, administrators running social media platforms and ordinary Chinese citizens posting to their friends are all staying well clear of certain subjects just in case it lands them in hot water.\n\nIn short: Chinese censorship works, and plenty of other governments around the world are looking on with admiration.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On some red carpets, Harvey Weinstein is not a welcome subject\n\nThe casting couch may seem like a relic of the golden age of Hollywood - but women here say sexual harassment is rife and that exploitation is a price you pay for being part of the industry.\n\nNews that at least 30 women have accused Weinstein of sexually assaulting them - four alleging rape - has been met with sadness and outrage in Tinseltown.\n\nBut no one seems that surprised and many expect other powerful men will be exposed.\n\n\"I think everyone is shocked - not surprised,\" says actress Rita Moreno at a Women in TV gala in Beverly Hills. Ms Moreno, now 85, urged women to tell their stories. She says she was aggressively pursued by the head of a studio when she was 19.\n\n\"It was frightening and scary.\"\n\nMr Weinstein's Oscar for Shakespeare in Love has been tarnished by reports of lewd abuses of his immense power. But women in Hollywood say sexual harassment is common - for actresses and for women behind the scenes on film and TV sets.\n\nWe interviewed dozens of people who work in front of and behind Hollywood's cameras.\n\nAlmost every person reported experiencing sexism - though no one reported behaviour as severe as the allegations against Weinstein.\n\nBut a culture of pervasive sexism emerged. Some are stories of producers soliciting casual sex in exchange for jobs. Most stories involved daily ridicule and disrespect.\n\n\"The casting couch is still a major issue in Hollywood many women are being victimised and are being asked for sexual favours in order to get a job, to keep a job or to be promoted,\" says attorney Gloria Allred who represents women making complaints against Weinstein.\n\nMs Allred says she has women calling her with stories about other powerful Hollywood players.\n\nThe organisation Women in Film has been inundated with calls after they set up a hotline for victims to report abuse this week.\n\nWomen in Film's president Cathy Schulman says the revelations this week about Weinstein may be a tipping point - a chance to reform by employing more women in positions of power.\n\n\"It's a sad situation but we have to turn that into action. What angers me is women believing that they don't have the power to make change,\" says Schulman.\n\n\"What I get angry about is a system that lets them believe that they deserve to be treated this way.\"\n\nMany men and women in the industry agree that more women in power would help stop the cliché of powerful Hollywood executives abusing young women.\n\nWeinstein denies raping anyone and has apologised for hurting colleagues in the past. But his company has fired him and his wife has left him. Two weeks ago he was arguably the most powerful producer in Hollywood. Today, he's reportedly seeking therapy in Arizona.\n\nWhile many of the women who say Weinstein harassed them are A-list actors like Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow, others had their lives and Hollywood careers shattered before they began.\n\nIt's worrying for the newest recruits in the business.\n\nAt the Acting Corps in Los Angeles, Hollywood hopefuls warmed up with word games and improvisational exercises before their big scene.\n\nThese aspiring actors have yet to catch their big break, but many of them said they fear propositions from powerful people.\n\nSeveral male actors have also said they've been groped and hassled by powerful men in Hollywood. The abuses, they say, are about power, not gender.\n\nFor years, there have been rumours about A-list actors and producers abusing children and young men in Hollywood.\n\nStacey Morphis came to LA from England. She left a girl band after being harassed by a colleague.\n\n\"I feel like in music or movies it's all about who you know and what you're willing to do,\" she said before her acting class. \"I feel like that's the way it is and there's nothing I can do about it.\"\n\nAuditions have become a little scarier for Fia Mann since news of Weinstein broke. She said auditions were already scary enough and that it's common for actors to be riddled with self-doubt and insecurities.\n\n\"Before you even step into the room - am I the right look? Are they going to like me because of this? I don't have that. But what if they ask me to do that? I can't do that. OK, maybe I shouldn't go.\n\n\"It sounds crazy but that's literally the conversation that goes on in your head.\"\n\nThe allegations have brought a darker side to auditions, says Fia Mann\n\nBut many people interviewed about sexism in Hollywood and Weinstein still do not want to be identified. There is still a fear about speaking out and upsetting someone who might be the ticket to your next job.\n\nA woman in the costume department said when she was bent down on her knees fixing a male actor's belt, a fellow crew member took her picture and circulated it on set. She demanded he delete it but doesn't know if he did.\n\nFemale cinematographers are daily asked how they manage to carry such a heavy camera. \"That's a man's job,\" is a common jibe.\n\nFilmmaker Rachel Elder says a lighthearted Facebook group for mothers that she belongs to has transformed into a support group for sexual assault victims. She wrote about how she was sexually assaulted by her first boss in LA when she was 21.\n\n\"I'm very overwhelmed. In the last 72 hours I'm reading about all my friends writing about how they were raped and assaulted,\" she said.\n\n\"So many people are sharing really graphic stories that they've never told anyone before. You have to read it. You want to make people feel heard. It's really hard.\"\n\nIf more women talk about their experiences, will it really bring about change in a male-dominated industry?\n\nA lot of people in Hollywood say they are not surprised\n\nChristy Lamb is a co-founder of Moms in Film. She's worked as a producer for 13 years and also as an actress and in the art department.\n\n\"It's such a boys' club,\" she says, while on her (6pm) lunch break. \"We are usually 10% of the people working on projects.\"\n\nMany say Weinstein's career is over. But Hollywood is a forgiving place and they love a comeback story. The town has forgiven men after rape before.\n\nMs Lamb is confident that the culture has changed and that Weinstein will not be welcomed back.\n\n\"A year ago when Trump offended all women with 'Grab them by the pussy' we weirdly didn't get to execute much power,\" she says.\n\nTrump was elected, after all, with 46% of women's support.\n\n\"But in this situation we can fire him [Weinstein] and we can be sure he doesn't work again.\"\n\nMs Moreno - who has won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Tony award - says she's confident that this kind of publicity means young hopefuls in Hollywood won't go through what she did nearly seven decades ago.\n\n\"Who knows? Predators are predators,\" she said. \"It's certainly going to make them very careful, I think.\"", "The man expected to be Austria's new leader, Sebastian Kurz, features heavily this morning.\n\nThe website Politico says a win for Mr Kurz and his People's Party heralds a \"tectonic shift\" in Austrian politics after more than a decade under a centrist coalition.\n\nIt believes his win illustrates the \"continued potency of the refugee crisis in European politics\" and will resonate across the European Union.\n\nThe Austrian newspaper, Wiener Zeitung, writes that Mr Kurz may struggle to woo his fellow European leaders, given that he is tipped to form an alliance with the nationalist Freedom Party - which has raised the prospect of leaving the Euro and perhaps the EU altogether.\n\nThe Daily Mail reports that inmates in England and Wales are being paid to cold call households from prison.\n\nIt says convicts - including a man who ran a telemarketing scam - are receiving £3.40 a day to call potential customers for insurance policies.\n\nIn its editorial, the paper asks: \"Shouldn't we have the right to know if we are giving intimate details of our home to a convicted burglar?\"\n\nThe Prison Service says inmates do not have access to personal and financial information.\n\nThe Sun leads on a report that the Metropolitan Police will no longer investigate some crimes - unless the victims can identify a possible suspect.\n\nThe paper calls the idea \"criminal\" and says it is a \"licence to steal\". Scotland Yard is quoted as saying the force has to \"prioritise\" due to shrinking resources.\n\nBritain is £490bn poorer than thought, according to The Daily Telegraph. The paper reports that the UK no longer has a reserve of foreign assets to help protect against the consequences of Brexit.\n\nThe British ship HMS Sheffield was hit by an Argentine missile on 4 May 1982\n\nQuoting the Office for National Statistics, it says Britain's international investment position has collapsed from a surplus of £469bn to a net deficit of £22bn.\n\nThe Guardian says the catalogue of errors that ended in the sinking of HMS Sheffield during the Falklands War can now be disclosed, 35 years later.\n\nThe paper says a newly-declassified report reveals that the vessel was \"not fully prepared\" for an attack and a radar which could have sensed the incoming missile was being blocked by another transmission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo men and a woman have been killed as the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia hit the British Isles.\n\nAs hurricane-force gusts battered the Republic of Ireland, one woman and a man died in separate incidents when trees fell on their cars.\n\nA second man died in a chainsaw accident while attempting to remove a tree felled by the storm.\n\nThousands of homes and businesses lost power in Northern Ireland and Wales, along with 360,000 in the Republic.\n\nThe power company Northern Ireland Electricity said 15,000 households in the province should prepare to spend Monday night without power.\n\nPolice in Scotland say the storm has hit Dumfries and Galloway and it is forecast to continue over the region into the evening.\n\nAnd in Cumbria, police in Barrow closed roads around Barrow AFC's stadium after wind damaged its roof.\n\nCumbria Police said it was dealing with \"numerous incidents\" related to the high winds, which reached up to 70mph in the area.\n\nThe force had received reports of roofs and debris on the roads and overhead cables which had come down and it was urging people to only make essential travel.\n\nIn Wales, roads and railway lines have been closed and a gust of 90mph was recorded in Aberdaron, Gwynedd.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance service said a woman has been injured after being hit by a falling branch in Wrexham.\n\nIn Ireland, the woman, in her 50s, died near Aglish, County Waterford, and a female passenger, in her 70s, was injured.\n\nHer injuries were not believed to be life-threatening, the Gardai, Ireland's police force, said.\n\nOne of the men died near Dundalk, Co Louth, after his car was struck by a tree at about 14:45 BST, the Gardai said.\n\nThe other man, in his 30s, was killed in Cahir, Co Tipperary.\n\nAll road users were urged to stay indoors and not travel unless their journey was absolutely necessary.\n\nFlights were also disrupted as several UK planes were forced to land or divert after reports of a \"smoke smell\" linked to weather conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A reporter at the scene is caught in Ophelia's wind\n\nBBC Weather said the strongest winds recorded so far were at Roches Point, near Cork in the Republic of Ireland, where they reached 97mph.\n\nIreland's meteorological service said its highest gust was 109mph at Fastnet Rock.\n\nThe Met Office's amber warning for Northern Ireland, western Wales and western parts of Scotland is still in force for wind.\n\nForecasters are predicting that the far south-west of Scotland will see winds of 80mph on Monday evening, followed by 60mph gusts over Glasgow and the central belt in the early hours of Tuesday morning.\n\nThe main danger facing Scottish commuters in the morning would be debris on roads, they said.\n\nOther parts of the UK have seen unseasonably warm temperatures.\n\nAnd skies have turned red and yellow as Ophelia drags dust from the Sahara through the atmosphere.\n\nAn amber warning is in force in Northern Ireland\n\nIt could be several days before power is restored to some homes in the Republic of Ireland, ESB Networks has warned.\n\nThe roof of Cork's football stadium has also been blown off by the winds.\n\nOphelia has arrived from the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean and coincides with the 30th anniversary of the UK's Great Storm of 1987.\n\nBBC Ireland correspondent Chris Page said it would be the most severe storm to hit Ireland in half a century.\n\nThe Irish Republic's Met Eireann said the storm was forecast to continue travelling north over western parts of Ireland, with \"violent and destructive gusts\" of 75mph to 93mph expected countrywide.\n\nIt also warned of possible flooding due to heavy rain and storm surges.\n\n\"There is a danger to life and property,\" it said.\n\nIt has issued a red alert for the country.\n\nIn England, three flood warnings - meaning flooding is expected - have been issued in the South West, and there are several flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible - across other parts of the country.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency has put a series of flood alerts and warnings in place for south-west Scotland.\n\nA trampoline was blown away by strong winds in Cork, Republic of Ireland\n\nThe storm hit Land's End leaving these two dogs windswept\n\nAnd at Trearddur Bay, Wales strong winds whipped up sea foam on to the road\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.", "Theresa May is in Brussels for a dinner later with EU leaders in a bid to end a stalemate over Brexit.\n\nThe meeting, with chief negotiator Michel Barnier and Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker, comes days after the pair said talks were in \"deadlock\".\n\nBrexit Secretary David Davis is joining Mrs May for the meeting, ahead of this week's summit of EU leaders.\n\nMr Juncker said details of the dinner would be revealed in an \"autopsy\" afterwards.\n\nAlthough Mrs May's trip to Brussels was not made public during last week's negotiations, Downing Street sources insisted it had \"been in the diary for weeks\".\n\nOver a dinner expected to last 90 minutes, the PM hopes to end a stalemate over the three initial topics for negotiation - the amount the UK owes the EU when it leaves, the future rights of EU citizens in the UK and UK citizens living in the EU, and what happens on the Northern Ireland border.\n\nThe EU side says that until \"sufficient progress\" is made on these three items they will not begin discussing the UK's post-Brexit relations - things like trade arrangements and defence.\n\nBBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said the negotiations were entering a \"critical phase\", with the possibility of the UK leaving without a deal in place becoming the \"new front line\" in the debate about Brexit.\n\nThe UK is doing contingency planning for such an outcome, which both sides say they want to avoid.\n\nArriving at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said it was time to \"get on\" with the negotiations.\n\n\"It's ready for the great ship to go down the slipway and onto the open sea and for us to start some serious conversations about the future and the deep and special relationship we hope to construct,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: Time to get on with negotiations\n\nConservative John Redwood predicted that \"at the 11th hour\" the EU would want to reach a free trade deal with the UK.\n\n\"But if we look as if we are weak, it's going to delay getting any sensible offer out of them,\" the former minister, who campaigned for Brexit, added.\n\nMr Redwood said the UK would \"do just fine\" if no deal was reached and that he was \"fairly relaxed\" about the prospect of the EU imposing tariffs on UK goods, because the UK could trade \"perfectly successfully\" on World Trade Organisation terms.\n\nBut pro-EU former Tory chancellor Ken Clarke said talks failing to reach an agreement would have a \"catastrophic\" effect on the UK economy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michel Barnier: 'We've reached a state of deadlock which is very disturbing'\n\nTogether with Labour's Chris Leslie, Mr Clarke is trying to amend the government's key Brexit bill to put the two-year transition period proposed by Mrs May into law.\n\nHe said this could \"bind in\" the \"ultra-right\" members of the cabinet and the \"ultra left\" members of the shadow cabinet and convince Brussels the PM had the UK Parliament's backing.\n\nMrs May hopes when the 27 EU leaders meet on Thursday and Friday, they will give Mr Barnier a mandate to start talks on future trade.\n\nAhead of the European Council meeting, the PM has discussed Brexit in phone calls with French President Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Angela Merkel.\n\nBut Mr Barnier has said there is still no agreement on how much the UK should pay the EU when it leaves.\n\nLast week an internal draft document suggested the EU was going to begin preparing for the possibility of trade talks beginning in December - provided the UK does more to bridge the gap on the key negotiating points.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said there had been \"failures on both sides\" of the negotiating table so far, criticising the EU's \"rigid\" refusal to move the agenda forward.\n\nBut he said Mrs May had more to lose than EU leaders who \"do not know whether to take her seriously\" given Tory divisions over Brexit strategy.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"Her own authority is very much at stake, and what she's got to do at this dinner is impress on the Europeans A) She's there to stay and B) What she is promising can be delivered - I think she's talking to a sceptical audience.\"", "Police investigating the death of a 10-year-old boy in County Antrim believe he may have been attacked by the family's German Shepherd dog.\n\nParamedics were called to a house on Queen's Avenue in Glengormley at 12:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe ambulance service said the boy had lacerations and was taken to the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children.\n\nA post-mortem examination was completed on Monday and further forensic tests are to be carried out.\n\nA-38-year-old man who had been helping police with their inquiries was released on Monday night.\n\nA neighbour said she heard loud noises coming from the house minutes before emergency services arrived at the scene.\n\nA boy, bloodied and heavily bandaged, was later taken to an ambulance, she added.\n\nForensic officers carried out an investigation inside the house through until Sunday night and police cordoned off the area around it.\n\nSDLP councillor Noreen McClelland said people in the area had been left deeply shocked after the \"absolute tragedy\" in what is a \"quiet and tight-knit community\".\n\n\"There are no words to describe the horror in this community - people are just devastated,\" she added.\n\n\"My thoughts and prayers are with the child's family and friends at this horrendous time.\n\n\"I know that people will rally around them to offer their support.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Debris was strewn over the road and a nearby field\n\nA prominent blogger in Malta, who had accused the island's government of corruption, has died in a car bomb attack, according to police.\n\nDaphne Caruana Galizia, 53, was reportedly killed when the car she was driving exploded shortly after she left her home in Bidnija, near Mosta.\n\nLocal media say one of her sons heard the blast and rushed outside.\n\nPM Joseph Muscat, whom Caruana Galizia accused of wrongdoing earlier this year, denounced the killing.\n\n\"I condemn without reservations this barbaric attack on a person and on the freedom of expression in our country,\" he said in a televised statement.\n\n\"Everyone knows Ms Caruana Galizia was a harsh critic of mine, both politically and personally, as she was for others too.\"\n\nDaphne Caruana Galizia was reportedly killed just after leaving her home on Monday afternoon\n\nBut he stressed there could be \"no justification... in any way\" for such action.\n\n\"I will not rest before justice is done.\"\n\nOn Monday evening, thousands of people attended a candlelit vigil in the resort town of Sliema.\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\nMalta Television reported that Caruana Galizia had filed a complaint to the police two weeks ago to say she had received threats but gave no further information.\n\nNewspaper reports said the explosion had left debris from the rental car she was driving strewn across the road and in a nearby field.\n\nPolice and forensics experts went to the scene of the blast\n\nCaruana Galizia's death comes four months after Mr Muscat's Labour Party won an election he called early because of the blogger's allegations linking him and his wife to the Panama Papers scandal.\n\nThe couple denied claims that they had used secret offshore bank accounts to hide payments from Azerbaijan's ruling family.\n\nCaruana Galizia's popular blog had also targeted opposition politicians, calling the country's political situation \"desperate\" in her final post.\n\nA spokeswoman for the prime minister's office told the BBC that although there were rumours the attack could be politically motivated, this would be jumping to conclusions. But no lines of inquiry would be ruled out.\n\nMalta has asked for international help - including the FBI in the US - to find the perpetrator, the spokeswoman said.\n\nMeanwhile, Caruana Galizia's family has requested that the magistrate in charge of the investigation be replaced, the Malta Independent reports.\n\nIt said the current magistrate had on a number of occasions been the subject of criticism by Caruana Galizia.\n\nDaphne Caruana Galizia was loved and resented in equal measure in politically divided Malta - but she will go down in the Mediterranean island's history as one of the most influential writers.\n\nHer uncompromising blog and scathing pen spared no punches, hitting out mainly at exponents of the ruling Labour Party and their supporters, but also sometimes criticising officials of the centre-right Nationalist Party, including its newly-elected leader.\n\nStarting off as a columnist for The Sunday Times of Malta, her colourful reportage saw her embroiled in several legal battles along the years, including Malta's prime minister.\n\nBut beyond all, even her fiercest critics acknowledge she was an impeccable writer and investigative journalist. Her digital cross-investigation into the Panama Papers, which saw the Maltese government's top officials embroiled, effectively triggered off a premature general election last June.", "Bergdahl arrives at the courthouse on Monday\n\nBowe Bergdahl, the US soldier held as a Taliban captive in Afghanistan for five years, has pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehaviour before the enemy.\n\nThe 31-year-old Army sergeant entered his plea on Monday before a military judge at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.\n\nThe Idaho native's lawyers have argued he cannot get a fair trial following criticism from Donald Trump during last year's presidential campaign.\n\nMr Trump had called him \"a no-good traitor who should have been executed\".\n\nWhen asked during a news conference on Monday whether his comments had any impact on Sgt Bergdahl's case, the president said he could not comment, but \"I think people have heard my comments in the past\".\n\n\"We may as well go back to kangaroo courts and lynch mobs,\" Sgt Bergdahl said in a 2016 interview that was obtained by the BBC and broadcast on Monday.\n\nIn the remarks to British filmmaker Sean Langan, who was himself held captive by the same Taliban group in 2008, Sgt Bergdahl denied he had left his post in order to meet Taliban militants.\n\nAn undated, unverified photo of Sgt Bowe Bergdahl with what appears to be Badruddin Haqqani was released by the Taliban after his return to the US\n\n\"You know, it's just insulting frankly,\" he said. \"It's very insulting, the idea that they would think I did that.\"\n\nSgt Bergdahl, who remains on active duty desk work in San Antonio, Texas, was first charged in 2015, a year after his release.\n\nDuring Monday's hearing, he told the court: \"I was captured by the enemy against my will.\"\n\n\"At the time I had no intention of causing search and recovery operations... It's very inexcusable,\" he added.\n\nHe is scheduled to face a pre-sentencing hearing starting on 23 October.\n\nThe maximum penalty for misbehaviour before the enemy is life in prison, and the maximum sentence for desertion is five years.\n\nArmy General Kenneth Dahl, who led the investigation into Sgt Bergdahl's disappearance, has testified that a jail sentence would be \"inappropriate\".\n\nIn a podcast interview last year, Sgt Bergdahl said he walked off his combat post to prove to senior officers his commanders were \"unfit\" for service.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A video shows Sgt Bowe Bergdahl being handed over to US forces\n\nUpon his return to the US, an Army Sanity Board evaluation determined that he had schizotypal personality disorder \"at the time of the alleged criminal conduct\" and now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.\n\nThe decision to exchange five Taliban captives from Guantanamo Bay in order to secure Sgt Bergdahl's release was heavily criticised by Republican lawmakers as contrary to US policy of not negotiating with terrorists.\n\nSeveral former platoon mates have alleged US soldiers were killed or wounded during the frantic 45-day search for the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment trooper.\n\nThe judge has allowed wounded servicemen to testify that they were hurt because of the search for Sgt Bergdahl.\n\nMuch of Sgt Bergdahl's captivity was spent in a \"cage\", he said, and he was extensively tortured by his captors, a military expert has previously testified.\n\nDuring Mr Trump's presidential campaign, he called Sgt Bergdahl \"garbage\" and suggested he should be summarily executed.\n\n\"You know in the old days - bing, bong,\" Mr Trump said at a campaign rally as he imitated firing a gun. \"When we were strong.\"", "One man died at the scene of the stabbing\n\nA man has died and two others have been injured in a stabbing outside Parsons Green Tube station in London.\n\nThe attack happened just after 19:30 BST on Monday at the station where 30 people were injured in a terror attack last month.\n\nA 20-year-old man died in the stabbing, which is not being treated as terror-related.\n\nThe two injured people were taken to hospital and one was subsequently arrested.\n\nThe dead man's next of kin have been informed although formal identification has yet to take place.\n\nHe was pronounced dead at the scene at 20:30.\n\nTwo men were taken to hospital, one of whom has been arrested\n\nCordons are in place at the scene of the incident\n\nOne man remains in hospital although his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening. The arrested man was taken to a west London police station for questioning.\n\nParsons Green Lane and the station were closed by police and cordons put in place. The station has since been re-opened.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"Gentility of speech is at an end,\" thundered an editorial in London's City Press, in 1858. \"It stinks!\"\n\nThe stink in question was partly metaphorical: politicians were failing to tackle an obvious problem.\n\nAs its population grew, London's system for disposing of human waste became woefully inadequate. To relieve pressure on cess pits - which were prone to leaking, overflowing, and belching explosive methane - the authorities had instead started encouraging sewage into gullies.\n\nHowever, this created a different issue: the gullies were originally intended for only rainwater, and emptied directly into the River Thames.\n\nThat was the literal stink - the Thames became an open sewer.\n\nCholera was rife. One outbreak killed 14,000 Londoners - nearly one in every 100.\n\nCivil engineer Joseph Bazalgette drew up plans for new, closed sewers to pump the waste far from the city. It was this project that politicians came under pressure to approve.\n\nThe sweltering-hot summer of 1858 had made London's malodorous river impossible to politely ignore, or to discuss obliquely with \"gentility of speech\". The heatwave became popularly known as the \"Great Stink\".\n\nIf you live in a city with modern sanitation, it's hard to imagine daily life being permeated with the suffocating stench of human excrement.\n\nFor that, we have a number of people to thank - but perhaps none more so than the unlikely figure of Alexander Cumming.\n\n50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations that helped create the economic world.\n\nA watchmaker in London a century before the Great Stink, Cumming won renown for his mastery of intricate mechanics.\n\nKing George III commissioned him to make an elaborate instrument for recording atmospheric pressure, and he pioneered the microtome, a device for cutting ultra-fine slivers of wood for microscopic analysis.\n\nAlexander Cumming's S-bend was crucial in the development of the flushing toilet\n\nBut Cumming's world-changing invention owed nothing to precision engineering. It was a bit of pipe with a curve in it.\n\nIn 1775, Cumming patented the S-bend. This became the missing ingredient to create the flushing toilet - and, with it, public sanitation as we know it.\n\nFlushing toilets had previously foundered on the problem of smell: the pipe that connects the toilet to the sewer, allowing urine and faeces to be flushed away, will also also let sewer odours waft back up - unless you can create some kind of airtight seal.\n\nCumming's solution was simplicity itself: bend the pipe. Water settles in the dip, stopping smells coming up; flushing the toilet replenishes the water.\n\nWhile we've moved on alphabetically from the S-bend to the U-bend, flushing toilets still deploy the same insight.\n\nRollout, however, came slowly: by 1851, flushing toilets remained novel enough in London to cause mass excitement when introduced at the Great Exhibition in Crystal Palace.\n\nUse of the facilities cost one penny, giving the English language one of its enduring euphemisms for emptying one's bladder, \"to spend a penny\".\n\nHundreds of thousands of Londoners queued for the opportunity to relieve themselves while marvelling at the miracles of modern plumbing.\n\nIf the Great Exhibition gave Londoners a vision of how public sanitation could be - clean, and smell-free - no doubt that added to the weight of popular discontent as politicians dragged their heels over finding the funds for Joseph Bazalgette's planned sewers.\n\nMore than 170 years later, about two-thirds of the world's people have access to what's called \"improved sanitation\", according to the World Health Organization, up from about a quarter in 1980.\n\nBut that still means two and a half billion people don't have access to it, and \"improved sanitation\" itself is a relatively low bar.\n\nIt \"hygienically separates human excreta from human contact\", but it doesn't necessarily treat the sewage itself.\n\nFewer than half the world's people have access to sanitation systems that do that.\n\nThe economic costs of this ongoing failure to roll out proper sanitation are many and varied, from health care for diarrhoeal diseases to foregone revenue from hygiene-conscious tourists.\n\nThe World Bank's Economics of Sanitation Initiative has tried to tot up the price tag.\n\nAcross various African countries, for example, it reckons inadequate sanitation lops one or two percentage points off gross domestic product (GDP), in India and Bangladesh over 6%, and in Cambodia 7%.\n\nOpen sewers are a common sight in Kibera, in Nairobi, Kenya\n\nThe challenge is that public sanitation isn't something the market necessarily provides. Toilets cost money, but defecating in the street is free.\n\nIf I install a toilet, I bear all the costs, while the benefits of the cleaner street are felt by everyone.\n\nIn economic parlance, that's a \"positive externality\" - and goods that have positive externalities tend to be bought at a slower pace than society, as a whole, would prefer.\n\nThe most striking example is the \"flying toilet\" system of Kibera, in Nairobi, Kenya.\n\nThe flying toilet works like this: you defecate into a plastic bag, and then in the middle of the night, whirl the bag around your head and hurl it as far away as possible.\n\nReplacing a flying toilet with a flushing toilet provides benefits to the toilet owner - but you can bet that the neighbours would appreciate it, too.\n\nContrast, say, the mobile phone. That also costs money, but its benefits accrue largely to me. That's one reason why, although the S-bend has been around for 10 times as long as the mobile phone, many more people already own a mobile phone than a flushing toilet.\n\nIf you want to buy a flushing toilet, it also helps if there's a system of sewers to plumb it into, and creating one is a major undertaking - financially and logistically.\n\nJoseph Bazalgette, standing top right, views the Northern Outfall sewer being built below the Abbey Mills pumping station in 1862\n\nWhen Joseph Bazalgette finally got the cash to build London's sewers, they took 10 years to complete and necessitated digging up 2.5 million cubic metres (88 million cubic ft) of earth.\n\nBecause of the externality problem, such a project might not appeal to private investors: it tends to require determined politicians, willing taxpayers and well-functioning municipal governments.\n\nAnd those, it seems, are in short supply. According to a study published in 2011, just 6% of India's towns and cities have succeeded in building even a partial network of sewers. The capacity for delay seems almost unlimited.\n\nLondon's lawmakers likewise procrastinated- but when they finally acted, they didn't hang about. As Stephen Halliday recounts in his book The Great Stink of London, it took just 18 days to rush through the necessary legislation for Bazalgette's plans. What explains this sudden, impressive alacrity?\n\nThe Houses of Parliament, photographed in 1858, the year of the Great Stink\n\nA quirk of geography: London's Parliament building is located right next to the River Thames.\n\nOfficials tried to shield lawmakers from the Great Stink, soaking the curtains in chloride of lime in a bid to mask the stench.\n\nBut it was no use. Try as they might, the politicians couldn't ignore it.\n\nThe Times described, with a note of grim satisfaction, how MPs had been seen abandoning the building's library, \"each gentleman with a handkerchief to his nose\".\n\nIf only concentrating politicians' minds was always that easy.", "The film production company co-founded by Harvey Weinstein, who is facing a number of sexual assault allegations, is in talks over a possible sale.\n\nThe Weinstein Company said it had entered a preliminary deal with US private equity firm Colony Capital.\n\nMr Weinstein, 65, was fired by the board of his company earlier this month, and was later expelled by the organisation behind the Oscars.\n\nThe Hollywood producer insists sexual relations he had were consensual.\n\nPolice in London and New York are investigating various allegations against Weinstein.\n\nThe Weinstein Company, which was behind Oscar-winning films including The King's Speech and The Artist, has come under intense pressure over the scandal.\n\nThe firm said it was in talks with Colony Capital about the sale of some or all of the company. Colony has also agreed to inject funds immediately into embattled firm.\n\nTarak Ben Ammar, a board member of The Weinstein Company, said the extra funds would \"help stabilise the company's current operations\".\n\nColony Capital founder Thomas J Barrack Jr with Harvey Weinstein and Julia Roberts at a film premiere in 2013\n\nColony Capital, founded by Thomas J Barrack Jr - a friend of President Donald Trump - is already a major player in the film industry.\n\nIn 2010, it bought Miramax, another film production company set up by Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob Weinstein, from Disney.\n\nIt also worked with The Weinstein Company in developing the film libraries of the two firms for platforms including Netflix, Amazon and Apple, before selling Miramax last year for an undisclosed price.\n\nMr Barrack Jr said: \"We are pleased to invest in The Weinstein Company and to help it move forward.\n\n\"We will help return the company to its rightful iconic position in the independent film and television industry.\"\n\nThe real estate tycoon is a former business partner of President Trump and chaired his inauguration committee. His private equity firm Colony says it has funds of $56bn (£42bn) under management.\n\nThe Weinstein brothers set up The Weinstein Company in 2005, twelve years after selling Miramax to Disney.\n\nLast year, Harvey Weinstein said the The Weinstein Company, including its film library, was worth up to $800m and had no debt.\n\nHowever, a number of the firm's partners have cut ties in recent days amid the allegations against Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault and harassment.\n\nGoldman Sachs said on Friday it was exploring options for the small stake it holds in the company, a day after US publisher Hachette Book Group terminated its tie-up with Weinstein Books.", "\"Super-sized\" chocolate bars are to be banished from hospital shops, canteens and vending machines, NHS England says.\n\nSweets and chocolate sold in hospitals should be 250 calories or under, the head of the body says.\n\nUnder the plans, most \"grab bags\" will be banned - with hospitals given a cash boost for facilitating the change.\n\nThe proposals would also see 75% of pre-packed sandwiches coming in at under 400 calories.\n\nPre-packed savoury meals and sandwiches must also contain no more than 5g of saturated fat per 100g.\n\nAnd 80% of the drinks stocked must have less than 5g of added sugar per 100ml.\n\nIn April, NHS England said it would ban sugary drinks if hospital outlets did not cut down on the number they sell.\n\nSimon Stevens said the NHS was \"stepping up\" to combat an issue that was causing \"an epidemic of obesity, preventable diabetes, tooth decay, heart disease and cancer\".\n\n\"In place of calorie-laden, sugary snacks we want to make healthier food an easy option for hospital staff, patients and visitors.\"\n\nNHS staff are also being targeted as part of the move to tackle unhealthy eating, including those on overnight shifts.\n\nIt is estimated that nearly 700,000 of the NHS's 1.3million staff are overweight or obese.\n\nNHS premises have huge footfall from the communities they serve, with one million patients every 24 hours.\n\nThe Royal Voluntary Service, the biggest hospital retailer across the UK, said it had already begun introducing healthier choices and had seen fruit sales go up by a quarter.\n\nPublic Health England says hospitals have an \"important role\" in addressing obesity and not just dealing with the consequences.\n\nCampaigners says more action is till needed.\n\nHelen Dickens from Diabetes UK said: \"We look forward to seeing more information on how it will work in practice.\n\n\"However this is just one piece of the puzzle when it comes to tackling obesity. We need to go much further, which is why we are also calling for the Government to toughen restrictions on junk food marketing to children, end price promotions on unhealthy foods and introduce mandatory front of pack food labelling.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"We restricted the sale of chocolate bars and other sugary products from vending machines in Welsh hospitals nine years ago. We're pleased NHS England is now looking to follow our lead.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British actress Sophie Turner and US singer Joe Jonas are to marry.\n\nThe pair, who have been together since 2016, both shared the news on Instagram with the same picture of a diamond ring.\n\nTurner, who plays Sansa Stark in fantasy TV drama Game of Thrones, posted the photo with the caption \"I said yes\".\n\nJonas's brother Nick, who was also in American pop band The Jonas Brothers, tweeted his congratulations.\n\nHe said: \"Ahh! Congratulations to my brother... and sister in law to be on your engagement. I love you both so much.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jonas This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Jonas Brothers was formed in 2005 and gained fame after appearances on the Disney Channel. The band was made up of the three brothers Nick, Joe and Kevin Jonas.\n\nThe three-piece broke up in 2013 and Joe Jonas is currently the lead singer for US dance-rock band DNCE.", "Lord Lloyd Webber was made a Conservative peer by John Major in 1997\n\nAndrew Lloyd Webber is to retire from the Lords as of midnight on Monday, the House has confirmed.\n\nThe 69-year-old composer became a life peer in the 1997 New Year's Honours list and sat as a Conservative member.\n\nIn a statement from his team, Lord Lloyd Webber said he resigned \"with a heavy heart\", but added: \"What is expected from a member today is very different from what it was.\"\n\nHe also said his work schedule was \"the busiest of [his] career to date\".\n\n\"This means it would be impossible for me to regularly vote or properly consider the vitally important issues that the House of Lords will face as a consequence of Brexit,\" he said.\n\n\"I feel my place should be taken by someone who can devote the time to the House of Lords that the current situation dictates.\"\n\nLord Lloyd Webber was a member of the Works of Art Committee for three years and spoke out against government cuts to the arts last year.\n\nHowever, in the 2,097 votes during his tenure, he voted only 42 times.", "Battling the heavy winds in Donaghadee, County Down\n\nThree people have been killed as Hurricane Ophelia lashes Ireland, with a national emergency declared in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nOne man in his 30s died in a chainsaw accident while trying to clear a fallen tree in County Tipperary.\n\nA tree came down on this house in Broughshane, County Antrim\n\nA woman in her 50s in County Waterford and a man in County Louth were killed after trees fell on their cars.\n\nAll schools in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic will remain closed on Tuesday.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish PM) Leo Varadkar has warned people to stay indoors, as severe winds cause transport disruption, uproot trees and cut power supplies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn amber warning for high winds is in force in Northern Ireland until 23:00 BST.\n\nThe worst of the weather is expected to continue into Monday evening, with winds of up to 80mph (130km/h) forecast.\n\nOn Monday night, residents were evacuated from flats in Rodgers Quay, Carrickfergus, due to the risk of flooding from tidal surges.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Irish Lifeboats This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAbout 8,000 homes have no electricity in Northern Ireland.\n\nNorthern Ireland Electricity (NIE) posted this picture of a fallen tree, which brought down an overhead cable and damaged a car in Dunmurry\n\nSome 295,000 customers are without power in the Republic and it could be 10 days before normal service resumes. Emergency crews are coming from Northern Ireland and the UK to help restore the supply, said the Irish PM.\n\nA red weather alert is in place across the Republic of Ireland, meaning there is a danger to life.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Dean McLaughlin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Sterling said a lot of work was ongoing to keep people safe.\n\nResponding to criticism from parents about the late warning given regarding Monday's schools closure, Mr Sterling said his officials had to rely on the best evidence available and balance competing judgments.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe warning about the further closures came earlier at about 16:30 BST on Tuesday,\n\nOriginally a hurricane, Ophelia weakened on its path across the Atlantic Ocean\n\nThe Irish government has deployed the army and all hospital outpatient appointments in the Republic were cancelled on Monday\n\nThe Irish PM said: \"I don't want anyone to think that this is anything other than a national emergency and a red alert in all counties, all cities, all areas.\"\n\nUK Prime Minister Theresa May spoke to her Irish counterpart Mr Varadkar on Monday afternoon to offer support to affected areas.\n\nAre you affected by Hurricane Ophelia? E-mail your stories and pictures to haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease do not put yourself in any danger to take images and please heed all safety warnings.\n\nYou can also contact us in the following ways:", "The mesh implants are used to ease incontinence and to support organs\n\nA surgeon who carried out mesh surgery that left women in severe pain is being investigated by his NHS trust.\n\nTony Dixon, who is based in Bristol, uses a technique known as mesh rectopexy to fix bowel problems, often caused by childbirth.\n\nSeveral women are considering legal action after being treated by him.\n\nMr Dixon said he was unable to comment because of the investigation, but the BBC understands he denies doing anything wrong.\n\nHe works at Southmead Hospital and at the Spire private hospital in Bristol.\n\nOne of Mr Dixon's patients, Sam van der Heijden from Hastings in East Sussex, said she was left with major pain and complications after Mr Dixon inserted the mesh in 2011.\n\nShe had had previous surgery with someone else and was facing a difficult future.\n\n\"I researched on the internet and Mr Dixon came up as the pioneer of mesh rectopexy,\" she said.\n\n\"So I thought, right, if I'm having problems I need to go to the best.\n\n\"He said [it] will solve all your problems. Because I believed he was the expert I didn't question it.\"\n\nAnother surgeon told the BBC in their opinion her mesh was not attached where they would expect it to be.\n\nConcerns have also been raised by patients who said they were not fully warned of possible complications.\n\nSam van der Heijden says surgery left her with major pain and complications\n\nGynaecologist Dr Sohier Elneil has taken on the care of several patients from all over the UK who were operated on by Mr Dixon in Bristol.\n\n\"There might be patients in whom it has been absolutely fine, but we now know there are many patients who are suffering as a consequence of this type of surgery,\" she said.\n\n\"This year alone we've operated on seven such cases.\n\n\"It worries me when you start to hear the same name or same technique or the same problem in women from different parts of the country.\"\n\nMr Dixon is being investigated by Southmead Hospital, where he currently cannot perform mesh operations.\n\nThe General Medical Council (GMC) is also investigating, and has stopped him from performing another form of corrective surgery, known as a Starr procedure (stapled transanal resection of the rectum), for a year from August 2017.\n\nThe mesh is made of a polypropylene, a type of plastic\n\nMesh implants are medical devices used by surgeons to treat pelvic organ prolapse and incontinence in women, conditions that can commonly occur after childbirth.\n\nThe mesh, usually made from synthetic polypropylene, is intended to repair damaged or weakened tissue.\n\nMr Dixon has his supporters, and the BBC has been told he is pioneering, experienced and conscientious.\n\nThe Pelvic Floor Society (PFS) says up to 2.5% of women who have mesh surgery will suffer complications, but it can bring life-changing benefits.\n\nThe society's Andrew Williams said it was \"up to the woman herself\" to discuss with her surgeon the \"risks and benefits\".\n\nOne surgeon told the BBC that complications arising from mesh surgery, a procedure which became common in about 2004, could not have been foreseen.\n\nThe PFS said it began to recognise complications in 2014, but its chair could not say whether surgeons should have mentioned complications before then.\n\nTwo Bristol law firms are considering legal action, after taking on 16 women who were operated on by Mr Dixon.\n\nMadeleine Pinschof from Thompsons Solicitors said the majority had suffered \"debilitating complications... far worse than before they had these procedures\".\n\n\"Certainly we don't believe that all of the possible complications had been explained,\" she said.\n\nLuke Trevorrow from solicitors Irwin Mitchell said he suspected there may be \"more patients out there who have received treatment from Mr Dixon who are equally concerned\".\n\nNorth Bristol NHS Trust, which runs Southmead Hospital, said it was investigating concerns raised over \"certain pelvic floor repair procedures\" and said Mr Dixon was \"not currently providing these procedures\" at the trust.\n\nSpire Bristol Hospital's director, Dan Rees Jones, said Mr Dixon was currently not permitted to perform procedures and was \"restricted to outpatient follow-up appointments\" while the NHS trust completes its investigation.\n\nHe added that complications relating to Mr Dixon's practice at the hospital \"fall within normal parameters\".\n\nClaims by women that the mesh surgery left them with long-term health problems will be investigated on Inside Out West on BBC One at 19:30 BST on Monday 16 October.", "Even for an international sportsman, Jonny Bairstow's story is extraordinary.\n\nThat the Yorkshireman has had his share of setbacks on the way to becoming one of the leading wicketkeeper-batsmen in the world, or that the young Bairstow was an extremely talented footballer and rugby player are noteworthy, but only a small part of his tale.\n\nJonny's father David, also a wicketkeeper, had a 20-year career with Yorkshire and played four Tests for England. In 1998, he took his own life.\n\nTo mark the release of his autobiography, A Clear Blue Sky, Bairstow spoke to former England captain Michael Vaughan for a BBC Radio 5 live special.\n\nHe talks openly about his father, his family, his emotional maiden Test century in Cape Town, thoughts of quitting cricket to play rugby and what it is like to spend Christmas at Geoffrey Boycott's house.\n\n'We went to school the next day'\n\nSuffering from depression, worried about money and facing a drink-driving charge, David Bairstow ended his own life at the age of 46.\n\nHe was discovered by eight-year-old Jonny, his younger sister Becky and their mother Janet, who at the time was undergoing treatment for breast cancer.\n\n\"Me and my sister were both very young. In some ways, yes, you do remember everything that went on because it is only us who will remember that. At the same time there are bits of it you choose not to remember, that you choose to park.\n\n\"We went to school the next day. For me, that was really powerful. It was mum's way of dealing with it, her way of saying 'yes, that's happened now, but we have to deal with it in a certain way'.\n\n\"It makes you grow up very quickly. There's a huge sense of realisation around everything. At the same time, when you're eight years old, you don't really know everything that's happened. You understand it a bit, but you don't understand all of it.\n\n\"There are questions that are unanswered, but there's no point in revisiting those questions on a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly basis. If you're constantly striving for questions that are never going to be answered, then you're only being detrimental to your own mental health.\n\n\"There are so many bits that I didn't know right away, but I've learned, even when I've been doing the book. Having a setback like that can make you mature very quickly.\"\n\nBy taking his own life, David nullified his life insurance policy. In his autobiography, Jonny explains that he knew money was sometimes tight when he was growing up.\n\n\"That's why it's been so good to keep pushing forward and represent England, to make Mum proud for the days she took to me to train with Leeds United, three times a week from the age of seven to 15, as well as bringing me to Headingley, looking after my sister, taking us to school and feeding us.\n\n\"If you stack everything that Mum did with the help of Grandma and Grandpa and all of our friends, it was ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.\n\n\"Mum never made an excuse, even when she had cancer and had a lot on her plate. You have to have huge admiration for the way she brought us up. Hopefully she has brought two role models into the world.\n\n\"You think of what might have been different if dad had been around, or how I might have turned out as a person. You just don't know. I might not even be playing cricket.\n\n\"There will have been questions along the way, but there's not just one, because there's 20 years of learning off dad that I haven't had.\n\n\"If he was here now, I think he'd just tell me to keep going.\"\n\nBairstow made his Test debut in 2012 and, despite making 95 in his fourth match against South Africa, needed more than three years to earn a regular spot in the England side.\n\nWhen Bairstow faced South Africa again, he once more found himself on 95, this time at lunch on the second day of the second Test in Cape Town.\n\n\"I was dripping wet. I didn't take my pads off, I didn't eat, I just sat there saying 'it's not happening again'.\n\n\"I knew they would start with Morne Morkel after lunch, but when they then used the medium-pace of Stiaan van Zyl, I just wanted him to bowl a short, wide one.\n\n\"Getting to that first hundred was just a relief. I was five short four years earlier, so it was four years of questions. Will I get the opportunity again? What could have I achieved if I had made that ton?\"\n\nThe roar that Bairstow let out when he reached three figures could be heard all around Newlands and was followed with a look to the sky. On Test Match Special, an emotional Jonathan Agnew said: \"You won't find a more popular individual. You can't resist the thought of his father looking down and how proud he would be.\"\n\n\"The years of waiting really came through. I don't know how I celebrated, I just ran and shouted. I welled up and got a jittery bottom lip. There was a huge heap of emotion. It's a very, very proud moment.\n\n\"There were more tears when I saw my mum and Becky at the end of the day. There's never anything wrong with shedding a tear.\n\n\"There's all the time which you spend thinking about it. Are you good enough? Will you get an opportunity? Where and when will it be? I have let myself and my family down by not getting a hundred already and there are people that have spent money coming to watch you.\n\n\"That makes you prouder. It reminds you that you're not only representing yourself, but your family and the people who have kept an eye on you throughout your career.\"\n\nDavid Bairstow was a close friend of Yorkshire and England batsman Boycott, whose relationship with the Bairstow family continued after David's death and to this day.\n\nBoycott, who scored 8,114 runs in 108 Tests for England, remains a forthright pundit on Test Match Special and in his newspaper column.\n\n\"Geoffrey presented me with my cap on the day I made my England Test debut. He'd already presented a special cap to Ian Bell to mark his 75th Test. He said to him 'you're one of the best batsmen in the world, but please stop playing the sweep shot'. That got us all laughing.\n\n\"When it came for me to get my cap, I could feel myself going in the back of my throat and in my chest. I had to hold back a little bit. After the hundred in Cape Town, I did an interview with Geoffrey and got emotional then.\n\n\"I've perhaps not spoken about cricket enough with him. I've wanted to find it out for myself. Looking back, maybe I should have done it more, but that's my inner stubbornness. I knew that he was there if I needed to speak to him. If I picked up the phone right now, he would be there and would help me if he can.\n\n\"The opinions that he has do not cause a massive issue in the dressing room, especially with the group of players we have now. Something could be said that is too close to the bone, but players are close to pundits now - we see them every day and can speak to them for ourselves if we have an issue.\n\n\"He once nailed me in front of 400 people at a game at Abbeydale Park in Sheffield. Everyone knows the nature of what pundits do - they are paid to write columns and have opinions. I perhaps didn't realise that at the start and took too much criticism to heart.\n\n\"We've had Christmas at his house in South Africa. It's entertaining around the Boycott Christmas table - it's not just him talking about himself.\"\n\n'I thought about giving up to play rugby'\n\nIn the autobiography, Bairstow reveals his admiration for rugby player Jonny Wilkinson.\n\nIn the aftermath of England's 5-0 whitewash on the 2013-14 Ashes tour of Australia, Bairstow, a fly-half in his youth, even thought of attempting to start a rugby career of his own.\n\n\"Wilkinson changed the game of rugby. He captivated so many kids. I used to watch his DVD when I went to bed on the night before rugby games and I got a real sense of inspiration.\n\n\"I looked at the way he trained, the way he prepared and how he never left the training ground until he was content.\n\n\"Before he retired, he took a team talk for Toulon in French and English. To be able to be an inspiration to your team-mates in two languages sums the bloke up.\n\n\"He got a lot of injuries. The mentality that he had to keep doing the rehab, to answer the questions that people posed of him when he kept coming back resonates with me very firmly.\n\n\"He put his body in places that he shouldn't have put his body. He did things that he knew he shouldn't be doing. He wanted to keep pushing.\n\n\"When you're going through difficult times, like I was after the 2013-14 Ashes, you start thinking about different bits. Rugby is a huge passion of mine, a lot of my friends play.\n\n\"When all the lads are throwing a ball around, you go and play some touch and have an amazing time doing something you stopped when you were 17. You have thoughts of 'shall I, could I, what would happen if?'.\n\n\"I don't know who I would have played for. It wasn't a thought that lasted for a long time.\"", "Mr Davdra's wife recently treated him to a new Harley Davidson\n\nParesh Davdra is thrilled about the brand new Harley Davidson waiting for him in a friend's garage.\n\nIt's not a sign of a mid-life crisis, he insists, but a wedding present from his wife who he married in August.\n\nHe just has one more test to pass to get his motorcycle licence, then he can hop on the bike and whizz around London for meetings.\n\nThe boss and co-founder of money exchange firm Rational FX, which reported revenues of more than £1bn ($1.3bn) last year, has a life that's worlds apart from his parents and grandparents.\n\nThey were forced to flee Uganda in 1972 when dictator Idi Amin gave the Asian population just 90 days to leave the country.\n\n\"They came to the UK with just £50 between them,\" says the softly-spoken Mr Davdra. \"My grandfather had his own tailoring shop, but they had to leave everything behind.\"\n\nHis family pulled together and bought a house in Harrow, north London, with his dad securing a job as clerk, and later as a financial controller, at a foreign exchange broker.\n\nTheir fighting spirit rubbed off on the younger Davdra. \"We were never really given anything - if I wanted something, I had to earn it.\"\n\nFrom the age of 16, he spent the school holidays holding jobs in a mobile phone shop and in telesales, while out of term at Middlesex University, he worked at his dad's firm, taking up roles from filing to working in compliance.\n\nHe studied marketing and computer science at university, but tells me that technology does not come naturally to him.\n\n\"If you told my team I had this degree, they wouldn't believe you. I'm always the one calling IT to connect the laptop to the printer,\" he laughs.\n\nAs soon as Mr Davdra graduated, in 2003, he joined his dad's company as a foreign exchange dealer, helping clients to buy and sell large quantities of foreign currencies.\n\nHe was in the role for just over a year, working with Indian-born Rajesh Agrawal, a friend of his father's who had arrived in the UK in 2001. But two factors would spur him to quit.\n\n\"I'd tried to buy a property with my dad but the bank rejected the mortgage application,\" Mr Davdra says. \"It deflated me.\"\n\nAt the same time, Mr Agrawal resigned from his IT manager role. \"When he decided to quit, I badgered him. I asked him to tell me what he was doing,\" Mr Davdra says.\n\nThe two met for coffee and quickly agreed they wanted to set up a company together. The idea was to support customers buying property abroad with their currency needs.\n\n\"Everything we were doing at the old firm was manual, but we thought we could offer the same service online,\" Mr Davdra says.\n\nHowever, the duo faced a serious challenge: money. Mr Davdra was only a year out of university and had already taken out a personal loan to buy a BMW.\n\nWhen Mr Agrawal took their business plan to the bank and asked to borrow £10,000, he was swiftly rejected. But he returned a few days later and asked for £20,000 to buy a car.\n\n\"I then sold my BMW and we were set,\" says 37-year-old Mr Davdra, who also moved into Mr Agrawal's home to save on rent.\n\nMr Davdra's grandfather had to flee Uganda in 1972\n\nWith just £32,000 between them, the pair launched their foreign exchange brokerage, RationalFX, in 2005.\n\nLike many start-ups, the next difficult task was signing up customers.\n\n\"We got on the phones and started pitching to estate agents and attended every property industry event there was,\" recalls Mr Davdra.\n\n\"We'd be in the office all day from 8am, then we'd just be at it in the evenings.\"\n\nTheir big breakthrough came when they signed a number of estate agents who were selling properties in Dubai.\n\nHowever, just two years after launching, the financial crisis hit. Mr Davdra reflects candidly on how it changed his young mindset.\n\nMore The Boss features, which every week profile a different business leader from around the world:\n\n\"I was 27 at the time and the business was doing great guns, and I was well on my way to being rich. That's all I thought about it.\n\n\"It wasn't really about building a business - that comes with time and maturity. But the crash brought that along. It was a good learning curve.\"\n\nRational FX also felt the fall-out from the crash, with its growth slowing. But it weathered the storm and went on to diversify.\n\nToday, its clients range from high-net worth individuals, either buying property or making investments, to medium-sized businesses, such as firms exporting cars or importing textiles.\n\nIt reported revenues of £1.3bn in 2016, up from £1.1bn the year before, and pre-tax profits of £2.3m - largely because the firm reinvested heavily in its business, Mr Davdra says.\n\nAfter enjoying success with Rational FX, the founders had an idea for an offshoot company - an online money transfer platform aimed at individuals sending lower sums to family overseas.\n\n\"We felt that Rational FX was driving revenues, but Xendpay [the new company] was more of a social initiative, to try and bring the costs of remittance down for people working hard to bring their families out of poverty.\"\n\nXendpay has a \"pay what you want\" model, although it does suggest a minimum commission of 0.3-0.4% of the transaction.\n\nMr Davdra says that more than 70% of users pay the suggested fee, 10% hand over more, and the rest pay nothing.\n\nThe platform isn't profitable yet, although Mr Davdra expects it to break even next year. \"It was a bit of gamble but a risk we were willing to take.\"\n\nLast year Mr Agrawal stepped down from the firm after he was appointed Deputy Mayor of London for Business. He still owns 70% of the business, and is a non-executive director, while Mr Davdra holds the remaining shares.\n\nMr Davdra says he \"misses him\".\n\n\"Apart from business, over the last 12 years we have developed a good relationship. He's a very very close friend.\"\n\nFor now, there are no plans to sell RationalFX, although private equity firms approach the firm \"an average of twice a day\".\n\n\"Our brands are still growing and are quite young. It's all about the right opportunity,\" Mr Davdra says.\n\nHeadquartered at Canary Wharf, RationalFX and Xendpay together employ 110 members of staff.\n\nDespite his penchant for expensive bikes and cars, Mr Davdra - who still lives in Harrow - has his feet firmly on the ground.\n\n\"I think we're pretty humble. We're working class, and we just do normal stuff. It's the way we've been brought up.\"", "We are not used to the idea of machines making ethical decisions, but the day when they will routinely do this - by themselves - is fast approaching. So how, asks the BBC's David Edmonds, will we teach them to do the right thing?\n\nThe car arrives at your home bang on schedule at 8am to take you to work. You climb into the back seat and remove your electronic reading device from your briefcase to scan the news. There has never been trouble on the journey before: there's usually little congestion. But today something unusual and terrible occurs: two children, wrestling playfully on a grassy bank, roll on to the road in front of you. There's no time to brake. But if the car skidded to the left it would hit an oncoming motorbike.\n\nNeither outcome is good, but which is least bad?\n\nThe year is 2027, and there's something else you should know. The car has no driver.\n\nDr Amy Rimmer believes self-driving cars will save lives and cut down on emissions\n\nI'm in the passenger seat and Dr Amy Rimmer is sitting behind the steering wheel.\n\nAmy pushes a button on a screen, and, without her touching any more controls, the car drives us smoothly down a road, stopping at a traffic light, before signalling, turning a sharp left, navigating a roundabout and pulling gently into a lay-by.\n\nThe journey's nerve-jangling for about five minutes. After that, it already seems humdrum. Amy, a 29-year-old with a Cambridge University PhD, is the lead engineer on the Jaguar Land Rover autonomous car. She is responsible for what the car sensors see, and how the car then responds.\n\nShe says that this car, or something similar, will be on our roads in a decade.\n\nMany technical issues still need to be overcome. But one obstacle for the driverless car - which may delay its appearance - is not merely mechanical, or electronic, but moral.\n\nThe dilemma prompted by the children who roll in front of the car is a variation on the famous (or notorious) \"trolley problem\" in philosophy. A train (or tram, or trolley) is hurtling down a track. It's out of control. The brakes have failed. But disaster lies ahead - five people are tied to the track. If you do nothing, they'll all be killed. But you can flick the points and redirect the train down a side-track - so saving the five. The bad news is that there's one man on that side-track and diverting the train will kill him. What should you do?\n\nThis question has been put to millions of people around the world. Most believe you should divert the train.\n\nBut now take another variation of the problem. A runaway train is hurtling towards five people. This time you are standing on a footbridge overlooking the track, next to a man with a very bulky rucksack. The only way to save the five is to push Rucksack Man to his death: the rucksack will block the path of the train. Once again it's a choice between one life and five, but most people believe that Rucksack Man should not be killed.\n\nThis puzzle has been around for decades, and still divides philosophers. Utilitarians, who believe that we should act so as to maximise happiness, or well-being, think our intuitions are wrong about Rucksack Man. Rucksack Man should be sacrificed: we should save the five lives.\n\nTrolley-type dilemmas are wildly unrealistic. Nonetheless, in the future there may be a few occasions when the driverless car does have to make a choice - which way to swerve, who to harm, or who to risk harming? These questions raise many more. What kind of ethics should we programme into the car? How should we value the life of the driver compared to bystanders or passengers in other cars? Would you buy a car that was prepared to sacrifice its driver to spare the lives of pedestrians? If so, you're unusual.\n\nThen there's the thorny matter of who's going to make these ethical decisions. Will the government decide how cars make choices? Or the manufacturer? Or will it be you, the consumer? Will you be able to walk into a showroom and select the car's ethics as you would its colour? \"I'd like to purchase a Porsche utilitarian 'kill-one-to-save-five' convertible in blue please…\"\n\nRon Arkin became interested in such questions when he attended a conference on robot ethics in 2004. He listened as one delegate was discussing the best bullet to kill people - fat and slow, or small and fast? Arkin felt he had to make a choice \"whether or not to step up and take responsibility for the technology that we're creating\". Since then, he's devoted his career to working on the ethics of autonomous weapons.\n\nThere have been calls for a ban on autonomous weapons, but Arkin takes the opposite view: if we can create weapons which make it less likely that civilians will be killed, we must do so. \"I don't support war. But if we are foolish enough to continue killing ourselves - over God knows what - I believe the innocent in the battle space need to be better protected,\" he says.\n\nLike driverless cars, autonomous weapons are not science fiction. There are already weapons that operate without being fully controlled by humans. Missiles exist which can change course if they are confronted by an enemy counter-attack, for example. Arkin's approach is sometimes called \"top-down\". That is, he thinks we can programme robots with something akin to the Geneva Convention war rules - prohibiting, for example, the deliberate killing of civilians. Even this is a horrendously complex challenge: the robot will have to distinguish between the enemy combatant wielding a knife to kill, and the surgeon holding a knife he's using to save the injured.\n\nAn alternative way to approach these problems involves what is known as \"machine learning\".\n\nSusan Anderson is a philosopher, Michael Anderson a computer scientist. As well as being married, they're professional collaborators. The best way to teach a robot ethics, they believe, is to first programme in certain principles (\"avoid suffering\", \"promote happiness\"), and then have the machine learn from particular scenarios how to apply the principles to new situations.\n\nA humanoid robot developed by Aldebaran Robotics interacts with residents at a care home\n\nTake carebots - robots designed to assist the sick and elderly, by bringing food or a book, or by turning on the lights or the TV. The carebot industry is expected to burgeon in the next decade. Like autonomous weapons and driverless cars, carebots will have choices to make. Suppose a carebot is faced with a patient who refuses to take his or her medication. That might be all right for a few hours, and the patient's autonomy is a value we would want to respect. But there will come a time when help needs to be sought, because the patient's life may be in danger.\n\nAfter processing a series of dilemmas by applying its initial principles, the Andersons believe that the robot would become clearer about how it should act. Humans could even learn from it. \"I feel it would make more ethically correct decisions than a typical human,\" says Susan. Neither Anderson is fazed by the prospect of being cared for by a carebot. \"Much rather a robot than the embarrassment of being changed by a human,\" says Michael.\n\nHowever machine learning throws up problems of its own. One is that the machine may learn the wrong lessons. To give a related example, machines that learn language from mimicking humans have been shown to import various biases. Male and female names have different associations. The machine may come to believe that a John or Fred is more suitable to be a scientist than a Joanna or Fiona. We would need to be alert to these biases, and to try to combat them.\n\nA yet more fundamental challenge is that if the machine evolves through a learning process we may be unable to predict how it will behave in the future; we may not even understand how it reaches its decisions. This is an unsettling possibility, especially if robots are making crucial choices about our lives. A partial solution might be to insist that if things do go wrong, we have a way to audit the code - a way of scrutinising what's happened. Since it would be both silly and unsatisfactory to hold the robot responsible for an action (what's the point of punishing a robot?), a further judgement would have to be made about who was morally and legally culpable for a robot's bad actions.\n\nOne big advantage of robots is that they will behave consistently. They will operate in the same way in similar situations. The autonomous weapon won't make bad choices because it is angry. The autonomous car won't get drunk, or tired, it won't shout at the kids on the back seat. Around the world, more than a million people are killed in car accidents each year - most by human error. Reducing those numbers is a big prize.\n\nQuite how much we should value consistency is an interesting issue, though. If robot judges provide consistent sentences for convicted criminals, this seems to be a powerful reason to delegate the sentencing role. But would nothing be lost in removing the human contact between judge and accused? Prof John Tasioulas at King's College London believes there is value in messy human relations. \"Do we really want a system of sentencing that mechanically churns out a uniform answer in response to the agonising conflict of values often involved? Something of real significance is lost when we eliminate the personal integrity and responsibility of a human decision-maker,\" he argues.\n\nAmy Rimmer is excited about the prospect of the driverless car. It's not just the lives saved. The car will reduce congestion and emissions and will be \"one of the few things you will be able to buy that will give you time\". What would it do in our trolley conundrum? Crash into two kids, or veer in front of an oncoming motorbike? Jaguar Land Rover hasn't yet considered such questions but Amy is not convinced that matters: \"I don't have to answer that question to pass a driving test, and I'm allowed to drive. So why would we dictate that the car has to have an answer to these unlikely scenarios before we're allow to get the benefits from it?\"\n\nThat's an excellent question. If driverless cars save life overall why not allow them on to the road before we resolve what they should do in very rare circumstances? Ultimately, though, we'd better hope that our machines can be ethically programmed - because, like it or not, in the future more and more decisions that are currently taken by humans will be delegated to robots.\n\nThere are certainly reasons to worry. We may not fully understand why a robot has made a particular decision. And we need to ensure that the robot does not absorb and compound our prejudices. But there's also a potential upside. The robot may turn out to be better at some ethical decisions than we are. It may even make us better people.\n\nIllustrations are From Would You Kill The Fat Man? By David Edmonds. Princeton University Press, 2014\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "The tbh app had been downloaded five million times in nine weeks\n\nAn app that encourages teens to be nice to each other has been acquired by Facebook for an undisclosed fee.\n\nThe app - called tbh, meaning \"to be honest\" - is just nine weeks old, but had already been downloaded five million times.\n\nThe app's creators said it will remain a standalone program but will now have more resources thanks to Facebook.\n\n\"We were compelled by the ways they could help us realise tbh’s vision and bring it to more people,\" tbh said.\n\nAccording to start-up news site TechCrunch, the deal was for \"less than $100m\", and tbh's four person team would become Facebook employees.\n\nOne expert commented that Facebook keeps a close eye over new companies and is willing to pay a premium to buy them rather than risk them developing into a threat.\n\n\"This is the latest example of Facebook snapping up a start-up that could potentially game-change the way people consume social media and erode its own user base,\" commented Prof Mark Skilton from Warwick Business School.\n\n\"Tbh appeals to the teen market - which we know is a very fickle age group - and Facebook knows that it and other apps like it can go viral and explode in popularity very quickly.\n\n\"So, this can be seen as a protective measure, and $100m is the equivalent of an account sheet rounding error - it's no money to them.\"\n\nIn a statement, Facebook said: \"tbh and Facebook share a common goal of building community and enabling people to share in ways that bring us closer together.\n\n\"We’re impressed by the way tbh is doing this by using polling and messaging, and with Facebook’s resources tbh can continue to expand and build positive experiences.\"\n\nTbh said the app's success was a sign of teenagers craving more positive interactions online.\n\n\"While the last decade of the internet has been focused on open communication, the next milestone will be around meeting people’s emotional needs,\" it said.\n\nThe acquisition has been welcomed by a leading anti-bullying charity - but it added that other efforts were still required.\n\n\"We are encouraged to see Facebook taking further steps to create a more positive atmosphere online,\" said a spokeswoman from the NSPCC.\n\n\"However social media companies, including Facebook, need to do more to provide safe environments across all of their platforms - and be more transparent about what they do.\n\n\"The NSPCC wants to see a clear set of minimum standards that all social media companies will be held to account to, including clear community guidelines and bespoke accounts for under 18s.\"\n\nTbh's achievement has been to create an anonymous app that hasn't descended into a cesspit of trolling and harassment - something many apps before it have dramatically failed to do.\n\nAfter a user uploads their contacts, the app will ask pre-determined, positive questions such as \"best to bring to a party?\", and the option of selecting one of four friends.\n\nUsers are notified when they are selected, but the details of who chose them is kept anonymous.\n\nFacebook now has over 2 billion users worldwide\n\nMimicking Facebook's early growth - where it was only available in a handful of colleges for a short time, the makers of tbh only made the app available to users in certain states. Word of mouth would spread at schools as the app was enabled.\n\n\"We shipped it to one school in Georgia,\" explained co-founder Nikita Bier, speaking to TechCrunch.\n\n\"Forty percent of the school downloaded it the first day. The next day it was in three more schools, and then the next day it was in 300 schools.\"\n\nFacebook would not provide any more details about the deal, but the firm is clearly eager to snap up the next big thing in its infancy, save it become another competitor like Snapchat.\n\nAn investment bank's recent survey of 6,100 US teens suggested that Snapchat was the preferred social media platform for teenagers - the average age of participants was 16.\n\nFacebook reportedly tried to buy Snapchat in 2013 for $3bn. Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, is today worth $19bn.\n\nYou can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "The pop star has the biggest-selling album of the year\n\nPop star Ed Sheeran has broken his right arm, putting his upcoming tour dates in jeopardy.\n\n\"I've had a bit of a bicycle accident,\" wrote the star on his Instagram page, posting a picture of his arm in a cast.\n\n\"I'm currently waiting on some medical advice, which may affect some of my upcoming shows. Please stay tuned for further news.\"\n\nThe 26-year-old was on a break from his world tour, but was due to resume with a gig in Taipei next week.\n\nHe has a further 14 dates scheduled this year, including concerts in Japan, South Korea and Thailand, before kicking off the Australian leg of his tour in March 2018.\n\nThe tour is in support of his multi million-selling third album Divide, which was released earlier this year.\n\nSheeran famously plays his concerts solo - using just a guitar and a loop pedal to layer up songs like Thinking Out Loud, Sing and Shape of You.\n\nLosing the use of his right arm would make such a set-up impractical - but, speaking to BBC News earlier this year, Sheeran said he would never consider playing with a backing band.\n\n\"I don't feel like there's anything interesting or new about seeing a singer-songwriter with a band behind them,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't feel like if I suddenly got a band, everyone would go, 'Wow!'. I actually feel it'd take away from me.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sarah Bowden says one major promoter exposed himself to her\n\nThe treatment and sexual exploitation of women in the music industry is \"as bad, if not worse\" than in Hollywood, an experienced artist manager has said.\n\nSarah Bowden told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme she had once been sacked after refusing to sleep with a colleague in return for a promotion.\n\nShe said one major promoter exposed himself, expecting a sex act from her.\n\nHe was still working in the industry, she added, and believed he was behaving the same way.\n\nIt comes after a number of sexual assault allegations against Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein.\n\nMs Bowden said exploitation happens \"all the way down through the industry\" and was \"as common as being wolf-whistled at in the street\".\n\nShe said earlier in her career she had been told the job she wanted was not usually open to women but that an exception could be made if she slept with a more senior colleague.\n\nShe had refused and had been fired, she added.\n\nYears later, after she had progressed in the industry, she claimed a well-known band promoter exposed himself to her at a music festival.\n\n\"He took me back to a caravan and basically exposed himself to me\" she said, adding that he expected her to perform a sex act.\n\n\"I know that he did the same thing to other women, that same day, and he's still working in the industry.\"\n\nMs Bowden has waived her right to anonymity.\n\nMs Bowden, who has worked in the industry for 20 years, said women did not speak out because they felt nothing would be done.\n\nShe said she had witnessed one senior figure in the industry regularly promise young women jobs or roles on high profile band tours in return for sexual favours.\n\nThe agent would \"parade\" the women around, she added, mentioning names of famous artists with whom he had worked.\n\nShe said the man, who still works in the industry, was \"brazen\" about the acts.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.\n• None Festival websites to go black over assaults", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do students feel as new data shows Oxbridge offers are moving backwards in terms of elistism?\n\nThe sheer dominance by the top two social classes of Oxford and Cambridge University admissions has been revealed in newly released data.\n\nFour-fifths of students from England and Wales accepted at Oxbridge between 2010 and 2015 had parents with top professional and managerial jobs, and the numbers have been edging upwards.\n\nThe data, obtained by David Lammy MP, also shows a \"shocking\" regional bias, with more offers made to Home Counties pupils than the whole of northern England.\n\nMr Lammy said he was \"appalled to discover\" Oxbridge is actually moving backwards in terms of elitism.\n\nUnveiling the data, he described the universities as the \"last bastion of the old school tie\" and highlighted stark regional divisions.\n\nNationally about 31% of people are in the top two social income groups. They are the doctors, the lawyers, the senior managers.\n\nThe data reveals these top two social classes cleaned up in terms of places, with their share of offers rising from 79% to 81% between 2010 and 2015.\n\nThis was despite both universities spending £5m each a year on efforts to cast the net wider for students, according to official figures.\n\nThe data on admissions by region provided by the universities themselves showed:\n\nThe University of Cambridge made nearly 2,953 offers to four home counties, and 2,619 offers to the whole of the north of England.\n\nWhereas Oxford made 2,812 offers to applicants in five home counties and 2,619 to students in the whole of northern England.\n\nApplications were, however, significantly higher from both the counties surrounding London and around the universities themselves.\n\nA spokesman for Cambridge said its admissions were based on academic considerations alone, adding that the greatest barrier to disadvantaged students was poor results.\n\n\"We currently spend £5m a year on access measures leading to 190,000 interactions with pupils and teachers.\"\n\nAn Oxford spokesman said: \"We absolutely take on board Mr Lammy's comments, and we realise there are big geographical disparities in the numbers and proportions of students coming to Oxford.\n\n\"On the whole, the areas sending few students to Oxford tend also to be the areas with high levels of disadvantage and low levels of attainment in schools.\n\n\"Rectifying this is going to be a long journey that requires huge, joined-up effort across society - including from leading universities like Oxford - to address serious inequalities.\"\n\nMr Lammy said the scale of the regional divide went far beyond anything he could have imagined.\n\nHe accused Oxbridge of failing to live up to its responsibilities as national universities, saying: \"Oxbridge take over £800m a year from the taxpayer - paid for by people in every city, town and village.\n\n\"Whole swathes of the country - especially our seaside towns and the 'left behind' former industrial heartlands across the North and the Midlands are basically invisible.\n\n\"If Oxbridge can't improve, then there is no reason why the taxpayer should continue to give them so much money.\"\n\nMr Lammy added: \"Whilst some individual colleges and tutors are taking steps to improve access, in reality many Oxbridge colleges are still fiefdoms of entrenched privilege, the last bastions of the old school tie.\"\n\nHe called for a centralised admissions system to be introduced at the universities and for Oxbridge to communicate more directly with talented students by writing to all straight A students to invite them to apply.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's quite unexpected...It's not something that happens where I'm from\" says Max as he prepares to go to Cambridge University\n\nWe should all care who goes to our top universities because they end up running the country.\n\nLess than 1% of the adult population graduated from Oxford or Cambridge, but the two universities have produced most of our prime ministers, the majority of our senior judges and civil servants, and many people in the media.\n\nSo surely it's good news that more of their students are from state schools?\n\nAs this research shows, that's only part of the story. The home counties of southern England are significantly wealthier than the north. You just have to look at how many children are from families earning so little their children qualify for free school meals.\n\nIn Buckinghamshire it's just 5.5% of pupils, in Surrey 6.8%. Travel north to Middlesbrough and it reaches 27.9%, and Rochdale 20.5%\n• None 'It's not something that happens where I'm from' Video, 00:01:13'It's not something that happens where I'm from'", "Head teacher Aydin Onac has been suspended by the high-achieving grammar school\n\nThe grammar school head teacher at the centre of a row about pupils not being allowed to stay on to take A-levels has been suspended.\n\nAydin Onac, head of St Olave's in Orpington, has been suspended by the school's governors.\n\nParents had threatened legal action after some pupils were told to leave the school before the upper sixth year.\n\nIt raised questions about schools boosting their league table rankings by restricting who could take A-levels.\n\nSt Olave's, in the London borough of Bromley, is one of England's top-performing grammar schools.\n\nBut in August it was caught up in a high-profile dispute when some of its pupils were told they would not be re-admitted for their final year.\n\nParents began legal proceedings that claimed that removing pupils between Year 12 and 13 - the lower and upper sixth - would have been a form of unlawful exclusion.\n\nThe parents challenged whether the school could stop pupils returning because of their expected A-level grades.\n\nSt Olave's reversed its decision and allowed the pupils to return for upper sixth - and the planned court hearing did not take place.\n\nBut the school's governors have now decided that the head teacher, Mr Onac, should be suspended.\n\nThe governors say that the local authority is carrying out its own investigation into the A-level controversy.\n\nSt Olave's was at the centre of a controversy over pupils being removed from the school before A-levels\n\nThe St Olave's dispute began a wider debate about whether schools should be able to stop pupils progressing in this way - and whether filtering out academically-weaker pupils ahead of exams was being used to artificially boost results and league table rankings.\n\nOther schools were forced to review their procedures on whether to allow pupils to continue into the final year of A-levels.\n\nA statement from the chair of governors, Dr Paul Wright, said: \"I have been informed that the London Borough of Bromley will be conducting an investigation of St Olave's Grammar School in respect of concerns that have been raised over recent weeks.\n\n\"In light of this, and in order to protect the integrity of the investigation, Mr Onac has been suspended from all of his responsibilities as headmaster of the school.\"\n\n\"Please remember that this suspension is without prejudice and does not presume any particular outcome. We are committed to full transparency and will be co-operating fully with the local authority in this matter.\"\n\nBromley Council confirmed \"that there will be an investigation into concerns raised\".\n\nThis year's A-level results at St Olave's saw 75% of all grades being awarded at A* or A and 96% were at A* to B grades, far above the national average.", "North Korea has ramped up its missile testing in recent months\n\nCIA director Mike Pompeo has warned that North Korea is on the cusp of being able to hit the US with a nuclear missile.\n\nHe stressed Washington still preferred diplomacy and sanctions but said military force remained an option.\n\nNorth Korea claims it already has the capability to strike the US.\n\nMr Pompeo also said that a US-Canadian hostage couple freed last week had in fact been held in Pakistan, rather than Afghanistan as initially assumed.\n\nHe said Canadian Joshua Boyle and his US wife Caitlan Coleman had been \"held for five years inside of Pakistan\".\n\nThis contradicted accounts from Pakistani officials, who said the family had been held in Afghanistan, and moved across the border into the Kurram tribal district of Pakistan on 11 October.\n\nNorth Korea is \"close enough now in their capabilities that from a US policy perspective we ought to behave as if we are on the cusp of them achieving that objective,\" Mr Pompeo said at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a conservative Washington think tank, on Thursday.\n\n\"They are so far along in that, it's now a matter of thinking about how do you stop the final step.\"\n\nMr Pompeo said military force had to remain an option\n\nHe warned Pyongyang's missile expertise was now advancing so quickly that it was hard for US intelligence to be sure when it would succeed.\n\n\"When you're now talking about months our capacity to understand that at a detailed level is in some sense irrelevant,\" he said.\n\nLast weekend, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had also insisted President Donald Trump wanted to resolve the confrontation with North Korea through diplomacy.\n\nHis statement had come after Mr Trump had publicly told him not to waste time seeking talks with Kim Jong-un.\n\nIn his speech, the CIA director also commented on the return of hostages Joshua Boyle and Caitlan Coleman.\n\nThe couple were kidnapped while backpacking in Afghanistan in 2012 and had three children while in captivity.\n\nMr Pompeo said they had been \"held for five years inside of Pakistan\" - contradicting the official story given by Pakistani authorities that the couple had been held by the Taliban in neighbouring Afghanistan, and were recently moved across the border into Pakistan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHis comments reinforce US media reports of anonymous US officials claiming the hostages had in fact been held by a Pakistani militant group supported by the country's secret service the entire time.\n\nThe Haqqani militant group is regarded as a close Taliban ally with support from Pakistan's military-run intelligence service. Pakistan denies such claims.\n\n\"I think history would indicate that expectations for the Pakistanis willingness to help us in the fight against radical [Islamist] terrorism should be set at a very low level,\" Mr Pompeo said. \"Our intelligence would indicate the same.\"\n\n\"I think we should have a very real conversation with them about what it is they're doing and what it is they should do and the American expectations for how they should behave,\" he added.\n\nUS Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is due to travel to Pakistan next week.\n\nIn his wide-ranging speech, Mr Pompeo also said that the intelligence community had concluded \"that the Russian meddling that took place did not affect the outcome of the [US] election\".\n\nThe CIA later issued a statement that appeared to contradict Mr Pompeo's remark.\n\n\"The intelligence assessment with regard to Russian election meddling has not changed, and the Director did not intend to suggest that it had,\" Dean Boyd, director of the CIA's office of public affairs, said.\n\nTrump denies he or his team ever colluded with Russia\n\nThe public report by the Director of National Intelligence released in January stated that the intelligence community did \"not make an assessment of the impact that Russian activities had on the outcome of the 2016 election.\"\n\nUS intelligence agencies believe Russia tried to sway the election in favour of Trump and now there are several investigations looking into whether anyone from his campaign helped.\n\nHowever, they have not assessed whether alleged Russian interference affected the election outcome.\n\nRussia denies the allegations and President Trump has denied any collusion between his campaign and Russian officials.\n\nThe allegations are currently investigated by several US parliamentary committees as well as a special counsel, former FBI director Robert Mueller.", "Critics say health services have collapsed under Mr Mugabe's rule\n\nThe choice of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe as a World Health Organization (WHO) goodwill ambassador has been criticised by several organisations including the British government.\n\nIt described his selection as \"surprising and disappointing\" given his country's rights record, and warned it could overshadow the WHO's work.\n\nThe opposition in Zimbabwe and campaign groups also criticised the move.\n\nThe WHO head said he was \"rethinking his approach in light of WHO values\".\n\nDr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had previously praised Zimbabwe for its commitment to public health.\n\nHe said it was a country that \"places universal health coverage and health promotion at the centre of its policies to provide health care to all\".\n\nMr Mugabe's appointment as a \"goodwill ambassador\" to help tackle non-communicable diseases has attracted a chorus of criticism.\n\nCritics have long argued that Zimbabwe's health service is not meeting the needs of patients\n\nThe British government said it was all the more surprising given US and EU sanctions against him.\n\n\"We have registered our concerns\" with the director general, a spokesman said.\n\n\"Although Mugabe will not have an executive role, his appointment risks overshadowing the work undertaken globally by the WHO on non-communicable diseases.\"\n\nZimbabwe's leader has been frequently taken to task over human rights abuses by the European Union and the US.\n\nCritics say Zimbabwe's health care system has collapsed, with staff often going without pay while medicines are in short supply.\n\nDr Tedros, who is Ethiopian, is the first African to lead the WHO. He was elected in May with a mandate to tackle perceived politicisation in the organisation.\n\nUS-based campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said it was an embarrassment to give the ambassador role to Mr Mugabe, because his \"utter mismanagement of the economy has devastated health services\".\n\nCritics of the president say that Zimbabwe's health care system is in a shambolic state\n\nHRW's Kenneth Roth said Mr Mugabe's appointment was a cause for concern because the president and some of his officials travel abroad for treatment.\n\n\"When you go to Zimbabwean hospitals, they lack the most basic necessities,\" he said.\n\nZimbabwe's main MDC opposition party also denounced the WHO move.\n\n\"The Zimbabwe health delivery system is in a shambolic state, it is an insult,\" spokesman Obert Gutu told AFP.\n\n\"Mugabe trashed our health delivery system... he allowed our public hospitals to collapse.\"\n\nOther groups who have criticised Mr Mugabe's appointment include the Wellcome Trust, the NCD Alliance, UN Watch, the World Heart Federation and Action Against Smoking.\n\nPresident Mugabe heard about his appointment while attending a conference held by the WHO, a UN agency, on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Montevideo, Uruguay.\n\nHe told delegates his country had adopted several strategies to combat the challenges presented by such diseases, which the WHO says kill about 40 million people a year and include cancers, respiratory diseases and diabetes.\n\n\"Zimbabwe has developed a national NCD policy, a palliative care policy, and has engaged United Nations agencies working in the country, to assist in the development of a cervical cancer prevention and control strategy,\" Mr Mugabe was reported by the state-run Zimbabwe Herald newspaper as saying.\n\nBut the president admitted that Zimbabwe was similar to other developing countries in that it was \"hamstrung by a lack of adequate resources for executing programmes aimed at reducing NCDs and other health conditions afflicting the people\".\n\nMedicine is often in short supply at Zimbabwe's hospitals, critics say\n\nThe UN has a bit of thing for goodwill ambassadors, especially famous ones.\n\nAngelina Jolie, as ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency, was regularly pictured comforting displaced families in over-crowded camps.\n\nSwiss tennis star Roger Federer visits aid projects in Africa for Unicef and plays charity matches to raise money.\n\nFurther back in time, film star and Unicef goodwill ambassador Audrey Hepburn visited disaster zones and graced gala dinners where her glittering presence was an encouragement to donors.\n\nThe publicity does attract support for relief efforts.\n\nBut it is hard to imagine 93-year-old Robert Mugabe fulfilling a similar remit.\n\nWill he provide comfort in WHO field clinics in conflict zones? Would one of his suit jackets fetch a high price at auction? Would the presence of a man who is widely accused of human rights abuses encourage more $10,000-a-plate attendees at a gala ball?\n\nSomehow it just does not seem likely, which begs the question, what exactly is Mr Mugabe going to do in his new role? The World Health Organization has not made this at all clear.", "A number of papers focus on what the UK's Brexit bill might be\n\nSome of the papers try to put a figure on what the UK's Brexit bill might be.\n\nThe Daily Mirror thinks it could be £36bn, noting that Prime Minister Theresa May did not rule out a doubling of the current £18bn offer.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph's suggestion is £40bn, while the Sun says it has been told by one senior Brussels diplomat the EU wants £48bn.\n\nThe paper says this would leave the prime minister needing to convince taxpayers why it is worth paying such a huge sum, although it does note some believe that the long-term losses from not striking a deal could dwarf this figure.\n\nThe way the EU referendum was fought and the role of Twitter is the subject of an article on the Buzzfeed website.\n\nIt says a study has found that a network of more than 13,000 bots - or automated pieces of software - tweeted predominantly pro-Brexit messages in the run-up to the vote.\n\nThe researchers at City, the University of London, say they are concerned this tactic gave a \"false sense of momentum behind certain ideas\".\n\nDamian Collins, the Conservative chair of the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee, tells Buzzfeed he has written to Twitter to ask whether there has been any \"interference in the democratic process\".\n\nTwitter says its systems identify more than three million suspicious accounts every week.\n\nThere seems to be a consensus that the EU softened its stance on Brexit at the European Council summit.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph thinks this was because of fears in Brussels that Mrs May's government could collapse if the negotiations remained deadlocked.\n\nOliver Duff, the editor of the i paper, goes further, arguing Mrs May successfully emphasised her weakness - in effect saying \"you think I'm a pain in the proverbial? Try Boris or David Davis\".\n\nA number of papers focus on what the UK's Brexit bill might be\n\nThe Sun warns Brussels not to overplay its hand by asking for too much money in return for trade talks.\n\nThe Guardian thinks the prime minister had a decent 24 hours in Brussels and hopes there is a shared recognition that the EU and the UK have a common interest in making the best of Brexit.\n\nThe Times columnist, Matthew Paris, warns the crisis in Catalonia could bring a violent civil conflict to Spain and threaten its very existence.\n\nHe is angry that what he calls \"tinpot nationalists on both sides have puffed themselves into an entirely avoidable high noon\", arguing the problems could have been resolved with \"a little respect\".\n\nAccording to the Financial Times, two board members of the Weinstein Company tried for years to investigate Harvey Weinstein because of allegations of sexual misconduct.\n\nDonald Trump's tweet claiming crime in the UK has risen because of Islamic terror prompts a backlash in the papers.\n\nThe Daily Mirror quotes the Conservative MP Sir Nicholas Soames, who calls Mr Trump \"a daft twerp\", suggesting he should \"fix gun control\" instead.\n\nThe Washington Post suggests the president was again trying to raise the spectre of terrorism - days after another court blocked one of his travel bans.\n\nIn its coverage of the controversy, the Daily Telegraph compares crime levels in London and New York and comes to the conclusion the British capital is worse.\n\nIt says the cities both have similar populations but in London someone is six times more likely to be burgled and three times more likely to report a rape - although the murder rate in New York remains higher.\n\nThe paper puts the difference down to New York's zero tolerance approach in the 1990s.\n\nOn its front page, the Daily Mail asks \"have our police lost the plot?\" - picturing two support officers wearing bear masks.\n\nIt says forces are being urged to abandon silly stunts and get officers back on the beat.\n\nIn its lead, the Times reports that the 50mph (80km/h) speed limit imposed on drivers going past roadworks is to be eased.\n\nIt says research involving heart monitors suggests drivers are more relaxed going at 60mph (96km/h), in part because they can overtake slower-moving lorries.\n\nBut, it seems, motorists are facing added stress at airports because of a sharp rise in short-term parking fees.\n\nAccording to the Daily Mail, they are being charged up to 35 pence a minute to drop off loved ones. taking the cost of a goodbye kiss to about £3.", "Pollution has been linked to nine million deaths worldwide in 2015, a report in The Lancet has found.\n\nAlmost all of these deaths occurred in low- and middle-income countries, where pollution could account for up to a quarter of deaths. Bangladesh and Somalia were the worst affected.\n\nAir pollution had the biggest impact, accounting for two-thirds of deaths from pollution.\n\nBrunei and Sweden had the lowest numbers of pollution-related deaths.\n\nMost of these deaths were caused by non-infectious diseases linked to pollution, such as heart disease, stroke and lung cancer.\n\n\"Pollution is much more than an environmental challenge - it is a profound and pervasive threat that affects many aspects of human health and wellbeing,\" said the study's author, Prof Philip Landrigan, of the Icahn School of Medicine, at Mount Sinai in New York.\n\nThe biggest risk factor, air pollution, contributed to 6.5 million premature deaths. This included pollution from outdoor sources, such as gases and particulate matter in the air, and in households, from burning wood or charcoal indoors.\n\nThe next largest risk factor, water pollution, accounted for 1.8 million deaths, while pollution in the workplace was linked to 800,000 deaths globally.\n\nAbout 92% of these deaths occurred in poorer countries, with the greatest impact felt in places undergoing rapid economic development such as India, which had the fifth highest level of pollution deaths, and China, which had the 16th.\n\nIn the UK, about 8% or 50,000 deaths are estimated to be linked to pollution. This puts the UK in 55th place out of the 188 countries measured, placing them behind the US and many European countries, including Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Denmark.\n\nDr Penny Woods, of the British Lung Foundation, said: \"Air pollution is reaching crisis point worldwide, and the UK is faring worse than many countries in Western Europe and the US.\n\n\"A contributing factor could be our dependence on diesel vehicles, notorious for pumping out a higher amount of poisonous particles and gases.\n\n\"These hit people with a lung condition, children and the elderly hardest.\"\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said a £3 billion plan had been put in place to improve air quality and reduce harmful emissions.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We will also end the sale of new diesel and petrol cars by 2040, and next year we will publish a comprehensive Clean Air Strategy which will set out further steps to tackle air pollution.\"\n\nMike Hawes from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said the latest diesel cars were the cleanest in history. He said the biggest change to air quality would be achieved \"by encouraging the uptake of the latest, lowest emission technologies and ensuring road transport can move smoothly\".\n\nIn the United States, more than 5.8% - or 155,000 - deaths could be linked to pollution.\n\nThe authors said air pollution affected the poor disproportionately, including those in poor countries as well as poor people in wealthy countries.\n\nStudy author Karti Sandilya, from Pure Earth, a non-governmental organisation, said: \"Pollution, poverty, poor health, and social injustice are deeply intertwined.\n\n\"Pollution threatens fundamental human rights, such as the right to life, health, wellbeing, safe work, as well as protections of children and the most vulnerable.\"\n\nThe results were the product of a two-year project. The authors have published an interactive map illustrating their data.", "Caruana Galizia was a harsh critic of the government and alleged corruption in Malta\n\nMaltese officials say they believe investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a bomb under her car that was triggered remotely.\n\nA government spokeswoman said this assumption was based on initial results of an investigation into Monday's explosion in Bidnija, near Mosta.\n\nCaruana Galizia was known for her blog accusing top politicians of corruption.\n\nMeanwhile, journalists held a rally in the capital Valletta, saying they would not be intimidated by the killing.\n\n\"The attack on one of us will not stop us from shining a light where others want darkness,\" said Herman Grech, online editor at the Times of Malta.\n\n\"The attack on one of us will not muzzle us,\" he said, reading a joint statement.\n\nIn a separate development on Thursday, Caruana Galizia's three sons said they refused to endorse a €1m (£890,000; $1,185,000 ) reward for evidence leading to a conviction in the case.\n\nIn a Facebook post, they said this was despite \"unrelenting pressure\" from Malta's leaders to endorse the move.\n\nThey also urged Prime Minister Joseph Muscat to resign.\n\n\"Show political responsibility and resign. Resign for failing to uphold our fundamental freedoms,\" they said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A friend of the murdered Maltese journalist reflects on her death and corruption in Malta\n\nThe sons also demanded he replace Malta's police commissioner and attorney general \"with public servants who won't be afraid to act on evidence against him and those he protects\".\n\nAfter Caruana Galizia's death, Mr Muscat denounced the killing, calling it an attack \"on the freedom of expression in our country\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he said the journalist was \"a very harsh critic of mine\" and described her killing as \"a nightmare\".\n\n\"I wouldn't know whether this is because of something she had written, or something she was going write,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Debris was strewn over the road and a nearby field\n\nCaruana Galizia was a harsh critic of the government and effectively triggered an early election this year by publishing allegations linking Mr Muscat to the Panama Papers scandal.\n\nMr Muscat and his wife denied claims they used secret offshore bank accounts to hide payments from Azerbaijan's ruling family - and he was returned to power in the election, despite the controversy.\n\nCaruana Galizia's popular blog had also targeted opposition politicians. She called the country's political situation \"desperate\" in her final post.", "Best known for her Netflix shows and stand-up tours, Sofía Niño de Rivera is one of Latin America's leading comedians.\n\nThe 35-year-old from Mexico City has long been making audiences laugh, but she recently embarked on a more serious mission: supporting vulnerable women in Mexico's notoriously dangerous prisons.\n\nIn a bid to help female inmates overcome frustration and depression, Sofía gave 10 stand-up workshops in the Mexican capital's vast Santa Martha Acatitla penitentiary over the summer.\n\nThe project came about after her cousin, Saskia Niño de Rivera, asked her to do a benefit gig to raise funds for Reinserta, a charity she runs to improve conditions in Mexican jails.\n\nThe comedian accepted but wanted to do more than just raise money. They agreed that stand-up workshops could help inmates to use comedy as an emotional release for the benefit of their mental health.\n\n\"Stand-up is a really cathartic psychological tool. It has helped me a lot in my life,\" Sofía says at a hotel in Guadalajara, the morning after a sold-out public performance.\n\n\"Women in prison don't have a lot of tools to help them handle emotional issues,\" she adds. \"I think stand-up is something that can help them.\"\n\nWomen account for just 5% of Mexico's 211,000 prison population, but they receive fewer visits and are more likely to be abandoned by their families than male inmates, according to a Reinserta survey.\n\nSaskia, a lawyer and philanthropist who founded Reinserta in 2013, says inmates rarely have access to psychologists and find therapeutic lessons difficult to put into practice when in \"survival mode\" in their cells.\n\nThe combination of her cousin's public profile and Reinserta's experience working in jails helped convince the prison authorities to back the project, but it proved tougher to persuade inmates to participate.\n\n\"It was very difficult because stand-up is a relatively new concept in Mexico,\" Saskia says. \"The women in prison didn't know who Sofía was or what stand-up was, so it wasn't easy to introduce this activity.\"\n\nInstead of giving stand-up performances herself, Sofía taught the inmates to laugh about their own experiences.\n\nShe also invited other Mexican comedians to perform specially tailored sets with jokes that inmates could relate to about life behind bars.\n\nAt first the women were reluctant to open up, but Sofía gradually began to win their trust.\n\n\"It's very hard to show them stand-up but it's been so interesting to learn their stories and watch them try,\" Sofía says. \"It's a tool they didn't know they had.\"\n\nReinserta also works with children living inside the prison\n\nWhile she encourages inmates to make light of their difficult surroundings, Sofía warns they must be careful to choose the right moment.\n\n\"It's not something they can use very publicly,\" she says, noting that one woman was transferred to a cell with stricter conditions for mocking the way a guard spoke.\n\nSofía and Saskia are currently working on a documentary to increase awareness about the conditions in Mexico's overcrowded and unsafe prisons.\n\nA recent government survey revealed that almost half of inmates share their cell with more than five prisoners, nearly a third feel unsafe in prison, and one in five feel unsafe in their own cells.\n\nOne in three prisoners was a victim of illegal conduct last year, including theft, injury, extortion, threats and sexual assault. And four out of 10 inmates have suffered from corruption, with guards charging them to receive visitors, bedding, food, drinking water or medical attention.\n\nViolent prison riots are common. More than a dozen inmates died in clashes at a prison in Nuevo Leon state last week.\n\nAnother riot at Acapulco's Las Cruces prison killed 28 people in July\n\nHazael Ruíz, the undersecretary for Mexico City's penitentiary system, says the stand-up workshops have helped ease tensions in Santa Martha Acatitla.\n\nHe's now planning more sessions in another women's prison and possibly a male facility.\n\n\"The girls that participated have shown a very positive change in attitude,\" Mr Ruíz says. \"Through stand-up they found the tools to channel the negativity that they've experienced into comedy.\"\n\n\"They make daily life enjoyable,\" he adds. \"They get along with less tension than the others and their new outlook on life is contagious.\"\n\nSofía is encouraged by this progress but warns that Mexico must do more to generate more humane conditions in its jails.\n\n\"Mexico would benefit if people inside a prison could really rehabilitate and go outside and not do drugs or be killers,\" she says.\n\n\"Prison is just like a little Mexico and every time I go in there I think: 'This country has a lot to change and it has to change fast.'\"", "Dozens of shooting stars are expected in the skies over the weekend\n\nThe sky will be filled with shooting stars this weekend thanks to debris from Halley's Comet.\n\nThe annual Orionid meteor shower will see around 20 meteors passing through the sky every hour.\n\nThe shower is visible throughout the month, but experts say the peak time to view it in the UK will be early on Sunday, between midnight and 03:00 BST.\n\nAstronomer Tom Kerss said the Orionid meteors are known for their \"speed and brilliance\".\n\nHalley's Comet is the only comet regularly visible from Earth by the naked eye and it comes into view once every 75 years.\n\nThe last time it appeared was in 1986, with the next viewing expected in 2061.\n\nWhen Halley's Comet passes through the solar system, particles of debris break away from it.\n\nThese hurtle towards Earth at the speed of 148,000mph, and we see them as shooting stars.\n\nMr Kerss, who is based at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, recommended secluded spots with the darkest skies for the best view, but he said not to worry about bringing any equipment.\n\n\"There's no advantage to using binoculars or a telescope,\" he said. \"Your eyes are the best tool available for spotting meteors.\"\n\n\"So, relax and gaze up at the sky, and eventually your patience will be rewarded.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rachel wants to be an organ donor\n\nOrgans from 505 registered donors could not be made available for transplant in the last five years because of objections from relatives.\n\nBBC 5 live found that almost a third of families blocked organ donation because they felt the process took \"too long\".\n\nThe law states that consent lies with the deceased, but in practice, relatives' wishes are always respected.\n\nThe NHS wants to reduce the number of \"overrides\" by encouraging prospective donors to talk to their relatives.\n\nIn England, NHS figures showed that 457 people died last year whilst waiting for an organ transplant.\n\nRachel, 17, from Stoke-on-Trent, wants to be an organ donor, but is concerned that her family do not support her wishes.\n\nShe told 5 live: \"I wasn't aware when I signed up that your family had to be supportive of your decision. It seems like, well, what's the point of signing up if it could be overruled anyway?\n\n\"It does worry me because, if I died now, my mum does make the main decision. I hope I can trust her to make the right one.\"\n\nWhen somebody dies who is on the Organ Donation Register, specialist nurses from NHS Blood and Transplant work with their family.\n\nIf relatives object, nurses will encourage them to accept their loved one's decision, and make it clear that they do not have the legal right to override it.\n\nHowever, in practice, if a family still refuses, the donation does not go ahead.\n\nBen Cole, a specialist nurse for organ donation working in the Midlands, said it was \"frustrating\" when families say no.\n\n\"We understand that families are approached about donation at a very difficult time, and it can come as a shock to find out their relative had made the decision to donate.\n\n\"I had one family whose son had joined the Organ Donor Register, but they found it hard to believe because he'd never spoken about it.\n\n\"Another family said their dad would have ticked any box, and so weren't convinced he'd signed up intentionally.\n\n\"The relationship we build with a family at this time is so important, particularly as they can provide vital information about their relative before donation.\n\n\"If they are strongly opposed to donation, we would not want to upset them further.\"\n\nOther reasons relatives gave for refusing consent include that they thought \"the patient had suffered enough\", they \"didn't want surgery to the body\", or the family were divided over the decision.\n\nAnthony Clarkson, assistant director of organ donation and transplantation for NHS Blood and Transplant, said: \"Although the number of blocked transplants is declining, a number of families each year feel unable to support their relative's decision to be a donor.\n\n\"As a result hundreds of opportunities for potentially life saving transplants are being missed every year.\"\n\nThere are currently 6,406 people on the transplant waiting list across the UK.\n\nJess Harris, 29, from London, needs a pancreas and a kidney. She thinks it's a \"crazy system\" that gives families the final say.\n\n\"Why isn't it like your will? Why don't they have to honour your wishes?\" she told 5 live.\n\n\"I don't know why anyone would be against donating organs - one person can save up to eight lives and you're not going to need them when you're dead.\"\n\nBut Dr Rebecca Brown, a research fellow in practical ethics at the University of Oxford, supports families having the final say.\n\nShe says: \"There's an implication that these families are selfish or unreasonable, but I don't think that's the case.\n\n\"Losing a loved one, in sudden circumstances, is very traumatic and forcing them to go along with organ donation when it is something to which they feel strongly opposed, would be very distressing.\n\n\"This is a relatively small number of families and going against their wishes would be frankly awful for them and would create all sorts of problems.\"\n\nIn 2016/17 the total number of deceased donors was 1,413. In the same year, families blocked the donations of 91 people who had signed the register.\n\nIn December 2015, Wales adopted an opt-out system of organ donation, but families can still have the final say over their loved one's donation. Last year, nine people in Wales who had signed up to the organ donation register were blocked from donating their organs.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has pledged to introduce presumed consent for organ donation in England and a consultation will be held before the end of the year.", "British scientists have worked out how many changes it takes to transform a healthy cell into a cancer.\n\nThe team, at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, showed the answer was a tiny handful, between one and 10 mutations depending on the type of tumour.\n\nIt has been one of the most hotly debated issues in cancer science for decades.\n\nThe findings, published in the journal Cell, could improve treatment for patients.\n\nIf you played spot the difference between a cancer and healthy tissue, you could find tens of thousands of differences - or mutations - in the DNA.\n\nSome are driving the cancer's growth, while others are just along for the ride. So which ones are important?\n\nThe researchers analysed the DNA from 7,664 tumours to find \"driver mutations\" that allow a cell to be more selfish, aggressive and cancerous.\n\nThey showed it could take:\n\nDr Peter Campbell, one of the researchers, told the BBC News website: \"We've known about the genetic basis of cancer for many decades now, but how many mutations are responsible has been incredibly hotly debated.\n\n\"What we've been able to do in this study is really provide the first unbiased numbers.\n\n\"And it seems that of the thousands of mutations in a cancer genome, only a small handful are responsible for dictating the way the cell behaves, what makes it cancerous.\"\n\nHalf the mutations identified were in sets of genetic instructions - or genes - that had never been implicated in cancer before.\n\nThe long-term goal is to advance precision cancer treatment.\n\nIf doctors know which few mutations, out of thousands, were driving a patient's cancer, it could allow drugs that specifically targeted that mutation to be used.\n\nDrugs such as herceptin and Braf inhibitors are already used to attack specific mutations in tumours.\n\nThe researchers were able to pick out the mutations that were driving the growth of cancer by turning to Charles Darwin and evolutionary theory.\n\nIn essence, driver mutations should appear more often in tumours than \"neutral\" mutations that do not make the cell cancerous.\n\nThis is because the forces of natural selection give an evolutionary advantage to mutations that help a cell grow and divide more readily.\n\nDr Nicholas McGranahan, from the Cancer Research UK and the UCL Cancer Institute, said the approach was \"elegant\".\n\nHe said: \"Cancer is a disease that evolves and changes over time, and it makes sense to use ideas like this from species evolution to work out the genetic faults that cause cancer to grow.\n\n\"But as this study focuses on one part of cancer evolution, it can only give us insight into part of the puzzle.\n\n\"Other components such as how DNA is packaged into chromosomes are also key in how a tumour progresses and will need to be looked at to give us a clearer picture of how cancer evolves.\"", "BBC Radio Kent's poll has since been deleted from Twitter\n\nThe BBC has apologised for an online poll that asked whether gay conversion therapy is acceptable practice.\n\nBBC Radio Kent tweeted: \"TV Doctor Dr Ranj has told breakfast gay conversion therapy is akin to psychological abuse; Should gay conversion therapy be banned?\"\n\nThe Gay Times said BBC radio had \"asked the stupidest question\".\n\nThe BBC deleted the tweet, which it said breached its own guidelines, and apologised for the offence it caused.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio Kent This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 added: \"We accept that the poll was not the most appropriate way of dealing with this sensitive issue.\"\n\nOne of the many Twitter users who took exception to the tweet was Guardian columnist Owen Jones, who asked: \"Why are you doing this?\"\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\nDr Ranj Singh, from Chatham, who is the resident doctor on ITV's This Morning programme, had called for gay conversion therapy to be made illegal, during an interview on BBC Radio Kent that was prompted by the prime minister's recent condemnation of the controversial practice.\n\nHe said: \"It should be illegal, it is akin to almost psychological abuse.\n\n\"We have to understand that it is not always black and white, there are some people who are definitely heterosexual, there are some people who are definitely homosexual and they know their identities, and there are some people who are in between.\"\n\nDuring an interview on BBC Radio Kent, Dr Ranj Singh called for gay conversion therapy to be made illegal\n\nThe question \"Should gay conversion therapy be banned?\" was then posed to the station's 53,000 followers on Twitter, who were asked to either agree that it should be banned or say they thought it was an acceptable practice.\n\nMore than 100 people commented on the tweet, with most saying they were offended.\n\nSome Twitter users also questioned the use of an emoji in the tweet that featured a lightning bolt, as gay conversion therapy practices can include electroshock treatment.\n\nHuman rights organisation Stonewall said it was unbelievable that the BBC thought it an appropriate topic for a poll.\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\nIn 2015, 14 organisations, including NHS England, signed an agreement to stop gay conversion therapy being offered to patients.\n\nLast month, BBC Radio Kent conducted a poll which asked: \"Is it ever acceptable for people to 'Black up' even if it's for charity?\"\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\nAn artist has garnered a cult online following internationally after inventing a quirky Japanese street fashion style eight years ago.\n\nMinori combined Shironuri (which means \"painted white\") powdery make-up with vintage clothing to form a new style.\n\nBy using her body as a canvas, Minori is essentially a \"living artwork\", and her art is primarily depicted in photos.\n\nHer creative expression has inspired other young women to adopt the trend.\n\nMinori, 26, lives in Tokyo. The white make-up offers her anonymity, and only her friends and family know her real identity, which means that when she is not dressed up, she can live a private life away from prying eyes.\n\nIn her teens, Minori was just one of the many young women who frequented Harajuku, a district in Shibuya, Tokyo where people go to see and be seen in quirky, unusual and often outrageous fashion styles.\n\nMinori says she is inspired by nature and the blank canvas white make-up offers\n\nShe used to enjoy wearing Elegant Gothic Lolita fashion, but over time she didn't feel that the style suited her.\n\n\"I always felt a sense of discomfort that my skin colour and make-up did not match my clothes,\" she tells the BBC.\n\n\"Once I painted my face white, I could make my face from my imagination, and that felt wonderful. 'This is it!' I thought.\"\n\nMinori designs and creates all her outfits from scratch\n\nIn Japan, there is a long tradition of using white make-up that dates back to medieval times.\n\nFrom the 9th to 11th Centuries, a time known as the Heian period, men from aristocrat families painted their faces as a mark of their status.\n\nThe trend was later adopted by women in the 17th century, when geisha - high class female entertainers - began to appear.\n\nThen, during the Showa era - from 1926 to 1989 - the word \"Shironuri\" was first coined.\n\nInspired by the ultra-nationalism at the time, people wore male and female Japanese school uniform styles gakuran and sailor fuku, carried Japanese war flags, and painted their faces painted white using geisha make-up.\n\nInstead of a political expression or entertainment tool, Minori has evolved Shironuri into an art form, applying unusual false eyelashes and intricate make-up that matches the themes of her outfits.\n\nShe grew up in the Japanese countryside, and considers nature to be one of the main inspirations for her art.\n\nMinori emulating the sea and the sand\n\n\"The pattern of fallen leaves and tree branches, the shape of flowers - I thought that it would be beautiful if I combined white paint with such motifs in make-up,\" she says.\n\n\"At the time, only geisha make-up was mainstream, but I thought that it was boring. I really wanted to create something that no one had seen before, had never done before.\"\n\nOver the last three years, Minori has started to appear at Japanese fashion events in other parts of the world, invited by fans who learned about her work from fashion blogs.\n\nMinori has been invited to various countries, including Thailand, to showcase her art\n\nShe was also asked to appear in the ITV documentary series Joanna Lumley's Japan, and in the Japan episode of Chelsea Handler's Netflix series Chelsea.\n\nHowever, she says that she is probably least popular in Japan, where views on what young women should be wearing are still quite conservative, despite the diversity of fashions seen in the capital.\n\n\"Many Japanese people think I am a strange being, but overall the response is more positive than before,\" she says.\n\nHer family is very proud of her and her mother sells photo books featuring her many different outfits to friends.\n\nMinori is not alone in her career as a living artwork - in the UK, artist, fashion designer and stylist Daniel Lismore, 32, has been doing something similar for the last 15 years. He has more than 6,000 items of clothing and accessories.\n\nMinori says she wants to represent a sort of \"living energy\", while Mr Lismore seeks to trigger reactions from viewers.\n\nBut despite the differences in their work, both artists are no strangers to adversity.\n\n\"I've been spat on, beaten up, hurt and abused on the street, and then I've been put on private jets, flown around the world and invited to royal palaces, and my work's been put in museums around the world,\" he tells the BBC.\n\n\"It's a really interesting way to live - it's fun and it's creative, it opens up doors to me that probably wouldn't be open to me any other way, and closes doors as well.\n\n\"It's a chance for me to show my art. It's walking street art in way.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Lismore has learned to become comfortable in his own skin, and during a recent meeting with Minori at the Frieze Art Fair in London, he urged her to continue with her art, no matter how other people react to it.\n\n\"You get all sorts of reactions, some very positive and some very negative,\" said Mr Lismore, who is an ambassador for Tate's Circuit Programme, which helps young people gain access to museums across the UK.\n\n\"There's a lot of fear in people. It's fear of the unknown, and fear via lack of culture.\n\n\"A lot of people won't like what you do and won't be able to understand it, but the right people will love you for who you are and what you do.\n\n\"Everyone else is irrelevant.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Spain's King Felipe VI has said Catalonia \"is and will remain\" an essential part of the country.\n\nIt is his second intervention in the Catalonia secession crisis.\n\nHe told an awards ceremony in the northern city of Oviedo that the Catalan government was causing a rift and Spain would solve the problem through democratic institutions.\n\nCatalonia's leader has threatened to declare independence, and Madrid is making plans to impose direct rule.\n\nAccording to the opposition Socialists - who support the central government's stand against Catalan independence - the plans include elections in Catalonia in January.\n\nPrime Minister Mariano Rajoy will announce the full set of measures on Saturday, two days after a deadline for Catalonia's autonomous government to abandon its independence bid.\n\nThe central government has said it will trigger Article 155 of the constitution, which allows it to impose direct rule in a crisis, for the first time.\n\nOther moves may include taking control of Catalonia's regional police force.\n\nArticle 155 does not give the government the power to fully suspend autonomy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is there a Catalan crisis? The answer is in its past\n\nA referendum, regarded as illegal by Spain, was held in Catalonia on 1 October.\n\nOf the 43% of Catalans who reportedly voted, 90% were in favour of independence. Most anti-independence voters boycotted the ballot.\n\nKing Felipe previously said Catalan President Carles Puigdemont and other separatist leaders who organised the referendum had \"broken the democratic principles of the rule of law\" and showed \"disrespect to the powers of the state\".\n\nWhile the dissolution of Catalonia's parliament and the holding of snap regional elections may appear to offer a way of defusing today's state of extreme tension, there are plenty of reasons to doubt that such a strategy would provide a clear solution to the crisis.\n\nThe far-left CUP has suggested that it would boycott any election imposed on the region. Other pro-independence forces might do the same. Massive street protests against any form of direct rule from Madrid can also be expected.\n\nAnd what are the potential consequences of forcing an election on Catalonia?\n\nMr Puigdemont has promised to call a formal vote on independence in Catalonia's parliament if Article 155 is invoked. If such a declaration were approved, the pro-independence forces could style the ballot as the election of a constituent assembly for a new republic, the next stage laid down in the secessionists' road map.\n\nAssuming the participation of all parties, voters would be bound to interpret the election as a de facto plebiscite on independence. If a separatist majority emerged once again, it is hard to see how the conflict could be considered closed.", "The Pussycat Dolls have recently reformed, after a break of seven years\n\nThe Pussycat Dolls have issued a joint statement denying allegations that the pop group was a \"prostitution ring\".\n\nKaya Jones, who left the band before they became famous, claimed that she and other members were regularly subjected to sexual abuse.\n\n\"We are all abused,\" she said on Twitter, claiming the group were made to \"sleep with whoever they say\".\n\nThe band, led by Nicole Scherzinger, said they \"were not aware of Kaya's experiences\" and offered her support.\n\nHowever, they firmly denied that the remaining members had been abused.\n\n\"We cannot stand behind false allegations towards other group members partaking in activities that simply did not take place,\" they said.\n\nKaya Jones says she walked away from the band to escape abuse\n\n\"To liken our professional roles in The Pussycat Dolls to a prostitution ring not only undermines everything we worked hard to achieve for all those years but also takes the spotlight off the millions of victims who are speaking up and being heard loud and clear around the world,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"We stand in solidarity with all women who have bravely spoken publicly of their horrific experiences of abuse, harassment and exploitation.\"\n\nJones's original accusations came in a string of Tweets last Friday:\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\nIn their statement, The Pussycat Dolls said: \"While we were not aware of Kaya's experiences that allegedly took place during her short time working with us, before the group signed a recording contract, we can firmly testify that we were not privy to any misconduct taking place around us.\n\n\"If Kaya experienced something we are unaware of then we fully encourage her to get the help she needs and are here to support her.\"\n\nThe Pussycat Dolls were founded by choreographer Robin Antin in 1995 as a burlesque dance troupe. Their shows attracted a huge following in Hollywood, with stars like Britney Spears, Pink and Brittany Murphy joining them on stage.\n\nIn 2003, Antin decided to reinvent the troupe as a pop group, and held open auditions to find new singers and dancers.\n\nKaya Jones joined the band at this point, but had left by the time they released their debut single, Don't Cha, in 2005 and does not appear on any of their recorded output.\n\nThe Pussycat Dolls in 2008 (L-R): Melody Thornton, Kimberley Wyatt, Nicole Scherzinger, Ashley Roberts and Jessica Sutta\n\nSpeaking to The Blast on Monday, Antin called Jones's accusations \"disgusting, ridiculous lies\" and claimed the singer was \"clearly looking for her 15 minutes\".\n\nJones responded by warning the media not to \"discredit the victim\" by reporting Antin's denials, describing her as a \"predator\".\n\n\"You don't have to believe me,\" she added. \"I lived it.\n\n\"It's now about helping other people in the world scared to stand up to their abusers.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Four major camps operated in Alderney between 1942 and 1944, named after the German North Sea Islands Helgoland, Borkum, Norderney, and Sylt\n\nThe western-most concentration camp in the Third Reich, Lager Sylt, was located on British soil - only about 70 miles south of Bournemouth on the island of Alderney. Should this camp and other relics of the Channel Islands' occupation by Nazi Germany be developed into tourist attractions?\n\nArrive in Alderney at its small and ageing airport and you will see an island map, pointing out Victorian forts, a Roman nunnery and World War Two coastal defences.\n\nThere is, however, no mention of the four wartime camps that housed thousands of slave labourers, many of whom died as part of Nazi Germany's attempts to turn Alderney into a fortress island.\n\nWorkers were kept in conditions of \"deliberate inhumanity\" with beatings, disease, and starvation rife, according to a post-war report\n\nIt is these locations that Marcus Roberts, director of the National Anglo-Jewish Heritage Trail, believes should be developed as \"sites of memory\", in part to boost the island's flagging tourism industry.\n\n\"Alderney is perhaps the best place to go to understand the realities of the Nazi slave labour system,\" he said.\n\n\"People could go and understand what the consequences of tyranny are and the mistreatment of other people.\n\n\"I think there's a role for respectable tourism, which would be part of the overall tourism strategy for the island.\"\n\nMr Roberts believes there were significantly more forced labourers on Alderney than post-war reports stated, including about 10,000 predominantly French Jews.\n\nAlbert Eblagon survived Norderney and described to Israeli journalist Solomon Steckoll in an account published in 1982 how fellow prisoners were beaten and starved to death.\n\nSome aged over 70, they worked up to 14 hours each day building the island's fortifications.\n\n\"Every day there were beatings, and people's bones were broken, their arms or their legs,\" he recalled.\n\n\"People died from overwork. We were starved and worked to death; so many died from total exhaustion.\"\n\nThe number of his fellow prisoners and forced labourers who did not survive has been contested, ranging from an official post-war report that stated 389 deaths, to as many as 70,000.\n\nMarcus Roberts says his research has shown a greater number of Jews were killed on occupied Alderney than has been previously estimated\n\nFocusing on this traumatic past led to Mr Roberts being accused of promoting Alderney as a \"bone-yard\" and making it less attractive to visitors.\n\nIn response, he wrote a letter to the Alderney Journal in June defending his research and pointing to nearby northern France where military cemeteries are popular tourist attractions.\n\nThe number of people travelling to and from the island by air has fallen by more than a quarter in the 10 years to 2016, although there was a slight rise in summer 2017 compared to the year before.\n\nBut developing the island's former Nazi sites for visitors is something States of Alderney Vice President Ian Tugby is against.\n\n\"We're supposed to be a lovely island, going forward,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm more interested in the future, basically, than what's gone on in the past, because the past is gone.\n\n\"We can't change it, and do we want to continue to drag up the downside of what went on in Alderney all those years ago?\"\n\nThe entrance posts of Lager Sylt, the western-most concentration camp in the Third Reich\n\nThe four major camps were run by the Todt Organisation, responsible for Nazi Germany's military and civic engineering.\n\nSylt, the only concentration camp, was taken over by the SS Baubrigade in 1943, part of the so-called death's head formation, which ran concentration camps.\n\nMore than 40,000 camps and incarceration sites were established by the Nazis across Europe for forced labour, detention - and mass murder.\n\nAlderney inmates were predominantly Russian, and comprised of prisoners of war, forced labourers, \"volunteers\" from Germany and occupied countries, Jews, and political prisoners.\n\nHelgoland and Norderney, today a campsite, both had the capacity for 1,500 forced labourers.\n\nBorkum housed specialist craftsmen, many ordered there from either Germany or occupied countries, with between 500 and 1,000 prisoners at the site.\n\nMr Tugby's voting record in the island's parliament suggests he is serious.\n\nIn 2015, he and fellow Alderney-born politician Louis Jean were the only two politicians to vote against designating Lager Sylt a conservation area.\n\nEconomic independence for the island, reliant on its larger neighbour Guernsey, lies in approving a £500m electricity cable project linking France and Britain through the island, not in promoting its wartime occupation, Mr Tugby said.\n\nThe FAB Link project will run through a conservation area, at Longis Common, but developers say the cable would avoid known World War Two burial sites\n\nGraham McKinley voted in favour of Lager Sylt becoming a conservation site, and would like the dark past of the three other island forced labour camps to be made more apparent to visitors\n\nHowever, fellow politician Graham McKinley, who voted in favour of Sylt being protected, would like to see a similar memorial to the one at Sylt (pictured above) at the three other forced labour sites, including Lager Norderney, the largest, which is today home to Alderney's campsite.\n\n\"There should be some sort of memorial put up there, and some sort of indication that that was happening.\"\n\nPeople would visit sites like these, he said, if they were more aware of the island's \"unique wartime interest\".\n\n\"Look at the prisoner-of-war camps in Poland and in Germany which attract an enormous amount of visitors every year and bring in much-needed revenue,\" he said.\n\n\"We need that sort of thing.\"\n\nAlderney's population was evacuated ahead of its occupation, with few local eyewitnesses to what happened in the island's camps\n\nUnlike with the island's plentiful occupation-era coastal defences, there is little remaining of the forced labour sites, except for entrance gates and the odd structure.\n\nSylt is protected after Alderney's government designated it a conservation area in 2015, while the other three sites could yet be afforded similar protection under a plan awaiting government approval.\n\nThe 2017 Land Use Plan would see the sites where the forced labour camps stood, and other locations of wartime significance, registered as heritage assets.\n\nOnly development that is \"sensitive to the former use and history of these assets\" would be permitted at the wartime sites, under the plan.\n\nVarious parts of Alderney, highlighted in purple, have been identified as \"unregistered heritage assets of significant value\"\n\nSuch protection is long overdue, according to Trevor Davenport, author of Festung Alderney, a book on German defences on the island.\n\nDespite a long association with protecting World War Two sites, Mr Davenport does not, however, want to see former forced labour sites developed for visitors.\n\n\"I have no objection to people being made aware of the labour camps,\" he said.\n\n\"But it is not, unless you are a ghoul, a heritage issue that needs promoting, except as part of the overall occupation story.\"\n\nThe Alderney Museum in St Anne is home to a small section telling the story of the island's forced workers\n\nCertainly, the island's tourism body Visit Alderney is reluctant to promote this part of the island's history above any other.\n\n\"Our tourism focus remains on the historical importance and education of all our heritage periods,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"The local population are respectful of our past whatever the historical period.\n\n\"Promoting tourism and respectful memoriam should not be confused.\"\n\nFormer forced labour camp Norderney is today home to Alderney's campsite\n\nThe Hammond Memorial overlooking Longis Common contains tributes in many languages to those who died constructing this small section of Hitler's Atlantic Wall\n\nBut for Marcus Roberts, encouraging people to come to Alderney to consider what happened there during the Nazi occupation makes sense both financially and morally.\n\nNot only was this important for the descendents of Nazi Germany's victims, he said, but also for the historical record.\n\n\"It's not just an island matter; it does affect people literally from around the world.\n\n\"Each person who died was someone's family, someone's son, and all lives are valuable.\"", "When dentists warned that tens of thousands of people were being unfairly fined £100 after a visit to the surgery - it prompted a big response from the audience.\n\nThey described their distress at getting mistakenly caught up in a system of penalties intended to catch fraudsters getting free treatment.\n\nThey talked of their confusion over forms and complained that fines had been applied without adequate checks.\n\nThe NHS Business Services Authority is looking for ways to improve information and simplify forms.\n\n\"I am most distraught because I received a penalty charge notice two days ago. I have worked most of my life and paid my NHS contributions. After suffering from breast cancer, the aftercare treatment had a horrendous effect on me, especially on my teeth. So I contacted the emergency dentist and on arrival I was asked for my NHS exempt card, which I provided.\n\n\"I received one filling - and weeks later the penalty charge notice came through the door. I am being fined £100.\n\n\"As I am on a low income and could not afford to pay the fine, I have been given the option to pay over a period of months. I am upset to the extreme to have received this fine.\"\n\n\"The same thing happened to my son a couple of months ago. My son is a vulnerable adult with Asperger's syndrome. He was sent a letter saying he had claimed exemption, but in fact we had paid for his dental care in full.\n\n\"I had to copy my receipts for the payment and go to the dentist's surgery to get a confirmation receipt as well as writing a cover letter.\n\n\"What a waste of time and resources for all concerned. Fortunately the penalty was withdrawn, but there was no hint of an apology in the letter for the stress and worry their mistake had caused.\"\n\n\"I no longer go to the dentist after receiving three penalty notices of £100 - the last two after already providing the evidence required. Normal citizens being treated as fraudsters has become normalised.\"\n\n\"This happened to my sister. She has a learning disability and completed the same form she had always completed, saying that she received a disability benefit and was entitled to free treatment.\n\n\"She subsequently received the £100 fine and, not understanding why this had been received, she asked me to investigate.\n\n\"I wrote to the chief executive of the NHS agency expressing how immoral and badly managed the system was - running the risk that it would discourage people from looking after their health.\n\n\"I pointed out that it penalised the most vulnerable people in society and ultimately me - as I had to pay the fine and waste time working out what had gone on. I received a reply explaining that they were unable to correspond with me, even though they accepted my cheque.\"\n\n\"My daughter is severely disabled and wheelchair bound. She has full time carers, but I handle all her paperwork. She is in receipt of the higher rate disability living allowance and enhanced employment support allowance (EESA).\n\n\"On her last trip to the dentist, they asked me again what was her entitlement to free treatment and I ticked the box for EESA. What I had failed to understand was that there are two types of EESA and only one type gives entitlement to free dentist care.\n\n\"Several weeks later, we received a penalty notice informing us of a fine of £100 plus the original dental costs of over £50.\n\n\"How could I have checked something that I didn't know about? There is no way she could have paid the penalty out of her benefits, so I had to.\"\n\n\"I am all for abusers being made to pay for NHS services when not eligible.\n\n\"But an honest mistake filling out a simple form at a dental surgery should have some flexibility or subsequent appeal or checks, so as not to penalise people in such a harsh manner.\"\n\n\"My adult dependent son has just been fined £100 because nobody knew what box to tick at the dentist.\n\n\"The receptionist was extremely unhelpful, and I paid for the treatment (a check-up). I then rang the NHS refund helpline, and they told me I should have ticked a particular box, despite the receptionist arguing against it.\n\nDentist Charlotte Waite says it is distressing when so many wrong fines are being issued\n\n\"After telling my dentist practice manager what the NHS helpline had said, I was refunded my money.\n\n\"My son then received a letter fining him £100, despite having no income and being aged 19 and still in full-time further education.\n\n\"How are patients supposed to navigate a system that is faulty? I have appealed and refused to pay the fine.\"\n\n\"I feel disgusted and embarrassed. I have been assumed as a fraud by the dentist and the NHS - due to them not, maybe, checking their paperwork, not asking me. It doesn't just affect vulnerable people.\"\n\n\"My wife has a severe brain trauma injury, which impacts on her mental capacity to understand simple issues.\n\n\"She commenced dental treatment at our NHS dental surgery and afterwards received a bill for £ 244 together with a £100 fine. I immediately responded, in sheer panic. I refused to pay the fine as she had done nothing wrong.\n\n\"The question was asked by the dentist if she was receiving benefits. What about employment support allowance (ESA)? Yes, she is in receipt of ESA. In that case your dental treatment will be free. It transpires that there are two types of ESA, and my wife's does not entitle her to free dental treatment.\n\n\"I received a call from a debt-recovery company, giving me an additional 30 days to provide medical evidence of my wife's brain injury.\n\n\"Regardless, we will not be paying this fine and if necessary will defend this in court.\n\n\"My wife together with all her other issues is aware of an impending fine but doesn't quite understand why. This in my opinion is sheer bullying tactics and these people must be challenged.\n\n\"It's having a severe impact on my wife and I. This matter is really taking its toll.\"\n\n\"I am now reluctant to arrange any more appointments having lost my job two months ago and not being in the position to risk getting fined again. The system is obviously flawed.\"\n\nThe NHS Business Services Authority says: \"We continually review our data-matching process and make improvements where possible.\n\n\"We're also working with various partner organisations to educate patients and healthcare professionals on the rules around eligibility for free dental treatment, to reduce the number of incorrect claims caused by confusion or lack of awareness.\"\n\nFor anyone with concerns about fines or wanting information about free dental treatment there is a helpline 0300 330 1293.\n\nAn online checking tool is available and there is more online information about eligibility for free dental treatment.", "Officers and staff from the force painted their nails to highlight modern slavery\n\nA police force was inundated with complaints after officers painted their nails to highlight modern slavery issues.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police officers tweeted the photos on Anti-Slavery Day to highlight issues in nail bars.\n\nSome social media users described the move as an \"epic fail\" and a waste of the force's time and money.\n\nBut Ch Insp Mark Edgington said the campaign \"worked as it's got people talking\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOfficers were endorsing the \"Let's Nail It campaign\", which was launched on Anti-Slavery Day last year by the charity Unseen, to highlight how people trafficked to the UK often end up working in nail bars.\n\nThe charity is part of the anti-slavery partnership that Ch Insp Edgington chairs in the West.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Avon&Somerset 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice later posted a response urging people who found reactions to their campaign offensive to report the messages to the force.\n\nOfficers, including the assistant chief constable, took part in the campaign.\n\nCh Insp Edgington, said: \"In terms of being out and visible on the streets, it raises the question... people come up and ask why you've painted your nails and it starts the conversation.\"\n\nOn its website the force said that over the past 12 months it had dealt with 60 investigations of modern slavery and had seen a significant increase in modern slavery-related intelligence which had resulted in visits to premises suspected of modern slavery.\n\nBut Twitter users were unimpressed, with one saying \"I'm offended that the police force is so out of touch with reality\".\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\nCh Insp Edgington, said: \"Some people will disagree with the campaign, which is their prerogative, but the campaign has worked as it's got people talking.\n\n\"It's part of a much wider range of measures but we do need intelligence and information from the public and raising awareness is key.\"\n\nUnseen began its campaign following a report from the UK's Anti-Slavery Commissioner into trafficking routes to the UK, which highlighted the problem of human trafficking victims ending up in places such as nail bars.\n\nIt prompted celebrities and nail salons to join the campaign, which worked to raise awareness of the problem and help to stop slavery in outlets.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Adrienne Warren will play Tina Turner in the musical, which opens in April\n\nA new musical based on the life of Tina Turner is set to open in the West End in 2018 - and the singer even came out of retirement (somewhat reluctantly) to work on it.\n\n\"Retirement is wonderful,\" Turner says as she launches Tina: The Musical in London.\n\n\"You sleep long, do what you want, decorate the house two or three times. Just easy things that you dreamt about when you were working and that's all you did.\"\n\nShe says her lifestyle when she was famous involved spending most of her time on tour buses, planes and cars, adding: \"That was work and that's sometimes what you had to do.\n\n\"But you had a dream not to have to do any of it.\"\n\nTurner, whose hits include The Best and What's Love Got To Do With It, was initially reluctant to sign up for working on the show, which opens at London's Aldwych Theatre in April.\n\n\"I didn't want to because I didn't really understand it or agree with it, whatever there is - the magic between stage and music is totally different,\" she says. \"So I'm learning and experiencing what musicals are about.\"\n\nThe producers of Tina had to fly out to Switzerland, where Turner now lives, to convince her to give the project her blessing.\n\nThe pair performed together at the launch of the musical in London this week\n\nTurner was eventually won over, and now comments: \"This took me out of retirement... I'm very excited to be a part of it.\"\n\nBut the big question of course, was who was going to play Tina in the show. This week, the theatre world got its answer: Adrienne Warren.\n\n\"She can sing,\" Turner says. \"She will do the dancing. Maybe she hasn't done the type of dancing that me and my girls would do, but she can do that. She's pretty. And we're giving it a try.\"\n\nGiving audiences a flavour of what they can expect, Warren performed three songs at the launch, including two duets with Turner, proving in the process that she definitely has the voice to pull this role off.\n\nSpeaking after the performance, the Virginia-born actress said: \"She's a motivation, inspiration to all women, and especially women of colour.\n\n\"It's the first time I ever realised that I could grow up in the South and have dreams that would take me all over the world. I wouldn't have become a performer if it wasn't for Tina Turner.\"\n\nAdrienne Warren said audiences will find the musical \"inspirational\"\n\nShe adds: \"When you haven an opportunity like this, I call it a responsibility. Because I'm a Tina Turner fan first, so that's a responsibility and I don't take that lightly.\"\n\nDetails of the plot and songs included in the show haven't been announced yet, but producers say it will be a fairly comprehensive telling of Turner's life story - not shying away from issues such as the domestic abuse she suffered at the hands of her husband Ike.\n\nDescribing the show's content, Adrienne said: \"Dark? No. Inspirational? Yes. It is the truth of her story. Sometimes the best things in life come out of the worst things in life, so that's what's so appealing about this show.\n\n\"There are challenges, the stamina that is required for this show was something like I've never seen before, and actually having Tina as my coach as I do this is something quite interesting as well, so I love every second of it.\n\n\"It shows all of us that no matter what obstacle comes your way, whether it's your family not supporting you, whether it's bullying, domestic violence, don't ever let that stop you achieving your dreams.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Lancaster said she didn't feel she could tell her parents at the time\n\nModel Penny Lancaster has said she was sexually assaulted as a teenager by someone she worked for.\n\nLancaster, who is married to rock singer Rod Stewart, told ITV's Loose Women that she had her drink spiked.\n\nShe said she found herself being attacked on a bed and \"can't remember much of what happened\".\n\n\"I just know he was on top of me and enjoying the experience but I certainly wasn't. I don't really remember much more. I was too afraid to tell anyone.\"\n\nLancaster, now 46, said she had been a virgin at the time of the assault, which she said happened after she went to the house of a man who had promised to take her to an event where she could make work contacts.\n\n\"I was like, 'Oh, someone will be interested, I might get some more work,'\" Lancaster said.\n\n\"So I went with him. And he said: 'Oh, I have to stop at my apartment.'\"\n\nShe said he gave her a drink \"and unfortunately the next thing I knew... I found myself face down on a bed with him on top of me\".\n\nThe model, who was in tears as she spoke, said: \"I couldn't tell my mum and dad because I thought they would be saying to me, 'What on earth were you doing going back to his house?'\n\n\"But he was a guy that I had worked with and he promised me to meet other people and so I was naive and I trusted him.\"\n\nShe said she wanted to speak out so young girls in a similar situation could understand it was \"not their fault\".\n\n\"They are not guilty. The other person is. And they need to be brave enough to tell the authorities.\"\n\nLancaster was speaking out during a discussion on the chat show about the #MeToo campaign social media started by survivors of sexual harassment and assault, which followed the recent allegations about Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It's the weekly news quiz - have you been paying attention to what's been going on in the world over the past seven days?\n\nIf you missed last week's quiz, try it here\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter", "Campaigners posted a Facebook message on Thursday to say Mr Halawa had been freed.\n\nIbrahim Halawa, an Irishman who has spent more than four years in prison in Egypt, has been freed.\n\nMr Halawa, who is from Dublin, was arrested during a siege at the Al-Fath mosque in Cairo in 2013.\n\nHe was accused along with 500 others, including three of his three sisters, of inciting violence, riot and sabotage.\n\nThe 21-year-old was acquitted of all charges more than a month ago, but his release was delayed.\n\nThat delay prompted a former Irish justice minister to call for Egypt's ambassador to Ireland to be expelled.\n\n\"We're helping him to get back to Ireland where he will be reunited with his family,\" said Mr Varadkar.\n\nCampaigners posted a Facebook message on Thursday to say Mr Halawa had been freed.\n\nMr Halawa was 17 when he was detained by Egyptian security forces\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins was among a number of high-profile figures to welcome the news, wishing Mr Halawa well on his journey home.\n\n\"The release of Ibrahim Halawa will come as a great relief to his family,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Greste This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIrish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney tweeted: \"Delighted 2 confirm Ibrahim Halawa has been released, being supported by family + Embassy. Some formalities still required before flying home\".\n\nSinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan, who attended the Irishman's trial, tweeted: \"Great news coming out of Cairo.\"\n\nAn emotional Ibrahim Halawa celebrated his acquittal on 18 September 2017\n\nShe said Mr Halawa had been subjected to four years of \"illegal imprisonment\" and said the focus now was on \"getting him home\".\n\nMr Halawa was 17 when he was detained by Egyptian security forces during a siege at the Cairo's Al-Fath mosque on 17 August 2013.\n\nThree of his older sisters were also arrested and imprisoned, but they were allowed to return home to Ireland within three months.\n\nIbrahim Halawa spent more than four years in jail before he was acquitted last month\n\nMr Halawa protested against his detention with a series of hunger strikes, and at one stage his family said he became so weak he was using a wheelchair.\n\nThe Halawas were acquitted of all charges against them on 18 September.", "It's all about the money.\n\nThe UK and the EU have managed together to make a tiptoe forward in the Brexit talks.\n\nBut listening to EU leaders this afternoon it is abundantly clear that unless they change their minds, the UK is going to have to budge on the cash to make enough progress by December to be able to truly get on to the next phase of talks.\n\nCertainly public money is tight in this administration, but frankly a hefty Brexit bill in exchange for a good deal would be the one big payment that the Chancellor Philip Hammond would be happy to sign off.\n\nA move on the money is, therefore, primarily a political problem rather than anything to do with the actual funds.\n\nThere are whispers that Theresa May has privately reassured the other leaders that she is willing to put a lot more than the implicit 20 billion euros (£17.8bn) on the table as we leave.\n\nNumber 10 doesn't deny this, Mrs May didn't deny it when we asked her in the press conference today, nor did she reject the idea that the bill could be as high as 60 billion euros.\n\nIf she has actually given those private reassurances though, there's not much evidence the other EU leaders believe her or think it's enough.\n\nBut if she is to make that case more forcefully she has big political problems at home.\n\nA much bigger payment is anathema to many Conservatives, and could frustrate swathes of voters who plumped for Brexit, in part on a promise that the country would get money back.\n\nNumber 10 is well aware of this.\n\nOne insider told me \"it's all about the quantum,\" what \"the party would swallow'.\n\nCould a party with a powerful group of Brexiteers, including ministers who have gone on the record to say we shouldn't be shelling out much, really tolerate the prime minister calling for support to pay tens of billions?\n\nThis is not a question for now, but it has been logged for future reference inside Number 10.\n\nWill there be a day when the prime minister decides to make a plain admission to the country, that the potential cost of leaving with no deal is a scarier prospect than having to cough up as much as 60 billion euros? About half what we spend on the NHS, but more than we spend on defence?\n\nOr will she be pushed by those in her party who genuinely believe that is far better to cut our losses and walk out, than commit to an expensive deal.\n\nCarrying her party and her European counterparts at the same time is Theresa May's fundamental challenge - on the face of it almost impossible.\n\nAnd today's tiptoe forward is no guarantee that ultimately she will be able to go all the way.\n\nPS There's lots of speculation that when the French President said the UK was not even \"half way there\" he was hinting that the bill could therefore be ultimately at least double 40 billion euros.\n\nIt wasn't really clear during the press conference that is what he meant, or whether he was using \"half way there\" to describe the state of the negotiations.\n\nHowever, for ages in Westminster there has been an expectation that the eventual bill will be somewhere in that region, somewhere between 40 and 60, so it is not crazy to imagine that Macron's comments are further evidence that's the case.", "The search for the Malaysia Airlines plane was suspended in January\n\nMalaysia is negotiating a \"no find-no fee\" deal with a US company to renew the search for downed flight MH370.\n\nThe government announced in a statement that it was in talks with Texas-based salvage firm Ocean Infinity.\n\nIf the deal goes ahead, Ocean Infinity will foot the bill and recoup costs only if it finds the missing plane.\n\nThe disappearance of MH370 remains shrouded in mystery. The flight fell off radar on 8 March 2014 en route to Beijing, with 239 people on board.\n\nAustralian Transport Minister Darren Chester said on Friday that a deal had been reached between Malaysia and Ocean Infinity, but the Malaysian government later clarified in a statement that it was still in talks.\n\nA massive search operation for the plane cleared 120,000 sq km at an estimated cost of about A$200m (£120m; €133m), before it was suspended in January.\n\nOcean Infinity has not revealed the estimated cost of a search. According to Mr Chester, any new operation will focus on a 25,000 sq km area identified by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau as having a \"high probability\" of containing the aircraft.\n\nOcean Infinity is in talks with the government about using a centuries-old model known in the salvage industry as \"no cure-no pay\" - a type of deal usually applied in the recovery of valuable sunken cargo.\n\nUnder such a deal, a salvage company will take on the financial risk of a recovery and recoup from the owner a percentage of the cargo's value if it is found, often 80 or 90%.\n\nIn this case, Ocean Infinity would be working instead for a set fee from the Malaysian government, and for the significant publicity on offer should it find the wreckage, an industry expert told the BBC.\n\nA search operation that went on for almost three years failed to find the wreckage\n\nMH370 was carrying passengers and crew from 14 different countries when it disappeared, most from China and Malaysia.\n\nAustralia led the initial search, after aviation officials identified the ocean floor off its coast as the likely location of the wreckage. The country has agreed to provide technical assistance for the new search, Mr Chester said.\n\nEarlier this month, Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said the government had received proposals from three private search firms - Ocean Infinity, Dutch firm Fugro and an unidentified Malaysian company.\n\nDelivering its report into the disappearance earlier this month, Australia's Transport Safety Bureau said it was \"almost inconceivable\" that the aircraft had not been found.\n• None More evidence on MH370's 'likely' location", "Reports of deadlock over Brexit negotiations may have been exaggerated, European Council President Donald Tusk has said after a Brussels summit.\n\nProgress was \"not sufficient\" to begin trade talks with the UK now but that \"doesn't mean there is no progress at all\", he said.\n\nEU leaders will discuss the issue internally, paving the way for talks with the UK, possibly in December.\n\nTheresa May said there was \"some way to go\" but she was \"optimistic\".\n\nSpeaking at the end of a two-day summit, Mr Tusk told reporters: \"My impression is that the reports of the deadlock between the EU and the UK have been exaggerated.\"\n\nThe EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, described the talks as deadlocked earlier this month.\n\nMr Tusk said he was not at odds with Mr Barnier, but his own role was to be a \"positive motivator for the next five or six weeks\".\n\nHe said he felt there was \"goodwill\" on both sides \"and this is why I, maybe, in my rhetoric, I'm, maybe, a little bit more optimistic than Michel Barnier, but we are also in a different role\".\n\nThe so-called divorce bill remains a major sticking point in talks with the EU.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said there was still much work to be done on the financial commitment before trade talks can begin, adding: \"We are not halfway there.\"\n\nTheresa May declined to say in a press conference after the summit what the UK would be prepared to pay, saying the \"final settlement\" would come as part of a \"final agreement\" with the EU.\n\nThe UK prime minister did not name any figures but refused to deny that she had told other EU leaders the UK could pay many more billions of pounds than the £20bn she had indicated in her Florence speech last month.\n\n\"I have said that ... we will honour the commitments that we have made during our membership,\" she said. But those commitments were being analysed \"line by line\" she said, adding: \"British taxpayer wouldn't expect its government to do anything else.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three key points about how the Brexit talks are going\n\nThere are whispers that Theresa May has privately reassured the other leaders that she is willing to put a lot more than the implicit 20 billion euros (£17.8bn) on the table as we leave.\n\nNumber 10 doesn't deny this, Mrs May didn't deny it when we asked her in the press conference today, nor did she reject the idea that the bill could be as high as 60 billion euros.\n\nIf she has actually given those private reassurances though, there's not much evidence the other EU leaders believe her or think it's enough.\n\nBut if she is to make that case more forcefully she has big political problems at home.\n\nShe said the two sides were within \"touching distance\" of a deal on other issues - particularly on citizens' rights.\n\n\"I am ambitious and positive for Britain's future and for these negotiations but I know we still have some way to go,\" she said.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU in March 2019, following last year's referendum result.\n\nIt had hoped to move onto phase two of negotiations - covering future trade arrangements - after this week's summit.\n\nBut EU leaders took just 90 seconds to officially conclude that not enough progress has been made on the issues of citizens' rights, the UK's financial obligation and the border in Northern Ireland, but \"internal preparations\" would begin for phase two.\n\nThe prime minister made a personal appeal to her 27 EU counterparts at a working dinner on Thursday night, telling them that \"we must work together to get to an outcome that we can stand behind and defend to our people\".\n\nBBC Europe editor Katya Adler said all EU leaders knew Mrs May was in a politically difficult situation and did not want her to go home empty-handed, so had promised they would start talking about trade and transition deals among themselves, as early as Monday.\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel said there were \"encouraging\" signs of progress in Brexit negotiations and the process was progressing \"step by step\".\n\nAnd European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he hoped it would be possible to reach a \"fair deal\" with Britain.\n\n\"Our working assumption is not the 'no-deal' scenario. I hate the 'no-deal' scenario. I don't know what that means,\" he said.", "Jennifer Lawrence spoke out about her early career at the Elle Women in Hollywood Celebration\n\nMany were shocked when Jennifer Lawrence revealed she was forced to stand in a \"nude line-up\" as part of a film casting.\n\nShe described the experience as \"degrading and humiliating\".\n\nThe actress spoke in light of recent allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein, who has been accused of rape, sexual assault and harassment.\n\nHe has \"unequivocally denied\" the claims against him and said all sexual relationships he had were consensual.\n\nCasting director Brendan McNamara said a nude casting call is \"not a normal process\"\n\nBut Lawrence's revelations raise questions about whether her casting experience is commonplace in Hollywood and the wider film industry.\n\nBrendan McNamara, who worked as a casting assistant on The Bourne Supremacy, described Lawrence's ordeal as \"an awful situation\", which \"isn't representative of the industry as a whole\".\n\nHe now has his own casting company and makes British independent films, and said his job is to \"make actors feel as comfortable as possible to get the best performance for our directors and producers\".\n\n\"We want to put them in a position where they can give us their best and not feel awkward,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"I've never had to do anything that might be risque, but if I did, we would contact their agent beforehand to make the actor fully aware and make sure they are comfortable with what we are doing.\n\nWhen asked about standing naked in a line-up with other women at a casting and being told to lose weight by a casting director, McNamara added: \"I don't think that's a normal process at all\".\n\n\"It just seems horrible and cruel.\n\n\"It's not a casting director's job to say how someone looks or tell them to lose weight, it's our job to find someone who's right for the role.\"\n\nMcNamara's films include Treacle Jr which starred Tom Fisher and Game of Thrones' Aiden Gillen\n\nHe added that on his low-budget indie British films he now works on, \"we try to treat everyone with the upmost respect and all these stories coming out are awful\".\n\n\"I'm sure the Weinstein stories are not isolated, these people are in positions of power where they take advantage of those that are vulnerable.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A script for Coronation Street creator Tony Warren's previously unknown first attempt at a soap opera has been found.\n\nBefore Warren changed the TV landscape with Coronation Street in 1960, he started writing Seven, Bessie Street.\n\nHis friend David Tucker said it centres on a terraced street but is otherwise very different from Coronation Street.\n\nThe script was found in his possessions after he died in 2016 and is now part of an exhibition dedicated to Warren at Salford Museum and Art Gallery.\n\nWarren left his estate to Mr Tucker, a friend of 22 years, with an instruction to destroy all creative works that weren't already in the public domain.\n\nSeven, Bessie Street was billed as \"a new soap opera in half-hourly episodes\"\n\nBut Mr Tucker decided to keep the Seven, Bessie Street - with the proviso that no one else could read it.\n\nThe script is in a frame in the Salford exhibition with just the cover page, billing it as \"a new soap opera in half-hourly episodes\", on show.\n\nMr Tucker has read it, however, and says it was \"quite obviously planned as a soap opera\".\n\n\"The only thing really that relates to Coronation Street is the setting of a terraced street and the fact that it jumps a little bit between peoples' lives,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"But there are no characters that relate to Coronation Street at all, and no scenarios. It's very different.\"\n\nSeven, Bessie Street revolves around a family - perhaps inspired by Warren's own - who all have theatrical connections.\n\n\"That's what Tony did know about in his youth,\" Mr Tucker said. \"That's probably why it would never have worked as it was, because there was so much in the stories about theatre.\n\n\"He was writing from what he knew in that Bessie Street script, but it probably wasn't going to relate that well to everybody else.\n\n\"So he then shifted the focus to the more mundane aspects of terraced street life.\"\n\nAlthough Warren cast the script aside, Bessie Street did make its way into Coronation Street. Weatherfield's local primary school is called Bessie Street School.\n\nThe exhibition also includes the typewriter Warren used in his early years.\n\nAfter jettisoning Seven, Bessie Street, Warren pitched a drama titled Our Street to the BBC. But he didn't hear back, so he reworked it as Florizel Street for Granada.\n\nFlorizel Street was changed to Coronation Street because - as legend has it - a tea lady named Agnes remarked that Florizel sounded like the name of a disinfectant.\n\nCoronation Street launched in December 1960 and soon became one of the most popular programmes on television.\n\nThe exhibition also traces Warren's early life and career, which included acting in the BBC's Northern Children's Hour and writing for police series Shadow Squad.\n\nAccording to a 1958 receipt, he was paid £150 for the latter.\n\nThe exhibition also shows his past as a male model, appearing on the cover of a 1957 edition of Knitters Digest and on the packet for a pullover knitting pattern.\n\nThere are many mementos from the Corrie years too, including his MBE, various awards, his red This Is Your Life book and letters from former poet laureate John Betjeman describing it as his \"favourite programme\".\n\nBetjeman and Laurence Olivier were such fans that they were chairman and president respectively of the British League for Hilda Ogden, established in 1979.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lisa was one of 650 people on Utoya island when Breivik came ashore\n\nWhen Anders Breivik opened fire on youngsters attending a summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utoya, he carried out a massacre that to this day remains the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman anywhere in the world.\n\nAmong those taking part in the Labour Party youth camp was 17-year-old Lisa Marie Husby.\n\nShe was one of 650 young people gathered on the tiny island on 22 July 2011, when Breivik appeared dressed as a police officer and began shooting.\n\nHowever, minutes before he arrived, Lisa had been on the phone to her mother in the wake of an explosion that had killed eight people in the centre of Oslo.\n\nLisa had been telling her mother that she was safe and that there was no need to worry because she was miles away from the Norwegian capital.\n\nShe said: \"I wanted to tell her that I was far away from Oslo and I was safe. But as I talked to her, I heard the police cars leaving our part of Norway to go and help in Oslo and I told her this and she said 'I think you guys are the next target'.\n\n\"She just had a gut feeling and I said 'there's no way, we're on an island, we're safe' and then I hung up.\n\n\"Then a couple of minutes later I heard what I thought were fireworks.\"\n\nFar right extremist Breivik went on to kill 69 youngsters, 33 of whom were under the age of 18. In total, he murdered 77 people that day, including those in Oslo.\n\nSpeaking to Stephen Jardine on Radio Scotland's Kaye Adams programme, Lisa said in the hours before the shooting began, people had been considering going home because of the weather.\n\nShe said: \"It was very rainy and usually the island is beautiful, but this day it was flooding.\n\n\"A lot of people were thinking about maybe going home, because we were sleeping in tents, and a lot of rain is not good for that.\n\n\"But everyone was in good spirits and we had the first female prime minister of Norway coming to see us and later we were going to have a disco so everyone was happy and having a good time.\"\n\nThen news of the terror attack in Oslo started to filter through to those in the camp.\n\nLisa said: \"Some people wanted to go back to Oslo because they couldn't reach their family back there.\n\n\"But we realised it wasn't possible to go back to Oslo at that point because everything was closed - no buses, no trains or anything. We said the best thing to do was stay.\"\n\nIt was then that Lisa spoke to her mother and tried to reassure her about their position on the island.\n\nShe was with a group of a few dozen people, sheltered by a forest, who were about 50m (164ft) away when Breivik arrived on the island claiming to be there for security.\n\nLocals gathered boats near the island to try and help those jumping into the water to escape\n\nThen she began hearing what she thought was fireworks.\n\n\"Everyone was in shock at first, and I think we thought this is a horrible joke, this is too early to try and scare us.\n\n\"But then I realised seeing everyone who actually saw the gunman fleeing, that this was actually not a joke.\"\n\nLisa said her group were standing next to their tents looking confused by the sound of gunfire.\n\nShe said: \"I don't think they understood what was going on. A lot of the people who actually saw what happened were fleeing, but this group were sheltered and they couldn't see what was happening, so they were just standing there not knowing what to do.\"\n\nShe added: \"This island is very small. You can walk across it in 10 minutes. It's a lot of cliffs and trees everywhere. At the time, I didn't even think that I could get off the island by swimming, I didn't even think that I was on an island - I just thought I have to run and hide.\"\n\nLisa gathered the group and then ran through the forest to a cabin that had previously been used as a medical base.\n\nShe said: \"By the time we got to the cabin, they had actually prepared for attack. They had had a drill earlier that week in case of attack so they had already barricaded the doors and blocked the windows by the time we got into the cabin.\n\n\"We managed to get in, but then I got completely shocked and scared and thought I needed to get back out.\n\n\"They said: 'if you go we will lock the door behind you', but I still kept running.\n\n\"And then I saw this girl who was shot and I decided to go back in because I realised how serious things were then.\"\n\nTerrified youngsters hid in the woods, with some jumping into the water to escape the hail of bullets.\n\nIn total, 47 students, including Lisa, barricaded themselves into the cabin, hiding as best they could.\n\n\"At this point there was so many gunshots because of the automatic gun he was using, so we thought there was more than one shooter.\n\n\"We just hid under beds and tried to get into the small rooms inside the cabin and shelter ourselves from what was going on outside. We could hear the gunshots getting closer and further away and then suddenly they were very close.\"\n\nLisa and the other students heard Breivik try the door. When he could not get in he fired two shots through the window before walking off.\n\n\"We didn't know how long it would take the police to get to the island,\" Lisa said. \"We could hear boats outside, but that turned out to be civilians helping out the people who had fled or who had tried to get out by swimming.\n\n\"And we could also hear helicopters, but that turned out to be news helicopters.\"\n\nThe 47 students spent more than four terrifying hours inside the cabin.\n\nDuring that time they were receiving frantic calls from their families, who had warned them that the gunman was reportedly posing as a police officer.\n\nBreivik shot 69 people dead on the island of Utoya during his rampage\n\nThe group had also decided that if Breivik entered the cabin they would lie still and pretend to be dead.\n\nLisa said: \"The last message that I got from my family at the time was 'don't trust the police they say online that he's dressed as the police so don't trust anyone who says that they're from the police'.\n\n\"When we were just waiting, it got very quiet and the gunshots stopped.\n\n\"People started to come out from their hiding places because it got very, very quiet.\"\n\nLisa said that at this point the police suddenly stormed the cabin.\n\nShe said: \"They told us to get on the floor with our hands above our head. We thought these people are here to kill us.\"\n\nLisa said she later learned that officers stormed the cabin unaware whether or not Breivik was inside with hostages.\n\n\"After the police came in we thought we were dead, we said our goodbyes. Then they asked is he here and I thought 'who's here - it's the terrorist' and then we understood they're not here to take us, they're actually looking for him.\"\n\nAs soon as he was confronted by officers, Anders Breivik immediately surrendered.\n\nHe was later jailed for 21 years following a trial that Lisa decided to attend.\n\nShe said she was struck by how small Breivik appeared in the dock and how sad it was that such a person could cause so much harm.\n\nLisa now studies at the University of St Andrews after being shown around the town by her partner Richard\n\nFor two years following the massacre Lisa tried to continue her life in Norway.\n\nHowever, in 2013 her ordeal finally took its toll.\n\nShe said: \"Something this traumatic is not going to leave you ever.\n\n\"So trying to go back to being a normal teenager again was very, very difficult.\n\n\"It started off with nightmares, a lot of flashbacks to the day. My nightmares sometimes got really, really bad where I woke up in the middle of the night actually believing that I was shot.\"\n\nLisa said she developed a sense of being on auto-pilot and of being an observer in her own life.\n\nShe then spent a year in intensive treatment, during which she learned to talk about her experiences and their aftermath.\n\nShe developed a sense of determination that \"this one day in July wouldn't define my entire life.\"\n\nMonths later, Lisa met her partner Richard in Norway and she began to put her life back together.\n\nShe said: \"He took me to St Andrews to show me around one day and I just completely fell in love.\n\n\"I said 'maybe this is what I need. I need to get out of Norway and try and study abroad' and that's always been a dream.\"\n\nIn 2016 Lisa began studying at the University of St Andrews in Fife and has since become an advocate for raising awareness about issues relating to mental health.", "Bruno will be absent from the judging panel for the first time in 13 years\n\nBruno Tonioli is missing this weekend's Strictly Come Dancing shows due to \"a very busy work schedule\".\n\nIt will be the first time the judge has missed the shows in his 13 years on the panel.\n\nA Strictly spokeswoman told the BBC: \"As was always the plan, Bruno Tonioli is not on the judging panel this weekend\".\n\nHe will return next weekend for the Halloween special and will be on the show for the rest of the series.\n\nIt has been confirmed that 61-year-old Tonioli will not be replaced with a guest judge.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis means fellow judges Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood and Darcey Bussell will have more sway when it comes to giving points to contestants.\n\nAs well as his role on Strictly Come Dancing, Tonioli is involved in its US counterpart Dancing with the Stars.\n\nTonioli explained on Twitter it was a clash with that show that led to him missing Strictly.\n\nHe replied to a fan, saying: \"100% back next week just had a clash whilst in @DancingABC.\"\n\nWhen asked if that meant the American show was \"more important\", he replied: \"Far from it!\".\n\nDancing with the Stars is currently in its 25th season, with contestants including singer Debbie Gibson and Malcolm in the Middle's Frankie Muniz.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A Labour MP has apologised for using \"offensive and unacceptable\" language at the party conference last month.\n\nNorwich South MP Clive Lewis was filmed on stage at a fringe event in Brighton saying: \"Get on your knees, bitch\" - the video emerged on social media.\n\nAmong female MPs criticising him was Labour's Harriet Harman, who tweeted: \"Inexplicable. Inexcusable. Dismayed.\"\n\nThe Labour Party said the language \"was completely unacceptable and falls far short of the standard we expect\".\n\nIt is not clear who Mr Lewis, a former frontbencher, was addressing in the video. He is among several people on stage at the time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAaron Bastani, the co-founder of left wing website Novara Media, tweeted: \"I was there. The video has been up at @novaramedia for a month - Clive was saying this to a man.\"\n\nBut after criticism of his alleged comments, Mr Lewis tweeted: \"I apologise unreservedly for the language I used at an event in Brighton last month. It was offensive and unacceptable.\"\n\nAmong MPs lining up to condemn his language on Twitter were the Conservative Mims Davies, who suggested Mr Lewis needed to go on a training course.\n\nMr Lewis's fellow Labour MP Jess Phillips said: \"Just seen the Clive Lewis video. Obviously I am appalled, just listened to seven teenage girls speak up about gender inequality. Perhaps I'll bring them to work on Monday.\"\n\nAnd Rebecca Hilsenrath, chief executive of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said Mr Lewis's use of language was \"completely inexcusable\" adding: \"We, and the women in Mr Lewis's constituency, have every right to expect our MPs to behave in a more professional manner.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Justine Greening, who is also minister for women and equalities, called on Jeremy Corbyn to help stamp out misogynistic behaviour towards MPs.\n\nThe Conservative minister said the Labour leader should condemn Mr Lewis's words and asked Mr Corbyn to set out how he was going to stamp out sexism in his own party.\n\nBBC East political correspondent Andrew Sinclair said the MP has told friends the comments were directed at a man during a \"boozy and sweary\" comedy event as part of \"on-stage banter\" and were not intended to cause offence.\n\nBut, he added Mr Lewis accepts he should not have said it and was full of remorse.\n\nChloe Smith, Conservative MP for Norwich North, said the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn should \"seriously consider\" withdrawing the whip from Mr Lewis.", "Tenants' regular rent payments should be recorded on their credit score and used as proof to lenders that mortgage demands can be met, MPs are to be told.\n\nAt present, mortgage applicants are unable to rely on rent payment history as proof that they would be safe to lend to when buying a home.\n\nA debate is being held in Parliament on Monday following a petition which aimed to raise awareness of the issue.\n\nThe government has said that lenders should consider a range of factors.\n\nThe petition, signed by 147,307 people, argued that \"paying rent on time [should] be recognised as evidence that mortgage repayments can be met\".\n\nCampaigners have argued that rent payment history should be included on a tenant's credit score, even though it is not strictly a form of credit.\n\nSteve Burrows, managing director of LateRent which offers a service to landlords, said: \"It is no secret that owning a property has become a distant prospect for many and the private rental sector continues to grow as a result.\n\n\"It is therefore oddly out of step that tenants are unable to utilise rental payments as part of their credit profile - particularly as the government increasingly seeks to promote homeownership across the UK.\"\n\nConservative MP Paul Scully, who will introduce and lead the debate on Monday, said that he was sympathetic to those who were paying more for credit, or being turned down, simply because they had been renting a home. This was particularly true when monthly rent was higher than typical monthly mortgage repayments.\n\n\"It is clear that in many cases if someone is renting, they can afford the equivalent mortgage,\" he said.\n\nThe petition was cut short owing to the general election being called earlier this year, but still garnered sufficient support for a debate to be called.\n\nIn its response to the petition, the government said regulators insisted that lots of financial information was needed to prove that an applicant could repay a mortgage, such as testing whether a borrower could cope were interest rates to rise.\n\n\"Lenders must consider a range of factors when assessing a mortgage application. Meeting rental payments is not sufficient in itself to demonstrate affordability over the lifetime of the loan,\" it said.\n\n\"It is important to be aware that home ownership brings a number of additional expenses that may not be incurred when renting, including maintenance costs and buildings insurance.\n\n\"Before extending a loan, lenders must satisfy themselves that a borrower will be able to meet these additional on-going costs when considering a mortgage application.\"\n\nWhere can you afford to live? Try our housing calculator to see where you could rent or buy This interactive content requires an internet connection and a modern browser. Do you want to buy or rent? Use the buttons to increase or decrease the number of bedrooms: minimum one, maximum four. Alternatively, enter a number into the text input How much is your deposit? Enter your deposit below or adjust the deposit amount using the slider Return to 'How much is your deposit?' This calculator assumes you need a deposit of at least 5% of the value of the property to get a mortgage. The average deposit for UK first-time buyers is . How much can you pay monthly? Enter your monthly payment below or adjust the payment amount using the slider Return to 'How much can you pay monthly?' Your monthly payments are what you can afford to pay each month. Think about your monthly income and take off bills, council tax and living expenses. The average rent figure is for England and Wales. Amount of the that has housing you can Explore the map in detail below Search the UK for more details about a local area What does affordable mean? You have a big enough deposit and your monthly payments are high enough. The prices are based on the local market. If there are 100 properties of the right size in an area and they are placed in price order with the cheapest first, the “low-end” of the market will be the 25th property, \"mid-priced\" is the 50th and \"high-end” will be the 75th.", "A Canadian man has filed a lawsuit against Sunwing Airlines for promising a champagne service and instead serving sparkling wine.\n\nDaniel Macduff booked a holiday to Cuba through Sunwing that advertised a complimentary on-board champagne toast.\n\nMr Macduff, from Quebec, said he received a cheaper bubbly instead - and only on the outgoing flight.\n\nThe airline said it believes the lawsuit \"to be frivolous and without merit\".\n\nMr Macduff's lawyer says the class action hinges on misleading marketing and not the quality of the wine served.\n\n\"It's not about the pettiness of champagne versus sparkling wine,\" said Montreal-based lawyer Sébastien Paquette.\n\n\"It's the consumer message behind it.\"\n\nMr Paquette said references to real champagne - a sparkling wine variety made specifically in the Champagne region in France - was front and centre in Sunwing's marketing materials.\n\nIn an emailed statement, Sunwing said the terms \"champagne vacations\" and \"champagne service\" were used \"to denote a level of service in reference to the entire hospitality package\" and not to describe the in-flight beverages.\n\nThe airline says it still offers sparkling wine to all its passengers on flights to southern vacation destinations, but are no longer referencing \"champagne service\" in active marketing campaigns.\n\nSunwing said it has always described these services as including \"a complimentary welcome glass of sparkling wine\" and announce it as such on the aircraft.\n\nThe airline added the inflight service has been \"consistently been well-received by customers\".\n\nThe class action has yet to be certified by the courts, but seeks compensation for the monetary difference between the actual wine served and a glass of champagne as well as punitive damages.\n\nMr Paquette said about 1,600 other plaintiffs have come forward in Quebec to join the lawsuit.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe White House chief of staff has launched an impassioned attack on a \"selfish\" congresswoman who said President Trump made a war widow cry.\n\nGeneral John Kelly said he was \"broken-hearted\" by the Democrat's criticism of the president's condolence call to Sgt La David Johnson's wife.\n\nSgt Johnson was one of four killed in Niger by Islamist militants this month.\n\nGen Kelly also said he did not receive a call from President Barack Obama when his son died in Afghanistan in 2010.\n\nThe chief of staff, a former Marine Corps general, said in the White House briefing room that Representative Frederica Wilson was \"an empty barrel\".\n\nSgt Johnson's widow with his coffin at Miami International Airport\n\nThe Florida Democrat said on Wednesday that she had overheard Mr Trump telling bereaved Myeshia Johnson of her slain husband: \"He knew what he was signing up for, but I guess it hurts anyway.\"\n\nMs Wilson said the president's alleged remarks, shortly before Sgt Johnson's coffin arrived by aircraft in his home city of Miami, made Ms Johnson break down in tears.\n\nPresident Trump said the congresswoman had \"totally fabricated\" the comments, but the soldier's mother later backed up Ms Wilson, saying he had disrespected the family.\n\nOn Thursday, Gen Kelly said he was so \"stunned\" by Ms Wilson's attack that he spent more than an hour walking among soldiers' graves at Arlington National Cemetery, just outside Washington.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Congresswoman Frederica Wilson: \"How insensitive can you be?\"\n\nThe chief of staff said he had advised the president not to call the loved ones of the four American servicemen killed in Niger, telling him: \"There's nothing you can do to lighten the burden on these families.\"\n\nGen Kelly described such a task as \"the most difficult thing you can imagine\".\n\n\"There is no perfect way to make that phone call,\" he added.\n\nHe also discussed the death of his own son, Robert Kelly, a 29-year-old Marine first lieutenant who died when he stepped on an Afghan landmine.\n\nGen Kelly said: \"He [President Trump] asked me about previous presidents. And I said, 'I can tell you that President Obama, who was my commander-in-chief when I was on active duty, did not call my family.'\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gold Star Mother Christina Ayube: \"We don't need to be reminded of that on the way to receiving the body\"\n\n\"That was not a criticism. That was just to simply say, I don't believe that President Obama called. That's not a negative thing.\n\n\"I don't believe President Bush called in all cases. I don't believe any president, particularly when the casualty rates are very, very high, that presidents call.\"\n\nThe controversy began on Monday when a reporter asked Mr Trump at the White House why he had still not called the families of the four soldiers killed in the fatal ambush in Niger on 4 October.\n\nThe president provoked outrage by suggesting that his predecessor, Barack Obama, and other former US presidents did not call the relatives of dead service members.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Trump ratcheted up the row by stating that President Obama did not call Gen Kelly's family.\n\nMr Kelly also said the Pentagon was investigating the details of the deaths of Sgt Johnson and the other servicemen in the west African country.\n\nBut Senator John McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he was not being given any details, adding that he could issue a subpoena for the information.\n\nAsked by reporters what information he still lacked, he said \"everything\".\n\nAnd asked if the White house had been forthcoming, he responded: \"Of course not.\"", "Leah Waterman cares for her husband Simon who can barely speak and needs 24-hour help\n\nThe wife of a stroke survivor who was told she must leave the UK to apply for a visa has now had it approved.\n\nLeah Waterman, who is from the Philippines, had faced being split from her husband Simon who can barely speak and needs 24-hour help.\n\nMr Waterman had been told he would have to become the sole carer of their two children at their home in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.\n\nBut the Home Office has now confirmed they can stay together.\n\nMrs Waterman said she felt \"happy and overwhelmed\".\n\n\"I'm looking forward to every day now we don't have to think about what's going to happen next,\" she said.\n\n\"We are more focussed on Simon's condition.\n\n\"We can be more relaxed and not worry about anything, it means we can move forward.\"\n\nLeah Waterman cares for her husband who has seizures\n\nMr Waterman, who can communicate with the help of a mobile phone app, said he felt \"happy, awesome, proud\" after the decision.\n\nMr Waterman, 56, uses a wheelchair and has regular seizures after having a severe stroke in September 2015 when living in the Philippines.\n\nAfter spending more than a month in hospital, Mr Waterman and his wife and children - now seven and 10 - visited family in Monmouthshire in December 2015.\n\nShortly afterwards, Mr Waterman developed seizures and the couple decided to stay near his family for support.\n\nOn the expiry of Mrs Waterman's visitor's visa in July 2016, she applied to remain in the country.\n\nThe Home Office had ruled the family did not have the exceptional circumstances required to apply for a visa from within the UK and Leah would need to apply from the Philippines, leaving the family behind.\n\nBut with the help of their MP David Davies, the visa has now been approved.\n\n\"In light of the new information provided as part of Ms Waterman's appeal, we were able to take into account her exceptional circumstances and have now granted her limited leave to remain,\" said a Home Office spokesperson.", "India is in the throes of an economic slowdown and a jobs crisis under Mr Modi's leadership\n\nOne of the reasons why Narendra Modi swept to victory with a historic mandate in 2014 was his combative and upbeat oratory. Three years on, the Indian prime minister is beginning to sound unusually defensive.\n\nMany say Mr Modi's characteristic bluster and bombast have begun to wane. In recent speeches, he has described his critics as doomsayers, blamed the previous Congress government for India's economic ills, painted himself as an \"outsider\" and said he was \"willing to drink poison\" for the good of the country. Has the victor turned victim?\n\n\"A small number of people weaken us,\" Mr Modi told a gathering of company secretaries recently. \"We need to recognise such people.\"\n\nSo is Mr Modi beginning to lose his mojo? Three years ago, when he won his landslide, he promised reforms and jobs. But under his leadership - and at a time when the world economy appears to be taking off - India is looking like a sorry outlier, battling an economic slowdown and a jobs crisis.\n\nBanks are struggling with mountains of bad loans, which in turn has choked credit and hurt domestic investment. \"India's economy is grounded,\" says economist Praveen Chakravarty.\n\nMr Modi's response has been criticised as piecemeal and clumsy. A controversial currency ban last November, politically sold as a crackdown on the illegal economy, ended up halting growth and causing a lot of misery.\n\nThe Goods and Services Tax was criticised for the way it was introduced\n\nJuly's introduction of a much-lauded countrywide Goods and Services Tax (GST) to help India move towards a common market has caused widespread business disruption because of what is seen as shoddy execution.\n\nIn cities and towns, traders are upset over the grinding tax bureaucracy engendered by the GST. In villages - nearly half of Indians are engaged in agriculture - farmers are complaining of income insecurity as they believe the government isn't paying them enough for their produce.\n\nAlso, for the first time since winning power, Mr Modi's government is under attack.\n\nA senior functionary from Mr Modi's party, the BJP, recently blamed his government for the economic slowdown. \"The prime minister claims that he has seen poverty from close quarters,\" former finance minister Yashwant Sinha wrote. \"His finance minister is working overtime to make sure that all Indians also see it from equally close quarters.\"\n\nAnd Mr Modi is taking flak from the opposition too for a change. His main political rival, Rahul Gandhi, of the once mighty Congress party, appears to be suddenly re-energised and has been taking on Mr Modi more aggressively than ever before.\n\nAdded to this, the son of Amit Shah, Mr Modi's closest aide, is accused of corruption. Jay Shah denies the allegations and has threatened to sue non-profit news website The Wire over the story.\n\nThus far since taking office, Mr Modi has been greatly helped by four unrelated things.\n\nLow oil prices - India imports most of its crude - helped boost growth and tame inflation. Second, a chunk of the domestic mainstream media which depends on government advertising has been largely uncritical of his government. Third, Mr Modi faces no leadership challenge from within his party, which he and Amit Shah dominate. Lastly, and most importantly, a political opposition largely in disarray has failed to offer aspirational Indians an alternative - and persuasive - narrative of hope.\n\nStill, there's \"something in the air\", as Shekhar Gupta, editor of The Print news site, says.\n\nOne indication is that even Mr Modi's fiercely pugnacious supporters are markedly subdued on social media these days. On the other hand, social media is awash with memes making fun of the prime minister.\n\nMr Modi's politics are also causing discontent. By whipping up what many say is hysteria over the sale and consumption of beef and pandering to Hindu radicals, observers say his party has begun to frighten off many young people and urban folk.\n\nTo make matters worse, his party appointed a controversial Hindu religious leader known for anti-Muslim rhetoric to run the political bellwether state of Uttar Pradesh, where the BJP won a decisive mandate in March. About a fifth of Uttar Pradesh's 200 million people are Muslim.\n\nIn 2014, Mr Modi secured the overwhelming majority of the young votes. But is support from this quarter waning? BJP-supported student unions have lost elections in three major universities in Delhi and Hyderabad. Last month's unrest in a leading university in Mr Modi's constituency in Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh, where police beat female university students protesting against an alleged sexual assault, will not endear him and his party to young voters.\n\nOn the economy, Mr Modi clearly seems to have overplayed his hand and questions are being asked over whether he can fulfil expectations. In June, the Economist said Mr Modi was \"not the radical reformer he is cracked up to be\". The magazine said he had few big ideas of his own - the GST, for example, had been initiated during the previous, Congress, regime.\n\nCritics say despite running India's most powerful government in recent history, he has achieved little in creating functioning markets for land and electricity, and reforming labour laws. On his politics, they say, Mr Modi appears to be hostage to the party's ideological fountainhead, the right-wing Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (National Volunteers' Organisation), known for what many say are visions of Hindu glory and achievement.\n\nEconomists such as Dr Chakravarty believe Mr Modi still has time to revive the economy by exploiting the buoyant stock market, which is flush with money from foreign institutional investors. Money could be raised by divesting stakes in state-run companies and used to recapitalise and clean up the ailing banks, so that they can begin lending again.\n\nAlso the rupee could be depreciated to boost exports, the GST simplified further to help small businesses and interest rates lowered to spur growth. Growth will also depend on social stability, but it is not clear whether Mr Modi will be able to rein in the radical hotheads.\n\nHowever, Mr Modi is a redoubtable fighter. It is too early to say the tide is turning against him decisively. One opinion poll in August indicated he would win handsomely if elections were held. But then again, a month can be a long time in politics. State elections in BJP-ruled Gujarat in December will offer some clues - a recent survey by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) suggested people were \"unhappy with GST\". Nobody expects the BJP to lose, but the margin of victory will be closely watched.\n\nAmong his supporters, Mr Modi enjoys a reputation of being a hardworking and honest prime minister. \"What has helped in stopping this wind of dissatisfaction from turning into a strong hurricane are two factors - the absence of a viable alternative, and the personal credibility of Mr Modi,\" says political scientist Sanjay Kumar.\n\n\"The only question that remains is: how long will Mr Modi be able to hold down this wave of resentment with his own image and credibility?\" And right now that answer is blowing in the wind.", "Editors offer a different view of the Brexit talks with their choice of photographs.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph's front page shows Theresa May, flanked on either side by Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron.\n\nThey face Mrs May with their hands cupped over their mouths. \"The whispering campaign,\" the paper calls it.\n\nA similar picture appears in the Times under the label \"crunch talks\".\n\nMany other papers show the three politicians all smiling. The Sun adds the caption \"Give me summit to work with\". The Daily Mail says: \"Merkel finally gives Theresa news to smile about\".\n\nIn the Guardian, the former Labour education minister, David Lammy, highlights his concerns about Oxbridge admissions and what he calls \"social apartheid\".\n\nThe paper reports that one in three Oxford Colleges didn't accept any black A-level students in 2015, and none was taken at six Cambridge colleges.\n\nMr Lammy notes that almost 400 black students got three As or more at A-level but few are attracted to Oxbridge. Both universities tell the paper they're working to improve the figures.\n\nThey are not the only institutions facing diversity issues. The Financial Times reports that MPs on the Treasury committee have warned that they could refuse to endorse high-level appointments at the Bank of England because there are too many white men.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson tells the Guardian the recruitment process is fair and open.\n\nResponding to Scotland's plan to ban smacking, the i reports that the UK's four children's commissioners want the other home nations to follow suit.\n\nThe Guardian says the case has also been made by the NSPCC. But the Sun says English MPs have vowed to resist such calls.\n\nScott Macnab suggests in the Scotsman that there's an \"enthusiasm among MSPs for imposing bans\" - \"from smacking to fracking\". He calls it \"worrying\" and a \"wider erosion of personal liberty\".\n\nThe increase in recorded crime is analysed by several papers. The Mirror headlines its report \"not safe on our streets,\" and calls it a \"damning indictment\" on Theresa May's policing cuts.\n\nThe paper urges her to recruit more officers. The Daily Mail says burglars get away with nine out of 10 break-ins.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph suggests the police have been \"side-tracked\" by \"other questionable priorities.\"\n\nAmong these it includes the investigation of thousands of historic sex allegations.\n\nIt also says counter-terrorism is stretching the Metropolitan Police. The paper proposes passing responsibility for terrorism to the National Crime Agency.\n\nBeseeching puppy eyes stare out of several papers to explain how, as the Guardian puts it, \"dogs turn on the charm for humans.\"\n\nResearchers suggest that dogs have learned that widening their eyes elicits sympathy and affection in humans.\n\nWhat they don't know, says the Daily Telegraph, is whether they aware that they look sad.\n\nThe i says it seems their expressions are doggy attempts to communicate. Although the paper says the scientists don't yet know if dogs can truly understand us or whether it's a learned response to seeing a face.", "An Atlantic storm, which is due to hit parts of the UK and the Republic of Ireland this weekend, has been named Brian, the Irish Met office has said.\n\nThe Met Office has issued a yellow warning for strong winds and potential flooding in parts of southern and western England and Wales on Saturday.\n\nMet Éireann issued an orange warning, of potentially \"significant\" impact, for parts of the Irish Republic.\n\nIt is the second named storm to hit the UK this winter, after Storm Aileen.\n\nThe storm - which could bring gusts of wind of up to 70mph (112kmph) - is likely to hit parts of south-west Ireland in the early hours of Saturday morning.\n\nIt is then forecast to affect parts of southern England and southern and western Wales later in the morning.\n\nThe Met Office's warning is in place from 04:00 BST (03:00 GMT) on Saturday.\n\nIt warned some coastal areas in the UK could be affected by large waves, with the potential for flooding.\n\nSome transport disruption was \"likely\", with delays to road, rail, air and ferry transport all possible, the warning added. Short term loss of power and other services is also possible, it said.\n\nThe Met Office's chief forecaster Dan Suri said the worst of the storm was likely to be felt in Ireland.\n\n\"At the moment, we don't expect the same level of impacts for the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"Gusts exceeding 50mph are expected widely within the warning area, with gusts of around 70mph along exposed coastal areas. These are expected to coincide with high tides, leading to locally dangerous conditions in coastal parts.\"\n\nThe Met Office said it currently has no plans to issue an amber warning for any part of the UK, but the situation was \"under continual review\".\n\nMet Éireann said there was a risk of coastal flooding in some areas of the Irish Republic.\n\nUnder storm naming guidelines, the Met Office and its partner agency Met Éireann name any storm with an amber - or orange - wind warning.\n\nA storm - the tail end of Hurricane Ophelia which travelled across the Atlantic Ocean from the Azores - caused significant damage to the Republic of Ireland, Scotland and north Wales last week.\n\nThe Met Office and Met Éireann do not rename the remnants of storms that have moved across the Atlantic, if they have already been named.\n\nOn Monday, three people in Ireland died in the storm. Thousands of people were also left without water and power.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Met has released CCTV footage of Henry Hicks\n\nFour Met officers have been cleared of gross misconduct over an 18-year-old man who died in a moped crash.\n\nHenry Hicks was fleeing officers in two unmarked cars when he died, an inquest jury found.\n\nPolice were following him at speeds of more than 50mph when he came off his moped in Islington, north London, in December 2014.\n\nA Met Police disciplinary panel ruled the four officers were not technically in a police pursuit at the time.\n\nHenry Hicks died after his moped collided with another vehicle on Wheelright Street in Islington\n\nFollowing the hearing Mr Hick's sister, Claudia Hicks, said: \"We are beyond disappointed by this ruling.\n\n\"We won't stop fighting for accountability for Henry's death. We miss him every day.\"\n\nThe Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) had previously recommended to the force the pursuit had been carried out without proper authorisation and the officers should face disciplinary proceedings.\n\nHowever, the panel ruled the accusations were not proven as they were not technically engaged in a pursuit, as defined by police rules.\n\nOfficers claimed they were travelling too far behind Mr Hicks for him to know he was being followed, even though they had turned on their blue lights and sirens.\n\nHenry Hicks died after he collided with another vehicle on Wheelwright Street in Islington\n\nUnder Met Police policy, the control room has to be immediately alerted to pursuits, which must be authorised in all but exceptional circumstances.\n\nMr Hicks died when his moped crashed into a minicab in Wheelwright Street, near to Pentonville prison.\n\nHe was found to be carrying seven bags of skunk cannabis and multiple phones.\n\nThe teenager had been stopped and searched at least 71 times between October 2011 and December 2014.\n\nDeborah Coles, director of Inquest - a charity which looks into deaths in custody - said the decision \"raised serious questions about the integrity of police misconduct hearings\".\n\n\"It is difficult to reconcile this outcome, reached after two days evidence of a police disciplinary panel, with the conclusions of an inquest jury after two weeks of evidence which came to the opposite conclusion,\" Ms Coles said.\n\nMet Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Richard Martin said: \"Every day in London we ask our officers to make difficult decisions in fast-moving situations.\n\n\"Policing is a job that people sign up to because they want to help the public.\"\n\nFollowing Mr Hicks' death the Met carried out a review of its pursuit policy, he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US illusionist David Blaine is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police over an alleged rape of a British former model in 2004.\n\nNatasha Prince, 34, claimed the US magician attacked her at a house in Chelsea, west London, when she was 21.\n\nPolice have asked Mr Blaine to travel to the UK for interview under caution, according to emails seen by the BBC.\n\nMr Blaine, 44, \"vehemently denies\" the allegations and will \"fully co-operate\" with a police inquiry, his lawyer said.\n\nIn an email to Ms Prince, the Met said officers had told Mr Blaine's lawyers that they were investigating a \"historic allegation of sexual assault made by a female in London\".\n\nThe allegation was reported to police in London in November 2016.\n\nMs Prince, who now works as an art dealer in New York, has waived her right to anonymity under sexual offences legislation to confirm she made the allegation.\n\nShe first made the claims public to US website the Daily Beast, saying: \"I think I tried really hard to block it out. But I carried this awful feeling with me.\"\n\nMr Blaine's lawyer, Marty Singer, denied all the allegations and told the website: \"My client vehemently denies that he raped or sexually assaulted any woman, ever, and he specifically denies raping a woman in 2004.\"\n\nHe said Mr Blaine will \"fully co-operate\" with any police investigation, saying he has \"nothing to hide\".\n\nThe Met's Child Abuse and Sexual Offences Command confirmed it was investigating an allegation of rape at an address in Chelsea in June or July 2004 of a woman aged 21.\n\nThe force said there had been no arrests and enquiries were ongoing.", "Coverage details: Ball-by-ball commentary of the series on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra; live text commentary on the Tests & T20s on the BBC Sport website and app\n\nEven when you have won the World Cup in the most-watched game of women's cricket of all time, finding somewhere to celebrate isn't as easy as you might think.\n\nYes, there was the emotion of family and friends joining the victorious England team on the Lord's outfield, and the singing of the team song in the dressing room was so loud it \"made the walls shake\".\n\nBut winning a World Cup on a Sunday is not ideal for finding a venue to keep the party going long into the night - the team's Kensington hotel had to be persuaded to reopen their bar when England returned.\n\nWhile they waited, some players ordered cheese toasties, while others visited the takeaway across the road.\n\nCaptain Heather Knight was laid low with food poisoning, while match-winner Anya Shrubsole purposely kept a clear head for the early morning media appointments the following day.\n\nLater on, a group who went looking for a nightclub - still wearing their kit - were left disappointed.\n\n\"It was Katherine Brunt's idea, but nowhere was open,\" said all-rounder Nat Sciver. \"We had a taxi ride around London, got back to the hotel and no-one was left in the bar, so we went to bed.\"\n\nThe enormity of what happened on that grey July day dawned on coach Mark Robinson before he left Lord's, when he saw BBC News at Ten broadcasting live from the Grace Gates.\n\nFor the rest of the team, it would be revealed over the days and weeks that followed, both publicly and privately.\n\nKnight saw pictures of herself on big screens as she passed through Euston Station. Jenny Gunn's welcome home was a banner on the front of her house. Shrubsole was guest of honour at her beloved Portsmouth. Danielle Wyatt paraded the trophy at Stoke City.\n\nTammy Beaumont, the player of the tournament, has since commentated on men's Twenty20 matches for Sky, while Knight temporarily lost the trophy when she appeared on BBC Test Match Special. The whole squad were invited to an NFL game at Wembley.\n\nFor spinner Alex Hartley, returning home to Manchester presented the unique challenge of keeping her medal from boyfriend and Lancashire wicketkeeper Alex Davies.\n\n\"After I got back, I had my medal on,\" she said. \"He took it off me and said, 'Right, that's enough now. It's my turn to wear it.' So he wore it for half the day. We shared it for a while. We're a bit sad like that.\"\n\nSciver's problems were more practical. The house that she co-owns with Brunt, nicknamed 'Alan' because of the road on which it sits, is no longer home to Sciver, Brunt, Fran Wilson, Beth Langston, Amy Jones and Bailey the dog.\n\nThey have all vacated, replaced by Loughborough students, with Wilson now living with Tash Farrant.\n\nSciver, Brunt, Langston and Jones have relocated to a temporary abode while they wait for another Sciver-Brunt property to have an extension built. The result has been two house-moves in three months.\n\n\"Our time spent at home after the World Cup was actually time spent moving out,\" said Sciver.\n\n\"Hopefully the new house will be ready when we get back from the Ashes. We're missing the stressful part of the extension being built - Katherine's dad is being the project manager.\"\n\nBusy with multiple moves, Sciver was not even aware of her place on the Cricketer magazine's list of the 50 most powerful people in English cricket - she came in at 48th, with Knight 33rd.\n\n\"I haven't had a lot of time to look at things like that,\" she said. \"I don't think it will give me any more influence, or let me skip ahead in the queue for the bathroom.\"\n\nPowerful or not, Sciver says she has only been recognised away from cricket once, and that was standing outside her front door: \"We have to be careful not to make too much noise, because now the new neighbours know who we are.\"\n\nFor Hartley, being recognised at Old Trafford is not unusual. Being proposed to is.\n\n\"I was walking out after a Super League game, putting some stuff in the car, and I got shouted at by a group from a cricket club.\n\n\"One minute I was having a selfie with one of them, the next I was having a picture with the whole team. One of them proposed to me. It was a surreal moment.\"\n\nWith the Super League beginning little more than two weeks after the World Cup was won, the squad disbanded to their domestic teams and only reunited at the end of August for a trip to Downing Street to meet Prime Minister Theresa May.\n\n\"I had to back the more politically left-wing in the group to keep their opinions to themselves,\" said Robinson.\n\n\"Ali Maiden, the assistant coach, was convinced he could sort Brexit out given half an hour with the PM, but he never got his opportunity.\n\n\"The biggest problem was getting everyone in there and making sure they all had the right outfit on. Jenny Gunn put the wrong suit on and was a bit embarrassed.\"\n\nGunn actually had two suits with her in London, neither of which were right. That, though, wasn't the only problem with the team's outfits, as the prime minister would learn.\n\n\"We were all wearing heels and were in the garden, sinking into the ground. Once you were in one position you couldn't move off too quickly,\" said Sciver.\n\nHartley added: \"There was a photo of me pointing at the prime minister's shoes because she had leopard-print flats. She knew what she was doing. I was telling her that her lawn isn't practical for heels.\n\n\"Apart from that, we were all on our best behaviour. No-one did a Matthew Hoggard.\n\n\"When I got inside I took my shoes off to feel what the carpet was like. It wasn't that soft. I was quite disappointed.\"\n\n'People first and cricketers second'\n\nRobinson admits the increased attention and demands on their time has \"hit the players like a hurricane\". When they met up to begin their preparations for the Ashes, which begin on Sunday, he said he found them to be \"jaded, not as fresh as we would like them to be\".\n\nBefore that World Cup win - the moment that changed their lives if not forever, then certainly for the foreseeable future - Robinson described his players as \"lovely\".\n\nHas success, the limelight and adulation had an effect?\n\n\"They are definitely still the same people,\" he says. \"They know that, as a team, they are not yet where they want to be, so we will make sure we keep striving.\n\n\"We wanted to win the World Cup and we want to win the Ashes, but it is not the be-all and end-all. Winning is the best feeling in the world, and you're a mug if you don't want that feeling, but winning does not define us.\n\n\"They are people first and cricketers second.\"\n\nPeople first, cricketers second. Always World Cup winners.", "Brian Thompson had previously said he wanted to know whether he was doing anything illegal\n\nA trader who sold TV boxes which allowed viewers to watch subscription films and football for free has been given a suspended jail term.\n\nBrian Thompson had denied breaking the law by selling the Kodi boxes, setting up the prospect of a landmark trial.\n\nBut appearing at Teesside Crown Court he changed his plea to guilty.\n\nThe 55-year-old, who runs Cut Price Tomo's TV store in Middlesbrough, was given an 18-month prison sentence, suspended for two years.\n\nThompson, of Barnaby Avenue, Middlesbrough, admitted one count of selling and one count of advertising devices \"designed, produced or adapted for the purpose of enabling or facilitating the circumvention of effective technological measures\".\n\nThe court heard Thompson had been selling \"fully loaded\" Kodi boxes - ones that had been installed with third-party add-ons that can access pirated content.\n\nHe had previously claimed the law was a \"grey area\" and said he wanted to know whether he was \"doing anything illegal\".\n\nThompson had sold an estimated 400 boxes, earning him about £40,000, and losses to Sky were an estimated £200,000 in subscriptions, the court heard.\n\nJudge Peter Armstrong said there could be no doubt now about the legality of the fully loaded boxes.\n\n\"Those who lawfully have to pay £50 a month or more on Sky or BT subscriptions, are done a disservice by people like you and those who buy these devices,\" he said.\n\nHe said he was suspending Thompson's jail sentence but others in the future may not be so fortunate.\n\nCameron Crowe, prosecuting, said streaming devices were not illegal if they were used to access free content.\n\nBut he added: \"If they are designed, produced or adapted for gaining unauthorised access to copyright content or subscription services - such as Sky and BT Sports - they become illegal.\"\n\nSome shops sell ready-to-use set-top boxes or television sticks preloaded with the Kodi software.\n\nThe developers behind Kodi say their software does not contain any content of its own and is designed to play legally owned media or content \"freely available\" on the internet.\n\nHowever the software can be modified with third-party add-ons that provide access to illegal copies of films and TV series, or provide free access to subscription television channels.\n\nSome traders sell Kodi boxes preloaded with third-party add-ons that can access pirated content. It is the sale of these \"fully-loaded\" boxes which was the subject of the case against Mr Thompson.\n\nTrading Standards officers made a test purchase from Thompson's Dundas shopping centre outlet in 2015 and a raid was carried out.\n\nHe moved premises after the raid and advertised on Facebook claiming to have \"every film and box set ever made, even ones at the cinema\".\n\nPaul Fleming, defending, said his client was a hard worker who had succeeded and failed in businesses over the years.\n\nKieron Sharp, the chief executive of Fact (formerly the Federation Against Copyright Theft), said one million illegal Kodi TV boxes had been sold in the UK in the past two years.\n\nHe said the perpetrators were not \"Robin Hood characters\", but criminals.\n\n\"Selling pre-configured streaming devices that allow access to content you normally would have to pay for is illegal,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "So it's come down to money. Who would have thought it?\n\nAfter five rounds of negotiations on Brexit, the EU remains insistent: there will be no discussions with the UK on a transition period, or on future relations, until financial commitments have been clarified.\n\nSo what exactly is it about the money that is proving so difficult to resolve?\n\nIt comes down to the detail (or lack of it) contained in Theresa May's carefully crafted speech in Florence.\n\nOverall, the speech was greeted across the EU with a considerable sense of relief. It suggested that progress was at least possible at a time when some countries were beginning to fear the worst.\n\nThe prime minister opened the door for the UK to contribute roughly €20bn (£17.9bn) to the EU budget in 2019 and 2020, so that no-one else would be out of pocket.\n\nAnd - crucially - she went on to say that \"the UK will honour commitments we have made during the period of our membership\".\n\nBut EU negotiators - under clear instructions from the member states - want to know exactly what that means in practice.\n\nThe prime minister said the UK would \"honour commitments\"\n\nLooming large in the background is something called the Reste à Liquider (RAL) - EU money that has already been committed to projects in the long-term budget but has not yet been spent.\n\nThe RAL is currently running at an eye-watering €239bn, which could mean a UK share of more than €30bn.\n\nMuch of it is due to be spent on big infrastructure or development projects that have been delayed. There are also pensions and contingent liabilities, such as loans to other countries, to consider.\n\nThe EU isn't asking for a figure to be agreed - but for a guarantee within the negotiating process, probably in writing, that \"honouring commitments\" means \"all commitments.\"\n\nThe UK position, on the other hand, is that the prime minister made a substantial gesture in her Florence speech, and it is in no position to move further unless it gets something in return.\n\n\"They are using time pressure to get more money out of us,\" the Brexit Secretary David Davis told the House of Commons this week. \"Bluntly, that is what's going on.\"\n\nIt sounds like deadlock, but that's not necessarily the case. Three more rounds of negotiation have been suggested between this week's summit and another one in December.\n\nThe hope is that a way will be found to move forward, even if it takes a moment of crisis to get there.\n\n\"The EU27 don't believe the UK is too far off 'sufficient progress',\" says Mujtaba Rahman, the managing director for Europe at the political consultancy Eurasia Group.\n\n\"They want Mrs May to be able to leave Brussels with a win that will enable her to strike a deal by December.\"\n\nThat's why both sides have said they want to accelerate the negotiating process, and prepare for discussions about the future.\n\nIf the language of the current draft of the summit's conclusions doesn't change much, the EU27 will agree to begin internal discussions about a transition period and the nature of a future relationship.\n\nThey won't talk directly to the UK about these issues until December at the earliest. And only then if \"sufficient progress\" has been made on all the \"divorce\" arrangements, including money.\n\nIt doesn't sound like much. But it's a start, and it is seen in Brussels as a carrot for the UK negotiating team.\n\nSo what might the EU be likely to decide in internal discussions over the coming weeks?\n\nFor EU officials involved in the negotiating process one thing about transition is clear: the more you keep things the same, the easier it will be to agree.\n\nThat's why the internal deliberations among the 27 on transition could be concluded very quickly. They will probably offer to prolong all existing EU rules and regulations (the body of law known as 'the acquis') - or, to put it another way - to extend the status quo.\n\nThat means that after Brexit - for \"about two years\" (ie for the length of a transition period) - the UK would be outside the EU's political institutions, but inside its economic arrangements.\n\nIt also means the UK would have to accept EU budget payments, EU regulations and the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nTo put it in the formal language of the European Council's Article 50 negotiating guidelines: \"Should a time-limited prolongation of Union acquis be considered, this would require existing Union regulatory, budgetary, supervisory, judiciary and enforcement instruments and structures to apply.\"\n\nThe details of what that means are difficult for some Brexit supporters in the UK to stomach. But the prime minister, in her Florence speech, has already accepted that the framework for any transition (she prefers to call it an implementation period) would be \"the existing structure of EU rules and regulations\".\n\nProblems would arise, however, if the UK tried to argue for exemptions or exceptions. Take, for example, one idea that has been floated (forgive the pun): leaving the Common Fisheries Policy at the same time as the UK leaves the EU in March 2019.\n\nThat doesn't really tally with the kind of transition that EU officials have in mind. Once you start unpicking the offer, all sorts of complications begin to arise. So it's not quite take it or leave it. But it's not far off.\n\nUnpicking the agreement, such as leaving the Common Fisheries Policy, could lead to further complications\n\nThere are other potential problems with a transition period that will need to be resolved. What, for example, does it mean for trade agreements with third countries, when it makes a difference whether products (or parts of products) are manufactured in the single market or not?\n\nBut agreeing upon the terms of a transition will be much easier for the EU27 than agreeing on the outline of a final deal - on everything from trade to security. The 27 member states are a little more nervous about those discussions because differences of opinion are bound to emerge between them.\n\nMany countries have obviously been thinking hard about this already. One internal German government paper has been reported here.\n\nBut there is another issue that overshadows debate about Brexit in capitals across the EU - what exactly is it that the UK wants? Every change of emphasis in London adds to the confusion.\n\nAs Finland's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Samuli Virtanen, put it this week: \"It seems that at the moment the EU 27 is more unanimous than the UK 1. And that is one of the main problems here.\"\n\nBut it all rests on finding a compromise on money. And that really has to happen before the end of this year. Otherwise time is going to start running out.", "Prince Charles has been meeting people impacted by August's floods in Northern Ireland\n\nThe mayor of Derry has refused to meet Prince Charles, who is visiting flood victims in the north west.\n\nSinn Féin's Maolíosa McHugh said he would not meet the Prince due to his role as Colonel-in-Chief of the Parachute Regiment.\n\nFourteen people were killed on Bloody Sunday when British paratroopers opened fire on a civil rights march through the city in January 1972.\n\nMr McHugh said meeting the Prince would be \"premature\".\n\nMaolíosa McHugh said meeting the Prince would be 'premature'\n\nPrince Charles arrived in County Londonderry earlier to visit communities affected by August's flooding.\n\nMr McHugh said: \"Today's visit to Derry by Prince Charles is difficult for many families in the city, given his ongoing role as Colonel-in-Chief of the Parachute Regiment.\n\n\"While I have supported meetings between Sinn Féin and members of the British Royal family, I believe that meeting him in Derry is premature given the ongoing and unresolved sensitivities around the legacy of the massacre carried out by that Regiment.\"\n\nThe DUP's East Londonderry MP, Gregory Campbell, of \"retreating to the comfort of backwoods republicanism\".\n\nHe added: \"We hear a great deal from republicans about respect and criticisms of unionism for not reaching out to recognise other cultures and traditions.\n\n\"It is clear, however, that Maoliosa McHugh does not believe such responsibilities extend to him.\"\n\nPrince Charles began his visit in Eglinton, where he met residents who had been forced out of their homes.\n\nHe also met farmers and business owners affected by the flooding.\n\nThe Prince is also due to visit Drumahoe, an area also badly impacted by the flooding and meet with representatives from the emergency services.\n\nAlmost two-thirds of the region's average monthly rain fell in a single night on 22 August.", "Jayson Lobo was found guilty of 11 counts of voyeurism\n\nAn ex-police officer who secretly filmed sexual encounters with seven women on his mobile phone has been jailed for three years.\n\nJayson Lobo, 48, formerly of Lancashire Police, met most of his victims on a dating website between 2011 and 2015.\n\nSentencing him at Liverpool Crown Court, Judge Neil Flewitt QC said his deceit was \"staggering\".\n\nThe former Commonwealth Games runner was found guilty of 11 counts of voyeurism following a trial.\n\nHe denied all the charges and was cleared of seven counts of the same offence, including one count relating to an eighth woman.\n\nLobo was caught when one of his victims found out he had a long-term partner during their relationship.\n\nShe had earlier caught him filming her as they had sex but he had promised he would delete it.\n\nLobo, of Mellor, Blackburn, was arrested after the woman made a complaint to police and had his phones seized which revealed the full extent of his offending.\n\nJudge Flewitt QC said he had used the women to satisfy his sexual appetite and it was \"a calculated and selfish course of conduct, pursued without regard for the feelings of those women concerned\".\n\nThe Preston-based response officer was suspended from the force after his arrest in December 2015.\n\nLobo was then sacked for gross misconduct relating to a separate matter in August last year, after a hearing found he had shared details and images from police incidents.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Quentin Tarantino has worked closely with Harvey Weinstein on many of his films\n\nUS film director Quentin Tarantino has admitted knowing for years about movie mogul Harvey Weinstein's alleged misconduct toward women.\n\n\"I knew enough to do more than I did,\" Mr Tarantino told the New York Times.\n\nHis comments come as Los Angeles police are investigating Mr Weinstein over a suspected sexual assault in 2013.\n\nThe producer already faces allegations of sexual misconduct and assault from dozens of women. He has \"unequivocally\" denied having \"non-consensual sex\".\n\n\"There was more to it than just the normal rumours, the normal gossip. It wasn't second-hand. I knew he did a couple of these things,\" Mr Tarantino said in an interview with the US newspaper.\n\n\"I wish I had taken responsibility for what I heard. If I had done the work I should have done then, I would have had to not work with him.\"\n\nWeinstein was one of Hollywood's top producers\n\nThe Hollywood director has worked closely with Mr Weinstein on many of his films, including Django Unchained and Inglorious Basterds.\n\nMeanwhile, Los Angeles police announced its first investigation involving Mr Weinstein in California.\n\n\"The Los Angeles Police Department's Robbery Homicide Division has interviewed a potential sexual assault victim involving Harvey Weinstein which allegedly occurred in 2013,\" LAPD spokesman Sal Ramirez told the BBC.\n\n\"The case is under investigation. There is no more information at this time.\"\n\nIt falls within California's 10-year statute of limitations for the crime of rape, and could lead to a trial if prosecutors decide they have enough evidence to support a case against the filmmaker.\n\nThe alleged victim is a 38-year-old Italian model and actress, according to US media outlets.\n\nShe is reported to have met detectives this week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On some red carpets, Harvey Weinstein is not a welcome subject\n\nSeparate investigations into Harvey Weinstein are already under way in New York and London.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Hanks: \"Everybody has stories about some aspect of the so called casting couch\"\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the film star Tom Hanks said he believed there was now no way back for Mr Weinstein.\n\n\"We're at a watershed moment, this is a sea change,\" Mr Hanks told the BBC\n\n\"His last name will become a noun and a verb. It will become an identifying moniker for a state of being for which there was a before and an after.\"\n\nMr Hanks, who is on the board of the organisation behind the Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, said he could not comment on the recent decision to expel Mr Weinstein as a member.\n\nMr Weinstein also left the board of The Weinstein Company earlier this month.\n\nHe has admitted his behaviour has \"caused a lot of pain\" - but has described many of the allegations against him as \"patently false\".\n\nHis spokesperson has said that \"any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied\" and that there were \"never any acts of retaliation\" against women who turned him down.\n\nSome of the accusers (L to R): Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Cara Delevingne, Lea Seydoux, Rosanna Arquette, Mira Sorvino\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MP Ian Lavery received £165,000 from the 10-member trade union he ran.\n\nWe have learned this from the trade union regulator which has now released a report into Mr Lavery's actions as general secretary of the NUM Northumberland Area.\n\nHe will now face questions on his record over a number of disputed payments by the union he ran.\n\nMr Lavery, who is the chairman of the Labour Party, denies any wrongdoing.\n\nIan Lavery is a coming power in the land, Jeremy Corbyn's general election joint co-ordinator and chairman of the Labour Party. If the Conservatives fall, he's most likely destined for high office. But, perhaps, for one thing: his refusal to answer a simple question asked by BBC Newsnight last year: \"Did you pay off the mortgage?\" BBC Newsnight asked him nine times without getting a reply.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe answer, it turns out, is no. He didn't pay off his mortgage. The union of which he was general secretary for 18 years, the NUM Northumberland Area, paid it off and paid him much more besides.\n\nLast year, both Jeremy Corbyn and the parliamentary watchdog cleared Mr Lavery. He denies any wrongdoing.\n\nThe reason we know more about Mr Lavery's peculiar mortgage arrangements is because the trade union regulator, the Certification Officer, Gerard Walker, examined the books after investigations by BBC Newsnight and the Sunday Times. Mr Lavery ran the NUM Northumberland Area for 18 years until he stepped down in 2010 to become the MP for Wansbeck.\n\nThe regulator's findings are available online.\n\nThe regulator found that that the Northumberland Provident and Benevolent fund had lent Mr Lavery £72,500 to buy a house in 1994. 13 years on, the union Mr Lavery was then running forgave the loan to Mr Lavery. So he was £72,500 the richer.\n\nBut there's more. He'd been paying into an endowment fund to pay back the capital cost of the house. It had underperformed, but it still paid out £18,000. The regulator found Mr Lavery kept that too.\n\nThe regulator found that in 2005, Mr Lavery sold a 15% stake in his house to the Union for £36,000. In 2013 the house was worth less, so he bought it back from the union for £27,500 - a notional profit of £8,500.\n\nAnd then there's Mr Lavery's \"termination payments\", totalling £89,887.83. However, that total is a matter of some dispute between him and the union.\n\nThe regulator says that neither Mr Lavery nor the union could provide documentary evidence of the process or the decision by which Mr Lavery was made redundant - or why, given he was leaving for a job as an MP, he needed any redundancy payments at all.\n\nAdding £89,887 he received for his undocumented redundancy package to the £72,500 for the forgiven house loan to the £18,000 he was gifted from his endowment, that totals £180,387.\n\nBut, then, it seems Mr Lavery and his old union fell out. The union recently realised it had overpaid Mr Lavery's redundancy by £30,600. The regulator's report shows that the union asked for it back. Mr Lavery disputed £10,600 of it - and said he'd only give them £15,000. When the regulator asked the union why they settled for this, they simply replied that they were mindful of Mr Lavery disputing it and the potential legal costs:\n\n\"Mr. Lavery was adamant that £15,000 was his final offer, we were left with little choice but to accept.\"\n\nSo our running total of dosh from the union to its one-time general secretary is reduced by £15,000 to £165,387. That's a bob or two in anyone's language.\n\nA year ago, when we started questioning Mr Lavery on this matter, Jeremy Corbyn gave him the benefit of the doubt and the Parliamentary commissioner cleared him of wrongdoing, which he has always denied. Since then, Mr Lavery has risen in Labour's ranks to be one of the Labour leader's closest and most trusted lieutenants.\n\nNow that we know just how much money he got from the trade union he used to run, it's fair to ask whether this man is a fit and proper person to be chairman of the Labour Party.\n\n\"Under my stewardship, the union always complied with the rules and the Certification Officer signed off every year's transactions. As the Certification Officer's report makes clear, no member of the union, past or present, has made a complaint about the financial affairs of the union. I am pleased that the Certification Officer has decided to not appoint an inspector or take further action.\n\n\"This report should draw a line under almost two years of allegations and innuendo directed at me and my former colleagues. Our legacy is helping miners and their families when others abandoned them, bringing millions of pounds of compensation into the Northumberland Coalfield. I remain immensely proud of our record.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Neither Barack Obama nor George W Bush mentioned President Donald Trump by name\n\nFormer Presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush have voiced concern about the current political climate in the US, in comments seen as a veiled rebuke of Donald Trump's leadership.\n\nMr Obama urged Americans to reject the politics of \"division\" and \"fear\", while Mr Bush criticised \"bullying and prejudice\" in public life.\n\nThey were speaking separately. Neither mentioned President Trump by name.\n\nMr Trump, who has been critical of his two predecessors, is yet to comment.\n\nEx-presidents traditionally shy away from commenting publicly on their successors, and Mr Obama said on leaving office he would extend that courtesy for a time to Mr Trump, as George W Bush had to him.\n\nHe has broken his silence since to issue statements on Mr Trump's efforts to dismantle Obamacare, as well as his controversial \"Muslim ban\" and decision to abandon the Paris climate accord.\n\nSpeaking at a Democratic campaign event in Newark, New Jersey, Mr Obama said Americans should \"send a message to the world that we are rejecting a politics of division, we are rejecting a politics of fear\".\n\nHe added: \"What we can't have is the same old politics of division that we have seen so many times before that dates back centuries.\n\n\"Some of the politics we see now, we thought we put that to bed. That's folks looking 50 years back. It's the 21st Century, not the 19th Century. Come on!\"\n\nHe touched on similar themes at another event later in Richmond, Virginia, saying: \"We've got folks who are deliberately trying to make folks angry, to demonise people who have different ideas, to get the base all riled up because it provides a short-term tactical advantage.\"\n\nSpeaking just hours earlier in New York, Mr Bush said: \"Bigotry seems emboldened. Our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication.\n\n\"There are some signs that the intensity of support for democracy itself has waned - especially among the young.\"\n\nAmericans, he said, have \"seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty\".\n\n\"At times it can seem like the forces pulling us apart are stronger than the forces binding us together.\n\n\"We've seen nationalism distorted into nativism, forgotten the dynamism that immigration has always brought to America.\"\n\nPresident Trump has in the past criticised both Mr Obama and Mr Bush\n\nBoth former presidents have until now largely avoided commenting publicly on Mr Trump's policies.\n\nBefore his election last year, Mr Trump was highly critical of both Mr Obama and Mr Bush, describing each of them at one time or another as \"perhaps the worst president in the history\" of the US.\n\nSince his inauguration in January, Mr Trump's combative style and direct public comments on a number of key issues have caused controversy both among Democrats and Republicans.\n\nHe has regularly blamed the media, which he says do not focus on his achievements and instead choose to concentrate on what he describes as \"fake news\".\n\nPresident Barack Obama still knows how to draw a crowd - and they queued round the block for hours to see him speak.\n\nIf they were hoping for head-on attacks on Donald Trump, they were to be disappointed.\n\nHowever, the criticisms when they came were scarcely veiled - with talk of pandering to the extremes and sowing divisiveness.\n\nThe speech followed a much more full-frontal attack on the current political situation by former Republican President George W Bush.\n\nHe talked about bigotry and falsehood threatening American democracy - while celebrating immigration and arguing for a more open trade policy.\n\nThese attacks certainly aren't co-ordinated - but they do demonstrate just how widely concerns about the current president are shared.", "Marina Titova lays a carnation in memory of her great-great-uncle who died on Mudyug\n\nWhen British soldiers were sent to Russia after the Russian Revolution their main enemies were the Germans - their opponents in World War One - but they also found themselves fighting and imprisoning Bolsheviks. In the process they opened what Russians regard as the first concentration camp in their country.\n\nThe boat sails down the River Dvina past onion-domed churches, lumber yards and logs floating in the water. Finally it reaches the open sea and an hour later a brown smudge appears on the horizon.\n\nGetting closer, I can make out a lighthouse and a few radio towers. As my companions and I jump off the boat and walk along a deserted beach a pack of dogs surrounds us, barking furiously. They are not used to visitors. The only people who live on this remote spot today are border guards and a couple of meteorologists.\n\nBack in the Soviet era, boatloads of day trippers came to the island of Mudyug to visit a museum. It was located among the remains of a prison camp - one very different from the scores of old Gulag outposts scattered across the Russian north and Siberia. For one thing, it was set up as far back as 1918. Even more remarkably, the people in charge were were British and French.\n\nMy colleague Natalia Golysheva, who grew up in the regional capital, Arkhangelsk - Archangel as it used to be known in English - says the place had a fearsome reputation. Locals called it Death Island.\n\n\"When I was little, people said if you don't behave, the Whites will come and take you to Mudyug,\" she says. \"I didn't understand but when I tried to ask questions - 'What is Mudyug? Who are the Whites?' - my grandmother just said shush and turned her face away, meaning the conversation was over.\"\n\nThe Whites were the anti-Bolshevik forces that emerged after the October Revolution in 1917. They got the name from the cream-coloured uniforms worn by higher ranks in the Tsarist army. Some were reactionary military officers who wanted to bring back the monarchy, others were moderate socialists, reformers, tradesmen, fishermen or peasants.\n\nWhen the Bolsheviks seized power in the autumn of 1917, Russia was still fighting in World War One, allied with Britain, France and the US against the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary and their Ottoman allies.\n\nHowever, Lenin had come to power promising supporters not only bread to eat and a share of the aristocrats' land, but also peace. When he signed a peace treaty with Germany, Western governments acted rapidly to re-open this eastern front.\n\nBritish and French troops lining up in Arkhangelsk in 1919\n\nWithin months, tens of thousands of soldiers from Britain, the United States, France, Canada, Australia and other countries were ordered to Russia in what became known as the Allied Intervention. Some went to the south and far east of Russia and 14,000 troops under British command were sent to Arkhangelsk, near the Arctic Circle. The men were told their mission was to protect military stores and stop Germany from establishing a submarine base.\n\nBut the foreign troops also took the side of the Whites in Russia's nascent Civil War. Some European politicians, such as Winston Churchill, worried about Communism spreading across Europe.\n\nSoon after the Allies docked in Arkhangelsk on 2 August 1918, they began locking people up. \"They didn't know who to trust or the difference between the Reds and Whites - so they decided to incarcerate anyone who seemed suspect,\" says Liudmila Novikova, a Moscow-based historian who has become an expert on the post-revolutionary period in the Russian north.\n\nSince the main prison in the town was overcrowded, potential troublemakers were shipped to the island of Mudyug, 70km (45 miles) away. The first batch of inmates had to build their own prison camp in this desolate, windswept place.\n\nBolshevik prisoners in the prison camp on Mudyug island\n\nWe walk along the beach past a rickety watchtower before taking a path through a pine forest. It leads to some wooden barracks with rusty barbed wire on the windows.\n\nThe door opens with a creak and we are inside a long dormitory with hundreds of beds, divided by panels of wood. Each seems as narrow as a coffin.\n\nMarina Titova, a young museum guide from Arkhangelsk who has joined us on the trip, sits on one of the beds, lost in thought.\n\nHer great-great-uncle Fyodor Oparin, a roofer, had been at the front fighting the Germans in World War One. He was only briefly reunited with his wife and small daughter before he was arrested and sent to Mudyug, accused of recruiting the men in his village into the Red Army.\n\nWith few washing facilities and no change of clothes, inmates soon became infested with lice. Typhus spread like wildfire. Overall, about 1,000 people were imprisoned here and up to 300 died - either as a result of disease, or because they were shot or tortured to death.\n\nWhen we visit it is a muggy summer afternoon and the air is thick with midges. I dread to think what it would be like here during an Arctic winter when temperatures can reach -30C (-22F). Signs from the now abandoned museum point out the \"ice cells\", left open to the elements, where rebellious prisoners were punished and either perished or lost limbs to frostbite.\n\nPavel Rasskazov, a radical journalist, spent several months on Mudyug. In his Prison Memoirs, which became a well-known and much-studied text in the Soviet era, he documented the appalling conditions and the lack of food.\n\nHe describes how, when dried bread was distributed in the morning, \"starving, angry men with greedy eyes crawled all over the filthy, damp floor, full of spit, picking up each and every crumb\".\n\nRasskazov managed to survive this place, unlike Marina's relative, Fyodor Oparin. According to one account, he tried to escape but was too weak to move fast and was shot as he ran. In another version of events, he was caught and executed the following day, along with 13 other prisoners.\n\nUnder some fir trees Marina has found a commemorative plaque to the men killed trying to escape. As she places two red carnations on the crumbling stone, a cloud of mist swirls through the trees and a soft rain falls.\n\n\"Perhaps it was just a coincidence,\" she says later. \"But it seemed like a greeting from the past, and maybe those prisoners who suffered here, who tried to survive, could see that they were being remembered.\"\n\nIn Soviet times these men were remembered more often. On a small hill by the camp, there is a 25m-high obelisk adorned with a red star and hammer and sickle. Some chunks of granite have fallen off but you can still read the inscription which says it was built \"in honour of patriots tortured to death by the Interventionists\".\n\n\"This monument could be seen by all the ships sailing past,\" says historian Liudmila Novikova. \"Foreign sailors who came to Arkhangelsk were often taken to Mudyug to remind them of all the atrocities their fellow countrymen and governments committed here.\"\n\nSchoolchildren and factory workers also came on visits.\n\nNear the monument, we find a run-down hall with dusty glass cases, peeling red posters on the walls and photographs of the \"martyrs who gave their lives for the Revolution\" or died here on the island, which is described in the inscriptions as a concentration camp.\n\nThere are pictures of Gen Edmund Ironside, the British commander of all the Allied troops in the region. Novikova says he would have known what was happening on the island even if he never visited.\n\nThis is confirmed by an entry in the leather-bound notebooks he kept in Russia, now in the possession of his 93-year-old son.\n\n\"Scurvy seems to be beginning among the Russian prisoners on Mudyug Island… and as it is a difficult place to get to, rations have been pinched,\" the general writes.\n\nIf the British established the camp and some of those in charge were French, many guards seem to have been local men. \"We cannot have a scandalous camp,\" he writes. \"I am responsible that the Russians treat their people well. I am always after them over the state of the prison.\"\n\nBut Novikova says improving conditions on Mudyug was hardly a priority for Ironside. \"For him it was just a necessary security measure, and after all people were fighting and dying every day on all the fronts. So if prisoners in the rear were dying from bad conditions, that was just a drop in the ocean of suffering here.\"\n\nThe treatment of prisoners on Mudyug horrified one man who would later play a devastating role in northern Russia. A prominent Bolshevik close to Lenin, Mikhail Kedrov, was sent to Arkhangelsk after the October revolution and later became became a fanatical regional head of the Cheka - the secret police.\n\nAlexander Orlov, a fellow Chekist who later defected to Canada, recalls Kedrov as a tall handsome man with ragged black hair. He writes that his eyes were often \"gleaming like burning coal… possibly these were the sparks of madness\".\n\nSoviet citizens were encouraged to visit the Mudyug prison camp\n\nWhile the Red Terror was not mentioned in the USSR for decades, the crimes of the White forces were endlessly listed in official propaganda. Atrocities were committed on both sides, says historian Liudmila Novikova, but the scale was different.\n\n\"The Whites and Allies who supported them were mainly pragmatic. They wanted to kill those who undermined their effort, troops who rebelled or members of the Bolshevik underground - they didn't care about eliminating their enemies totally. It was quite different on Red side because they were waging a war against the old regime - the bourgeoisie, Tsarist officers and whole classes were perceived as enemies who had to be liquidated,\" she says.\n\nLucy Ash tells the story of the forgotten war fought by Western troops in Arctic Russia in The Red and the White, on the BBC World Service\n\nClick here for transmission times, or to listen online\n\nMikhail Kedrov set up a number of death camps in the North, including the first one of its kind, in Kholmogory, an hour's drive from Arkhangelsk.\n\nSomewhere between 3,000 and 8,000 people were imprisoned and killed at a 17th Century convent. Many were White Army officers and sailors from the Kronstadt naval fortress near Finland who had rebelled against the Bolsheviks. But others had nothing to do with the military. Some were clergy, some were ordinary people who for some reason had been labelled \"counter-revolutionaries\".\n\nAt Kholmogory, where much of the convent is now held up by scaffolding and wrapped in corrugated iron, I met Elena, a parishioner who sings in the convent choir. She says people in the area sometimes find skulls when they dig pits to store potatoes over the winter.\n\nElena says the priest and volunteers collected some human remains in sacks and buried them under a marble cross on one side of the Cathedral of the Transfiguration. Each year they sing a requiem for those who died.\n\nIt's hard to pinpoint but there is an oppressive atmosphere which clings to this place, like the cold to the refectory walls when Elena invites us inside for a cup of tea.\n\nLocals use the path through the garden as a shortcut across the town but Elena says few know - or care - about Kholmogory's terrible history.\n\nDoes she believe the Allied Intervention was the catalyst for Russia's devastating civil war, as Lenin and others have often claimed?\n\n\"I remember in my childhood hearing stories from my granny,\" she says. \"I was a Young Pioneer and I told her the Reds were good and the Whites were bad and the Intervention troops were bad. And my granny said 'What are you talking about? The English came to our village, they brought us white flour, they gave the children sweets.' And I said: 'Granny - that is impossible they are our enemies!'\"\n\nElena shakes her head. \"They were not our enemies and to say they were responsible for the civil war is wrong. Of course not! We had enough of our own scoundrels without the intervention troops.\"\n\nThe radical journalist, Pavel Rasskazov, who documented his ordeal on Mudyug island, describes a French-Russian officer and former businessman from Moscow, a man \"of medium height, stout, with a round, flabby face, like a bulldog\".\n\nErnest Beaux was actually a perfumer who concocted scents for the tsar's family - such as the \"Bouquet de Napoleon\". But in 1918 he was working as a counter-intelligence officer on Mudyug, interrogating Bolsheviks captured by the White Russian and Allied armies.\n\nBy the end of the year, Beaux had emigrated to France, where a cousin of Nicholas II introduced him to the couturier, Coco Chanel. He has gone down in history as the man who invented Chanel No5. According to some accounts he wanted to capture the essence of snow melting on black earth and as inspired by his time in the \"land of the midnight sun\" - the Russian Arctic.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "The government thinks mobile operators need to inform customers once the handset is paid off\n\nVodafone, EE and Three are continuing to charge customers for the mobile phones they buy as part of a contract, even after the cost of the handset has been paid off, research suggests.\n\nCitizens Advice found that customers who do not take out a new contract are paying an average £22 extra a month.\n\nThe government said the mobile firms needed to inform customers when they had paid for their handsets.\n\nThe operators said that their billing systems were fair.\n\nMinister for Digital Matt Hancock said: \"It's only right that mobile customers should be notified when they have paid off the price of their handset, and that their future bills should reflect this.\n\n\"I welcome Citizens Advice's call for better billing information for consumers, and hope that providers will now take the initiative by clearly separating the cost of handsets and tariffs in mobile contracts.\"\n\nVodafone told the BBC it strives to give customers \"the price plan that best suits them\".\n\nWho's affected and what can you do?\n\n\"Wherever possible, we contact customers nearing the end of their contract to offer them a range of options. These include being able to upgrade their handset, receiving an extra allowance to enhance their existing plan or, if they choose, a sim-only plan,\" the firm said in a statement.\n\nThree said: \"Whenever a new customer signs with us, we make the end-date of the contract term very clear. We also let them know that they can contact us at any time to discuss the range of options available should they wish to change their plan with us.\"\n\nAnd EE commented: \"Separating phone and tariff doesn't always represent the best deal for consumers, it can sometimes result in them paying more.\"\n\nO2 does separate airtime and device costs and chief marketing officer Nina Bibby said: \"Forcing customers to continue to pay for a phone they already own not only hits their pockets but undermines trust and the reputation of the industry.\"\n\nThe majority of those who take out a mobile phone contract with the cost of the new handset included in the price will have paid off the price of phone over a period of two years, the study found.\n\nThe research suggested that users paying out for handsets such as the iPhone 7, the Galaxy S and Xperia XZ Premium, paid £38 extra a month, after the two-year period.\n\nAccording to the study, people aged over 65 were the most likely to be stung - with 23% staying on their contract past the end of the fixed deal period.\n\nOverall, 36% of people with a handset-inclusive contract failed to change it after the end of the fixed deal period.\n\nGillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said: \"The cost of handsets are hidden within some mobile phone contracts giving phone providers a way to exploit their customers.\n\n\"It is clearly unfair that some phone providers are charging loyal customers for handsets that they have already paid for. It's especially concerning that older customers are more likely to be stung by this sharp practice.\"\n\nShe called on the phone providers to make sure that any customers staying on a contract past the end of the fixed deal have their monthly bill reduced to reflect the fact they have paid for the handset.\n\n\"Providers could make it much easier for consumers to compare prices by separating out the cost of handsets from the cost of services like data and minutes for all contracts; that way it would be much clearer what they're paying for,\" she added.", "Chelsea Kwakye is not your typical Cambridge University student.\n\nHer mum is a nurse, her dad works in a post office depot, she went to a state school - and she's black and British.\n\nNewly released data has found that four-fifths of students accepted at Oxbridge between 2010 and 2015 have parents in top professional and managerial jobs.\n\nThe figures also show that only three of Oxford's 32 colleges made an offer to a black A-level applicant every year over the same period.\n\nStatistics from Cambridge revealed a quarter of colleges failed to make any offers to black British applicants during that time.\n\nChelsea, 20, is in her final year studying history at Cambridge.\n\nShe told Newsbeat how her university experience had in many ways been shaped by a lack of representation.\n\nChelsea is the only black female on her university course\n\n\"I'm the only black female on my course at the moment, and in terms of males I think there are about two,\" she said.\n\n\"There's so much opportunity to study such a breadth of history from all over the world, Europe, Asia and Africa.\n\n\"But it has been difficult at times being taught by a white lecturer and then being the only black student when you're doing a paper in the history of Africa.\"\n\n\"Visibility is definitely a problem. It's almost like a cycle where you don't see many black people at Cambridge or in courses like history so you think it's something that black people don't do.\"\n\nA spokesman at Cambridge said it currently spent £5m on outreach to encourage students from all backgrounds to apply.\n\nBut in Chelsea's experience, she wishes the teachers at her state school had known more about the application process.\n\n\"The main resource that I had to use was the internet, so looking at the website online and going on YouTube to find out about the interview process,\" she said.\n\n\"But I remember at college my teachers didn't know a lot about the application process.\n\n\"So I think in terms of access it's not just about focusing on prospective students, but also the teachers and how they're encouraging students from state schools to apply.\"\n\nChelsea says she wishes teachers at her state school knew more about the Cambridge application process\n\nChelsea, who is vice-president of the Cambridge University African Caribbean Society, says the lack of representation extends further than race.\n\n\"For me something that I do try to emphasise is that black doesn't always mean working class.\n\n\"So I think we need to be careful when we talk about this situation as it affects white working-class people too.\n\n\"But in spite of this I've had a very good experience - we can't let a lack of representation stop us from getting the best out of our time here.\"\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "Gilbert Rozon (right) at a Gucci event in Paris\n\nCanadian producer Gilbert Rozon has left several television productions amid accusations he sexually abused and harassed several women.\n\nMontreal police are investigating an incident that took place in Paris in 1994, Radio Canada reported.\n\nThe 62-year-old resigned from his role as boss of the Just For Laughs comedy festival on Wednesday.\n\nFrench channel M6 also suspended its broadcast of \"France's Got Talent\", which features Mr Rozon as a judge.\n\nMr Rozon issued a statement on Facebook shortly before a story by Montreal newspaper Le Devoir was published, detailing allegations of sexual abuse and sexual harassment from nine women spanning three decades.\n\n\"Shaken by the allegations against me, I want to dedicate all my time to review the matter,\" Rozon wrote on Facebook. \"To all those who I may have offended in my life, I'm sincerely sorry.\"\n\nIn addition to leaving Just for Laughs, he also announced that he would be resigning from his role as commissioner of the Montreal 375th anniversary preparations.\n\nMr Rozon did not elaborate on the allegations, which range from sexual harassment to forced penetration, none of which have been proven in court.\n\nJust For Laughs is one of the world's largest comedy festivals and attracts talents such as John Cleese\n\nMr Rozon is famous in both his home country of Canada and abroad. He founded the Just for Laughs festival in 1983 and has expanded the brand to include television shows and specials. The brand is currently used in 150 countries, and is considered the largest comedy festival in the world.\n\nHe also had a prominent role as a judge, similar to talent show judge Simon Cowell, on the French television show France's Got Talent.\n\nBut allegations of sexual misconduct have swirled around him for at least a decade. He pleaded guilty to sexual assault of a 19-year-old woman in 1998, which resulted in an absolute discharge.", "Catalan authorities have refused to drop their campaign for independence from Spain\n\nSpain's conservative government has agreed with the socialist opposition to hold regional elections in Catalonia in January, the socialists say.\n\nThe elections are part of a package of measures being put in place to suspend the region's autonomy, as its leader threatens to declare independence.\n\nPrime Minister Mariano Rajoy will announce measures to impose direct rule after a cabinet meeting on Saturday.\n\nA referendum, outlawed by Spain, was held in Catalonia on 1 October.\n\nOf the 43% of Catalans who reportedly voted, 90% were in favour of independence. Most anti-independence voters boycotted the ballot.\n\nMr Rajoy's Popular Party (PP) has not confirmed the agreement to press for a regional vote, announced by the socialist party (PSOE).\n\nSpeaking at a press conference in Brussels on Friday, Mr Rajoy said the measures to impose direct rule would have the backing of the PSOE and the centrist party Ciudadanos.\n\nPSOE politician Carmen Calvo announced the agreement to hold regional elections in an interview on national television on Friday.\n\nShe appealed to Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont to endorse the elections. Mr Puigdemont has refused calls from the Spanish government to abandon his secessionist campaign.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is there a Catalan crisis? The answer is in its past\n\nCatalonia's government will be dissolved ahead of the vote, which is part of a package of extraordinary measures being imposed on the region.\n\nThe government has said it will trigger Article 155 of the constitution, which allows Madrid to impose direct rule in a crisis but has never been invoked in its nearly 40-year history.\n\nThe full list of measures will be drawn up during Saturday's cabinet meeting. Spain's Senate, controlled by the PP and its allies, would then have to approve the list.\n\nOther measures may include taking control of Catalonia's regional police force.\n\nArticle 155 does not give the government the power to fully suspend autonomy, and it will not be able to deviate from the list of measures.\n\nWhile the dissolution of Catalonia's parliament and the holding of snap regional elections may appear to offer a way of defusing today's state of extreme tension, there are plenty of reasons to doubt that such a strategy would provide a clear exit from the crisis.\n\nThe far-left CUP has suggested that it would boycott any election imposed on the region. Other pro-independence forces might do the same. Massive street protests against any form of direct rule from Madrid can also be expected.\n\nAnd what are the potential consequences of forcing an election on Catalonia?\n\nMr Puigdemont has promised to call a formal vote on independence in Catalonia's parliament if Article 155 is invoked. If such a declaration were approved, the pro-independence forces could style the ballot as the election of a constituent assembly for a new republic, the next stage laid down in the secessionists' road map.\n\nAssuming the participation of all parties, voters would be bound to interpret the election as a de facto plebiscite on independence. If a separatist majority emerged once again, it is hard to see how the conflict could be considered closed.\n\nAs a deadline for the Catalan authorities to abandon independence came and went on Thursday, the government accused the region of seeking confrontation.\n\nThe independence campaign had caused \"serious damage\" to \"the co-existence and the economic structure of Catalonia\", the government said in a statement.\n\nMr Rajoy is currently attending an EU summit in Brussels.\n\nThe president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, says there is no space for any international mediation or EU action on the Catalan crisis - though he did say there was \"no hiding that the situation in Spain is concerning\".\n\nUK Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday sided with Mr Rajoy, telling reporters that \"people should be abiding by the rule of law and uphold the Spanish constitution\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Catalonia independence and some of Europe's border changes", "Suzie Imber will now get a recommendation to join the European Space Agency\n\nA Leicester scientist has said she is \"excited\" she could \"end up in space\" after winning a BBC Two show.\n\nSuzie Imber, 33, was revealed as the best candidate for space on \"Astronauts: Do you have what it takes?\" on Sunday.\n\nThe University of Leicester associate professor said the experience was \"incredible\" but \"really tough\".\n\nDr Imber, who triumphed over 11 other people, will now get a recommendation to join the European Space Agency.\n\nFormer astronaut Chris Hadfield (r) was the first Canadian to walk in space\n\nFormer astronaut Chris Hadfield and his team put the candidates through a series of gruelling tests as part of the show, to find out who had the qualities to be an astronaut.\n\nDr Imber, associate professor of planetary science at the university, said: \"Staying focused and being able to cope with the degree of testing over a time period was hard.\n\n\"It was really hard to prepare for tests, like the ability to take my own blood.\n\n\"And being strapped into a capsule and lowered into water, so it fills up, and then spun around so you have to hold your breath and feel disorientated.\"\n\nThe scientist has been interested in space from a young age and her current research looks at Mercury's magnetosphere.\n\nDr Imber said she was \"utterly shocked and surprised\" when her name was announced.\n\n\"The process has taught me that you don't have to be the best at everything,\" she said.\n\n\"You have to be consistently good over a broad range of skills and perhaps that's why I might have got a slight edge on the others.\n\n\"[Winning] has made me more excited and enthusiastic to apply, and who knows, it's possible that I could one day end up in space.\"\n\nDr Imber added she made \"incredibly valuable life-long friendships\" with those she met on the six-week programme.\n\nSuzie Imber is also a good climber as can be seen here on Denali, the highest mountain in North America\n\nProfessor Paul Boyle, president of the university, said: \"For an intrepid explorer, who is used to scaling mountains, she has surpassed herself by achieving new heights of success.\n\n\"She has done herself, her family and loved ones and the university very proud indeed.\n\n\"We hope she continues to go from strength to strength in her application to become an astronaut.\"\n• None Astronauts- Do You Have What It Takes\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One of the UK's largest supermarket chicken suppliers has suspended operations after an investigation allegedly exposed food safety breaches.\n\nThe 2 Sisters Food Group said staff at its site in the West Midlands will need to be \"appropriately retrained\" before it starts resupplying customers.\n\nIt comes after allegations that workers had changed slaughter dates to extend the shelf life of meat.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency (FSA) has also been investigating the claims.\n\nThe Guardian and ITV News claimed an undercover reporter witnessed workers changing the \"kill dates\" on chickens.\n\nThey also allegedly saw meat of different ages being mixed together and codes on crates of meat altered.\n\nIn a statement, the company said an internal investigation had shown \"some isolated instances of non-compliance\" at its plant in West Bromwich.\n\n\"We have therefore decided to temporarily suspend operations at the site to allow us the time to retrain all colleagues, including management, in all food safety and quality management systems.\"\n\nAll staff will remain on full pay and take part in training on site, it added.\n\n\"We will only recommence supply once we are satisfied that our colleagues have been appropriately retrained.\"\n\nMarks & Spencer, Aldi, Lidl and The Co-op have stopped taking chickens from the site while investigations take place.\n\nThe company also supplies Tesco and Sainsbury's, which are looking into the allegations.\n\n2 Sisters said the FSA had visited the site every day since the allegations came to light and had \"not identified any breaches\".\n\nIt went on: \"We continue to work closely with the FSA and our customers throughout this period.\"", "Greg Steltenpohl was a pioneer of the whole foods movement\n\nGreg Steltenpohl was a pioneer of the \"whole foods\" movement in the 1980s. But he almost lost everything after his first company faced a major corporate crisis.\n\nAfter creating not one but two highly successful natural drinks companies, Greg Steltenpohl is \"not one for regrets\".\n\nHowever, the former jazz musician does rank the sale of his first business, Odwalla, to Coca-Cola back in 2001 as a \"pretty big disappointment\".\n\nHe co-founded the firm, now one of America's best-known juice and smoothie brands, with some friends back in 1980, simply as a way to support his career as a musician.\n\nIt became an early pioneer of the \"whole foods\" movement, priding itself on its all natural ingredients, quirky branding and independent ethos.\n\nBut after an outbreak of E. coli was associated with one of its juices in 1996, sales dried up.\n\nThe founders had to take on new investment to stay afloat and lost control of the board.\n\nWithin five years Mr Steltenpohl had quit, and Odwalla was sold to Coke for $181m (£134m).\n\n\"I'm not evangelising against 'evil corporate empires',\" the genial Californian says over coffee in London.\n\n\"But these big firms tend to target smaller ones like Odwalla because they can't innovate those ideas internally.\n\n\"The problem is they end up destroying what make those brands unique.\"\n\nThe 62-year-old is trying to set the record straight with his latest venture, the plant-based food company Califia Farms.\n\nLaunched in 2010, its main line is in almond and coconut milks, which come either plain, or in flavours like matcha green tea, or ginger and turmeric.\n\nThe Los Angeles-based firm also sells bottled coffees and natural juices, with all its products low in sugar, dairy free and ethically sourced.\n\nWhereas Mr Steltenpohl's first company was launched at time when natural and organic foods were a novelty, the sector is now well established, with industry-wide sales of $69bn in the US alone last year.\n\nLarge food companies are also losing market share to smaller ones that offer more artisanal, niche products.\n\nCalifia already has sales of more than $100m a year, and is the number one premium bottled coffee brand in the US.\n\nHowever, Mr Steltenpohl says big corporations have been \"jumping into\" the whole foods market, and smaller companies like his face competition.\n\n\"They have much better supply chains, distribution and marketing. At the moment we're just a fly on the back of an elephant.\"\n\nCalifia Farms makes more than $100m in sales annually\n\nMr Steltenpohl fell into the drinks business by chance after studying at the Creative Music Studio, a renowned music school in upstate New York, in the late 1970s.\n\nHe and two friends moved to Santa Cruz, California to seek fame and fortune with their \"avant garde jazz\" band The Stance. But they quickly ran out of money.\n\n\"We were broke and we weren't that good! So I came up with this idea that we could squeeze fresh orange juice every morning, sleep during the day, and play music all night.\"\n\nThe juice company took off, and the music tapered out. Under the brand Odwalla - named after a song by experimental jazz group Art Ensemble of Chicago - the trio started selling to restaurants and health food shops, but were soon stocking grocery stores across the US.\n\nBy 1996 Odwalla was listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange and sales were approaching $100m a year.\n\nA child died and scores were sickened after drinking a batch of the firm's apple juice; Odwalla had to issue a huge product recall, and its sales dived by 90%.\n\nJeffery Kline, editor of drinks industry website Bevnet, says Mr Steltenpohl has been \"very open about how painful the experience was\".\n\nMr Kline adds: \"People in the industry believe Greg acted respectably throughout the crisis. And he never talks about it in terms of what he went through, but in fact what an incredibly devastating impact it had on others.\"\n\nWithin two years Odwalla had rebuilt its reputation, thanks in part to its loyal customer base. The problem, says Mr Steltenpohl, was the new backers wanted a \"quick return\" on their investment by selling the firm.\n\nMore The Boss features, which every week profile a different business leader from around the world:\n\n\"In hindsight I think we could have found investors who shared our values and stayed independent. But we had to move fast to protect people's jobs.\"\n\nNot long after Coca-Cola swooped, and Odwalla soon \"lost its ethos\", he says.\n\n\"We were a local brand, but Coke shut our plant and shifted the main staff to Atlanta. It also replaced the key managers with their internal people who all had two year rotations, and you can't run a passion brand that way.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Coca-Cola says it is keen to nurture new brands, and Odwalla remains an \"important part\" of its natural health drinks portfolio.\n\nMr Steltenpohl says he has learnt from the experience, as well as from several other unsuccessful ventures he launched after leaving Odwalla.\n\nHe now wants to keep Califia Farms \"independent\" for as long as possible. But is that realistic?\n\nPhil Howard, an associate professor at the Department of Community Sustainability at Michigan State University, says that only a \"small number\" of values-driven firms manage to stay independent and be successful.\n\n\"As big distributors and retailers consolidate it becomes difficult to compete, so many smaller firms sell up to multinationals,\" he explains.\n\n\"And a lot depends on the small firm's ownership structure, for instance whether they need to repay investors.\"\n\nCalifia Farms has already sold a minority stake to a private equity firm, but Mr Steltenpohl says the investor fully shares its values. Califia is also majority owned by the farm that produces its oranges, while Mr Steltenpohl is its boss and a founding shareholder.\n\nTellingly, he has hired people with experience of working in bigger firms to help guide the business.\n\nThese include a plant manager who trained at Danone, and a head of human resources who worked for Virgin boss Richard Branson.\n\nMr Steltenpohl says he is determined to strike a better balance between keeping the firm on track, and upholding his \"starry eyed\" ideals than he did at Odwalla.\n\nThat said, he hopes business culture is changing to accommodate different notions of success.\n\n\"It is partly the fault of the business media and business schools,\" he says, \"but we tend to celebrate a firm's growth and quarterly reports above all else.\n\n\"But wouldn't it be great if we were saying, 'Wow, they managed to stay independent for 20 years, stayed true to their values, and they grew their sales too.'\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Several of the front pages have a picture of a Spanish policeman clad in armour brandishing a baton as he confronts protesters in Barcelona.\n\n\"Spain torn apart,\" says the headline in the Times, \"as 850 are hurt in referendum riots\".\n\nThe Financial Times warns that the vote threatens to trigger one of the gravest political and constitutional crises in Spain's 40-year old democracy.\n\nFor the Daily Telegraph, the clashes have \"plunged the EU into a new crisis\" - because of a failure by Brussels to criticise the Spanish government's violent response.\n\nThe Sun describes the scenes as \"Helldorado\".\n\nElsewhere, the i is among those reporting a backlash among senior Tories against Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson over his recent interventions in the Brexit debate. Some are said to have warned \"nobody is unsackable\".\n\nThe Daily Mail sounds of note of exasperation, with the headline: \"What a time to be squabbling\".\n\nNevertheless, according to the lead in the Daily Express, Theresa May is \"winning the Brexit battle\".\n\nIt highlights claims by the prime minister on Sunday's Andrew Marr show that a string of European leaders have personally praised plans for the UK's departure - laid out in her recent Florence speech.\n\nThe Daily Mirror claims an exclusive with a report that the captain of a nuclear submarine has been relieved of his duties as military chiefs investigate an alleged inappropriate relationship with a female officer.\n\nIt believes senior naval officers have been sent to the vessel, in international waters, to sort things out.\n\nThe MoD confirmed an investigation was taking place but gave no details.\n\nThe Daily Mail reports a study suggesting half of all NHS dentists plan to leave the health service within five years.\n\nA survey carried out by the British Dental Association found 58% want to go private, move overseas, retire or quit the profession.\n\nNHS Engand tells the paper there are 3,800 more dentists offering NHS care than a decade ago, with no significant increase in the number leaving.\n\nAnd finally, there are pictures all over the papers of Prince Harry apparently kissing Meghan Markle in public for the first time.\n\nThe Sun says it has \"sparked a frenzy of engagement speculation\".", "\"Why would anybody, let alone a normal person, want to become a member of the Conservative Party?\"\n\n\"I'm beginning to lose the will to live.\"\n\nThis was some distance from the slick choreography you can become inured to at party conferences.\n\nThis was a public post-mortem in a marquee.\n\nA brutally honest dissection of humiliating failure at the general election.\n\nThe Conservative Home website hosted a discussion for party members to say it as they saw it - and the room festered with irritation, anger and a forest of raised hands.\n\nFor more than an hour, the criticisms came.\n\nThe outspoken John Strafford, from the Campaign for Conservative Democracy, predicted Armageddon for the Tories.\n\nParty membership, he said, had been allowed to decline below 100,000 nationally and 300 constituency associations had no more than 100 members - and no more than 10 of them were up for doing stuff or were activists.\n\nIt was Mr Strafford who said this was \"an utter, total disgrace\".\n\n\"Eventually there will be no members left, and that will be the end, goodbye,\" he claimed.\n\nA visibly angry Sir Eric Pickles, who has written a report on the party's failure at the election, sarcastically congratulated him on \"getting tomorrow's headlines\".\n\nThe room by now crackled with irritation - as members set out what they saw as a range of structural, organisational and practical reasons that contributed to the party's failure to win an overall majority.\n\nThe party's losing candidate in Halifax in West Yorkshire, the marginal seat where the party published its now widely derided manifesto, was highly critical of the national party.\n\nLabour's Holly Lynch increased her majority in Halifax following June's general election\n\nChris Pearson said his team had been threatened with disciplinary action if they didn't follow central dictat about the areas of the constituency they targeted, despite what he saw as their superior local knowledge.\n\n\"Everything does seem to be quite predominantly London,\" he added, about the party's organisation and staffing.\n\nIt was a party member from Cambridge who questioned why anyone would want to sign up to join the party right now.\n\nSir Eric Pickles said: \"We can't have the manifesto being written quietly in a corner,\" and insisted \"someone should be unambiguously in charge of the election\".\n\nHis report, complete with 126 recommendations, suggested there was \"a clear campaigning deficiency\" and a need for more young people and members of ethnic minorities to join and support the Conservatives.\n\nPaul Goodman, the editor of Conservative Home, fretted that unless someone was charged with ensuring Sir Eric's ideas were implemented over the next 10 years, many could fall by the wayside.\n\n\"We will be in such a mess if we don't push this through,\" Sir Eric said.\n\nTwo contributors from the floor said the Tories could learn from Momentum, the grassroots movement inspired by the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThe Tory MP Nusrat Ghani agreed: \"One of the ways it recruits is pinpointing local campaigns. A local school, a local hospital, to nudge people along to get involved. A bottom-up approach is absolutely key.\"\n\nGraham Brady says the Tories must work harder to ensure more public sector workers would vote for party\n\nThe former minister Edwina Currie, reflecting on everything she had heard, said the meeting left her \"losing the will to live\".\n\nBut she was furious that \"blithering idiots\" from party headquarters had sent her and fellow canvassers to addresses in Derbyshire which had been picked out to target because the occupiers earned relatively high salaries.\n\nWhat Central Office hadn't realised, she said, was that in her patch many of the best paid were public sector workers with Labour posters in the windows.\n\nGraham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative MPs, said it was time the party \"tried to convince primary school teachers of the benefit of the free market\" and work harder to ensure more public sector workers would consider voting Tory.\n\nBut when Mrs Currie complained about the number of white men in senior roles within the party, Mr Brady joked: \"There is nothing I can do about being white or being a man. Nothing I'd wish to do anyway!\"\n\nAs this public inquest rolled into its second hour, hands were still popping up: passionate activists with questions, observations and irritations about an election that went badly wrong.\n• None May: We 'listened' on student fees", "An \"unfortunate error\" in subtitling led to Newcastle United being labelled \"black and white scum\" during the BBC's Match of the Day 2 programme.\n\nCommentator Guy Mowbray said Liverpool's Daniel Sturridge had scored five goals against the black and whites.\n\nBut software confused the word \"comma\", spoken by a subtitler, and put \"scum\" into the on-screen text.\n\nThe BBC said the error was spotted and corrected immediately.\n\nIt was noticed by football writer Paul Brown, who tweeted a screenshot from the show on Sunday night, saying \"MOTD2 subtitler evidently not a Newcastle fan.\"\n\nDuring the commentary Guy Mowbray said: \"Sturridge has scored in all four of his previous Premier League starts at Newcastle. For the Reds against the black and whites, he boasts five goals in five appearances.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Paul Brown This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFootball commentary is re-voiced for subtitles by someone known as a \"respeaker\".\n\nA BBC spokeswoman said: \"Our live subtitling service is normally very accurate and makes our content much more accessible, but there are times when unfortunate errors occur.\n\n\"On this occasion the error was spotted and corrected immediately.\"\n\nThe Magpies went on to draw 1-1 in the Premier League home game.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury has said he hopes he does not have to carry out the Queen's funeral.\n\nThe Most Rev Justin Welby said it would be an \"enormous\" public event and \"the most extraordinary historic moment\".\n\nIn an interview for British GQ, he described the Queen as \"one of the most extraordinary people I have ever met\".\n\nThe archbishop also told the magazine he was unable to \"give a straight answer\" to the question on whether gay sex is sinful.\n\nInterviewed by former Labour communications director Alistair Campbell, Mr Welby - who took up his current post in 2012 - was asked whether he loses sleep thinking he might have to preside over the Queen's funeral.\n\n\"I don't lose sleep and I do hope I don't have to do that,\" he said.\n\n\"It's enormous, whoever does it - God willing someone else - because it is an enormous public event. But as a parish priest, at every funeral you think about the enormity of it.\"\n\nHe added: \"I don't want to get into details because it is not something I want to talk about, but the Queen is the most extraordinary person, one of the most extraordinary people I have ever met, in every possible way.\"\n\nAs the Queen is the supreme governor of the Church of England, it might be expected that the church's most senior clergyman would carry out the duty of leading her funeral when that time comes. But her 65-year reign has already outlasted Mr Welby's six previous incumbents in the post.\n\nDuring the interview, for the November issue of the magazine, the archbishop is also asked if gay sex is sinful.\n\n\"Do you know, we have done religion, we have done politics, why am I surprised we are on to gay sex?\" he said.\n\n\"You know very well that is a question I can't give a straight answer to. Sorry, badly phrased there. I should have thought that one through.\"\n\nWhen asked why, he went on: \"Because I don't do blanket condemnation and I haven't got a good answer to the question.\n\n\"I'll be really honest about that. I know I haven't got a good answer to the question.\n\n\"Inherently, within myself, the things that seem to me to be absolutely central are around faithfulness, stability of relationships and loving relationships.\"\n\nThe Church of England's stance on sexuality was in the spotlight earlier this year, when the church's ruling body voted against a controversial report that said marriage in church should only be between a man and a woman.\n\nCurrent rules ban the marriage of same-sex couples in the Church. Services of blessing for civil partnerships are also prohibited, but informal prayers are allowed.\n\nIn July, the archbishop said the Church of England would spend three years on a document outlining a new stance on sexuality.\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. Newly-reformed GCSEs are leaving teenagers 'spaced out and stressed out', Lauren Stocks tells Labour delegates\n\nIt was a moment that caught the Labour party conference off-guard.\n\nSixteen-year-old Lauren Stocks had just received her GCSE results and wanted to talk about the toll that changes to the exams had taken on her and her classmates.\n\nIn a passionate speech, she articulated the scale of the mental health problems that blight her generation.\n\n\"There's a statistic we were shown when I was about 13 or 14 that told me three in 10 people in every classroom suffer with a mental illness.\n\nUsing strong language, she denied that to be the case. \"It's a good half.\n\n\"I could've walked into any food tech, history, art, maths classroom and just watched seas of spaced-out, stressed-out, depressed kids, in a battlefield where they can't afford pens and paper,\" she said, gulping hard.\n\n\"It is a disgusting sight,\" she told delegates, and urged parents of teenagers with newly-reformed GCSEs ahead of them to make sure they know they are loved.\n\nIn under three minutes, Lauren delivered a speech conveying the impatience of youth. (\"I didn't make notes before I came on stage and my thoughts will be fairly scattered, so please go easy on me.\")\n\nHer audience were on their feet, cheering Lauren for a speech that's since been shared thousands of times on social media.\n\nLauren has been a Labour party member since the age of 14\n\n\"It felt pretty weird,\" she tells the BBC. \"I was kind of in my own little world.\n\n\"To see everyone stand up - I really appreciated it.\"\n\nAnd the plaudits didn't stop there. \"My Snapchat blew up,\" she says. About 30 people from her old school contacted her to say they were really glad she had spoken up for them.\n\n\"I have suffered with many a mental health issue. I was worried it was just me but the response was overwhelming.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome social media users though, with characteristic brutality, were less than warm, criticising her choice of hair dye and appearance.\n\nThe impact of these negative comments is something her mum, Sarah Hilton, worries about a lot but Lauren less so.\n\n\"They're saying: 'That's not a girl'.\n\n\"When I checked last night, I was definitely female,\" she says, laughing it off.\n\nShe also diplomatically brushes off the inevitable parallels being drawn with a famous 1977 Conservative conference speech by another 16-year-old, which was watched by a smiling prime minister-in-waiting - Margaret Thatcher.\n\n\"I haven't seen the speech but I have studied William Hague,\" she says. \"I don't have the best opinion of him.\"\n\nLauren's mum, Sarah Hilton, says her daughter has been educating her about politics\n\nDespite her years, Lauren is no stranger to public speaking. Now under-19 representative for North West Young Labour, she has been an activist for two years.\n\nHer interest in politics was first piqued at 12 as she idly watched YouTube videos of people discussing left-wing ideas.\n\nAfter a brief dalliance with the Greens, she joined the Labour party on 3 August 2015. \"I remember if as if it were yesterday,\" she says, almost wistfully.\n\nA few weeks later, Lauren received an email asking people to attend a Manchester food bank that leader Jeremy Corbyn would be visiting.\n\n\"I asked mum if I could go. I'd never been into Manchester alone before.\n\n\"My mum dropped me off at the food bank and after that they kept me involved,\" she says.\n\nAfter her experience of sitting the new GCSEs, she says students should be empowered and told what they can achieve, not threatened that if they fail, they'll be left watching Jeremy Kyle all day.\n\nThis year's GCSE students in England were the first to sit exams which were numerically graded and tougher than in the past.\n\nThe changes, introduced by former education secretary Michael Gove, resulted in a dip in results, but schools minister Nick Gibb said pupils and teachers were rising to the challenge.\n\nExam regulators said the new qualifications had allowed students to better demonstrate their abilities and had better prepared them for further study.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"We recognise there are challenges facing the profession including a more demanding curriculum and higher expectations for pupils. Where staff are struggling we trust head teachers to take action to tackle the causes of stress and ensure they have the support they need.\n\n\"The government has also taken steps to reduce the burden of exams on young people including removing multiple, pointless resits and investing £1.4 billion in children's mental health services\".\n\nConference was, Lauren admits, a fast-paced eye-opener but also a chance to meet her heroes, Dennis Skinner (\"soon-to-be Sir\"), writer and activist Owen Jones (\"I love him so much\") and Laura Smith (\"a rising star who I hope to see in Cabinet\").\n\nFor all her enthusiasm for politics and its people - and despite lobbying from her mum - she is not certain that's where her future lies.\n\nLauren is now studying history, sociology and politics at college, and plans to stand for council in 2019.\n\nBut beyond that, she says she has no political ambitions. \"If it's meant to be, it's meant to be.\"", "Clare Balding was the cover star of Saga Magazine\n\nClare Balding has denied claims that she demanded changes were made to a magazine interview and replaced quotes with her own \"self-promoting words\".\n\nJournalist Ginny Dougary branded Balding an \"insecure diva\" in an article in The Guardian about her experience interviewing the presenter for Saga magazine.\n\nBut the BBC presenter tweeted that she \"did not have copy approval\".\n\nShe said it was the editor of Saga that had asked for changes.\n\nSaga magazine issued a statement saying that Dougary was \"mistaken in thinking that copy approval was given. It was not.\"\n\nIt said it had edited the interview \"with the full involvement of the writer\".\n\nDougary said she had asked for her byline to be removed from the article after a number of changes were made to her copy, claiming these were due to requests from the BBC presenter and her agent.\n\nThe journalist also said Balding had added quotes about hosting the women's European football championships as well as a \"shameless puff\" for her own children's book.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Clare Balding This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as 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\nSaga said it was the magazine editor's view that the \"original article did not cover the wide range of issues that Clare holds dear\" and the writer \"suggested we add lines ourselves\".\n\nIt said it was the editor's decision alone to edit any article that is \"not exactly right\" for the magazine and that they do \"not defer that decision to PRs or interviewees\".\n\nIt's not at all clear what changes or approval - if any - the broadcaster Clare Balding (or those around her) sought for her interview in Saga. I don't know the specifics of the case, and therefore couldn't pass judgement.\n\nBut in general, copy approval transgresses a fundamental principle of journalism. By in effect granting the interviewee final say in what is published, it gives them the right to shape what enters the public domain.\n\nNo journalist should be willing to cede control in that manner. When setting up interviews, it is reasonable for journalists to give a general outline of the subject matter to be discussed. But it is foolhardy to give final say to the interviewee.\n\nIn general, it is the most powerful people who have most to gain from copy approval. Given the basic job of journalists is to scrutinise power, that is all the more reason for journalists to resist such a move.\n\n\"Saga Magazine does not offer copy control, and interviews that require it are declined. In this case, quotes were checked for accuracy alone. New quotes were sourced to rebalance the article against deadline,\" they said.\n\nThe Guardian article was widely shared on social media with a number of journalists tweeting their agreement with Dougary.\n\nBalding did not comment until after Saga's statement was published, revealing she had to stop herself from responding earlier in the day.\n\n\"Re the Saga saga, today has been an exercise in self-restraint,\" she said.\n\nAmong Dougary's claims was that she had been asked to say how \"lovely\" Balding was.\n\n\"I would certainly never ask anyone to call me 'lovely'. Gorgeous maybe - but never lovely!\", Balding tweeted in response.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The men's bodies were found at a property in Newland Road\n\nTwo men have been found dead at a home in Oxfordshire, prompting a murder investigation.\n\nPolice were called to Newland Road, Banbury, at 18:45 BST on Sunday. It is understood the bodies were found in a lower flat at the property.\n\nA 52-year-old Banbury man was later arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nThames Valley Police said the crime was an \"isolated incident\" and added that officers believe the men were known to each other.\n\nOne of the victims was in his 20s and the other was in his 30s. A cordon is in place at the address and is likely to remain for several days.\n\nThe back of the property in Banbury\n\nNeighbours said the person living there had only been at the address for a few months.\n\nDaniel Smau-Mare, a local resident, said: \"Yesterday evening I heard banging on the door. I think it was the police.\n\n\"They were yelling to open the door but no-one did, so they smashed the door. I presume this is what they did because I heard noise, really bad noise.\"\n\nAppealing for witnesses, Det Ch Insp Craig Kirby, of Thames Valley Police, said: \"I understand that there will naturally be some concerns in the community, but I would like to reassure people that a full investigation is now taking place.\"\n\nThe men's next of kin have been informed but formal identification and a post-mortem examination are yet to take place, police added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Macklemore: \"No freedom 'til we're equal, damn right I support it\"\n\nAmerican artist Macklemore sang in support of gay rights at one of Australia's biggest annual sporting events during the country's vote on same-sex marriage.\n\nThe singer performed a set ahead of kick-off in the National Rugby League (NRL) grand final in Sydney.\n\nOpponents had called for the song Same Love to be left out of the show to stop the event becoming \"politicised\".\n\nBut Macklemore said it \"was one of the greatest honours of my career\".\n\nAustralians are in the middle of a postal vote on whether gay marriage should be introduced. The poll is non-binding for the government, but has been deeply divisive.\n\nSeattle native Macklemore - whose real name is Benjamin Haggerty - had previously told Australia's Channel Nine he would donate his portion of the proceeds from the song's sales in Australia to the Yes campaign.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 GEMINI This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 song had rocketed to the top of Australia's charts on the iTunes digital music store.\n\nAmong its lyrics are: \"I might not be the same, but that's not important / No freedom 'til we're equal / Damn right I support it.\"\n\nA petition asking the NRL to ban what it called an \"LGBTIQ anthem\", started by former rugby league player Tony Wall, gathered thousands of signatures in the lead-up to the final on Sunday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by GEMINI This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFormer Prime Minister Tony Abbott was among those calling for the song - one of Macklemore's biggest hits - to be excluded.\n\nBut the song, accompanied by rainbow pyrotechnics, was the centrepiece of his set in front of 80,000 stadium spectators and was televised around the world.\n\nWhile the music played, the stadium's large screens displayed the NRL logo with the message: \"We stand for equality.\"\n\nThe postal ballot runs for two months, ending on 7 November. Opinion polls have suggested a majority of Australians support same-sex marriage.\n\nAfter Macklemore's performance ended, Melbourne Storm handily defeated their rivals the North Queensland Cowboys 34-6 to win the grand final.", "Three scientists who unravelled how our bodies tell time have won the 2017 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.\n\nThe body clock - or circadian rhythm - is the reason we want to sleep at night, but it also drives huge changes in behaviour and body function.\n\nThe US scientists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young will share the prize.\n\nThe Nobel prize committee said their findings had \"vast implications for our health and wellbeing\".\n\nA clock ticks in nearly every cell of the human body, as well as in plants, animals and fungi.\n\nOur mood, hormone levels, body temperature and metabolism all fluctuate in a daily rhythm.\n\nEven our risk of a heart attack soars every morning as our body gets the engine running to start a new day.\n\nThe body clock so precisely controls our body to match day and night that disrupting it can have profound implications.\n\nThe ghastly experience of jet lag is caused by the body being out of sync with the world around it.\n\nIn the short term, body clock disruption affects memory formation, but in the long term it increases the risk of diseases, including type 2 diabetes, cancer and heart disease.\n\n\"If we screw that system up we have a big impact on our metabolism,\" said Prof Russell Foster, a body clock scientist at the University of Oxford.\n\nHe told the BBC he was \"very delighted\" that the US trio had won, saying they deserved the prize for being the first to explain how the system worked.\n\nHe added: \"They have shown us how molecular clocks are built across all the animal kingdom.\"\n\nJeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young have won the highest accolade in science.\n\nThe trio's breakthroughs were on fruit flies, but their findings explain how \"molecular feedback loops\" keep time in all animals.\n\nJeffrey Hall and Michael Rosbash isolated a section of DNA called the period gene, which had been implicated in the circadian rhythm.\n\nThe period gene contained instructions for making a protein called PER. As levels of PER increased, it turned off its own genetic instructions.\n\nAs a result, levels of the PER protein oscillate over a 24-hour cycle - rising during the night and falling during the day.\n\nMichael Young discovered a gene called timeless and another one called doubletime. They both affect the stability of PER.\n\nIf PER is more stable then the clock ticks more slowly, if it is less stable then it runs too fast. The stability of PER is one reason some of us are morning larks and others are night owls.\n\nTogether, they had uncovered the workings of the molecular clock inside the fly's cells.\n\nDr Michael Hastings, who researches circadian timing at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, told the BBC: \"Before this work in fruit flies we really didn't have any ideas of the genetic mechanism - body clocks were viewed as a black box on a par with astrology.\"\n\nHe said the award was a \"fantastic\" decision.\n\nHe added: \"We encounter the body clock when we experience jet lag and we appreciate it's debilitating for a short time, but the real public health issue is rotational shift work - it's a constant state of jet lag.\"\n\n2016 - Yoshinori Ohsumi for discovering how cells remain healthy by recycling waste.\n\n2015 - William C Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura and Youyou Tu for anti-parasite drug discoveries.\n\n2014 - John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser for discovering the brain's navigating system.\n\n2013 - James Rothman, Randy Schekman, and Thomas Sudhof for their discovery of how cells precisely transport material.\n\n2012 - Two pioneers of stem cell research - John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka - were awarded the Nobel after changing adult cells into stem cells.\n\n2011 - Bruce Beutler, Jules Hoffmann and Ralph Steinman shared the prize after revolutionising the understanding of how the body fights infection.\n\n2010 - Robert Edwards for devising the fertility treatment IVF which led to the first \"test tube baby\" in July 1978.\n\n2009 - Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for finding the telomeres at the ends of chromosomes.\n• None 'Arrogance' over need for sleep", "The teenager was lifting weights (not pictured) when he was crushed\n\nAn Australian teenager has died after being crushed by weightlifting equipment at a gym.\n\nBen Shaw, 15, was attempting to bench press almost 100kg (220 lb) when the accident happened in Brisbane on Tuesday, local media said.\n\nHe was found by staff and taken to hospital, where he died on Saturday. It is not known how long he was trapped.\n\n\"Ben passed away yesterday afternoon with his family and friends around him,\" his family said in a statement.\n\n\"Ben was able to leave a legacy and donate his organs and tissue, giving life to others.\"\n\nAuthorities said it was too early to say whether charges would be laid, but they would conduct a thorough investigation.\n\nAccording to rules at the Police Citizens Youth Club gym, people under 16 must be supervised when lifting weights.", "Some passengers forced open the doors of train\n\nPassengers forced open the doors on a busy rush-hour train and climbed on to tracks after becoming \"panicked\" in the carriage.\n\nIt happened outside Wimbledon station in south-west London at 08:30 BST as a man apparently began reading lines aloud from the Bible.\n\nCommuters became scared when the man also began saying \"death is not the end\", a passenger said.\n\nRail power lines were cut as passengers \"self-evacuated\", police said.\n\nTrains on the route were disrupted for nearly 12 hours, but are now running normally.\n\nIan, who was on the train, said the man's Bible-reading led to a \"commotion\" and a \"crush\".\n\nHe said someone then asked the man to stop speaking \"as he was scaring people\" and \"the guy stopped and stood there with his head down\".\n\nThe train had been travelling between Shepperton and London Waterloo. British Transport Police (BTP) said no arrests had been made.\n\nA Network Rail spokesperson said no passengers or train staff were injured but \"significant delays\" would continue on services in and out of Waterloo.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Crystal from California was at the concert with some of her family. She describes helping three people with gunshot wounds.\n\n\"I could see the bullets ricocheting off the gravel on the floor, so we ran. We ran to our pick-up truck which wasn't far away.\n\n\"As we tried to make our way out of the parking lot a security guard flagged us down. He had two gunshot victims with him.\n\n\"We got them in the back of the truck. One had been shot in the head the other in the ankle, both were conscious.\n\n\"We tried to get out of the area as fast as possible but it was chaos, people were running everywhere and into the road.\"\n\nRead more about how average Americans responded to the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.", "A Christian girl said to have been fostered by a Muslim family had a \"warm and appropriate\" relationship with the carers, a family court has heard.\n\nThe five-year-old, who is now living with her grandmother, was placed into the family's care in March by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.\n\nThe judge, Khatun Sapnara, said the girl expressed \"she misses the foster carer and wants to see her again\".\n\nShe said the council was happy the family care was \"warm and appropriate\".\n\nJudge Sapnara said Tower Hamlets produced an \"interesting and robust defence\" to the media's reporting of the case - following claims reported in the Times that the family did not speak English and that the girl had not been allowed to wear a crucifix.\n\nShe said: \"The local authority has satisfied itself that the foster carer has not behaved in any way which is inconsistent with their provision of warm and appropriate care for the child.\"\n\nThe council will be allowed to publish an \"agreed narrative of events\" in the coming days, Judge Sapnara added.\n\nThe court also heard that the child, who was taken from her mother after police became concerned for her welfare, would be taken to her maternal grandmother's country of origin if a permanent order was made to grant her care of the girl.\n\nThe girl holds dual nationality of both the UK and that country, which cannot be named to protect the child's identity.\n\nThe judge said allowing Tower Hamlets to make a statement about the child would quell \"frenzied speculation\" around the case and allow the child a degree of privacy.\n\nShe said the court would not make a finding about newspaper reporting of the case, adding: \"It is simply about providing balanced information in the public domain.\"\n\nJudge Sapnara disclosed in August that the child had been removed from her mother, who has problems with substance abuse.\n\nThe case will conclude in a final hearing in December.", "BBC Three drama Overshadowed is a little different to most TV shows - it's made up entirely of the vlogs of its lead character, Imogene. It's through these videos that her followers begin to notice all is not well in her life.\n\n\"I don't think I've seen anything on television like this, I think it's a new kind of concept,\" says Michelle Fox, the actress who plays the teenage central character of Overshadowed.\n\nMichelle plays Imogene, a young vlogger who uploads videos every day - recorded in her bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, at school... even while out jogging.\n\nBut, over the course of eight 10-minute episodes, viewers gradually see her start to show signs of anorexia.\n\n\"Basically, Imogene decides to share her life with the world, and the world sees more of her life than she does, with the outside force of the eating disorder,\" Michelle explains.\n\n\"It's an insight to Imogene's life and how anorexia is affecting it.\n\n\"In the first couple of episodes, she seems like a really normal teenager, and she's lovely, embarrassing, funny, and I think it's not until the end of episode one that you get a snippet that something is not right.\"\n\nThe show's title, Overshadowed, is a reference to Imogene feeling that there's an outside force literally standing over her, compelling her to skip meals and count calories.\n\nThis external force is presented as an on-screen character - Anna (a reference to anorexia) - who constantly pushes Imogene to eat less and exercise more.\n\n\"When someone is going through a mental health crisis or eating disorder, often people blame the person, 'Why can't you just stop? Why can't you see what's going on?'\" Michelle says.\n\n\"And by showing the eating disorder as a separate entity, you remove the control, you can see the person trying, but there's this outside control overshadowing them. It's not this person's fault, they're not doing it in a malicious way.\"\n\nTackling such a serious subject would be a tall order for any TV show, let alone one which is doing it via a series of vlogs - a relatively new format.\n\n\"I think this is a good way to tell a story,\" Michelle says.\n\n\"The way I like to watch things as a viewer is I like to be a bit ahead, and be in on the secret, on what's going on.\n\n\"But with a vlog, it's blunt, it's instant, people say how they feel, and as an audience member it feels real, like you're right there with the person, especially because they're talking to you directly.\n\n\"Imogene is speaking to herself but she's also speaking to a camera, so it puts the viewer in an awkward and horrible position, like the struggle with mental illness is really in your face.\"\n\nThe slightly unusual format was what helped Michelle get the part.\n\nThe Irish actress graduated from Bristol Old Vic drama school last summer and was appearing in the theatre's production of Medea when she heard about Overshadowed.\n\n\"My agent called and she said the casting director wanted to see me, so as well as recording a traditional audition tape, I sent in tapes which I filmed myself on my phone, because I had a feeling the series might all be shot handheld.\n\n\"So I sent in two different copies, and the casting director really liked that, and I got cast off the tape [i.e. without meeting the casting director in person], which was really surprising.\"\n\nOvershadowed is certainly one of the first TV dramas to be told through vlogging, so producers will be watching closely to see how the audience reacts.\n\nBut Michelle says: \"I think this could be the first of many.\"\n\nOvershadowed is available to watch now on BBC Three.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None 8 things to know about YouTuber Joe Sugg", "It is thought that between 1-3% of the population is asexual, meaning they do not feel any sexual attraction to other people. For years Stacey was puzzled about why she never wanted to sleep with anyone, even her husband. As she explains here, it was her doctor that told her the truth.\n\nFor a really long time I thought I was broken mentally or physically in some way, I thought it wasn't normal to not want to have sex with people.\n\nFriends of mine would be talking about boyfriends they'd had or celebrities they'd like to bed, and I just didn't think about anybody in that very specific, sexual sense.\n\nWhen I was in my early twenties I really started noticing it, but I didn't talk to anybody about it because I just thought, \"They're going to think I'm well strange,\" so I just kept quiet.\n\nAsexuality has quite a spectrum so although I might not be sexually attracted to people I do get very romantically attracted to people.\n\nI'd met my boyfriend - who is now my husband - when I was 19, and I didn't know what asexuality was then, so I just thought I was bonkers or really behind the curve or something.\n\nI was thinking, \"I absolutely love this man, and if he proposes to me I will 100% say yes because I know I want to spend the rest of my life with him, so why don't I want to sleep with him? That's crazy.\"\n\nStacey spoke to BBC Radio 4's iPM, the programme which starts with its listeners. If you want to contact the programme, please send an email.\n\nWe sort of went on a bit of journey of discovery together, me and the hubby. He was very much, \"I am in love with you. I will wait as long as it takes, if it ever happens.\"\n\nHe was really supportive and never tried to make me do anything I wasn't comfortable with.\n\nSocietal norms suggest that sex and children are the way forward in a relationship and all my friends were going off and getting married and having babies. I thought, \"Oh God, there's this expectation that I should be sleeping with my husband and having children.\"\n\nI started having a recurring nightmare that my husband was going to leave me for somebody who looked exactly like me but who would actually sleep with him, and I got to a point where my own anxieties were making me almost unbearable.\n\nI thought, \"Do you know what? I've got to sort this out, I've got to find out what's going on.\"\n\nBy this point I was probably 27 or 28.\n\nI made the massive mistake of searching the internet for medical reasons that might cause low sex drive. That was a mistake, an absolute mistake. There were lots of little things that were easily fixable like dodgy hormone levels, but the one that caught my eye was brain tumours.\n\nI was like, \"Oh no, I'm dying of a brain tumour.\"\n\nI went to my doctor and I said, \"Look, is it serious? Am I going to die?\"\n\nShe was like, \"Calm down, you're probably just asexual.\"\n\nI was like, \"What's that? What?\"\n\nSo she pointed me towards some websites - and it was like I'd found my people, it was so exciting.\n\nI'd never heard the term \"asexual\" before.\n\nI did some more research and I started feeling a lot more comfortable in myself, so I spoke to my husband about it and I said, \"This label does kind of take things off the table permanently.\"\n\nAnd he pretty much just said, \"Well, I'd kind of assumed that anyway, so it's fine.\"\n\nHe's been absolutely great, he's been so understanding. I like to think it's because of my shining personality that he thinks, \"I've got to hold on to that one.\"\n\nI've never felt what most people would describe as horny and if I ever do feel any slight inkling of that it's very, very small, like an itch that I need to scratch.\n\nIt's a very biological process for me rather than an arousal kind of thing, if that makes sense, and I don't want to involve other people, not even my husband.\n\nIt's like, \"Yeuch, here's this feeling, I'll go deal with that.\"\n\nI almost disassociate from it.\n\n\"I'm 60 years old and have never knowingly met another person who is asexual. I had never even heard it publicly acknowledged.\" - Lucy\n\n\"When I first discovered that I was asexual, I tried to come out to a few people, and while some were very open to it, I've had some very negative reactions. A group of team mates from my university sports team decided to arrange a night out for me to 'help' me get laid, when they discovered that I hadn't had sex, not caring that it was due to my asexuality.\" - Scott\n\n\"I have been met with scorn, disbelief and disgusted looks when I have shared my asexuality with other people. People have told me that 'it's not a real thing' and that 'I'm making it up for attention.' I have only now begun to think of myself as a whole human being, with no 'missing pieces'.\" - Anonymous, 14 years old\n\n\"I don't have a problem with physical contact. It's just I don't see any others as sexual prey… Even though I have never discussed this with my wonderful mum, she is not blind to the fact that I live happily alone, child-free and have no interest in dating. She has even been on the brink of tears, concerned that - and I quote - 'It might be something I did that made you... not normal.'\" - Dani\n\nAsexuality is a spectrum and there are a lot of asexual people who, once they've built up a relationship with a person, feel comfortable having sex with them. But for me, any time I've ever got close, my whole body's been like, \"No, no thank you, stop that now, not having it.\"\n\nIt's just the kids thing - people that I tell almost always immediately say, \"Oh my god, but how are you going to have kids, though?\"\n\nWell, there are a lot of ways that I could have kids if I wanted them, it's not completely out of the realms of possibility.\n\nI've only been aware about asexuality for about three or four years. I like the label ACE [short for \"asexual\"]. I find it almost comforting, and it has really helped me understand who I am, how I behave and how my mind works.\n\nI do celebrate being ACE, I'm quite proud of it, and I do like to talk about it because I would like more people to understand it and not judge people for not wanting to have sex. I think if I'd known what asexuality was back when I was 18 or 19 my mental health could have been a whole lot better for most of my twenties.\n\nFunnily enough, before I discovered asexuality my husband used to call me Stace Ace.\n\nFor more information on sex and relationships you can visit BBC Advice.\n\nYou can listen to iPM on Radio 4 at 05:45 on Saturday 7 October, or catch up later on the BBC iPlayer\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Det Leanne McKie had worked at Greater Manchester Police since 2001\n\nThe husband of a serving police detective who was found dead in a lake has been charged with her murder.\n\nMother-of-three Leanne McKie, 39, was discovered in the water at Poynton Park, Cheshire, on Friday.\n\nDet McKie joined Greater Manchester Police in 2001 and worked in the force's serious sexual offences unit.\n\nDarren McKie, 43, from Burford Close, Wilmslow, who is also a police officer, is due before South and East Cheshire Magistrates' Court in Crewe on Tuesday.\n\nHe was arrested in the early hours of Friday.\n\nLeanne McKie joined Greater Manchester Police in 2001 and \"worked tirelessly to provide support and seek justice for victims\" according to Chief Constable Ian Hopkins.\n\nEarlier Cheshire Police said they are keen to speak to four people who were seen walking along A523, London Road North, towards Stockport at about 00:15 BST on Friday.\n\nThey also want to speak to anyone who may have seen Det McKie's car - a red Mini with the registration number DA12 DFO - between Thursday afternoon and the early hours of Friday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many interior roads are still heavily damaged, as officials prioritised mending coastal roads\n\nThe island of Puerto Rico was devastated by the worst hurricane in its history over three weeks ago.\n\nParts of the Caribbean island - home to 3.4 million US citizens - remain isolated, and phone networks have been catastrophically ruined, making it difficult to confirm the picture on the ground.\n\nUS President Donald Trump, who visited the island two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit, has pledged a quick recovery but experts say it could take months to complete.\n\nMeanwhile - three weeks after the disaster - only about 10% of Puerto Ricans have electricity and many are fleeing for the mainland United States.\n\nWhat does Puerto Rico's recovery look like three weeks after Maria?\n\nPart of the reason Puerto Rico's recovery has been slowed is the island's reliance on air and sea ports to bring fuel, water and food. Runways needed to be cleared of debris and supplies were stuck in the island's ports because of a US law that limits shipping between parts of the US to US-flagged vessels.\n\nPuerto Rico pressed the US to lift the act, and President Trump waived the act for 10 days to help with the recovery.\n\nMr Trump has also blamed local truck drivers for not getting back to work delivering supplies more quickly.\n\nAmong the most lingering dangers of the hurricane is the lack of clean water on the island, which has forced residents to gather from natural springs and ponds wherever possible.\n\nPublic health experts worry that this problem will make the recovery even more deadly as sanitary conditions worsen.\n\nThe USNS Comfort hospital ship, which arrived on 3 October, came bearing 500 medical personnel and 250 hospital beds onboard.\n\nPuerto Ricans have been gathering water anywhere they can\n\nWhile agriculture is no longer a primary driver of Puerto Rico's economy, the destruction of the vast majority of crops on the island means growers in the coffee, plantains and other popular agricultural industries have lost their entire livelihoods in a single storm.\n\nLoss of crops also means Puerto Ricans will need to import more of their food, an effort made more complicated by the nearby exporting countries in the Caribbean who have also been hit by hurricanes.\n\nThe storm knocked much of Puerto's Rico communications infrastructure, splitting a crucial link between family members that live in the continental US and on the island, as well as mobile phone networks that could be used to organise the recovery response.\n\nRebuilding the mobile phone network is expected to take many months.\n\nResidents of Puerto Rico are American citizens, although they have no voting representative in Congress and cannot send electors to vote in US presidential races.\n\nOnly about half of mainland Americans in a recent poll know Puerto Ricans are fellow Americans. In a survey, knowledge of their citizenship meant respondents were slightly more likely to support relief aid.", "Indian movie star Kamal Haasan, 62, has said he wants to enter politics.\n\nThe stage seems set to witness the arrival of a new political leader in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu - Kamal Haasan.\n\nAnd unsurprisingly, he's a film star. Three of Tamil Nadu's chief ministers until the recent past have been actors.\n\nHaasan, 62, whom his fans call \"Ulaga Nayagan\" or \"hero of the world\", has said that he will enter politics and work towards becoming chief minister to right the wrongs of corruption and communalism in public life in Tamil Nadu.\n\nHe has also said that the people of Tamil Nadu must change and become more socially and politically aware.\n\nThat's a tall order given that Tamil Nadu has been wracked by political uncertainty since the death of its previous chief minister Jayaram Jayalalitha in December 2016.\n\nTamil Nadu has been wracked by political uncertainty since the death of its previous chief minister J Jayalalithaa in December 2016.\n\nHassan's announcement that he will enter politics has led to intense speculation that he will float his own party and rejuvenate the moribund politics of Tamil Nadu.\n\nIf the state held assembly elections in \"the next 100 days I will be there\", said Haasan, who has been meeting politicians across the country in the last month.\n\nIn interviews following meetings with Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal of the Aam Aadmi Party, he has indicated that he is talking to politicians from different political parties for possible coalitions in the future.\n\nUnlike his friend and rival, reigning Tamil superstar Rajnikanth, Haasan has, through the years, openly spoken of his affiliation for liberal politics. Rajnikanth said he would enter politics in May.\n\nHaasan, however, has said that the two are friendly rivals who would behave like gentlemen in politics, and not resort to personal attacks like Tamil politicians have done in the past.\n\nRajnikanth is the reigning star of Tamil films\n\nHaasan's public persona has been that of a right-thinking individual in a state rife with corruption, and sectarian and caste hostilities.\n\nHis profile as a liberal who challenges caste orthodoxies on public platforms and in his movies, and his call for humanism over religion in his films, marked a cultural shift from the cult of hero worship that stars such as Rajinikanth and MG Ramachandran (who later became the Tamil Nadu chief minister) enjoy.\n\nGiven the current vacuum in political leadership, Haasan's foray into politics has not been unwelcome despite what sceptics say.\n\nUnlike Rajnikanth, who has more than 50,000 fan clubs, and a larger fan base that also constitutes a vote bank, Hassan's fan base of about 500,000 is seen as a lesser but well-organized, community-minded task force.\n\nHaasan's fan clubs, known as Narpani Iyyakam or \"movement for good deeds\", have been associated with social welfare measures, and are not prone to the frenzy and cult-style worship that Rajnikanth commands.\n\nA recent statement from the fan clubs read, \"Kamal is not like the average politician who pretends before people, but has done a lot for society through the Iyyakkam\".\n\nTamil film stars enjoy a special kind of adulation among the population. Three chief ministers came from the film industry.\n\nHis interviews in support of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Campaign) and currency ban raised eyebrows.\n\n\"While he tends to be articulate, he has always been known to make obfuscating statements that rarely appeal to common folk\", says a senior journalist in Chennai, the southern Indian city where Haasan lives.\n\n\"He's clever and articulate unlike Rajinkanth but his habit of speaking in riddles often sends mixed signals (which are) difficult to read by the average voter\", says one political commentator.\n\nExperts familiar with politics in Tamil Nadu point out that Haasan is also known to be a blunt speaker, often lacking the diplomacy that the tricky world of politics demands.\n\nHe is yet to list his ideas about how he would work on education, economics and employment in the state, or even clarify his plans to float a party of his own.\n\nHaasan has been meeting politicians across the country, including state chief ministers\n\nHaasan hails from an upper class Tamil Brahmin family of lawyers which has already thrown up two other National Award winning actors - Hassan's elder brother, Charuhasan, and his niece, Suhasini Maniratnam.\n\nHis accomplishments in the last 50 years are proof of his extraordinary talent. He made his first movie appearance as a child in 1960 and has since acted in more than 200 movies in many Indian languages, winning several prestigious national and international awards.\n\nHe has alternately been called a genius and an obsessive maverick.\n\nHe's skilled in Indian classical dance (Bharatanatyam) and music (Carnatic), and has sung in his own movies as well. A poet and a writer, he has also produced, acted, directed and written scripts for films.\n\nHaasan's films have often courted controversy. He has explored themes from the war against terror (Vishwaroopam) to Muslim identity (Hey Ram) to humanism and the question of faith (Anbe Sivam, Dashavataram).\n\nCan his appeal as an actor-turned-saviour bring him votes? Will the creative genius work his magic on the politics of the state? He certainly has confidence enough to announce his intentions, no small feat in an expectant state.", "For most of her life in prostitution in New Zealand, Sabrinna Valisce campaigned for decriminalisation of the sex trade. But when it actually happened she changed her mind and now argues that men who use prostitutes should be prosecuted. Julie Bindel tells her story.\n\nWhen Sabrinna Valisce was 12 years old her father killed himself. It changed her life completely. Within two years, her mother had remarried and the family had moved from Australia to Wellington, New Zealand, where her life was miserable.\n\n\"I was very unhappy,\" says Valisce. \"My stepfather was violent, and there was no-one to talk to.\"\n\nShe dreamed of becoming a professional dancer and set up a lunchtime ballet class at her school, which proved so popular that a well-known dance group, Limbs, came to run lessons.\n\nBut within months she found herself on the streets, selling sex to survive.\n\nWalking through the park on her way home from school, a man offered her $100 for sex.\n\n\"I was in school uniform so there was no mistaking my age,\" she says.\n\nValisce used the money to run away to Auckland, where she checked into the YMCA.\n\n\"I tried ringing someone to ask for help in the phone booth which was outside the hostel, but it was engaged, so I waited,\" she says.\n\n\"The police stopped and asked what I was doing. I said, 'Waiting to use the phone'.\"\n\nThe officers pointed out that no-one was using the phone, so there was no need to wait. They thought they were being \"terribly clever\" Valisce says - but didn't seem to understand when she explained that it was the telephone she was calling that was engaged.\n\n\"They searched me for condoms thinking I was a prostitute because the YMCA was behind Karangahape Road, the infamous prostitution area.\n\n\"Ironically, that was what gave me the idea to go get some money. The police scared me but I knew I was going to be on the streets if I didn't get cash, and the act of leaning against a wall was all it took to be searched and threatened anyway, so I figured it made no difference if I was or wasn't.\"\n\nKarangahape Road pictured in 2003, shortly after the law legalising prostitution was passed\n\nValisce walked over to Karangahape Road and asked one of the women working there for advice.\n\nShe pointed out two alleyways where Valisce could work. \"She also gave me a condom, told me basic charges and advised me to make them fight for services I was prepared to do, to avoid fighting against services I wasn't prepared to do. She was very nice. Samoan, too young to be there, and clearly been there for too long already.\"\n\nIn 1989, after two years working on the streets, Valisce visited the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective (NZPC) in Christchurch.\n\n\"I was looking for some support, perhaps to exit prostitution, but all I was offered was condoms,\" she says.\n\nShe was also invited to the collective's regular wine and cheese social on Friday nights.\n\n\"They started talking about how stigma against 'sex workers' was the worst thing about it, and that prostitution is just a job like any other,\" Valisce remembers.\n\nIt somehow made what she was doing seem more palatable.\n\nShe became the collective's massage parlour co-ordinator and an enthusiastic supporter of its campaign for the full decriminalisation of all aspects of the sex trade, including pimps.\n\n\"It felt like there was a revolution coming. I was so excited about how decriminalisation would make things better for the women,\" she says.\n\nDecriminalisation arrived in 2003, and Valisce attended the celebration party held by the prostitutes' collective.\n\nWhen prostitution was legalised in 2003, job adverts appeared in the New Zealand press\n\nBut she soon became disillusioned.\n\nThe Prostitution Reform Act allowed brothels to operate as legitimate businesses, a model often hailed as the safest option for women in the sex trade.\n\nIn the UK, the Home Affairs Select Committee has been considering a number of different approaches towards the sex trade, including full decriminalisation. But Valisce says that in New Zealand it was a disaster, and only benefited the pimps and punters.\n\n\"I thought it would give more power and rights to the women,\" she says. \"But I soon realised the opposite was true.\"\n\nOne problem was that it allowed brothel owners to offer punters an \"all-inclusive\" deal, whereby they would pay a set amount to do anything they wanted with a woman.\n\n\"One thing we were promised would not happen was the 'all-inclusive',\" says Valisce. \"Because that would mean the women wouldn't be able to set the price or determine which sexual services they offered or refused - which was the mainstay of decriminalisation and its supposed benefits.\"\n\nAged 40, Valisce approached a brothel in Wellington for a job, and was shocked by what she saw.\n\n\"During my first shift, I saw a girl come back from an escort job who was having a panic attack, shaking and crying, and unable to speak. The receptionist was yelling at her, telling her to get back to work. I grabbed my belongings and left,\" she says.\n\nShortly afterwards, she told the prostitutes' collective in Wellington what she had witnessed. \"What are we doing about this?\" she asked. \"Are we working on any services to help get out?\"\n\nShe was \"absolutely ignored\", she says, and finally left the prostitutes' collective.\n\nUntil then, the organisation had been her only source of support, a place to go where no-one judged her for working in the sex trade.\n\nThe English Collective of Prostitutes also campaigns for decriminalisation\n\nIt was while volunteering there, though, that she had begun her journey towards becoming an \"abolitionist\".\n\n\"One of my jobs at NZPC was to find all of the media clippings. There was one thing I read: it was somebody talking about being in tears and not knowing why, and it wasn't until they were out [of the sex trade] that they understood what those feelings were.\n\n\"I had been through that for years [thinking], 'I don't know what's going on, why am I feeling like this?' and realised when I read that: 'Oh God, that's me.'\"\n\nFor Valisce, there was no turning back.\n\nShe left prostitution in early 2011 and moved to the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, seeking a new direction in life, but was confused and depressed. When her neighbour tried to recruit her into webcam prostitution, she politely declined. \"I felt like I had 'whore' stamped on my forehead. How did she know to ask me? I now know being female was the only reason\", says Valisce. Afterwards the neighbour hurled insults at Valisce whenever she saw her.\n\nValisce began to meet women online, feminists who were against decriminalisation and described themselves as abolitionists - the abolitionist model, also currently being considered by the UK's Home Affairs Select Committee, criminalises the pimps and punters while decriminalising the prostituted person.\n\nValisce set up a group called Australian Radical Feminists and was soon invited to a conference. Held at the University of Melbourne last year, it was the first abolitionist event ever to be held in Australia, where many states have legalised the brothel trade.\n\nMelbourne itself has had legal brothels since the mid-1980s, and although there is a lot of vocal support for the system, there is also a growing movement against it.\n\nOne Melbourne bordello floated on the stock exchange in 2002\n\nShe describes this period, when she became a feminist activist against the sex trade and began to feel free of her past, as \"the start of my new life\".\n\n\"I exited first emotionally, then physically and lastly intellectually,\" she says.\n\nAfter the conference Valisce went to a doctor and was diagnosed with PTSD.\n\n\"It was as a result of my time in prostitution - it had affected me badly, but I was good at covering up the effects,\" she says.\n\n\"It takes a long while to feel whole again.\"\n\nFor Valisce, the best therapy is working with women who understand what it's like to go through the sex trade, and those who also campaign to expose the harm prostitution brings.\n\nShe is also determined to ensure that the women who are usually silenced by their abusers have a voice.\n\n\"It's not my goal to trap people in the industry or tell anyone to go get out,\" she says. \"But I do want to make a difference, and that means speaking out as much as I can, in order to help other women.\"\n\nJulie Bindel is the author of The pimping of prostitution: Abolishing the Sex Work Myth\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Det Leanne McKie had worked at Greater Manchester Police since 2001\n\nDetectives investigating the death of a police officer whose body was found in a lake are appealing for anyone who saw her car to come forward.\n\nMother-of-three Leanne McKie was discovered in the water at Poynton Park, Cheshire, on Friday.\n\nAnyone who saw the 39-year-old's red Mini between Thursday afternoon and the early hours of Friday is urged to contact Cheshire Police.\n\nA man, 43, from Wilmslow, remains in custody on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe mother-of-three's body was found in Poynton Park on Friday\n\nThe force has also appealed for dashcam footage from drivers on the A523 in Poynton and the A5149 Chester Road toward Wilmslow, between 23:30 BST on Thursday and 03:30 on Friday.\n\nDet McKie joined Greater Manchester Police in 2001 and worked in the force's serious sexual offences unit.\n\nIts Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said she had \"worked tirelessly to provide support and seek justice for victims\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Officers opened fire on a car on the A369 Portbury Hundred near junction 19 of the M5 on Wednesday\n\nA man who was shot dead by police near Bristol last week has been named.\n\nHe was 29-year-old Spencer Ashworth, whose last known address was in Portishead, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said.\n\nOfficers opened fire on a car on the A369 Portbury Hundred near junction 19 of the M5 on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe IPCC said information indicated officers had responded to a report of a man travelling on the M5 with a handgun who had threatened another motorist.\n\nA commission spokesman said it had also been informed of an earlier incident in which a similar report was received by West Mercia Police.\n\nAuthorised firearms officers from Avon and Somerset Police were involved, and a number of shots were fired by four officers. A non-police issue firearm found at the scene was undergoing ballistics and forensic tests.\n\nThe IPCC said it would not now be investigating Gloucestershire Police or West Mercia Police after the forces referred themselves to the organisation over how they dealt with information received from a member of the public before the incident.", "There were lengthy delays for motorists in the Winchester area\n\nA 17-year-old boy has been charged after \"potentially hazardous material\" forced the closure of the M3 motorway.\n\nThousands of people were stuck in queues for 11 hours on 23 September between junctions nine and 11.\n\nThe teenager, from Winchester, faces two counts of arson with intent to endanger life and two of causing danger to road users, Hampshire Police said.\n\nHe will appear before Basingstoke magistrates on Monday over incidents on the M3 on 16 and 23 September.\n\nThe discovery of the partly-ignited substance, dropped from a bridge, led to military bomb disposal experts being called to the motorway near Winchester.\n\nThe road was closed shortly before 04:00 BST and had fully reopened by about 15:30.\n\nAt the time of the incident, police revealed they were also investigating a similar case on the same bridge at about 04:00 BST on 16 September, when an object was dropped on to the carriageway.\n\nOn that occasion officers found \"a quantity of broken glass\" but no fire.\n\nNo-one was hurt on either occasion.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Demi Lovato: \"I know I have a platform and I want to make the biggest change in the world that I can\"\n\n\"Five, four, three, two, one!\"\n\nPop star Demi Lovato is doing her best impression of Nasa's mission control as she records an insert for a forthcoming TV show.\n\nStanding in an alcove of BBC Broadcasting House, as staff mill around with laptops and coffee cups, she's really giving it some welly - which is impressive considering she has literally no idea what she is counting down from, or to.\n\n\"Yeah, I don't know what that was for,\" laughs Lovato as she sidles into a seat to chat about her new album, Tell Me You Love Me.\n\nIt's the 25-year-old's sixth record since she began her career as a child actress on the TV show Barney and Friends. Since then, she's starred in Camp Rock alongside the Jonas Brothers, appeared as a judge on The X Factor USA, and become a fierce advocate for anti-bullying and mental health campaigns.\n\nThat's partly because she's had to face her own problems - including cocaine use, bulimia, self-harm, and bipolar disorder - culminating, in 2012, with a year-long stay in a sober living facility.\n\nThe star was going to take 2017 off, but was inspired to go back into the studio after a Grammy nomination for her last album, Confident\n\nShe addresses some of those issues for the first time on her new record, in particular on You Don't Do It For Me Anymore, which describes giving up drugs in the form of a break-up ballad.\n\nThe album also dwells on the end of her six-year relationship with actor Wilmer Valderrama (Lonely); and the lasting effects of her birth father's absence (Daddy Issues).\n\nBut there's also space for a few of her trademark party anthems and, on the title track, the vocal performance of her career.\n\nWith the countdown out of the way, Demi spills the beans on the stories behind the songs - and the time she almost killed a Beatle.\n\nI know it's a cliche, but this feels like your most personal album yet. Was that the goal?\n\nIt just came out in the writing. I would go into the studio with an idea based off of a personal experience… Like one of the songs, Games, I went on a bad date and I wrote a song about it.\n\nOh! I'd rather not say. But just being disrespected. This guy just treated me really poorly, and was playing games the whole time.\n\nIs it harder to date when you're in the public eye?\n\nIt's easy and it's difficult, too.\n\nBut it's kind of nice because if you find somebody attractive, you can just hit them up or, like, slide into their DMs [direct messages] and be like, \"Hey, what's going on?\"\n\nThe star's hits include Sorry Not Sorry, Cool For The Summer and Heart Attack\n\nOne of the songs on the album, Ruin The Friendship, is about making a move on a close friend. It's almost a comedy of errors...\n\nA lot of people read the title and think it's about animosity - but it's a very sexy song.\n\nHave you ever been tempted to hook up with a friend?\n\nYes! That's what I wrote the song about! A certain friendship that I have with someone - and I want to ruin that with them.\n\nHow long have you kept it secret?\n\nI think it's been a long time coming.\n\nI actually ended up sending this song to the person. And it turned out they had a song they wrote about me! So we, like, exchanged songs, which was funny.\n\nSo did that lead to something romantic, or did you just laugh about it together?\n\nOK... On Concentrate, you sing about listening to Coldplay while you're in bed with someone. I can't imagine a less sexy band...\n\nOh really? I think his voice is sexy! But also - I didn't write the song.\n\nSo what would be your baby-making music?\n\nI once asked Usher if he knew of any babies that been conceived to his music, and he said \"yes, my son\".\n\nOh. Wow. That's creepy. I can't say I listen to my own music while I'm… I'm doing it!\n\nThe singer says she is looking forward to performing her new album live\n\nYou employ a huge range of vocal colours and tones across the album. What's your favourite?\n\nMy favourite is to sing very soulfully. I think Tell Me You Love Me is my ideal, because I really get to sing in it.\n\nI didn't write that one - but when I recorded it I was going through a break-up, and it said exactly what I was wanting to tell that person. I wanted to hear them tell me that they loved me. So I really related to that song when I recorded it.\n\nDoes Lonely refer to the same relationship?\n\nYeah. I didn't write on that one either, but I definitely related to it.\n\nDaddy Issues has one of the most cutting lyrics I've heard this year: \"You're the man of my dreams because you know how to leave.\"\n\nThat was a lyric that I came up with. When you grow up with an absent father, you have relationship issues - and sometimes you go for the type of person who feels familiar. So that lyric was about something that felt familiar.\n\nIt's about anticipating disappointment and almost thriving off it.\n\nYes, feeling comfortable with it. Sometimes it's more comfortable to feel pain when that's all you've known in certain situations.\n\nLovato has remained close friends with her Camp Rock co-star Nick Jonas, and toured with him last year\n\nYou've just been named a mental health ambassador by Global Citizen. What does that involve?\n\nI partnered with Save The Children and Global Citizen, for the HEART programme [Healing and Education through the Arts], which is going to help displaced children and refugees in Iraq.\n\nIt started when I went over there last year, just see how I could help - and I talked to a bunch of Isis victims. I asked one girl, \"What is it that you want?\" and she said, \"I want to be happy again.\"\n\nI realised there was so much PTSD [post-traumatic stress disorder] that they deal with - so we're starting a pilot programme to try to help, using art therapy.\n\nYou've spoken quite candidly about your own mental health issues in the past. How do you keep on top of that when you're in the middle of promoting and touring a record?\n\nI maintain a very healthy lifestyle, so I eat very clean, I get a lot of sleep and I set aside some time to myself every day.\n\nWhat do you do in that time? Meditation?\n\nI make sure that I work out. And that's like an hour-and-a-half of me devoting to myself.\n\nAn hour-and-a-half a day? That's tough. I manage to run about half an hour a week.\n\nMixed Martial Arts. [She has a blue belt in Jiu-Jitsu]\n\nSo don't get on the wrong side of Demi Lovato.\n\nYes - don't mess with me!\n\nThe singer shows her fun side in the video for Sorry Not Sorry\n\nSpeaking of which, is it true you once nearly ran over Paul McCartney?\n\nYes, but it's not as dramatic as I made it sound! He was standing in a parking space I was trying to get into and I honked the horn because someone was in my way. Then he turned around and it was Paul McCartney!\n\nDid he give you the thumbs-up?\n\nHe turned around and said, \"Oh, I'm so sorry\" and I was like, \"Don't worry about it! You're a Beatle!\"\n\nYou realise no-one's honked their horn at Paul McCartney in years…\n\nYou know, I don't remember if I honked the horn, or if I just kept inching up so he would move…\n\nOh God, you could have crushed a Beatle!\n\nYes, it would have been a very bad headline! And the headline's bad enough already.\n\nDemi Lovato's album, Tell Me You Love Me, is out now on Polydor records.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "There has been a fair amount of sniggering that the government has announced a freeze in tuition fees - something the Telegraph heralded as part of a \"revolution\".\n\nThat will matter within the sector.\n\nBut it is unlikely to change Britain's electoral dynamics.\n\nThere is, however, one enormous and expensive change that is worth unpicking in all this: Theresa May also told the Telegraph that the government is going to raise the student loan repayment threshold from £21,000 to £25,000.\n\nThis has two big effects.\n\nFirst, all graduates earning above the old threshold will now repay less in any given year.\n\nA person earning, say, £30,000 a year would pay 9% of their income above £25,000 - not £21,000. So their flow of annual repayments would drop from £810 to £450.\n\nSecond, the interest rates charged on the outstanding balance for each student is tied to how far they are above the repayment threshold.\n\nAs a result, moving this threshold will also reduce the flow of interest accruing to the Treasury that might eventually be payable by ex-students.\n\nThere are good reasons for doing this.\n\nMartin Lewis, founder of MoneySavingExpert, has been campaigning for the threshold to rise - it was, after all, promised.\n\nAnd this change reduces the pinch on young people's pay very directly: it feels like a very targeted tax cut to some young graduates.\n\nBut, to channel the spirit of the Treasury, it is very expensive. Not in the short term, when I'd expect it would make a pretty small impact. But definitely in the longer term.\n\nDemonstrations against the interdiction of tuition fees were held in 2010\n\nBack in 2012, when the current student finance system took effect, the £21,000 threshold was supposed to rise steadily over time, but it was later frozen in nominal terms to save money.\n\nThe reason for the freeze was that the loss rate on student loans issued after 2012 was estimated to be around 45p in every pound lent out - higher than originally budgeted for. The freeze cut the cost and, combined with a few changes to how the cost is estimated, took the estimate down to about 30p.\n\nBy eye, I would estimate that this change would increase the cost by at least 10p in the pound. The losses would be over 40p in the pound. That is potentially a lot of money.\n\nHow much? This affects the so-called \"Plan 2\" debt pile, which stood at £44bn in the last debt statistics release.\n\nThis category is currently accruing at a rate of about £13bn a year. So with fees at current levels, it is heading to about £120bn at the end of this Parliament.\n\nEven with the most conservative assumptions, we are talking well over £10bn of losses on the value of that debt by 2022.\n\nThat loss won't appear in any debt statistics in 2022 - but the losses will be there, and will slowly get added to the national debt between now and the 2050s.\n\nIt will happen subtly, but this is a \"putting on the Olympics\" level of outlay.\n\nThe politics of this are baffling, too.\n\nThe interest charge on outstanding debt - now at 6.1% for higher-earners and students still studying - was a major issue.\n\nThey could have gone for that without making the whole student finance system a lot more expensive.\n\nThis measure is a boon for current and recent students - but this looks like progress for Labour. It makes it harder for the government to defend the status quo by making it much dearer.\n• None May: We 'listened' on student fees", "The attack took place outside the train station in the southern French port city\n\nTwo young women have been stabbed to death at Marseille's main train station in a suspected terrorist attack.\n\nSoldiers on guard at the station shot dead the attacker, who police described as of North African appearance and aged about 30. Witnesses said he shouted \"Allahu akbar\" (God is greatest).\n\nSo-called Islamic State (IS) said the attacker was one of its \"soldiers\".\n\nOne victim had her throat slit and the other was stabbed in the stomach. They were both aged 20.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron said he was disgusted by the \"barbarous act\" and paid tribute to the soldiers and the police officers who responded.\n\nThe attack took place by a bench outside the southern French city's Saint Charles train station.\n\nInterior Minister Gérard Collomb told reporters that the attacker had fled after the first murder but returned to kill again.\n\nSoldiers were already in the station as part of Operation Sentinelle, which sees combat troops patrol streets and protect key sites amid France's ongoing state of emergency.\n\nIS claimed it was behind the attack via its Amaq news outlet. The group regularly claims responsibility for militant attacks it believes are inspired by its ideology.\n\nIS recently released a tape purportedly of leader Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi in which he urged supporters to step up attacks.\n\nPolice are treating this as a terrorist attack, but there are plenty of question marks about the man and his motivation.\n\nFrench media report that the killer was in his 20s with a police record for petty offences.\n\nIf so, that fits in with a steady pattern of recent attacks in France, carried out by individuals who seem to have a deep hatred of French authority, aggravated by exposure to Islamist ideas.\n\nUpdate 12 October 2017: This article has been amended to give the correct age of one of the victims.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eyewitness Anthony Biscardi recalls the moment a prop collapsed on US rockstar Manson\n\nRock star Marilyn Manson is recuperating at home after a stage accident in which he was crushed by a prop, his spokesman has told the BBC.\n\nThe prop - apparently two large guns held together with metal scaffolding - fell as he was performing at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom.\n\nAn eyewitness said Manson lay on stage for up to 15 minutes before he was taken to hospital on a stretcher.\n\nThe singer has cancelled nine dates of his US tour after Saturday's incident.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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\nEyewitness Anthony Biscardi told the BBC that fans at the concert \"instantly freaked out\".\n\n\"He was performing the song Sweet Dreams,\" he said. \"Towards the middle of the song it seemed as though he tried climbing onto a prop.\n\n\"The first touch of weight on those poles and it came crashing down onto him.\"\n\nIn videos of the incident posted online, stage crew and band members can be seen lifting the prop off the singer but he does not get back up.\n\n\"He was pretty limp, almost as though he was unconscious,\" Mr Biscardi said.\n\nMr Biscardi said a black sheet was put around him until he could be taken off stage, when an announcement was made that the show was cancelled \"due to injury\".\n\nThe 48-year-old 'shock rock' star has been nominated for four Grammy awards\n\nIn a statement, the star's publicist said: \"Marilyn Manson is being forced to cancel several of his October dates on his forthcoming US tour.\n\n\"On Saturday night, the legendary performer suffered an injury on stage towards the end of his set at NYC's Hammerstein Ballroom causing him to cut the show short.\n\n\"He was treated for the injury at a local hospital and will be recuperating at home in Los Angeles.\n\nThe 48-year-old artist was three dates into his The Heaven Upside Down Tour. He was due to perform in Boston on Monday night.\n\nWriting on Instagram, Manson's guitarist Tyler Bates said the tour was \"on pause for a minute\" but \"Manson will be back in action soon\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Monarch is in last-ditch talks with the aviation regulator about renewing its licence to sell package holidays.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) extended Monarch's licence by 24 hours on Saturday amid uncertainty about the company's future.\n\nHowever, with the deadline now passed, the regulator has yet to announce a decision on what it means for the UK's fifth biggest airline.\n\nAbout 10,000 people on holidays sold by the airline are thought to be abroad.\n\nThe CAA is understood to have contingency plans in place to bring those passengers home on other airlines if Monarch faces difficulties.\n\nMonarch had until midnight on Sunday to reach a deal with the CAA - but neither the company nor the CAA have issued updates since then.\n\nIf the regulator decides not to renew its package holiday licence, consumer confidence in Monarch's scheduled airline operations could also be undermined.\n\nPackage holidays accounted for a fraction of the 6.3 million passengers Monarch carried last year to 40 destinations from Gatwick, Luton, Birmingham, Leeds-Bradford and Manchester airports.\n\nThe government's Atol scheme refunds customers if a travel firm collapses and ensures they are not stranded.\n\nThe agreement with the CAA on Saturday means package holidays bought from Monarch on Sunday are still Atol protected.\n\nMonarch's owner, Greybull Capital, has been trying to sell part or all of its short-haul operation so it can focus on more profitable long-haul routes.\n\nThe airline reported a loss of £291m for the year to October 2016, compared with a profit of £27m for the previous 12 months, after revenues slumped.\n\nMonarch, founded in 1968, is made up of a scheduled airline, tour operator and an engineering division. In total it employs about 2,500 people.\n\nThe company said its flights are operating as normal, and that it continues to work on plans to resolve its future.\n\nMonarch has focused more on destinations such as Spain following terror attacks in Turkey and Egypt\n\nMonarch has experienced the perfect storm of challenges in recent years.\n\nThe terror attacks in Turkey and Egypt have deprived the airline of a large chunk of its annual revenues, and forced it to compete on heavily congested traditional routes to Spain and Greece.\n\nThat has forced down prices and profits on top of weaker demand from UK travellers - for whom a less valuable pound has made travelling costlier.\n\nMonarch will not be facing the winter with much confidence.\n\nThe short-haul market has been described as \"horrendous\" by senior aviation industry figures. It has already resulted in the collapse of Air Berlin and placed huge pressure on other airlines.\n\nPut simply, there are too many seats and not enough bums to put on them to make a profit for all major carriers.\n\nAre you currently abroad with Monarch or planning to travel soon? E-mail us at haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nYou can also contact us in the following ways:", "Businesses need more clarity on Brexit, the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has acknowledged.\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme the sooner the government gave businesses more certainty about the process, the sooner the economy would pick up.\n\nHis comments follow warnings from the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) that public disagreements between ministers were undermining business confidence.\n\nTheresa May has said the cabinet is united on the UK's Brexit position.\n\nThe prime minister said on Sunday that the cabinet, including Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, had agreed to the Brexit plans set out in her speech in Italy last month.\n\nMr Johnson wrote an article for the Sun at the weekend in which he said Mrs May's planned transition phase must not last \"a second more\" than two years. It is the second time in a fortnight he has set out his own vision for Brexit.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Hammond said: \"There are short-term challenges and the uncertainty created by the Brexit negotiation process is one of them.\n\n\"We're already seeing some decisions being made. What we're hearing from business is a plea, 'Don't put us in a position where we have to assume the worst, give us a horizon so we can plan the future with confidence.'\n\n\"The sooner we can get some clarity, the sooner we can move forward, give businesses and investors more certainty about the future, the quicker this economy will start growing again.\"\n\nHe hinted there may be some room for help to business in the next Budget: \"What I've said in previous fiscal events is we have the flexibility to respond to support the economy through what is a very difficult period as we negotiate our exit from the European Union.\n\n\"We will have to be prepared to support the economy as necessary throughout this period.\"\n\nMr Hammond is expected to announce an extra £300m to improve rail links in the north of England in his speech to the Tory conference.\n\nThe BCC, which is made up of business leaders who employ nearly six million people between them, flagged continuing business concerns about splits within government.\n\nIt said business was \"growing impatient with division\" at the heart of the government, particularly around the Brexit process, and called for ministers attending the Conservative party conference to show \"competence and coherence\".\n\nThe organisation's director general, Adam Marshall, said: \"Public disagreements between cabinet ministers in recent weeks have only served to undermine business confidence, not just on Brexit negotiations.\"\n\nFirms also want clear action on cutting business costs, building key infrastructure, helping firms plug skills gaps, and support for investment.\n\nAnother major business lobby group, the Institute of Directors (IoD), has called for the chancellor to boost private-sector investment.\n\nIoD director general Stephen Martin pointed to a survey it has carried out that suggests business optimism has declined since the start of the year.\n\nHe said it showed \"that businesses are not immune to their political surroundings and confidence cannot be taken for granted\".", "The captain of the submarine HMS Vigilant is at the centre of the investigation, the BBC understands\n\nA nuclear submarine captain has been relieved of his command after an alleged \"inappropriate relationship\" with a member of his crew.\n\nThe Royal Navy captain is being investigated following the allegations, which involve a female member of crew.\n\nThe BBC understands the captain of the submarine HMS Vigilant is at the centre of the investigation.\n\nHMS Vigilant is a Vanguard class submarine based at HMNB Clyde at Faslane in Argyll and Bute.\n\nIt is one of four British submarines armed with the Trident ballistic missile system.\n\nThe Royal Navy has confirmed an investigation is ongoing but said it had not had an impact on current operations.\n\nA ban on women serving on board submarines was only lifted in 2011.\n\nSince then, a few dozen women have undergone specialist training to serve on board Royal Navy submarines.\n\nAll Royal Navy vessels have a \"no touching rule\" that prohibits intimate relationships on board, but the Navy takes a particularly harsh view when it might affect the chain of command.\n\nIn 2014, the first female captain of a Navy warship - HMS Portland - was removed from command after she was found to have breached strict rules on relations with a member of her crew.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Natasha Slessor had worked as cabin crew for Monarch for nearly four years\n\nHolidaymakers and airline staff have been left \"devastated\" by the collapse of flight operator Monarch.\n\nHundreds of people arrived at Leeds Bradford, Gatwick, Birmingham, Luton and Manchester airports to find their flights had been cancelled.\n\nCabin crew member Natasha Slessor was one of nearly 1,900 staff made redundant on Monday.\n\n\"How can you wake up and not have a job?\" she said. \"I still can't believe it really.\"\n\nMonarch staff were in tears after being made redundant\n\nMs Slessor said she was keeping positive about her future.\n\n\"I love this job, I love my career,\" she said.\n\n\"I was hoping I would progress further and do it forever but I'm young enough to get another job. I will. I'm certain of that.\"\n\nMs Slessor said she was due to go on maternity leave and was worried for her colleagues.\n\n\"There's other people in this company who won't be so lucky and they've given their heart and soul to Monarch,\" she said.\n\nMonarch had employed about 2,100 people. Administrators said 1,858 staff had been made redundant, with the remaining workers helping to bring back 110,000 Monarch holidaymakers from overseas.\n\nFlight attendants Katie Leary, Kate Halbo, Debbie Jackson and Charlie Winter have worked for Monarch for 19 years and call themselves the \"sky sisters\".\n\nIt was more than just a job, it was \"a way of life\", they said.\n\nThe friends said they felt sorry for the customers who were stranded abroad and it pained them they could not be there to bring them back home.\n\nFrom left, Katie Leary, Kate Halbo, Debbie Jackson and Charlie Winter said they had given 19 years of their lives to Monarch\n\nPassenger Steve Walker said he was \"gutted\" he would miss defending his World Masters Powerlifting title in Sweden.\n\nThe 61-year-old from Hardingstone, Northamptonshire told the BBC he was off to compete in the 74kg Masters three class in Sundsvall on Tuesday.\n\nHe was on his way to Luton airport when he got a text from a friend at 04:30 BST telling him all Monarch flights were cancelled, he said.\n\n\"I'd been training for this for three months and this championship was supposed to be my last.\"\n\nHe added: \"I've just had to cut my losses. I'm absolutely gutted. The competition will be streamed live online, but I don't want to see it. I don't want to watch a competition I should be in.\"\n\nSteve Walker said he was \"absolutely gutted\" his cancelled flight meant he would miss a powerlifting competition\n\nCustomers in the UK yet to travel: Don't go to the airport, the CAA says.\n\nCustomers abroad: Everyone due to fly in the next fortnight will be brought back to the UK at no cost to them. There is no need to cut short a stay.\n\nThose with flight-only bookings after 16 October are unlikely to have Atol scheme protection, so will need to make their own arrangements.\n\nCustomers currently overseas should check monarch.caa.co.uk for confirmation of their new flight details - which will be available a minimum of 48 hours in advance of their original departure time.\n\nThe CAA also has a 24-hour helpline: 0300 303 2800 from the UK and Ireland and +44 1753 330330 from overseas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'So much for a cheap couple of days away'\n\nJenny Collin from Colchester was ready to fly from Luton to Barcelona with her husband for their golden wedding anniversary celebrations.\n\n\"We've got two cases all packed up ready to go,\" she said. \"I just feel devastated and let down.\n\n\"It's just made me sick. I won't trust a travel company again.\"\n\nAlan Jee said he and his family were \"stranded\"\n\nAlan Jee was due to get married in Gran Canaria on Saturday and arrived at Gatwick Airport with 30 members of his family.\n\n\"I have spent £20,000 on my wedding and now I can't even go and get married,\" he said.\n\n\"I am gutted, absolutely gutted, and my missus is in tears, an emotional wreck.\"\n\nAbout 250 passengers turned up Leeds Bradford Airport to find flights cancelled.\n\nPhil Morcom from Leeds said: \"Myself, my wife and my daughter were going to Dubrovnik for my niece's wedding on Wednesday.\n\n\"We are probably not going now but are busy scouring the web. We were not Atol-covered and had bought flights only so will lose the money it seems.\"\n\nFrom left Rickey Lal, Tony Lal and Steven Singh were going to Barcelona from Birmingham\n\nManchester Airport said a \"few hundred\" people turned up for Monarch's early morning flights.\n\nDenise Parry, 51, from Salford, said she had \"thrown up with the stress of it all\".\n\n\"We got to the airport at 03:00 and it was at 04:00 while we were in the queue that we found out,\" she said.\n\nMs Parry and her partner initially booked alternative flights to Dalaman with Thomson later on Monday but she was later told no more places were available on the plane.\n\n\"It is so annoying, we have had the holiday booked for 12 months. We're going home now,\" she said.\n\nRicky Lal, Tony Lal and Steven Singh were travelling to Birmingham Airport for their flight to Barcelona when they received a text from Monarch at 04:09.\n\n\"No one's told us anything, just given us these leaflets with no information,\" said Mr Lal.\n\nThe trio are now booked on another flight but say they are \"frustrated\" as they are out of pocket.\n\nAnne and Barrie Chittenden from Nottinghamshire and Walters and Cathy Flanagan from Hartlepool were off to Lisbon for six nights.\n\nThey saw the news on Twitter at 04:30 while they were on the bus to Birmingham airport and have not heard from Monarch.\n\nThey said they were in \"good spirits\" and would sit it out to see what happened.\n\nPeople due to return to England on Monarch flights have started to arrive back on planes drafted in from other airlines.\n\nJoe Simon flew from Palma, Majorca, to Manchester and said he found out about Monarch's collapse from the taxi driver taking him to the airport.\n\n\"When we got there it was all normal, everyone seemed to go with the flow and no-one was worried,\" said Mr Simon from Bagillt in North Wales.\n\n\"When we got off the pilot said if passengers were going to Leeds and Gatwick, people would help them in the airport.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eyewitness Anthony Biscardi recalls the moment a prop collapsed on US rockstar Manson\n\nRock star Marilyn Manson was injured during a concert in New York when a large piece of stage scenery fell on him on stage.\n\nThe prop - apparently two large guns held together with metal scaffolding - fell as he was performing at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Saturday.\n\nAn eyewitness told the BBC that the singer lay on stage for up to 15 minutes covered by a sheet before he was carried out on a stretcher and taken to hospital.\n\nHe has cancelled nine tour dates following the injury, according to Billboard magazine.\n\nEyewitness Anthony Biscardi told the BBC that fans at the concert \"instantly freaked out\".\n\n\"He was performing the song Sweet Dreams. Towards the middle of the song it seemed as though he tried climbing onto a prop.\n\n\"The first touch of weight on those poles and it came crashing down onto him.\"\n\nThe 48-year-old 'shock rock' star has been nominated for four Grammy awards\n\nIn videos of the incident posted online, stage crew and band members can be seen lifting the prop off the singer but he does not get back up.\n\n\"He was pretty limp, almost as though he was unconscious,\" Mr Biscardi said.\n\nMr Biscardi said a black sheet was put around him until he could be taken off stage, when an announcement was made that the show was cancelled \"due to injury\".\n\nA representative told Rolling Stone magazine that: \"Manson suffered an injury towards the end of his incredible NYC show. He is being treated at a local hospital.\"\n\nThe 48-year-old artist was three dates into his The Heaven Upside Down Tour. He was due to perform in Boston on Monday night.", "The chancellor said a 35-year political consensus over the free market was now at an end\n\nThe Conservatives must take on and defeat Labour \"dinosaurs\" in a great \"clash of ideas\" over the future of capitalism, Philip Hammond has said.\n\nHe told activists they must expose Jeremy Corbyn's \"back to the future socialist fantasy\" which he said was leading people \"down a dangerous path\".\n\nThe chancellor also said his party must address concerns over pressure on living standards and housing costs.\n\nAnd he announced £300m for rail improvements in the north of England.\n\nThe new money will be used to ensure HS2 will link to faster trains between Liverpool and Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds and York - so-called Northern Powerhouse rail.\n\nThe chancellor used his keynote party conference speech in Manchester to mount a defence of free market economics, which he claimed was coming under assault from Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nDescribing the Labour leader and his shadow chancellor John McDonnell as \"dinosaurs who had broken out of their glass cases\", he said Labour's harking back to the \"ideological experiments\" of the 1970s presented a \"clear and present\" danger to the UK's future prosperity.\n\n\"They say politics is about the clash of ideas. So we say to Corbyn 'bring it on',\" he said.\n\n\"Let them put their arguments, let them make their case. We will take them on. And we will defeat them. I promise you this: we will defeat them by the power of argument; by our logic; by the experience of history.\"\n\nMr Hammond insisted the British economy was \"fundamentally strong\", with employment at a record high and income inequality at its lowest level for decades.\n\nWhile the UK faced a number of challenges, including Brexit-related uncertainty, sluggish productivity and a housing sector which many people young people thought was \"rigged\" against them, he said free markets were the only, not merely the best, way to improve living standards and underpin free societies.\n\nThe prime minister was among those in the audience\n\n\"While no-one suggests a market economy is perfect, it is the best system yet designed for making people steadily better off over time and underpinning strong and sustainable public services for everyone.\n\n\"As this model comes under renewed assault, we must not be afraid to defend it.\"\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent Chris Mason said Mr Hammond's speech offered a glimpse into an internal Conservative debate about how to take on Mr Corbyn, with some wanting to tack a little left but others saying they should stick to a full-throated defence of the free, albeit regulated, market.\n\nFor Labour, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said: \"After seven wasted years of Tory economic failure... he is continuing down the path of his predecessor and clinging to an old economic model that fails the many.\n\n\"It was a speech that contained more baseless smears on Labour than Tory policy announcements. But it betrays how fearful the Tories are of the challenge posed by Jeremy Corbyn.\"\n\nCarolyn Fairbairn, the director general of the CBI business group, said: \"The chancellor has given a passionate defence of free markets and the importance of business and government working to tackle inequality. That is necessary, but not sufficient.\n\n\"The UK is facing a generation defining-challenge. A potent cocktail of Brexit uncertainty and dogma-driven politics on both left and right threatens jobs, investment and living standards. Now is not the time for half measures.\"\n\nThe Conservatives kicked off their week in Manchester by announcing plans to freeze student fees and pledge an extra £10bn for the Help to Buy scheme as part of an effort to win over younger voters.\n\nMr Hammond said the Conservatives must \"make a clear commitment to the next generation - that they will be better off than us; and that their children will be better off again than them\".\n\nThe chancellor said new funding would improve the connectivity of HS2\n\nOn rail funding, the chancellor said cities in the East Midlands, such as Leicester, would also benefit from the £300m modernisation and connectivity package designed to help the north reach its \"full potential\".\n\nThe Northern Powerhouse rail scheme is being drawn up by local authorities and business leaders to create connections between HS2 and cities not directly on its route.\n\nOn Europe, Mr Hammond said Britain could be freer and more prosperous after Brexit but people should not take such a \"prize\" outcome for granted.\n\nEarlier, he told the BBC that he operates on the basis \"everyone is sackable\", after Boris Johnson's repeated Brexit interventions prompted calls from some in the party for him to be replaced.\n\nMr Hammond said the foreign secretary's recent interventions were a \"rhetorical flourish\" but the cabinet was agreed on a transition period of \"around two years\" to give businesses \"certainty and comfort\" to plan ahead.\n\nOn the second day of the conference, Work and Pensions Secretary David Gauke also announced new guidance to job centres for giving cash advances to benefit claimants.\n\nThe government has been under pressure to pause the national roll-out of Universal Credit amid mounting concern families forced to wait six weeks for their first payment will be left destitute and homeless.\n\nMr Gauke said he wanted to help those struggling to make ends meet but would not halt the programme, saying it was helping people to find work and progress to better-paid jobs.", "Business live has been flooded with tales of woe from Monarch travellers, but let's not forgot the staff who have lost their jobs. A reader writes:\n\n\"Today, my 20-year-old brother came off his night flight and woke up to an email about a meeting. In this meeting staff were told they were no longer Monarch employees and were being made redundant. No 'thank you' or your service, no apology, just - \"we advise you to go to the job centre and sign on\".\n\n\"My brother is devastated to lose a job he worked so hard for and served his second summer season this year with the company. He has friends that were taken on just a few months ago for the summer season, moving to Birmingham from as far as Scotland only to be let down and left without redundancy money.\n\n\"For the company to keep this a secret from the staff and for them to wake up with no job this morning is disgusting. Even if they had been given a warning, some may have been able to look for new jobs or at least get a head start on it.\n\n\"I feel so sorry for all the staff, they have been mistreated and deceived and are now left with nothing. Summer season is over now, so other airlines may not have vacancies until next sumner. What are they supposed to do in the meantime?\"", "Bags for life pose a food poisoning risk if they are used to carry raw foods such as meat and fish, a consumer watchdog is warning.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency says even if there is no leakage, packaging can harbour traces of harmful bacteria that can cause stomach bugs.\n\nShoppers should have separate bags for raw foods, ready-to-eat foods and household items such as detergent.\n\nReusable bags could be colour coded or labelled to avoid any mix-up, it says.\n\nIf there has been visible spillage, soiling or damage, plastic bags for life should be replaced, while fabric ones could be washed or cleaned.\n\n\"Even if there are no obvious spillages or staining after several uses, we would recommend that cotton/fabric bags for life be machine-washed regularly if they have been used for carrying raw items,\" the FSA website recommends in an updated post.\n\nAlthough instances are rare, shop-bought chicken is a potential source of infection.\n\nTests by the FSA have shown chicken packaging can carry a bug called campylobacter - the most common cause of food poisoning in the UK.\n\nCampylobacter poisoning usually develops a few days after eating contaminated food and leads to symptoms that include abdominal pain, severe diarrhoea and, sometimes, vomiting.\n\nEggs, fish and loose vegetables with soil on can also pose a food poisoning risk, says the FSA website.\n\nLarge shops in England have been charging 5p for single-use plastic carrier bags for nearly two years.\n\nHowever, they are not required to charge for plastic bags for certain products - including uncooked fish, meat or poultry products.\n\nCarrier bag charges were introduced in Wales in 2011, in Northern Ireland in 2013 and in Scotland three years ago.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It was one of the world's most opulent railway stations, sitting imposingly on the French-Spanish border - but then it fell into disrepair. Now, writes Chris Bockman, the building is showing new signs of life.\n\nWhen they built the station at Canfranc, it was on a grand scale and with no expense spared. It had to be bold and modern - an architect's dream come true, built in iron and glass, complete with a hospital, restaurant and living quarters for customs officers from both France and Spain.\n\nAt the time it was nicknamed the \"Titanic of the Mountains\".\n\nTo give you an idea of its size - there are 365 windows, one for each day of the year; hundreds of doors; and the platforms are more than 200m long. The question is, how did such an extravagant station, high up on a mountainside in a village with a population of just 500 people, ever see the light of day?\n\nThe ticket hall fell in to disrepair after the French abandoned the train line in 1970\n\nAt the turn of the 20th Century, the Spanish and French authorities had a grand project to open up their border through the Pyrenees, enabling more international trade and travel. It was a remarkably ambitious scheme, involving dozens of bridges and a series of tunnels drilled through the mountains.\n\nAt one point, work stalled as the French workers were sent off to fight in World War One. They were replaced by Spanish counterparts.\n\nCelebrating the digging of the Somport tunnel in 1912, which would form part of the international train line\n\nThe station was built just to the Spanish side of the border, but one of the platforms was still considered French territory - like a kind of foreign embassy. French police and customs staff sent their children to a French-speaking school installed in the village.\n\nBut the day the station was opened in 1928 by the French President Gaston Doumergue and Spanish King Alfonso XIII, flaws quickly became apparent.\n\nThe rail gauges were different, so passengers still had to change trains. It made transporting goods as freight too slow. The Wall Street Crash of 1929 didn't help.\n\nIn the early 1930s, as few as 50 passengers a day were using Europe's second-biggest train station. And then things got worse. During the Spanish Civil War, Franco ordered the tunnels on the Spanish side sealed off, to prevent his Republican opponents from smuggling weapons in.\n\nWhen the international line re-opened during World War Two, however, the route was used by thousands of Jews and Allied soldiers to escape into Spain.\n\nToday, the mayor of Canfranc is Fernando Sanchez, whose father was a customs officer at the station - he told me it became a spy hub for the Allies, but the Germans also used the rail line to transport gold they'd stolen from Europe.\n\nAfter the war, the French lost interest in the line and allowed it to deteriorate. When a train derailed on the French side in 1970, that signalled the end and France abandoned the line.\n\nThe Spanish were furious, according to Fernando Sanchez - there was an international agreement to maintain the line and the French were accused of breaking it. Canfranc's population, which had risen to 2,000 thanks to the station, dwindled to 500.\n\nThe grand building itself went to rot. The tracks rusted, the ceilings fell in with the harsh winter weather and vandalism did the rest.\n\nThe bar at Canfranc station, which fell in to disrepair\n\nBut a few years ago the local government in Aragon decided to buy the place and restore it, claiming it was a major part of Spanish history. In the past four years 120,000 people have visited, wearing hard hats - ironically, far more than ever actually used the line when it was in service.\n\nNearly all the tourists are Spanish. They're fascinated by the station's size, and perhaps also a little proud of its symbolism - the image it projected to the world. There are now even two trains a day between Saragossa and Canfranc.\n\nNow the Aragon government wants not only to refurbish the station as a hotel, but to build another one right next to it, and relaunch rail travel through the Pyrenees. The French regional government based in Bordeaux has agreed to reopen the line on its side too.\n\nIts president, Alain Rousset, told me the route through the achingly beautiful Valley of Aspe will be branded the the \"western trans-Pyrenean line\" when it opens. He promised to find 200 million euros (£175m) to pay for it, and Brussels will offer matching funds.\n\nRousset says he has made a lot of enemies by pushing for this plan - pointing out that politicians in Paris had envisaged a motorway instead.\n\nGraffiti scrawled on walls in the valley now read \"Long live Canfranc\". The line is back in favour.\n\nIf all goes to plan, the Titanic of the Pyrenees could be back in business within five years. I noticed that the massive wooden ticket counters at the station have already been restored.\n\nPhotographer John Sanderson discovered the delight of taking pictures as a 13-year-old, shooting the Strasburg Rail Road and its historic steam engine. Returning to the subject of railways in adulthood, he rebelled against his younger self and this time chose to photograph American railroads devoid of trains.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Spain is gripped by the duel between Prime Minister Rajoy (L) and Catalan leader Puigdemont\n\nEmotions are running high in Catalonia today. Of course they are.\n\n\"The Spanish government is like an abusive husband,\" one activist raged at me today. \"He says he loves you, that he can't live without you. Then, he beats you to stop you from leaving.\"\n\nSunday's scenes during the Catalan referendum were awful and played over and over again across social media.\n\nBarca football idol and Catalan-born Gerard Pique wept openly on Spanish television when questioned about the violence.\n\nBut it would be wrong to interpret the anger and anguish so palpable in Catalonia right now as an expression of political unity.\n\nCatalans are as divided as ever on the question of independence.\n\nWhat unites them today is a seething fury and resentment at the heavy-handedness of the Spanish government, represented by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, with what Catalans perceive as his Madrid-centric arrogance, brutishness and disregard for the rights of individuals.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Spanish police clashed with people trying to get to polling stations to vote\n\nThis is far less about separatism than populism. Anti-establishment, nationalist sentiment a la Catalana.\n\nWhile the majority of Catalans say they don't actually want to leave Spain, they demand the right to choose. Legally and with dignity, in contrast to the chaos and intimidation on show at the weekend.\n\nThey are frustrated that their region pays more in taxes to Madrid than it gets back in investment, such as new infrastructure.\n\nThey are irritated that pledges of increased autonomy for Catalonia (already one of Europe's most autonomous regions) were then watered down, and still smarting that ordinary people in Catalonia - as across Spain - suffered so much in the 2008 economic crisis, while their tax contributions were used to bail out the banks.\n\nTo give you an idea - Catalonia is one of Spain's wealthiest regions. Youth unemployment is far lower here than across the rest of Spain. But it's still a shocking 35%.\n\nCatalans want change, but that does not amount to a common call for independence.\n\nBefore this weekend, Mariano Rajoy - nicknamed by opponents as \"The Robot\", as he could never be accused of having the common touch - had all the cards:\n\nBut he's thrown those cards away.\n\nHe and the Catalan President, Carles Puigdemont, have walked if not arm-in-arm then at least back-to-back, duel-like, to the cliff's edge.\n\nA cynic might point out that both men benefit personally from this constitutional crisis - arguably Spain's most severe in the 40 years since the transition to democracy.\n\nMr Rajoy heads a minority government, so short of support that it recently withdrew plans for the 2018 budget, for fear it wouldn't make it through the Spanish parliament. Meanwhile, Mr Puigdemont presides over one of the largest regional debts in Spain.\n\nBoth men are tainted by allegations of corruption, which swirl persistently around their governments.\n\nThe Catalan question is a very public distraction from unwelcome financial questions.\n\nBoth men score political points from standing their ground now, as opinions in Catalonia and across Spain harden.\n\nAs for the EU, some analysts have painted a picture of Eurocrats quaking in their blue and yellow boots. Refusing to condemn Sunday's violence, as they fear the flames of separatism will now spread from Catalonia to Corsica, northern Italy, Flanders and beyond.\n\nBut that was the early 2000s, when Basque separatist violence raged too.\n\nNow Basque separatists support Prime Minister Rajoy in the Spanish parliament. Regional separatism is not a 2017 problem for the EU. Populism is.", "\"It was like living next to nothing,\" said a former neighbour of Paddock\n\nLas Vegas concert gunman Stephen Paddock was a wealthy former accountant and high-stakes gambler who appeared to be living in quiet retirement with his girlfriend in a desert community.\n\nThe 64-year-old, of Mesquite, Nevada, had pilot's and hunting licences and no criminal record, said authorities.\n\nOne former neighbour said twice-divorced Paddock was \"weird\".\n\nBut his brother described him as a regular guy who liked playing video poker, live music and eating burritos.\n\nPaddock has been identified by police as the man behind the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, with the death toll surpassing the 49 killed at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in June 2016.\n\nHe opened fire from the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino on Sunday night, killing 58 people and wounding almost 500 others, before turning the gun on himself as police closed in, said officials.\n\nPolice shared this updated timeline of events on Wednesday\n\nStephen Paddock had a troubled childhood, with a bank robber for a father, who regularly beat him, and a mother who struggled to bring him and his three brothers up, according to reports.\n\nOne of the gunman's brothers, Eric Paddock, told reporters the family were stunned.\n\n\"He liked to play video poker,\" he said. \"He went on cruises. He sent his mother cookies.\"\n\nTheir father was once on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What gunfire tells us about weapons used\n\nTwenty-three weapons were found in the 32nd-floor hotel room that Paddock checked into last Thursday.\n\nPolice found \"in excess of\" 19 firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition in his Mesquite home, within a quiet retirement community 80 miles (130km) north-east of Las Vegas.\n\nThey also found several pounds of an explosive called tannerite, and ammonium nitrate, a type of fertiliser used as an explosive, in his car.\n\nPolice said no manifesto or anything else had been discovered to explain Paddock's actions.\n\n\"I can't get into the mind of a psychopath at this point,\" Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said.\n\nThe FBI said its agents had established no connection between Paddock and any overseas terrorist group, despite so-called Islamic State describing him as a \"soldier of the caliphate\".\n\nPaddock only previous known brush with the law was a routine traffic violation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDavid Famiglietti, of the New Frontier Armory, told the BBC that Paddock had purchased firearms at his store in north Las Vegas last spring, meeting all state and federal requirements, including an FBI background check.\n\nHowever, the shotgun and rifle Paddock bought would not have been \"capable of what we've seen and heard in the video without modification\", Mr Famiglietti said.\n\nTwo gun stocks were found in the hotel room, AP news agency reported, which can enable a weapon to fire hundreds of shots per minute.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eric Paddock says he is in total shock after police named his brother, Stephen, as the shooter\n\nAccording to NBC News, Paddock recently made several gambling transactions in the tens of thousands of dollars, but it was unclear if those bets were wins or losses.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump on Las Vegas shooting: 'It was an act of pure evil'\n\nHe had shown no sign of financial problems and reports said he owned a number of properties that he rented out.\n\nSeparately, Eric Paddock said that Stephen came up with the cash to ensure that family members - including their elderly mother - were provided for.\n\n\"Steve took care of the people he loved. He helped make me and my family wealthy. He's the reason I was able to retire. This is the Steve we know, we knew. The people he loved and took care of,\" Eric Paddock said in a news conference, according to CBS News.\n\nHe described his brother as \"intelligent\" and \"successful.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witnesses say people were being trampled\n\nStephen Paddock moved to his two-storey house in Mesquite from Reno, Nevada, in June 2016.\n\nHe lived in the property in Babbling Brook Court with his girlfriend Marilou Danley, 62.\n\nPolice have ruled out any involvement by Ms Danley, who was overseas at the time of the massacre but has now returned to the US, where she is facing questioning.\n\nShe is an Australian citizen who moved to Nevada 20 years ago, the government in Canberra said.\n\nMarilou Danley, initially described as a person of interest, was located by police outside of the US\n\nA former neighbour, Diane McKay, 79, told the Washington Post the couple always kept the blinds closed at home.\n\n\"He was weird,\" she said. \"Kept to himself. It was like living next to nothing.\n\n\"You can at least be grumpy, something. He was just nothing, quiet.\"\n\nElsewhere the newspaper quoted neighbours in \"several states\" where Paddock owned retirement homes, describing him as \"surly, unfriendly and standoffish\".\n\nBut those who lived close to a house he owned in Melbourne, Florida, have described him as \"very friendly\".\n\nAccording to US media, Paddock had a licence to fly small planes and owned two aircraft.\n\nIn 2012, he filed a negligence lawsuit against The Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas, after a fall he said was caused by an \"obstruction\" on the floor, the Las Vegas Review Journal reported.\n\nThe legal action was reportedly dropped in 2014.\n\nThe relative lack of red flags in Paddock's personal history has only heightened the sense of bewilderment as a shocked nation asks: Why?", "The Conservatives have a problem. More young people are voting than at any time in the last quarter of a century, but largely not for them - so what can the party do to change that?\n\nIt's been labelled - perhaps unfairly - the \"Tory Glastonbury\". Around 200 activists, MPs, sympathetic thinkers and business people meet in the low September sunshine to discuss how the party can attract young voters.\n\nJust two years ago, the split in support between Labour and the Conservatives among 18 to 29-year-olds was fairly even, 36% to 32%.\n\nFast forward to this June's general election and that small gap had become a chasm - according to pollsters YouGov - with Labour now on 64% to the Tories' 21%.\n\nIn fact, unless you were touching 50, you were in a minority if you voted Conservative.\n\nAddressing worried-looking party figures at the Big Tent Ideas festival in Berkshire, Lord Cooper - one-time director of strategy for ex-Prime Minister David Cameron - puts it starkly.\n\nOlder Conservative voters, he says, are dying. And younger, more \"open\" voters are not going to decide when they hit 50 that \"feminism and the internet and the green movement are a bad thing after all\".\n\nUnless the party responds, he adds, \"it is going to die\".\n\nBim Afolami says the party \"realises that there is a problem\" in not attracting enough young voters\n\n\"Somebody famous and clever said the Conservative Party only knows two modes - complacency or panic,\" says one of the Tories' youngest MPs. \"And we're definitely in panic mode.\"\n\nBim Afolami, an old Etonian and former banker, is 31 and has only been an MP for a few months, but his thoughts have already turned to this question.\n\n\"The party generally, collectively, realises that this is a problem,\" he says.\n\nWith the Budget less than two months away, he says Chancellor Philip Hammond recently told a meeting of Conservative backbenchers that the party must address two of the key issues for younger voters - housing and student debt.\n\nVictoria Borwick - who represented the safe seat of Kensington until she became one of the 33 Conservative MPs swept away by Labour's better-than-expected showing in June - echoes the message.\n\n\"Every single MP should go back to their own area and see how they can build more housing for the next generation.\"\n\nIt might be only 100 miles away, but the Big Tent Ideas Festival couldn't be further from Glastonbury.\n\nThe music is Bach - perfectly rendered by a violinist. The buffet is delicate and refined. And there are more MPs in attendance than the young voters whom the ideas are intended to reach.\n\n\"This is not Glastonbury,\" Mr Afolami points out. \"It's more akin to (literature festival) Hay-on-Wye.\"\n\nThe comparison is clearly unfair, but does it matter?\n\nThe story goes that the brains behind the event, Conservative MP George Freeman, saw Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn cheered by thousands at Glastonbury over the summer and asked, \"Why is it just the left who have all the fun in politics?\"\n\nMP James Cleverly says young people were offered an \"electoral bribe\" by Jeremy Corbyn\n\n\"Wow, a left-wing leader getting a good reception at a rock festival,\" he says, ironically.\n\n\"What kind of crazy world is it we live in that that kind of thing happens?\n\n\"It's a bunch of young people who've just been given a massive electoral bribe.\"\n\nMr Corbyn - who said before the election he would \"deal\" with student debt - will be punished for taking \"younger voters for fools\", Cleverly says.\n\n\"Being hip, being popular, being cool, that's really easy,\" says Cleverly.\n\n\"Until you have to make tough decisions. And when you have to make tough decisions, that veneer of coolness comes off real quick.\n\n\"So the better thing to do is to be right and be doing the right things for the right reasons rather than trying to be cool and popular and saying whatever thing is going to get good headlines or a big cheer at Glastonbury.\"\n\nWhat, then, can the party learn?\n\nLabour's general election campaign was praised for its use of social media and for reaching young people previously unmoved by party politics.\n\nTobi Alabi - a south Londoner who was invited to attend the ideas festival, and was courted by Conservatives there, but isn't a supporter - says the party was an irrelevance for most of his friends.\n\nLabour, he says, related and appealed to young people.\n\nTobi Alabi says the Conservative Party did not display diversity\n\n\"That's something the Conservative Party didn't do. They didn't display diversity. They didn't display an appeal to young people. You have to tap into young people's interests.\"\n\nSo - if they do that - could those young people won over by Jeremy Corbyn's Labour one day support the Tories?\n\n\"Those people can be won back,\" says a hopeful Bim Afolami.\n\n\"Those are not people who have decided forever to vote for one person or one party.\n\n\"I think if we show them that we've got the right policies - but, more importantly, the right values - those are people that we can at least compete for in the future.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel."], "link": ["http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-41702662", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-41702829", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41656159", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-41693246", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-41704429", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41702327", "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41704779", 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